Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 979767

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/979767

Established by the Northern Lighthouse Board in 1897, engineer David A Stevenson. As the light took advantage of high ground in that location, the materials hauled up 50ft cliffs, the white brick tower did not have to be especially tall to achieve an elevation above sea of 41m or 125ft (c.f. St Abbs Head, Berwickshire). It has two corbelled balconies and triangular sheets of glass to the usual NLB pattern. A foghorn has been eradicated from its platform near the cliff edge. The light was discontinued in 2007 because it only marked a way rather than a specific hazard.

Ref NLB.org.uk/lighthouselibrary

M Watson, 2013