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Christmas at an Offshore Lighthouse in the UK

Bishop Rock, photo by Richard Knights, Creative Commons Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a lighthouse keeper at Christmas at one of the isolated lighthouses in the middle of the water? Here’s a story about how some lighthouse keepers in the United Kingdom spent Christmas. It was [...]

By Marilyn|2020-12-24T09:16:21-06:00December 24th, 2020|Lighthouse Blog Category|5 Comments

Stormy Times at a Rock Lighthouse

Longships Lighthouse, UK Needles, Eddystone, Longships, Bishop Rock – these well-known lighthouses in the UK are a few of the country’s “rock” lighthouses. The name “rock” denotes that the lighthouse is offshore and not on land. In fact, many of these were built on rocks barely large enough for the lighthouses, yet [...]