Light House Collection (page 4)

Greece, Crete - Rethymnon
Rethymnon is the capital of the Prefecture of the same name and was built between two other large cities of Crete, Iraklion to the east and Chania to the west

Music sheet cover for Down Went the Captain, with words by Frederick Bowyer and music by Kate Royle, who was also the singer of the song

Cape Egmont lighthouse, North Island, New Zealand
Cape Egmont lighthouse, with Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) in the background, on the west coast of North Island, New Zealand

Bailey Lighthouse - Howth County, Dublin, Ireland

View of the harbour and pier at St Ives, Cornwall
A view of the harbour and Smeatons Pier at St Ives, Cornwall, with a range of boats. Two little girls in large-brimmed hats and smocks are doing some beachcombing

Longships Lighthouse in a gale
The Longships Lighthouse pictured during a heavy gale. Photograph taken from a Sea King Helicopter

Ship sails past lighthouse
A steamer sails past a lighthouse under the light of the moon

New Brighton - Sands and Lighthouse

Ostend - Belgium
Souvenir postcard from Ostend, Belgium

The lighthouse at Port Said, Egypt, North Africa

The Admiralty and naval vessels - Algiers
The Admiralty and elements of the Algerian Navy. The lighthouse can be seen in rear

Captured Turkish Guns - 1915
Captured Turkish guns, manufactured by Krupp (77s) in the Old European Castle with piles of ammunition. War in the Dardanelles - 1915. Sed Dul-Bahr

Trabzon - Fortress & Lighthouse
Fortress of Guzel-Hissar (The " Good Castle" ) and the Lighthouse at Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province

Gdansk, Poland - the Lighthouse - Nowy Port East Breakwater Light

Lighthouse at entrance to the Bosphorus
Lighthouse of Ahir Kapou at the entrance to the Bosphorus on the European side

Scarborough Lighthouse damage, 1914
Damage to Scarborough lighthouse caused by a shell during the German air raid on Scarborough, England, during World War I in December 1914

The Bitter Lakes - Suez, Egypt
A steamship passing the North Lighthouse as it crosses the Bitter Lakes at the Northern entrance to the Suez Canal, Egypt

Dunston Pillar, Lincs, raised 1751 as an inland lighthouse; later a statue of George III was added, but in WW2 the top bit will be removed as a hazard to aircraft

Old Salt shows a young lad his telescope
An elderly sailor seated on the end of a weathered groyne lets an inquisitive young lad peer through his telescope, as the terns swoop overhead

PORT SAID / 1882
The lighthouse and breakwater at the entrance of the Suez Canal, Port Said

Caused by a single German shell: Damage done to Scarborough Lighthouse

Flannan Isles
Impression of the second landing place on the remote Flannan Isles where three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared in December 1900

Iln Front Cover 1844
Front cover of The Illustrated London News, featuring an engraving of the new lighthouse on the Plymouth breakwater in the towns harbour

Flannan Isles Landing
The first landing place near the Flannan Isles lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides where three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared in December 1900

The Keepers arriving at Wolf Rock Lighthouse, 1870
Engraving of the arrival of the lighthouse keepers at the brand new Wolf Rock lighthouse, January 1870. This lighthouse, situated 8 miles from Lands End, Cornwall

Eddystone Lighthouse Lantern, 1882
Engraving showing the difference between the six-wick burner lantern used in Douglasss Eddystone lighthouse of 1882 (on left)

The Eddystone Lighthouse, 1879
Engraving of the Eddystone lighthouse built by Smeaton in 1759 and the foundations of the new lighthouse, designed by Sir James Douglass

Calf Rock Lighthouse, Bantry Bay, Ireland, 1881
Engraving of the Calf Rock Lighthouse, Bantry Bay, which was destroyed by a severe storm on the 27th November 1881

The Stone-Cutting Establishment at Oreston, with part of the
Engraving of the Prince of Wales visiting the Oreston granite quarry, viewing part of the masonry for the new Eddystone Lighthouse, August 1879

Official Opening of the Eddystone Lighthouse, May 1882
Engraving of the opening of the new Eddystone Lighthouse by the Duke of Edinburgh. The new lighthouse, designed by Sir James Douglass, can be seen to the left of the older one, built by John Smeaton

Scenes from the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1882
Engraving showing a number of views of the then new Eddystone lighthouse, designed by Sir James Douglass, May 1882. The old, Smeaton designed, lighthouse can also be seen

Proposed Eddystone Lighthouse, 1879
Engraving of the new Eddystone Lighthouse that Sir James Douglass had designed, 1879. The foundations of the old lighthouse had eroded and the replacement was completed in 1882

Landing at the Lighthouse, 1895
Illustration showing the arrival of visitors, by boat, at a lighthouse. As is shown in this picture, the most common way to reach offshore lighthouses in Victorian times was by landing small rowing

The Completion of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, 1869
Engraving of Sir Frederick Arrow laying the last stone of Wolf Rock lighthouse, off Lands End, 1869. Built between 1862 and 1869, to a design by James Douglass

Orfordness Lighthouse and Telegraph Station, 1853
Engraving of Orfordness lighthouse and Submarine electric telegraph station, Suffolk, June 1853. At the end of May 1853 a telegraph cable 119 miles had been laid between Orfordness and Scheveningen

Point de Galle Lighthouse, Ceylon, 1847
Engraving of a lighthouse intended for the Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The lighthouse was built out of cast-iron plates, secured by nuts, bolts and iron cement

KARIAD YACHT 1906
Depicted sailing past the Cloch lighthouse, on the Lower Clyde, Scotland

Scarborogh - 1891
Scarborough, North Yorkshire

William Darling
WILLIAM DARLING father of Grace, lighthouse-keeper at the Longstone Lighthouse, Farne Islands, who sailed with his daughter to rescue the crew of the Forfarshire

On board a Passenger Liner leaving Britain, 1886
Engraving of passengers on the deck of a ship, entitled Departure of Colonial Visitors: The last Glimpse of Old England. On the left, the family of travellers

The Lantern of Beachy Head Lighthouse, Sussex, 1884
Engraving of the Lantern at Beachy Head lighthouse, Sussex, January 1884. The lighthouse was built between 1828 and 1831 on Belle Tout Cliff and equipped with a catoptric lantern

The Galley Head Lighthouse, near Cape Clear, Cork, 1879
Engraving of the Galley Head Lighthouse, near Cape Clear, November 1879. A Board of Trade paper had been issued that year, praising the lighthouse and the quality of its light

The Wicklow Head Lighthouse, 1869
Engraving of the Wicklow Head Lighthouse, 1869. The lighthouse lantern was converted from oil to gas in 1868, which required a small gas works at the lighthouse (seen in the foreground)

The Skerryvore Lighthouse, off Argyllshire, 1844
Engraving of the Skerryvore lighthouse, 1844. Built between 1836 and 1843, with 6000 tons of granite, the lighthouse entered service on 1st February 1844

Cast Iron Lighthouse, intended for Barbados, 1851
Engraving of a Cast Iron lighthouse, designed and built by Alexander Gordon and the Grissell & Co. Ironworks, which was intended for use in Barbados

The Roman Rocks Lighthouse, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
Engraving of the Roman Rocks lighthouse at Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, March 1869. This iron lighthouse was built in 1860, but showed signs of structural failure shortly thereafter

Blue & Lace Dress 1899
Blue print dress: high collar with 3 narrow black rows of ribbon round the throat & ornamented with white lace at the neckline, shoulders & skirt

Lighthouse Chersonese
Cape Chersonese is close to Balaklava, and this lighthouse is a valuable seamark to Allied shipping during the Crimea War

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