A Lighthouse Keeper's guided tours, Episode Thirteen, South West coast continued 

I absolutely love lighthouses and am a massive fan of your channel. I’m gutted that they’ve been forgotten about since automation, and it’s thanks to people like you Peter that keeps them alive 🙏

How incredibly moving. I'm not at all surprised you were heartbroken to see those beautiful engines removed. Thank you for all the amazing videos you have created, these are such an important resource. A way of life lost to progress, and not for the better in my view. Give me a human looking out to sea and keeping the light burning any day.

Sad and touching video and I could feel your sadness even now, after so many years. An era has gone and it's always sad when that happens. Stay safe, Peter.

Thanks again Peter. It being my Birthday today, I treated myself to a curry with a pint glass of tap water while viewing your gift. So sad to see history destroyed in the name of progress, and obviously more so for those who cared for it for so long. Thankfully You were there to record such madness for the future, painful as I'm sure it was. I suppose even now that "new" technology has been binned for the latest.

Another excellent video Peter . Trevose is a very hard watch I was never lucky enough to work on the lighthouses and it’s heartbreaking enough for me to watch so it must be truly awful for you and I can hear it in your voice your dedication to these lovely engine rooms . A lot of of trinity house management were no more than thugs and vandals I would love to drive a JCB right through one of their posh houses . But I guess while the engine rooms were in existence it’s good to know people like yourself were dedicated to them and they will always have a proud history even if only in our minds now for some of them so a big thank you for looking out for them as long as you could 👏👏

Thank you for all your amazing videos, Peter. We would never have been able to appreciate how truly amazing these beautiful buildings were. Also a glimpse into what the keepers did. I have to admit, I am thoroughly enjoying all your videos, but this one was truly heartbreaking to watch!

Thankyou for this Peter. It is indeed heart wrenching seeing this actually going going , will be forever recorded for history now,Beautifully old fashioned . I grew up wanting to be a lighthouse keeper,but the march of “progress” was already well underway by then, I totally understand your melancholy about the destruction , wonderful old history and a way of life destroyed. Thankyou .

My dream job sad to think that I can never live it out live all the videos Thankyou !

It's heartbreaking to see the wilful destruction of such beautiful structures, yet I know the tide of "progress", cannot be held back. I fully understand your feelings of sadness for the "old" but proven ways. I regarded you keepers as much the sentinels of the seas as the lights themselves. I'm incredibly sad to know that generations of keepers are now consigned to the history books. However, because of you and your efforts, the story of the magnificent people and structures will forever live on. So from one sea farer to another, thank you sir for your unerring service in keeping us safe.

I worked for several years as an Occupational Therapist at a psychiatric facility, which was built in 1903 out of large locally sourced limestone blocks. In an era of modernisation and change of treatment regime sweeping the world during the 1980s, the beautiful buildings were destroyed, and replaced with "modern architecturally superior" buildings to be used as a Private School, while the remainder of the vast grounds were sold off for private housing. The patients were provided with modern medication and discharged, some to live in small community-based facilities scattered around the metropolitan region, and others to live at home supported by Community Psychiatric Teams. It all seemed wonderful at the time to the planners and advocates of Community Psychiatry. But some of us were shocked and saddened to see those marvelous solid, naturally ventilated, sturdy buildings being destroyed. I can empathise with your emotions at seeing your workplace being destroyed.

Excellent video, I echo all the other respectful comments of the sadness of destruction. Agree the automation of the rock lights due to danger of extreme isolation and danger of fire (nowhere to go) but not the landbased lights.

It's crazy the way that so much fog signal equipment was destroyed. 😢

Cheers Peter, always a pleasure. When you started up the stairs at Godrevy I thought this isn't a proper lighthouse, Peter isn't down with this then I heard it in your voice. I was going to ask your feelings but you explained them perfectly. I was in the USN almost the exact time you were a keeper. They don't automate old ships, they turn into razor blades and it is on YT. You can't save everything but when I see a ship I have spent years on scrapped, well you know how I feel. Stay well.

Truly heartbreaking to see that needless destruction. I can feel your pain.

i understand your feelings completly, seems criminal to destroy years of care. tragic.

it must have been terrible for that poor keeper by himself

Oh how lovely blowing the fog horn at the end of the video 🥲 It stands proud with its own personality 😊 With videos like this the lighthouses live on forever in the pristine state they were before they were destroyed. It is criminal and should never have been allowed to happen. Were they not protected or listed buildings? Another amazing video Peter on the world in better times, although the future was peering through with its ugly head. Thankyou for your archives ❤

Hi Peter, for some reason my replies are getting lost, but I wanted to point you towards a fascinating interview on You Tube, Light Hearted Episode 125, Boon Island. It is an interview of the last Lightkeeper on Boon Island that had to be rescued by helicopter from the top of the tower after the Nor'easter of 1978 took out the keepers house.

Thanks Peter, although it was a "shame" to see it go, you have to move on with the times, I for one appreciate the thoughtful ness of you to make the videos at the time, and now to share them with us, I only wish I too had done what you did. (Make a video of "real life" ) to show how things were done, but alas. Thanks again Peter. 😀

Such a sad sight to see all you lovingly maintained be destroyed. It’s criminal damage.

What would have been the harm in leaving that engine room intact?

Sad how well kept things were just dismantled and destroyed when they worked so well. All for the sake o saving money. Yes gps is good but what happens when it all goes wrong

Such wanton destruction is hard for any normal person to understand, and must be particularly heartbreaking for keepers. It should be as criminal in law as it is of nature to obliterate these symbolic statues who`s past roles must be preserved. Shame on them!