As little boy I always had a fascination with light houses and wanted to be a lighthouse keeper. But that dream came to end when in my teens found out about then being automated. I d just love being so remote away from the rest of the world. Braving nature and over coming it whilst feeling save inside. I even find I listen to the storm things at night to help me sleep. Always dreaming about being away from it all on a that Little Rock. I’d would have given up everything to have done that job.
The bauble on a sailors hat and still worn today though few would know 🤔 it does have a very important function , to stop you denting your head when going through low entrances and ceilings. Hit the bauble duck the heed .
Other than the videos and other contributions of former Lighthouse Keepers like Peter Halil, I consider this to be one of the best Posts on the Internet about Lighthouses, ever. The only one that comes close, is the hour long Post about the Irish Lights Commission. Well produced and inspiring. THANK YOU.
My Dad was a lighthouse keeper on the Bass Rock Girdle Ness, and a stint on the Bell. When I was born I was 3 weeks old because he was stuck on the Bass Rock due to the weather as the yr was 62 and was the start of the worst winter In Decades.
Thank God for Mr. Smith and Mr. Stevenson!!! Their passion to save lives and live out their born purpose!!! And they did!!! God I know they did your purpose for the time You gave them!!! They made this world a better place to live!!! I Thank God for these men You brought forth!!!
The Bell Rock Lighthouse, built by Robert Stevenson, clearly owes much of its design to John Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse built in 1759 and which Stevenson had visited in 1801.
Automation has it's place, but it has killed many a dreams. There's a forestry tower within shouting distance from my childhood and present home that I wanted to work in, but over-population, automation, etc., has killed that dream also. I'm retired from a very different job now and those dreams have gone un-fulfilled. This was a very interesting video. Thank you very much for posting it. : )
I really wish I could go back to 2011 and point out everything they're trying to sneakily do because nowadays are not holding anything back they don't give a s*** what you think anymore
I am in awe of the people who carved these structures into the geography. I’m fascinated by the history & engineering but this landlubber is thankful he never has to go anywhere near the lighthouses - I can whiteknuckle on the Manly ferry!
A very good documentary. I recollect going out with Calum Macaulay to Bearnaraidh Barra Head in his boat taking engineers to the island in the late seventies.The engineers were automating the light. By 1980 that was done and the keepers had left. There is a keepers' cemetery on the island as well as a burial ground of the islanders who had all left long before the keepers finally did. I think, if my memory serves me, Calum and his sister Mor were children of a lighthouse keeper. It could have been mentioned perhaps that the variation in the frequency of light flashes makes it possible to identify the location of each light in the darkest of nights at sea.
An enjoyable documentary that once again shows technology taking away jobs but in this case for the better for shipping and those who worked the lighthouses no doubt found less stressful careers.
