Lovely video, great scenes both inside, outside, nature and views. The immaculate care and perfection prior to automation. Agreed sad over the demolition of the engine room, but your video, photos and memories remain of its existence. But so glad, at least at end of automation and at time of filming, that gorgeous Fresnel lense remained. Real perfection of glass makers work in its construction and cared for by the keepers over the years. Lovely photo of you and the last three keepers. Could hear that fog horn echoing around.
Thank you, glad you liked it. Yes, I'm glad that they kept that lens in situ after all the Keepers that have showered it with TLC over the years. best regards and stay safe
Very sad to see.. What a massive mistake this will have been in time to come. Thanks Peter for your massive input and care you had for this lovely machinery.. Love and devotion to the trinity light houses. A massive respect to you 🇧🇲
Thank you for sharing Peter, it could not have been easy watching something you have worked on being dismantled, but, I for one am happy you were there to capture it.
About an hour ago I visited Porthcothan to get some photos of Trevose Head across the bay with my new DSLR camera. Sadly, it has been modernised, and this must have happened very recently, as I went right up to it in June and it was spinning away happily. I'm sure people have already said it Peter, but these videos really are truly amazing, and will keep becoming an even more important part of history each time another one is modernised. Thank you for posting these videos online for us to enjoy.
Thank you very much. It seems they are all going or gone to the LED route. I have a feeling that all the revolving lenses will vanish, if they haven't done so already. Cheers and stay safe
Thank you so much for sharing your documentaries with us, Mr. Halil. I started becoming interested in lighthouses because I’m writing a story featuring one, but watching your documentaries make me... care, more about them, even if it sounds weird. Trevose Head happens to be the lighthouse I use as the base in my story, and seeing it up close and its inside makes me very happy. The engine room was /beautiful/; and the care and love you and your fellow keepers put into taking care of it (and the rest of the lighthouse) is very heartfelt, at least for me. Thank you again for recording and sharing them with us. Wish you good health and all the best. (I love the sound of fog horn in the end. Even though it makes me sad)
Thank you very much for your kind comments Jasmine, I wish you well with your lighthouse story. Yes, lighthouses can get under your skin. Glad you like my videos, the new fog horn is/was? just an electronic peep peep, not quite the same. Thanks again, best regards and stay safe.
Well done Pete another gem. We all thank you for your great efforts. My last station as AK in 89 before going to Start as PK and the Engine room had just been demolished there but that was a force of nature. Hope you was using a dry chamois on that lens! lol I see a comment from Graham Watson - remember him tipping a bucket of mucky water all the way down the stairs at Portland Bill.
Cheers Mate, Ha, I've only got the Lizard video left other than some interviews. Hopefully, the Nab & Beachy will be filmed for me by the Lighthouse Manager (Warren Clarke) when he is on this years EB visits. I hope he doesn't forget or gets time to do it, new rules at Trinity, wont give me permission to do it myself. Thanks again, take care
Thank you Peter for including my Granddad standing on the old fog horn. He was Principal keeper from 1929 - 1934. I don't know what he would have thought seeing all what has now happened.
Thank you, it was a pleasure and an honour to include your Granddad in my video. It was a shame what they did with the engine room, but I guess progress isn't always pretty. I just hope that the engines went to somebody nice who gives them plenty of TLC. Thanks again, and take care
Hi Pete good video Don't remember you doing this one Was a lovely station to be on miss the sun sets you get in Cornwall and the warm weather to take care 👍👍
Hi Peter, I’ve got tons of questions over the last few months watching the vids, but held back felt like I’m always asking, so instead of a question about something in the video. I wonder, an many of us asked about you doing a lighthouse keeper video. Weather or not you could do a series along the lines of memoirs of a lighthouse keeper. 5-10 min stories to camera from your good self, even from former keepers your still in touch with. Again your tales in one long video would be amazing as well.
Hi, I intend to interview myself some time soon, but I will be at a big disadvantage, as most of the others that I did are frozen as fairly young in that moment of time, and I'm going to look old! I am toying with the idea of a Keepers video, but I doubt that it will be an up to date type one of their memories. As for my stories, I was just a Keeper with a camera and a mission, my stories aren't anywhere near as good as the ones already told. I will just do my normal format and try to gather as many stories that I've gathered over the years. Cheers and stay safe
Great as always Mr. Lighthouse. You have filmed a few automations, I assumed your feelings would be similar to mine. A few years ago the Navy sold the 1st carrier I spent LOTS of time on for $1, CV-62, 77-80. Close to 50yrs service for the Indy, almost broke my heart to see a bazillion great memories turned into razor blades.
Fascinating as always Peter. I can see why filming the re-modeling of the engine house would have been traumatic. Looking forward to the next episode and hoping that you come across some archive footage featuring Scottish lighthouses.
Thank you Duncan, There isn't anymore footage of Scottish lighthouses, I only did that one holiday there. Perhaps the powers to be up there may at some point let me do some, but I think I've missed the bus so to speak on that one. Cheers and stay safe
Sadly even the beeper was discontinued at this lighthouse a couple a years ago, it now has no horn of any kind 😢interesting that you can hear a sort of echo or reverb before the typhons sound nice to get the sound of it for prosperity though. Unusual for the bulb to be filtered with a red screen on it to get the colour rather it being a separate light or on the windows, there is something about the light on the coast, it's so different. Great footage of showing the automation process, even if it is sad and also dirty, workmen, they always make a mess.
Thank you for all of that. The bits that I remember most was obviously the destruction of the engine room. Also how everybody seemed to turn up at once, some making dust and debris whilst others were fitting electrical bits and others painting! crazy times. Thanks again and stay safe.
Your video's offer something very relaxing, and of course very interesting!. I last checked in about a year ago. Glad to see more content Peter!. I think at a minimum they could of left the engine room standing, seems an awful waste of heritage.
Watched to the 27.03 minute mark. Saw what was about to happen and could not bear to watch a second longer. Decades of devoted work and care destroyed in seconds.
Thank you Ray. Yes it was a crying shame that they couldn't have preserved it but I guess it all comes down to money in the end. Thanks again and stay safe
Shame that the lighthouses as they were became a dead way of life, I guess. Automation means that some people aren't exposed to what was a very difficult and somewhat dangerous career, but sad nonetheless. Is the white and green paint combination a sort of identification because it appears on a lot of lighthouses, Cornish certainly. I know that Godrevy has it around the base of the main structure but trevose has it in the frames too? Great video again mate.
Thank you for your comments. My understanding of the colour choices of the lighthouses were to pick them out better on whatever background. Having said that, there are black & white and Red & white striped ones as well as the normal white. The green bits seem to be the Trinity House colour of choice for the bits around the base & windows & doors. Cheers and stay safe
Thank you John, I am of course, heavily biased, but I agree. I would have liked it better if it all found its way to a museum, but I've no idea what happened to it all. Thanks again.
@@PeterHalil Hi pete it was a good video ,i would love to know what happened to it myself hopefully somebody saw its worth . O yes enjoyed the flatholm video also take care for now cheers john.
My first real posting was to the South Bishop. This was on a rock off of the Welsh coast. Before that though, I had done a few fill in ones at different lights as part of my training. Thanks Jake, stay safe
