One Month in a Lighthouse, out to sea 1990. Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey, Channel Islands. 

You really have to respect a guy that wears a tie getting into a wetsuit. You don't see that everyday!

Great video Peter, always a joy to watch. You obviously loved your job and took a pride,it showed. I love how you share not only living conditions, working conditions but the neighboring wildlife and birds too, making it so special. Thank you Peter, take care.

These videos are gold. Get paid in the day to work in a house like that I’m in.

Respect!

As always, thank you Peter for having had the foresight to film, record, document and share these experiences. Great work much appreciated as always. All the very best to you and Happy Birthday for Thursday the 4th.

I would love to more lengthy ambient footage of your stays on the lighthouses. 10/10!

Thank you Peter for another awesome video really enjoyed it always look forward to your posts on Sundays 😁👍

Love Your.videos Peter and Happy Birthday for the 4th. x

Fantastic and thank you x

Thank you for the video of the Hanois lighthouse.

Happy birthday Peter thanks for the films keep smiling

Great video as always Peter.. Happy birthday for the 4th of next month. :)

Nice one mate not seen you for a while hope you are well don 🤠🇬🇧👍👍👍👍👍

Awesome one this, thanks for sharing. Lol about the toilet paper

Happy Birthday Peter, hope you have wonderful day.🍺🎁

Still loving the videos. Too bad ower fearless leader didn't get struck by lightning at the Vatican. At least enough to give him a lesson..Honestly I don't think it would do that dope any good. I love watching the old ways. Godspeed and hope to see you next Sunday.

Incredible rare footage. Fascinating!! Thank you Peter Halil to bring this heritage to the future. Now we will always remember and never forget how life was on those lighthouses!

A Very Very Happy Birthday to You Peter Halil, ... I'm Glad You Were Born, .... Enjoy your special day.

I can't believe that there's a guy work on a helicopter platform with flipflops on, what is he thinking! Great video as usual.

Best vlog ever Peter😁👍👏

Thank you so muchfor recording this for us. I always wondered what it was like to live this life.

Ooh, another brilliant video, I love these the most! Thanks Peter, keep safe! :)

Video number 3 in your excellent series Peter, really enjoying each one, the time you made this film i was in the Royal Air Force based in RAF GATOW in Berlin and the wall had fallen the year before, a few days after your birthday !!! Thankyou Peter.

Absolutely brilliant thanks Peter

A wonderful video for a snowy day. So glad you documented the lighthouses with your camcorder back then and now have a way to share it. Thanks again.

Love these videos Peter. Your collection must surely be running out by now. Thank you for having the forethought to record the role of a lighthouse keeper before automation made everyone redundant.

It is a priceless record, indeed, Peter. Thank you again.

Thank you for putting this up. It was really interesting to watch. This many years later its a good thing that you took the time to record this, and its great that the tapes survived.

Good Morning Peter! I don't have time to watch right now, the dogs want to go for a walk. I had seen your 1st Hanois vid a couple years ago or has it been longer. It introduced me to you and your incredible vids. I have watched it more than once, I am excited to see this one a little later. Thanks for everything.

Awesome place and a great video to Peter, thank you for sharing to buddy 🇬🇧✊🏼

Very interesting, thank you!

Another really interesting video Peter, thank you. You had my dream job :)

Wonderful documentary. Very good and most interesting, a valuable record.

Great footage pete job well done .

I always love to see your videos. I'm surprised how well equipped the living areas are on some of these lighthouses. Thanks.

It's been a while but always worth coming back for another viewing. Cheers Peter for this wonderful slice of history.

Hi Peter, you can tell you used to be in the RN, you do all the things my dad used to do as he spent 21 years in. Sparrows bath in the morning, clean your teeth more often than not (not wanting an abscess or infection while deployed), engines get a polish to make them run better lol, make and mend your own kit, cook your own scran, swabbing and cleaning is second nature in close confines of a ship or lighthouse, can sleep anywhere, and watch and log keeping for good measure. Plus my old man was ships photographer, you are lights filmographer haha....all the best mate! PS my birthday is the 9th of November.

A most interesting vlog Peter,well done 😁👍👏👏👏

Really enjoyed watching your videos. What I like most is they really capture the everyday life of working in a lighthouse. Getting to see the living conditions rather than just the machinery and technical stuff really make it come to life. Thank you so much for sharing.

Never seen what it was like to work/live in a lighthouse, came by this by luck when checking RU-vid for videos of my home island. Thank you Peter

As usual very interesting stuff. And also happy birthday Peter if you should happen to see this on Nov 4th.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Hi Peter, Another great video of the Hanois. It was good to see Clive after all these years and also Dave and George. It was great working with Clive and Avery when I went back after a year away following Pauls accident. Have a great birthday tomorrow mate, I remember my 50th birthday out there. I hope you are keeping well.

Thanks from New Zealand for sharing Peter. A rare opportunity to view inside Hanois prior automation. Truely unique. I gather the smaller lense & lantern replaced the original 1st order one? Also I read somewhere the Germans used this lighthouse for coast watching during the occupation & it was fortified after the Casquets commando raid

There's something special about being on the last outpost. A job I could see myself doing. However, most were automated before I was even born.

Cheers Peter for all your superb videos! I sometimes wish I had been a light keeper! I’ve visited many lighthouses, mostly in Scotland including Fair Isle north and south lights and I was lucky enough to get to go up Fair Isle south a few years ago, as stunning inside as out! As a birdwatcher fascinated by bird migration I loved the footage of the Goldcrest attracted to the Hanois light, did you see any other species of bird at the lights at night during your time offshore? Your footage is an incredible record of bird migration offshore. I found several sadly dead goldcrests in the courtyard of The Longstone light in November a few years back that had probably hit the lantern glass at night. The perils of migration!

Happy Birthday today, the 4th November Peter 🎂

All the frame work for the helipad, that surrounds the light must have reduced the light output from the tower. Oh, and happy birthday on Thursday

Very interesting videos. Now that lighthouses are automated, how often are they visited and what are the main jobs that need to be done?

Another brilliant video diary that was so much ahead of its time. Was there a decline in comeradery amongst the crews? You said that there was no duty cook anymore. When did all the bread making die out? How to bake bread was a skill taught at Blackwall. Was that just for some sort of bread emergency? 😉

Great video! Any idea how far out to sea that foghorn could be heard?

Thanks for a wonderful insight Peter. I for one am grateful you recorded as much as you did, may I ask what the camera was?

Are you a Guernsey man? Great video to watch.I bet it’s abit scary sometimes there at night.

Did you keep the compresed air cylinders charged at all times or did you charge them if you knew fog was forecast?

ThIs is so well edited, did you enter a competition? How far from France? Are you an EU citizen?

When you were on this duty did you ever communicate with the French lighthouses off the Brittany coast or at least pick their radio messages , Ar-Men lighthouse for example .

Flip flops on the Helipad. How 90s is that? P.S. I'm wearing flip flops, as I type. ;o) P.P.S. Happy birthday for Thursday!

Recognise “Gay Byrne & The late late show” on the TV at the start of the video😁 did you pick up Irish tv there? Enjoyed the video, thanks

Peter is the mechanic the same one who rebuilt the engines at lizard with Robbie Coltrane?

Are there any photos or video of the eddystone interior pre-automation available anywhere on the net?

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You mentioned the Germans stripped out the bedroom during their occupation of the islands. Did they keep the lighthouse, and any others in the island, operating during their time there?

At the start of the film you were watching Irish TV, I heard Gay Byrne welcome Bill Wyman on to The Late Late Show !, How did you receive Irish Tv ?

Utterly engrossing

Omg! Happy belated birthday 🎂... I am so engrossed in the engineering I forgot... wtf was wrong with the Germans ripping out circular bunks in a circular building? F-ing fascists! Lol x