Royal Sovereign Light (1972) 

Be sad to see her go. As an Eastbourne lad I was always fascinated by this tower as a kid.....I was born in 74 but my dad told me about how it was built. I lived 4 miles inland at Wilingdon and could clearly hear the fog horn at night !!!!

I read it's due to the superstructure having reached the end of its serviceable life span, as the structure can no longer be maintained properly. At least Beachy Head Lighthouse will be taking over, the same way Southwold Lighthouse took over from Orfordness. I believe the original foghorn from this station is in private ownership somewhere. I hope a portion of this old tower can at least be preserved, like the lantern room at least.

Probably be deferred until the Pandemic is over

Right on schedule, as the structure was expected to last until 2022.

My grandmother used to take us to Bexhill swimming in the 80’s / 90’s, I always wondered what the mysterious thing on the horizon was.. finally I know, just in time before it goes forever.

right?

@@weatheranddarkness A real lesson on how to do it right.

Not true a lot of people have pride in their work

Alexis. Do you think you could find that model. I ask as Chair of the local Heritage Society. committee @ eastbournesociety.co.uk

Alexis, I’ve just found this. My father was the resident engineer on-site I believe (James Yonge) for Halcrow. My parents knew yours well I believe (my mother has mentioned them on numerous occasions!).

You Don't happen to know if the model still exists do you? The Eastbourne Heritage Centre is looking to commemorate the now gone structure with a big permanent exhibition from 2024.

Looking to connect to talk about the model. Plans that were delayed are now back on track.

traffic71 no more fog?

Same. Shame they've started dismantling it

*+woody cook* Wow! Thanks so much for sharing your comment. What a wonderful thing to be involved with. How many rich bastards ever considered your and your fellow workers labours and how that made them into the fat, golf playing, trophy wived "winners" they see themselves. They never dip their toes in a rock pool without security. They never get dirt under their nails and laugh with their fellow workers or cry with them or go to the pub after a days hard yakker. (NZ&Aussie for "hard work") An honest days pay for an honest days work. Our honest taxes providing an honest education to our children, healthcare and infrastructure. We can't all fly by helicopter. Oops.., sorry, just want to say I respect your hard work and it's wonderful to have such a legacy as this.

No Way I'll tilt my hat to you sir.

I think my brother worked on building the Sovereign too.

Tanga Toto yes I was a kid living at Newhaven the sight was almost wide open no life jackets neither

When I was on the Lightvesel 'Royal Sovereign', in 1968-1970, we had continuous fog for 100 hours. The foghorn is brought into use when visibility is reduced to half a mile or so. The larger generator-compressors are used when the foghorn needs to be running, thus supplying adequate air pressure of 40 Lbs square inch in the 3 capacitor tanks that is then fed by pipe through a solenoid operated valve to the foghorn above the bridge. The number - frequency of the foghorn signal is determined by whatever the light signal is for that particular seamark & the lantern is used during periods of fog as well as hours of darkness.

+Rob Mannion www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/eddystone-lighthouse    It doesn't appear they have any videos. But there is this ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y_B5SYHah9k.html

Search for Peter Halil on youtube

weird! One of the brass helping out?

Boss man wants to look good in the video.

A lot of old timers used to wear clothes like that to work. In 1990 I started on the railway, my first placement was with a group of old Irish men, all in their late 50's early 60's laying footings, digging troughing runs etc for cables. All five of them wore a three piece suit, shirt and tie to work every day. Yes, to dig holes! I remember one of them set fire to his trousers using an angle grinder, the next day he was sporting a new patch his wife had sewn over the hole. The hardest, funniest group of men I have ever worked with. God I wish I could remember their names as I suppose none of them are with us any more.

@PADDYDOYLE Its a big impressive world you men built. You should be proud. Its a shame not much credit is given to those who sweated in its creation but these little youtube comment conversations will be here for a long time so I will take the time to tip my hat to you all and say thank you.

Obviously a Monday, his clobber from the weekend. New suit every Friday and out on the piss until Monday morning, that's how it used to be.

Moogy...

When men was men.

Nor life jackets .....

Spoken like a flabby, idle Daily Mail reader who spent their life working in an office.

Yes.. still off Eastbourne.. protecting shipping

Trinity House announced on June 28, 2019, that the light would be taken out of service in 2020: Trinity House has begun preparation work on a project to decommission Royal Sovereign Lighthouse. It is the intention that the now-deteriorating lighthouse will be completely removed clear to the seabed. This has necessitated that local icon Beachy Head Lighthouse be upgraded to ensure the safety of the mariner in those waters.

Not till late nineties I think. In the early nineties I was working on sites without hardhats .

Greatest range of tide I recall in Eastbourne was 8.2 m, about 26' 10"

The Telly was watching THEM

what the hell, it really is Kojak

Page 71+1 & 71+2

Someone got a MiniMoog for Xmas.

Fresnel lense? Only five left in the world

My thoughts exactly 😂

Have you never heard of Jean Michelle Jarre?

How much of what we build today will still be about in a 1000 years time and how much of what the Romans built fell to pieces?

Simple, if the concrete base, being hollow, displaces enough water with a weight greater than the weight of the concrete then it will float, after all steel won't float until it's made into a sealed container.

@@johnmartin6178 Yes fine but how is it then heavy enough to support the tower when sunk. Do they then fill it with concrete?

@@ronnieg6358 The video explains it!

Correct. At 91ft high the light can only be seen 11.5 miles away. At 45 miles the light is 750ft below the curve of the earth. Can't be seen on a curved earth at that distance.

dont breed.

Costa Concordia had every nav aid and radar gadget imaginable and they just drove it onto rocks, can't fix stupid

It's done it's designed 50 years

Every 6 feet you climb up the mast you can see 17 miles more , it's a thing , the real issue is clouds ,fog h20 , live at sea for a year , the ocean is weird.stay alive .!

Don't have kids.

Oh dear, everything was going well until a Flatard appeared! Shakes head and walks away!