Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
September 3, 1890 On the North Sea coast of eastern England, a lighthouse in the town and civil parish of Southwold was officially inaugurated. Construction on Southwold Lighthouse began in 1887 under the supervision of James Nicholas Douglass (1826-1898), engineer-in-chief of Trinity House from 1862 to 1892. (Trinity House is the official authority for lighthouses... Continue Reading →
January 26, 1830 On Scotland’s northeastern coast, a lighthouse on the Tarbat Ness headland first went into service. (Tarbat is derived from “tairbeart,” a Gaelic word for “isthmus”; “ness” is an Old Norse term for “headland.”) This structure was designed by the renowned civil engineer Robert Stevenson for the Northern Lighthouse Board (the general lighthouse... Continue Reading →
