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Rooms in a Lighthouse

Although the buildings of lighthouses differ depending on their location and purpose, they generally have common components. However, a distinction must also be made between a lighthouse station consisting of the lighthouse and all the outbuildings such as the lighthouse keeper's house, the fuel house, the boathouse and the building for fog signalling, i.e. a land station, and an inhabited lighthouse as it was found at sea.

Sections of Bell Rock and Skerryvore Lighthouses, date 1884

Skerryvore is a remote reef that lies off the west coast of Scotland, 12 miles (19 kilometres) south-west of the island of Tiree. Skerryvore is best known as the name given to the lighthouse on the skerry, built with some difficulty between 1838 and 1844 by Alan Stevenson.

The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 11 miles (18 km) east of the Firth of Tay. Standing 35 metres (115 ft) tall, its light is visible from 35 statute miles (56 km) inland.

If you are only dealing with an inhabited tower, you usually have the following rooms in it. Please note that, apart from the lantern room, there is no standardised scheme and the rooms were often arranged differently.

The lantern room is the glazed housing at the top of the lighthouse that contains the lamp and the lens. The glass panes are held in place by vertical or diagonal metal rungs. A lightning conductor and an earthing system, which are connected to the metal roof of the dome, ensure that any lightning strikes are safely discharged.

Sections of the Eddystone Lighthouse of 1759 and 1884

Immediately below the lantern room is usually a guard room where fuel and other supplies were stored and where the keeper prepared the lanterns for the night and often kept watch. The clockwork (for turning the lenses) was also located there. On a lighthouse there is often an open platform, the gallery, outside the watchroom (main gallery) or the lantern room (lantern gallery). It was mainly used to clean the outside of the lantern room windows. Below this was a living room, bedroom, possibly a separate kitchen, if not a cooking area was accommodated in the living room. In addition, there were often several storage rooms, an oil room (where the oil for the lantern were storaged) and a coal room. And if you're wondering where the bathroom was - well there wasn't one, there was a wash bowl, possibly a wooden tub for an occasional bath, but rarely, and chamber pots in the bedroom.

Life in a lighthouse at sea was not easy and managed to bring many an old sea dog to his knees. The lighthouse keepers on land had it much easier.

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A pair of solid gold earrings, modelled as galleons, with gold wire masts & rigging, enamel decoration and pearls, 1600s

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I got to see Bob finally, squeezing in some days off. And, my God, it was worth every minute. Many rumors I had heard are lies. As you mentioned, it felt like an intense experience, far from everything. And the public connected with him.He made my heart burn and brought out my tears. I love his current energy.

I just hope to repeat soon.

I am so happy you found a moment of joy between long working days. You have more than deserved it, no doubt!

In response I can only say that while I do not think some feedback on Bob's shows is necessarily lies, certain concert attendees definitely go in with false expectations, which in turn leads to confusion and disappointment. It is unfortunate, truly, since everyone deserves utmost enjoyment for their hard earned money, but, well, not every experience can be great, can it now?

What song did you enjoy the most? Was the stage set up similar to what I have described earlier? I'm curious, so please let me know, if you'd like

Yours, Lou

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Guillermo Gómez Gil (Spanish, 1862–1942), "Dawn" and "Moonlight"

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joan baez, newport folk festival, rhode island, 1967. photo by peter simon

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Page decorations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1899 edition.

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anybody else think about this constantly

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THE TERROR ▸ mr. goodsir // dr. goodsir

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To the person who opened their Fitzier Spotify playlist with the Sea Power's Hail Holy Queen:

(1) Please let me kiss you

(2) If this is unrelated to Disco Elysium I'm going to eat my shorts

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Guys, this is the full audio if the show I attended in Berlin!!! I can't believe we have such high quality recording, this is bliss. Enjoy!

Special thanks to nightly moth on youtube for uploading and RCM for recording.

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Guys, seeing our old boy Bob later today, will report when back!!!

Sadly it's a no-phone show, so no pictures, but I'm buzzing with excitement!!!

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I cannot believe there is a crossover post for my two major obsessions, guys, I just won the lottery

The Terror // Disco Elysium

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free to use png.fitzjames that I made for edit reasons