Plover Scar Lighthouse

[Roger]

Dear All,
Message from Lancaster Port Commission (LPC). I have advised Helen that I'd put it on the club 'grapevine'.

' LPC are going to be putting a Notice to Mariners out next week about the repair works, which we hope will begin next weekend. We are intending putting a temporary exclusion area between the lighthouse and the shore, over the area where the contractors will be transiting at low tides just in case anything gets left or abandoned mid-transit, which would cause an underwater obstruction when the tide is in. It is obviously not part of the plan but I have to consider worst case scenarios. I don’t think this will affect yachts, as they tend to stick to the buoyed channel anyway, but it may affect dinghy sailors, and especially windsurfers and possibly jet skiers. LPC will be posting physical copies of the Notice at known launching points, i.e. the lighthouse carpark, Cockerham Sands Caravan Park and the Golden Ball, but I wondered if anyone at the club was part of the local ‘windsurfing circuit’ who could get the message going round via word of mouth? '

Good news for the Lighthouse !

Regards

Roger

[valsimpkin]

Look what I just found! http://www.britishpathe.com/video/lighthouse-1 - amazing footage from 1948

[pj]

Hi Val
Nice find that is very interesting. They do make it look a lot higher than it really is though when filming her climbing up the ladder.
PJ

[onewaygeorge]

I wonder how she lit it when H.W. was near nightfall and it was blowing a 9?

[Chriss]

It says twin lighthouses. Where was the other one?

[davidb]

It was on the shore behind the long white wall. They were in transit with each other and lune1, which I think is meant to be due west of them.

[onewaygeorge]

They are both on this 1895 map. http://maps.nls.uk/view/102343829

[davidb]

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I have just looked at the Pathe footage again, and you can view it as a series of stills:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stills/lighthouse-1

I hope this isn't breaking copyright

[davidb]

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I went down to the lighthouse car park today ( early Sunday morning )and took a couple of snaps, not very good zoom, I'm afraid.

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There is now a scaffold all round at a height of about 12 feet with a telehandler doing the lifting and a tractor with trailer doing the carting, So they are working some funny hours. The contractors: http://www.mpmnw.co.uk/restoration.htm





Lets hope they can keep to their schedule. David