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There are some good anecdotes in here! Like the consecration of one of the lighthouses in 1958, because the keepers were convinced the place was suddenly haunted. It does sound like the kind of environment that could get really creepy, to be honest.

The whole book is making me really curious. Most of these lighthouses are not open to the public, though -- they are and were in dangerous places!

This is pretty much what I hoped for -- a dose of dreaming alongside the practicalities of the history of rock lighthouses.

This is, on the surface, not something I would normally be interested in, but I added it to my stack today because... well... I don't know. Something about the first page, the blurb, kinda made me curious.

Also, lighthouse postcards are such a common request on Postcrossing that I really want to understand other people's fascination!

There WAS a “lighthouse“ I loved as a kid, the memorial to Captain Scott & crew at Roath Park. 💙

What is it about Lighthouses? It surely can‘t be my - mistakenly romantic - notion that they were/are places of solitude and unbroken tranquility. This is a great book. I particularly liked the chapter on the Haulbowline lighthouse: it seems that at some point in its history the local priest was rowed across Carlingford Lough to exorcise it. What the hell was going on? There‘s a novel somewhere in there, surely...

Starting this beauty today. It‘s a history of British lighthouses and because I love the sea I‘m already intrigued. 😍

I do like a lighthouse...