Association of Lighthouse Keepers

Lamp 119 Edition


Spring 2019

Inside this issue:

  • Twenty-seven years of lighthouse engineering – Adrian Wilkins
  • The Executive Committee in action
  • ALK AGM Weekend 2019
  • A solitary calling: Light keepers in Devon and Cornwall in the later medieval period (Part 1) – Chris Preece
  • Australia’s highest operating lighthouse: Tasman Island – Erika Shankley
  • A very visible act of ‘keeping lighthouse heritage alive’ – Gordon Medlicott
  • Mrs Colwell’s Ginger Biscuits and other stories: memories from Graham Fearn – Patrick Tubby
  • The Museum of the Lighthouse Service, Fort Constantine, Russia – Vladimir Erger
  • Longstone past and present – Steve Newman
  • ‘I love lighthouses’: an interview with Paul Murton
  • Moving the Rubh Re lens – Dr Karen Buchanan, Curator, Gairloch Heritage Museum
  • Northern lights: best kept secrets – Denise Schultz
  • Seeing double! Christopher Nicholson
  • My favourite lighthouse: Isle Ornsay – John Best
  • ALK Events update
  • Front cover: Lismore Lighthouse by Christopher Nicholson
  • Back cover: Girdle Ness Lighthouse during a lunar eclipse – Ian Cowe

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