Association of Lighthouse Keepers

Lamp 145 Edition


Autumn 2025

Lamp 145 Cover

Inside this issue:

  • From an NT display board at South Foreland – the Knott family
  • The Executive Committee in action – Jill Murphy
  • Fisgard Lighthouse, the first beacon on the west coast of Canada – Richard Cummins
  • The Lord Blayney disaster – Pete Goulding
  • Angles highlights of Harwich – Part one – Joy Tubby
  • ALK AGM Weekend – Ed Peppitt, South East Representative
  • Events update – Sarah Kerr
  • A baptism of water at Longships – Anthony Mills
  • Sea Lights (from The Ballad of the Royal Ann) – Crosbie Garstin
  • Welcome to our new President, Gerald Butler – Ian Hogarth
  • Keeping Watch – the ALK’s podcast
  • The Red Pier light at Douglas
  • The art of lighthouse bagging in Maine – Graham Watson
  • Lighthouses of the United States – spread
  • Book review – From the Lighthouse by Robert W E Farrah – reviewed by David Taylor
  • A week with Zulu Juliet Part Two – Christopher Nicholson
  • Robbie Goldsmith – Ken Trethewey, South West Representative
  • The leaning tour of Gjögurtá (Iceland) – Pete Goulding
  • Happisburgh Lighthouse – a third century of operation – Ian Hogarth talks to Patrick Tubby
  • Raising the Pharos
  • Shaken not stirred – Pete Goulding
  • Letter from an Irish lightkeeper 1849
  • Lighting the past
  • The Dungeness lightning strike of 1821
  • Front cover: Galley Head Lighthouse, County Cork – Ian Cowe
  • Back cover: Ugly lighthouses?

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