Association of Lighthouse Keepers

Lamp 146 Edition


Winter 2025

Lamp 146

Inside this issue:

  • The Executive Committee in action
  • Swan Island Lighthouse Journal, Christmas Day 1846 – Robert Wettenhal
  • Christmas at Bishop Rock – PK Handel ‘Andy’ Bluer
  • The first Abertay lightship – Pete Goulding
  • Delivering the Christmas dinner 1891
  • Angles highlights of Harwich – Part 2 – Joy Tubby
  • The Aces of Mumbles Head – Pete Goulding
  • A slippery goose and a shipwreck – Robbie Goldsmith
  • Living the quiet life on South Bishop – Anthony Mills
  • The minor lighthouses of Victoria Part 1 – Lin Richards
  • An idyllic pastoral scene – East Twin Island
  • Book Review: The Irish Lightkeeper’s Legacy by Martha Power Baxter
  • A week on the Eddystone – photo feature
  • AGM weekend – the ALK visits southeast Kent – Charles Frankly and Ian Hogarth
  • Around Round Island – Anthony Mills
  • The disappearance of the keepers of the Flannan Isles – The Sphere feature
  • 125th Flannan Isles mystery
  • The keepers of the Fisgard light – Richard Cummins
  • Book Reivew – Lighthouses of Wales by Warren Kovach
  • Questions and Answers
  • The ongoing saga of the St Mary’s optic – Keith Morton
  • The old lighthouses of Calvay
  • The search for the ‘Old Lighthouse of Calvay’
  • Lighting the past – Cape Florida Lighthouse, Lough Mahon Pile Light, Godrevy Lighthouse
  • Good news – LV91 Helwick and bad… – Blacknore Lighthouse
  • Front cover: La Corbiere Lighthouse, Jersey – photo Travis Leery
  • Back cover: Eldred Rock Lighthouse, Alaska – photo Kenneth J Gill

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