Lighthouses of England, Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Cornwall. mid 1990's
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2020
- This was filmed in the mid 1990's on a short overnight trip to the Wolf Rock Lighthouse. This Lighthouse is famous for the amount of rough seas it gets. When Keepers did 2 months on board followed by one month ashore, it wasn't unusual to be stuck there for days and even weeks longer because of the conditions, especially when this was boat reliefs.
The storm sequence I managed to capture was from the safety net up on the helicopter deck. At one stage all of the granite tower is engulfed in the waves, only the lantern and me on top were clear, and as this tower can and does get waves right over the top, I decided to get back inside!
Must feel good sleeping in the warm cosy bunks during a storm being insulated from freezingwind, rain and waves outside.
I've watched a few of your videos now (having only recently discovered them on UA-cam)and the level of solid quality engineering that went into the construction of these towers never ceases to impress me. I have an odd and illogical fascinaton with lighthouse and their history (I even received a beautiful encyclopedia on lighthouses for my 40th birthdayrecently😀). I gobble up every documentary available about these beautiful structures and I continue to enjoy your contributions Mr Halil. Excellent work.
Maybe in a former life I was a wickie.😁
Thank you for your kind words and glad you found my channel. Yes indeed, maybe you were, take care and stay safe
Another fantastic insight into lighthouse keeping. Thank you again Peter. Dramatic raw power of Mother Nature at the end, which I enjoyed immensely. You were certainly out on your own at nine miles out! Poor living quarters, but then again, I’m educating myself with your amazing videos as what actual work life was like. I bet the windows were rattling Wolf Rock...still love to give at a shot though. Thank you again, Simon.
Thank you Simon, yes the raw power of nature that the Wolf was renowned for, take care
Your footage is priceless. I can't find any other material like it for immersion into the actual experience. Brilliant endevour.
I was intrigued by fastnet island lighthouse and couldn’t find any video inside the lighthouse on UA-cam but googled it and there was an excellent tour video from the heli pad all the way up to the top by a maintenance worker from about 2010 on Vimeo. Seems a lot bigger inside than wolf rock.
Excellent vlog Peter thanks😁👍👏👏👏
Thank you David, cheers.
Fantastic, thanks again Peter. Always one of my favourites the Wolf is. It screams out to be written about, filmed, and painted.
Cheers Jack, Yes the Wolf always delivers, stay safe
Great video, thank you. I like the extended scenes of waves breaking against the base of the tower, it can really take one's mind there. 56 days at a time on this lighthouse must have been hard.
Thanks for that, luckily I joined when it was month on and month off and done by helicopter. Yes, in the boat relief days the "Tower Rock" men were a special sort of Lighthouse Keeper.
wonderful videos, thank you Peter
Glad you like them thankyou. Stay safe
Amazing! Thanks Peter!
Thanks Samuel, glad you liked it, cheers.
Peter what a wonderful record of all of these lighthouses and the different character's that ran these stations, I have enjoyed watching the videos.
Thank you Robin, Glad you like the videos, much appreciated, cheers and stay safe
Just found this while browsing. I spent two months on the wolf in 1973 before moving on to Longships and then Eddystone. Best job I ever had.
Hi Alexander, Keeper or Technician?, best job I ever had as well, stay safe
@@PeterHalil Keeper. Was wonderful, should never have left but circumstances forced me to.
@@alexander7440 Sorry about that, yes it was a wonderful life and I agree with the best job bit, stay safe, take care.
Thank you !!!
Just brilliant, mesmerizing watching the spray shoot up that tower.
Thanks Dave, I bet it would have been a lot worse during storm Eunice that we had yesterday, cheers
Thanks Peter great insight into the lighthouse
Thank you Anthony, glad you liked the video, cheers
What a fascinating video Peter! I would love to be able to visit a lighthouse like this!
I've got a feeling that the only way to do that now is to work for Trinity House (if in UK) as a mechanic or electrician from one of the depot's as maintenance crew, then you will get to sleep on there as well! cheers. Thank you.
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I’m just reading The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex and this video has given me a real feel for what a lighthouse is like inside, which is great!
Thank you Caroline, glad you were able to put some sort of substance into your book you were reading. I shall have to Google that one cheers, stay safe
That’s what brought me here too 😁 fantastic book and these videos are truly bringing the book to life.
@@PeeweeM80 Thank you Wendy, glad you found my site, take care and Happy New Year
Superb video. Loved it 🫱🏼🫲🏽
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it. Take care and stay safe
Wolf Rock lighthouse standing in utter defiance of mother nature......sticking up the finger to everything thrown at it! I can only imagine what it must have been like to be inside during stormy seas like that! Very dramatic filming!
Thank you for that, yes a great feat of Victorian engineering, I'm glad I got to experience some of it cheers.
Another impeccable video Sir, if my memory serves me correctly this light house is in the middle of nowhere & bleak in the winter! Great video 👍👏
Hi Simon, yes, in the middle of nowhere and could be ferocious most seasons I've been told. I never served on board, so never saw the bad winters that some Keepers told me about, cheers
Excellent.
Thank you David, glad you liked it. Stay safe.
Brilliant Peter another great video..sad to see now it's had the hart pulled out off it.. This light house almost scary.. In a sea fairing way..its must of been hell of a noise inside in fowl weather.. All the best Peter and thank you for this amazing insight to what was to know..
Thank you very much for your kind comments. I was lucky enough to have experienced a job that very few get to see or do. So when Trinity decided to automate it all, I was determined to log as much as possible with video, to leave something behind for posterity. Cheers and stay safe
Excellent Peter. Great views of the sea against the tower. I have noticed that there is often spare glass for the lanterns in your visits. Did you or any of your colleagues have to replace and repair any panes? If so did you/they have to wait till the storms had died down?
I haven't ever seen anyone replace panes but that's what they were for, every lighthouse I've visited have them. I would guess they would only be done in lighter winds etc and if it was going to take a while before anybody could come out to do the job properly, then the Keepers would have to do it themselves. The Keepers in the past seemed to do a lot more hands on jobs then.
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I cannot imagine how breathtaking it was to film there! Surely a fantastic memory.
I imagine this was one of the very earliest to get a helipad fitted given the treacherous conditions?
Cheers Matt, It was breathtaking, and I was dead lucky with the storm arriving as it did I@m not sure which tower got done 1st but this one would have been tricky what with waves not unknown to come right over the top.
@@PeterHalil A bit of research is required. I honestly can't imagine just how difficult it was to get on and off without a helipad. You'd be saying your prayers on an anything less than glass smooth day for sure!
My son wanted to know if anyone has ever died working at a lighthouse. I had to say I wasn't sure but I know that people certainly did loose their lives building them over the centuries. Sparking an interest in an 11yo lad these days takes at least a bit of death and gore it seems!
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@Stellvia Hoenheim No, Never! Ha Ha, cheers
Hi, Peter, seen most, if not all your videos, absolutely brilliant, by coincidence I am just finishing reading D Alan Stevensons book ( The Worlds Lighthouses before 1820 ) and his version of the building of the Wolf Rock lighthouse, as such this video shows what I am reading about, putting a bit of meat on the bones, as the saying goes,
I have read several accounts, by various authors, of building rock lighthouses, and I still don't know how they did it, ( sheer grit & determination, bloody mindedness, madness, all spring to mind ) the Wolf Rock even more so, I doubt very much if at this moment in time, a lighthouse had to be built to the original specification, with the same equipment and materials, excluding current H&S rules, that it could be done.
keep up the good work, don't know what you will do when you run out of lighthouses.👴🏻👍🏻
Cheers David, very interesting, and what will I do when I run out of Lighthouses is something that I've been wondering too. Still I reckon I have another years worth or more before I'm done.
@@PeterHalil Is their a particular lighthouse you have never visited but would like too? Anywhere in the world?
@@craiggilchrist4223 Not thought of that one, I'm still trying to negotiate getting around the 3 or 4 that I missed doing before the redundancy caught up with me.
I’m amazed that the former light structure is still there. After all the waves and storms hitting it over the years.
Yes indeed and all built without a slide rule or computer in site! They knew how to build them then. Cheers and stay safe.
🇧🇷. Lindo quanta paz.
I am reminded of a line from a Sylvia Plath poem Blackberrying: (perhaps I paraphrase a bit as memory serves): “To the hills’ northern face, and the face is orange rock
That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space
Of white and pewter lights, and hear a chorus of waves, not unlike that very sound, a familiar sound like that din like silversmiths
Beating and beating at an intractable metal.”
Lo here we trek toward the pinnacle of the lighthouse… and the waves..like the din of silversmiths beating and beating upon that same intractable metal…”❤
Thank you Geoffrey for that, I shall now have to google Sylvia Plath. Thanks again and stay safe
Watching that Sea is Hypnotic. All the Vortexes. I think I'd crap myself looking down and seeing those waves then nothing but rough sea as far as the eye can see. Sends a chill down your spine. Exciting if you have the bottle to do it though I bet. Nice n Cosy. Did you ever hear any stories of Lighthouse Keepers suddenly losing their nerve and getting like a Cabin Fever. Knowing you cant just up and leave. Great Video as usual. Where did all the old Mercury go from the old lighthouses Peter. That stuff has to be dealt with carefully?
I haven't a clue what they did with the Mercury, if they updated the lenses when they automated. Yes the sea is hypnotic when it is like the sequence that I filmed, I always felt safe in the Victorian Lighthouses, incidentally I'm not too good with heights, but you have to hurt a bit if you want some good video. Cabin fever I've seen, especially on someone going through a divorce!
How they bring the fuel and fresh water here? Really shock to learn that all lighthouse in England already automated in 90s. While im from malaysia,our lighthouses that originated from british still manned by personel from depatment of marine
Hi Mohd Azri, glad to learn that some Lighthouses are still manned, thanks for that news.Fuel and water used to be delivered in barrels by boat and go up the winch, then when the Helipad was built all of that went as underslung loads and delivered to the helipad by helicopter where it was gravity fed down to its appropriate tanks.
@@PeterHalil Don’t forget British Columbia and the Bailey. Seems to be good for remote locations and security
Interesting to see Malaysia has some commitment to keeping everything ship shape and hopefully higher light dues
Resilient and brave men. Last of a unique breed.
Thank you for your kind words, much appreciated, stay safe
what an experience it must have been to live aboard all of these lighthouses. Hats off to you, Peter!
Hi John, I was appointed to 9 different lights during my career, and did different bits of duty on about 17 others. Then with the help of Trinity House, they sent me to as many of the others to try and finish my filming work, during my time off etc. I didn't manage to finish before redundancy caught me up, but recently I was allowed to do Caldey & Flatholm, it looks unlikely that I will get permission for 2 others that were missed. Cheers and stay safe
Hi Peter I have a couple of questions you may have some or all the answers to regarding Wolf Rock. Have you any idea of the depth of water at high and low water? How high from the base (where the post of first attempt to build is) is the entrance door? We're coffee dams used in building offshore lights like Wolf Rock?
Hi, This was not my station, I was only visiting to video so no idea to your 1st question. At the end I will give a link to the Association of Lighthouse Keepers who are a much better fount of knowledge than me, and will no doubt have access to Keepers that served on the Wolf.
As regards dams to build the Tower rocks, no, they scrambled on the reefs in between tides to build them as far as I'm aware.
A very good book to try and find that describes this in detail is "The red rocks of Eddystone" by Fred Majdalany. Yes I know it isn't the Wolf, but it gives a good idea of how it was done.
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Hello good morning, yes very interesting tales from all the old guys working in the most arduous conditions, did any light house you know of collapse during these violent storms ,don't think you would get many young guys nowadays doing this job? Love the video's, interesting and calming take care keep safe IAN RANKIN.
Thank you Ian, glad you liked the videos. No none of our Lighthouses have collapsed but I expect the helipads on those out to sea would have some damage of sorts. Cheers, you stay safe too.
Well i always thought Man could never beat nature, but the building of this lighthouse proves me wrong, what sort of men were they? and what a lovely storm, thanks once again Peter ( as asked what was the cone like structure please)
The cone was the 2nd attempt at marking the reef before they put up the tower, cheers
with some of your vids i watch/listen too while doing other bits, but i watched most of this nearly twice, was there no gallery on this light house, i did flick back threw but to no avail seeing you go on it or mention it ??
Hi yes , I went out onto the gallery after the lantern bit, passing a couple of fog horn emitters.
Thanks for another great video Mr Halil. Always looking forward to them. Wolf's Rock looks like a scary place to work for days end. I am now curious as how automation was actually achieved in all the lighthouses? And how does Trinity House keep a track on the maintenance of these magnificent structures today? Again, thanks and looking forward for more such experiences. Regards, VV, India.
Thank you VV, Trinity House have technicians visiting these lights from time to time, but I don't know how often. As regards how they automated them your best bet would be to contact Trinity House or perhaps the A.L.K. may know, the ALK is the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, I will try and link both below.alk.org.uk/
www.trinityhouse.co.uk/contact/website-enquiries
Previously it was sun valves
helo peter what was the purpose of the cone on the landing please?
I may be wrong, but I think it's part of a previous marker/structure.
It was the second attempt to mark the reef.
Peter explains the history of the rock at the beginning in writing @1:54 then explains the 2nd attempt @2:26
@@chunt5073 Yes. The sound is iffy on my laptop ATM. And it's covered in the book- Seashaken Houses.
Yes to all those comments , it was the 2nd attempt to mark the reef before the tower was built.
Wonderful video thank you. Are there any historic examples of lighthouses being demolished by the Sea?
Thank you John, All that I can think of off the top of my head would be the 1st Eddystone that got washed away in a big storm, complete with the crew and designer, but that was wooden.
@@PeterHalil An Ironic way to go
Great video, a remote and bleak posting esp with the westerly gales building up the waves across the Atlantic. Noticed the Baby Belling but wondered if ever had better cooking provision such as Rayburn stove (perhaps too difficult re coal provision) would also help keep warm and giving the living quarters some comfort against damp and condensation? Was it just electric heating? Thanks Ian
might not of been this light house, but in one of the interviews, they speak about a light house being notorious for damp and water running down the walls, and how the rayburn helped cure it when they installed it, or even the reverse the removal of the rayburn caused the issue
Hi, I think they all would have had Rayburn or Cornish ranges going back and on the Needles they fought tooth and nail to keep theirs up to when they were automated. It was standard practice on boat reliefs etc to top up the coal reserves as well as water etc, and yes it was great for less or no condensation.
Peter Halil does the Rayburn still exist in the needles. Or have removed everything that mad them inhabitable
@@mintysgt I don't know the answer to that for sure but the normal thing they do when they automate is renew the kitchen, so it should have gone. The places have to be habitable because of the visiting technicians doing the servicing of equipment from time to time.
Peter Halil I had wondered if they were still inhabitable for that reason. Would think like you say brought a little up to date in side. Have you been to a rock tower in recent years ? Or did that pleasure all stop
Thankyou very much for your lighthouse videos they have been so enjoyable to watch, when you filmed in the 1990s who was going to be your audience? Were they going to be an historical record? Two questions how water tight were lighthouses in big storms and were 3 men teams chosen on how well they could get along with each other? 28 days with someone with a difficult personality would be very hard.
Hi Linda, I filmed to leave some sort of record behind and hoped that perhaps Trinity House (my bosses) would keep copies to enable others to be able to view them. Although when I started they were very interested and helped a great deal by sending me all over the place during free from duty times as well as on duty times to enable me to film; fast forward 20 plus years and it is an all new lot of people in trinity house that don't have the same enthusiasm as when I served. The Greenwich Maritime Museum wanted them, but only if I signed all the rights over to them! so no thank you. So for the time being at least, You Tube fits the bill OK.
The Lighthouses aren't water tight, and during a big blow the keepers were constantly mopping up.
It used to be 2 men on some stations but at the Smalls in the early 1800's one keeper died and as they were seen to be arguing when they went out, the other kept the body to show that he hadn't murdered him. When the relief was eventually done, well over due, they found one dead keeper and one mad one, so three keepers ever since.
Finally, there is no choice or rhyme or reason to who you are sent out on a Lighthouse with.
cheers and stay safe
thanks for another great tour Peter :)
Thank you IKS, much appreciated.
Hey Iks is in the house 👋🏻
Wow! What a place. I don't blame you for nipping indoors after that big one @ 22:15
May I ask what that "pepperpot" device is? The soundtrack was a little muffled, for me, and I may have missed it.
All the best, and thanks for this fascinating footage.
Hi, the pepperpot device on the landing was put there by the Trinity House Engineer James Walker in 1848 to mark the reef, before they got round to being able to put a Lighthouse there. I t was basically just a day marker i guess.
@@PeterHalil Thank you, Peter. Presumably, if you could see it, you could avoid it, and if you couldn't see it, you'd see the breaking surf... Scary times for seamen in wind driven vessels.
I thought you were referring to the 'peepot' device. I can't imagine what its use is!
Hi Peter - just caught up with this and what a good film! Those shots of the waves at the end are hypnotic! Did you film them off the helideck?
Brave man if you did!!!
Hi, thanks, and yes I filmed from the safety net attached to the Heli deck.
Great series Peter. When was the last lighthouse build around the British Isles.? All - it seems - were built during 19th Century.?
Yes most seem to be old, the modern ones from the 60's type era would be Tater Du and Dungeness I guess, cheers.
Hi Peter, really enjoy these insights thanks. Have read somewhere that when automation was completed at the wolf, the lower two rooms were sealed off completely, so access from the main door was no longer possible. Do you have any info please? Kind regards.
Thank you, I've no idea about what you are asking as such, but I was led to believe that the only entry into Tower rocks was via the top after automation. They would all be sealed shut against the seas and weather.
A definitive answer should be from enquiries@trinityhouse.co.uk
cheers
Likely as to stop people breaking in
At 10:33 there is a small "funnel" pyramid, shape thing with the holes in it...WHAT IS IT AND WHATS IT DO, PLEASE?
It was built in 1848 by the Trinity House engineer James Walker as a way of trying to mark the Wolf rock before they got the lighthouse built. It wasn't lit, so obviously not much good in the dark.
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Thank you very much, glad you liked it. Take care and stay safe
Great video Peter. I have three questions. Are there any examples of married couples being keepers? What would a keeper’s diet consist of? And what would a keeper do during downtime? I did notice some were still in operation when video games started to become popular.
Way back they would have had Keepers and families on a lot of the Island lights, so they were all involved. There were some Keeper & Wife stations when they started to automate. The diet was as varied as anyone elses but if you go back before fridges they boiled up their meat into jam jars and sealed them with the fat to preserve and ate that. All fresh fruit & veg were consumed in the first few weeks then a lot of tinned till the next supply of fresh could be delivered or even grown if on an island light, oh and all the fish and crabs they could catch. Hobbies, they fished ,even with kites out to sea, some gardened on islands, rug making, painting ,reading, model making, ships in bottles and Lighthouse bulbs was a favourite, one of us even made videos!
Peter Halil Thank you Peter. It seems a really good life for people who could adjust to it. It’s amazing the things we find to do to pass the time.
@@PeterHalil The filiaments and mantles were/are quite big
How did they ever get a break in the ocean long enough to build anything like how did they stick the bricks together so that it would dry and how did they build the flat area it couldn't be concrete could it?
Hi Ashley, When they built these lighthouses out to sea, it all had to be done at low water, in calm weather and not many hours to be able to do anything at all. They chiselled out an area first, then the blocks of granite they built the tower out of would have something like dovetail type joints, which would lock it into the cut outs done in the reef and also lock it into the next block to either side of it and above. So when the lighthouse was eventually completed, all the blocks were so locked to each other, it became like one solid structure. cheers.
How on Earth did they get those engines up there ?
I'm assuming that the newer ones would have come by helicopter, and maybe broken down into parts then rebuilt inside, but way back everything had to come by boat!
May I ask how these remote lighthouses are powered generally? Do they have electric generators or underwater cables, or both?
Just the generators, but nowadays, probably all solar. The Needles was put on undersea cable during my time there. cheers.
@@PeterHalil Thanks.
Fascinating video, Mr. Halil. - On many levels, no pun intended. As a detail, the shot of the cutaway diagram on the wall (the emergency plan?) was instructive to comprehend the mass of the structure. May I ask your opinion on the construction? Is the tower made to "move" at all? Does it "give" a bit (like a modern skyscraper that bends fractionally in order to not "snap")? This would seem impossible given the granite block composition. But perhaps some clever technique does achieve that. Kindly, ~ RL
Hi, The offshore Rock lighthouses were built in the shape of a tree, with a hefty base and tapering towards the top. This was I believe, to encourage the waves to pass up the building with less resistance than a straight solid object. The lighthouses did move in big storms when big heavy waves struck, just like a tree does, but obviously no where near as severe, just a quiver that gave you a gentle shake in your bed and rattled some crockery. Cheers and stay safe.
@@PeterHalil Thank you very much, sir, for offering those intriguing observations. Goodness, it must have been quite something to be inside that "vessel" during the heat of a storm. I suppose one must possess a certain strength of mind to endure it. Perhaps like a submariner. ....Looking forward to reading "The Red Rocks of Eddystone". I've found a copy. Best regards, RL
@@richemontlewis7333 Cheers, Hope you enjoy the book, take care.
@@PeterHalil Thank you! Best wishes from stormy Cornwall.
Great video. Does the light still rotate?
I've been there. It's really nice but parking options was poor :(
The best is the last few minutes and that big wave smash the crap out of that lighthouse I’m surprise how it can withstand to something as powerful As that wave.i like to be there and watch that waves hitting the lighthouse.i wonder if u can feel the wave as it it’s the side of the lighthouse and the vibrations. And that is that thing with all the holes on the concrete slab as I kept noticing the water come out. Love the video tho.
Cheers Tony, that was my videoing without my thinking brain switched on. It wasn't unknown for the waves to go right up an over! Yes the place trembles when a big wave hits and you get a gentle shake if you are in bed. Also, the wave engulfing the tower can compress the air inside, so your ears "pop", like when you drive up a very steep hill too quickly. The cone with the holes in on the landing was one of the original ways that they tried to mark the reef, and is still there going strong, cheers and take care
I google map the location is it on the Celtic sea. What year what the light house built. I wish I was the to experience the trembles and think how amazing to built out on rocks in the middle of nowhere.is it hard to be a lighthouse keeper.
@@tonybrincat1745 Built 1869, yes they class it as the Celtic sea. As regards being a Keeper, it depended on you as not many people could put up with being shut in a tiny tower surrounded by the sea and all it could throw at you, cheers
@@PeterHalil it sounds perfect honestly. Some books, peace of mind. Some of the waves in this video looked quite powerful. Were you ever genuinely scared or concerned? If you don't mind me asking so, what was the scariest bit and/or the biggest storm you experienced? It would be amazing to read your book, i hope you write it someday.
@@gaiuspliniussecundus1455 No, never really scared as such, more apprehensive during my first storm. The biggest storm was the one I filmed on the Wolf I guess. My book, if I ever get it done, was more of journals that I did when out to sea doing extra duties. like the Hanois and the Christmas tape. I tried to put everything down, even my thoughts on my companions, and even my shopping lists for going out there. Anyway, thanks for your comments. Take care and be safe.
Do any of the light houses still have engines running 24 hours a day?
That I do not know because, last I heard they were solar powering almost everywhere.
@@PeterHalil Personally pefer the light off the engined ones
@@oscarosullivan4513 more reliable if off engines
@@vikingsmb And not as likely to be damaged look at what they did to Fastnet. What was the carbon foot print of all lighthouses globally
Were any of the Keepers keen fishermen ? & what would they catch
Lots of Keepers were very keen fishermen on all sorts of Lighthouses, in my interviews some mention it,they even fished with kites.
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Thanks. I am slowly working my way through your vids. I really appreciate the effort you went to filming these light houses. Knowing the equipment & batteries are nothing like todays kit
Just curious Peter, in all your travels did you ever come across a Perkins diesel engine in any of the generator rooms of the lighthouses?
Hi Legionnaire, can't say that I've ever noticed that, Trinity House seemed very fixed on Lister/Gardner engines.
Very Marie Celeste with the salt and pepper still on the table!
Lister - ahh, the enemy :) No, just curious as I worked for Perkins for 15 years and wondered if any of our diesels were installed.
More likely Lister?
@@philhealey449 Ha Ha, I was out there with some techy guys who were doing something or other?...and as per usual, as soon as my video camera was running, so were they!
Binge watching. Cheers Peter, BTW could you feel these structures swaying ?
Hi Paul, Yes they did move. A gentle twitch or sway, nothing too violent experienced by me. Other Keepers were in bigger storms, so they may say different. Stay safe
@Peter Halil Really loving these, but it saddens me too, seems a tragic loss, this way of life. I don't think people realise the amount of necessary areas and parts needed. I imagined them tranquil, but they're quite noisy inside. I want a banana bunk 😂
@@paulwilliams2663 Banana Bunks, Brilliant! Yes it seems like I've shattered lots of peoples views of tranquil lighthouses, reality sucks. Cheers Paul, stay safe
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Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers and take care.
Where did the toilet discharge?
Straight into the sea!
@@PeterHalil : Yes, I guessed that ! But with the sea coming at the tower from all directions, how did they arrange it so the pan wasn’t awash with sea water - and the room it’s in? Nor to mention wet bums?
@@chriswalford4161 Lol, sometimes that did happen on Tower Rocks!, as it did on the Needles video, "so you want to be a Lighthouse Keeper". Cheers.
Bell Siphons and Hydro Turbines..
Hi Peter love your videos but have you written a book with all your memories photos of being lighthouse keeper, would be very interested if you have done. Thanks
Hi June, No I haven't written a book yet, but I did keep several large journals during the last few years of being a Keeper. Hopefully one day I will get my act together and get it all in book form, cheers.
Where does tje drinking water come from
Way back it would have been collected rainwater, then it was delivered by boat, then by helicopter underslung loads. Cheers.
Really interesting, great documentary, but if you are going to make documentaries for the general public, perhaps try at least a small amount of enthusiasm in your narrations!!!!
How did fuel get delivered by boat?
On most Tower Rocks the fuel or whatever came aboard in containers up the winch. Cheers and stay safe