Light House Gallery

Four of the Eddystone Lighthouses

Engraving of the four Eddystone Lighthouses. From left to right: the first lighthouse (1699) built by Henry Winstanley; the second lighthouse (1708) built by John Rudyerd; the third lighthouse (1759) built by John Smeaton; the fourth lighthouse, by Sir James Douglass in 1882

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View along the tidal causeway to St. Marys Island and St. Marys Lighthouse at dusk

View along the tidal causeway to St. Mary's Island and St. Mary's Lighthouse at dusk, near Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

© Lee Frost

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Grace Darling, rowing with her father

Grace Horsley Darling, daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838 -- together with her father she saved 13 people from the wreck

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