The conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 years previous, Lighthouse Keepers and their colleagues in the Light Vessel Service had provided the manual operation. The first lighthouse was built at Lowestoft in 1609.
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Lighthouse Automation Programme
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Lighthouse keepers
The 'Elder Brethren' are the court of 31 people who run Trinity House, under ...
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Robert Mylne
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a squa...
1 memorial
Great Eastern Street
Constructed 1872-6 by The Metropolitan Board of Works. Opened in 1876. Improved in 1880-2.
1 memorial
Cuthbert Arthur Brereton
Civil engineer. His many projects include: with Wolfe-Barry, the 1903 Kew Bridge, over the Thames, correctly known as King Edward VII Bridge; his involvement with the construction of the Barry and ...
1 memorial
5 memorials
West Middlesex Water Company
A utility company which supplied water to parts of West London. It was established in premises on the banks of the River Thames at Hammersmith, the central part of which was designed by William Tie...
2 memorials
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