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Managing Organization:
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
Website: http://www.pol.ac.uk
Notes:
This lighthouse has been restored and it is lighted on winter evenings (not an official aid to navigation). Wayne Lewis writes, "I was born in Birkenhead, down the hill past the farms, not far from the lighthouse, Observatory, and Windmill. I have nothing but the best childhood memories of looking out my bedroom window at night and looking at the beam of light coming out of the observatory, actually seeing lightning hit the windmill one stormy night, and setting the sails spinning on fire, and summer holidays playing around the lighthouse, wondering how I was going to get up to the big bulb one day to switch it on. It is a beautiful lighthouse with a big wall around it, and lots of clinging ivy."
Height of Focal Plane: 228
Description of Tower: Cylindrical sandstone tower.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1771
Date Present Tower Built: 1873
Date Deactivated: 1913
Current Use: Museum.
Museum?
The restored lighthouse contains exhibits and is open occasionally to the public. Contact the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory for more information.
Keepers: William Mathias (c. 1881)
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