Image: Lighthouse, Southwold 13-09-2014 (19369482922)
Description: Southwold Lighthouse stands in the middle of the historic resort of Southwold, in the heart of the beautiful Suffolk Heritage Coast. The Lighthouse provides a waymark for vessels navigating the East Coast and guides vessels making for Southwold Harbour. Tours of Southwold Lighthouse are organised by Southwold Millennium Foundation under licence from the Corporation of Trinity House. The lighthouse was commissioned in 1890 and was automated and electrified in 1938. It survived a fire in its original oil-fired lamp just six days after commissioning and today operates a 150-watt lamp. The main navigation lamp has a range of 24 nautical miles (28 miles). The lighthouse is 31 metres (102 ft) tall, standing 37 metres (121 ft) above sea level. It is built of brick and painted white and has 113 steps around a spiral staircase. Two keeper's cottages were built next to the lighthouse rather than living quarters being made in the lighthouse itself. The lighthouse is a Grade II listed building.
Title: Lighthouse, Southwold 13-09-2014 (19369482922)
Credit: Lighthouse, Southwold 13-09-2014
Author: Karen Roe from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK, United Kingdom
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