@uklighthouses

Author of The British Lighthouse Trail: A Regional Guide. On a mission to visit all of the lighthouses around the British coastline.

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Finding out more about Cornish lighthouses, including a visit to Lizard! Read the full blog at uklighthousetour.com/2023/07…
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The stunning St Anthony and Pendeen lighthouses feature in my latest blog post at uklighthousetour.com/2023/07…
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A few new blog posts are now up on my website, including the latest covering these wonderful three lighthouses: Longships, Tater Du and Wolf Rock Take a look at uklighthousetour.com
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Take a look at my latest, and very delayed, blog post covering the wonderful @alklighthouse AGM in Belfast last year. Better late than never! uklighthousetour.com/2023/06…

The Belfast ALK AGM – eventually

To say Belfast was an ambitious location for the Association of Lighthouse Keepers AGM would be something of an understatement. With around 70 members (as far as I recall, it was last October after…

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Berwickshire-based bagging – part 4 uklighthousetour.com/2022/10…

Berwickshire-based bagging – part 4

After a few good days of lighthouse-related antics, it all went a bit pear-shaped with my knee-related incident. Any plans I’d had for walking to lighthouses from that point had to be cast aside. H…

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Alastair Dalton@AlastairDalton12 Sep 2022
"After the Covid pandemic, war in Ukraine and as the cost of living crisis deepens, who wouldn’t want to get away from it all to be a lighthouse keeper in the wilds of Scotland, even if only for a few hours a month?" @NLB_UK @WhittlesBooks @uklighthouses scotsman.com/news/opinion/co…

The romance, reassurance and slight terror I associate with lighthouses – Alastair Dalton

I knew immediately when I saw a job advert for a visiting lighthouse keeper that it would capture the imagination.

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Berwickshire-based bagging – part 3 uklighthousetour.com/2022/07…

Berwickshire-based bagging – part 3

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to spend some quality time on the Northumberland coast and one target for this trip was to get a closer look at Coquet Island, a mile off the coast of …

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Some Berwickshire-based bagging – part 2 uklighthousetour.com/2022/07…

Some Berwickshire-based bagging – part 2

Yesterday we decided to make the most of the good weather and set off from St Abbs for Seahouses. My dad was keen to go and see the puffins, the Farne islands being best place for them in the area.…

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Some Berwickshire-based bagging – part 1 uklighthousetour.com/2022/07…

Some Berwickshire-based bagging – part 1

Taking a break from holidays on the west coast of Scotland, we decided to have a family holiday with my parents in the Scottish Borders this time. I have my son the choice of whether we stayed in a…

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A closer look at South Cumbria uklighthousetour.com/2022/05…

A closer look at South Cumbria

With a day to get home from Preston, a bit of a detour en route felt necessary to clear up a few things lighthouse-related. I had yet to see a couple of the lights along the south coast of Cumbria,…

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Tipsy on a tidal island uklighthousetour.com/2022/05…

Tipsy on a tidal island

I arrived back on the ferry from the Isle of Man following the recent lighthouse bonanza over there, and was met by Bob at Heysham. I’d made some lighthouse plans for later that day and we ha…

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The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – a personal finale uklighthousetour.com/2022/05…

The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – a personal finale

As mention in my last post, the Association of Lighthouse Keepers’ Isle of Man event was over, but I still had one more task to do before I left the island. I’d arrived on the island wi…

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The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part four uklighthousetour.com/2022/05…

The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part four

The Calf of Man boat trip was always going to be the only ‘Will we? Won’t we?’ part of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers’ Isle of Man event. Almost as expected, the schedule for the trip needed…

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The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part three uklighthousetour.com/2022/04…

The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part three

Monday was a busy day on the Isle of Man for day three of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers event. We started off at Langness Lighthouse with visits inside the tower, courtesy of the Northern L…

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The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part two uklighthousetour.com/2022/04…

The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part two

Day two of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers event on the Isle of Man was all about the island’s little lights, and specifically two new ones for me. These were to be found in Laxey. I…

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The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part one uklighthousetour.com/2022/04…

The Great Manx Lighthouse Extravaganza – part one

Today we set off for Point of Ayre, the most northerly tip of the island. We’d prearranged to meet the Northern Lighthouse Board’s Retained Lighthouse Keeper, Fred Fox, here and after the safety br…

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A helping hand in Heysham uklighthousetour.com/2022/04…

A helping hand in Heysham

With a ferry booked from Heysham for the forthcoming Association of Lighthouse Keepers’ Isle of Man event, it seemed the perfect opportunity to check out the route to Heysham’s South Pier Lig…

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Finally kicking off 2022 uklighthousetour.com/2022/04…

Finally kicking off 2022

for it with a good old bagging session. It’s difficult these days to find an area that will allow me to visit more than one or two lighthouses I’ve not seen before.

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The interesting little island of Calvay uklighthousetour.com/2021/10…

The interesting little island of Calvay

he Western Isles islands of Lewis and Harris hold a special place in my heart, but the shores of the chain of islands comprising of North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Eriskay plus a multitude of…

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Going Forth at the crack of dawn uklighthousetour.com/2021/09…

Going Forth at the crack of dawn

I’m not really a morning person, but when there is something worth getting up at 2.45am for then I will do what needs to be done to make the most of an opportunity.

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