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Lights – stories of the sea, and those whose mission is to save us

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

The story — or rather, stories — of how the British lighthouses were built has already withstood heavy and repeated telling. There’s Henry Winstanley’s first Eddystone light (brick, hexagonal, candles on the outside, en-suite state room) and his Icarus boast to the gods that it would withstand ‘the greatest storm that ever was’, which it didn’t.

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