By Sue Clark on Sep 10, 2007 in Other | Comments Off 
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Come and enjoy the “Lights Along the Shore†Lighthouse Festival happening along the Lighthouse Route and Evangeline Trail from Friday, Sept. 14 to Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. It’s an opportunity to learn more about the seafaring heritage and history behind the lighthouses in Southwest Nova Scotia. One will have an opportunity to view many lighthouses and experience the atmosphere surrounding these historical structures.
By Sue Clark on Sep 9, 2007 in Lighthouses For Sale | 1 Comment Print This Post
Approval has been given to the trust created to purchase Belle Toute Lighthouse, in East Sussex, UK, to go ahead with plans to turn the decrepit, but expensive, lighthouse into a bed and breakfast. The lighthouse went up for sale this year, with an asking price of $1,733,724USD.
According to the story from the BBC News, the Eastbourne Borough Council gave the go ahead to the planning application to the Belle Toute Lighthouse Preservation Trust, who now has to raise the funds necessary to purchase and renovate the 175 year old light, perched at the top of the Seven Sisters Chalk Cliff overlooking the English Channel. The councillors backed the plan, even though the planning officers recommended against it due to the lack of visitor parking. The plan was approved sunject to a new access road being created at the site.
By Sue Clark on Sep 8, 2007 in Lighthouses For Sale | 1 Comment Print This Post
“Latea,” whose winning bid of $200,000 for the Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse was accepted Friday by the General Services Administration (GSA) has been revealed as a 53 year old Redwood City, California attorney with an apparent penchant for collecting lighthouses. Michael L. Gabriel already had bought the Bloody Point Lighthouse (pictured at left) in the Chesapeake Bay, south of Kent Island, MD, on Dec. 7, 2006. He paid $100,000 for that structure that had exploded and was gutted by fire in 1960. That lighthouse is already being restored as a summer residence for Gabriel, as will Fourteen Foot Bank.
By Sue Clark on Sep 7, 2007 in Opinion, Threatened | 3 Comments Print This Post
A lighthouse that has survived machine gun fire, air strafings, raids by French privateers (they damaged the lantern and stole the keepers’ beds!) and storms is now threatened by the same erosion that many lighthouses are now facing. Orfordness Lighthouse, where a light has stood since 1634, is now only 50 yards from the beach. Accelerated erosion and coastal changes over the past decade have brought it to a near critical mass, and may necessitate it being demolished, according to a story from the Evening Star.
By Sue Clark on Sep 6, 2007 in Other | Comments Off Print This Post
Point Cartwright Lighthouse, in Queensland Australia, will join other buildings such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Kensington Palace, the Empire State Building and more when the concrete tower is bathed in pink lights beginning September 26, 2007. The lighthouse, a reinforced modern (1978) tower, will join in Estee Lauder’s Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s annual Global Illumination Initiative to raise funds for breast cancer research and promote awareness of this killer.
