Norman has this lovely 1894 watercolour painting by Thomas Swift Hotton depicting the old low lighthouse at Hoylake. The high lighthouse is still there but now a private house. You can read up this history of this light at Lost Lighthouses .
Carlos who lives in Lima, Peru has sent in these photos of a burner complete with its original box and tools. Note that it is made by Barbier, Bernard & Turenne of Paris - you cannot ger a better pedigree than that. This and other items are for sale. I will not publish his email address for fear of spam but I will forward on any email showing interest in this item.
Martin's great great grandfather John Hall and his wife Elizabeth (nee Wyles) commissioned the newly built St Ann's Low Light at Milford Haven. This handsome tankard engraved 'J & E Hall, St Ann's Low Light' was presented to them in 1841. Ten years later he returned as a keeper to run it.
Martin would like to hear from anyone who has ancestors connected with this John Hall. Please let me know and I will forward them on.
Jeff has had this lovely serpentine lighthouse for over 20 years. He wanted to know a little of it's history; so I told him and also what I thought the current value was. He was pleasantly surprised and he will cherish it for a long time.
Alan's late father was a coppersmith who died in 2000 at the age of 87 years. He was a master of his craft and made this beautifully crafted model of Smeaton's lighthouse in polished copper. It is correct in every detail down to the mechanism in the base which makes the light flash to the correct pattern.
Neil is rather proud of his cast brass lighthouse made in the 1920s or 1930s. It is 12.5 inches tall and weighs 8 pounds. I am envious of this. Also shown is part of his collection of model souvenir lighthouses.
This wall hanging display case containing buttons, badges and flashes taken from a Trinity House lighthouse keeper's uniform was bought by Andre quite by chance on a trip to the Channel Isles.
Jo needed help in identifying and dating this splendid serpentine lighthouse lamp which she bought in good working order. It is 16 inches tall and weighs 7 kilos. The lead seagull on the rock base is a give away for the year it was made.
Morgan bought this serpentine barometer for £15 at a car boot sale and was so pleased with it he had to share his excitement with someone. Yes, I know it has nothing to do with lighthouses but he used my research on serpentine to help date and value it. Nice one Morgan.
I saw these postcards for sale on eBay but they went for too much money to encourage me. However the Littlehampton wooden harbour light shows the earlier light pulled down at the start of the 1939 war; the Newport postcard shows a light, which I think, is on the harbour quay waiting to be shipped somewhere. I do not think that there was ever a light here. The old glass slide of the building of Douglas's Eddystone must be quite rare as is the final 1915 postcard of Thorngumbald lights on the Humber.
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This shoulder flash badge intrigues me. It was advertised as being 'old, possibly WW2, and from a uniform'.