For those interested in old lighthouses

[KeithMacdonald]

Membership of Trinity House is optional, but not required.

 

 

[John M Upton]

I have an interest in lighthouses due to my late Grandfather, he worked for Chance Brothers Glass in Birmingham and his Department made the specialised lenses and the rotating mechanisms for lighthouses all around the world as well as specialist glass for other applications, especially during the war such as large searchlight lantern glass and even lenses for railway signals.

[KeithMacdonald]

[Bon Accord]

Of course we don't have Trinity House in Scotland, we instead have the NLB which is known to everyone colloquially as "the Lighthouse Board".

Trinity House seem to have an affection for all manner of nonsense that wouldn't be out of place with RN/RFA or the like; the NLB and their Irish equivalent were always thankfully free of such things.

[Hroth]

RL Stevenson only turned to writing novels to escape the family tradition of building lighthouses for NLB.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stevenson_(civil_engineer)