This was the first lighthouse in the World to use electric
light it was used to guide shipping through the Dover Straits. It is now a
National Trust property, you can visit the top of the tower and the light.
Below is the second South Foreland Lighthouse, it was built at
the same time as the main light further up the cliff. It’s job was to give a
bearing by lining up the two lights for navigators to avoid the sand bank close
to the approach to Dover. However this
proved to become unreliable soon after the light was commissioned due to the
shifting nature of the sands & the light was switched off.
© Lionel Callow 2015
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