[Leica] Highlands PAW 22

[Douglas Barry]

Wonderful engineering, well captured, John. I well remember being on a 
tour of Mizen Head lighthouse in West Cork back when I was about ten 
years of age, and being very impressed with the intricate glasswork at 
the time. It had only opened a couple of years earlier and we were lucky 
to get the tour thanks to one of our neighbours in Dublin, a Mr. Martin, 
who happened to be the Commissioner for Irish Lights who managed all the 
lighthouses, lightships, and navigation buoys around Ireland both north 
and south.

Douglas




On 04/06/2019 11:04, John McMaster wrote:
> Had a visit to the Wick Heritage Centre, been there before and had seen the lighthouse but this trip was different.....
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> We happened to be there as a volunteer was, he asked us if we would like to look inside (there is a locked barrier).  Then he said that he had worked at this lighthouse (Noss Head) in the mid-70s.  It is a unique item as far as they know, it would have been scrapped if someone had not had the foresight to save it.  There is 3.5 tons of glass and brass made in Paris, the unusual bit is having mirrors over the light.  In the fourth picture you see the centre, the light was lit with whale oil (stored in that tank) until the early 70s when it was converted to paraffin - one tank lasted a couple of days.  I asked how the light was turned, obviously there had been no electricity to it.  The mechanism to rotate the light (which is so well balanced that you can turn it with little effort) was a bit like a grandfather clock with weights, but they needed to be rewound every 30 minutes!
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> https://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2019/22
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> All with M(240) and 35mm Summilux FLE
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> C & C welcome
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> john
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