Goodbye old friend

Yes, those of us sailors who live locally are going to miss it twice as much. We can see it from various high points along Ferry Road and on the road into Orford. So we've seen the crane arrive and the top disappear over the last few weeks. Now we can only watch sadly as the red and white tower, that has been the local focal point for longer than we can remember, is removed from our view for ever.
 
The William Wilkins who designed it was the father of the more famous William Wilkins who designed:
The National Gallery,
Downing College, Cambridge.
University College, London
and a lot more.

It should have been saved. The Danes saved a lighthouse in similar circumstances by pulling it inland on a big tracked vehicle but I understand that some sort of regulatory body ruled it out in our case.
 
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You would expect that the lottery or something similar would have saved it and turned it into a bed and breakfast . Unfortunately, we have so many in the UK that we are rather spoilt.

Google :-
Who invented the first lighthouse?
The first lighthouse built there was an octagonal wooden structure, anchored by 12 iron stanchions secured in the rock, and was built by Henry Winstanley from 1696 to 1698. His lighthouse was the first tower in the world to have been fully exposed to the open sea.
 
Jan Harber said:
Yes, those of us sailors who live locally are going to miss it twice as much. We can see it from various high points along Ferry Road and on the road into Orford. So we've seen the crane arrive and the top disappear over the last few weeks. Now we can only watch sadly as the red and white tower, that has been the local focal point for longer than we can remember, is removed from our view for ever.
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Yes, very sad. I’ve had a soft spot for it since I moved to Suffolk from Leigh, Essex in the mid nineties. From just outside Felixstowe, although we couldn’t see the light itself, if the clouds were at the right level the loom shone into our bedroom window. It was a real surprise but a very happy one.
 
Gargleblaster said:
There is an excellent book by Tom Nancollas called 'Seashaken Houses' Which describes a number of the rock lighthouses that were difficult to construct and maintain.
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Another good book:

It includes, on page 187, the information that the Government Co-Ordinator for Famine Relief during the Potato Blight was...

Sir Edward Pine Coffin.

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