Topic: Where in the world? (Read 387912 times)

grendel · « **Reply #425 on:** August 01, 2015, 06:24:37 pm »

the rocks and fence look like a car park in herne bay? but I've never seen a lifeboat there.
Grendel

Netleyned · « **Reply #426 on:** August 01, 2015, 06:28:11 pm »

End of de land ?
Just past the Oggy shop

Ned

Nemo · « **Reply #427 on:** August 01, 2015, 06:56:03 pm »

Colin guessed correctly the engines of the paddle tug Clyde at Renfrew Ferry Green where I played as a wee bouy. Hope it was maritime related enough Martin?

The lighthouse is the South Foreland I believe. The first to be lit by electricity.

Do I get a go now or does mayhem still reign?

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Where in the world?
And what is it significance in lighthouses?

Nemo · « **Reply #428 on:** August 01, 2015, 07:20:36 pm »

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on July 31, 2015, 09:00:23 am

Correct! Great place Sherringham, love it.... wouldn't want to live there... not until I've retired anyway!

I attended a club 'do' here in Sussex today and a chap was admiring my boats when he said, 'My wife and I have just come back from Sheringham where there is a wonderful boating lake'. So I said , 'Funny you should say that!'

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #429 on:** August 01, 2015, 07:41:30 pm »

I think Souter lighthouse near South Shields, Tyneside was the first electric lighthouse...

Quote from: Nemo on August 01, 2015, 06:56:03 pm

Martin: The lighthouse is the South Foreland I believe.
The first to be lit by electricity.

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #430 on:** August 01, 2015, 07:49:48 pm »

Hold on Nemo!

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on August 01, 2015, 03:55:38 pm

Where in the world?
And what is it significance in lighthouses?

Nemo · « **Reply #431 on:** August 01, 2015, 07:56:42 pm »

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on August 01, 2015, 07:41:30 pm

I think Souter lighthouse near South Shields, Tyneside was the first electric lighthouse...

According to the National Trust who maintain the South Foreland, it was the first lamp to be lit by electricity?
Over!

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #432 on:** August 01, 2015, 08:19:58 pm »

Shows how much I know about architecture don't it....

LB

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #433 on:** August 01, 2015, 10:19:02 pm »

Quote from: Nemo on August 01, 2015, 07:56:42 pm

According to the National Trust who maintain the South Foreland, it was the first lamp to be lit by electricity?
Over!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souter_Lighthouse

North Foreland is noted for something more recent!

Arrow5 · « **Reply #434 on:** August 01, 2015, 10:28:53 pm »

A lot of radio tests by Marconi.

Nemo · « **Reply #435 on:** August 01, 2015, 11:02:14 pm »

Any psychics want to have a go?

Arrow5 · « **Reply #436 on:** August 01, 2015, 11:11:31 pm »

I said Marconi not Houdini

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #437 on:** August 01, 2015, 11:17:01 pm »

Maybe but (more!) unique event and more recent.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #438 on:** August 02, 2015, 09:18:27 am »

Now operated by The National Trust as an attraction ?

Netleyned · « **Reply #439 on:** August 02, 2015, 09:50:05 am »

Chucklevision episode. Finders Keepers
filmed there and also gets a mention in the
sea shanty Spanish Ladies.

Ned

Arrow5 · « **Reply #440 on:** August 02, 2015, 10:55:23 am »

Ah...fame at last , Chuckle chuckle

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #441 on:** August 02, 2015, 12:28:47 pm »

No, no & no.

Come on lads! November, 1998

Liverbudgie2 · « **Reply #442 on:** August 02, 2015, 12:50:55 pm »

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on August 02, 2015, 12:28:47 pm

No, no & no.

Come on lads! November, 1998

Was something uncovered at low water?

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #443 on:** August 02, 2015, 01:12:30 pm »

Not that I know of....

grendel · « **Reply #444 on:** August 02, 2015, 01:26:04 pm »

well its not the one that was moved back from the cliff edge, as that was belle tout.
It is the one just up the road from (as in nearest toilets to) the underground tunnels recently opened to the public under the cliffs (about a 10 minute walk so I am told- its about 1/2 hours walk from the visitor centre where you get the tickets).
and the light was lit once again for the Queens diamond Jubilee.

Perkasaman2 · « **Reply #445 on:** August 02, 2015, 01:37:52 pm »

Have an overnight ghost walk there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojcsuaAjIU0

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #446 on:** August 02, 2015, 02:04:45 pm »

Beat all of you!

"All lighthouses have been automated since November 1998, when the UK's last manned lighthouse, North Foreland in Kent, was converted to automatic operation."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/222046.stm
http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/mariner_info/aids_to_navigation/lighthouses.html

Netleyned · « **Reply #447 on:** August 02, 2015, 02:33:15 pm »

Still think it was the Chuckle Brothers who made it
Really famous.

Ned

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #448 on:** August 02, 2015, 02:41:47 pm »

grendel · « **Reply #449 on:** August 02, 2015, 02:46:53 pm »

but the picture was of the South Foreland, the North Foreland doesnt have the flagpole or the big green mine by the door.

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