Smeaton's Tower
One from an evening on Plymouth Hoe, Smeaton's Tower is Plymouth's most famous landmark. I must have taken hundreds of shots of the lighthouse in the past but I really liked the way the evening sun was giving it a glow, although I think it really needs a bit of TLC and a paint job, it's looking a bit worse for wear at the minute.
The original tower was the third of four famous lighthouses to have been built to mark the dangerous Eddystone Reef, a treacherous group of rocks that lie some 14 miles south-west of Plymouth. Designed by Yorkshire man, John Smeaton it was in service from 1759 to 1882.
Smeaton’s robust tower set the pattern for a new era of lighthouse construction. However, by the mid-nineteenth century, its days were numbered. The sea was undermining the rock that the lighthouse stood on and although technical improvements had been made in lighting methods, it was too small to contain the latest machinery.
The upper part of the lighthouse was taken down, brought ashore and rebuilt on a new granite base, it Opened on Plymouth Hoe in September 1884 as a tourist attraction.
Smeaton's Tower
One from an evening on Plymouth Hoe, Smeaton's Tower is Plymouth's most famous landmark. I must have taken hundreds of shots of the lighthouse in the past but I really liked the way the evening sun was giving it a glow, although I think it really needs a bit of TLC and a paint job, it's looking a bit worse for wear at the minute.
The original tower was the third of four famous lighthouses to have been built to mark the dangerous Eddystone Reef, a treacherous group of rocks that lie some 14 miles south-west of Plymouth. Designed by Yorkshire man, John Smeaton it was in service from 1759 to 1882.
Smeaton’s robust tower set the pattern for a new era of lighthouse construction. However, by the mid-nineteenth century, its days were numbered. The sea was undermining the rock that the lighthouse stood on and although technical improvements had been made in lighting methods, it was too small to contain the latest machinery.
The upper part of the lighthouse was taken down, brought ashore and rebuilt on a new granite base, it Opened on Plymouth Hoe in September 1884 as a tourist attraction.