
Aligned

by Richard Reeve
Title
Aligned
Artist
Richard Reeve
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
He sits and remembers how he used to guard the river...
When we were kids playing nearby we though these looked like guard towers, or even like the machines from H G Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds. In reality these unique cast iron lighthouses were erected in 1863 by Trinity House to guide ships around Landguard Point until 1917; the two lights aligned indicated the right course. The deep-water channel is now marked by buoys. The lighthouses were restored in the 1980s, The lighthouses are sometimes known as Dovercourt Range Lights.
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April 12th, 2014
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Pamela Blizzard
fabulous image Richard; love how you framed the lighthouse
Richard Reeve replied:
Thank you, Pamela. These rusty old lighthouses are really starting to feel their age now. They were decommissioned nearly a century ago.