The Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, is an active 19th century lighthouse located on Ailsa Craig, an island in the Firth of Clyde, just offshore from Girvan, South...
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Ailsa Craig (/ˈeɪlsə/; Scots: Ailsae Craig; Scottish Gaelic: Creag Ealasaid) is an island of 99 ha (240 acres) in the outer Firth of Clyde, 16 km (8+1⁄2 nmi)...
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Trinity House; the final version was first installed in 1887 at the Ailsa Craig lighthouse in Scotland's Firth of Clyde. When commercial electric power became...
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Firth of Clyde (section Firth Lighthouses)
Arran Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, Ailsa Craig Pillar Rock Point lighthouse, also known as Holy Isle outer Lighthouse, Arran Holy Isle, Inner lighthouse, also...
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(1999). The Lighthouse Stevensons. Harper Collins. p. xvii. ISBN 9780060194277. http://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Ailsa-Craig/ Reeds PBO...
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lighthouse was used as the land base for the Ailsa Craig lighthouse relief helicopter. In 1992 the Northern Lighthouse Board sold the accommodation block to...
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Thomas Stevenson (category Lighthouse builders)
Fidra (1885) Oxcar (1886) Ailsa Craig Lighthouse (1886) Townhouse at 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh Condensing light. Lighthouse optic, designed by Thomas Stevenson...
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Turnberry (golf course) (redirect from Turnberry, Ailsa Course)
overlooking the Isle of Arran and Ailsa Craig. The idea of the course came from Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa after the announcement of the Maidens...
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operational lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). The list is divided by geographical location, and then by whether the lighthouses are classed...
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Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper, a book describing his time as a lighthouse-keeper at the Pladda, Ailsa Craig and Hyskeir lighthouses in 1973. The book...
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