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New Brighton Lighthouse

            Perch Rock Lighthouse. The name comes from a Perch; a timber tripod supporting a lantern first erected in 1683 as a crude beacon to allow shipping to pass the rock safely. As the Port of Liverpool developed in the Nineteenth Century the perch was deemed inadequate as it required constant maintenance and only produced a limited light. Construction of the present tower began in 1827 by Tomkinson & Company using blocks of interlocking Anglesey granite using dovetail joints and marble dowels. It was designed to use many of the same construction techniques used in the building of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse 70 years earlier. Modelled on the trunk of an oak tree, it is a free standing white painted tower with a red iron lantern. It is 29 m (95 ft) tall. It was first lit in 1830 and displayed two white flashes followed by a red flash every minute; the light-source was thirty Argand lamps, mounted on a three-sided revolving array (ten lamps on each side, with red glass mounted in front of one side). There were also three bells mounted under the gallery to serve as a fog signal; they were tolled by the same clockwork mechanism that caused the lamps to revolve

New Brighton Merseyside.

Taken in: UK / England / New Brighton (show map)

Taken on: December 4, 2019

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FORT PERCH ROCK LIGHTHOUSE

LIGHTHOUSE

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WIRRAL MERSEYSIDE

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CANON EOS-1D Mark IV

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Sets appears in: • Liverpool and it's Districts 2020 • Liverpool and It's Districts 2018 more » • A Walk Through Liverpool • Buildings and Architecture • ONE HUNDRED COMMENTS OR MORE « less

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Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, f/8.0, 1/80 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens:	Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Aperture 3.6
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