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Lloyd's Signal Station

            Sat on the clifftop at Bass Point on the Lizard peninsula, England’s most southerly point, is Lloyd’s Signal Station. The art deco former signal house was built in 1872 by Fox and Company shipping agents as a communication hub for passing trading vessels, with a team of signallers using flag signalling to direct passing ships while communicating with London via telegraph. Within five years the station was being used by more than 1,000 ships a month, and in 1883 Lloyd’s of London took over operation of it.
Outward- and homeward-bound ships reported their name and other information. The particulars would be passed to the telegraph room below to be sent to the ships’ owners and the daily papers, removing the necessity for ships to call at Falmouth as they could receive orders directly from the Lizard. The ground floor had rooms occupied by the Direct Spanish Telegraph Company and the Lizard Signal Company, while the first floor contained a flag storage room and the telegraph office. The top floor was where the signalmen worked.
(Jill Papworth in The Guardian, May 2017).

It's now available as a holiday rental - what a location!
   

Taken on: October 26, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS 80D, f/8.0, 1/160 sec, 34mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 80D
Lens:	EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	34mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 Windows
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