Old photograph of Hoy High lighthouse on Graemsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses Hoy High, and Hoy Low, both built in 1851 by Alan Stevenson for the 19th century herring industry. Alan Stevenson, born 1807 in Edinburgh, died 1865 in Portobello, was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Among his notable works is the Skerryvore Lighthouse. A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of Thomas and thus the nephew of Alan Stevenson.
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