Old Photograph Cantick Head Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Cantick Head Lighthouse situated on the South East Coast of the Island of Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was completed in 1858 by engineer Alan Stevenson. He was 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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