Old Photograph St Abb's Head Scotland

Old photograph of St Abb's Head near the village of St Abbs, Scottish Borders, Scotland. A signal station was established on the cliffs here before 1820 and the facilities were shared by Trinity House and Her Majesty's Coastguard. The Northern Lighthouse Board recommended the building of a lighthouse at St Abb's Head after the sinking of the Martello on Carr Rock in 1857. The lighthouse was designed and built by the brothers David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson and assisted navigation before and after sight of the Bell Rock and Isle of May lights disappeared from view.



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