Old Photographs Of Southerness Dumfries And Galloway Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Southerness, a small, compact coastal village in Dumfries and Galloway. Southerness is located approximately 2 miles south of the A710 between Caulkerbush and Kirkbean. Southerness lighthouse the second oldest in Scotland, was originally built in 1748 by the Dumfries Town Council, then rebuilt in the 1790s and in 1812 by Robert Stevenson. It has been inactive since 1933. Three of Stevenson’s sons became engineers: David, Alan, and Thomas. Robert's other children included Joseph, who immigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1832, and Jane, who assisted in writing and illustrating an account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse construction. Robert Louis Stevenson was his grandson, via Thomas, and Katharine de Mattos was his granddaughter.

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