Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the North Lighthouse on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Fair Isle, an island located halfway between the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands. Fair Isle North Lighthouse was subjected to enemy action during the Second World War. On 28th March 1941 a plane dropped two bombs which missed their target and the keepers' cottages were machine gunned. A second attack took place on 18th April the same year when another plane dropped bombs which destroyed outhouses. On 21st January 1942 Roderick Macaulay, Assistant Keeper, walked through the snow to help restore the light on Fair Isle South Lighthouse, which had also been bombed, killing three people, and then returned to take his own watch in the north. He was awarded the British Empire Medal. Fair Isle North Lighthouse is located at Skroo at the north eastern tip of the island. It has a similar history to Fair Isle South Lighthouse; both were the work of David A. Stevenson, born 1854, died 1938, and his brother Charles Stevenson, born 1855, died 1950, and both were first illuminated in 1892. However, the North Lighthouse is a much smaller tower, only 47 feet in height because it can take advantage of the 215 feet high cliffs on which it stands, to elevate the light giving a range of 25 miles. A foghorn is located further out on The Nizz, accessed by a path marked by iron railings.
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