Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a very windy dreich boat trip on history visit to the old pile lighthouse in the Firth of Tay, Britain, United Kingdom. It lighthouse was built in 1845 and is a lantern on a small, square wooden building on top of wooden piles. Approached by ladder from boat tied up to stilts. The 52 foot high Pile Lighthouse was erected to replace the on shore East Lighthouse. Designed and built by Fife born civil engineer James Leslie who was born on 25 September 1801, in Largo in the East Neuk of Fife the son of Archibald Leslie, an architect builder, and attended school both in Largo and nearby in Newburn. He was then sent to Benjamin Mackay’s Latin Academy in Edinburgh and from there to the University of Edinburgh to study maths and physics under his uncle, Professor John Leslie. In 1818 he was articled to William Henry Playfair as an architect, but in 1824 he left this position to pursue engineering. He obtained a place with James Rennie working in the London Docks and on the London Bridge project in England. In 1828 he returned to Edinburgh to take a job as Resident Engineer in Leith Docks. In 1830 he lived at 19 Constitution Street in Leith, located close to the main east entrance to the docks. In 1832 he moved to be Resident Engineer of Dundee Harbour. He was assisted in Dundee by Charles Ower. In 1846 he returned to Edinburgh to begin work on several reservoir projects for the Edinburgh Water Company. In 1869 he returned to Dundee to involve in several projects to improve its water supply. He died at home, 11 Portland Place in Leith[6] on 29 December 1889. The lighthouse is a square timber-framed box structure was mounted on wooden stilts, the lantern sitting on top. Piles, from which it takes its name, were driven deep into the muddy bed of the sea and held the whole thing securely in place. It is understood that the light was manned by keepers based at Tayport’s West Lighthouse on the coast of North Fife, who each spent a week at a time out on the beacon. The lighthouse, marked on charts as the Larick Scalp Beacon, not only warned shipping of potentially dangerous sandbanks but also delineated the channel leading into Tayport harbour. Dreich is a Scots word for dull cloudy weather. The Firth of Tay, Scottish Gaelic: Linne Tatha, is an estuary on the east coast of Scotland, into which empties the River Tay, Scotland's largest river in terms of flow flowing about 120 miles from its source on the north slopes of Ben Lui to the North Sea below Dundee. The firth is surrounded by four council areas: Fife, Perth and Kinross, City of Dundee, and Angus. Spring in the northern hemisphere technically starts on the 20 March, at the equinox, and lasts until the 20 or 21 June, the Summer solstice. This is also the case in Scotland.The months that make up the Spring season are March, April and May. However, for travelling at this time of year, I will be referring to April and May. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing
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