Specialist painters working on Beachy Head Lighthouse.
Painters set to work on the mammoth task of painting the 141ft Lighthouse at Beachy Head in East Sussex. Campaigners including Eddie Izzard, John Craven and Bill Bryson have raised £27,000 to fund the repainting. The lighthouse has sat more than 500ft below the summit of the chalk cliffs of Beachy Head since being brought into service in 1902. Designed under the direction of Sir Thomas Matthews, the then engineer-in-chief of Trinity House, it is made of 3,660 tonnes of fine Cornish granite. It was automated and de-manned in June 1983 and is monitored remotely 24 hours a day by Trinity House's operations and planning centre at Harwich, Essex.
Size: 3176px × 5184px
Location: Beachy Head, East Sussex, England, UK.
Photo credit: © James Boardman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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