South Foreland Lighthouses are a pair of Victorian lighthouses on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, England, used to warn ships approaching...
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Knott family (redirect from Knott family of lighthouse keepers)
of lighthouse keepers is credited with the longest period of continuous service in the history of staffed lighthouses, commencing in 1730 at South Foreland...
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abandoned until the Second World War. South Foreland Lighthouse is a Victorian-era lighthouse on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, which was once...
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North Foreland is in the year 1636 when Charles I by letters-patent granted to Sir John Meldrum licence to continue and renew the lighthouses erected...
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no. B421, 2421, and 32421) was named South Foreland after this landmark. Two lighthouses are on South Foreland: the lower light disused since 1910 and...
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Michigan and other lighthouses. Ode to the lighthouse keeper by Andrew Tremaine. Life as a Lighthouse Keeper – United States Lighthouses Price, Scott T....
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Goodwin Sands (redirect from South Goodwin Lightship)
three lighthouses on the Kent mainland with only North Foreland lighthouse still in operation. South Foreland lighthouse, once known as South Foreland Upper...
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at South Foreland Lighthouse (as described in a lecture by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution). An initial installation at Dungeness Lighthouse in...
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improved, lighthouses gradually expanded into Western and Northern Europe. One of the oldest working lighthouses in Europe is Hook Lighthouse, located...
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Dover (category Port cities and towns in South East England)
Pier Roman Painted House Museum Maison Dieu, Dover Samphire Hoe South Foreland Lighthouse Pines Garden St Edmund's Chapel St Mary's Church St James' Church:...
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first industrial assembly line in 1803. South Foreland Lighthouse on 8 December 1858 was the world's first lighthouse with electric light, with the first...
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side of the spit (an ongoing problem on this cuspate foreland), which gradually leaves each lighthouse at an ever-increasing distance from the sea on that...
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Hyperradiant Fresnel lens (category Lighthouse fixtures)
Company in Paris as a test lens for the lighthouse illumination trials then going on at the South Foreland Lighthouse in the United Kingdom (UK). Chance Brothers...
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the strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez,...
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Channel was accomplished on 27 March 1899, from Wimereux, France to South Foreland Lighthouse, England. Marconi set up an experimental base at the Haven Hotel...
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for lighthouses for over a century. South Foreland Lighthouse was the first tower to successfully use an electric light in 1875. The lighthouse's carbon...
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Aylesford, Canterbury, Maidstone, Leeds Castle, Dover seafront and South Foreland Lighthouse. The Historic Dockyard Chatham also features for the naval port...
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AONB and Heritage Coast. Another nearby historic site is the South Foreland Lighthouse, also a NT property. Council, Kent County (25 January 2008). "Exploring...
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system as part of a trial of different lighthouse illuminants conducted on the cliffs by the South Foreland Lighthouses. After the trials, the Corporation...
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Fresnel lens (category Lighthouse fixtures)
1820 was advocating its use in British lighthouses. The French Commission des Phares [FR] (Commission of Lighthouses) was established by Napoleon in 1811...
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This is a list of lighthouses in England. It includes lighthouses which are no longer in use as a light but are still standing. It also includes some...
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also contains one of Dover's two Roman lighthouses (or pharoses), one of only three surviving Roman-era lighthouses in the world, and the tallest and most...
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throughout the film, doubling as the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts. South Foreland Lighthouse in Dover also features as the exterior of Aunt Agatha's home....
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House Scotney Castle Sissinghurst Castle Garden Smallhythe Place South Foreland Lighthouse Sprivers Garden St. John's Jerusalem Stoneacre The White Cliffs...
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(1959). The World's Lighthouses Before 1820. Oxford University Press. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Eastern England". The Lighthouse Directory. University...
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an opportunity for testing the system in practice between the South Foreland Lighthouse, near Dover, and the East Goodwin Lightship, on the Goodwin Sands...
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communication between Trinity House Lighthouse, Dover, Kent, England and the East Goodwin lightship. In 1899, South Foreland Lighthouse at St. Margaret's Bay, Dover...
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kHz. Engineering portal List of lighthouses in England Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southern England". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North...
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James Walker (engineer) (category Lighthouse builders)
based (c. 1842) South Foreland Lighthouse rebuilt with a taller tower (1841-1842) Trevose Head Lighthouse (1844–1847) River Severn and South Wales Railway...
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the destruction of a window dedicated to John Knott, lighthouse keeper of South Foreland Lighthouse. Sir Peter Ustinov was stationed in the village during...
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