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Welcome
to Leading Lights,
the International Lighthouse Journal.
This website aims to help you get more information about lighthouses and light vessel heritage around the world. We offer the opportunity to subscribe to the International Lighthouse Journal, a leading publication on the subject, together with the latest news from the world of lighthouses. In addition, we also offer books, videos and other items of interest for sale via our online shop.
We hope you like our site and we want to know about you! Email us and tell us of your interest in lighthouses or send in your photographs and news items to help us spread the word about the world lighthouse scene.
Watch this space as we develop this new site.
Leading Lights magazine reawakens! First new style issue now available. Read more......
Leading Lights has hands on experience of lighthouse keeping. We act as the attendants for the Trinity House lighthouse at St.Anns Head.
St.Anns Head
Lighthouse
 Concentration – Checking the light bulb |
There has been a lighthouse on the site since medieval times. The present Lighthouse tower dates from 1868 when the lantern made by Simpsons of London was fitted with a Chance 1st Order optic. At first it operated as the front light with its associated rear light inland, but this was discontinued in 1910. The station was electrified in 1958 and automated in 1998 when we took over as attendants with control by the Trinity House Operations Centre at Harwich over 300 miles away. | |
