A photograph of the first roadside lighthouse erected in England, which is designed to make for safer motoring. It is situated on a bend of the road half-wav down a dangerous hill at Congleton, between Manchester and the Potteries, on the main road. A flag indicates its presence in the daytime, and at night the lighthouse automatically lights up, and its warning can be seen for miles Similar lighthouses are being erected at other danger points in Britain. This photograph is all the more interesting to those who read an article by “Spotlight" in Friday’s issue, in which he drew attention to the proposal that the Main Highways Board should give the right to a private concern to erect highway lighthouses at danger points, cross-roads, and railway crossings. These lighthouses will show an intermittent flashing light —red for a railway crossing or bridge, yellow for a curve or grade, and green for a cross-road. The company proposing to erect them will put them up and maintain them for nothing provided that it has the right to cover the base with advertising and is given a twenty years tenure. It is not proposed, however, to place the lighthouses at all the dangerous points but only where the traffic on the road is sufficient to make crection profitable from an advertising point of view. -Central Press, photo.

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 3

A photograph of the first roadside lighthouse erected in England, which is designed to make for safer motoring. It is situated on a bend of the road half-wav down a dangerous hill at Congleton, between Manchester and the Potteries, on the main road. A flag indicates its presence in the daytime, and at night the lighthouse automatically lights up, and its warning can be seen for miles Similar lighthouses are being erected at other danger points in Britain. This photograph is all the more interesting to those who read an article by “Spotlight" in Friday’s issue, in which he drew attention to the proposal that the Main Highways Board should give the right to a private concern to erect highway lighthouses at danger points, cross-roads, and railway crossings. These lighthouses will show an intermittent flashing light —red for a railway crossing or bridge, yellow for a curve or grade, and green for a cross-road. The company proposing to erect them will put them up and maintain them for nothing provided that it has the right to cover the base with advertising and is given a twenty years tenure. It is not proposed, however, to place the lighthouses at all the dangerous points but only where the traffic on the road is sufficient to make crection profitable from an advertising point of view. -Central Press, photo.