THE LIGHTHOUSE & THE SHIP
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —In your very interesting article on "Coinage Changes" in Tuesday's "Post" reference is made to the regret expressed at the disappearance of the ship and the lighthouse from our bronze coins. In a book published about 41 years ago, "Lighthouses: Their History and Romance," by W. J. Hardy, F.S.A., it is stated as a fact that the lighthouse on the coins was a representation of the famous tower erected by John Smeaton on the Eddystone Rock, near Plymouth. If this be so, the regret is understandable, for Smeaton set a model which has been generally followed ever since. His tower stood the test of wind and sea for a century and a* quarter and would in all probability be still standing except for the fact that the action of the tide was undermining the rock on which it stood. On completion of a new tower on another part of the Eddystone Rock in 1881 the upper part of Smeaton's erection was carefully taken down and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe—an object of interest to visitors. Like many others, I should like, to see the lighthouse restored to our coins.—l am, etc.,
GEO. W. BARLTROP.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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