PRIDE OF HARTLEPOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 6

PRIDE OF HARTLEPOOL.

WONDERFUL LIGHTHOU3E.

“FIRST IN THE WORLD.”

Hartlepool possesses the ' “ almost, human lighthouse, the first of its kind in the world. It works by itself, requiring no human gmdanee; switches light on when darknese falls, and when dawn breaks closes down;” works by town’s power supply, but if this fails, the light house generator starts up and carries on: and *8 chimed to be infallible. ihe lighthouse ja two years old, and is ride °L Ruftjepool. Standing on the bluff edge of the land, it looks wnat it is the last word m lighthouses f 4nn tS aur P™ingly pall, and cost only Th° n uST tr K ted r °nnded iron sheets all bolted together, it looks neat and tidy K»;if n?e , ereatlon two moße have been Englanci. one in Essex and one on the River Severn. But several are now l? coars ? , of construction in other narts of s be „,nlt iXT 4de °- " d °“ e “ • • .Hartlepool s lighthouse recently with a view to having one of similar con Ruction erected at the mouth of; the ‘ ebt ’, is one second light, two dark d fan b b k ’ one s , eco “ d light, six second, oarx, can be seen for 15 miles. The liehl equivalent to 61 000 .candle-power. B H R r ß j£ al l lb!e: Rs keeper. Mr H. K. Carter, to a visitor. Mr Carter is pr °ud of his lighthouse. tr 18 of interest Se Th ß i° ry at H ?. r «e|»ool is full oi interest. There was a ighthouse built in iK, Bt * in fre “t ° f the p“t one in 1846. That served till the Great War ha <* be removed, was found to be right in the line of fire for the garrison guns. e lor Lying beside the lighthouse „h; fairway buoy, which was hit bv the Ger* 1915 dre du /i4 th y e reid^.n ii * captain of the Blucher nno ni - s We”'?,S , oL l,o “ r dld ItkX'Sa.kept as a memento of the raid! “