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Managing Organization:
Privately owned.
Website: http://www.bidstonlighthouse.org.uk/
Notes:
This lighthouse was for some years part of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, and some restoration was done on the building. It is now privately owned. Wayne Lewis writes, "I was born in Birkenhead, down the hill past the farms, not far from the lighthouse, Observatory, and Windmill. I have nothing but the best childhood memories of looking out my bedroom window at night and looking at the beam of light coming out of the observatory, actually seeing lightning hit the windmill one stormy night, and setting the sails spinning on fire, and summer holidays playing around the lighthouse, wondering how I was going to get up to the big bulb one day to switch it on. It is a beautiful lighthouse with a big wall around it, and lots of clinging ivy." Tower Height: 69 Height of Focal Plane: 228 Description of Tower: Cylindrical sandstone tower.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1771 Date Present Tower Built: 1873 Date Deactivated: 1913 Current Use: Museum. Keepers: William Mathias (c. 1881)
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