28 September 2026
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Inside the volunteer crew keeping a 19th-century lighthouse lit

Staff report · Monday, 24 August 2026

Automation retired the keepers decades ago. A rota of locals kept coming anyway.

The light went automatic in 1992. The visitors' book didn't.

Every weekend a handful of townspeople still climb the 138 steps to polish brass, log the weather, and open the tower to anyone who walks up the headland.

"It's not a museum," one of them says. "A museum is finished. This still does its job."

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