Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The rare opportunity to visit a light room of a lighthouse, providing you survive the stairs ....
As every years holiday, we went to Scotland in the Jeep and whichever way we go, it always ends with around 2500 miles on the clock.
This is a multi-part series in no particular order, i may do one short clip which outlines the route of this year (2017).
It's essentially a random mix of roads, ferries, villages, castles, distilleries, lighthouses and other stuff.
Just came back and there is so much footage to sort, so i can't tell right now how many clips we will end up with.
In this episode we visit the most westerly lighthouse on British mainland, the Ardnamurchan lighthouse.
This shows the full tower tour including climbing up the stairs, the view from the top and the engine room, enjoy !
The lighthouse is in active service since 1849 and owned by the Northern Lighthouse Board,
The engine room is mostly complete but not sure if the engines in running order or not. The Generator set certainly isn't.
The compressor set engines are Kelvin 2 cylinder Marine Diesels, not sure about their age as this type was produced from 1931 onwards.
The former keepers’ cottages and outbuildings have been managed by the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Trust since 1996, luckily filming and photography was allowed everywhere.
As far as i know this is one of only 2 lighthouses in Scotland where you can do a light room tour.
One of the cottages is now a coffee shop, nice interior and doing really great coffees and scones.
Not quite easy to get there as it sits on a peninsula with essentially only one road leading towards. From the south, best route is via Isle of Mull which means at least 2 ferry crossings. Some impressions of our many ferry journeys will come soon as well.
More info here:
ardnamurchanlighthouse.com
nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Ardnamurchan
Lighthouse museum Fraserburgh:
lighthousemuseum.org.uk
(c) 2017
dynoguy.co.uk
The rare opportunity to visit a light room of a lighthouse, providing you survive the stairs ....
As every years holiday, we went to Scotland in the Jeep and whichever way we go, it always ends with around 2500 miles on the clock.
This is a multi-part series in no particular order, i may do one short clip which outlines the route of this year (2017).
It's essentially a random mix of roads, ferries, villages, castles, distilleries, lighthouses and other stuff.
Just came back and there is so much footage to sort, so i can't tell right now how many clips we will end up with.
In this episode we visit the most westerly lighthouse on British mainland, the Ardnamurchan lighthouse.
This shows the full tower tour including climbing up the stairs, the view from the top and the engine room, enjoy !
The lighthouse is in active service since 1849 and owned by the Northern Lighthouse Board,
The engine room is mostly complete but not sure if the engines in running order or not. The Generator set certainly isn't.
The compressor set engines are Kelvin 2 cylinder Marine Diesels, not sure about their age as this type was produced from 1931 onwards.
The former keepers’ cottages and outbuildings have been managed by the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Trust since 1996, luckily filming and photography was allowed everywhere.
As far as i know this is one of only 2 lighthouses in Scotland where you can do a light room tour.
One of the cottages is now a coffee shop, nice interior and doing really great coffees and scones.
Not quite easy to get there as it sits on a peninsula with essentially only one road leading towards. From the south, best route is via Isle of Mull which means at least 2 ferry crossings. Some impressions of our many ferry journeys will come soon as well.
More info here:
ardnamurchanlighthouse.com
nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Ardnamurchan
Lighthouse museum Fraserburgh:
lighthousemuseum.org.uk
(c) 2017
dynoguy.co.uk
