South Stack Lighthouse.
The South Stack lighthouse on the island of Anglesey is a landmark off the coastline of north-west Wales. It was decided as early as 1665 that a lighthouse was required at this point, but a representation made to King Charles II was rejected despite all the maritime accidents in the area.
In 1807 Captain Hugh Evans researched the maritime disasters that had occurred during the previous 12 months, drawing diagrams and mapping the events to provide the Government with overwhelming evidence of the need for a lighthouse. As a result the building was sanctioned almost immediately, with the decision to construct it on the summit of the small island known as Ynys Lawd at a cost of £12,000.
Daniel Alexandra was the designer and engineer and Joseph Nelson the builder being employed between 1808 and 1809. The construction was not without its problems largely due to the weather conditions. The chasm between the island and mainland was first traversed by a hempen cable approximately 70 feet above sea level, along which a sliding basket was drawn carrying workers and stores. It required a tremendous feat to build the pathway for access to the building site, with the requirement to carve 400 steps from 400 feet out of the Pre-Cambrian rock face. The workers were dropped off by boat to climb to where the next step was to be carved with the view of a sheer rock face ahead of them.
この記事は Evergreen の Winter 2016 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、8,500 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です ? サインイン
この記事は Evergreen の Winter 2016 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、8,500 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です? サインイン
Rural Rides
How many of us search for a dream, and then spend a lifetime fulfilling it? Clough Williams-Ellis spent 20 years seeking the ideal location to build his Italianate village and 50 years building it. Originally he thought an island might be a possible location, but it was only when he came to an untamed peninsula on the breathtaking Traeth Bach tidal estuary that he realised he had finally found his chosen spot.
The Literary Pilgrim
Browsing recently in a charity shop, I came across a copy of a book I had at home on my shelf of treasured children’s books. I was young when I first read it and it proved to be a seminal book, one to which I have been indebted ever since. First published in 1937, it was written by a Wesleyan minister who roamed England in a horse-drawn caravan, writing as he went of the countryside and its wildlife. He called himself Romany.
Almanac
The Lady Of Vision.
Rural Rides
The Charm of the COTSWOLDS
Countrycall
I felt a strong affinity with the naturalist and writer Mary Gillham. I’d spent many years cycling and walking the Taff Trail — a Sustrans cycle route, stretching some 55 miles from Cardiff to Brecon — observing, recording and writing about the wildlife of the area. I had also spent many happy hours exploring Forest Farm Country Park, somewhere which Mary had got to know so well.
Animal Magic
Roger Redfern was a true countryman who enjoyed nothing more than wandering through the hills of England, Scotland and Wales in the weekends and holidays he wasn’t teaching in a Derbyshire school.
Snow At Christmas
Christmas — that most magical time of the year — and what signifies it most is snow falling gently from the sky and creating a magical white carpet on the ground. This image can’t help bring out the child in us all — remembering a childhood of snowball fights, sledging and building snowmen in the garden.
Our Christian Heritage
In Colsterdale, North Yorkshire, 10 miles from the cathedral town of Ripon and two miles from the tourist haven of Masham, lies the small village of Healey. In most respects a typical Dales community of picturesque stone houses along a single street, it boasts an unusual and striking place of worship, the parish church of St. Paul’s.
