Bicentenary oldest standing rock lighthouse in the world

[LeadingLight]

Bell Rock, Scotland, celebrates its 200th anniversary in February 2011 http://www.nlb.org.uk/InformationCentre/Bellrock/Main/


(Photo linked from the Northern Lighthouse Board website http://www.nlb.org.uk/)

[CHUCKX53]

That's a sharp looking light, Frans....What is that netting around the tower ?

[LeadingLight]

I presume it's protection of the optic. There's a lot of info at http://www.bellrock.org.uk/lighthouse/ but I could not find anything about it, so I don't know if it is against stones, birds or anything else. The website is worth exploring.

[Fred]

As far as I know it has two purposes

1) Stop birds flying into lantern

2)More important stop birds perching on different ledges etc.
No longer any keepers to clear mess?

[Grover]

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From The Scotsman

http://news.scotsman.com/news/Bicentena ... 6605502.jp