West Pier Lighthouse – Walking. Gossip. Travel. https://www.julianwhite.uk Nothing can possibly go wrong.... Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.julianwhite.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-1000064492.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 West Pier Lighthouse – Walking. Gossip. Travel. https://www.julianwhite.uk 32 32 155858959 Whitby – West Pier Lighthouse https://www.julianwhite.uk/whitby-west-pier-lighthouse/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:43:50 +0000 http://www.julianwhite.co.uk/?p=3229 [I originally posted this in August 2018, but have reposted it to fix the broken image links]

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West Pier Lighthouse stands over 20 metres high and is located on one side of the harbour’s entrance. I didn’t realise until afterwards that following some restoration work that visitors are allowed to climb up the tower which seems an interesting little expedition.

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The lighthouse was erected in 1831 and the engineer in charge was Francis Pickernell. Princess Victoria visited the lighthouse in 1834 and there’s another on the other side of the harbour, which is brilliantly named the East Pier Lighthouse… The lighthouse remained in use until 1912 and it was then replaced by more sophisticated methods of alerting shipping to the dangers of crashing into the harbour wall.

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