Picture No | 10216376 |
Date | 1895 |
Description | The Eddystone Lighthouse of 1698. |
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Engraving of the Eddystone lighthouse, built by Henry Winstanley in 1698, which was destroyed in a storm in 1703. Winstanley, a London merchant, had lost a number of ships on the Eddystone rocks and was the first to build a lighthouse there.
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Source | The Graphic. 1895. centre page 479. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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