Flannan Isles Lighthouse

The 23 m lighthouse was designed by David Alan Stevenson for the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). Construction, between 1895 and 1899, was undertaken by George Lawson of Rutherglen at a cost of £1,899 () inclusive of the building, landing places, stairs, and railway tracks. All of the materials used had to be hauled up the 45 m cliffs directly from supply boats. A further £3,526 (£ in ) was spent on the shore station at Breasclete on the Isle of Lewis. The lighthouse was first lit on 7 December 1899. A cable-hauled railway was built to facilitate the transport of provisions up the steep gradients from the landing places. At that time, the light consumed twenty barrels of paraffin a year.…