Sad and touching video and I could feel your sadness even now, after so many years. An era has gone and it's always sad when that happens. Stay safe, Peter.
Yes, thank you very much. It was a great surprise to me too when I was editing the video that those feelings came rushing back again. I don't know, it's just like the engine room was the heart of a living building, oops there I go again, feelings Ha! Cheers and stay safe Mate.
Another excellent video Peter . Trevose is a very hard watch I was never lucky enough to work on the lighthouses and it’s heartbreaking enough for me to watch so it must be truly awful for you and I can hear it in your voice your dedication to these lovely engine rooms . A lot of of trinity house management were no more than thugs and vandals I would love to drive a JCB right through one of their posh houses . But I guess while the engine rooms were in existence it’s good to know people like yourself were dedicated to them and they will always have a proud history even if only in our minds now for some of them so a big thank you for looking out for them as long as you could 👏👏
My machine is playing up, must be the censor. I've just noticed the last 3 messages that I answered never went anywhere. Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. Yes I'm not a great lover of some of the decisions made by my ex Trinity House Head office or whoever decides on demolishing rather than preserving. Still, nothing can be done about it all now, shame really, but money dictates everything. Thanks again and stay safe
Thank you for all your amazing videos, Peter. We would never have been able to appreciate how truly amazing these beautiful buildings were. Also a glimpse into what the keepers did. I have to admit, I am thoroughly enjoying all your videos, but this one was truly heartbreaking to watch!
Thank you for that, much appreciated. It is/was hard to see that heart of the Lighthouse destroyed. It did/still does hurt to watch, but I've always loved History etc and I don't like progress done with a sledge hammer. Cheers and take care.
I absolutely love lighthouses and am a massive fan of your channel. I’m gutted that they’ve been forgotten about since automation, and it’s thanks to people like you Peter that keeps them alive 🙏
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Yes it does feel like us ex Keepers are treated more like Dinosaurs by our former bosses, meanwhile those wonderful people up North are treating their ex Keepers with a lot more love and respect, good on them. Cheers and stay safe
Thanks again Peter. It being my Birthday today, I treated myself to a curry with a pint glass of tap water while viewing your gift. So sad to see history destroyed in the name of progress, and obviously more so for those who cared for it for so long. Thankfully You were there to record such madness for the future, painful as I'm sure it was. I suppose even now that "new" technology has been binned for the latest.
Thank you very much Tommy and a belated Happy Birthday to you, hope you had a Great Day. I suppose when you are a Boss and money talks, History goes out the window. Cheers and stay safe.
Oh how lovely blowing the fog horn at the end of the video 🥲 It stands proud with its own personality 😊 With videos like this the lighthouses live on forever in the pristine state they were before they were destroyed. It is criminal and should never have been allowed to happen. Were they not protected or listed buildings? Another amazing video Peter on the world in better times, although the future was peering through with its ugly head. Thankyou for your archives ❤
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Yes the Lighthouses in this country are grade 2 listed, but it doesn't seem to save them when somebody in an office somewhere decides otherwise. To be fair though, I am not an engineer and my heart governs my comments. Cheers and stay safe
How incredibly moving. I'm not at all surprised you were heartbroken to see those beautiful engines removed. Thank you for all the amazing videos you have created, these are such an important resource. A way of life lost to progress, and not for the better in my view. Give me a human looking out to sea and keeping the light burning any day.
Thank you lots, much appreciated. Yes me too, I much prefer the Human touch. I'm not a great lover of corporate decisions that destroy our heritage. Thanks again and stay safe
Thankyou for this Peter. It is indeed heart wrenching seeing this actually going going , will be forever recorded for history now,Beautifully old fashioned . I grew up wanting to be a lighthouse keeper,but the march of “progress” was already well underway by then, I totally understand your melancholy about the destruction , wonderful old history and a way of life destroyed. Thankyou .
Thank you very much for that. What can I say about some of the destruction of our History, some people just like to pull the wings off of butterflies I guess. Ha! take care
It's heartbreaking to see the wilful destruction of such beautiful structures, yet I know the tide of "progress", cannot be held back. I fully understand your feelings of sadness for the "old" but proven ways. I regarded you keepers as much the sentinels of the seas as the lights themselves. I'm incredibly sad to know that generations of keepers are now consigned to the history books. However, because of you and your efforts, the story of the magnificent people and structures will forever live on. So from one sea farer to another, thank you sir for your unerring service in keeping us safe.
Thank you very very much for those very kind words. Yes it is a shame but progress rolls on. In hindsight we can all do better with our decisions I guess. Editing these videos has been a bit of a shock in so much as how many Lighthouses that used to welcome visitors daily are now shut to the Public. Shame but there. Thanks again and stay safe.
Cheers Peter, always a pleasure. When you started up the stairs at Godrevy I thought this isn't a proper lighthouse, Peter isn't down with this then I heard it in your voice. I was going to ask your feelings but you explained them perfectly. I was in the USN almost the exact time you were a keeper. They don't automate old ships, they turn into razor blades and it is on YT. You can't save everything but when I see a ship I have spent years on scrapped, well you know how I feel. Stay well.
Exactly Mate, the 2 Carriers that I was on were also made into razor blades. Plus to see the aircraft that we had on board, it's a trip to an air museum, makes you feel really old Ha. Take care Mate, thanks again.
Excellent video, I echo all the other respectful comments of the sadness of destruction. Agree the automation of the rock lights due to danger of extreme isolation and danger of fire (nowhere to go) but not the landbased lights.
Thank you very much, Yes, we've just got to hope that the GPS systems that everybody seems to totally rely on, don't have a teddies out of the cot moment like the airlines are going through as we speak. Cheers and stay safe.
I worked for several years as an Occupational Therapist at a psychiatric facility, which was built in 1903 out of large locally sourced limestone blocks. In an era of modernisation and change of treatment regime sweeping the world during the 1980s, the beautiful buildings were destroyed, and replaced with "modern architecturally superior" buildings to be used as a Private School, while the remainder of the vast grounds were sold off for private housing. The patients were provided with modern medication and discharged, some to live in small community-based facilities scattered around the metropolitan region, and others to live at home supported by Community Psychiatric Teams. It all seemed wonderful at the time to the planners and advocates of Community Psychiatry. But some of us were shocked and saddened to see those marvelous solid, naturally ventilated, sturdy buildings being destroyed. I can empathise with your emotions at seeing your workplace being destroyed.
Thank you very much for that. You certainly had an interesting and challenging job. I've said before that I don't object to progress at all, it is the destruction of our past by some in the pursuit of said progress that I find distasteful. Thanks again and stay safe.
To keep it means It would need maintaining, which means manpower, which the cost only goes one way, it's not like you could take it home and put it in your back garden.
@@tonipeters-looks-at I understand that, but these old machines are part of lighthouse and maritime history. They could have been offered to museums rather than just being scrapped.
Yes I agree with you. Yes there is a cost to maintain these things but the National Trust seem to do alright with the lighthouses they took over. Cheers and stay safe
Thanks Peter, although it was a "shame" to see it go, you have to move on with the times, I for one appreciate the thoughtful ness of you to make the videos at the time, and now to share them with us, I only wish I too had done what you did. (Make a video of "real life" ) to show how things were done, but alas. Thanks again Peter. 😀
Thank you very much for that, much appreciated. Yes some progress stinks but life goes on and we can't really expect to live in a preserved Disneyland, but I still wish that it could have been saved. Cheers and take care
Here in the States, the government is auctioning many lighthouses off to private individuals, while continuing to maintain the lighting apparatus and fog signal. I bid on one off the coast of Maine in 2014. If you get a chance, check out Boon Island Lighthouse.
I just googled it, it looks awesome but very low Island, so would get pounded in the storms I guess? If it has stood that long, it must be well built. I would have loved to have owned a Lighthouse. Take care. @@Sawman9255
I shall try again, my last message vanished somewhere? I googled that Lighthouse and it looks fascinating but I bet it takes a pounding in the storms. Good luck with your lighthouse searching's, take care and stay safe @@Sawman9255
Hi Peter, for some reason my replies are getting lost, but I wanted to point you towards a fascinating interview on You Tube, Light Hearted Episode 125, Boon Island. It is an interview of the last Lightkeeper on Boon Island that had to be rescued by helicopter from the top of the tower after the Nor'easter of 1978 took out the keepers house.
Thank you for that, I think I have located the video and will have to wait the Grand Children going home before I can view it. Thanks again and take care.
My thoughts as well, but to be fair I'm not an engineer, but I still think it could have been taken out carefully and gone to a living museum and been recreated there. Lotter money maybe to fund it all, plus all our Lights are grade 2 listed which must count for something? cheers and stay safe
Sad how well kept things were just dismantled and destroyed when they worked so well. All for the sake o saving money. Yes gps is good but what happens when it all goes wrong
Such wanton destruction is hard for any normal person to understand, and must be particularly heartbreaking for keepers. It should be as criminal in law as it is of nature to obliterate these symbolic statues who`s past roles must be preserved. Shame on them!
Thank you very much. This is what Grade 2 listing looks like when applied to Lighthouses I'm afraid. I was hoping that it could all have been moved into a replica building elsewhere, but money talks, I guess. As they say, when it's gone, it's gone forever. Cheers and stay safe.
Sad and touching video and I could feel your sadness even now, after so many years. An era has gone and it's always sad when that happens. Stay safe, Peter.
Yes, thank you very much. It was a great surprise to me too when I was editing the video that those feelings came rushing back again. I don't know, it's just like the engine room was the heart of a living building, oops there I go again, feelings Ha! Cheers and stay safe Mate.
Another excellent video Peter . Trevose is a very hard watch I was never lucky enough to work on the lighthouses and it’s heartbreaking enough for me to watch so it must be truly awful for you and I can hear it in your voice your dedication to these lovely engine rooms . A lot of of trinity house management were no more than thugs and vandals I would love to drive a JCB right through one of their posh houses .
But I guess while the engine rooms were in existence it’s good to know people like yourself were dedicated to them and they will always have a proud history even if only in our minds now for some of them so a big thank you for looking out for them as long as you could 👏👏
My machine is playing up, must be the censor. I've just noticed the last 3 messages that I answered never went anywhere. Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. Yes I'm not a great lover of some of the decisions made by my ex Trinity House Head office or whoever decides on demolishing rather than preserving. Still, nothing can be done about it all now, shame really, but money dictates everything. Thanks again and stay safe
Thank you for all your amazing videos, Peter. We would never have been able to appreciate how truly amazing these beautiful buildings were. Also a glimpse into what the keepers did. I have to admit, I am thoroughly enjoying all your videos, but this one was truly heartbreaking to watch!
Thank you for that, much appreciated. It is/was hard to see that heart of the Lighthouse destroyed. It did/still does hurt to watch, but I've always loved History etc and I don't like progress done with a sledge hammer. Cheers and take care.
I absolutely love lighthouses and am a massive fan of your channel. I’m gutted that they’ve been forgotten about since automation, and it’s thanks to people like you Peter that keeps them alive 🙏
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Yes it does feel like us ex Keepers are treated more like Dinosaurs by our former bosses, meanwhile those wonderful people up North are treating their ex Keepers with a lot more love and respect, good on them. Cheers and stay safe
Thanks again Peter. It being my Birthday today, I treated myself to a curry with a pint glass of tap water while viewing your gift. So sad to see history destroyed in the name of progress, and obviously more so for those who cared for it for so long. Thankfully You were there to record such madness for the future, painful as I'm sure it was. I suppose even now that "new" technology has been binned for the latest.
Thank you very much Tommy and a belated Happy Birthday to you, hope you had a Great Day. I suppose when you are a Boss and money talks, History goes out the window. Cheers and stay safe.
Oh how lovely blowing the fog horn at the end of the video 🥲
It stands proud with its own personality 😊
With videos like this the lighthouses live on forever in the pristine state they were before they were destroyed.
It is criminal and should never have been allowed to happen.
Were they not protected or listed buildings?
Another amazing video Peter on the world in better times, although the future was peering through with its ugly head.
Thankyou for your archives ❤
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Yes the Lighthouses in this country are grade 2 listed, but it doesn't seem to save them when somebody in an office somewhere decides otherwise. To be fair though, I am not an engineer and my heart governs my comments. Cheers and stay safe
How incredibly moving. I'm not at all surprised you were heartbroken to see those beautiful engines removed. Thank you for all the amazing videos you have created, these are such an important resource. A way of life lost to progress, and not for the better in my view. Give me a human looking out to sea and keeping the light burning any day.
Thank you lots, much appreciated. Yes me too, I much prefer the Human touch. I'm not a great lover of corporate decisions that destroy our heritage. Thanks again and stay safe
Thankyou for this Peter. It is indeed heart wrenching seeing this actually going going , will be forever recorded for history now,Beautifully old fashioned .
I grew up wanting to be a lighthouse keeper,but the march of “progress” was already well underway by then, I totally understand your melancholy about the destruction , wonderful old history and a way of life destroyed.
Thankyou .
Thank you very much for that. What can I say about some of the destruction of our History, some people just like to pull the wings off of butterflies I guess. Ha! take care
My dream job sad to think that I can never live it out live all the videos Thankyou !
Thank you very much. The only route in this country now would be as a Trinity House Techy etc that visits to do servicing. Cheers and stay safe
It's heartbreaking to see the wilful destruction of such beautiful structures, yet I know the tide of "progress", cannot be held back. I fully understand your feelings of sadness for the "old" but proven ways. I regarded you keepers as much the sentinels of the seas as the lights themselves. I'm incredibly sad to know that generations of keepers are now consigned to the history books. However, because of you and your efforts, the story of the magnificent people and structures will forever live on. So from one sea farer to another, thank you sir for your unerring service in keeping us safe.
Thank you very very much for those very kind words. Yes it is a shame but progress rolls on. In hindsight we can all do better with our decisions I guess. Editing these videos has been a bit of a shock in so much as how many Lighthouses that used to welcome visitors daily are now shut to the Public. Shame but there. Thanks again and stay safe.
Cheers Peter, always a pleasure. When you started up the stairs at Godrevy I thought this isn't a proper lighthouse, Peter isn't down with this then I heard it in your voice. I was going to ask your feelings but you explained them perfectly. I was in the USN almost the exact time you were a keeper. They don't automate old ships, they turn into razor blades and it is on YT. You can't save everything but when I see a ship I have spent years on scrapped, well you know how I feel. Stay well.
Exactly Mate, the 2 Carriers that I was on were also made into razor blades. Plus to see the aircraft that we had on board, it's a trip to an air museum, makes you feel really old Ha. Take care Mate, thanks again.
Excellent video, I echo all the other respectful comments of the sadness of destruction. Agree the automation of the rock lights due to danger of extreme isolation and danger of fire (nowhere to go) but not the landbased lights.
Thank you very much, Yes, we've just got to hope that the GPS systems that everybody seems to totally rely on, don't have a teddies out of the cot moment like the airlines are going through as we speak. Cheers and stay safe.
I worked for several years as an Occupational Therapist at a psychiatric facility, which was built in 1903 out of large locally sourced limestone blocks. In an era of modernisation and change of treatment regime sweeping the world during the 1980s, the beautiful buildings were destroyed, and replaced with "modern architecturally superior" buildings to be used as a Private School, while the remainder of the vast grounds were sold off for private housing.
The patients were provided with modern medication and discharged, some to live in small community-based facilities scattered around the metropolitan region, and others to live at home supported by Community Psychiatric Teams. It all seemed wonderful at the time to the planners and advocates of Community Psychiatry.
But some of us were shocked and saddened to see those marvelous solid, naturally ventilated, sturdy buildings being destroyed. I can empathise with your emotions at seeing your workplace being destroyed.
Thank you very much for that. You certainly had an interesting and challenging job. I've said before that I don't object to progress at all, it is the destruction of our past by some in the pursuit of said progress that I find distasteful. Thanks again and stay safe.
Truly heartbreaking to see that needless destruction. I can feel your pain.
Thank you very much, it was a crazy time to go through, what with redundancy looming. Lots of mixed emotions. Cheers again and stay safe
It's crazy the way that so much fog signal equipment was destroyed. 😢
To keep it means It would need maintaining, which means manpower, which the cost only goes one way, it's not like you could take it home and put it in your back garden.
@@tonipeters-looks-at I understand that, but these old machines are part of lighthouse and maritime history. They could have been offered to museums rather than just being scrapped.
Yes I agree with you. Yes there is a cost to maintain these things but the National Trust seem to do alright with the lighthouses they took over. Cheers and stay safe
Thanks Peter, although it was a "shame" to see it go, you have to move on with the times, I for one appreciate the thoughtful ness of you to make the videos at the time, and now to share them with us, I only wish I too had done what you did. (Make a video of "real life" ) to show how things were done, but alas. Thanks again Peter. 😀
Thank you very much for that, much appreciated. Yes some progress stinks but life goes on and we can't really expect to live in a preserved Disneyland, but I still wish that it could have been saved. Cheers and take care
What would have been the harm in leaving that engine room intact?
Yes exactly, sell the place to the National Trust and let them care for it. Cheers and stay safe
Here in the States, the government is auctioning many lighthouses off to private individuals, while continuing to maintain the lighting apparatus and fog signal. I bid on one off the coast of Maine in 2014. If you get a chance, check out Boon Island Lighthouse.
I just googled it, it looks awesome but very low Island, so would get pounded in the storms I guess? If it has stood that long, it must be well built. I would have loved to have owned a Lighthouse. Take care. @@Sawman9255
I shall try again, my last message vanished somewhere? I googled that Lighthouse and it looks fascinating but I bet it takes a pounding in the storms. Good luck with your lighthouse searching's, take care and stay safe @@Sawman9255
it must have been terrible for that poor keeper by himself
Yes it was by all accounts, men were harder then it seems. Thank you and stay safe
@@PeterHalil thank you for your service and allow us to see your videos.
i understand your feelings completly, seems criminal to destroy years of care. tragic.
Thank you very much, much appreciated. Yes, some progress can be quite brutal, when it needn't be. Stay safe.
Hi Peter, for some reason my replies are getting lost, but I wanted to point you towards a fascinating interview on You Tube, Light Hearted Episode 125, Boon Island. It is an interview of the last Lightkeeper on Boon Island that had to be rescued by helicopter from the top of the tower after the Nor'easter of 1978 took out the keepers house.
Thank you for that, I think I have located the video and will have to wait the Grand Children going home before I can view it. Thanks again and take care.
Such a sad sight to see all you lovingly maintained be destroyed. It’s criminal damage.
My thoughts as well, but to be fair I'm not an engineer, but I still think it could have been taken out carefully and gone to a living museum and been recreated there. Lotter money maybe to fund it all, plus all our Lights are grade 2 listed which must count for something? cheers and stay safe
Sad how well kept things were just dismantled and destroyed when they worked so well. All for the sake o saving money. Yes gps is good but what happens when it all goes wrong
Exactly, but then I'm heavily biased, cheers and take care
Such wanton destruction is hard for any normal person to understand, and must be particularly heartbreaking for keepers.
It should be as criminal in law as it is of nature to obliterate these symbolic statues who`s past roles must be preserved. Shame on them!
Thank you very much. This is what Grade 2 listing looks like when applied to Lighthouses I'm afraid. I was hoping that it could all have been moved into a replica building elsewhere, but money talks, I guess. As they say, when it's gone, it's gone forever. Cheers and stay safe.