Lighthouse Stormy Night. 1994
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2018
- Video clip of a bit of what it's like on a stormy night in a Lighthouse.
This was on the Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK, about 1994?.......I was a Lighthouse Keeper for 23 years.
Quite simply one of the best films on RUclips
Thank you Matt, very much appreciated, cheers and stay safe
Great to see the old place again Pete, I enjoyed the month you spent out there with us.
I'm slowly getting all the old video's I took put onto the dvd format so I can then edit them on my computer. Hopefully, I can then get them eventually onto You Tube, but it is a big learning curve for me with the cyberlink power director that I'm using etc.
Carry on the good work Pete you are doing an excellent job. I look forward to seeing them on You tube one day.
I love these videos of your life being a lighthouse keeper. Please keep them coming.
Thank you, it's important that people see these films documented by you guys. Precious footage that could have been lost and forgotten 🙏
Thanks for all the uploads. It's so cool to see what life is like as a keeper and I wish I was you! I would love to live in a lighthouse, personally. Just me and the sea and the sky all around. Far away from people and cities and stress, and just watch the sun rise and set and see the full moon over the sea, reflecting off the waves. See the stars and moon so clearly. Have the sea flow backwards and forwards on it's eternal journeys as it's done for hundreds of thousands of years. Just me and the eternal sea. As if I was the only person on the planet, that deep calm solitude. Hear the wind howl past, feel the vibration of the choppy sea as it batters the rock and the steel, hear the rain battering off the glass, get completely smothered in fog. I don't know what it is about stormy seascapes, but they somehow make me feel alive.
Wow,thanks, you should have been a Keeper my friend. That is exactly how I felt during my Midnight to 4 am watch, when the other 2 were in bed and I was the only witness to whatever was going on outside the lighthouse. Magical memories that I hope will never fade, take care, stay safe.
I'm just glad that someone could actually understand me haha! I would love to be a Keeper, but I was born in the wrong era (1990) where it's all computerised automation now. It must have been an incredible feeling on the 00:00 - 04:00 watch with everyone else asleep and the huge expanse of sea and sky all around. I think more people would be happier when able to be in total solitude and contemplate nature, the earth, everything. In today's society time for reflection and contemplation doesn't exist any longer as everything has to be instant.
When I was at high school I would often slip away down to the river or the cliffs and find that calming solitude and watch the sea, where nothing mattered. It was an amazing experience, to be amongst 300-400 people and still be able to lose myself where time doesn't matter and doesn't exist. Just me and the sea and river and cliffs and sea birds. Beautiful sunrises too, in winter. The sea was glowing like molten steel and the sun was huge as it crept up the horizon. And of course at night, the leading lights and light buoys also watched the sea, twinkling and winking as if the stars in the sky were floating in the sea as they danced in the endless tide that flows in and out.
Talking of automation, did you know that AGA first started out making lighthouse lamps rather than cookers? They were acetylene lamps which used a solar valve to turn the gas on and off automatically (Dalen light) and Gustaf Dalen got a Nobel Prize in 1912 for the solar valve. The solar valve used the thermal expansion caused by the sun's heat to turn on and off the gas supply, which was ignited by an always-lit pilot light. The last acetylene Dalen lantern was retired in 2013 after nearly 90 years of service in Tanzania. It's a masterpiece of simple and reliable engineering, and apparently there weren't that many explosions due to stuck valves which is always a plus! Sadly the lighthouse now uses solar electricity instead of a limelight and there was no preservation (like the hand-cranked oil lantern in the Bahamas).
@@daveyr5462 Thanks, I was just lucky with my choice of a job, but then I've always thought outside the box, a dreamer I guess, take care
brilliant - love it - in the film you've captured panels of your experience on the lighthouse and then laid them out for the audience like me to follow and so access that experience - a unique experience - far more powerful than words
Thank you very much, take care
Hi Peter, is this The Needles ? I never imagined it could get so rough so relatively close to land.Thanks to you and your colleagues for Saving our History, brilliant videos. I have been trying to find some books on Corbiere Lighthouse, Jersey.C.I for quite a few years now to no avail. Any ideas or information gratefully received. Thanks again.
Hi, No this was the Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey, Channel Islands, so not far from Corbiere.
I don't know of any books about that Lighthouse but if you contact the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, they have a better resourse of knowledge than me. alk.org.uk/
WOW, that has to be a bit of a creepy feeling in the stomach when the weather is like that. You could nearly feel the whole lighthouse vibrating through the camera!!
To be honest, I loved the stormy nights, those old Lighthouses were overbuilt, cheers. Stay safe.
Brilliant Peter thanks😁👍👏👏👏
Thank you David, stay safe.👍
Hi, would you mind if I used a clip from this video to go with an original song video I am making please? It's not for monetising - just to go with the song. It's great footage and I'd love to include it if you don't mind? Best wishes
I can't see a problem with that, take care and thanks for the comments
@@PeterHalil Thanks! ruclips.net/video/33-Uxp83UGQ/видео.html This is the completed video. Hope you like the use of your footage. I've referenced you in the description and encouraged people to visit your page.
Brilliant... Can anyone tell me what the post is for on the top left of the rock?
Excellent video.
Were you ever properly scared by the weather whilst you were out on a lighthouse?
Thank you Doug. I was apprehensive the first time, never scared, but to be fair I never experienced some of the really great storms out to sea. Of the interviews I've done, I don't think any Keeper said they were ever really scared. We all had faith in how the Victorians overbuilt these Lighthouses in the first place. Cheers and stay safe.