1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Hi everyone, I'm Emily. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000 And I'm Vince. 3 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 And this is the lighthouse low down. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 He's very midwest of you. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Yeah, he sprinkled in a little bit of an unknown accent in there. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Could be anywhere. 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 So today, Vince and I are moving this month and it's taking up a large majority of our time. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 So we're going to make this a mini episode. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 So there's no history buoy. 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 And hopefully it'll just be like a little info nugget for our listeners. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 A little short-a-soad. 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Yeah, short-a-soad. 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Nice one. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Very clever. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 So I decided to choose a mini lighthouse for a mini episode. 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 A mini. It's a mini. 17 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 How mini? 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Allegedly the smallest light, smallest working light tower in the world. 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Oh, cool. 20 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 But I know of towers that are lit and are shorter. 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:06,000 So there's got to be some very specific rule to the word working and light tower and not lighthouse. 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 It's got like some clockwork that's still going or something. 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:18,000 It's... I don't know what the answer is, but there's some sort of stipulation where they use that wording very specifically in order to claim that title. 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Someone knows the answer somewhere. 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Yeah. 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 We're going international for this lighthouse. 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,000 We're heading to North Queens Ferry, Scotland, which is very close to the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. 28 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Is this the first Scottish lighthouse we've done? 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 No. 30 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Hang on. 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 You might have done one a long time ago. 32 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 I pull up a map. 33 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I think it's our map. 34 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Yeah, we got our little dots on there. 35 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 So we did... it's funny. 36 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 You can kind of see the ones we've already covered. 37 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Little Ross. 38 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Is that Scotland? 39 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Okay. 40 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 No, it's south of Scotland. 41 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 The border. 42 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Oh, we got Flannan Eye. 43 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Oh, yeah. 44 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 I think that's Scotland. 45 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 So we're going to zoom in here to Edinburgh. 46 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 My dad studied abroad there. 47 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 For medical? 48 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Before that, I think. 49 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Here's Queens Ferry. 50 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 We're zooming in. 51 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Fourth Bridge, North Queens Ferry, and our light. 52 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Deep Sea. 53 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Sea World. 54 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 It's right here. 55 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 So as you can see, we're very close to Edinburgh. 56 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 So you can imagine this little... 57 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 it's a little channel of water called the Firth of Forth. 58 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 The what? 59 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 The Firth of Forth. 60 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Apparently Firth... 61 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 You say that like, oh, come on, Vince. 62 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 You know, the Firth of Forth. 63 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 I just repeat it. 64 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 The fifth, the fifth. 65 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 The fifth of the fifth. 66 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Apparently Firth is a type of water channel or something. 67 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Okay. 68 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Like fjord, but for water, if I remember correctly. 69 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 So the Firth of Forth is just the name of this channel. 70 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Oh, of the Forth area. 71 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Forth Bridge. 72 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Yeah. 73 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Yeah. 74 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,000 So Queens Ferry is split up in the north and south on either side of this channel. 75 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 So north is the one that we're looking at today is North Queens Ferry Harbor Light. 76 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Nice. 77 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 And there's a south Queens Ferry Harbor Light there. 78 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Kind of twins, but not really. 79 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,000 What's that little thing? 80 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Is it a land bridge? 81 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 A footbridge? 82 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I will talk about it. 83 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Okay. 84 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 So the Firth of Forth was high traffic area, obviously, because you're getting from one 85 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 side to the other of this channel. 86 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 And there's a lot of people going into Edinburgh. 87 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So there's a lot of people passing through this area. 88 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And back in the day, meaning like the 1700s, there were no bridges and you had to boat 89 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 across, but the traffic was not regulated. 90 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 So obviously it was like a death trap of boats. 91 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Just to get across. 92 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Although I'm sure like, I don't know anything about how many shipwrecks, but it was bad 93 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 enough to where the government decided to step in. 94 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,000 And May of 1809, they passed an Act of Parliament calling for major improvements to the Queens 95 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Ferry Passage, which is what this little area is called. 96 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 So the Act created a public private partnership where the government and the trustees of Queens 97 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Ferry Passage, which is like a nonprofit organization or something. 98 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 I didn't dig too deep into it because this is a mini-soap. 99 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Short-a-soap. 100 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 What did you call it? 101 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Short-a-soap. 102 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 That's right. 103 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,000 But they would split a 16 and a half thousand pound bill for changes to the passage, which 104 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 at that time was like a little bit over $2 million, I think. 105 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 So it's hefty. 106 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 So the changes included regulating traffic. 107 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 So they limited the number of boats that could be crossing at any time. 108 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You could only sail when you were signaled. 109 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 There were no liquor sales anymore. 110 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I don't know the specifications of... 111 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 On boats specifically? 112 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Yeah. 113 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I don't know if it was like you couldn't bring liquor from one side to the other or you couldn't 114 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 sell it at the port or something. 115 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Although that would be important. 116 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 You wouldn't want drunkards sailing across in all the traffic, like driving drunk, but 117 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 for a boat. 118 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Yeah. 119 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Not allowed. 120 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 And the operation of the ferry was now to be run by a management committee, an engineer, 121 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 a surveyor, treasurer, collector, receiver, a clerk, and two resident superintendents. 122 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Yeah, corporate. 123 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 And they really beefed up the amount of supervision they had going on. 124 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Hold on. 125 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 You said there was a public-private committee? 126 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Yeah. 127 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,000 So it was the government combined with this nonprofit to pay and decide what kind of changes 128 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 they needed to make. 129 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 So it was basically just like a partnership. 130 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 We've heard of a similar... 131 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,000 I'm sure it's not the same people, but a similar group recently in some episode. 132 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Really? 133 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Yeah. 134 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 It was one of mine, I think, and I remember not really understanding... 135 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Was it Atlantic City? 136 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Public-private. 137 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Maybe. 138 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 It might've been Atlantic City. 139 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Okay. 140 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,480 And then some other changes is that at South Queens Ferry, there would be new piers at 141 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:48,000 Long Craig and Port Edgar and improvements to the existing Hawes Pier, I think it's called. 142 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,880 And a new road would link these piers and storage sheds, stables, and housing for boatmen 143 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:53,880 would be constructed. 144 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:54,880 Nice. 145 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:55,880 Filling it up. 146 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,440 At North Queens Ferry, the existing East Battery Pier was to be improved with new piers 147 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,160 at West Battery, which was now called Town Pier and Long Craig Island. 148 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,420 There were to be houses for boatmen, a house for superintendents, an inn, and a building 149 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:11,280 to house offices and a waiting room. 150 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:15,080 And this building was called Mount Hooley, which is where our lighthouse begins. 151 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,400 There's so much development as part of this. 152 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,400 Yeah, I know. 153 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:19,400 They really... 154 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:20,400 I don't know how long... 155 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,680 I think it was just a couple of years they did all of this. 156 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:25,680 Kind of crazy. 157 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:26,680 Lots of new piers. 158 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,880 So Robert Stevenson, you know, the Stevenson family, we talked about him briefly for Little 159 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,560 Ross because they built a lot of lighthouses around the UK and also like some in Japan 160 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:39,560 and some in... 161 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,560 They're scattered all over. 162 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,480 I really need to do an episode that's all about the Stevenson family because they had 163 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,240 generations of lighthouse engineers. 164 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,280 So Robert Stevenson was approached by the trustees in 1812 to put a light at North Queens 165 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,280 Ferry. 166 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,960 He suggested a lantern room be placed on the existing Mount Hooley staircase. 167 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,860 So I have a picture of what that may have looked like. 168 00:07:02,860 --> 00:07:07,260 It's like a rendering of what it might have looked like at that time. 169 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:09,960 This is Mount Hooley, this building, this orange building. 170 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,520 And then this little copper domed lantern room. 171 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,120 This is a rendering? 172 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,120 Yeah. 173 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,120 I couldn't find... 174 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,120 This looks real as hell. 175 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,400 I couldn't find Mount Hooley at all. 176 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:27,160 And so I'm sure it's still there, but I couldn't find it on the map. 177 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,560 But I saw an article and they just like put our little light tower on top of there to 178 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,560 show what it looked like. 179 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:33,560 Shocking. 180 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:34,560 Yeah. 181 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,560 Shocking. 182 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:36,560 Thick news. 183 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,600 I'm pretty sure now it's right over here in front of this little white building. 184 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:40,600 Yes. 185 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,440 In the past, it was a lot taller than it is now. 186 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:49,680 But in 1817, it was determined that this was not the optimum location for the light. 187 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,760 So it was moved slightly and placed on top of a tiny tower built just across the street, 188 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,840 which faced directly down the new town pier. 189 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,600 So instead of being slightly off center, obviously you want boats to be approaching the pier 190 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,600 exactly. 191 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,560 But yeah, so they moved it down from what would seem like a more advantageous spot up 192 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,960 high and instead put it very close to the ground facing downtown's pier. 193 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:14,320 But it lined up. 194 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:15,320 Yeah. 195 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:16,320 Okay. 196 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:17,320 It's a beautiful area. 197 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:18,320 Stonework and everything. 198 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,440 So here's a really old map photo. 199 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,040 And so you can see the light was placed over here and it faces perfectly down this town's 200 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,660 pier. 201 00:08:27,660 --> 00:08:30,560 And you can see where they added West Battery Pier and East Battery Pier. 202 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,160 We talked about those and got Coast Guard stations, watch houses, all kinds of fun stuff. 203 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,160 Busy. 204 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:42,200 They also mentioned, like I said earlier, there was a twin tower to this one at South 205 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:43,200 Queens Ferry. 206 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,200 Yeah. 207 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,560 And it was on Hawes Pier, which was built at the same time. 208 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:50,920 The South one was taken out of service in 1877, but it's still there. 209 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,160 I didn't put in a picture of our slideshow, but you can look it up. 210 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,160 It is not lit. 211 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:56,160 Yeah. 212 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,160 It's boarded up. 213 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,320 But the actual tower itself is still there. 214 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:00,320 And it has some like cool- 215 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:01,320 It's a renovation. 216 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,140 Figures on it, like gargoyle type things. 217 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:06,800 So a lot fancier than we got for the North Tower. 218 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,180 Oh, and it's boarded up. 219 00:09:09,180 --> 00:09:11,720 Some favoritism going on. 220 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:17,560 North Queens Ferry light, when it was moved, it became 16 feet tall and four feet wide 221 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:19,320 with a little copper dome. 222 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,320 Copper dome. 223 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,320 Nice. 224 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,000 What are those numbers under the word light? 225 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,080 Maybe navigational coordinates or something. 226 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:28,080 Okay. 227 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,080 I have no idea. 228 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:30,760 If you know out there, let us know. 229 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:31,760 Yeah. 230 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,560 Anyone who's watching on YouTube and can see this picture, let us know. 231 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:36,560 Oh, no way. 232 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:40,200 I forgot about how awesome this is going to be. 233 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:47,640 Yeah, you can see the bridge in the background, which is, I'll cover briefly, but that's fourth 234 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:48,640 bridge. 235 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,800 And it's actually a railroad. 236 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,360 It was a rail bridge and not a road bridge. 237 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:54,360 It's a cool bridge. 238 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,360 Hey, we have some flags. 239 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,360 We have signal flags. 240 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,360 I see that. 241 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,360 Do you know what they're saying? 242 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,360 I wish I had it pulled up. 243 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,880 I could see what we got going on. 244 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:06,920 I want to say the blue and yellow is V, but that's my only guess. 245 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,680 I can't corroborate your story. 246 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:13,160 So there are three bridges that now cross this passage, one of them being the famous 247 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,120 fourth bridge, which I talked about, built what? 248 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,480 There's three bridges. 249 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,080 This one's the fourth. 250 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,720 The first one built in 1890. 251 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:29,220 It's right next to the tower and is a mile and a half long, locally known as our grand 252 00:10:29,220 --> 00:10:30,220 old lady. 253 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:33,240 Well, yeah, I feel like that's a long bridge. 254 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,100 I have a picture here of it when it was being built. 255 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:39,100 So that's pretty cool. 256 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:43,440 I don't have the details of how long it took or anything, but it was a railway and fourth 257 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,120 road bridge was constructed in 1964. 258 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,320 So now there's one that you can drive across and the construction of that bridge is what 259 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,920 ended ferries going across the fourth. 260 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,440 So now you drive or train or train. 261 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,360 You train train train. 262 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,600 This image for those of you who aren't watching and just listening, it's like a sepia, black 263 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,600 and white. 264 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,320 It almost looks like a sketch, but I know it's a photograph. 265 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,320 Yeah. 266 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:12,960 Incredible structures they built. 267 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,880 These I'm going to call them piers, these three piers, which are of course part of the 268 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:17,880 final construction. 269 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,720 And they're super tall. 270 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:25,840 Of course it's a bridge, but they're also the final construction of the bridge goes 271 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,760 up and down for like the arches, the structural supports. 272 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:30,960 It's really neat. 273 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,280 You could see on the side, these big X patterns. 274 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,480 They're still, yeah, that's awesome. 275 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,840 I can't believe it's still there. 276 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Yeah. 277 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:39,840 From the age of that photo. 278 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:40,840 Yeah. 279 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:41,840 1890. 280 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:42,840 Still operating. 281 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,440 Well, they know how to build bridges. 282 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:45,440 Yeah. 283 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,040 They got it right. 284 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:52,800 But when the road one was constructed in the sixties, it extinguished our North Queens 285 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:54,760 ferry Harbor light. 286 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,840 Some sources say that it was extinguished in 1890 when the railroad bridge was constructed 287 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,280 by I think it said both. 288 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,880 So I think it's referring to the road one and not the... 289 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,640 I feel like you could use the rail bridge as a navigator. 290 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,680 Yeah, that's true. 291 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:20,280 If you're on a boat, but I don't know if it had lights on it or how often bridges were 292 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,640 on it, how often trains were on it. 293 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:23,640 Yeah. 294 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,600 Maybe they didn't even have lights on it at that time. 295 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:31,720 Maybe it like lost a lot of its use, the lighthouse with the rail, but certainly with the ferry 296 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,680 not running anymore. 297 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:39,000 So the tower was renovated and reopened in 2010 and you can now climb the 24 steps to 298 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,240 the light and it still has its Argon lamp, which it stuck with throughout its entire 299 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:45,560 existence. 300 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:47,960 Go back and listen to our second episode, history of lighthouses. 301 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:48,960 I need more of that. 302 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:49,960 I forgot about that. 303 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:55,800 And the original is still in the tower to view if you climb and you can light the Argon 304 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:00,320 lamp and receive a certificate of competence as an honorary keeper of the light. 305 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,320 No way. 306 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:02,920 So you become, it's like official. 307 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:03,920 I've never heard of that. 308 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:04,920 Yeah. 309 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:05,920 How neat is that? 310 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:06,920 What are you saying? 311 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:07,920 Argon? 312 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:08,920 Argon. 313 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,560 Can you remind me from our episode two? 314 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,560 No. 315 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:12,560 I'll have to go. 316 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:16,000 I'll have to go listen to episode two to know what we said. 317 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,480 That was my first episode. 318 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,200 That was 50 episodes ago. 319 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,400 So I need to brush up on my lamps. 320 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:23,960 Wasn't that my first episode? 321 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:25,400 Yes, it was. 322 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:26,400 You're welcome everyone. 323 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,680 We did the call in separate rooms because we would have echo with our current or with 324 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:31,680 our old equipment. 325 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:36,640 I was staring at a wall listening to you over the phone using headphones from work. 326 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,400 Yeah, we did our best. 327 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,640 We've really, we've really grown up. 328 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:42,640 Here we are. 329 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:43,640 Riprap. 330 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:44,640 What is this? 331 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:45,640 Version three? 332 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:46,640 Yeah. 333 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:47,640 The studio. 334 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:48,640 We're about to retire it. 335 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:49,640 About to have version four. 336 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:50,640 Riprap V4. 337 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,560 I have a picky. 338 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:56,120 This is the guy that takes care of the lighthouse right now. 339 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,680 His name is Gary Irvine. 340 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,280 I believe it's pronounced or Irvin. 341 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:00,280 Gary. 342 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:01,280 I love that jacket. 343 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,960 A lot of the pictures that I've shown are actually his and I'll credit him on those. 344 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,880 So you guys can check out his photography. 345 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,600 He does photography and he takes care of this lighthouse. 346 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,160 He's also a heritage trust secretary. 347 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,760 So I didn't look too deep into that group, but I don't know what that means. 348 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,160 You can see that vent stack though. 349 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,280 We're talking about the Arden lamp. 350 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,440 He's polishing the reflector right now. 351 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:25,440 The back of the reflector. 352 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:26,440 Awesome. 353 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:32,120 It was originally fueled by whale oil, changed to paraffin, then gas and now is run off vegetable 354 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:33,120 oil. 355 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,840 How progressive. 356 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:39,240 I think at one point it said something about electricity, but right now it says vegetable 357 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:40,240 oil. 358 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,440 Maybe because it's not needed as a source. 359 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,160 They went to electricity and now they're back to. 360 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,160 Yeah. 361 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,540 And I think they only light it upon request or something. 362 00:14:47,540 --> 00:14:51,000 So it's not like it's being lit every day. 363 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Really cool. 364 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,280 That'd be so much fun. 365 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,880 And if you pull this up on Google Maps, it shows us fourth bridges lighthouse museum, 366 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:03,640 which I believe is not the tower itself, but a building that's just adjacent to it. 367 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,680 It has the history of the bridge, history of town pier and also this light tower. 368 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,480 So you can just go, it's like this tiny, it's a mini museum for a mini lighthouse. 369 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:12,480 Awesome. 370 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:19,680 But that's our cute, um, apparently maybe self-proclaimed smallest working light tower 371 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:20,680 in the world. 372 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:21,680 That's quick. 373 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:22,680 Do we, do we, um, 374 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:23,680 mini so short. 375 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,560 So do you, do we know more about this gentleman? 376 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,960 Can we learn more maybe as a future history boo? 377 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,720 Or, uh, yeah, maybe see if he, uh, there wasn't a lot about him out there. 378 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,520 He didn't, um, an article. 379 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:42,840 Well, he did an interview with some Scotland magazine or something that talked a little 380 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,440 bit about things that I talked about. 381 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:49,600 So I'll be crediting that in my references so people can take a look. 382 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,600 Awesome. 383 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,600 His clothing choices are highly fashionable. 384 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:53,600 Yeah. 385 00:15:53,600 --> 00:16:00,600 It looks like a tropical shirt under a sweater, a sweater under a keeper's jacket. 386 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:01,600 I would say. 387 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:02,600 It looks like corduroy. 388 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:03,600 Yeah. 389 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,920 And then some bright blue pants. 390 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:06,920 We're living for it. 391 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:07,920 This is awesome. 392 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:08,920 All right. 393 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:09,920 But that's it. 394 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:10,920 Yeah. 395 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,920 That's, um, North Queens, fairy Harbor light. 396 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,360 Well, thank you. 397 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:15,360 You're welcome. 398 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,640 I'll be covering another short episode next time. 399 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:23,640 I'm almost done with it, another international one because I cannot help myself, but in my 400 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,760 defense we've been doing tons of us lighthouses. 401 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:27,760 Yeah. 402 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:28,760 Yeah. 403 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:35,600 So I'm going to give some international focus and then we'll double back. 404 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,600 Choked. 405 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,600 Sorry. 406 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:48,440 Vince is just, oh, we better wrap it up. 407 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,680 After that short, then it'll be my turn. 408 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,680 No, that's three in a row. 409 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,680 Is it? 410 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:56,680 Okay. 411 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:57,680 Well, good. 412 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:58,680 I can't talk anymore. 413 00:16:58,680 --> 00:16:59,680 Thank you all for joining. 414 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,680 Catch you next time on the lighthouse. 415 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:19,040 Just died on my coffee.