South Foreland Lighthouse, Dover, Kent

Photograph taken 29 January 2006 © Historic England Archive. Source Mr Edward Le Fanu ref: 178497

This lighthouse was originally built in 1793, then rebuilt in 1843. It is of national importance as it had the first permanent electric lamp in the country installed in it in 1872.

Location

Kent Dover

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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Battersea Power Station seen from the north bank of the Thames. It was designed in 1937 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and was the largest brick building in Europe.

South Foreland Lighthouse, Dover, Kent

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