Qualla: Point of Ayr Lighthouse https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/x/point-of-ayr-lighthouse-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Point of Ayr Lighthouse https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse Point of Ayr Lighthouse: Introduction https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse/ Photo credit E Gammie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Stand at the lighthouse at low tide and the sea is somewhere out beyond the curve of the sand, half a mile distant on the soft pewter horizon. Walk a few minutes and you can touch the bricks of a tower that the Mayor of Chester authorised in 1776, when George III had been on the British throne for sixteen years and the American Revolution was three months from its Declaration. Walk in from the same direction at high water, six hours later, and you will be wading. The Point of Ayr lighthouse has stood for two and a half centuries on sand that the tide rearranges twice a day. It is the oldest surviving lighthouse in Wales, decommissioned almost two centuries ago, currently a private house, and recently the most photogenic prop in a Dulux paint commercial.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/x/point-of-ayr-lighthouse-wp/gcmx-point-of-ayr-lighthouse-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Point of Ayr Lighthouse: Chester's Light https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Immanuel Giel, Public domain. The lighthouse was authorised by an Act of Parliament of 1776 - 16 Geo. 3, c. 61 - and built by a trust of the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of Chester to warn shipping entering the channel between the Dee and Mersey estuaries. At the time, Chester was still hoping to remain a wo...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/x/point-of-ayr-lighthouse-wp/gcmx-point-of-ayr-lighthouse-chesters-light.mp3 0:06 2 full Point of Ayr Lighthouse: Replaced and Decommissioned https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Lesbardd, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the 1830s, the original Point of Ayr light no longer marked the best position for warning ships off the actual sandbanks. The Liverpool authorities replaced it with a pile light - a screw-pile structure built on iron piles driven into the seabed offshore - which could be place...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/x/point-of-ayr-lighthouse-wp/gcmx-point-of-ayr-lighthouse-replaced-and-decommissioned.mp3 0:06 3 full Point of Ayr Lighthouse: The Iron Sentinel https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Lesbardd, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2010 the then owner, James McAllister, applied for planning permission to erect what he called a 'serious art installation' on the gallery of the disused lighthouse - a seven-foot stainless-steel figure of a lighthouse keeper, designed by local artist Angela Smith. The applica...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/x/point-of-ayr-lighthouse-wp/gcmx-point-of-ayr-lighthouse-the-iron-sentinel.mp3 0:06 4 full Point of Ayr Lighthouse: Dulux and the Sheepdog https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Immanuel Giel, Public domain. The 1776 lighthouse made an unlikely television debut in 2011, appearing in the background of a Dulux paint commercial marking the fiftieth anniversary of the company's Old English Sheepdog mascot. The shot lined up the dog on the beach with the white tower behind, the surf gentl...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/x/point-of-ayr-lighthouse-wp/gcmx-point-of-ayr-lighthouse-dulux-and-the-sheepdog.mp3 0:06 5 full Point of Ayr Lighthouse: Shifting Sands https://qualla.com/point-of-ayr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Bob Abell, CC BY-SA 2.0. What sets the Talacre lighthouse apart from other coastal towers is its setting. Most lighthouses stand on rock - granite headlands, basalt islands, reefs at the entrance to harbours. Point of Ayr stands on shifting sand. The dunes around it migrate season by season, blown inland...

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