Qualla: Point of Ayre Lighthouse https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/point-of-ayre-lighthouse-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Point of Ayre Lighthouse https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse Point of Ayre Lighthouse: Introduction https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse/ Photo credit Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island and Kidnapped, came from a family of lighthouse engineers, and his grandfather Robert Stevenson designed the tower at the north-east tip of the Isle of Man that has been flashing since 1818. The Point of Ayre Lighthouse is the oldest operational lighthouse on the island and one of the older working lights in the British Isles. The novelist hated his family's trade and refused to follow it. His grandfather built lights, his father built lights, his uncle built lights, and Robert Louis kept slipping off to read books and write stories instead. Two red bands run around the tower at the north-east tip of Mann as a daymark; at night, four flashes of white light every twenty seconds remain its signature.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/point-of-ayre-lighthouse-wp/gcsv-point-of-ayre-lighthouse-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Point of Ayre Lighthouse: An Act of Parliament for a Point https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse/ Photo credit Shazz, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Isle of Man and Calf of Man Lighthouses Act of 1815, recorded in the dry shorthand of British statute as 55 Geo. 3. c. lxvii, gave Robert Stevenson the authority and the money to build the Manx lights. Three years later the Point of Ayre tower was first lit. Stevenson, then i...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/point-of-ayre-lighthouse-wp/gcsv-point-of-ayre-lighthouse-an-act-of-parliament-for-a-point.mp3 0:06 2 full Point of Ayre Lighthouse: The Fresnel from Paris https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse/ Photo credit Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0. The lens currently sitting in the lantern room is a first-order Fresnel lens, supplied in 1890 by the celebrated Parisian firm Barbier, Benard et Turenne. A first-order Fresnel is the largest standard size and is the kind of optic you find in the most important coastal lighthouse...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/point-of-ayre-lighthouse-wp/gcsv-point-of-ayre-lighthouse-the-fresnel-from-paris.mp3 0:06 3 full Point of Ayre Lighthouse: The Winkie https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Point of Ayre is a moving frontier. Strong currents constantly deposit shingle and gravel along the shore, and the new land grows seaward year by year. By 1899 the main lighthouse no longer stood at the actual seaward edge, and a smaller light, affectionately called the winki...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/point-of-ayre-lighthouse-wp/gcsv-point-of-ayre-lighthouse-the-winkie.mp3 0:06 4 full Point of Ayre Lighthouse: Privately Owned, Still Lit https://qualla.com/point-of-ayre-lighthouse/ Photo credit Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Automation arrived in 1993. The keepers left, the buildings and the land went into private ownership, and the Northern Lighthouse Board in Edinburgh retained responsibility only for the light itself. The keepers' cottages now sit silent next to the working tower. From a small boa...

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