I recommend the Bella Bathurst book as it's a great read. Well done, Bella!

She is like one of those woman commenting on men's football. USELESS.

Excellent video about brilliant human engineering and skill.

very nice one I got New knowledge of light haouse

28:55 I think this woman just stares into space and has no idea what she is even on about.

240P? that's as good as it can get?

Fascinating history, although this doc would have benefitted (or rather WE would have) from clear maps depicting the location of each site. Not everyone knows Gaelic pronunciation - heck even in one's own mother tongue pronunciations can be tough to garner from audio/visual presentations. It took me considerable time to locate the lighthouses mentioned here.

The Bell Rock Lighthouse, built by Robert Stevenson, clearly owes much of its design to John Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse built in 1759 and which Stevenson had visited in 1801.

A fascinating and Favimating program. I think of these places and the people that used to do tha job when I listen to the Shipping forecast. When I here a location and It's followed by the word automatic it just doesn't sound good to my ears. I'm Dutch heratige borne in California 1968.my Dad was Bourne in the Netherlands 1919 . The North Sea is in my blood. I never felt at home in Utah and never will. 1991 I went back with Dad and walked into the Sea near Amsterdam. I felt true joy.

Traffic is bad. (You rode past my family home where I grew up 50 years ago) thank you for this video.

Jesus, that Bella could talk a glass eye to sleep 🥱

In reality workers built those lighthouses, principally masons. I myself together with a few others built a traditional looking brick lighthouse only 24 feet high on a point of land on a 37-mile-long lake, one of 11 lakes in New York's Finger Lakes region. It was built in 1998 and automated from the start. We did this because we discovered a 1930's map showing a navigation light at that point which it cited as yellow. No one could remember one but we built it with a yellow light with a 3 second period.

Bell rock 😮😮😮😮 amazing. Thousands of ship wrecks around Africa 😂😂😂😂😂

A very good presentation of this subject. I fully concur with the thoughts of 2nd commentator above (ljts). When sleep won't come, place yourself on a lighthouse, but alone, without colleagues for absolute best effect.

What a waste of time it was... who cares about bloody skoootland?

“The loss of human life was irrelevant, it was the loss of money that mattered”, sums up the view of upper class people towards us lower class, some things never change, absolutely disgusting toffee nosed cnuts!

Charts , radar, and abd satellite navigation are required to go there. What about the Vikings?

A very good documentary. I recollect going out with Calum Macaulay to Bearnaraidh Barra Head in his boat taking engineers to the island in the late seventies.The engineers were automating the light. By 1980 that was done and the keepers had left. There is a keepers' cemetery on the island as well as a burial ground of the islanders who had all left long before the keepers finally did. I think, if my memory serves me, Calum and his sister Mor were children of a lighthouse keeper. It could have been mentioned perhaps that the variation in the frequency of light flashes makes it possible to identify the location of each light in the darkest of nights at sea.

Female rescuer= death for all

An enjoyable docco to follow reading the book.

Great stuff. Thank you

Automation has it's place, but it has killed many a dreams. There's a forestry tower within shouting distance from my childhood and present home that I wanted to work in, but over-population, automation, etc., has killed that dream also. I'm retired from a very different job now and those dreams have gone un-fulfilled. This was a very interesting video. Thank you very much for posting it. : )

I need to check my ancestry as I have a Thomas Smith from generations ago in relation to myself. I am looking forward to this search. I love stories. I lived near the Napa Valley. I've been to the Robert Louis Stevenson park. It's very calming. Like a lighthouse could be with the rhythm of the waves. We get so used to the background patterns we can forget they're there.

I'm curious as to what the stonemasons earned for building that lighhouse miles out at sea. Scottish stonemasons built much of my town in Canada, brilliant work. Cheers

Any docos about Brunton who built the lighthouses of Japan?

Read the book about three years ago, and really enjoyed watching the video to see the towers in "the flesh".

Skerry vore or whatever…. The locals stripped the materials 😂

If no one reported it how did they know. That was a wives tale they told the recruits up until modern times

Masters of the trade.!! Only artisans,will understand the extreme situations,under horrific conditions.!!! Labour labour,and more labour.!!

No Bloketts back then.

I live in Port Glasgow and we have 2! The Cloch Lighthouse is a beautiful build!❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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What. Happened to Flannen. Isles keepers. Who vanished. ?????

Absolute travesty that John Smeaton doesn't even get a mention. He was the true off-shore lighthouse pioneer.

Quite incredible, i have sailed by the Mull of Kintyre many a time, and it is awesome.

My late father served at many of the lights featured in this programme in his 40+ year career with the N.L.B. His last posting being Sumburgh Head,Shetland. Magnus John LEASK.

Wonder if im related somewhere along the line, should look it up really,,

I am in awe of the people who carved these structures into the geography. I’m fascinated by the history & engineering but this landlubber is thankful he never has to go anywhere near the lighthouses - I can whiteknuckle on the Manly ferry!

What the heck was the Scottish man saying? What's the point of talking when no-one can understand you..........

Plant Trees to help with Climate Change !!!

Fascinating museum at Arbroath about the Bell Rock, the model really has to be seen to be apreciated.

Marvellous documentary.

From the days when the BBC produced fine programmes not woke rubbish!

The music in this documentary is beautiful.

What wonderful people

This videos a keeper for sure

My Dad was a lighthouse keeper on the Bass Rock Girdle Ness, and a stint on the Bell. When I was born I was 3 weeks old because he was stuck on the Bass Rock due to the weather as the yr was 62 and was the start of the worst winter In Decades.

My Dad was a lighthouse keeper on the Bass Rock & Girdle Ness

I've always wanted to be a lighthouse.

Highly recommend Bellas Book 👍