Rachel has neatly summarised the position. The Northern Lighthouse
Commissioners' historical records are mostly available at the National
Archives of Scotland (West Register House: [log in to unmask]), and some records
relating to individual lighthouses at Scotland's Lighthouse Museum, Kinnaird
Head, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire AB43 9DU. The National Monuments Record of
Scotland hold the Board's plans, while the Royal Museum of Scotland houses
examples of some actual lights.
Tristram Clarke
Reader Services Branch
NAS
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From: JII Archives [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 November 2000 09:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Lighthouse records
The _official_ Scottish records (those of the Northern Lighthouse Board, as
opposed to the Stevensons' personal records) are in the National Archives of
Scotland. Taken with the records in NLS (which I think have more on the
engineering side) the archive should be fairly complete.
I seem to remember that lighthouse plans are seperately deposited, possibly
with the National Monuments Record in Edinburgh - can anyone confirm this?
Rachel Gill
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From: Olive Geddes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:13 PM
To: BAILEY, Steve
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Lighthouse records
The archive of the Stevenson firm of civil engineers in the National Library
of
Scotland includes a good deal of material on lighthouses.
Olive Geddes
"BAILEY, Steve" wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> An academic colleague of mine is keen to trace the whereabouts of any
> records relating to lighthouses around the coast of Great Britain to
assist
> in a potential research project.
>
> If anybody can help I would be grateful if they could let me know where
they
> can be found and if there are any access restrictions etc.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Steve Bailey
> Senior Information Advisor
> Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
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