Northern Lighthouse Board electrical technician James Addison tells The Herald what it's like to spend nine days on Bell Rock lighthouse while… ...

Stevenson's challenge. Nearly 200 years after it was first built, the Bell Rock Lighthouse still stands - proudly flashing its warning light. Eleven miles out to sea off the east coast of Scotland ...

Roger Lockwood, chief executive of the Northern Lighthouse Board, said: “This striking tartan commemorates the oldest, continuously operating rock lighthouse in the world, which, over 200 years ...

A year of celebrations has been lined up in Arbroath to mark the bicentenary of the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. The Bell Rock Lighthouse, which stands 11 miles (18km) from the ...

It is 200 years to the day since Robert Stevenson's Bell Rock lighthouse first illuminated the North Sea, 11 miles from the Scottish coast.

Eleven miles off the coast of Arbroath in Scotland, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, standing on the Inchcape Reef, has withstood… Sunday, June 29, 2025.

Robert Stevenson, the Glasgow-born man who designed Scotland’s Bell Rock lighthouse and fathered an engineering dynasty, would have celebrated his 248th birthday next Monday on 8 June.

Bell Rock Lighthouse, the world’s oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse, has saved countless lives over the past two centuries. Located on the east coast of Scotland, it was built to alert seagoers ...

Bell Rock lighthouse off the coast of Angus, Scotland, in stormy sea. Steel engraving published in 1835 in Meyer's Universum. Stevenson and his wife, Jean, had 13 children, of whom five survived and ...

That was until Bell Rock Lighthouse was constructed on the reef by Scottish civil engineer Robert Stevenson between 1807 and 1810, using 2,500 specially-cut blocks of Aberdeen granite.

A year of celebrations has been lined up in Arbroath to mark the bicentenary of the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. The Bell Rock Lighthouse, which stands 11 miles (18km) from the ...