Jul
25
2008
East London History – Article on TBW
Posted by: in history, tags: blackwall, bow, east london, history, lighthouse, lighthouses, mariners, trinity buoy wharf, trinity house, wappingJohn Rennie’s interesting local history blog which has over 600 history pieces, has an article on Trinity Buoy Wharf and the history of Trinity House:
“Lighthouses evoke pictures of stormy seas and Grace Darling bravely heading out to save stricken mariners. The names Forties, Fastnet and Dogger come to mind rather than Blackwall, Bow and Wapping. But all lighthouse keepers had to train somewhere, and for decades it was used both to train lighthouse keepers and to trial lights for Trinity House, the body that to this day runs all the lighthouses in England and Wales.”


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