When you write a book about foghorns you end up in strange and unexpected places. Jennifer Lucy Allan Accounts of animal and bird life at lighthouse stations are often dream-like or nightmarish. A lighthouse is a solid, unmoving structure built to improve safety at sea for humans. It is also an accidental observation tower, a … Continued
In 1703 a student returned from studying at Oxford to the family home in Worcestershire. His name isn’t known – it might have been Thomas Appletree – because he did not mark his name in the weather diary he kept that year. While his diary predates the Met Office by 150 years, even by the … Continued
When you write a book about foghorns you end up in strange and unexpected places. Jennifer Lucy Allan The last entry in the logbook at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse was the morning weather readings on 15th December 1900. When the relief boat turned up on the 26th December, there was nobody to greet them, and … Continued