Collioure Lighthouse revisited - a mystery

Summer holidays spent in south west France, we revisited Collioure, which I had bagged as a lighthouse here.
As you can tell, the lighthouse in 2007 is not the lighthouse above. Basically, there is an inner harbour at the end of which there is a church with tower. If you go around the church there is an outer harbour, at the end of which is the structure above. The two 'lights' can both be seen better below.

Now the Lighthouse Directory lists the smaller light as the lighthouse, at the end of the outer harbour. Built in 1886, it is made of stone and cast iron.

So the peach-domed structure of my original post and in the picture above is not a lighthouse? Fair enough.

Except that everywhere it is referred to as Le phare (the lighthouse) Postcards all describe it as Le phare, Matisse has a famous painting (which I'm not very impressed by!) of Le phare a Collioure. Sometimes it is called a cloche / phare (bell tower / lighthouse)
The thick plottens.

Whitehouse Point, Fowey

As the Lighthouse Directory says "not much of a lighthouse" This is the view we got from the harbour in Fowey, looking back up the coast towards Gribben Head. Built 1892, relocated here in 1904, but cannot find out from where!

Gribben Head Not a Lighthouse

The 84 feet (26 m) high square beacon tower was erected by Trinity House in 1832 to distinguish the Gribben from Dodman Point and St Anthony’s Head, and thus make navigation into Fowey and the harbours of St Austell Bay safer. It was never lighted, but is painted in broad red and white bands as a daymark. These photos taken from Carlyon Bay across St. Austell bay.

Mevagissey Harbour Wall

Well, Mevagissey, located about 4 miles south of St. Austell was where we stayed for the week, so every night after dinner, we'd walk down here. Driving in Meva is not for the faint-hearted - very narrow streets! - so the best thing would be to reach the point where you have to turn left and then take the pay and display car park on your left hand side. Then simply walk towards the sea.

It's located on the right hand (south) pier - despite first impressions, so walk along the harbour front to access it.

Built in 1896, guess what? Its an octagonal white tower with a black base!

The Lizard - Twin Towers

The most southerly point on the British mainland is Lizard Point. Take the A3083 from Helston and keep heading south. Go through Lizard village and about half a mile on, take the road to the left (it's one way, but they don't tell you till you're at the car park on the other side) From here both the lighthouses and Lizard Point itself are easily walkable.

There was a lighthouse established here in 1619 but it wasn't popular with the locals as it reduced their income from shipwrecks! The current building was completed in 1751, and consisted of two towers, with a cottage built between them, in which an overlooker lay on a sort of couch, with a window on either side commanding a view of the lanterns. When the bellows-blowers relaxed their efforts and the fires dimmed, he would remind them of their duties by a blast from a cow horn.

The octagonal west tower (above) was put out of action in 1903 when the lantern was removed. There are visitors facilities and you can do tours of the lights but we didn't, mainly because they were a bit pricey. The East Light can apparently be seen 26 nautical miles away.

Marazion Lighthouse?

Well, is it a lighthouse or isn't it? The lighthouse directory says there's no evidence that it was ever used as a lighthouse. Millichamp, however, calls it "A squat white painted brick hexagonal castellated tower lighthouse with a window light situated on the edge of the harbour wall at Marazion in Mounts Bay. The light is now disused."

No idea about date of construction. Situated above the harbour in Marazion to the east of the village.

Penzance South Pier

Penzance Light with St. Michaels Mount in the background (above)
Okay, so drive from Newlyn along the front and eventually you'll reach the harbour area just before the terminus of the Great Western Railway.

Again, a white light with a black base (kind of like Derby County FC) which seems very popular down here. Built in 1853 it stands 31 feet high and is located on the end of the pier wall.

The first lighthouse here was a lantern which got washed away in a storm in 1817. A more substantial lighthouse was built in 1817 but only lasted till 1824 when it got washed away again by a storm. Subsequently an Argand lamp in a wooden hut was used until the present lighthouse went up.