Formby Lighthouse

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A Westland Lysander over the nearby Altcar training camp. Formby Lighthouse can be seen in the background. A Westland Lysander of No. 13 Squadron RAF based at Hooton Park, Cheshire, provides aiming practice for members of the Home Guard, at the Western Command Weapons Training School at Altcar, near Formby, 17 Septe H4209.jpg
A Westland Lysander over the nearby Altcar training camp. Formby Lighthouse can be seen in the background.

Formby Lighthouse was a lighthouse station in Little Altcar, Merseyside. [1] [2] [3]

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The lighthouse was converted in 1834 from an structure originally built in 1719. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Formby Lighthouse – Formby Civic Society". formbycivicsociety.org.uk.
  2. ↑ "Lost Lighthouses". penkett.anduin.org.uk.
  3. ↑ "The Lifeboat". J D Wetherspoon.
  4. ↑ Yorke, Barbara; Yorke, Reginald (Winter 1981). "Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919". Lifeboat Magazine. Vol. 47, no. 475. RNLI. Archived from the original on 10 May 2025. Retrieved 10 May 2025.

53°32′10″N3°04′21″W / 53.53611°N 3.07250°W / 53.53611; -3.07250


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