Bishop Rock Lighthouse, walk through tour. mid 1990's

I am 73 years old and have been waiting for the best part of it for your scintillating insight into life in a light house. Thank you. I strongly feel it must have been a fascinating place for people to have spent part at least of their lives in.

It was so good you were able to get some video footage for posterity! Amazing tour, thanks for sharing!

Digitizing these old tapes for prosperity is a great way to show life of a bygone era - very interesting to see how people coped living in Lighthouses

Well done on preserving the history of this light house on video.

Mind boggling to think of the tremendous work it took to get all the furniture, appliances, cooking utensils, bedding, etc out there and installed. I can barely comprehend how many trips it must have taken and all the hardship associated with it all. I've always wondered what these offshore lights truly looked like inside. Thanks for sharing.

Superb film. Really enjoyed it , its such a shame that trinity house automated all its lighthouses as that would be such a good job living and working in those off shore towers.

Thanks again Peter for another fantastic lighthouse tour. I can only imagine the obstacles the masons and engineers had to overcome so far out at sea to build this magnificent edifice in 1858.

That was fascinating to watch. Not sure if I would ever get used to the generators running and the fog horn blasting to get a hour's sleep though!

Thanks Peter. Lighthouses have always fascinated me.

Fascinating! This is such valuable stuff - a proper historical record from the days before automation put an end to keepers' work. Cheers :-)

I love these tours so much. There’s no way most of us would ever get to experience the atmosphere of a lighthouse. You capture it perfectly. Thanks for doing it.

fernleystephens2436 I have taken boat trips out to Bishop Rock Lighthouse and admired the other thanks to St. Mary's Boatman's Association, while holidaying on Scilly. Thanks for the tour of the inside.

Thanks again Peter,they are really something these lighthouses perched upon a bit of rock,waves crashing😊

Thank you for sharing these amazing stories.

Thanks for sharing this fascinating piece of our maritime history. Countless lives saved by brave men.

Very interesting video. I never knew there was so much stuff in a lighthouse!! I could live there - no problem!!

Thank you again. Being from the western US where there are no large bodies of water, I find your videos really interesting. Your walkthrough and interview videos are a valuable record.

Hi Peter, I’m so pleased to have found this. When I was a little girl in the 80s I wrote to Trinity House and they put me in touch with one of the lighthouse keepers at Bishop Rock who wrote to me. Sadly I can’t remember the name of the lighthouse keeper but it could have been yourself of one of your colleagues. I was a lonely child and the fact that someone had taken the trouble to write to me has stayed with my for my entire life. I have always wondered about ‘my lighthouse keeper’ and what became of him and wish I had stayed in touch.

Very interesting tour! Thank you very much for sharing this with us.

Thank you for posting. I live in the USA, but I'm from Canada. I remember going to the islands where my grandfather was a keeper on big fish island in Nova Scotia. The lighthouse was nothing like this one. But have times changed