Portland Bill, Dorset - Lighthouse & obelisk - Dennis postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  The Lighthouse,Portland Bill, Dorset [with Trinity House obelisk]
• Publisher: Dennis (W.0675)
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^{Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :}

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^{Portland Bill Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse at Portland Bill, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The lighthouse and its boundary walls are Grade II Listed.[2]}

^{As Portland's largest and most recent lighthouse, the Trinity House operated Portland Bill Lighthouse is distinctively white and red striped, standing at a height of 41 metres (135 ft). The tower is approximately 114 feet. The lighthouse was completed by 1906 and first shone out on 11 January 1906.[3]Portland Bill Lighthouse guides passing vessels through these hazardous waters as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel.[4]}

^{The two original lighthouses, now known as the Old Higher Lighthouse and Old Lower Lighthouse, operated as a pair at Portland Bill. They were constructed in 1716, both rebuilt in 1869, and decommissioned following the completion of the present lighthouse.[5] At the turn of the 20th-century, Trinity House put forward plans for the building of a new lighthouse at Bill Point, to replace both of the lighthouses. Trinity House acquired the required land at the Bill in 1903.[6][7]}

^{In October 1903 the builders Wakeham Bros. of Plymouth began work on the foundations.[8] Chance & Co of Birmingham supplied and fitted the lantern.[9] The lighthouse was completed in 1905, at a cost of £13,000, and the lamp first lit on 11 January 1906.[5] On 18 March 1996 the lighthouse was demanned, with all monitoring and control transferred to the Trinity House Operations & Planning Centre in Harwich.[10]}

^{As Portland's prime attraction, the Portland Bill Lighthouse is open for tours and has a visitor centre, housed in the former lighthouse keeper's quarters. The original centre closed in September 2013 due to lack of funding,[11] however a new renovated centre opened in 2015.[12] The tours operated at the lighthouse last approximately 45 minutes, and visitors are able to climb the 153 steps to the top of the lighthouse.[13]}

^{Portland Bill Lighthouse uses a 1 Kw Mbi lamp and 4 Panel 1St Order Catadioptric Rotating Lens. The light flashes four times every 20 seconds and has an intensity of 635,000 candelas, with a range of 25 nautical miles. Also having a fog signal for times of bad weather, the signal uses a four-second blast every 30 seconds, with a range of 2 nautical miles.[4] The Type F diaphone was decommissioned in 1996, but restored in 2003 for the benefit of visitors.[14]}

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