It was a piece of classic comedy performed by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones called the Predictable Lighthouse Keepers and was an amusing skit, albeit a slightly unkind one.
It wouldn’t happen now in real life because lighthouse keepers are a thing of the past in Britain. It is over 25 years since the lighthouse at The Needles off the Isle of Wight was automated and the keepers left for the last time. It is now controlled remotely by Trinity House from an operations centre at Harwich and it is the same for Hampshire’s other lighthouses at Hurst Point, St Catherine’s Point and Nab Tower.
Life was never easy for the keepers when they lived at places such as Needles Lighthouse. Gerry DouglasSherwood, former president of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, had a 28-year career on lighthouses. He had short spells at St Catherine’s and Nab Tower – describing his time at the latter “a grim and very curious experience” – but it is his 12-and-a-half years at Needles that he remembers most.
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