Qualla: Ardnamurchan Lighthouse https://qualla.com/ardnamurchan-lighthouse en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/d/ardnamurchan-lighthouse-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ardnamurchan Lighthouse https://qualla.com/ardnamurchan-lighthouse Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: Introduction https://qualla.com/ardnamurchan-lighthouse/ Photo credit James Hearton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Alan Stevenson, asked to build a lighthouse on the most westerly point of mainland Britain, decided to make it look Egyptian. Not Egyptian-revival like a country house folly, but seriously Egyptian: an oversized tapering shaft of pink granite, with detailing inspired by pylon temples on the Nile. It was 1849, the year Britain was sending exploratory missions up the Nile and bringing back drawings of monuments. Stevenson, the eldest son of Robert Stevenson and the uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson, took the influence literally. The result, completed that same year, remains the only Egyptian-style lighthouse in the United Kingdom.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/d/ardnamurchan-lighthouse-wp/gf5d-ardnamurchan-lighthouse-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: Pink Granite from the Sea https://qualla.com/ardnamurchan-lighthouse/ Photo credit Will Hedington from Kent, UK, CC BY 2.0. The tower stands 36 metres tall, made entirely of pink granite shipped to the site by sea - because in 1849 there was no other practical way to bring building stone to a point this remote. The peninsula's only road approach was, and remains, a single-track ribbon of tarmac that w...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/d/ardnamurchan-lighthouse-wp/gf5d-ardnamurchan-lighthouse-pink-granite-from-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: The Kingdom of Light https://qualla.com/ardnamurchan-lighthouse/ Photo credit mark hardy, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mains electricity reached the lighthouse in 1976, and the light was fully automated in 1988. From then on, the keepers were gone. The Northern Lighthouse Board now monitors the light remotely from Edinburgh, and the keepers' cottages have been converted into a visitor centre. The...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/d/ardnamurchan-lighthouse-wp/gf5d-ardnamurchan-lighthouse-the-kingdom-of-light.mp3 0:06 3 full Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: Sherlock Holmes and Top Gear https://qualla.com/ardnamurchan-lighthouse/ Photo credit Glen Wallace from Inverness, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0. The lighthouse has had two strange brushes with popular culture. The final chapter of the computer game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, released in 2007, takes place inside the tower - a remote, fog-bound setting chosen by the Ukrainian studio Frogwares precisely because Ardnamurc...

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