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Light Keepers Duties

In many ways the duties of the light keeper did not change between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Once the electric light was introduced technology rapidly changed the light keeper's duties. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the role had changed completely. These documents are reproductions of those held in the archives at the museum and we hope that you enjoy looking at them to gain some idea of the activities of a light keeper. Click on the title to take you to a document.