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26 photos tagged beacon, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• maritimeheritage
• aviation
• hangar
• windows
• industry
• workers
• structure
• shipyard
• blackandwhitephotograph
• roof
• water
• airmail
• steel
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• riverwear
• unusual
• sunderland
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• sunderlandhistoryfair
• lighthouse
• airfield
• people
• sign

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• SDASM Archives 11 photos
• North East Museums 8 photos
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos
• The Library of Congress 1 photo
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo
• New York Public Library 1 photo
• Florida Memory 1 photo
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo

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Crown Point Light House (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• eatable relation said:

  More info on the history of this lighthouse at www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=672

• Art Siegel said:

  thanks! very interesting. I guess this is the 1859 lighthouse which was being replaced by a more elaborate one in 1912.

• snorlax kwan said:

  wow. amazing place

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Point_Light

St Mary's Island 1972

from North East Museums

• Kathryn said:

  I went on school trip there in the 1980s!

One of four beacons tended by J.C. Williams

from Florida Memory

• jamica1 said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!