Lighthouse set to become tourist beacon
THE first lighthouse to be built on Shetland is to be opened to the public for the first time in its near 200-year history.
Sumburgh Head lighthouse was built in 1821 by Robert Stevenson, the grandfather of Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson.
The 17 metre-high lighthouse was fully automated in 1991.
A grant of 683,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund will help restore the buildings and improve access to them. The group of buildings also includes a 1905 foghorn and one of the first British radar stations, a Chain Home low radar station, which was added to the site during the Second World War.
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