Welcome to my UK Lighthouse Site!

In 1946 I started my career in engineering with an apprenticeship at the Lighthouse Works of Chance Brothers Limited,  Smethwick  ( in what is now the West Midlands ).  My time at Chances was restricted to around 6 years ( see the article published in the Black Country Bugle  ) but in that time I was imbued with a solid appreciation of engineering and a sense of wonderment which has served me well over the years.

I saw enough of the the production of lighthouse optical apparatus from the drawing office to testing of the finished article to instil in me an appreciation of lighthouses which has simmered in the background of other engineering activities for nearly 50 years and now rekindled as an obsessive enthusiasm.

I like to think of myself as a "born again pharologist" though my studies are concentrated on UK lighthouses    I hope you approve?.

Alan Taylor                                    E-mail me

This page was last updated on 17-08-2003.