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Eshaness Lighthouse overlooks the most dramatic coastline in Britain. The station started out as a temporary light which was no more than a iron tower during World War I. In 1929 engineer David Alan Stevenson designed the permament station. It was one of the first lighthouses in Scotland with a square tower. It also became one of the first 'self generating' stations completed by the Northern Lighthouse Board. It was automated in 1974 and the keeper's removed

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