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Since 2012 St Mary's lighthouse has been grade II listed. [10] While it no longer functions as a working lighthouse, it is easily accessible (when the tide is out) and regularly open to visitors; in addition to the lighthouse itself there is a small museum, a visitor's centre, and a café. The cottage was upgraded with a wood pellet boiler in ...
The island is opposite Curry's Point on the mainland and is connected to the coast at low tide by a rocky causeway for about 16 hours a day. [3] The main feature of the island is St Mary's Lighthouse which was built in 1898. [4] In medieval times there was a chapel on the island dedicated to St Helen. [5]
Richard de Emeldon, eighteen times Mayor of Newcastle and seven times its representative in Parliament, was the Lord of the Manor of Whitley in 1333. On 9 April 1345, Edward III granted Gilbert de Whitley a licence to crenellate his manor house at Whitley.
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The Bureau of Land Management manages the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, including the lighthouse. The Yaquina Head Interpretive Center opened in 1997 and includes exhibits about the history and preservation of the lighthouse, and the marine life found in tide pools and along the coast. The Center includes a gift shop.
The old lighthouse and storm-damaged pier, c. 1900. A lighthouse had built on the old North Pier (first lit in 1895, it displayed three lights mounted vertically: green over white over red, with a range of 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi)); [34] however, when the pier had to be rebuilt to a new design, an entirely new lighthouse was required.
The lighthouse is open to the public only when low tide permits access, daily from April through September with tours between 10 AM and 4 PM. [5] October through March, the lighthouse is open for tours on weekends, from 10 AM to 4 PM. In both seasons, visits to the Battery Point Lighthouse and Island are only possible at low tides. [5]
Whitley Bay developed into a holiday resort in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries; it was provided with a railway station in 1882, from which an Esplanade road lead to a sea-front Promenade. Discussing a 1908 pier proposal, the Evening Chronicle noted that the notion of a pier at Whitley bay had been 'heartily supported' by visitors to the ...