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The lighthouse in 2009. In 1995–6, Llanelli Borough Training, with the support of the Burry Port Yacht Club, restored the lighthouse and Trinity House donated a new light. [2] The restored lighthouse is operated by Carmarthenshire County Council and was formally opened on 9 February 1996 by Councillor David T. James, the Mayor of Llanelli. [2]
The Carmarthen Weekly Reporter was a weekly liberal, English language newspaper, published in Carmarthen and distributed throughout South Wales. It contained local, national and foreign news, and local information. It was published by William Morgan Evans. [1]
The Carmarthen Journal is a newspaper founded in 1810 in Wales and now based in Carmarthen, the county town of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The building housing the Carmarthen Journal asserts that the Carmarthen Journal is the oldest newspaper in Wales. In 2012, Local World acquired ownership of Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust. [2]
Atop this base, steel forms were assembled to create a concrete circular wall to a height of 70 feet (21 m). [8] [3] This circular wall was three feet thick, inside of which a heavy timber crib was constructed. [8] In the afternoon of June 5, 1935, the pier was towed into Green Bay and placed into position in 24 feet (7.3 m)-deep water. [9]
In 1840, a printing press was set up in Carmarthen by William Spurrell (1813–1889), who wrote a history of the town and compiled and published an 1848 Welsh-English dictionary and an 1850 English–Welsh dictionary. [27] Today's Collins Welsh dictionary is known as the "Collins Spurrell". A local housing authority in Carmarthen is named Heol ...
Strong winds and waves cause land erosion around lighthouses. Over extended periods of time, the promontories that lighthouses are normally built on can be eroded to the point where the safety of the lighthouse is impacted. In extreme cases, the lighthouse might need to be relocated to a new plot of land in order to preserve the structure.
Block Island Southeast Light is a lighthouse located on Mohegan Bluffs at the southeastern corner of Block Island, Rhode Island. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1997 as one of the most architecturally sophisticated lighthouses built in the United States in the 19th century.
The third tower also still stands today and was built in 1871 as a skeletal steel structure. This steel lighthouse lasted until 1965 when a fourth modern tower took its place. In 2007, the 1965 structure was demolished and a new small skeletal metal tower mounted atop a platform stands today.