The Signal Tower

I was in Arbroath today on a site visit. I don't usually see much of the place when I visit, but on this occasion I had a meeting in the centre of town and stopped off the see the Signal Tower. It's a wonderful building.

This is what Angus Council have to say about it;
Signal Tower Museum is located near Arbroath harbour, in a complex of buildings originally used as the shore station and family accommodation for the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Built in 1813, Signal Tower served the lighthouse until 1955.

Both the lighthouse and the Signal Tower were built, for the Northern Lighthouse Board, by Robert Stevenson, founder of the famous Stevenson dynasty of lighthouse builders.

The Bell Rock Lighthouse still stands, 11 miles off-shore from Arbroath, on a dangerous semi-sunken reef. More than 200 years after its construction, the Bell Rock Light is Britain’s oldest surviving rock lighthouse.