Red Lichtie

Nice warm day with some cloud cover.

In Arbroath today for a Children's Hearing - nowadays Panel Members can serve anywhere in Scotland, which certainly helps ease some of the problems caused by a shortage of male Panel Members. By law there needs to be at least a mix of male/female Members to make up the Panel of three. At present there is a recruitment process going on so if you live in Scotland you might want to look at this Webpage for more information.

On my way home I decided to Blip this little Lighthouse. According to the plaque this structure is a Minor Light and is one of only two of its type surviving. In 1914 there were 68 around the Scottish coast.

It was originally sited on Yell in Shetland in 1880 and every three seconds it flashed a white light that could be seen 9 miles out to sea. Minor lights were unmanned and marked harbour entrances and coastal features.

This light was dismantled and transferred to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses in Fraserburgh and then to Arbroath in 2011.

The people of Arbroath are known as "Reid Lichties" (reid=red) and is said to refer to lighthouses which had a red light.