Sentences with phrase «lighthouse keeper for»

Many wives cared for residential households and one woman, Mabel Bretherton, served as a lighthouse keeper for many years until her resignation in 1907.

San Diego pioneer Robert Decatur Israel was lighthouse keeper for the longest period of time, 18 years.

As you might imagine, given his name, Moses Sweetland's family has lived on the island for generations; he worked as the island's lighthouse keeper for years before automation made the position superfluous.

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A lighthouse along a bleak coast was tended by a keeper who was given enough oil for one month and told to keep the light burning every night.

The illustration was a story which praised a lighthouse keeper's widow who did not remarry but, instead, continued faithfully to tend the light for many years.

Now it's beautifully maintained, with a gift shop, restrooms, and there's a seasonal lighthouse keeper up there to keep it open for you!

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Next up for the Ex Machina and The Danish Girl star is Derek Cianfrance's swooning period drama The Light Between Oceans, which sees Vikander play the wife of Michael Fassbender's lighthouse keeper.

He has applied for a job as a lighthouse keeper on a remote island off the coast of Western Australia.

The Lightkeepers (PG for smoking, mature themes and brief profanity) Romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1912, where a misogynistic lighthouse keeper (Richard Dreyfuss) finds his vow of celibacy tested when a young heiress (Mamie Gummer) with an attractive assistant (Blyhe Danner) moves into a nearby cottage for the summer.

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name, «The Light Between Oceans» spotlights Tom (played by Fassbender), a lighthouse keeper in post - WWI Australia who falls for young Isabel (Miss Vikander).

The thriller is inspired by the Flannan Isle mystery where three lighthouse keepers arrive on an uninhabited island for a six - week shift but then discover something life - changing that isn't theirs to keep.

George's criticisms don't gel too well with Harry Stanley (Rohan Nichol) and Jack Fleet (Marton Csokas), the two current lighthouse keepers who have been doing their best there for months.

, but we finally lurch around the corner from the ticket window into the little lighthouse museum where we study a scribbled copy of the name that offically stands on the list for the year 1899, when an Horatio W.S Adams was senior lighthouse keeper.

And retire to your own lighthouse keeper's cottage for the night.

He told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: «I've been the lighthouse keeper at the North Ronaldsay lighthouse for some 47 years.

The first lighthouse keeper was Robert Decatur Israel, who had been keeper at the old lighthouse for 18 years.

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Throughout her university years, she worked as a lighthouse keeper, creel observer, biologist for the Raincoast Conservation Fund, and aerial surveyor for Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

As we were short of time, we opted to explore the lighthouse precincts instead, with a brief stop for coffee and cake at the Goose café in the beautifully restored lighthouse keeper's cottage.

Historically lighthouses were built with accommodations included for the lighthouse keeper.

Can recommend visiting Jardim do Mar, 25 Fontes walk (beautiful waterfalls), Lighthouse visit (ask the keeper for a tour, it's free) and the stunning PR1 walk between the highest peaks...

Accommodation is available in the keepers cottage which can accommodate up to 16 people with large lounge and dining rooms, open fires and two bathrooms.Enjoy fine food and great company in the Lighthouse Café renowned for fine food and great coffee.

A camera is absolutely essential for a memorable stay in the former lighthouse keeper's home.

As far as Cape Otway Accommodation is concerned there is on offer a good range, from family tourist parks, to self contained cottages, to eco lodges, large group accommodation and of course the historical accommodation at the Lighthouse keeper's lodge for those after a bit of authentic, «what was it like in days gone by» living.

The lighthouse is open seasonally for tours and gives visitors the opportunity to view the lighthouse interior, lighthouse keeper's home and other outbuildings on the site.

While the lighthouse keepers of old are, for the most part, retired due to automation, the lighthouses themselves — and the lights, of course — remain working to keep mariners away from rocky cliffs, land, coral reefs, and other potentially dangerous areas that are hard to see in the dark, in storms, or in fog.