Seaham Lighthouse on the Durham Coast in NE England.
More often photographed during stormy weather, its diminutive size emphasising the height of waves that smash against the pier wall.
It dates from 1905 and is often attributed to engineer Henry Hay Wake, the gentleman behind the design of Roker Pier and Lighthouse, a few mileS up the coast at the mouth of the River Wear in Sunderland.
However, I have read that Wake was probably responsible for the design of the pier, but that Chance Brothers Company of Birmingham, who had a track record of building numerous similar structures, are thought to have been behind the construction of the lighthouse.
I came across a rather wacky story that in 1933, the company was reported to be involved in an attempt to contact "any intelligent life" on the planet Mars, using adapted lighthouse optics from a mountaintop, the Jungfrau, in Switzerland!

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