Warm film-photography view of a weathered lighthouse on a rugged northern shoreline with misty light and documentary realism

Northern coast lighthouses: an archive of beacon history, keeper labor, and shoreline memory.

Explore archive photographs, keeper stories, and preserved towers gathered as a careful reference for the coast’s maritime heritage.

  • Archive photographs
  • Keeper accounts
  • Preserved towers

Coastal introduction

An archive where images, places, and lives along the northern coast can be read together.

This reference gathers archive photography, keeper stories, and notes on preserved towers into one shared record of the shoreline. Masonry, lantern rooms, and weathered paths are treated as evidence of how these structures were built, worked, and maintained over time.

By reading visual detail beside narrative accounts and site geography, visitors can follow each lighthouse as both a landmark and a lived workplace, connected to neighboring stations across the coast.

  • Coastlines
  • Lanterns
  • Keepers

Geography & preservation

Where memory still stands on the northern coast

A simplified coastal reference helps place keeper stories and archive images within the surviving line of preserved towers.

Printed-style simplified map of the northern coastline with lighthouse markers and shoreline labels
Printed coastal insert · preserved lighthouse markers
  • North Head Tower

    Granite base restored in 1987; original third-order lens displayed onsite.

  • Raven Point Light

    Keeper quarters remain intact, with logbook entries archived from 1912–1946.

  • Coldwater Beacon

    Cast-iron stair and fog bell frame preserved after shoreline reinforcement works.

  • Slate Cove Lantern

    Now automated, but tower masonry and service path follow the 1898 survey plan.

See the preserved towers.