New Lighthouse Dungeness

Evening light on the New Lighthouse Dungeness. When the power station was built in the 1960s the old 1904 lighthouse was no longer visible from the south west. It was neccessay to place another light in a cylindrical tower some 450 metres to the east. It also incorporated an electric fog signal. The new lighthouse was brought into operation on 20 November, 1961. The tower which rises from a white concrete base in the form of a spiral ramp, is capable of automatic operation and was the first one of its kind to incorporate the Xenon electric arc lamp as a source of illumination. It is constructed of precast concrete rings 1.5 metres high, 15 cm thick and 3.6 metres in diameter, fitted one above the other to a height of 40 metres, and has black and white bands which are impregnated into the concrete.