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For thirty-one winters Mairi Campbell climbed the hundred and forty steps of the lighthouse, wound the clock, trimmed the wick and wrote the weather into the log in a hand her grandchildren still recognise.

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The light did not care whether you were tired.
Mairi Campbell

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The last lights of the western coast

Nineteen lighthouses still flash between Galloway and Cape Wrath.

By Ewan Mackay · 22 minute read

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For thirty-one winters Mairi Campbell climbed the hundred and forty steps of the lighthouse at Rubha Glas. She wound the clock at dusk, trimmed the wick at midnight and wrote the weather into the log at dawn, in a hand her grandchildren still recognise. When the light was automated in 1998 she was given a clock for her mantelpiece and a letter from the Commissioners, and she kept both in the kitchen drawer with the tide tables. She still walks out to the tower most evenings, though there is nothing left for her to do there, and she still looks up at the lantern when the beam comes round, the way you look up at a friend.

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Porthbrae harbour light

First lit: 1846
Character: Fixed red
Last lit: October 2026

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The keepers kept a log of everything: the weather, the shipping, a child’s first steps on the gallery. It carries on overleaf.

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She has their telephone numbers. She rings them every year on the night the island’s light was first lit, and they talk about the peaches.

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The light did not care whether you were tired.
Mairi Campbell

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The last lights of the western coast

Nineteen lighthouses still flash between Galloway and Cape Wrath.

By Ewan Mackay · 22 minute read

The opening

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Porthbrae harbour light

First lit: 1846
Character: Fixed red
Last lit: October 2026

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The keepers kept a log of everything: the weather, the shipping, a child’s first steps on the gallery. It carries on overleaf.

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She has their telephone numbers. She rings them every year on the night the island’s light was first lit, and they talk about the peaches.

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title: The last lights of the western coast
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There are nineteen lighthouses between the Mull of
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The last lights of the western coast

By Ewan Mackay

There are nineteen lighthouses between the Mull of Galloway and Cape Wrath, and for most of the last century every one of them had a keeper. They wound the clock at dusk, trimmed the wick at midnight and wrote the weather into the log at dawn, in a hand their grandchildren still recognise. The relief boat came on the first Tuesday of the month, weather allowing, and the weather rarely allowed. In the winter of 1962 it did not come for eleven weeks, and the keepers lived on tinned peaches and the last of the flour, and wrote it all down between the barometer readings and the shipping.

The light did not care whether you were tired.

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The relief boat came on the first Tuesday of the month, weather allowing, and the weather rarely allowed. In the winter of 1962 it did not come for eleven weeks, and the keepers lived on tinned peaches and the last of the flour. Morag, when I asked her about that winter, did not hesitate. “There will always be somebody looking,” she said. “Somebody on a boat who is frightened, in the dark. That is who they were for. That is who they are still for.” Then she showed me a photograph of the schoolroom on Eilean Dubh in 1955, eleven children in hand-knitted jerseys, and named every one of them, and told me where each of them had ended up, and which of them were still alive. There were four. She has their telephone numbers. She rings them every year on the night the island’s light was first lit, and they talk about the peaches.

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