Great Orme Lighthouse Llandudno

The lighthouse was designed by Geogre Fosbery Lyster, engineer of the north docks in Liverpool, after several ship wrecks in the area around the Great Orme and was constructed in 1863. The light source was originally a parafin lamp which was replced with perroleum as the fuel source in 1904 and then by acetylene in 1923. The lighthouse remained with the Mersey docks and harbour board until 1973 when Trinity house took over and whitewashed the exterior of the lighthouse. The light remained in use until 1985 after which the lens was removed and transferred to the harbour board's office. In 1993 the lens returned to llandudno where it can be viwed in the great orme visitor centre. Today the lighthouse in a hotel with rooms inside the old lighthouse and keepers dwellings.