
The Cromarty Archive
No: 1281 Contributor: Eric Malcolm Year: 1939
Lighthouse & Coastguard Station - c1939Note the large radio mast in front of the Coastguard Station. Eric says this photo is 1946, but the Boat Club building is missing so it must be from before that. See a later view in picture #1889.
Picture added on 14 July 2005
Was the mast a tide signal mast? You can see an almost identical one at the other end of the country on the Rye Harbour image library.
Added by Estelle Quick on 11 June 2007
The coastguards used this mast as a gale warning indication, cone upward was a northerly direction gale, cone pointing down, southerly direction gale.
Added by Ian Jack on 11 June 2007