{"id":6323,"date":"2008-07-06T20:57:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2008\/07\/view-from-the-dlwp\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:57:54","slug":"view-from-the-dlwp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/07\/06\/view-from-the-dlwp\/","title":{"rendered":"View from the DLWP"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you look out over the English Channel from the De La Warr Pavilion, you’ll probably see some ships, yachts, dinghies, windsurfers\u00a0and the odd fishing craft making their way up and down and across the water.<\/p>\n

Then, on the horizon, you might spot something that looks a little odd.<\/p>\n

\"something<\/p>\n

Watch it for a while and you’ll notice that, unlike the other craft that you can see, it isn’t moving. Take a closer look.<\/p>\n

\"looks<\/p>\n

What the heck is that?<\/p>\n

Well, the clue is just to your right at the Sovereign Light Caf\u00e9<\/a>. You’re looking at the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse<\/a>, which, remarkably, guides ships around some particularly unpleasant shoals with nothing more than a 35 watt halogen lamp, presumably not much different from those security lamps that you can get from B&Q. So, if you’re planning to build your own lighthouse at home, all you need is a suitable concave mirror to focus the beam and a security lamp, and Robert is your Mum’s brother.<\/p>\n

As for the lighthouse, it’s been rented out<\/a>\u00a0(click for nice piccies). Apparently, Trinity House considered switching it off as modern craft have satnav and GPS or whatever and don’t really need the lighthouse to find their way around the shoals. Except that they realised that, if they switched it off, there would be this huge concrete thing in the middle of the Channel that might be a bit of a hazard to shipping. So, there it stays, flashing away every 20 seconds, night and day, 365 days a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you look out over the English Channel from the De La Warr Pavilion, you’ll probably see some ships, yachts, dinghies, windsurfers\u00a0and the odd fishing craft making their way up and down and across the water. Then, on the horizon, you might spot something that looks a little odd. Watch it for a while and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture","category-east-sussex","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}