STATION ROUTINE SOUTERPOINT LIGHTHOUSE
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
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Souter and the Leas, Tyne and Wear
NT 237351
Summary
Station Routine Souterpoint Lighthouse - a printed instruction notice of daily routines as used at Souter when it was an operating lighthouse.
Marks and inscriptions
STATION ROUTINE SOUTERPOINT LIGHTHOUSE. Odd Dates Monday- Clean lens; Tuesday- Wash engine room floor, clean brasswork and engines; Wednesday- Clean steelwork and brasswork in tower. Wash down tower. Thursday-wash out fog signal house. Clean brasswork; Friday- Clean and dust living quarters. Vacuum all carpets. Even dates Monday- hose down outside windows, tidy station grounds, wash all inside windows; Tuesday-clean out station battery room, check all battries,top up as required; Wednesday -check and clean all batteries at top of tower also all batteries in engine room, charge all batteries in engine room for four hours; Thursday- sweep and wash out office and passage ways; Friday-clean and dust living quarters, vacuum all carpets.