Liverpool's Other Lighthouses

During the next hundred years Liverpool built many more lighthouses.  Although The Elder Brethren of Trinity House had been this country's lighthouse authority since Elizabethan times, all of Liverpool's lighthouses were built, manned and operated by the town itself.  More specifically, the controlling bodies were:  up to 1857, the Dock Committee, and thereafter the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.  They were indeed Liverpool's own lighthouses.

LIVERPOOL'S  LIGHTHOUSES
Leasowe lighthouse is the only original lighthouse still standing.  It was lit from 1763 until 1908.  It is now open to the public and there are conducted tours to the top, provided by The Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse.  See www.leasowelighthouse.co.uk for more information.
Bidston lighthouse was built in 1771 to replace the lower Leasowe lighthouse that collapsed after only a few years.  The replacement, built in 1873, worked until 1913.  It still stands on Bidston Hill.
Hoylake lighthouse is the remaining Upper lighthouse of a pair.  Last lit in 1886, it is now a private dwelling.  The old Lower lighthouse was lit until 1908.  It was demolished in 1921.  This pair of lighthouses replaced earlier buildings when they were erected in 1865.  The original lighthouses were erected in 1764.
New Brighton lighthouse (originally named the Rock lighthouse) was built in 1830 at the same time as the neighbouring fort.  It was to help ships through the old Rock Channel.  It is the only rock lighthouse of Liverpool's lighthouses.
Formby & Crosby lighthouses, on the Lancashire coast, were used in turns during the early part of the 19th century, depending on the disposition of the sandbanks and the available channels.  Eventually, Formby was abandoned in 1856 and demolished in 1940.  Crosby lighthouse continued until it was burned down in 1898.  The keeper, his wife and her friend, a woman from Hoylake, all died in the fire.
Lynas Point lighthouse on the island of Anglesey began, in 1781, with just a lantern in the window of a hut, but in 1845 Jesse Hartley's magnificent structure was built on the headland at the end of the Point.  Lynas is the only operational Liverpool lighthouse, but it is now automated.  It was handed over to Trinity House in 1973.
Great Ormes Head lighthouse, Llandudno, N. Wales was the last of Liverpool's lighthouses, built in 1862.  It is perched on a shelf on the north face of Great Ormes Head, 325 feet above the sea.  It is now an especially well-appointed private guest house.