The Light Keeper

Ravilious

Beachy Head, 1939 is by the artist Eric Ravilious, who often visited Belle Tout and other areas of the South […]

Four hundred feet below the lighthouse, there used to be a hole dug into the chalk. More like a cave, with […]

“You’ve got all the school groups coming through today,” Shirley, who used to work at the lighthouse, once told me […]

The wheatear comes here at this time of year. It’s a small bird with a white rump, which is where […]

The year has just begun. Now I have come to Belle Tout lighthouse on the south coast of England, in […]

Sarah stands on the brink, arms open wide as if to let the wind carry her away. She’s come to […]

Peter James is the king of thrillers, a winner of the Diamond Dagger who has topped the Sunday Times charts […]

Sitting in the lantern room of the lighthouse at Belle Tout is like being in a space capsule, suspended in the […]

There is a soft pink light on the hills, as the sun goes behind the clouds half an hour early. From […]