Casquet Lighthouse

Added by Sheila Freeman

Located under Photos & pictures

Story behind the treasure: My treasure was my Grandmother’s – a painting of the Casquet Lighthouse, 6 miles off Alderney in the Channel Islands, and home to her great grandfather, lighthouse keeper for nearly 20 years, and his family. The untutored painting accurately shows details of vessels around the rock, and was probably by his son in about 1850. It is now on my wall. It reminds me of how his daughter, my great great grandmother, visited Alderney and said it had many people and was “very busy”, a tale illustrated on 1991 postage stamps. She was glad to return to the Casquet Rock!