The sea is a muted grey, with two vast container ships at rest near its meeting with a paler sky. His body hung from a gibbet on this spit of land where steps lead down to a causeway, access between tides to St Mary’s Lighthouse. The lighthouse, completed in 1898, was however decommissioned by Trinity House in 1984, rendered unnecessary by modern navigational techniques. Facebook Twitter Pinterest St Mary’s Lighthouse at Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, UK was decommissioned in 1984. There’s a cluster of whistling and wheezing starlings dotted over the rounded lighthouse roof like currants on a bun.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 05:26 UTC