reopening to the public after a two-year restoration
Tickets through the Heritage Trust from the start of May.
The Cape Tregarne light was lit on the evening of the third of December in eighteen eighty-one. The keepers' cottages were finished a year later. For ninety-six years the light burned every night, save for two stretches during wartime when the lamp was covered and the keeper's wife sent up a lantern instead. The light was electrified in nineteen fifty-three; in nineteen seventy-seven Trinity House transferred the lighthouse to the Heritage Trust and it became a museum.
"On a fair night the beam can be seen from St Mary's; on a fouler night it is heard, in the gulls' answer, before it is seen."— K. Pellew, keeper's record, 12 November 1922
The current restoration began in the spring of twenty twenty-five, after a winter storm exposed weakness in the south façade. We have replaced the lantern's glass with hand-blown panes from Wiltshire, restored the brass clockwork (which still drives a mechanical fog signal once a season), and reopened the keepers' parlour to the public for the first time since seventy-two.
— six photographs from the lighthouse's hundred and forty-five years —
Tickets go on sale on the morning of May the first, through the Heritage Trust booking office. Members of the Trust may book a week in advance.