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Lifted off my feet at Dunnet Head Lighthouse

Recorded 7 years ago

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Retired light-keeper Alex Smith recalls the occasion at Dunnet Head when the wind was so powerful that, I was lifted off my feet and I was running in mid-air”.

Alex spent 28 years with the Northern Lighthouse Board until automation in 1998 when he was one of the last light keepers at Cape Wrath.

This brief extract is from a Wick Voices interview recorded in October 2019, running for 22 minutes.

If you would like to hear the full version, please search our list of interviews or use the link https://www.wickheritage.org/voices_play.php?id=3010201911325054654

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Alex SmithBorn in 1941

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