Stevenson’s Bell Rock lighthouse is shining bright again off Angus coast

The light of the Bell Rock is burning bright again off the Angus coast.

Around three weeks after a fault plunged the light into darkness, engineers have completed a fix.

And they managed to get the job done just before Storm Barra swept in.

The Bell Rock sits 11 miles off Arbroath.

It is the world’s oldest sea-washed lighthouse still in operation.

But last month a technical problem put the 211-year-old beacon out of action.

The Northern Lighthouse Board said the repair operation required a helicopter to land on the concrete pad at the base of the lighthouse.

But it needed a combination of low-tide, daylight and benign weather conditions.

The lighthouse remained blacked out during the ferocity of Storm Arwen as it battered the east coast.

Ships were warned of the

fault through an official Notice to Mariners issued through the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

However, the weather window required for the repair arrived at the beginning of this week.

A Northern Lighthouse Board spokesperson said: “Our technicians were there on Monday, a day later than planned due to the weather.

“And the light is now functioning again.

“They were off the Bell

safely yesterday morning before Storm Barra hit.”

Robert Stevenson’s structure is considered one of the wonders of the industrial world.

It is 115 feet tall and the light is visible from 35 miles.

It took three years to complete the complex feat of engineering, which first shone in 1810.

The Bell Rock was manned by lighthouse keepers until being fully automated in the 1980s.

The Bell Rock lighthouse is shining again.