A third of its life as a museum – the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse.
- Alison Stillwell
- 7 hours ago
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse Relocation
One hundred and one years as an operational light station, and now fifty as a museum - the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse has notched up another impressive milestone. To celebrate the occasion community representatives, contributors to the rebuild, families of key figures, National Trust leaders and visitors gathered to reflect on the remarkable journey of the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse.
A photographic exhibition, covering the time prior to the dismantling through to the state of the platform on the Margaret Brock Reef today, provided a small glimpse into the enormity of the project and how it was achieved.
Although some people depicted in the photos are yet to be identified, others involved in the rebuild on the Kingston foreshore site attended the short but significant ceremony.
Evan Flint remembers attaching weighty bearers to I-beams 6m above the ground, while John Goode will never forget the task of carrying very heavy segments of prisms up the narrow stairwell. Howard Dicker and the late Geoff Clarke were busy carting material which had been deposited at Cape Jaffa, in their trucks, to the Kingston site.
The Cape Jaffa Lighthouse Committee are eager to discover if there are other locals who were directly involved in the rebuild.
National Trust of SA President, Millie Nicholls, spoke about the importance of this lighthouse to the National Trust, and Anne Daw, daughter of Verne McLaren (Chair of Kingston SE National Trust at the time) spoke about her father’s work in this project. Another daughter, Heather Ings, also attended on the day.
To mark the occasion, the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse shone its light after sunset, with many people enjoying a Night Tour to the Lantern Room and admiring the structure's spectacular appearance, having recently been painted and adorned with sparkling lights along the railings.
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