Cloch (you need to be a Scot - or maybe German - to be able to get the "och" properly!) comes from the Gaelic word for stone.
Cloch Point is famous for its lighthouse.
Just south of Gourock and north of Inverkip. On the firth of Clyde.
Dunoon is right across the Clyde.
Just south of Gourock and north of Inverkip. On the firth of Clyde.
Dunoon is right across the Clyde.
It is a well-known landmark for many who left Scotland to emigrate to around the world - and a welcome sight for travellers returning to Scotland.As a kid I remember going doon the waater to Rothesay.We passed the Lighthouse then.
, Building was completed in 1797. There were two generations of keepers' houses, the older now used as stores and the more recent having crow-stepped gables. The short circular-section tower has a corbelled walkway and triangular windows. The foghorns were added between 1895 and 1897.
The light was built by John Clarkson (engineer); Kermack and Gall built the tower, while Smith and Stevenson installed the oil lantern which was first lit on 11 August 1797. About 1900, it was lit with acetylene. A radio beacon was installed about 1931.
The lenses floated in baths of mercury, and were rotated by a clockwork mechanism powered by falling weights. The keepers had to wind the mechanism by hand every two to three hours. Today, the light is fully automated and unmanned and the main light has been replaced by a light on a pole outside the lantern room..
, Building was completed in 1797. There were two generations of keepers' houses, the older now used as stores and the more recent having crow-stepped gables. The short circular-section tower has a corbelled walkway and triangular windows. The foghorns were added between 1895 and 1897.
The light was built by John Clarkson (engineer); Kermack and Gall built the tower, while Smith and Stevenson installed the oil lantern which was first lit on 11 August 1797. About 1900, it was lit with acetylene. A radio beacon was installed about 1931.
The lenses floated in baths of mercury, and were rotated by a clockwork mechanism powered by falling weights. The keepers had to wind the mechanism by hand every two to three hours. Today, the light is fully automated and unmanned and the main light has been replaced by a light on a pole outside the lantern room..