The Last Lighthouse Keeper

 http://www.fairisle.org.uk/FIT/1998/April/18th/18th.htm

Thanks to one of our members for drawing our attention to another BBC Radio 4 broadcast with a Stromness connection. The episode of the obituary programme Last Word, broadcast on Friday 31st May, featured the late Angus Hutchison - Stromness resident, former Islands Councillor and the last Principal Lighthouse Keeper in Scotland - who sadly died in March this year. 

The programme features archive recordings of Angus speaking about the automation of the Fair Isle South lighthouse, the last Northern Lighthouse Board manned lighthouse to be automated, and his role as the last principal lighthouse keeper in Scotland. The programme also speaks to Angus's daughter Gail.

You can listen to to the programme on the BBC iPlayer here.

Princess Anne with the LAST SHIFT at FAIR ISLE SOUTH LIGHTHOUSE
Keepers ANGUS HUTCHISON,
JIM WATT and ALAN CHAMBERLAIN with Angus' wife YVONNE. http://www.fairisle.org.uk/FIT/1998/April/18th/18th.htm

The Fair Isle Times edition of 18th April 1998 is available online and includes a piece on the last shift at Fair Isle South, when Princess Anne visited the lighthouse to mark the change over to automation.

http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/automation.htm