Clonbrook Lighthouse

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Chance Brothers Lighthouse Chance Brothers Lighthouse
  • Date of lens manufacture
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  • Date of lighthouse construction
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  • Country

    Guyana

  • Commissioning body
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  • Order of lens
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  • Fixed or revolving lens
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  • Active/Inactive

    Inactive

  • Describe the character of light
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  • Describe the lighthouses daymarks

    Skeleton tower painted yellow.

  • Which aspects of the lighthouse (other than the lens) were manufactured by Chance brothers
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  • Describe the history of the lighthouse

    Date unknown. Inactive since about 2010. Listed as a 26 m (85 ft) skeletal tower, painted yellow. This tower has been abandoned. Amanda Richards has a 2013 photo and https://www.flickr.com/photos/36468821@N02/8377976843

    Google has a satellite view. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=6.731456,-57.948289&spn=0.001825,0.002701&z=19

    Located on the Atlantic coast about 25 km (15 mi) southeast of Georgetown. Site status unknown.

  • Current management body/ ports authority

    Guyana Transport and Harbours Department

  • Historical preservation societies/manager/operator
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  • Is the site vulnerable to coastal erosion?
    no
  • Have you experienced any affects of climate change on the lighthouse?
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  • Observations on the condition of the lighthouse?
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  • Is the site open/closed to the public

    Open

  • Is the tower open/closed to the public

    Closed

  • Latitude and Longitude

    Longtitude -57.948278, Latitude 6.731528

  • On-site bookable accommodation available
    no
  • Associated web addresses
  • Other details

    ex-Admiralty J6852; ex-NGA 17312.

  • Which resources did you use to research this lighthouses?
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Inactive Chance Lens Inactive Chance Lens
  • When was the lens deactivated?

    2010


In the 1800s, Chance Brothers & Co glassworks in Smethwick began making the hi-tech lenses that lighthouses use to warn ships of dangerous locations. By 1951, over 2,500 lighthouses around the world were fitted with a Chance lens.

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