#SmeatonsTower in #Plymouth named for #JohnSmeaton, known as the father of civil engineering
Painted on a #VintageMap from 1972
Prints on request
#ElevensesHour #MHHSBD #Devon #Lighthouse

Plymouth Hoe at night, #Plymouth #Devon

• “Smeaton’s Tower” - #JohnSmeaton - former Eddystone lighthouse. 1759
• “Plymouth Dome - former museum & visitor’s centre, now eatery. 1988
• Lights of a ship at anchor in Plymouth Sound.

Late (or early 😉) for #PharosFriday

3rd #Eddystone Lighthouse, 1757

Model made by Josias Jessop (of #Devonport), two years before the third Eddystone lighthouse by #JohnSmeaton was completed.

Jessop oversaw the main building work on the rock off #Plymouth #Devon

Now National Museum of Scotland #Edinburgh

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#PharosFriday

👀 Hoe landmarks, #Plymouth #Devon

• “Look II” #statue - #AnthonyGormley 2020
• “The Belvedere” - where the pier met the Hoe. 1891
• Naval War Memorial - #RobertLorimer 1924
• “Smeaton’s Tower” - #JohnSmeaton - former Eddystone lighthouse. 1759
• Hoe Lido - swimming pool. 1935

#LocalHistory #Art

#plymouth #BritainsOceanCity #PlymouthUK #PlymouthHoe #SmeatonsTower #JohnSmeaton #lighthouse 1759 #grade1Listed

A Boxing Day walk and you come across a 17th century house that belonged to the family of the great civil engineer. John Smeaton. Sometimes called the father of civil engineering.
#Leeds #johnsmeaton #EddystoneLighthouse

Die von John Smeaton erbaute Brücke über den Tweed bei Cold­stream in Schottland von 1766.

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#johnsmeaton #xylographie #damals #brücke #brücken #zeitreisen

John Smeaton
• Zeitschrift für Architektur und Ingenieurwesen • September 1900 •
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#johnsmeaton #eddystone #biografie #historischertext #geschichte #damals #leuchtturm #leuchttürme #leuchtfeuer #seezeichen #zeitreisen