Have you ever wondered what is hidden inside lighthouses?

Pictures:

GB 1- Bell Rock (1811) in Scotland

 on the North Sea. 

And 2- Skerryvore (1844) in Scotland, 

Inner Hebrides.

The Bell Rock lighthouse also contained several newer features, such as the rotating lights alternating between red and white that were designed by the carpenter Francis Watt.

According to legend,  the legend is immortalised in The Inchcape Rock, a poem by the 19th-century poet Robert Southey, Bell Rock got its name because, in the 14th century, the Abbot of Arbroath had had a warning bell installed on it, which was stolen a year later by a Dutch pirate.

Before the construction of the lighthouse, the rock had caused many shipwrecks because, except for a few hours a day at low tide, it lies just below the surface of the sea. By the turn of the 19th century, it was estimated that, in a typical winter, as many as six ships were wrecked on the rock. 

And In one storm, seventy ships had been lost off the east coast of Scotland.

In 1799, the Masters of Trinity House in Leith determined to build a light on the Bell Rock, due to the high numbers of losses. They commissioned Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson to devise a design for a lighthouse on the Bell Rock, but the proposal was shelved.

However, after the warship HMS York was wrecked on the rock in 1804 - in 1806 approving the proposal and enabling construction to begin.