Please ignore...duplicated. I have already written a review on Souter lighthouse and this has been posted in error. Good place to visit but previous review was written weeks ago. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore...duplicated. I have already written a review on Souter lighthouse and this has been posted in error. Good place to visit but previous review was written weeks ago. Please ignore and don't rate. Please ignore and ...  Read the complete review

Whitburn Village is located on the North East coast two miles south of South Shields and three miles north of Sunderland; it is a lovely village, winner of the Britain in Bloom award and one of the outlying villages in South Tyneside. Just off the coast from Whitburn there is an underwater reef called Whitburn Steel and in the past the reef has sunk many ships. At one time the locals used to site false lights to lure ships on to the rocks so that they could recover the cargo. As the towns around the area grew and prospered shipping increased in the area and something had to be done to combat both human and natural hazards for shipping, it was decided to build a ...  Read the complete review

OK, so the joke would have worked better if I was called Alice. Or indeed if anyone on my trip had been called Alice. But how else was I going to convince anyone they wanted to read about a lighthouse in Sunderland??? Yes, I know what you're all thinking - I wasn't especially excited about the prospect of visiting Souter Lighthouse at first either, but trust me, this is a surprisingly good day out. I visited Souter last November with a small group of people from my museums course - it was out of season, so we had the place to ourselves and the undivided attention of the (very very nice) property manager (thanks Nick, much appreciated!). Souter ...  Read the complete review