Rudyard's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Belle Sauvage Inn

Belle Sauvage Inn

The sun showing spots

11th April 1981

Home's paper relays observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the Edible-nest switlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus)

Above are two coats of arms and several figures

Rudyard's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Belle Sauvage InnDepiction of the south elevation and section of the second lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth, following the destruction in 1703 of Henry Winstanley's first version. This second lighthouse, a conical wooden structure built around a core of brick and concrete, was constructed under the management of the silk merchant and property developer John Rudyard (or Rudyerd; 1650 ca. 1718). It was completed in 1709 and destroyed by a fire