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NARRATIVE
ON PRINT - The building with the tower, shown
in the picture, is the Bell Rock Signal Tower,
which includes a residence for the families
of the lightkeepers. The stones for the Bell
Rock Lighthouse were all prepared in a yard
in Ladyloan.
'One horse, the property of James Craw, a
labourer in Arbroath, is believed to have
drawn the entire materials required for the
building. This animal latterly became a pensioner
of the Lighthouse Commissioners, and was sent
by them to graze on the island of Inchkeith,
where it died of old age in 1813. Dr. John
Barclay, the celebrated anatomist, had its
bones collected and arranged in his museum,
which he bequeathed at his death to the Royal
College of Surgeons, and in their Museum at
Edinburgh the skeleton of the Bell Rock horse
may yet be seen.' (Notes
by George Hay, 1883)
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