Travellers’ Choice Award 2024

Travellers’ Choice Award 2024

We are thrilled to receive the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Award for 2024 – for the eleventh year in a row!! We have to say a huge thank you to all of you who have left us a review on Tripadvisor, we really appreciate the fact you took a moment out of...
Happy Birthday Robert Stevenson

Happy Birthday Robert Stevenson

On the 8th of June 1772 in Glasgow, Jean Lillie Stevenson – the wife of Alan Stevenson, a partner in a West Indies sugar trading business – gave birth to a son, Robert Stevenson. Sadly for young Robert, his father died when the boy was only two years old,...
A visitor from Japan

A visitor from Japan

This week, the Mull of Galloway Trust and the Northern Lighthouse Board have been very happy to host a visit by Mr Hideki Noguchi, the Chair of the Digital Technologies Committee of the IALA (International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse...
Keeping Time…

Keeping Time…

Many lighthouses – particularly those designed and built by Stevenson – used to have a sundial somewhere in the lighthouse grounds. The lighthouse at the Mull of Galloway was no different but the plinth holding the sundial has been empty for many a year....