Alan Lawless
Alan belongs to: Souter Lighthouse
Alan was born in South Shields. He is the House Steward at Souter Lighthouse. His role includes looking after visitors and maintaining the light and machinery.
Alan was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 2 March 2006. The interview took place at Souter Lighthouse and lasted 5 minutes and 58 seconds.
Role at Souter
"I like to think as, people usually ask me, “what do you do?”"
I like to think as, people usually ask me, “what do you do?” My title is a house steward- people don’t know what that is. I work in the lighthouse, so I say I’m a lighthouse keeper. I do everything really, apart from put the light on every night. But now it involves, there’s a lot of business we have here, 27,000 last year, so my role is to make sure the maintenance is right, the place, the lighthouse is clean, the machine’s working, interact with the public, just tell them anything they want to know if I’ve got it, so I do a bit of everything, really.
Alan has 11 memories in the memorynet:
Starting at Souter
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Roles and Routines | Skills | Work
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