Ernie Coulthard
Ernie belongs to: Souter Lighthouse
Ernie was born in Gosforth, Newcastle. He served his apprenticeship at Vickers Armstrong at Elswick in the gun shops. After retiring Ernie began volunteering at Souter Lighthouse where he has a particular interest in the lighthouse's engineering.
Ernie was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 2 March 2006. The interview took place at Souter Lighthouse and lasted 10 minutes and 49 seconds.
Favourite part of Souter
"Well, I feel closest to the tower because it’s more, it’s impressive, but for my view, the engine rooms is equally as impressive "
Well, I feel closest to the tower because it’s more, it’s impressive, but for my view, the engine rooms is equally as impressive as the tower. In the engine room you’ve got equipment there which is very old, it still works, it’s the original equipment, some of it’s the original equipment, and then you’ve got the latter day equipment, such as the compressors and generators and the likes of that.
But we’ve got the original carbon arc light, which in it’s time was cutting edge technology, 1871 carbon arc light driven by AC electricity, it was cutting edge technology. And we have a clockwork mechanism which the engineering of it is absolutely superb. So these things fascinate me, and you transport all of that up into the tower, and the engineering in the tower, and you have first class Victorian and Edwardian engineering.
Ernie has 8 memories in the memorynet:
Ernie's memories with a Volunteering theme:
Starting volunteering at Souter- Role at Souter
- Favourite part of Souter
- Social events
Ernie's other memories:
The engineroom at SouterThis memory has these themes:
Equipment | Volunteering
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