Farne Islands
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The Farne Islands are a group of islands in the civil parish of North Sunderland, off the coast of Northumberland, England. The group has between 15 and 20 islands depending on the level of the tide.
Inner Farne and its lighthouse: White bird droppings stain the cliff.
St Cuthbert's Chapel
Longstone lighthouse in the Farnes from where Grace Darling and her father launched their rescue. (The lighthouse would not have been painted red and white in Grace Darling's day).
Ruined base of the lighthouse on Staple Island
Grace Darling
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Grace Horsley Darling was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame. The paddlesteamer ra
Farne Islands
…building of four bays". The remains of a second chapel have been incorporated into a later building. The Farne Islands are associated with the story of Grace Darling and the wreck of the Forfarshire. Grace Darling was the daughter of Longstone lighthouse-keeper (one of the islands' lighthouses) William Darling, and…
Portrait by Thomas Musgrave Joy, 1839
Lighthouse at Longstone: The upper window in the white ring was Grace Darling's bedroom, from which she saw the wreckage of the Forfarshire.
Grace Darling at the Forfarshire by Thomas Musgrave Joy
The replica headstone above the grave of Grace Darling and her family, St Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh. The weathered original is on display at the RNLI Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh.