But 200 years since it was built, the Bell Rock Lighthouse is still standing, still working, and still an icon of Scottish engineering. And from next week, the celebrations begin.
It was built by men of genius in a place where people had never dared to go and has been lashed by the fiercest storms the North Sea can throw at it.
But 200 years since it was built, the Bell Rock Lighthouse is still standing, still working, and still an icon of Scottish engineering. And from next week, the celebrations begin.