11/16/2023 0 Comments Movie about lighthouse keeper![]() ![]() Was there as much masturbation as in the film? “I suppose you’re only blokes, stuck out there a month at a time some of that might have gone on.”ĭid he ever feel like bumping anyone off? “It only happened to me once,” he says. For poos, it was “bucket and chuck it” from the gallery. “There was a streak down the side of the lighthouse,” he says. The pisspot rang true, too in the Smalls, it lived outside the shared bedroom halfway up the tower, by the window. Hargreaves made ships in bottles yes, he spotted the one in the film, floating past in the drunken madness. Most keepers had hobbies he knew a couple who knitted, like Pattinson’s character. The job did attract the odd loner, people who prefer their own company.” You got the odd one now and again, as you do anywhere, I suppose. “I made some good friends and I’m still friends with them. “They were a good bunch of blokes,” says Hargreaves. After that, there were always three men on a lighthouse. Neil Hargreaves in 1987 while serving on the Longships lighthouse, off Lands End By the time the ship eventually got to him to relieve him, he had gone mad.” So he took him out and lashed the body to the gallery round the outer part of the lantern. Then, because they were overdue due to bad weather, he must have started to smell. ![]() “The other chap didn’t want the authorities to think he had bumped him off, so he kept him on the lighthouse, first inside the kitchen. It was before radio, he explains: the two keepers had no contact with the mainland and one of them died. That came about after an incident on the Smalls, a little before Hargreaves’s time in 1801, that changed lighthouse policy. His wildest, most remote posting was the Smalls Lighthouse, a granite tower perched on a rock 20 miles off the coast of Pembrokeshire, where he worked for two years – one month on, one month off, like in the film.Ī key difference, though, was that there were three of them. He could see the end coming, with automation since 1998, the UK has had no manned lighthouses. Hargreaves, originally from Lancashire, spent 16 years on lighthouses and lightships before taking voluntary redundancy in 1988 and becoming a security guard. ![]() So, er, it doesn’t reflect his own experiences? “Oh no, no, no,” he says, quickly. ![]()
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