Una vista generale della stazione di Foghorn, costruita dalla Trinity House nel 1906 sull'isola di Flat Holm nel canale di Bristol. L'edificio del Foghorn e' un edificio classificato di grado II. La sirena era originariamente alimentata da un motore diesel, che diede due blast in rapida successione a intervalli di due minuti che potevano essere chiaramente ascoltati da persone che vivono sulle coste gallesi e inglesi. Flat Holm (gallese: Ynys Echni) è un'isola calcarea nel canale di Bristol a circa 6 km da Lavernock Point nella vale di Glamorgan, ma nella città e nella contea di Cardiff. Comprende il punto più meridionale di
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A general view of the Foghorn Station, built by Trinity House in 1906 on Flat Holm island in the Bristol Channel. The foghorn building is a Grade II listed building. The siren was originally powered by a diesel engine, which gave two blasts in quick succession at two-minute intervals that could be clearly heard by people living on both Welsh and English coasts. Flat Holm (Welsh: Ynys Echni) is a limestone island in the Bristol Channel approximately 6 km (4 miles) from Lavernock Point in the Vale of Glamorgan, but in the City and County of Cardiff. It includes the most southerly point of Wales. The island has a long history of occupation, dating at least from Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods. Religious uses include visits by disciples of Saint Cadoc in the 6th century, and in 1835 it was the site of the foundation of the Bristol Channel Mission, which later became the Mission to Seafarers. A sanatorium for cholera patients was built in 1896 as the isolation hospital for the port of Cardiff. Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first wireless signals over open sea from Flat Holm to Lavernock. Because of frequent shipwrecks a lighthouse was built on the island, which was replaced by a Trinity House lighthouse in 1737. Because of its strategic position on the approaches to Bristol and Cardiff a series of gun emplacements, known as Flat Holm Battery, were built in the 1860s as part of a line of defences, known as Palmerston Forts. On the outbreak of World War II, the island was rearmed. It is now managed by Cardiff Council's Flat Holm Project Team and designated as a Local Nature Reserve, Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Protection Area, because of the maritime grassland and rare plants such as Rock Sea-Lavender and Wild Leek. The island also has significant breeding colonies of Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull and Great Black-backed Gull. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday February, 16, 2013. Photo credit should read: Ben Bir
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