Neil remembers it as isolated and basic, saying: “You didn’t have a flushing toilet, it was what we call the bucket and chuck it.

“And you had to make sure which way the wind was blowing when you went out on the gallery to get rid of it.”

There was one bedroom with the three keepers in bunkbeds.

But Neil said: “There was a great camaraderie. I mean, there had to be, you were in close confinement.’’

There were moments where the job could be frightening, as Neil said: ‘’I have seen waves going right over the top of the lighthouse and you’ve had a complete blackout momentarily.

‘’When a wave that size hits the side of the tower, you’ll feel it shudder.

“But they were designed to have that give by the engineers that built them back in the 1800s, and they still stand to this day.’’