Normandy Lighthouse Bike Ride Photograph by Norma Brandsberg

Normandy Lighthouse Bike Ride

by Norma Brandsberg

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Title

Normandy Lighthouse Bike Ride

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

After spending a few nights around Etretat on the Normandy, English Channel coastline, we headed west, our first stop the Phare Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse with poppy fields. The cliffs around the lighthouse are fabulous. I was hesitant to get too close to the cliffs. They are made of limestone, the same as the white cliffs of Dover, and are soft and prone to slides. I wanted to make sure I was not part of the peeling off process.

The nearby lighthouse is surrounded by wheat fields and red peonies.

This area is part of what is known as the French Côte d'Albâtre (Alabaster coast) of the English Channel, in Seine-Maritime district.

The need for a lighthouse on the Cap d’Antifer, was identified in 1889, primarily to aid navigation to the entrance Le Havre. It was suggested that it should have a powerful light source, similar to that used for other landfall lighthouses, as the existing light at Fécamp was inadequate in this respect.

In 1890, the Commission des Phares made the decision to construct the lighthouse, with a tower height of 26m, and a focal plane of 120m, and it was completed in 1894.

It continued in operation through to the Second World War, until German soldiers demolished the entire lighthouse and the optic as they withdrew at the end of Occupation of France in late summer 1944.

After the war a temporary pole light was erected, with construction of the current lighthouse beginning in 1949. Completed in 1955, it has a 38 m high octagonal concrete tower with fluted sides, with a focal height of 128m. Rather than building it in the same spot as the old light, the site was moved back 30m away from the eroding cliff edge.

My original photograph has been edited with a textured finish for a bit more abstract and painting feel.

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