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Souter Lighthouse
The world’s first electric lighthouse (victorian) lighthouse above 2½ miles of beach, cliff and grasslands with spectacular views over Marsden Bay and the notorious currents of ‘Whitburn Steel’.
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Souter Lighthouse, Whitburn, South Shields, Tyne and Wear , United Kingdom
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