North Queensferry Lighthouse

This was a fantastic project that meant working on a great piece of Scotland’s engineering history and indeed Scotland’s national history. North Queensferry Lighthouse was constructed between 1810 and 1813 under the direction of celebrated Scots engineer John Rennie.

John Rennie's North Queensferry tower, a mere 20ft tall, was built to guide the ferries that used to ply the Forth between North and South Queensferry and has been dark since the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964.

The lighthouse had survived amazingly over its near 200 year history, but was in need of repair. Ballantine Bo’ness carefully removed the lantern tower back to our works where it was cleaned to base metal and investigations were made. We made new patterns for two of the windows and cast them in addition to refitting and painting the structure. The project was completed successfully, on time and budget, and was seen across Scotland by watchers of Reporting Scotland  who came in to film the erection of such an important historical piece of engineering.