Introduction
History
Pictures
Coastal Erosion
The Future
Location
Contact
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Welcome to the
Belle Toute Lighthouse Information Resource
(Formerly the Belle Toute Lighthouse Preservation Trust)
The trust was formed in 2007 by Rob Wassell in the
hope of raising money to buy and acquire the old
lighthouse at Beachy Head to open it as a tourist
attraction and bed and breakfast.
After much publicity and a relative amount of success,
unfortunately the trust lost out to a private buyer in
April 2008.
This website remains a record of what we tried to
achieve and a testament to a unique building with heaps
of character that resides in one of the most beautiful
locations in the entire kingdom.
Please visit the rest of the site for more information
on the Belle Toute Lighthouse, what's in a name, what
the future holds for the old lighthouse, information on
erosion, facts and figures and much more. If you're
looking for the official website of the
Belle Tout Lighthouse Hotel click here.
About the trust and its original plans
If you would like to find out more information about the
original trust and what its plans were for Belle Toute
then find out more about the Trust.
A great big thank you
We would like to thank everyone who was involved to help
us get to where we did, we couldn't have done it without
you. We would like these people who have helped us
be known and you can find out more on the
thank you page.
The Builder Boys Charity Calendar
I was the official photographer and designer for the
calendar to support Everyman for Cancer Research. Find
out more from the
Belle Tout website where you can still order copies
for this good cause where all profits go to charity.
The Collaborative Project
I am head of
The Collaborative Project which helped Belle Tout
with the promotion of the calendar. We have some
interesting projects and one running at the moment is 'The
Story', encouraging the public to take part in
writing an unfolding story. Its just for fun and anyone
can take part.
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The Belle Tout Hotel
If you're looking for the official website for the
Belle Tout Hotel Click Here.
Belle Tout on TV
The lighthouse featured on Channel 5's Build a New
Life,
click here to watch.
Fascinating fact
Pharology (named after Pharos, the famed lighthouse of
Alexandria) is the study of lighthouses and signal
lights. Those who study lighthouses are known as
pharologists Origins of Belle Toute
Would you like to know where the name
Belle Toute
comes from? An eroding coastline
Did you know that the fragile chalk cliffs are
eroding at an average rate of 60 centimetres per
year!
Pictures and photos
Rob Wassell is a keen
photographer and has also been collecting old
pictures and postcards of Belle Toute and Beachy
Head.
Photography
If you would like to hire me to help with a project, Contact
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