Built in 1895, Rattray Head Lighthouse illuminates a bleak part of the shore just 10 miles south of Fraserburgh.
During the Second World War in 1941, an enemy plane circled the lighthouse and dropped three bombs, one of which didn’t explode. Luckily, no one was injured in the attack and the lighthouse wasn’t seriously damaged.
The lighthouse keepers were withdrawn when Rattray Head was automated in 1982, but the tower continues to stand on the north-easternmost point of the coastline.
Here, Jade Flannery, a museum assistant at Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, tells us more about the lighthouse and its lens apparatus.
Two-Minute Masterpiece is a series featuring the north-east’s art treasures. Telling the stories of these works – and sharing their love for them – are the people who see them every day, the staff at the galleries or museums where they are held.