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Harwich low lighthouse was built by John Rennie the Elder in 1818. The structure consists of a tapering 10-sided shaft made of yellow stock bricks which are currently painted white. It is similar in detail to Harwich high lighthouse but the character has changed due to the painting of the materials that clad the lighthouse. It now contains Harwich maritime museum which opens in the spring and summer months.
The Dovercourt Lighthouses are two iron framed lighthouses set about 200 metres apart at either end of a stone causeway which projects into Dovercourt Bay from the sea wall opposite the Phoenix Hotel on Marine Parade. The inner lighthouse stands to a height of 15 metres.
Caption: View of Harwich low lighthouse
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Caption: View of Harwich high lighthouse
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