Editing Eddystone Lighthouse (section)

== References in media ==
[[File:"The Signal-hoist for the Eddystone Lighthouse, B.D.T.F." (figure 325), from- The Flags of the World Plate 24 (cropped).png|thumb|324x324px|right|Signal-hoist for the Eddystone Light, B.D.T.F. from book, ''[[c:Category:The Flags of the World (book)|The Flags of the World]]'', 1896|alt=]]
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*The lighthouse inspired a [[sea shanty]], frequently recorded, that begins "My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light / He courted a [[mermaid]] one fine night / From this union there came three / A [[porpoise]] and a [[Sparidae|porgy]] and the other was me!".<ref name=shanty>{{cite web |url=http://ingeb.org/songs/mefather.html |title=The Eddystone Light |access-date=11 April 2008 }}</ref> There are several verses.
*The lighthouse has been used as a metaphor for stability.<ref name=globe>[[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]] commented that Canada's foundations were as "strong as the foundations of Eddystone" in ''The Globe'', 31 October 1864, 4.</ref>
*In the ''[[Goon Show]]'' episode ''Ten Snowballs that shook the World'' (1958), [[Neddie Seagoon]] is sent to Eddystone Lighthouse to warn the inhabitants that [[Pound sterling|Sterling]] has dropped from F-sharp to E-flat.
*The lighthouse is celebrated in the opening and closing movements of [[Ron Goodwin]]'s ''Drake 400 Suite.'' The movement's main theme was directly inspired by the lighthouse's unique [[light characteristic]].<ref name=drake>CD insert, "British Light Music: Ron Goodwin. 633 Squadron, Drake 400 Suite, and others. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Ron Goodwin, conductor." Marco Polo CD 8.223518</ref>
*A novel based on the building of Smeaton's lighthouse, containing many details of the construction, was published in 2005.<ref name=severn>{{cite book |last=Severn |first=Christopher |title=Smeaton's Tower |year=2005 |publisher=Seafarer Books |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk |isbn=0-9542750-9-8 }}</ref>
*The lighthouse is referenced twice in [[Herman Melville]]'s epic novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]''; at the beginning of Chapter 14, "Nantucket": "How it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse.", and in Chapter 133, "The Chase – First Day": "So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud."
*The lighthouse is referred to in "Daddy was a Ballplayer" by the Canadian band Stringband, and follows a similar line to the sea shanty.
*"The Most Famous of All Lighthouses," the third chapter of ''The Story of Lighthouses'' (Norton 1965) by [[Mary Ellen Chase]], is devoted to the Eddystone Lighthouse.
*Eddystone Lighthouse was used for many of the exterior shots in ''[[The Phantom Light]]'', a 1935 film directed by [[Michael Powell]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://governmentcheese.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11:beacons-in-the-dark-lighthouse-iconography-in-wartime-british-cinema&catid=11&Itemid=111|title=Beacons in the Dark: Lighthouse Iconography in Wartime British Cinema (1941-1942)|website=governmentcheese.ca|accessdate=29 July 2024}}</ref>
*The English pop group [[Edison Lighthouse]] took its name from it. Later, 'Lighthouse' was discarded, and they renamed themselves 'Edison'.
*An 1850 replica of Smeaton's lighthouse, [[Hoad Monument]], stands above the town of [[Ulverston]], [[Cumbria]] as a memorial to naval administrator [[Sir John Barrow]].