Editing Leasowe Lighthouse (section)

==Construction==

The lighthouse is a tapering cylindrical design that is one hundred and one feet tall with cavity walls that are several feet thick and a plain balcony.<ref name="auto"/> The construction used 660,000 hand-made bricks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/10474520.Step_back_in_time_to_celebrate_Leasowe_Lighthouse_s_250th_anniversary/ |title=Step back in time to celebrate Leasowe Lighthouse's 250th anniversary|website=Wirral Globe}}</ref> It has seven floors. The original wooden staircase was replaced in 1898,<ref name="wirralhistory.com"/> with one made of cast iron that has one hundred and thirty steps.<ref name="archive.org"/> The light was originally coal-fired, but in 1772 changed to oil burning.<ref name="mycetes.co.uk1"/> [[Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)|Robert Stevenson]] said in 1801, while on his lighthouse tour, that the tower had "one reflector of silvered glass 7½ feet in diameter and 13 inches focal distance".<ref name="mycetes.co.uk1"/> Later, in 1861, it was reportedly equipped with eight [[Argand lamp]]s and [[parabolic reflectors|reflectors]]. It was staffed by a keeper and an assistant, who resided in the tower.<ref name="RC1861">{{cite web | title = Lighthouse management : the report of the Royal Commissioners on Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, 1861, examined and refuted Vol. 2 | pages = 328–329 | url = https://archive.org/stream/lighthousemanage02blak#page/328/mode/2up }}</ref>