Whitby Lighthouse and 'Mad Bull'

The lighthouse at Ling Hill, Whitby, filmed on the evening of 22 April 2007. The fog horn (known as the Whitby Mad Bull) gave 4 blasts every 90 seconds. Although it was switched off in 1987, I have dubbed on a sound effect of it. The sound is not good quality as it was recorded some way from the fog horn. If you have a better one- pleaes get in touch!

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• whitby
• lighthouse
• foghorn
• fog
• hawsker

[CapeFearlighthouse]

You wouldn't want to stand in front of the diaphone here where I live! It will blow your f*****g eardrums up!

[hellooldchap]

@CapeFearlighthouse Back in 1986 when I was little, there was a sign put up by a farmer I guess telling people to stay away in Fog. A cow once died at St Catherines when the fog horn went off there!

[Umpqua1012]

I have a better recording; you can just hear it echo after each blast.

[hellooldchap]

@Umpqua1012 So have I since I made the vid! This is one of the best siren ones.

[Minifig666]

Where is the fog horn that serves Whitby now? I haven't herd it running much over the winter.

[hellooldchap]

@Minifig666 The one in this video was switched off in the 80s. There is a small thing that beeps on the end of the harbour pier.

[CapeFearlighthouse]

We had a pair of these nasty sirens about 3 hours away. But they were so loud; the people asked to have a less noisy foghorn installed! So; the nasty sirens came down and a smaller diaphone was installed. The diaphone still serves! From what I have heard; those sirens were huge!

[WorldWideLighthouses]

@hellooldchap A cow actually died as a result of the fog horn sounding?

[CapeFearlighthouse]

@hellooldchap OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!

[38Squid]

Thank you for NOT posting this with cheezy background music. Very interesting sounding horn.

[Umpqua1012]

This foghorn scares me! The close up recording I have scares me even more!

[jane1975]

@Umpqua1012 : I agree that they are puny, but they are better than nothing at all-I grew up with the foghorn at Newhaven harbour which was electric and would sometimes be on for days due to the sea frets we would get-no its silent and has been since 2003 :'( the loudest Tannoy I think was the one at St Anns Lighthouse which is now been replaced by an electric 500 hz beep. However, its better than complete silence.

[Umpqua1012]

@LanceFishman09 Not to me it isn't !

[Umpqua1012]

@hellooldchap These electric pieces o' crap are NOWHERE as good as the old air horns and Tannoys!