Light Hearted 343: Joy and Patrick Tubby, Happisburgh Lighthouse, UK

About this episode

Joy and Patrick Tubby discuss their passion for lighthouses and their involvement with Happisburgh Lighthouse.

Joy and Patrick Tubby, who live in England, have both been passionate about lighthouses for a long time. In fact, they were engaged and married at lighthouses. Joy wrote the first edition of her book Lighthouse Accommodation Britain and Worldwide back in 1999, and the book has been updated several times. Joy is an active volunteer and Trust secretary for the Happisburgh Lighthouse , the UK’s only privately operated working lighthouse. She is also an active volunteer for the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, or ALK . And she also manages an extensive website at lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk . Joy and Patrick Tubby at Skerryvore Lighthouse (lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk) Joy’s husband Patrick has been chairman of the Happisburgh Lighthouse Trust for nearly 20 years, and is an active volunteer for the Friends of Happisburgh Lighthouse. He’s the East Anglia regional representative for the ALK. Happisburgh Lighthouse, USLHS archives

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy D'Entremont

Guests: Joy Tubby, Patrick Tubby

Topics covered

• lighthouses
• volunteering
• travel
• literature
• history

Keywords

• lighthouses
• Happisburgh
• volunteering
• lighthouse accommodation
• UK

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Happisburgh Lighthouse, Association of Lighthouse Keepers, lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk

Places: Happisburgh Lighthouse, UK, East Anglia

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