The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) is a voluntary organisation set up in 1994 to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed down due to Government cuts. When two Cornish fisherman lost their lives off the Cornish coast below the recently closed lookout, local people decided to restore the visual watch and the first station opened at Bass Point, on the Lizard.          (photo below by Alan Fry 1200hrs 7th February 2007)

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