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 a recently closed lookout, local people decided to restore the visual watch; and the first station opened at Bass Point, on the Lizard peninsula.          (photo below by Alan Fry 1200hrs 7th February 2007)

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