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Thread #153668   Message #3600670
Posted By: Jack Campin
12-Feb-14 - 06:42 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: There IS an Inchcape rock
Subject: RE: Folklore: There IS an Inchcape rock
And Ralph Vaughan Williams spelt his name with four A's. In English (unlike American) the middle one has two syllables. (The BBC pronounces his first name Rafe, but I don't know whether he did himself - that pronunciation is now archaic).

BTW the red sandstone cliffs north of Arbroath, up to Auchmithie, are a nice walk on a sunny day.

A Google image search for "Inchcape Rock" gives you some neat pictures (including a sheet music image pointing you to a choral setting by Horace Keats, whoever he was). There is a good book about lighthouses of this period, Bella Bathurst's "The Lighthouse Stevensons".