Weymouth In Old Postcards and Photographs

Searchlight Display

Until I came across this card I had forgotten these displays so much a feature of Summer Evenings
in the late '40s and early '50s

The Searchlights were located on the Nothe, around Portland Harbour Breakwater and aboard Naval Vessels in Portland Harbour or out in the bay.

I can recall their sweeping movements,how ironic that these lights which were originally meant to
protect went on to provide entertainment.