Graeme Thomson

The foghorn’s haunting hoot is a sad loss

It once saved countless sailors’ lives, but Jennifer Lucy Allan now hears in its melancholy note a Last Post for our industrial past

Jennifer Lucy Allan hears in the foghorn’s melancholy hoot a Last Post for our industrial past. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 29 May 2021

  • The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast

    Jennifer Lucy Allan

    White Rabbit, pp. 286, £16

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