Actually this was not a nautical COLLEGE. It was an "Approved School" for young offenders, with a nautical theme, having been originally built around 1900 to replace the old wooden-wall "HMS Formidable" which had been anchored off Portishead. It has now been refurbished as private residential flats.
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As mikeygee said, it's not a lighthouse, just an arty "feature" of the housing development on the old Portishead power station site.
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Actually this was not a nautical COLLEGE. It was an "Approved School" for young offenders, with a nautical theme, having been originally built around 1900 to replace the old wooden-wall "HMS Formidable" which had been anchored off Portishead. It has now been refurbished as private residential flats.
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