Joy and Patrick Tubby, who live in England, have both been passionate about lighthouses for a long time. In fact, they were engaged and married at lighthouses. Joy wrote the first edition of her book Lighthouse Accommodation Britain and Worldwide back in 1999, and the book has been updated several times.
Joy is an active volunteer and Trust secretary for the Happisburgh Lighthouse, the UK’s only privately operated working lighthouse. She is also an active volunteer for the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, or ALK. And she also manages an extensive website at lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk.
Joy’s husband Patrick has been chairman of the Happisburgh Lighthouse Trust for nearly 20 years, and is an active volunteer for the Friends of Happisburgh Lighthouse. He’s the East Anglia regional representative for the ALK.
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U.S. Lighthouse Society Historian Jeremy D’Entremont is the author of 24 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history. He is a past president of the American Lighthouse Foundation and founder of Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses, and he has lectured and narrated cruises throughout the Northeast and in other regions. He is also the producer and host of the U.S. Lighthouse Society’s weekly podcast, “Light Hearted.” He can be emailed at Jeremy@uslhs.org