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Geography almost right JK, The naval dockyard is about 6 miles south of the lights and just out of shot. To the right of the two bright blue lights and in front of the row of lights is one of HM's overcrowded holiday camps, HMP, Haverigg sited on the old WWII airfield which during and a little after the was was kept supplied by my father with vitals and expendables from the RASC at Preston Barracks. I understood that the airfield was used as a short term refugee camp towards the end of the war, and gradually morphed into a prison.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Haverigg
The lagoon in front of the two bright blue lights was an Iron ore mine, which in it's day produced some of the best hematite ore in the world, I am told tunnels from that pit went up to 6 miles out under the sea but the cost of pumping outweighed the returns on the ore, so despite there being a vast reserve to good ore under there they switched off the pumps and we probably now import the iron.
http://www.millomrockpark.org.uk/html/millom__mining___money.html
The lagoon is now a nature reserve.
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Robert.