Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Brian Johnson Lighthouse Keeper

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

BRIAN JOHNSON LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER (R3x32) 3C set Alison M Robertson and Peter Gellatly, 2019

1- 8 1s+2s+3s cross RH and set; 2L+1s and 2M+3s dance ½ RSh reels of 3 across. All end in original places
9-16 All set and link twice to end on opposite sides. (3)(2)(1)
17-24 3s+2s dance ½ R&L while 1s cross LH and set; 2s+3s+1s turn partners RH
25-32 2s+2s+1s circle 6H round and back

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


Dance Information

Brian Johnson is the retained lighthouse keeper at Sumburgh Head lighthouse, Shetland and spent the many years restoring the foghorn apparatus which last sounded in 1987.

Sumburgh Head lighthouse was built in 1830 on the site of an earlier promontory fort.

Sumburgh Head lighthouse
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse


Published in https://minicrib.org.uk/Publications/Brian Johnson Lighthouse Keeper.pdf.
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