The heroic story of a Northumberland lighthouse keeper's daughter is familiar to many from their time at school, but far fewer will have seen where her daring rescue actually happened.
In 1838, 22-year-old Grace Darling is said to have seen the wreck of the HMS Forfarshire on the rocks of the Farne Islands from her bedroom in Longstone Lighthouse, before heading out to make the rescue with her father. 63 people were onboard the ship which was travelling from Hull to Dundee when it ran into trouble.
Grace and her father rowed in a small boat to Harcar Rock, rescuing all nine of the survivors who were stranded on the rock, with Grace and her father likely reasoning that conditions were too rough for a lifeboat to make it out from Seahouses. And a unique tour leaving from Seahouses has seen visitors coming from all over the world after it was launched online last summer.
