TheLocalYokel
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I've never been a great fan of tv drama and I didn't watch Shoestring regularly but I seem to remember a red lightship featured. Did he not live on it? It was moored at Welsh Back near Bristol Bridge adjacent to what I think was a building used by BT which doubled as the local radio station in the series. The site is now occupied by the Mercure Brigstow Hotel.Always remember 1 episode with the castle of comfort pub up on the mendips.They came out the pub and across the car park trough a gate and they were on the beach. That said gate is still there to this day.
An old red lightship has been moored for many years at Bathurst Basin near the former General Hospital (now converted into apartments). I suspect it might be the one that was used in the Shoestring series.