Posted by Jon on June 07, 2014 at 07:43:12 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: Ransome's Sketch - Re: Beckfoot Layout posted by Peter Ceresole on June 07, 2014 at 06:42:28:
Yes, Mars was the farmhouse (was it Dick or Dot who worked through the "Mars, Martian, Morsian" justification?). The initial contact (explicitly from the Observatory, implicitly from Holly Howe) was clearly done via oil lamps (a lantern in the case of Dick and Dot), but any light source is visible from a much greater distance than that to which it will provide adequate illumination.