Old High Street from the 1860s onwards
Recollections of a Guernsey lady, Evening Press, December 2nd, 1940. Part One.
19th century
Census 1827
Census of the Parish of St Peter Port, taken in conformity to the Ordinance of the Royal Court, dated August 20, 1827. From the Star, January 15th, 1827. Grand total: 12,132.
Shipwreck of the Fanny, January 1828
Wrecked at Jersey on New Year's Day, 1828; with Guernsey interest. The shock of this catastrophe traumatised the islanders, who were unable to help in any way despite the vessel lying just outside the harbour; the suffering of the passengers and crew was visible to those waiting for them on the quays, and eventually led to the introduction of a Jersey lifeboat. From the Star, 8 January 1828. As more bodies were washed up, the public and courts in Jersey began to turn on the vessel's Captain.
January 1828
From the Star newspaper.
Christmas Time, Or the Passage from Southampton to Guernsey, 1814
From Le Miroir Politique, January 15th, 1814. The packet for Guernsey is held up by the weather; a familiar tale! You may have to spend Christmas at Southampton; how do you fill your time as you wait for the wind to die down? You can gossip, or take a walk for the day to nearby Netley Abbey; you can eat and drink, but the passengers for Guernsey will insist on confusing the waiting staff by speaking Guernsey French: 'Of all the gibberish, linguos, tongues unknown, Methinks there’s none that beats our Guernsey own.' Interestingly, the poet has written the Guernsey French to reflect its pronunciation. The visit to the Abbey and the quays of Southampton are exactly as described by William Money in his account of a visit to Guernsey many years earlier.
Daniel Dobree's swallows
From Report and Transactions of the Guernsey Society of Natural Science, 1882, p. 12.
Gleanings in local history, March 1892
From the The Guernsey Magazine, a Monthly Illustrated Journal, March 1892, [p. 440]. 'The following gleanings from our local history, will no doubt prove of considerable interest':
More deserters, January 1810
From the Gazette de Guernsey, January 13th 1810.
Pollet Fountain, 1861
Drinking fountains. From The Star of July 16. The Pollet fountain was moved farther North to make way for the new States Offices, now used as an Information Centre.
Mr Trengrouse's Rocket Apparatus, June 1836
As reported in the Comet of July 4th, 1836. Henry Trengrouse (1772-1854), from Cornwall, was the inventor in 1808 of an early form of the Breeches buoy. As he first presented his invention, however, in 1818, versions of it had long been in use by the time he demonstrated it in Guernsey, despite the Comet's misgivings.