Guernsey Footballers on Cigarette Cards
4th August 2015
Two albums of footballers, with a few other sports thrown in for good measure. Supplemented by a donation (November 2019). Please contact the Library for futher information.
20th century
Lost things: Beauregard water tower, 1933
28th July 2015
The Société Guernesiaise tried its hardest to persuade the authorities to preserve this ancient structure, but to no avail. From the Star, January 1933. The photograph is from the Library Collection. It was taken by Edith Carey in 1929 and shows the water pump in Cornet Street which drew from the well of the Tour Beauregard, and which was demolished along with the water tower in 1933.
Memories of Old St Julian's
23rd July 2015
Old Court House again. From the Star, June 20, 1944. The photograph, from the Library collection, shows the house in 1861, ten years before the construction of the Avenue led to its demolition.
Prize-giving, Notre-Dame du Rosaire Schools, 1913
26th June 2015
From La Gazette de Guernesey, 15 February 1913. The Primary School and the Infants'; the spelling of the names is a little variable!
The institutions of the island of Guernsey and women's right to vote in the island
26th June 2015
The observations of a French legal expert published in La Gazette de Guernesey, 28 June 1913. 'One can never be quick enough to put right an injustice, and it is unjust to exclude women from undertaking public duties.' Jurat F J Jeremie's was but a lone voice, and duly ignored.
First Lord of the Admiralty in Guernsey
25th June 2015
Winston Churchill visits the island. From La Gazette de Guernesey, 30 August 1913. The photograph from the Star shows him landing at the White Rock and in conversation with Colonel Macartney, Government Secretary.
Les Petites Ecoles
16th June 2015
Chapter 47 of Les Soeurs des Saints Coeurs de Jésus et de Marie, by the Abbé A Leroy, Rennes: Simon. The foundation of the first Catholic primary schools in Guernsey. [The boarding school in the 1913 advertisement shown above was in Cordier Hill, but was run by a different order. For the history of this order, the Sisters of Mercy, in Guernsey, founded from Brighton, Sussex, and prominent in the education of islanders, see the Centenary Souvenir (1868-1968), in the Library collection. They acquired Blanchelande in 1956 from the Sisters des Saints Coeurs.]
Gaspard Le Marchant, 1926
15th June 2015
Guernsey Weekly Press, May 22 1926. The death of Mr Gaspard Le Marchant.
Sark rat fur coat, 1926
15th June 2015
Guernsey Weekly Press, March 27, 1926.
The Warning, 1922
13th May 2015
Edith Carey, in The Guernsey Society Report and Transactions for 1922 (pp. 89-90), quotes the following mystical occurrence from a 1922 article in Blackwood's Magazine, 'A Welsh Ride,' by Edmund Vale: