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Farming & Horticulture

Peter Girard's Guernsey

15th November 2023

A list of chapter headings and photographs in Peter Girard's Guernsey: a miscellany of Guernsey history and its people, by Peter J Girard. Published by the Guernsey Press in 1986. The owners of the photographs are to be found in the acknowledgments, including those photographs belonging to the Priaulx Library Collection.

The Kingdom of Congers

11th February 2022

From An Account of the Island of Jersey, with An Appendix of Records &c. (1694), to which are added, Notes and Illustrations, by the Reverend Edward Durell, MA, Rector of St Saviour, Jersey. Jersey: Richard Giffard, 1837.

William Martel of La Mazotte, 1948

16th September 2020

Oldest inhabitant looks back. Just on a century of memories. By A Press Reporter, November 1948. 'We really couldn’t make up our minds whether the tomato was a fruit or a vegetable.’

Guernsey still makes cider in 1951

19th January 2018

The Vimeira estate. An article from the Morning Advertiser, January 18, 1951, by Basil C de Guerin. From his Scrapbook K, p. 10 (Staff.)

Lost things: La Brasserie. The Balsam of Peru, 1734

22nd July 2016

Pierre Carey sends a specimen of an unusual tree from Guernsey to Sir Hans Sloane in London, in the hope of advancing medicine. His house, La Brasserie, or the Brewhouse (Carey was head of a very successful enterprise) was finally demolished in 1968. During Carey's lifetime La Brasserie had been home to the most spledid gardens in Guernsey.

Cabbage

26th May 2015

F F Dally, in his Essay on the Agriculture of the Channel Islands, Barbet, 1860, in Channel Islands pamphlets X in the Library. The photograph is from The Channel Islands, by 'Lesser Columbus,' Southampton: London & South Western Railway Company, 1895.

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Farming & Horticulture

Peter Girard's Guernsey

The Kingdom of Congers

William Martel of La Mazotte, 1948

Guernsey still makes cider in 1951

Lost things: La Brasserie. The Balsam of Peru, 1734

Cabbage

Weeding

1834: Flowers and fruit

Guernsey breed of goat soon? November, 1947

Winter 1916

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