More about Fountain Street: 1916
The Star, September 27, 1916. The detail is from a photograph of Fountain Street c. 1870, from the Library Collection.
Georgian
November 1824: A Review of the High Street
From Dumaresq and Mauger's Monthly Selection for 1825. Part One, by 'Ergo.'
1786 and all that
Translations from the French of selections from the early Gazettes.
April 1809 and 1819
From local newspapers.
March 1820
Guernsey newspapers of 1820. Cemeteries, magicians, orang-utans and hot baths.
Servants in Silks
From The Sarnian Monthly Magazine, July, 1815. The illustration is from My Sketch Book, part of the Library's extensive collection of works illustrated by George Cruikshank, which can be viewed on request.
John Spicer Broughton Parker Hampton, 1721
From the Parish Registers of St Peter Port.
June 1811
From the Gazette de Guernesey, some translated from the original French. This was a very bad time for island banks, which had relied heavily on defaulting banks in London; the crash of the firm of Brock & Le Mesurier, operating out of London, took with it small local banks dependent on it.
May 11, 1815: Fire in Town
From The Sarnian Monthly Magazine, June 1825.
Fountain Street celebrates the peace of 1763
Fountain Street is decorated for a celebration in unusual style; by George Métivier, writing in the Elizabeth College Magazine of 1842. The illustration is of a painting depicting a view looking towards Fountain Street and the Town Church in 1799, the notoriously narrow part being at the end.