Swan song in St Saviour's Valley
18th October 2023
"Homes that will vanish under island 'lake'. How the families face the future. Problem for a mother of eleven." From The Weekly Press, 1938
Library Newspaper Collection
A grand Christmas at 96
15th December 2021
'Nonagenarians in the Festive Season. It is not only the young who enjoy Christmas joys. Join us in a review of how Guernsey’s oldest folk, those of 95 to 96, enjoyed their festive season.' From the Guernsey Weekly Press, 28 December 1938.
When island prospered with busy shipyards
24th September 2021
Memories of an old resident. From The Star, Guernsey, Thursday June 29, 1944
Guernsey Patois lesson
29th April 2021
24 November 1949.This is the first of a series of lessons on Guernsey Patois by Walter Brehaut.
Patois of nearly 80 years ago
29th April 2021
11 January 1950.By 'Guernesiais'. This newspaper article predates the publication of Marie de Garis' Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernesiais.
Tracing the history of local newspapers
14th October 2020
By Victor Coysh
High Street 100 Years Ago
8th October 2020
Pus nou vieillit, pus nou pense,/ Au temps pâssaï qui n'est pus. From the Star, 1932, a résumé of an article written in 1842 describing St Peter Port in 1800.
The Love Apple League
24th September 2020
Guernsey, Channel Islands. (Associated Press in the Lamb County Leader, June 4, 1959.) 'Five years ago a little girl picked a wild primrose—a single primrose that has blossomed in to an amazing organisation called the Love Apple League.It has no membership fee. It has no patrons. No executive committee. There is no membership card.It’s run by children.'
Ban on thatch, 1816
18th September 2020
From the Gazette de Guernesey, 2 November 1816. The appearance of wider St Peter Port would be changed by this Order of the Royal Court.
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.’