Occupation

Grand old man of St Peter Port: A I Le Patourel

24th September 2021

The yacht 'Naughty Girl' from the Priaulx Library Collection

From The Star, Guernsey, Tuesday, July 18, 1944. 'Grand old man of St Peter Port began at 1/- a week. Originator of Organised Amusements.' By a ‘Star’ reporter. The photograph shows Alfred I Le Patourel's yacht, the 'Naughty Girl', and is from the Guernsey Photographic Archive at the Priaulx Library.

When island prospered with busy shipyards

24th September 2021

Memories of an old resident. From The Star, Guernsey, Thursday June 29, 1944

Laufen

17th November 2015

Group of Channel Islands internees at Ilag VII, Laufen, Bavaria, Summer 1944.

The Children's Home during the Occupation

17th November 2015

From the Guernsey Evening Press, October 19, 1945. 'Exiled children made a mansion their home.' The evacuation of the children to Bury and the fate of the Home itself under occupation.

Teddy Zabiela tells of his days with the Spurs

11th August 2015

Spurs program 1948, Priaulx Library collection

From the Star, July 11 1944 & July 13 1944. By 'Linesman.' The beginnings of Guernsey's link with Tottenham Hotspur. The 1948 match program is from the Library's collection. Ted Zabiela ran the White Hart Hotel (which he must have named after White Hart Lane); his 'proudest moment was in 1946 when he procured for the Spurs the signature of Len Duquemin, the centre-forward who was to bring such honour to the island by his brilliant record both as a player and as a sportsman of the highest order (Guernsey Evening Press, February 5 1960).' Islander Len Duquemin was Spurs' leading goalscorer that year.

Memories of Old St Julian's

23rd July 2015

Old Court House 1861 from the Priaulx library collection

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.

A very detached house indeed, November 1947

Brecqhou 1962, Priaulx Library Collection

A visit to the island of Brecqhou, by Bernard Brett, from The Star, November 1947. The detail is from a 1962 photograph in the Library collection.

Don't kid yourself: mines, shells, bombs, November 1947

'Mines, shells, bombs, flung from dump: work of hooligans.' From the Star.

4 July 1944: Von Euch, fuer Euch, Kameraden!

Warning Fermain Bay Carel Toms Collection Priaulx Library

Guernsey, a poem by Oberleutnant Burkert. From Deutsche Guernsey Zeitung, the newspaper of the occupying forces. The photographs above and below from the Library Collection show mine warnings at Fermain Bay and anti-landing defences at Saints Bay.

War Pictorial News, July 9, 1945; Die Deutsche Wochenschau, August 1, 1940

War Pictorial News, which ran from 1940-46, was produced by the Ministry of Information in Cairo, for distribution to allied troops in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

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