Guernsey, Jersey, Underwear, and Socks
16th August 2024
Holiday Reminiscences of Guernsey and Sark, from the Guernsey Press and Star of Friday 19th June 1903.
Victorian
Captain Ross: The Antarctic Expedition
9th August 2024
A letter sent from a local member of Captain Ross' Expedition via the ship Alarm from the Falkland Islands, from the Guernsey Star, of September 15, 1842.
The Fort George Brickfield, St Peter Port
6th March 2024
The history of a rather controversial piece of agricultural land. Research by D Bott & G Lenfestey, 2024. Written by G Lenfestey.On the western side of the Fort Road, between the top of the Val de Terres and Morley Chapel, is a large field, formerly known as the Courtil Colin, divided 2/3 and 1/3, and the 1/3 is divided into equal halves.There is a story that the fields have an embargo on them regarding building accommodation for domestic use on them, and that the larger field has always been known as The Queen's Field. The origin of this embargo, and the name 'The Queen's Field', is not known, but it has always been like that.
The struggle of the languages
19th July 2023
From the Star, January 3, 1895. (The historical assertions are not necessarily accurate). "The following is translated from an article by [journalist and theatre critic] Francisque Sarcey (1827-1899) in Le Petit Journal:
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.
When island prospered with busy shipyards
24th September 2021
Memories of an old resident. From The Star, Guernsey, Thursday June 29, 1944
It happened in December - 1839
20th November 2020
A digest from the Evening Press, December 7, 1940
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.
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.’