Changing language of the Channel Isles, June 1907
Decline of French and patois in the islands. From the Star.
Herm carrageen, c. 1865
George Geary's great scheme. From The Star, January 27, 1883. From Guernsey cuttings (Andros Tupper collection). 'The Island of Herm and its resources.'
Prospectors marooned, November 1947
'Aircraft wreckage used for fire to keep out cold.' From the Star.
Don't kid yourself: mines, shells, bombs, November 1947
'Mines, shells, bombs, flung from dump: work of hooligans.' From the Star.
Guernsey breed of goat soon? November, 1947
From The Star, in the Library collection.
New Year in Guernsey
Once upon a time Guernsey's biggest party day.
June 1654: a new minister for the Catel
Guille manuscript No. 465, transcribed in Handbook of Guernsey Churches (MSS in the Library.) The petition of the parishioners of the Castel to have Mr Nicolas Nicols as resident Minister, 1654. This demonstrates the continuance of the Colloque as Church leadership, although the minutes for that period no longer exist.
November 5, 1907: trouble
Guy Fawkes Night in Trinity Square, and a home-made pipe bomb in St Martin's. From The Star, June 1907.
November 1947
Excerpts and photographs from the Star of November 1947.
The King versus Gavet and Lenfestey
'His case is but one out of many that might be adduced, to prove the wisdom of intrusting the punishment of offences, in a small community like ours, to the discretion of the judges rather than to the precise letter of an unyielding statute law.' From The Star, February 3rd 1834.
Mutiny in St Peter's, 1704
From the Library's militia collection. A transcript by Edith Carey of a letter in French from a worried Lieutenant-Bailiff, Eléazar Le Marchant, to the absent Lieut.-Governor, Sir Edmund Andros, (here translated), and a contemporary copy of a petition concerning the same mutiny from William De Lisle in the St Peter's militia, to the Privy Council. Complicated family ties and nepotism, and a reflection of the bitter factional resentment felt towards Edmund Andros.
Famous coin comes home, February 1951
'Described as of the highest rarity.' The Guernsey Press, 20th February 1951. Photographs from Carey Curtis Scrapbook p. 81, Staff, in the Library.