Thomas William Gosselin Ledger
27th November 2024
Staff.
19th century
Pioneers to Racine
20th November 2024
Guernsey Evening Press and Star, Monday 17 February 1913. 'GUERNSEY ISLAND SENDS MANY PIONEERS TO RACINE. ROSTER OF IMMIGRANTS SHOWS SCORES WHO CAME FROM LITTLE ISLAND. (From the Racine Daily Times.)'
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 Launch of the 'Concordia'
1st August 2024
Witchcraft in action - literally with a pinch of salt. From a Report by J Linwood Pitts, Hon. Sec. of the Folklore Section of the Société Guernesiaise. The illustration is a photograph of a brigantine in St Peter Port Harbour, from the Priaulx Library's Photographic Collection. Please contact us if you wish to reproduce it.
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.
'More of Peter Girard's Guernsey'
29th November 2023
A second miscellany of Guernsey's history and its people. Published in 1990 by the Guernsey Press Company Ltd. A list of contents and photographs for reference.
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:
Grand old man of St Peter Port: A I Le Patourel
24th September 2021
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
Dogs, by 'Lô Debhar', 1862
7th May 2021
The Guernsey Mail and Telegraph, February 22, 1862. 'To the Editor of the Mail and Telegraph. As the following lines were the result of an hour’s innocently playful reminiscence, the Editor of the Mail and Telegraph might not be so terribly serious as to reject them. Small localities like this for every reflective mortal who has lived much through the seven ages of life, unavoidably furnish temptations to personal allusion. It is not the less true that, whether they be an FRS, a Sieur Pierre Robin, or an industrious and modest Charles Ozanne, not one of three acquaintances that LÔ DEBHAR* has presumed to notice here has ever inspired any other feelings than those of unfeigned respect and regard.' This is from a cutting in the Priaulx Library collection. The note above was made at the bottom of the cutting by Samuel Eliott Hoskins, FRS.