The Queen's Birthday, 1803
9th June 2016
From the Morning Post, February 1, 1803.
Music & Theatre
Ladies' College Christmas
15th December 2015
Kindergarten Christmas shows, from the Harvey family collection, recorded in Aunt Loo's Account of the Children, in blue Writing Album. The photograph, by C L Bienvenu of Cordier Hill, is of Elise Mauger, aged '9 years, daughter of HM's Sheriff of Guernsey. In fancy costume, 'The old Guernsey woman,' worn by Edith M Harvey at the Ladies' College Kindergarten cantata, 19th December 1896. Given to Miss Harvey by Mrs H D Mauger.' Winifred Harvey was very badly affected by asthma as a child, and missed long periods of schooling as a result. The Writing Album also contains programmes for the 1893 and 1894 performances, as well as a Matinée musicale of May 19, 1896.
November 1947
Excerpts and photographs from the Star of November 1947.
Dieu sauve la Reine!
The National anthem, translated from the English by John R. Tardif, Esq., and sung at the St Martin's School Jubilee Treat, 28 June 1897, for which it was specially written. From Roswell's Diamond Jubilee Record of the Parish of St Martin's, 1897.
October 1822: the hapless Monsieur Mugnier, aeronaut
Fortunately, judging by his other attempts, Monsieur Mugnier did not actually send himself a kilometre up in his balloon, as he threatened to do.
September 1858
From the Star newspaper.
November 1834: Wrecks and Wickedness
From the newspapers of November 1834. The illustration is a detail from Cecilia Montgomery's ink and gouache sketch, Pier, Castle Cornet, in the Library Collection.
April 1809 and 1819
From local newspapers.
March 1820
Guernsey newspapers of 1820. Cemeteries, magicians, orang-utans and hot baths.
A Link with the Past: Ah! Mon beau laurier!
Guernsey's favourite dance, the rather flirtatious 'Ah! mon beau laurier!.' The illustration is of a modern hurdy-gurdy, or 'chifournie,' used in the old days to accompany the dancing: with thanks to Guernsey Post Office, who also produced a superb video of the chifournie being played in Le Hurel barn in Guernsey. The chifournie has been replaced in Guernsey by the fiddle or accordion in modern times.