Articles

The Library's unique collections are a treasure chest of unusual, interesting and sometimes surprising material just waiting to be found. This anthology, written by the Editor, is based on an eclectic selection of our archive. The author asserts her copyright on all material on the Priaulx Library website except where copyright of other authors is expressly notified. Permission to reproduce material from this website and full attribution to the author is required in all cases.

Fishing

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.

Ormer gathering

3rd March 2016

From Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878 (the engraving accompanies the article), together with a couple of newspaper extracts.

Guernsey's forgotten past, Carel Toms

17th September 2015

A list of the photographs in Carel Toms' book, Guernsey's forgotten past, published in 1992. Many of these photographs are in the Library's Carel Toms Collection; please contact the Library for further information.

December 1843

From the Guernsey newspapers.

Mr Sharshaw's shark, October 1847

Blue shark being loaded aboard the Guernsey fishing vessel, the Josephine Marie

The Star, Monday, October 18, 1847. The image is of a large blue shark being landed aboard the Guernsey fishing vessel, Josephine Marie, c. 1990, courtesy of Daniel Robins.

September 1858

From the Star newspaper.

The first flower show, July 1833

The Gardener's Magazine, Vol. 9, 1833, and other extracts from local newspapers.

Extracts from The Star, September 1916

Children misbehaving at Candie ; Healy Maindonald, bigamist ; Fishing on Sunday ; Petition re military service ; Roll of Honour ; Ernest Carré, Le Poidevin, Ferguson ; Enlistments ; Bordage widening ; Guernseymen killed ; Albion Terrace School ; Old custom for scaring birds ; Jean-Philippe De Carteret obituary ; Guernsey prices The Star , September 2, 1916 BAND INTERRUPTION AT CANDIE Many correspondents have spilt ink in writing to you complaining of the behaviour of juveniles at the Sunday evening performances in Candie, but apparently they have fallen on deaf ears, as the nuisance still…

1831, a dreadful summer for accidents

From Henry Tourtel of St Martin's Commonplace Book, 1817-1831, in the Library.

Shrimps, 1763

The Royal Court republished this 1763 Ordnance in January 1813.

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