A Parson's Log
28th December 2023
New Year in the Channel Islands. From the Star, 17 January 1930.
20th century
'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.
Islanders in Kitbags
29th November 2023
'Dedicated to more than 230 Guernsey sailors, soldiers and airmen who made the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War.' A list of the Guernsey servicemen and women whose biographies and accounts of their wartime experiences, often accompanied by photographs, are covered in this book by Richard Allisette, published by the Guernsey Press in 1985. There are copies in the Priaulx Library.
Swan song in St Saviour's Valley
18th October 2023
"Homes that will vanish under island 'lake'. How the families face the future. Problem for a mother of eleven." From The Weekly Press, 1938
A visit to the Priaulx Library
7th July 2023
A report from the Guernsey Evening Press of 12 December 1935 of a visit to the Priaulx Library by the Société Guernesiaise. 'A sudden enthusiasm is always interesting, and this was seen at the Priaulx Library, Candie, when, following the reading of a most fascinating paper on the history and contents to La Société Guernesiase by Mr Ralph Durand, the learned Librarian, some 30 of the members of the Society went browsing among that 15,000 books and notable editions found on the shelves.'
A grand Christmas at 96
15th December 2021
'Nonagenarians in the Festive Season. It is not only the young who enjoy Christmas joys. Join us in a review of how Guernsey’s oldest folk, those of 95 to 96, enjoyed their festive season.' From the Guernsey Weekly Press, 28 December 1938.
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.
Guernsey patois lesson No. XIII
14th May 2021
Guernsey Press 1950. The verb mettre = to put. Vocabulary: buildings and rooms. Lessons by Walter Brehaut of Le Planel, Torteval.
Guernsey patois lesson no. XIV: Le Meuble=the furniture
13th May 2021
Guernsey Press, 1950. Lessons by Walter Brehaut of Le Planel, Torteval.
Guernsey Patois lesson
29th April 2021
24 November 1949.This is the first of a series of lessons on Guernsey Patois by Walter Brehaut.