20th century

Memories of Old St Julian's

23rd July 2015

Old Court House 1861 from the Priaulx library collection

Old Court House again. From the Star, June 20, 1944. The photograph, from the Library collection, shows the house in 1861, ten years before the construction of the Avenue led to its demolition.

Prize-giving, Notre-Dame du Rosaire Schools, 1913

26th June 2015

From La Gazette de Guernesey, 15 February 1913. The Primary School and the Infants'; the spelling of the names is a little variable!

The institutions of the island of Guernsey and women's right to vote in the island

26th June 2015

William Vaudin, A peep in the future, pamphlet, Priaulx Library Collection

The observations of a French legal expert published in La Gazette de Guernesey, 28 June 1913. 'One can never be quick enough to put right an injustice, and it is unjust to exclude women from undertaking public duties.' Jurat F J Jeremie's was but a lone voice, and duly ignored.

First Lord of the Admiralty in Guernsey

25th June 2015

Churchill in Guernsey from the Star August 39 1913, Librayr COlleciton

Winston Churchill visits the island. From La Gazette de Guernesey, 30 August 1913. The photograph from the Star shows him landing at the White Rock and in conversation with Colonel Macartney, Government Secretary.

Les Petites Ecoles

16th June 2015

Advertisment from Aubrey's Business Directory 1913, Priaulx Library Collection

Chapter 47 of Les Soeurs des Saints Coeurs de Jésus et de Marie, by the Abbé A Leroy, Rennes: Simon. The foundation of the first Catholic primary schools in Guernsey. [The boarding school in the 1913 advertisement shown above was in Cordier Hill, but was run by a different order. For the history of this order, the Sisters of Mercy, in Guernsey, founded from Brighton, Sussex, and prominent in the education of islanders, see the Centenary Souvenir (1868-1968), in the Library collection. They acquired Blanchelande in 1956 from the Sisters des Saints Coeurs.]

Gaspard Le Marchant, 1926

15th June 2015

Guernsey Weekly Press, May 22 1926. The death of Mr Gaspard Le Marchant.

Sark rat fur coat, 1926

15th June 2015

Guernsey Weekly Press, March 27, 1926.

The Warning, 1922

13th May 2015

A dolmen from Bellamy's Pictorial Directory and Strangers' Guide of 1843, Priaulx Library collection

Edith Carey, in The Guernsey Society Report and Transactions for 1922 (pp. 89-90), quotes the following mystical occurrence from a 1922 article in Blackwood's Magazine, 'A Welsh Ride,' by Edmund Vale:

Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Rankin Campbell, DSO, 1863-1930, when Seneschal of Sark

21st April 2015

Donated 2015 by his granddaughter, Fiona Havergal. Working papers from the early 1920s, and a photograph of the Lieutenant-Colonel. Lt-Col. Kenneth Campbell moved to Sark in 1919, and was sworn in as Seneschal of Sark on the recommendation of W F Collings, the Seigneur. He had left Sark by 1923.

Guernsey Gossip portraits 1907 and 1908

1st April 2015

A list of photographs in the magazine Guernsey Gossip and Visitors' List, which ran weekly during 1907/8; it was based at 42, the Pollet, and was printed by Frederick Watts of the Manor Printing Works. Please contact the Library for further information. The staff photographer seems to have been A Laurens, of 19 the Pollet, and of Jersey, where the magazine (known there as Jersey Week by Week) had its main offices. The 'Weekly Portrait' of an island worthy was accompanied by a biography.

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