Guy Fawkes' Night 1947
'Accident-free Guy Fawkes' Night was a brilliant success,' by Star Reporter, and 'St Saviour's procession raised 50 pounds,' from the same number of the Star.
20th century
Death warrant for the trees, November 1947
St Julian's Avenue.
November 1947
Excerpts and photographs from the Star of November 1947.
A very detached house indeed, November 1947
A visit to the island of Brecqhou, by Bernard Brett, from The Star, November 1947. The detail is from a 1962 photograph in the Library collection.
Changing language of the Channel Isles, June 1907
Decline of French and patois in the islands. From the Star.
Prospectors marooned, November 1947
'Aircraft wreckage used for fire to keep out cold.' From the Star.
Don't kid yourself: mines, shells, bombs, November 1947
'Mines, shells, bombs, flung from dump: work of hooligans.' From the Star.
November 5, 1907: trouble
Guy Fawkes Night in Trinity Square, and a home-made pipe bomb in St Martin's. From The Star, June 1907.
Guernsey breed of goat soon? November, 1947
From The Star, in the Library collection.
November 5th
Guernsey did not celebrate November 5th until the 19th century, when the 'Guy Fawkes' Night' festival was introduced, probably by British immigrants, and began to replace the traditional burning or burial of the 'budloe' log on New Year's Eve. Late in the century the celebrations were 'officialised'. The photographs are of the procession of 1900; the one above shows the collectors wearing their placards, and the other the budloe paraded on a stretcher.