Explosion in Alderney, 10 September 1903
'Buildings Wrecked. Hayricks afire.' The Helcke fulminate of mercury works explodes. From The Star of September 11, 1903.
20th century
Annual examination at the Vauxbelets, July 1911
The annual examinations in Agriculture, Horticulture, Chemistry, Engineering and English took place at the Vauxbelets Schools. Examiners from the Société d'Agriculture de France came to the island especially to conduct some of the examinations, which were all oral. There were fifteen first year pupils and five second year pupils.
Regatta, January 1952
From the Guernsey Press, 5 January 1952; the projected revival of the Town Regatta.
St Barnabas and the Plateau, June 1932
The philanthropic Reverend Mignot and his Plateau, from the Guernsey Evening Press of June 13, 1932.
British conscripts: where compulsory service flourishes under the Union Jack, 1900
From The Star, July 5th, 1900. Reprinted from the Daily Mail of June 29th, 1900. Training the militia and their expertise at rifle-shooting.
25 December, 1955: the Christmas Pudding Dive
From the Guernsey Star of 28 December, 1955.
Storytellers of wonder
A plea by J. Linwood Pitts, Secretary of the Folk Lore section of the Societe Guernesiaise, then the Guernsey Society for Natural History and Local Research) in their Report and Transactions of 1904, p. 313
Largisses, c. 1932
'Un morchié de terrain qui n'a pas été frumai.' From the Star.
War Pictorial News, July 9, 1945; Die Deutsche Wochenschau, August 1, 1940
War Pictorial News, which ran from 1940-46, was produced by the Ministry of Information in Cairo, for distribution to allied troops in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
The Great Water Gymkhana, 4th August 1938
Here's what the Guernsey Water Polo Association got up to in what they termed their 'crazy' Water Gymkhana of August 1938, from the Star.