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.

Buildings & Houses

Lost things: La Maison Bonamy of the Pomare

From Edith Carey's Report of the Folklore Section of the Société Guernesiaise, Rep. and Trans. 1931, p. 149. The photograph shows the overgrown ruins from the road before their recent redevelopment.

Laine's warehouse in Berthelot Street

'MSS belonging to Mr Laine of High Street, respecting his store in Berthelot Street (behind and touching the present Savings Bank), and the Savings Bank itself, formerly 'La Maison Briard.' Names and dates; the transcriptions of these interesting vues de justice, where the jurats visited properties about which there was a dispute and sought witnesses, may be consulted at the Library. The photograph is from the Carel Toms' Collection in the Library and accompanied an article he wrote about the demolition and rebuilding of this house in 1950-51.

De Beaucamp judgment

From Edith Carey Notebook, Visits to Guernsey.

Les Quartiers

Oldest house at Les Quertiers, now lost, from Guernsey Folk Lore in the Library Collection

A newspaper report of a trip by the Société Guernesiaise to the Les Quartiers Estate in the 1920s. The photograph is from MacCulloch's Guernsey Folk Lore.

Antiquities at Rosenheim

Rosenheim from A Farmer's Vacation 1873 in the Priaulx Library Collection

A report of a meeting of the Société Guernesiaise in c. 1927. Rosa Brock's house 'Rosenheim,' now known as 'The Chain House,' was a very popular stop on a typical visitor tour of Guernsey, for its highly decorative gardens. The photograph below, from the Library collection, shows the famous 'sun and moon' trough in situ in the gardens. The Library is lucky enough to hold Rosa's exquisite book of watercolours.

Owners of Houses in the Clos du Valle, 1624

From The Star[?], Saturday 6th February 1897.

Lost things: St Magloire

From The Star, March 27th, 1915.

42, Fountain Street

From the Evening Press, Friday, January 22, 1943. 'History Hidden in an attic storeroom: Quaint old business house in heart of St Peter Port.' Now Bella Delicatessen.

Lost things: Laine's store, 1951

Laine's store by Carel Toms from the Priaulx Library Collection

'Demolition and rebuilding of one of the oldest houses in St Peter Port is to take place shortly. The house is one belonging to the Guernsey Savings Bank and stands opposite the Berthelot Street Restaurant.' An article by (probably) Carel Toms published in the Guernsey Press November 15 1950; photographs of the demolition and rebuilding are in the Toms collection at the Library.

Les Paysans and Le Lorier

A Farmer's Vacation 1873, the Longue Pierre, Priaulx Library Collecition

From Report and Transactions of the Societe Guernesiaise 1892; Report of the Archaeological Section, by J James Carey.

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