Library Newspaper Collection

September 1814: More Prisoners-of-War

Another list of local Guernsey and Alderney Prisoners-of-War held in various detention camps in France during the Napoleonic Wars, from the Gazette de Guernesey, September 3, 1814. The prisoners should officially have been freed in May.

The Great Water Gymkhana, 4th August 1938

Manning Dive Weekly Press 1938 Priaulx Library Collection

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.

Alderney on alert, 1796-7

Gazette de L'Ile de Guernesey, Saturday 27 Mai 1797.

Trial and Execution, July 1813

The execution of Cox and Shellard, from the Gazette de l'Isle de Guernesey, 17 July 1813. Final sentence handed down by the Guernsey Royal Court. [From the French.]

Experiment with Diving Dress, 1833

JOHN and JOSEPH ORCHARD having constructed a DIVING DRESS for the purpose of searching the Bottom of the sea in a moderate depth of water, beg leave to inform the public that they will, on TUESDAY MORNING at 10 o'clock, go down at the pier head and walk underwater towards Castle Cornet. This being the first thing of the kind ever made in this island, they invite the attention of the public to the above trial.

Mansell versus Robin: Brandy smuggling, 1833

Cadic's shop in 1845, Priaulx Library Collection

Lots of trouble over French brandy. The illustration is a detail from one of the earliest photographs in the Library's collection, dating from 1845, showing Cadic's 'inn near the South Pier,' not far away at all from Cow Lane, the scene of the crime. Next door to his establishment was the inn, the 'Three Tuns,' proprietor Mrs Simon.

August, two hundred years ago

Forgery; Street-cleaning; Miss Le Breton and Captain Arwe; Maingay and Collings; Daniel Guille; Williamson's French brigade; Maingy & Dunière and the Rebecca; Buying horse dung and dollars; Alderney public school.

More about Fountain Street: 1916

Detail of a photograph of Fountain Street c. 1870 from the Priaulx Library Collection

The Star, September 27, 1916. The detail is from a photograph of Fountain Street c. 1870, from the Library Collection.

November 1834: Wrecks and Wickedness

Detail from Cecila Montgomery's ink sketch Pier, Castle Cornet, Priaulx Library colelction

From the newspapers of November 1834. The illustration is a detail from Cecilia Montgomery's ink and gouache sketch, Pier, Castle Cornet, in the Library Collection.

1786 and all that

Translations from the French of selections from the early Gazettes.

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