Library Newspaper Collection

Forts, 1850

8th October 2015

Fort Hommet before 1955 by S M Henry, Priaulx Library Collection

From the Gazette de Guernesey, 16 February 1850. 'We thought it would be useful to list here, for the benefit of our readers, those forts and fortresses, built by the States for the defence of this Island in time of war, which have been handed over to the Government, as very few people are aware of them all.' The photograph is of Fort Hommet, by S M Henry, in the Library Collection. For further details on the individual sites see the Billet d'Etat for March 1908 in the Library Collection.

How the old mill lost its vanes

18th September 2015

Ozanne's Mill, Le Hechet, Priaulx lIbrary Collection.

Ozanne's Mill, Le Hêchet. From The Star, June 1907. The detail is from a photograph of the mill in the Library collection, which was probably taken in 1905 by the late G W S Anderson of 2 Escallonia, Mount Durand (mentioned by Sheppard, op. cit. below, p. 408).

Guernsey's Historical and Antiquarian Society

9th September 2015

First annual meeting.

Lost things: Beauregard water tower, 1933

28th July 2015

Edith Carey, Pump in Cornet Street 1929, demolished, Priaulx Library Collection

The Société Guernesiaise tried its hardest to persuade the authorities to preserve this ancient structure, but to no avail. From the Star, January 1933. The photograph is from the Library Collection. It was taken by Edith Carey in 1929 and shows the water pump in Cornet Street which drew from the well of the Tour Beauregard, and which was demolished along with the water tower in 1933.

A stroll through town as it was 70 years ago

23rd July 2015

Commercial Arcade circa 1903, Priaulx library Collection

From the Star, July 1944. Funeral cheese and scarlet eggs, Granny Ogier, and a leopard and a Lamb. The illustration shows the Arcade around 1903; the shops are Roger's the jewellers and Cox's bootmakers.

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.

The Small Pox, 1895

8th May 2015

Rosemary Lane, photograph by Edith Carey, 1929, Priaulx Library Collection

Two letters from the Star, January 3 1895. The picture is a detail from a photograph by Edith Carey, in the Library Collection. Part of the area of Guernsey's 'seething mass of corruption,' it shows Rosemary Lane and the top of Cornet Street steps in 1929.

1834: Flowers and fruit

Collected from local newspaper reports by the Gardener's Magazine, X (1834).

The King versus Gavet and Lenfestey

'His case is but one out of many that might be adduced, to prove the wisdom of intrusting the punishment of offences, in a small community like ours, to the discretion of the judges rather than to the precise letter of an unyielding statute law.' From The Star, February 3rd 1834.

Famous coin comes home, February 1951

'Described as of the highest rarity.' The Guernsey Press, 20th February 1951. Photographs from Carey Curtis Scrapbook p. 81, Staff, in the Library.

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