Irish smuggling
30th March 2022
From Report relating to frauds in the Customs, 1733, Appendix, pp. 634-5.
Trade & Commerce
The Kingdom of Congers
11th February 2022
From An Account of the Island of Jersey, with An Appendix of Records &c. (1694), to which are added, Notes and Illustrations, by the Reverend Edward Durell, MA, Rector of St Saviour, Jersey. Jersey: Richard Giffard, 1837.
Grand old man of St Peter Port: A I Le Patourel
24th September 2021
From The Star, Guernsey, Tuesday, July 18, 1944. 'Grand old man of St Peter Port began at 1/- a week. Originator of Organised Amusements.' By a ‘Star’ reporter. The photograph shows Alfred I Le Patourel's yacht, the 'Naughty Girl', and is from the Guernsey Photographic Archive at the Priaulx Library.
It happened in December - 1839
20th November 2020
A digest from the Evening Press, December 7, 1940
High Street 100 Years Ago
8th October 2020
Pus nou vieillit, pus nou pense,/ Au temps pâssaï qui n'est pus. From the Star, 1932, a résumé of an article written in 1842 describing St Peter Port in 1800.
William Martel of La Mazotte, 1948
16th September 2020
Oldest inhabitant looks back. Just on a century of memories. By A Press Reporter, November 1948. 'We really couldn’t make up our minds whether the tomato was a fruit or a vegetable.’
Sunny Guernsey, 1948
16th September 2020
A newspaper report with travel statistics from September 1948: 'Air Travel Soars'. Photograph of ferry entering St Peter Port Harbour, from the 1952 Tourist Committee Brochure, Guernsey, Channel Isles: 'The Sunshine Isle'
Smuggling the salt, 1719
7th January 2019
From John Baskett's The Acts of Tonnage and Poundage, and Rates of Merchandize &c, London, 1731.
Guernsey still makes cider in 1951
19th January 2018
The Vimeira estate. An article from the Morning Advertiser, January 18, 1951, by Basil C de Guerin. From his Scrapbook K, p. 10 (Staff.)
Monsieur White's hairpiece
19th April 2017
From the Gazette de Guernsey, January-September 1808, the spelling exactly as it was published. The 18th January was the occasion of a ball at the Assembly Rooms. The plate is dated October 1807 and is from the Library Collection.