Guernsey patois lesson no. XIV: Le Meuble=the furniture
13th May 2021
Guernsey Press, 1950. Lessons by Walter Brehaut of Le Planel, Torteval.
Dogs, by 'Lô Debhar', 1862
7th May 2021
The Guernsey Mail and Telegraph, February 22, 1862. 'To the Editor of the Mail and Telegraph. As the following lines were the result of an hour’s innocently playful reminiscence, the Editor of the Mail and Telegraph might not be so terribly serious as to reject them. Small localities like this for every reflective mortal who has lived much through the seven ages of life, unavoidably furnish temptations to personal allusion. It is not the less true that, whether they be an FRS, a Sieur Pierre Robin, or an industrious and modest Charles Ozanne, not one of three acquaintances that LÔ DEBHAR* has presumed to notice here has ever inspired any other feelings than those of unfeigned respect and regard.' This is from a cutting in the Priaulx Library collection. The note above was made at the bottom of the cutting by Samuel Eliott Hoskins, FRS.
Guernsey Patois lesson
29th April 2021
24 November 1949.This is the first of a series of lessons on Guernsey Patois by Walter Brehaut.
Patois of nearly 80 years ago
29th April 2021
11 January 1950.By 'Guernesiais'. This newspaper article predates the publication of Marie de Garis' Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernesiais.
Les Lettres de la Liza
20th November 2020
A parody letter from the Evening Press, December 7, 1940
It happened in December - 1839
20th November 2020
A digest from the Evening Press, December 7, 1940
Donations to the Priaulx Library in 2019
5th November 2020
Many thanks indeed to all our donors, who have been generous enough to share with us and with our Library users and researchers items that are often very precious to them.
Tracing the history of local newspapers
14th October 2020
By Victor Coysh
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.
The Love Apple League
24th September 2020
Guernsey, Channel Islands. (Associated Press in the Lamb County Leader, June 4, 1959.) 'Five years ago a little girl picked a wild primrose—a single primrose that has blossomed in to an amazing organisation called the Love Apple League.It has no membership fee. It has no patrons. No executive committee. There is no membership card.It’s run by children.'
Ban on thatch, 1816
18th September 2020
From the Gazette de Guernesey, 2 November 1816. The appearance of wider St Peter Port would be changed by this Order of the Royal Court.
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.’