Donations

Survey of L'Ancresse Common

The Library is very grateful to have received a splendid large-format copy of the 1840 survey of the Common, by States Surveyor J. Goodwin, from the present L'Ancresse Commons Council. Originally copied in 1909, it includes a detailed map, owners of fields and information from the relevant Livre de Perchage. For the Goodwin family see Bramall, G., 'The architects and builders of Guernsey's…

Ruth Ozanne's Occupation Diaries

William Parker, editor of Life in Occupied Guernsey: The diaries of Ruth Ozanne 1940-1945, recently published, has very kindly donated Ruth's original handwritten diaries to the Library. Ruth Ozanne was born in 1888 and died unmarried in 1970. She was the daughter of a Bailiff of Guernsey, Sir Edward Chepmell Ozanne, and his wife Lady Frances. William Parker was brought up in Guernsey. Heis…

June Money Working Papers

The Library is very grateful to have received the working papers of June Money, author of Aspects of War , 'a view of daily life duringthe German Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945,' first published in three volumes between 1993 and 1995. The work, developed in consultation with the Education Development Centre, Guernsey, under the guidance of the working group of GATOH (Guernsey…

Donations for Summer 2011

The Library is always very grateful to receive donations of books and material of local interest.

Walter St John: background material

The Library is very grateful indeed to Sophie Cummings of Lydiard House and Park, Wiltshire, who sent us some fascinating background material to the story of Walter St John.

Minutes of the Controlling Committee of the States of Guernsey

Kindly donated to us by the Island Archives. A complete set will be available for consultation on open shelves for visitors to the Library. All other enquiries should be made to a Librarian.

Local books donated

Donations

February 2010: The Librarians are very grateful indeed to Dorothy Crowshaw, of Willenhall, West Midlands, for he rkind donation of books of local Guernsey and Jersey interest, many of which are out of print, and which will be a very useful supplement to our existing stock. Do you have books, photographs, or documents with a Guernsey connection that you would like to be looked after and made…

Recent donations 2012

Calling all film buffs! Guernsey Filmmakers has donated to us its archive,consisting of a scrapbook of press cuttings since the club's inception in 1966, which will be kept updated, and an archive of all the clubs on DVD, which can be viewed in the Library (with headphones!). So get watching! Patrick Devaney has kindly donated to us a collection of prints of drawings of Guernsey by Brian…

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