Anne Port

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Anne Port

Anne Port is a small bay on the north east coast of Jersey

A seaplane at Anne Port in the 1920s. This is a very rare photograph of a seaplane landing anywhere other than in St Aubin's Bay in Jersey's coastal waters. The aircraft may have landed in St Catherine's Bay and taxied to Anne Port as the first stretch of beach where it could disembark passengers. This is a six-seater Vickers Viking IV seaplane, registered G-EBED to Leslie Hamilton of the Royal Aero Club in 1926 and possibly destroyed in 1929

Anne Port is a sandy beach on Jersey's east coast, between Gorey and St Catherine. It has always had very limited parking, so never becomes overcrowded.

It is overlooked at its southern end by a rock face known as Le Saut Geoffroi (Jeffrey's Leap) which legend has it was the scene of ancient executions, with those suspected of witchcraft pushed over the cliff face to die on the rocks below.

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1890s
1930s

1949

Anne Port, a pretty bay on Jersey's east coast, just north of Gorey
An artist's impression of Anne Port painted in 1890
Anne Port in 1860
A picture from 1926
The cafe on the cliff edge has closed
By Charles Paine
by Leonard Rich
1930
1932

This early photograph shows the extent to which the cliff face has been eroded today. The field in the foreground no longer exists

Anne Port Hill in 1935
1907
1911
1920s
1923
A view on an early Wrench postcard
1951 aerial photograph by Aerofilms
1905 photograph. A better quality untinted version of this image can be seen lower down the page
1850
Jeffrey's Leap
Cottage at Anne Port
Vraic covers the road after a storm
1880s