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 late 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.

Anne Port, one of the stops on our coastal tour of Jersey NEW

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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
Anne Port Cottage

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
1948

An LL postcard from the early 20th century showing the unusual sight of the type of surf normally found on the island's west-facing beaches, blown into the bay here by a strong easterly wind

1960
View over the cafe at Jeffrey's Leap in 1965
Geoffroy's Leap
1904
1890s
Anne Port Cafe
1940
A recent view with St Catherine's Breakwater in the background
1855
A 1909 photograph by Percival Dunham ...
... another early 20th century photograph, possibly by Albert Smith
1950
1875
LL postcard
1955
1906
1906
1905 photograph by Albert Smith
1932
Picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe
1925
1950s
1959
This cafe opposite the slipway in the bay was operating until at least the early 1960s