Hilgrove Street

Hilgrove Street, off Halkett Place, is popularly known as French Lane, because that is where the Breton farmworkers who used to come to Jersey for the potato harvest, would gather when they went into town on a Saturday afternoon.

Pictures

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  French Lane in 1936

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  Breton workers in Hilgrove Street

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  Breton workers in Hilgrove Street

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  Le Sueur's in 1989

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  1968

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  Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street

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  Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street

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  Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street

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  Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street

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  Breton workers outside one of their favourite haunts, the Soleil Levant public house on the corner of Hilgrove Street and Bath Street

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  Breton workers in the 1900s

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  1958

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  Breton workers c1900

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  Christmas carnival in Hilgrove Street in the 1920s

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  Picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe Facebook group

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  Charles Till's French charcuterie later moved into the Market

Businesses

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  1950

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  A Quenouillere was a watchmaker and jeweller at 21 Hilgrove Lane, usually included as part of Hilgrove Street

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  1948