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. The two names are sometimes confused as Hilgrove Lane, but that is incorrect
Pictures
French Lane in 1936
Breton workers in Hilgrove Street
Breton workers in Hilgrove Street
Le Sueur's in 1989
1968
Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street
Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street
Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street
Breton workers gather in Hilgrove Street
Breton workers outside one of their favourite haunts, the Soleil Levant public house on the corner of Hilgrove Street and Bath Street
Breton workers in the 1900s
1958
Breton workers c1900
Christmas carnival in Hilgrove Street in the 1920s
Picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe Facebook group
Charles Till's French charcuterie later moved into the Market
Mission Bretagne provided religious support for Breton workers
Prince of Wales public house
1958
Businesses
1950
A Quenouillere was a watchmaker and jeweller at 21 Hilgrove Lane, usually included as part of Hilgrove Street
1948
