St Aubin's Bay
St Aubin's Bay is the main bay on the south coast of Jersey, stretching between the towns of Saint Helier in the east and Saint Aubin in the west.
Today a road runs the full length of the bay linking the two towns. The busiest stretch from West Park to Bel Royal is called Victoria Avenue, but the construction of this road, now a dual carriageway, was not undertaken until the final years of the 19th century, before which traffic passed further inland on St Aubin's Road.
The Jersey Railway line ran along the shoreline from 1870, and before that low sand dunes were washed by the high tide and the quickest way to drive a horse and cart from one end of the bay to the other was along the beach at low tide. When St Aubin was the island's principal port and St Helier was beginning to develop as a population centre, but without its own port, this is exactly how imported goods were moved from one town to the other.
- The building of St Aubin's Bay Seawall Added 2016
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The bay in 1893
The bay in the 17th century
The bay in 1970
Later in the 19th century a small village is developing at Beaumont
St Aubin's Bay by Ouless. St Matthew's Church, the coastal tower, now demolished, and windmill, stand isolated in the centre of the bay
La Haule to Beaumont
1933 aerial photograph by Aerofilms
1933 aerial photograph by Aerofilms
1956
An aerial view sent as a postcard in 1937, but probably taken in 1933
Looking towards Bel Royal in the bottom left, Beaumont, La Haule, and beyond to Saint Aubin
On the beach at St Aubin in 1909
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