25 Charing Cross
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Historic Jersey buildings
 No 25 was the right-hand part of Bichards grocery from 1860 onwards, and was merged with No 24 on the left in 1930
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Property name
25 Charing Cross
Other names
Premier Inn
Location
Charing Cross, St Helier
Type of property
Former town house and shop, occupied by Bichards family grocer from 1860 (expanded next door to No 24 in 1930) and then sold to Co-op in 1960s. Demolished and rebuilt as Premier Inn along with other Co-op buildings in Charing Cross in 2010s
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families associated with the property
- Bichard: The 1881 census listed Horatio Bichard (38) as a master mariner, with his wife Elizabeth, nee Leat (31) running the grocery with their son Horatio (15). Ten years later Horatio snr appears to have retired from the sea and joined his wife in the grocery business. But the almanac entries below are amgibuous about when Capt Bichard left his life at sea. He is not shown as a sea captain in John Jean's Jersey Sailing Ships, although other members of the family were master mariners from the 16th century onwards
Almanac listings
- 1874-1886: Capt H Bichard, grocer - Bichard and son from 1890-1960
- 1915-1940 Francis Cowdery [1]
- 1930 - Bagot laundry
- 1970- Channel Island Co-Op
Notes and references
- ↑ This may be an error. Francis Cowdery is variously shown in almanac lists as living at Nos 24 and 25
