A gallery of miscellaneous pictures

New pictures are constantly being acquired by Jerripedia and uploaded to the site. Some do not fit into any current pages and a selection is displayed here.

Pictures from a 1900 album

These pictures are from a 1900 album. They were taken by a photographer who visited the island on the yacht which can be seen in the first pictured moored off Elizabeth Castle

The yacht moored off Elizabeth Castle
St Brelade's Bay
From Corbiere
Pointe du Lion
St Brelade's Bay

Sundry pictures

This horse bolted with its cart down the steps at Queen's Road in February 1905. There have been suggestions that the picture was faked and used on postcards for other locations in England. That may be so, but we are now in no doubt that the incident happened, even though this is clearly not a photograph but an artist's impression superimposed on a picture of the steps. The Evening Post report of 7 February 1905 confirms the truth of the story:

Last evening, about 5.30, Mr Le Brun, of Clubley Farm, Mont a l'Abbe, was returning from a patch of outlying land, where he had been planting potatoes. The empty boxes were placed in an ordinary heavy cart used in farm work, and when almost opposite the gates of the Parochial Cemetery, thehorse bolted. It appears that oe of the boxes fell from the top of the load on to the animal's back, and this startled it, causing it to bolt. Mr Le Brun, who was walking at the side of the cart, made an attempt to restrain the horse, but without avail, and it started at a gallop down St John's Road. When near the corner of Trafalgar terrace the animal found it impossible to take the bend of the road, and it accordingly made for the gap in the wall that gives admittance to the flight of 66 steps that lead from St John's Road to Queen's Road.

Mr Manning, one of the employees of the Roads Inspectors of the Vingtaine de Mont a l'Abbe, was returning from work via the steps when on the third platform from the top, he heard the rumbling noise of a cart in the road above. Almost immediately afterwards he was astonished to see the horse descending the steps. He made an attempt to check the horse, but the weight of the cart pressing upon it made this impossible, and he was obliged to climb over the low wall on the left of the steps to avoid being crushed. The horse, with harness considerably damaged, but with the cart practically uninjured, managed to reach the bottom of the flight of steps with but a few cuts on its hind quarters. The noise had attracted a number of people to the bottom of the lane leading from the steps. On the horse reaching the level, where it fell, Mr Dimond, who was among the onlookers, made an attempt to raise it; but it suddenly rose of its own accord and again bolted off along rouge Bouillon, continuing through the Parade, Charing Cross and King Street. Several ineffectual attempt were made to stop the animal, but this could not be brought about until it had reached the lower end of Queen Street, where it was brought to a standstill by a man named T Perree.

The escape of the horse is a most miraculous one, and many of those who heard that the animal had come over the steps at first denied it as not being possible. However, the track of the runaway is plainly visible on the steps, which are chipped at every step, while the cement platforms are scratched by the horse's shoes.

The horse and cart none the worse for wear the day after

Jersey 'notables' in 1895
A kite at Blanches Banques, photographed by Percival Dunham
Two gentlemen by a pond, photographed by Stroud in 1888
A blind street musician, date unknown
Winston Churchill's only visit to Jersey was in 1913 when he was First Lord of the Admiralty. It was a brief visit when a private yacht he was travelling on anchored off St Helier Harbour
A home-made pushchair in 1948
The chapel at Maison St Marculf, Green Street
A crab pot maker
Sisters with the family pram in 1927
HMV sign and Jersey characters in 1970s
1949 radio ham's card
Blacksmiths at work
Haimance Place, St Helier
Rock climbers in 1933
1936 Christmas turkeys on sale
Lester Quenault's donkeys on Gorey common
The much-hated tetrapak in which Jersey's milk was delivered for years

1912 butter making competition from La Chronique de Jersey
Girl at a well
A register of sheep marks in 1748
Wet nurses
Brig y Don Children’s Home
Lillie the train
A country scene in 1904
A Societe Jersiaise visit to Witches' Rock
The Royal Commissioners of 1860
Girls at a well
Jersey suffragettes
Penny farthing
Maypole dancing
Ivy Well, Trinity
Wool washing
A picture of Hitler at La Hougue Bie in 1963
Horse at Hautes Croix
Christmas turkeys in 1936

Ebenezer Bazaar in 1920
A typical Jerseyman?
Naval Brigade at a carnival
A fairground in the 1940s
Getting water from the pump
The old art of thatching
An old fish woman by Le Capelain
A Jersey kitchen
Troops on leave in early 1940
A 1913 flag day
Basket making
The coronation contingent
A kiss in a Vinchelez lane
Alien record card of Jeanne Andre
Charlie Biles, 1964
A Jersey family in WW1
West Park taxi?
Groundsmen in the 1930s

May festival
HMS Ulster
France's Day 1910
Outside the French Consulate in 1914
Tower Fete
Les Vaux
Man on couch
A group of men photographed by Ouless
Jersey-Canada connection
The Builder 1896
Beach scene
Waiting for the War Secretary
Trafalgar Medal
Rose Butters Liberation party
Badier Lane

An unknown farm, from a very early photograph by Arzace-Delatour, 1848-50
A traditional Jersey bedroom recreated at the Museum
The Bertram clock
The Fautrart pill tile
A gardener prepares for the Great Exhibition
A Chiffonier made by George Clement Le Feuvre for the Great Exhibition
Thomas de la Rue's exhibit at the Great Exhibition
The Herald Mission in Great Union Road
Herald Mission outing in 1910
Sir John Le Couteur's Viscount's baton
Le Gallais medallions for Queen Victoria's visit
A hernais in front of La Chasserie
Lovers' Walk - but where is it?
Female orphans home
Crabbe 1865
Mont de la Chenaie
La Moye road
1914 cab inspection

Imported wood for tomato boxes at the Harbour in 1948

Dogs' cemetery
Private slipway, St Brelade's Bay
St Brelade Carnival Queen 1961, Denise Gorvel
Trouble at the Green Trading Stamp shop in 1906
A Jersey Airlines excursion in 1955
Machon registration card
Church outing 1910
Coutances Cathedral
Gorey, by Lois Jones, 2008
Greasy pole in 1905
Herald Mission
Jersey bonnet, 1900
Prynne's cell at Mont Orgueil
At the seaside in 1910
Representatives at the 1946 victory parade
Vineries
Crossroads north of Union Inn on La Grande Route de St Jean. Road to Surville Cemetry
Same junction zoomed in