Hilgrove Street

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 Saturdays. The two names have for many years often been confused as Hilgrove Lane, but that is incorrect

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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
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  Mission Bretagne provided religious support for Breton workers
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  Prince of Wales public house
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  1958
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  1981
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  1979 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  Conveyor belt for P Le Sueur and Sons, coal merchant, in 1963
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  1977 - Jersey Evening Post photograph
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  1977 - Jersey Evening Post photograph
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  1977 - Jersey Evening Post photograph
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  1977 - Jersey Evening Post photograph
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  1979 - Jersey Evening Post photograph

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
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  Mr Debeaune advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1816 that his Hilgrove Street saleroom was open six days a week
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  ’Make old garments look like new’ at 30 Hilgrove Lane in 1829