Leonard Skingle

Leonard Skingle

Leonard Skingle outside his Kensington Place shop in about 1930

Leonard Skingle was a St Helier shopkeeper, who also worked as a stevedore at St Helier Harbour and had a keen interest in photography

Leonard Skingle was one of the few local photographers to take pictures of German soldiers in the early days of the Occupation and these were published by his grandson Tim many years later. He and his wife Mabel had a shop in Kensington Place in the early 1930s and then moved to Ann Street. They finally sold this shop in 1948.

As well as pictures of the shops and harbour scenes, Tim Skingle also posted pictures of his father Roy, taken by his grandfather. Roy Skingle was deported to Biberach in 1942 and returned to Jersey after the war to work for Walls Ice Cream.

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  Mabel Skingle at the Ann Street shop in about 1932. The shop was sold in 1948
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  Mabel Skingle in the Kensington Place shop in the early 1930s
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  The Kensington Place shop
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  Leonard Skingle (right) outside the Ann Street shop
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  Leonard Skingle's Kensington Place shop
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  Roy Skingle (right) on the beach at Grouville with a friend circa 1930
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  Roy Skingle at Fauvic in 1928
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  Roy Skingle (right) at Gorey with a friend
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  A German band performs in the Parade
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  German soldiers in the Parade
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  German soldiers outside the Town Hall
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  A picture by Leonard Skingle of German soldiers in the Parade
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  Roy Skingle (centre) with friends at Laufen internment camp. The ladies are thought to be nurses
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  Roy Skingle (third from left) with colleagues at the Walls Ice Cream depot in the early 1950s
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  The shipwrecked ss Caesarea photographed by Leonard Skingle
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  A picture by Leonard Skingle of potato lorries on the Albert Pier
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  Leonard Skingle's Occupation identity card
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  Mabel Skingle (left) and a friend in about 1925
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  Mabel Skingle