Miscellaneous businesses

Miscellaneous businesses

• See also Picture gallery of shops of the past
• See also Garages

Oldridge butcher's delivery van in 1900 ...

... and a return to that era with improvised transport for La Rocque Bakery during the German Occupation

• 
  Co-op vans used to travel the island ...
• 
  ... bringing groceries to those in outlying areas

Milk being delivered to the Co-op's dairy in 1939 for making butter

Click on any image to see a full-size version

• 
  The Firs nursing home was at Millbrook
• 
  A poultry farm at St Brelade in 1921
• 
  Always a good partnership in peak tourism years - a good return for the deckchair concession owner, and a well paid holiday job
• 
  Retreat Farm
• 
  Retreat Farm
• 
  Retreat Farm
• 
  Co-op Dairy van
• 
  Ahier's Parade Library
• 
  Bagatelle Retreat 1860
• 
  Bagot Laundry van
• 
  Bailhache potato merchants
• 
  Baker undertakers at 56 New Street about 1895. Mr Baker was the inventor of a window blind pulley
• 
  Basket maker Louis Beaugeard
• 
  Beaumont Dairy van in 1939
• 
  Beaumont Dairy's first milk bottles
• 
  Bellingham, the island's first travel agent, in Mulcaster Street c1906
• 
  Bellinghams
• 
  Bellinghams
• 
  Bellinghams
• 
  Lissen radios from Bellozanne Radio

Richard Burrard's home and business were at 13 Halkett Street. He was described in the 1911 census as a 42-year-old fish merchant, born in Jersey. This picture taken the previous Christmas shows that he was heavily into poultry for the festive season. His wife Bessie, born in Tunbridge Wells, worked in the business, too, as did his mother, Jane. The Burrards had two daughters, Kathleen and Lilian

• 
  Blue Coach Tours ...
• 
  ... Colomberie depot ...
• 
  ... in the ...
• 
  ... 1980s
• 
  Gordon Benett Wholesale in Halkett Place
• 
  Beresford Library in 1894
• 
  Bird's Bakery, New Street
• 
  J Bisson's forge in 1902
• 
  Bisson's monumental masons
• 
  Blue Swan Carnation Nursery
• 
  Blue Swan Carnation Nursery
• 
  Bottling plant in St Peter's Valley, 1950s
• 
  Boutins travel bureau
• 
  Bryant Chemist
• 
  Burtol Cleaners van, driven by Charles Gorvel
• 
  Fish and chips in 1911
• 
  Dene and Co, signwriters
• 
  German soldiers taking an interest in W H Cole's van in the Occupation. The firm had a proud boast that it never did business with the Germans
• 
  Delivery van for baker A Boissier of Halkett Street
• 
  Tobacconist F G Olver's van

Pontac Stores bakery in 1911

• 
  Pontac Bakery delivery van in 1913
• 
  Channel Island Tyre Company
• 
  Commercial Union insurance, Grosvenor Street
• 
  Co-Op vans advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1959
• 
  Cristin photography
• 
  John Dene signwriters at 20 Old Street in 1901
• 
  Devonshire Dairy
• 
  Eastbourne House convalescent home 1911
• 
  Staff of Ernest Farley and sons who built the Evening Post flats in Charles Street in 1947
• 
  First Tower Basket Works, now the site of Les Vanniers flats
• 
  Flora Farm, St Clement
• 
  Fuel Supplies staff in 1965
• 
  Fuel Supplies delivery drivers in 1965
• 
  Pye radios from Fosters
• 
  R Gabent’s Registry Office for staff recruiting
• 
  Georgetown Lighthouse paraffin delivery service

Normans builders merchants at Commercial Buildings

• 
  Guiton and Lucas advertisement
• 
  Gulliver monumental mason
• 
  A Gulliver invoice
• 
  Halkett Library
• 
  Harper's Engineering, Bath Street
• 
  H Hart, saddle maker
• 
  Haute Tombette Nursery, also known as the Butterfly Farm
• 
  Haute Tombette carnation nursery
• 
  Haute Tombette carnation nursery
• 
  Hocquard Brothers
• 
  1859
• 
  Delivery at Springside poultry business in 1954
• 
  Humphries butchers at Christmas 1912
• 
  Huson's butcher's van during the Occupation
• 
  Lieut-Governor Sir Arthur Edward Grasett visiting Don Street Dairy in 1951 ...
• 
  ... and watching butter being made - Jersey Evening Post pictures

1958 photograph of blacksmiths Charles Augustus Villars (1876- ) and his youngest son Henry George

• 
  Jersey General Engineering
• 
  Jersey Model Laundry, Grands Vaux 1989
• 
  Hubert and Co Jersey pears
• 
  Johnson auctioneers in Bath Street
• 
  Johnson estate agent
• 
  L'Etacq Woodcrafts
• 
  L'Etacq Woodcrafts
• 
  La Motte Street's Royal Livery Stables
• 
  An invoice from William Lane, carriage makers and repairs
• 
  William Lane carriage builders New Street
• 
  Advert for Laurens baskets in 1894
• 
  George D Laurens basket works 1905
• 
  Le Brun's Bakery in 1951
• 
  Le Brun's Bakery, Brighton Road, 1989
• 
  Le Dain ginger beer
• 
  Le Gresley plumber's advert
• 
  Le Gros works entrance on the Esplanade
• 
  A Le Masurier decorators' St Aubin's bulwarks premises
• 
  Le Monnier grocer, tobacconist, wines and spirits, Charing Cross
• 
  Advert for Le Quesne funeral directors
• 
  Le Rondin laundry at St John
• 
  Laundry at Le Rondin, St John
• 
  Le Sueur advert
• 
  Fairview Dairy in 1953
• 
  Fairview Dairy, Museum Street
• 
  Fairview Dairy, Bath Street
• 
  Labelling tins of ham at Ambassador Food Company in 1952 - Jersey Evening Post picture
• 
  Unidentified chimney sweeps with the latest equipment in 1949 - Jersey Evening Post picture

Norman's staff with a large oak from Rosel Manor

• 
  1873 advert
• 
  Lock, Sand Street, 1932
• 
  Machon's cycle workshop was at Millbrook before moving into town in St Helier
• 
  1946
• 
  Cigar advertisement
• 
  Staff at Martland Stores on the Esplanade
• 
  Canning factory in 1908 ...
• 
  ... and a series of later photographs
• 
• 
• 
• 
  Mr Smedley, owner of the factory ...
• 
  ... and some of its products
• 
  Demolition of the factory's chimney in 1956
• 
  Canning factory staff
• 
  Mascot Hire Cars advert
• 
  Minden Breweries van
• 
  Minden Breweries cart
• 
  Murray’s umbrella repairs 1911
• 
  W A Nicholls delivery fleet at Commercial Buildings
• 
  W A Nichols and Sons
• 
  Norman Ltd's basket factory at Dinan
• 
  Parade Library
• 
  Pierre Parpaillon invoice from 1900 - a strange mixture of products for a Colomberie business
• 
  Pawnbroker in 1911
• 
  Le Sueur and Sons were in business in Commercial Buildings in 1925
• 
  Superfry in Hilary Street in 1979 - Jersey Evening Post picture

Orange and Briard's Esplanade store

• 
  Trading in your jewellery for cash is not solely a 21st century phenomenon
• 
  Pirouet builders merchants, Union Street
• 
  Plemont Candlecraft
• 
  Radio Hire Cars advert
• 
  Rediffusion television transmitting station at Les Platons in 1960
• 
  Jeanne Renouf at her market stall
• 
  Renouf ironmonger
• 
  H J Rive baker's van
• 
  Rive baker's van
• 
  Romeril's, Dumaresq Street
• 
  Rose - sweet manufacturer
• 
  Samares Post Office adjacent to Pontorson Lane

E Lee and Son had a music business at 22 New Street in the late 19th century. Piano manufacturer Edward Lee was born in Yorkshire in 1830 and married Mary Elizabeth Jenkinson in London in 1859, moving to Jersey two years later. Their son Walter Garnett Lee was born in St Helier in 1862 and joined his father in the New Street business. Initiallly Edward and family lived at 52 Don Street, where he continued working as a piano maker. The family then moved to Havelock Cottage, St Saviour by 1871 and were still there in 1881. Edward died before the next census in 1891

• 
  Samson's delivery cart
• 
  And a later delivery vehicle, with Bunny Pinel and Ronnie Bellee
• 
  A 1960s folder for Senett and Spears' developing and printing business ...
• 
  ... and an earlier version
• 
  Slingsby, La Motte Street
• 
  Smith’s Ice Cream Factory deliveries
• 
  1858
• 
  Steam bakery 1910
• 
  Stonewall Orchard
• 
  Stonewall receipt
• 
  Sun Works tea packers and exporters in 1959
• 
  Lambrettas from Trevor Sutton

Le Monnier wine merchants' headquarters at 36 Bath Street

• 
  Tanguy's Dairy in 1952
• 
• 
• 
  Tanguy's, Don Road
• 
  1965 Tantivy advert
• 
  E S Taylor and Co
• 
  John Terry, Esplanade
• 
  J Terry's Esplanade store
• 
  Thomson Cycles
• 
  Victoria Sea Baths
• 
• 
  Walls Ice Cream depot
• 
  White's bakery in St Mark's Road
• 
  Willmore's Cycle School was in Gloucester Street. This was a trade show promotion
• 
  Jersey Royal canners at Five Oaks in 1971
• 
  Rediffusion (Television Research Jersey) building at La Pouquelaye
• 
  Knife grinder C Shales
• 
  A Wills Tobacco parcel label
• 
• 
  The Amy family's Wayside Bakery at St Ouen

Boudin's for cycles and motor bikes

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Rue des Pres Trading Estate

<gallery widths="500px" heights="300px" perrow="2" align=center style= "color: darkgreen;font-family:garamond;font-size:12pt;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: italic;letter-spacing: 1px; cellspacing= 30px;padding: 20px 20px 30px 20px;">

File:Su17RueDesPres1974.jpg|1974 File:J24Aerial1974RueDesPres.png|Another aerial view from 1974 File:A20RueDesPresTradingEstate.jpg| File:F17RueDesPresTradingEstate.jpg|