Pictures of potatoes being weighed and loaded at the Harbour

Pictures of potatoes being weighed and loaded at the Harbour

Potato lorries in the 1950s

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  Packing potatoes on the quayside
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  1910s
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  1910s
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  A potato merchant's store in 1903
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  The Thomas family of potato merchants
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  Loading potatoes in 1910
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  At the Weighbridge in 1919
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  Potato vans at the Harbour
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  Potato carts at St Helier Harbour

Potato barrels being tightly packed before shipping to the UK in 1958

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  The potatoes have been weighed
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  Potato vans at the Weighbridge
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  A gathering of potato merchants
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  Thomas family, potato merchants
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  A more modern approach in John Terry's Esplanade store in 1949
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  John Terry's, 1949
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  A busy time on the Albert Pier during the potato season
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  Horse-drawn vans laden with potatoes queue before the weighbridge in 1907
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  There was a massive export of potatoes a few weeks before the German Occupation
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  Merchants at the Weighbridge
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  Loading potatoes for export
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  Packing potatoes
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  The Albert Pier crowded with potato barrels at the height of the season
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  Loading on the Albert Pier
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  After the Weighbridge, another queue on the Esplanade to access the merchants' stores

1903 shipments

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  A large gathering at the Weighbridge in the late 1940s
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  Potato exports in 1947 as the industry gets back into full swing after the Occupation
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  Potatoes for export at the Weighbridge in 1880
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  Potato merchants in 1906
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  Packing potatoes in the traditional way - Photograph by P Godfray
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  Potato packers
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  Packers
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  Potato exports
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  Queuing in front of the weighbridge
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  Potato barrels on the quayside
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  Ready for export in 1903
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  Potato lorries in 1950
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  Potato ships
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  1937
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  1937
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  1937
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  1937
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  1937
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  Queuing for the Weighbridge
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  Loading a ship

Albert Pier

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  A lorry-load of potatoes
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  A potato van around 1900
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  Potato barrel makers
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  Sacks were starting to replace barrels as early as 1948
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  Packing potatoes in barrels in 1961
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  Loading potato barrels on the Victoria Pier
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  Potato barrels on the Albert Pier
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  Potato lorries on the Albert Pier
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  1926
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  1926
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  Farmers and merchants at the Weighbridge in 1932
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  Potato lorries at the Weighbridge in 1946: a year after the Liberation potatoes were exported to Germany for British troops - Picture Evening Post
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  Potato vans owned by Charles Mossop, merchant of 22 Commercial Buildings, and, possibly, 'Hocquard'
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  A Jersey potato barrel, later superseded by paper sacks
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  Potato carts queue at the Harbour - picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe
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  Heading back along the Esplanade to the merchants' stores, after weighing - picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe
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  1964
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  1960s
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  Potato store staff gather for an end-of-season photograph in 1909

1930s

Occupation potato exports

These images are taken from a German propaganda film showing Jersey potatoes being loaded for export during the Occupation

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