Postcards of Henry George Allix
Postcards of Henry George Allix
Henry Allix and his family outside their Queen Street shop
Henry George Allix, who had tobacconist shops in Mulcaster Street and Queen Street, was arguably the most important Jersey-based publisher of postcards. He did not, as some assume, take the photographs for the cards - he was their publisher and major retailer.
The photographs were mostly taken by Henry Allix's French professional photographer friend J Bienaimé, starting in 1905. The cards were produced for a limited period because their production ceased with the death of Henry Allix in 1914. They are numbered from 1 to 193, with some numbers used more than once. No cards have so far been found with the numbers 123, 167 and 189.
The cards were documented in a book by collector Charles Larbalestier, published by La Société Jersiaise in 2004: The Postcards of Henry George Allix - Scenes of Edwardian Jersey
This page contains a limited selection of these cards, which will be added to in due course,
File:AllixPostcard002.jpg|A country cottage File:AllixPostcard003.jpg|One of two cards published as souvenir of the Concours Musicale in 1907 File:AllixPostcard004.jpg|A second Concours Musicale card entirely in French File:AllixPostcard005.jpg|Greetings card File:AllixPostcard006.jpg|Greetings card File:AllixPostcard007.jpg|Greetings card File:AllixPostcard008.jpg|Greetings card File:AllixPostcard009.jpg|Greetings card File:AllixPostcard010.jpg|Greetings card File:AllixPostcard011.jpg|Devil's Hole File:AllixPostcard012.jpg|Devil's Hole File:AllixPostcard014.jpg|Devil's Hole File:AllixPostcard013.jpg|St Mark's Road File:AllixPostcard015.jpg|St Mark's Road File:AllixPostcard016.jpg|La Corbière Lighthouse File:AllixPostcard017.jpg|La Corbière Lighthouse File:AllixPostcard018.jpg|La Corbière Lighthouse File:AllixPostcard019.jpg|La Corbière File:AllixPostcard020.jpg|La Corbière Lighthouse File:AllixPostcard021.jpg|La Corbière File:AllixPostcard022.jpg|Plemont File:AllixPostcard023.jpg|Plemont File:AllixPostcard024.jpg|Plemont File:AllixPostcard025.jpg|Plemont File:AllixPostcard026.jpg|Plemont File:AllixPostcard027.jpg|Mont Orgueil Castle and Gorey Harbour File:Su17PetitPortelet.jpg|Not Anne Port, as captioned, but Petit Portelet File:B18Allix001ElizabethCastle.jpg|Elizabeth Castle File:B18Allix001ElizabethCastle2.jpg|Elizabeth Castle File:B18Allix002ElizabethCastle.jpg|Elizabeth Castle File:B18Allix002StHelierView.jpg|St Helier view File:B18Allix003GoreyPier.jpg|Gorey Pier File:B18Allix004RoyalSquare.jpg|Royal Square File:B18Allix004TownChurch.jpg|Town Church File:B18Allix005BroadStreetObelisk.jpg|Broad Street Le Sueur obelisk File:B18Allix005DonMonument.jpg|Don Monument File:B18Allix009HalkettPlace.jpg|Halkett Place File:B18Allix006RoyalCrescent1.jpg|Royal Crescent File:B18Allix006RoyalCrescent2.jpg|Royal Crescent File:B18Allix007QueenStreet.jpg|Queen Street File:B18Allix007QueenStreet2.jpg|Queen Street File:B18Allix008HotelDeL'Europe1.jpg|Hotel de l'Europe File:B18Allix008HotelDeL'Europe2.jpg|Hotel de l'Europe File:B18Allix010GrandHotel1.jpg|Grand Hotel File:B18Allix010GrandHotel2.jpg|Grand Hotel File:B18Allix011OperaHouse1.jpg|Opera House File:B18Allix011OperaHouse2.jpg|Opera House File:B18Allix009ssLaura.jpg|ss Laura File:B18Allix012HarbourRowers.jpg|Rowers in the harbour File:B18Allix012Pierheads.jpg|Pierheads File:B18Allix013FortHarbour.jpg|Fort Regent File:B18Allix013FortRegent.jpg|Fort Regent
