Tourism picture gallery

For many years St Helier's main visitor centre was in the former terminus of the Jersey Railway at the Weighbridge

Pictures from a 1921 holiday album
Pictures from a 1922 holiday album
Pictures from a 1935 holiday album, including well-off and well-dressed air passengers
An album of 1939 holiday photographs
Keeping the tourists occupied, exercises on the beach in 1939
An album of 1930s holiday photographs
Pictures from a 1929 holiday album
Another album of pre-war holiday photographs
An album of photographs of guests at the Victor Hugo Hotel in 1937
Fine dining in 1958
Tourism advertising
Beach huts
Postcards
Carriages and charabancs
Hotels
Bars, cafes and restaurants

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Miscellaneous holiday pictures

And ready for a special coach tour in 1953

====Waiters' and waitresses' races

Waiters and waitresses race winners in 1957 ...
... the race in progress in 1957 ...
... in Peirson Road, past the Grand Hotel
... a large crowd in the Royal Square for the finish ...
... 1957 men's winner Antonio Berro of the Woodville Hotel receives his prize from St Helier Constable Fred Clarke
... and in 1968 ...
... and a waitress race on the beach ...

Holidaymakers with their double-decker bus
at Gorey in 1958

Plemont 1938
A coach outing in St Brelade's Bay in 1936
Sports on the beach in 1934
Booking day trips to St Malo in the 1960s
Holiday train at La Haule
Tour guide Harry in 1907
A holidaymaker in Jersey in 1912
On the beach in the 1930s
1936 holidaymakers at Havre des Pas
1907 postcard
1920s holidaymakers
Visitors checking tobacco prices in a Wine Lodge window

It's amazing how family photographs keep surfacing on auction sites. This picture, taken at Greve de Lecq, and the four below, were in the same album of holiday pictures, dated 1920, and obtained by Jerripedia 100 years later. It won't happen with photographs taken now with digital cameras, unless somebody comes across an old disc drive in 2120 and decides to print them out for sale.

The donkey ride has not been a feature of Jersey's beaches recently, but it was in 1890

Guests at Grahams Hotel in 1927
A holidaymaker in Jersey in 1912
A large group of holidaymakers poses for a photograph on the beach in 1930
A sack race provides summer entertainment for holidaymakers
Holidaymakers at Mont Orgueil Castle in the 1920s
Sports day on the beach in 1929
1929 beach games
1930 beach games
Netball on the beach at La Pulente in 1929 - Sandringham Hotel v Aberfeldy Hotel
Netball on the beach at La Pulente in 1929 - Sandringham Hotel v Aberfeldy Hotel
Honeymooners in 1956
Honeymooners in 1964
A group of holidaymakers on the beach in 1935
At Corbiere in 1935
The war had ended and holidaymakers returned in 1945
St Brelade in the 1930s
St Brelade in the 1930s

1900s snapshots

Identity cards

When Jersey's tourism industry was at its peak tens of thousands of visitors flooded in by boat and plane, no passports needed. Indeed, many would not have had one because they had probably been to Blackpool the summer before and would head for Bognor the next year. Then they decided that they fancied a day trip to France, but how would that be possible without a passport? The answer that travel agents offering a day return package were allowed to issue a temporary identity card, valid just for the day in question. Everybody was happy: Jersey's attraction as a holiday destination was enhanced; it was good business for the French, who offered coach trips, excellent lunches and shopping opportunites to their transient visitors; and the ferry companies and tour operators prospered, too. The temporary cards usually had to be surrendered at the end of the day, although some are still in existence, but travel company Boutins offered their clients a complementary copy of the photograph taken for the card as a memento.

An excursion identity card

Alleygrow Villa at First Tower offered its guests a weekly picnic

Guests from the Sandringham and Aberfeldy Hotels on the beach in 1930
1921 holiday snap
A charabanc collects guests at the Old England Hotel, Cheapside
The forerunner to today's coach tour - an excursion car
Bathers in 1919
An excursion car in the late 19tha century
The bathing pool at Havre des Pas was a major attraction for holidaymakers
1958 beach scene in St Ouen's Bay
Greve de Lecq beach in the 1970s
Physical training class on the beach in the 1930s
A packed beach at West Park in the 1920s
A charabanc outing
A tourist coach in 1911
Harry, a renowned charabanc guide
Michel, a popular guide from Paragon for French visitors
Donkeys are no longer seen on Jersey beaches

Edgar Andrews sold ice creams at Havre des Pas from the 1930s to the 'fifties
Honeymoon Special in 1956
A charabanc outing
Swansons Chelsea House
Christmas greetings from the Le Rossignols at La Chaumiere
A charabanc outing
The grand hotel
A family on holiday at Plemont in 1948
A St Brelade holiday family in 1948
1920s holidaymakers
Holiday camp badge
1920s holidaymakers
1919
1919
Holidaymakers at Havre des Pas
A 1930s snapshot
Holidaymakers at Elizabeth Castle in the 1930s
Holidaymakers on the beach in the 1930s
1930s

A large group of visitors on a charabanc outing pose for a formal photograph

A 1930s snapshot
A 1930s snapshot
Continental Hotel guests in 1930
Aberfeldy Hotel guests in 1930
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
St Brelade's beach in the 1920s
1958 holiday photo
1958 holiday photo
1958 holiday photo
1958 holiday photo
Sandringham Hotel guests in 1932
On the rocks in the 1920s
Holidaymakers in 1958
Beauport in 1923
A holiday snapshot from 1933
Leicester House guests in 1935
A group of holidaymakers, at La Coupe, probably in the 1930s
A group of holidaymakers at Havre des Pas, probably in the 1930s
A group of holidaymakers at West Park, probably in the 1930s
A group of holidaymakers in 1914
Tour guide Harry in 1907
1938
1938
1938
1937
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
Ford Anglia hire cars at St Helier Harbour
1949
1949
1949
1949
Sports day on the beach for holidaymakers in 1930
Harry was a popular guide for excursions in the early part of the 20th century
An Avis hire car map
Chelsea Hotel guests in 1925
The 'Fantastic Tropical Gardens' were in St Peter's Valley
Fantastic Gardens
A group of holidaymakers at an unidentified hotel in the 1930s ...
... and another group in the 1920s
The Weighbridge tourist bureau in 1957
A beach photographer at work
Holidaymakers on Ouaisne Beach in 1936
A group of Swedish visitors at Hotel l'Hermitage in 1963
1963 visitors shopping in St Helier in the rain
Visiting students at a Jersey dairy farm in 1963

Holidaymakers at West Park on hired bicycles in 1949

A set of 1900 holiday snaps

Plemont
Carriage ride
St Helier Harbour
Corbiere
Plemont
Plemont

French children's day trips

Those were the days! Jersey's tourism industry was nearing its peak in 1961 when 555 French children arrived on ss Brittany for a day trip. Ten years later numbers had doubled when the St Patrick brought 1,000 French children to the island on a day trip in 1971. A fleet of double-decker buses was waiting for them on the Albert Pier