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La Hougue Bie is the original Jersey tourist attraction, built six thousand years ago by neolithic man as a ritual site. The Ritual site, a passage grave is still is one of the largest and most well preserved passage graves in North Eastern Europe. This passage grave was also used for rituals other than just burial and can be [...] For almost five years, Jersey with the rest of the Channel Islands was occupied by the Nazi Germans; the Channel Islands were the only part of Great Britain to be occupied during World War II. Hitler’s invasion of the Channel Islands was unexpected and Jersey was still being advertised as the perfect holiday destination [...] Jersey has been a surf destination for eighty years and for a few years was one of the most important surf spots in Europe. At one stage, as difficult as it is to believe now, Jersey was considered to be the surf capital of Europe. In the 1960’s thousands of people packed St Ouen’s bay to [...] Born on Thursday 13th of October 1853 Lille Langrty was christened Emilie Charlotte Le Breton but nick named Lillie by her family because of the whiteness of her skin. She was born in the rectory of St Saviours the sixth child of Dean William Corbet and his wife Emilie Davis Martin she was the only girl [...] The Hermitage of St Helier is on Elizabeth Castle and can easily be accessed at low tide by walking or at high tide by using the amphibious ferries that go between Elizabeth castle and the town of St Helier St Helier was the son of Sigobard and his wife Lutsgard who were pagans. Sigobard and Lutsgard lived in [...] In the Spring of 2010 Jersey’s bank notes will be given a new look for the first time in 18 years. We have been given only a glimpse of the new designs but we have been told Jersey will keep the pound note. The Jersey Treasury Minister was asked if there were plans to remove the [...] Black Butter ‘Le Niere Buerre’ The name black butter can be misleading as Black Butter has no dairy ingredients and every effort is made to ensure it does not turn black. The butter part in the name is really a guide to its consistency and the fact you can spread it on bread but equally [...] By Ian Ronayne Jersey’s Forgotten History Dominating the recent history of the charming British Channel Island of Jersey is its traumatic occupation by German forces during the Second World War. The dark days of 1940 to 1945 rightly hold an overwhelming position in the island’s collective consciousness, and are the subject of numerous books, events [...] In the 16nth Century the alcoholic drink of choice for most people in Jersey was cider. Cider remained the tipple of the common man untill the 19nth century. In 1839 over 268.000 gallons of Cider were exported from Jersey it was at the time Jersey’s largest agricultural export with up to twenty five percent of [...] The Jersey Royal potato did not exist before 1880 when Hugh de la Haye had some friends around for a meal. We know this because it is recorded that when they had eaten Hugh showed them a huge potato with 15 ‘eyes’ or sprouts. As an experiment the farmers cut the fifteen eyed potato into [...] |
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