| I’m sure I am not alone in having
had some wonderful holidays in the Channel Islands. My first visit to
Guernsey was not long after the war and I have been back many times
since. The islands have a great charm which makes you want to return
again and again, and we can see why in a delightful “series of 48
views, aerial, landscape and historic” issued by British American
Tobacco as their Channel Islands Past & Present Third Series of 1939.
The first half of the hand-coloured photographic set is devoted to
Guernsey, the second half to Jersey. Rekindling fond memories of
holidays are the views of Petit Bot, Moulin Huet and Fermain Bay in
Guernsey, and Portelet and St. Ouen’s in Jersey, but there are many
other examples – historic Mont Orgueil and Elizabeth Castles, St Peter
Port and St Helier – even the West Park Pavilion, “the Palais de Danse
completed in 1931 and replete with attractive features for the
entertainment and refreshment of visitors” enthuses the text on no.
33. And, of course, there’s Corbiere Lighthouse, the welcoming beacon
at the end of the voyage from Weymouth.
This set of British American Tobacco Channel Island Past and Present
3rd Series in very good condition is catalogued at £16.00.
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