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Worn as a source of pride and often knitted by prospective wives "to show the industrious nature of the woman he was about to marry", the "finer" guernsey was more elaborately patterned than its working cousin. [8] With the advent of the machine-knitted guernsey and the decline in the knitting industry, this guernsey is a much rarer sight.
Guernsey Post logo The Smith Street Post Office of the Guersey Post in Saint Peter Port, with a Fiat Doblò Maxi XL postal van parked in front Post office and pillar box on Sark. Guernsey Post is the postal service for the island of Guernsey, Channel Islands. It includes a Philatelic bureau, and regularly issues both definitive and ...
This VR box in Guernsey is the oldest box in use in the British Isles. In the 1950s Guernsey used British regional stamps marked specifically for use in Guernsey but valid for postage throughout the United Kingdom. [1] Guernsey has issued its own stamps since the creation of Guernsey Post on 1 October 1969. [1]
The Channel Islands [note 1] are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands.
The Income Tax (Guernsey) (Approval of Agreement with Macao) Ordinance, 2005; The Air Navigation (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Environment Standards) Ordinance, 2015; The Income Tax (Guernsey) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Ordinance, 2014; The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (Amendment) Ordinance, 2014; The Driving Licences (Guernsey) (Amendment ...
The legislature derives its name from the estates (French: états) of the Crown, the Church and the people from whom the assembly was originally summoned.The Jurats, representing the Crown, and the representatives of the Church of England were replaced in the constitutional reforms following the Second World War, when the office of Conseiller was introduced.
The Guernsey Customs and Immigration Department issues British passports to British citizens who are in Guernsey at the time of application and will be there when the passport is issued. Application forms are available from the Passport Office at White Rock , the States Office in Alderney , or the Greffe in Sark .
Guernsey (/ ˈ ɡ ɜːr n z i / ⓘ GURN-zee; Guernésiais: Guernési; French: Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located 27 miles (43 km) west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.