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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.
Cable & Wireless first entered the Channel Islands market when it purchased Guernsey Telecoms (formerly the States Telecommunications Board) from the States of Guernsey. The service was founded on 17 June 1896 as the States Telephone Department to “establish, maintain and operate” an independent telephone system for the island which would ...
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 ...
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.
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 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 Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.As a bailiwick, Guernsey embraces not only all ten parishes on the island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Alderney and Sark – each with their own parliament – and the smaller islands of Herm, Jethou and Lihou.