Channel Islands
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Why do I love Alderney?
I am going to finish my present holiday theme and try to answer a question a lady posed to me at the end of my talk at Flitwick Library. ‘Jersey has its Jersey cows and rich cream and Guernsey its WW2 history, so what makes Alderney special?’ A tough question. Alderney doesn’t have countless museums, forts and galleries to…
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Poignant Parallels – The Wanderlust of Islanders
Are you an islander full of wanderlust or are you just content to live on your island home? Are you living on an island watching planes go by and wondering where they are going to, imagining places the other side of the water or on mysterious distant shores? Do you hallucinate a Big Mac or dream of John…
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More book reviews on Alderney
Alderney Annuls by Roger Venne & Geoffrey Allez What I love about this book is the quotes from historians and travellers back as far as the 16th Century. These bring the island’s history to life with humour giving fascinating facts, detailed lists- for example businesses in 1851, folklore and vivid descriptions of important events, places…
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Guernsey- Holiday memories and family connections
My Great Grandfather was born on the island of Guernsey in 1867. He married my Great Grandmother Harriet Jane from Alderney in The Holy Trinity Church in 1890, before they moved to the mainland and settled in Woolston, Southampton. He returned to the island years later and unfortunately died there during the occupation years in…
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Walk and Talk on Alderney
SATURDAY JUNE 5TH WALK AND TALK WITH AUTHOR DIANA JACKSON ABOUT HER WRITING, FAMILY HISTORY AND NOVEL RIDUNA MEETING AT THE ALDERNEY INFORMATION CENTRE 2PM REFRESHMENTS AT THE HARBOUR LIGHTS AT AROUND 4PM SUGGESTED DONATION TO MOTOR NEURONE’S DISEASE ASSOCIATION It’s not long now. I came up with the idea of a Walk and Talk…
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Researching for Riduna
The quest for research began in the summer of 1999. I spent some time in the Alderney Museum which was helpful and informative. At that time I was a primary teacher and so I also visited Aylesbury Library archives during my holidays and was let into the depths of the County Hall tower, where there…