Rozel in the Fall

A trip to Rozel where I haven't been for some years - parking is always difficult but easier when children are at school. I love the beach huts, the date stones, the boats in the harbour. The tea rooms have gone. The Navigator restaurant - where you could "pick your own fish course" from their tank - has gone, now apartments. But the "Hungry Man" beach cafe is still, there, still doing great food! The lady behind the counter recognised me as "Facebook friend" which was a nice surprise! 

Rozel in the Fall

The tidal water gently laps the shore
Today, last blaze of an autumn sun
Like walking through a magic door
Before the cold of winter soon begun

The Hungry Man: good food to so enjoy
Hot sausage and egg roll, tea to drink
Watch the boats afloat, ahoy, ahoy!
Time to slowly reflect, time to think

Seaside houses, with date stones old
Weathered many storms over years
And what tales might they have told
About love and hope, grief and tears

This harbour, small, but such a delight
A memory to dream about tonight

1974 - 50 Years Ago - September 2024 Part 2

 

1974 - 50 Years Ago - September 2024 Part 2

16.—Preliminiary discussions about the new extended St. Peter's Village development scheme were held at a committee meeting. and it has been agreed that priority for homes will go to natives not the parish. Burt parish secretary Mr.Frank Renault emphasized this morning that applications should not be made until a further statement is issued.

17.—The States agreed to take over the artificial insemination service for the Islands’ cattle industry at an estimated annual deficit of £7,750, despite a strong plea: by Senator Dick Shenton that they should not start rescuing lame ducks.

18.—Nurses and midwives in Jersey are to get massive. pay rises ranging from £1.65 a week for- newly recruited students to around £1,000 a year for chief nursing officers. The deal announced by the UK Government yesterday as the result of an emergency independent inquiry, will automatically be applied in Jersey.

19.—Security meeasures are being taken by the police to guard the Consul de France and his staff at the Consulate in Don Street. This follows the siege of the French Ambassador and his staff at the Embassy in The Hague from last Friday until yesterday, when they were released by the Japanese Red Army Terrorists by whom they had been held captive. Deputy John Riley said that the French Government had requested that special security arrangements be made for guarding the personnel at their embassies, legations, consular offices in countries throughout the World.

20.—-A 24 year-old woman was shot dead at a house in Miladi Farm Estate, St. Saviour. at about midnight last night and a 35-year-old man, believed to be her husband, was assisting inquiries at Police Headquarters this morning.

21.—A-top official of the Jersey Farmers Union has resigned because he says that he can no longer make any constructive contribution to the organization. The resignation. which has been accepted by the union's general council, is that of Mr. Leslie Minty full-time secretary for the past seven years. .

23.——An ex-Centenier’s son, 35-year-old Jersey-born Ian Stanley Le Brun, made a brief appearance in the dock at the Police Court this morning charged with the murder of his wife 24-year-old Mrs. Christine Chandler Le Brun (née Prosser), with a shotgun. Advocate Michael Clapham is defending, but reserved his defence. No plea was entered and the Assistant Magistrate, Sir Graeme Finlay, remanded the accused in custody for one week; .

24—Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was done when fire broke out at the premises of Auto Electric, the electrical engineers, in Byron Lane, during the night. Inside the building the stock included batteries and motors, charging and lighting equipment. The cause of the fire has yet to be established.

25.—One of Jersey’s most famous bulls Broadfields Vedas Star Lad has been sold by his owner, Mr. Alec Anthoine, for the all-time Island record price of £4,000.

26.—Hit by a lorry as she was crossing the Esplanade at about 3.15 yesterday afternoon, Miss Mabel C. Foot, a. 75 year-old visitor from Andover, Hants, died some hours later at the General Hospital, where she had been taken unconscious with a suspected skull fracture.

27.—Jersey is to send £5,000 to aid victims of the Honduras hurricane disaster.

28,—Town pilot Mike Berny, the coxswain of Jersey’s lifeboat, has been selected by the RNLI as the man who performed the bravest act of life-saving during 1973. The Institution has decided that he should receive a. special award in recognition of his courage during the rescue of the crew of six from the French yacht Bacchus on September 18 last year.

29.—An 80 year-old man was killed when a tree which he was helping to fell in his garden crashed down on top of him. He was Mr. Edmund John Huelin, of Lowland Cottage. St. Catherine's Hill. St. Martin.

30..—It was announced that stockbrokers D. Q. Henriques Seal and Co., who operate a Jersey office at Channel House in Green Street, will cease trading on ‘November 8. The Manchester-based firm confirmed weekend rumours when it informed the Council of the Stock Exchange that it would not be taking on any new business after the close on that date. But the company has promised to meet all its commitments and a. spokesman in Jersey said there would be no local redundancies.

Autumnal

I had a lovely walk on Friday with some friends through country lanes in St Ouen, that very rural of Parishes, and this gave rise to this poem.

Autumnal

Season of the year, before it grows old
Milder sunshine, punctuated heavy rain
Sometimes Indian summer, others cold
With rain lashing at the window pane

Ambling leisurely along the country lane
Sheep grazing peacefully nearby fields
Gentle turning of rooftop weather vane
Before weather breaks, to winter yields

Old country farmhouses, chimney smoke
The apples ripe, with so much windfall
Earlier sunsets, a falling twilight cloak
Shadows lengthen over roadside wall

Autumn days, both joyful and sadness
Leaves golden brown bring gladness

1974 - 50 Years Ago - September 2024 Part 1

1974 - 50 Years Ago - September 2024 Part 1

2.—-—Mountainous seas and gale-force winds lashed Jersey’s east coast this morning leaving a trail of destruction from Gorey harbour to St. Catherine’s breakwater for the second time this year. At least three valuable boats were smashed against the rocks until they were nothing more than drift wood, and several other craft suffered minor damage after dragging their moorings and pounding against harbour walls. Jersey’s new Lieut.-Governor General Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick, GCB, D80. MBE. MC., was sworn in for his five-year term of office at the Royal Court this morning.

3.——Sir Desmond- Fitzpatrick was formally introduced to the States at a special sitting of. the House. He made it clear to States Members that he intends to take an active interest in Island affairs.

4-.—-A working party under Deputy Fred Le Brocq. has recently been appointed to look into the vexed question of treatment for young offenders in Jersey.

5.—-Food prices in Jersey rose 35 per cent in the quarter ended on August 9, and although this rise was not as high as in the previous quarter, the price differential between Jersey and the, UK rose to 12.7- per cent.

6.—A DC6 belonging to Delta Air Transport burst both tyres on the port side when landing at Jersey Admort shortly before 10 o’clock this morning. Bringing 42 passengers from Antwerp for a day trip -to the Island, the plane remained on the runway for 15 minutes before taxing into one of the runway exits. Both tires started to come off the rims and replacements will have to be flown into the: Island before the plane can depart. The passengers, though unharmed, were a little shaken, and were disembarked while the plane was still on the runway.

7.—After a nightmare 12-hour battle through hurricane-force winds and " horrific " seas, the one thousand Jersey-bound passengers on British Rail’s Sarnia got within sight of St. Helier Harbour early, this afternoon, only to find that the ship’s master had ordered “about turn and back to Guernsey." The decision was made, Canptain Paul Baker said later, “ because to go any further would have but the ship at risk. As we rounded Corbiére I could see we couldn’t make it—it would have been-impossible to get the ship into harbour.”

10.—The restrictions on the use of water imposed in June—using hoses to water gardens or wash cars. topping up swimming pools. etc.— are lifted from midnight tonight. M-r. Rodney Clarke, engineer-manager of the Jersey New Waterworks Company, said this morning that the decision had been taken at the company's board meeting yesterday. But he stressed that the Island still had a water problem, with 35 million gallons less in reserve that at the same time last year.

11.—Two States Members, 9 local union officials, a director of a shipping company and a chairman of the Jersey Agricultural Marketing Federation flew to Southampton this morning in a bid to solve the problems caused by the Portsmouth dock strike—a situation described by TGWU regional officer Mr. Ernie Allen as a “ tragedy ”

13.—The Jersey and Guernsey Savings Banks have announced that they will amalgamate from November next year. The banks will become the Channel Island Trustee Savings Bank, as part of a nation-wide reorganization of Trustee Savings Banks in which 1,550 branches will be arranged into 15 regional groups . , '

14.—A dockers strike at St. Malo means that over 60 cars bound for there from Jersey will be stuck in the Island over the weekends. The cars should have left last night on the Commodore Shipping services cargo vessel Norman Commodore, but they seem certain now to stay in Jersey until Monday morning at the earliest. It is believed that the next meeting to try to resolve the dispute will be held on Monday afternoon.