26th January 2012
Freedom Church buys the Odeon cinema
The Odeon cinema building had been a St Helier landmark for more than half a century when Freedom Church bought it for £1m. The church had plans to re-generate it for community use, where it would be run under the name Freedom Centre. The listed cinema had narrowly escaped being demolished to make room for development when, the previous year, the Environment Minister had declared it a landmark building and placed it under protection so that it could form part of the North of St Helier Masterplan.
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Other events that occured in January
Jersey Airways demands Guernsey monopoly
- Jersey Airways offered to pay for the construction of Guernsey Airport if it could have the sole rights to use it for five years.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Jersey connection
- If it was not for Jersey-born film director Seymour Hicks, Alfred Hitchcock might not have had his lucky break.
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Jersey beggar is sentenced to hard labour
- A beggar who claimed to have just arrived from Jersey raised suspicions on the mainland and was sentenced to a month's hard labour.
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Death of Jersey sewage pioneer
- Pierre Le Sueur embarked on an ambitious plan to lay sewage pipes beneath St Helier as the town's population grew.
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