4th June 1889
Building work starts on St Aubin on the Hill
The Bishop of Guildford laid the foundation stone of St Aubin on the Hill, St Brelade’s Anglican church, on 4 June 1889. It took three and a half years from that point for construction work to be completed.
The current church wasn’t the first building on the site to have been used for worship, as it replaced an earlier structure that had become dangerous by 1888. Much of the granite that had been used in the construction of the earlier church was re-used in its successor.
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Princess Margaret visits Jersey
- Almost ten years to the day after her sister’s visit, Princess Margaret came to Jersey. It what was, quite literally, a flying visit.
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Jersey is struck by two big fires
- A Home Office expert sent to Jersey to investigate two large fires, one of which laid waste to a furniture depository declared them arson.
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Jesse Boot, of Boots chemist, dies in Jersey
- Although founded by John Boot, Boots the chemist owes its early success to John’s son, Jesse, who died in Jersey, aged 81, in June 1931.
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Plane catches fire on take-off from Jersey
- G-CEXF, a Fokker F27 plane on its fourth flight of the day, caught fire just 400ft above the runway as it took off from Jersey Airport.
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