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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Victoria College’s first headmaster is born
- William George Henderson was the first headmaster of Victoria College, having been ordained a priest in 1859.
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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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Three French men escape to Jersey
- When three French men escaped France and made it safely to Jersey, their liberation from German occupation was to be short-lived.
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