Friday, 19th March 2010

coast

Square roots

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ST PETER Port Harbour breakwater has been a fishing Mecca for local anglers since the day it was built.

Harbouring a desire…

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THE White Rock would have looked altogether different had plans put forward in 1903 got the green light.

Chewy changes

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Chouet is much more than a dumping ground and somewhere to race cars on the sand – it may have lost some of its charm, but it still has stunning views and a fascinating history, as Rob Batiste reports.

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Stranger than fiction

Fictional grumpy fisherman Ebenezer Le Page was perhaps Chouet’s best-known resident. But what would he have made of the area’s changes in recent times? The old Guern would not have been happy, says Rob Batiste.

Coast – On the rocks

SEAFARING is not a word you could readily use to describe me. Come to think of it, I’m not clever in the air, either.

A grand type of bay

The beach has altered little over the years, but the rest of Grandes Rocques has seen its fair share of changes. Rob Batiste explores the bay that remains popular to this day.

Left to die

THE two-way mirror that assists drivers as they exit Grandes Rocques Road marks the point where 67 years ago Nicholas Ogier met a cruel and mysterious death.

The ever-changing sands of Grandes Rocques

Those living at Grandes Rocques have fond memories of the area as it was and the people who inhabited it, as Rob Batiste reports.

A nice little earner

VISITING Grandes Rocques beach in the 1960s offered so much more than it does these days.

The Way home

THE Germans all but wrecked it, that great sea lord de Saumarez transformed it into a school for his ailing son and plans for the 1951 Festival of Britain were drawn up there.