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.

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.

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

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

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.

A MOTHER and two small children were hit by a car yesterday as they walked along the coast near Grandes Rocques.

TWO 14-year-olds were last evening airlifted to safety from a wave-lashed rock off the west coast.