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Door of 9 Pier Road, Saint Helier, Jersey – house given to La Société Jersiaise for use as museum (now part of the Jersey Museum). Motto over door reads: Fier coum Cyrus, mes viers garçons, j'vos ouvre l'us, l'us d'ma caumine (Proud as Cyrus, my old boys, I open to you the door, the door of my cottage)
The face of St Helier as sculpted on the 1978 monument La Croix de la Reine in St Helier. Saint Helier Harbour is named after Helier (or Helerius), a 6th-century ascetic hermit from Belgium. The traditional date of his martyrdom is AD 555. His feast day, marked by an annual municipal and ecumenical pilgrimage to the Hermitage, is on 16 July.
The museum was established in the warehouses after it was decided to use them to house the Occupation Tapestry, after the 50th anniversary of liberation. [3] In 1996 a memorial was erected outside of the museum buildings to Channel Islanders who died after being deported to Europe by the Germans. [4] The museum formally opened in 1997. [5]
North Jersey traffic Closures on I-80, I-287; Routes 46, 3, 94; Devils at Prudential Hawthorne flooding At least four sections of road were cordoned off to motorists in a low-lying portion of ...
Jersey Heritage is an independent trust in Jersey which is responsible for the island's major historic sites, museums, and public archives. It holds collections of artefacts, works of art, documents, specimens, and information relating to Jersey's history, culture, and environment. The trust was formally registered in Jersey on 3 June 1983.
Jersey Museum and Art Gallery: St Helier: Local: Operated by Jersey Heritage: Hamptonne Country Life Museum: St Lawrence: Country life: Operated by Jersey Heritage, owned by the National Trust for Jersey: Jersey War Tunnels: St Lawrence: Military: Tunnels built by the occupying German forces from 1941 - 1945 Elizabeth Castle: St Helier: Castle ...
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St Helier (/ ˈ h ɛ l i ər /; Jèrriais: Saint Hélyi; French: Saint-Hélier) is the capital of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.It is the most populous of the twelve parishes of Jersey, with a population of 35,822, [4] over one-third of the island's total population.