Jersey in pictures
This is a new page providing links to all the best picture pages in Jerripedia. The site now contains over 15,000 pictures, spread across the majority of its 5,000-plus pages. Some have a single picture, some have extensive galleries. We are restructuring parts of the site to provide easier access to some of the best images, and the links below will take you to some of the largest and most important galleries.
This is not the largest on-line collection of images of Jersey - that honour is held by the Société Jersiaise photographic archive, but we believe that Jerripedia's collection is the easiest to access and best displayed collection of Jersey photographs and artwork.
If you have pictures taken in Jersey which you believe are worthy of a place on this site, please contact editorial@theislandwiki.org and we will make arrangements to add them to our pages.
Selected galleries and picture pages
A selection of the best pictures from across the whole site
- Aviation 100 years of flying
- Harbour St Helier Harbour ...
- Maritime... and the ships which have used it
- Farming The story of Jersey's farms
- Lillie Langtry The life of a famous actress
- Victorian Jersey Selected 19c photographs
- Aerial picture gallery Looking down on the island
- Occupation Pictures from the war years
- Lifestyle Islanders at work and at play
- Fashion What well-dressed islanders have worn down the decades
- Postcards From 1895 onwards
- Trains Jersey's two railways ...
- Charabancs ... and horse-drawn transport
- Coastline Beaches, bays and cliffs
- Art Public art collections
- Entertainment Famous visiting artistes
- Countryside A green and pleasant land
- tourism A holiday island
- Old shops The retail trade in the past ...
- Other businesses ... and other undertakings
- Hotels, most of them no longer there ...
- Bars ... and cafes and restaurants
- Churches Including the 'Glass Church'
- Schools From the 19th century onwards
- Houses All the important old island houses
- Public markets Meat, fruit & veg and fish
- Statues, and assorted monuments
- Castles and forts Keeping the enemy out ...
- Soldiers ... and the troops who manned them
- Royal visits, and other celebrations
- Maps, and charts of Jersey and the other Channel Islands
Picture of the week
Every week Jerripedia editors select a single photograph (or sometimes a set of two or three) which present a particularly important view of Jersey in days gone by. It might be a striking old image of a part of the island which has changed little over the years, but it is more likely to recapture a view from the past which has long disappeared. It may be a photograph (or a painting or drawing) selected from one of our existing galleries, but more often than not it will be a picture which has not previously appeared on the site.
All the pictures of the week which have appeared since this feature was introduced in June 2011 have been transferred to an archive page, where they are retained as a diverse and fascinating pictorial record of Jersey, its people and places of historical interest.
Jerripedia features the work of hundreds of photographers, many of them anonymous, many others well known. Some were active in the island at the very dawn of photography in the 1840s, and the history of photography in Jersey is in many ways a history of photography itself.
Our main photography page provides information about many of the most important of the pioneer photographers and examples of their work, as well as links to articles about the history of their art in the island.
Recent additions
New pictures reach Jerripedia daily from a wide variety of sources, and are added to the site as soon as possible. Then they have to be allocated to individual pages and galleries, with captions providing as much background information as is available. All of this work is very time-consuming and has to be dovetailed with all the other site development. Unfortunately this means that there is a considerable backlog of images waiting to be added to the site.
In order to speed up this process somewhat we have introduced a gallery of new pictures, which have yet to be fully researched and added to the appropriate page or gallery, but are deemed to be of sufficient importance and general interest to merit a place in this holding gallery, usually with only the briefest of captions. Any Jerripedia visitor who recognises any of these images and believes that they can provide information about the subject is invited to contact editorial@theislandwiki.org.
