Gorey photo gallery

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Gorey land reclamation

The major land reclamation schemes around St Helier Harbour which started in the last quarter of the 20th century and are still in progress had their origins in the need to find places to dump much of the rubble and other solid waste which the island produces on a daily basis, but they were by no means the first efforts at land reclamation. In the early part of the 19th century, perhaps even earlier, land was reclaimed at what is now the innermost part of St Helier Harbour, the area now known as the Weighbridge, which was previously sand dunes washed by high tides. And in the 1870s, after the shipbuilding yards which lined the coast at Gorey had ceased to operate, a large section of beach was reclaimed to create a coastal road, and, in due course, an extension of the railway line from Gorey Village to the pier. The picture below shows what this area was like before reclamation started. Four-storey buildings, probably some of the tallest houses in the island at the time, backed directly on to the beach and were supported by wooden struts. Washing lines stretched across the sand and the high tide lapped at the exterior walls of the houses. The route from the pier to the village was on higher ground behind these buildings. The picture above shows work in process to reclaim this section of foreshore, the position of the new sea wall indicating just how much land which today is covered in gardens, the coast road and another line of buildings, was reclaimed from the sea

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A new set of pictures of Gorey Harbour from a French collection

  • 1860s

  • 1870

  • 1870s

  • Looking down on a busy harbour with oyster fishing boats

  • The fleet is now much smaller

  • A decade or so later and the harbour is empty

  • An albumen print of an Ernest Baudoux photograph

  • An albumen print of a Philip Godfray photograph

  • An albumen print

  • Castle Green in 1880

  • 1889

  • 1906 - a mother and her children stroll across Castle Green

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Jersey Heritage presentation

This set of pictures, some of them duplicated below, is taken from a Jersey Heritage presentation on the history of Gorey Harbour in 2020

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General views

An 1841 drawing of Gorey
A 21st century photograph

  • Photograph by Manuel Menendez, c1900

  • Boys fishing off the seawall

  • An 1872 sketch by Ouless

  • This picture was taken in the late 19th century, after the railway line was extended to the harbour. It can be seen that the roads are still unsurfaced. Tarmac did not arrive until the 20th century

  • 1880s

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  • 1905

  • An 1855 etching

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  • 1870s

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  • 1910

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  • 1890

  • 1930s

  • 1922

  • Mont Orgueil Castle overlooking the harbour

  • An 1858 representation by Walter Dendy of the castle and a coastal tower

  • 1840 drawing by Robert Mudie

  • By Philip Ouless in 1852

  • By Philip Ouless in 1852

  • A very early photograph of Gorey in the 1850s

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  • 1860s

  • 1869

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  • Demolition of the wartime bunker on the site of the old railway terminus

A woman and children on the rocks at the edge of the harbour. Behind them, even after the sea wall was built, people still hung their washing out to dry on the beach
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  • Walkers on the promenade

  • Gorey photographed in 1870 by Ernest Baudoux

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  • Gorey at high tide - an EL postcard

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  • 1950s

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  • The beach at Gorey

  • The Castle and harbour

  • A Gorey fisherman

  • Sailing boats in the harbour

  • The harbour

  • A lantern slide of Gorey

  • Gorey in the 1930s

  • 1967

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  • 1898

  • 1878

  • A photograph by F Milton

  • 1953 - the gardens have been reinstated but the German bunker has yet to be demolished

  • 1865

  • A painting by an unknown artist

Ernest Baudoux photograph from 1879

  • Oyster boats at Gorey Harbour

  • A photograph by Ernest Baudoux

  • An 1815 painting of Gorey by Tobias Young

  • An early 19th century drawing by Cornelius Varley

  • Beams left over from shipbuilding photographed by Ernest Baudoux

  • Oyster boats in the harbour

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  • The harbour in 1902

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  • The castle floodlit

  • 1903

  • Gorey in 1977

  • The pier and castle in 1935

  • Gorey in the 1950s

  • Gorey in the 1950s

  • Gorey in the 19th century

  • The railway lines have gone and work has started on creating gardens

  • A photograph by Francis Foot

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  • A painting of Mont Orgueil

  • 1904

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  • 1846

  • By J Wilson, 1854

A Leon and Levy photograph from 1900, before the era of LL postcards

  • 1904

  • 1905

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  • Gorey - an early photograph from the mid-19th century

  • A picture from the 1860s by Slater

  • An albumen print from the 1880s

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  • 1880s

  • 1903

  • The castle in 1909

  • The castle in 1912

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  • 1961

  • 1900

  • 1862

  • From an 1882 Ward Lock publication

  • A No 1 double decker bus ready to return to St Helier

  • The cotils above Gorey Harbour in 1965, planted with potatoes and covered in polythene sheeting

  • Gorey

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  • Looking back towards Gorey Hill from the road north towards Anne Port

The harbour

A busy harbour in the 1860s

  • 1958

  • The harbour in 1893

  • Another picture of the harbour in 1893

  • Boats at Gorey in 1893

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  • An 1849 picture by Herbert Alfred

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  • 1935

  • Once home to an oyster fishing fleet, Gorey Harbour became the preserve of pleasure craft

  • 1880

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  • A paddle steamer in the harbour - this picture was supplied by the Facebook group Jersey Temps Passe

  • Oyster fishing boats in the harbour in the 1870s

  • A 19th century stereoview of the harbour

  • Part of the oyster fleet in port

  • A 19th century photograph by Godfray

  • A very low tide in 1949

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  • A Photochrom postcard

  • Gorey by Stroud, 1888

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  • Gorey Harbour

  • Gorey in 1868 photograped by Mullins

  • A large vessel in the port photographed by Ernest Baudoux

  • A view across the harbour

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  • 1900s

  • 1883Photograph by Ernest Baudoux

  • It is not known whether this picture of harbourmouth work is St Helier Harbour or Gorey, but the latter seems more likely

  • Oyster fishing vessels in the harbour in the mid-19th century

  • The slipway in the corner of the harbour

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  • 1860s

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  • Boats in the harbour in the 19th century

  • A photograph by Slater in 1870

  • 1869

  • The harbour c1900

  • Early 1900s

  • Oyster boats

  • By John Mulcaster Carrick

  • By Alfred Herbert

  • 1950s

By Louis de Kock

The pier

If the date of 1860, which has been attributed to this picture, is correct, it is one of the highest quality among the oldest surviving outdoor photographs taken in Jersey. We have pictures of Vinchelez which are believed to date from 1860, and we have recently discovered a photograph of the Weighbridge and St Helier Harbour which was probably taken in the 1850s, and one of Gorey Harbour which was a picture of the week and dates from the late 1840s or early 1850s. However, none of these are of such outstanding quality as this image. Bear in mind that if the date is correct, it is now over 150 years old. We are by no means certain that this is the case, but even if the 1860 date is accurate, there are certainly older photographs in the gallery on this page. August 2017 update: A further copy of this photograph has emerged as a stereoview pair, and we now know that it was taken by Philip Godfray. That does not assist us much in establishing the age of the photograph because he was in business in Jersey from 1858 to 1898. So it could have been taken in 1860, and stereoview photographs were certainly very popular at that time. We are currently researching the history of the pier in some detail, and in the course of this work we will reassess the dates given to some of the images below
This very early print shows Gorey pier before many buildings had been constructed in a line under the castle

  • The pier in the 1870s

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  • 1930s

  • The pier from a Victorian stereo pair

  • We have not been able to establish what the large pile of rocks on the bottom of the hill leading down to the pier was there for. They may have been used as infill when land was reclaimed for the road and railway on the seafront

  • 1870s

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  • A row of hotels in 1888

  • 1962

  • Gorey Customs log

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  • The harbour lighthouse

  • Tea houses

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  • Gorey in the 1930s

  • Ladies stroll along the pier

  • 1930

  • A boat in the harbour in the 1950s

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  • Hotels and the former railway terminus

  • Gorey in Victorian times

  • 1960

  • The pier

  • A sailing ship in the harbour

  • Passengers board the Cotentin at Gorey

  • Gorey pier with the bunker built during the German Occupation

  • An Ernest Baudoux photograph of the pier

  • 1921

  • 1957

  • 1898

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  • 1949. It can be seen that the plot at the bottom of the hill on the right has yet to be developed

  • A different composition also in 1949

  • A fairground on the pier in 1949

  • 1937

  • 1898

  • The pier in the 1850s, with Mont Orgueil towering above

  • This picture was taken between 1905 and 1910

  • The bottom of Gorey Hill showing the old public weighbridge at the bottom left and the railway terminus on the right ...

  • ... And an earlier view which shows that the hill was then the only way of reaching the harbour because the coast road had yet to be built on reclaimed land, which would also allow the railway line to be extended here from Gorey Village

  • A busy scene on the pier in 1900, from a visiting French family's holiday album

  • 1950s

  • 1950s

A very early photograph of properties on Gorey Pier

  • A postcard of the pier

  • Working on a yacht near where much larger vessels had previously been built

  • An early photograph of the pier

  • Gorey Post Office in the 1880s

  • Gorey Pier photographed by Edwin Dale

  • Gorey Harbour photographed by Albert Smith

  • HMS Albercore in Gorey Harbour

  • The harbour in the 1930s

  • The bottom of Gorey Hill

  • Gorey Pier in the 1930s

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  • The harbour station

  • The castle viewed from the end of the pier

  • Gorey Pier in 1935

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  • Gorey in the 1970s

  • Before land was reclaimed to build a sea wall and railway line

  • Gorey in the 1950s

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  • This picture was supplied to us dated 1905, which would mean that the car on the pier was among the earliest on island roads

  • Gorey in the 1950s

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  • 1965

  • 1868 albumen print

  • German bunker demolition

  • German bunker demolition

  • 1894

  • 1880s

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  • Several hotels line the quayside

  • A 1900 photograph by Albert Smith

  • 1954

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  • 1900s

  • 1970

  • 1930s

  • 1930s

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  • 1960s

  • Carriages await outside Lestang's Hotel

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  • Gorey Hill looking down towards the pier

  • The landward end of the pier in 1973

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  • Houses on Gorey Pier

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  • 1850s

  • Mullins picture from 1866

  • 1910

  • 1888

  • 1850

  • 1865

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  • 1870

  • An 1860s photograph by Bashford and Mercier

  • Gorey pier with the bunker built during the German Occupation

  • An etching from the time when Gorey was an important port

  • A very early photograph of Gorey in the 1850s

  • Gorey Pier in the 1970s

  • Some of the pier's tearooms

  • 1940

  • 1945

  • During the German Occupation

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  • 1860s

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  • 1930s

  • 1907

  • c1900

  • 1920s

  • Tea rooms

  • Demolition of the German bunker in 1971

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  • An 1860 print

  • 1897

  • 1897

  • 1896

  • An amateur photograph from 1892

  • A similar view by Edwin Dale

  • 1950s

  • A 1907 photograph used on a Wrench postcard

  • A 19th century hand-tinted slide of the pier ...

  • ... and a mid-20th century view looking down from the castle

The coast

1878

  • 1970s

  • The new road through the common was created in 1938

  • The coast road past the common before it was widened in the 1930s

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  • Before land was reclaimed to create a coastal road and railway track

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  • The Gorey coastline

  • Beach huts and piles of vraic in the 1910s

  • Seaweed being collected from Grouville beach, with Mont Orgueil in the background, in 1860

  • Gorey in 1939 by C T Howard

  • Before the sea wall was built

  • Preparing to lay the railway track extension from Gorey Village to the pier

  • 1930

  • The coast road in 1900

  • Honeymooners in the coastal garden where a century earlier shipyards stood

  • 1967

  • 1894

  • 1925

  • Mont Orgueil in the distance from this rock pool on the coast

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  • 1950

  • 1970

  • View from the castle in the 1950s

  • 1950s

  • 1950s

  • The seaside gardens in 1973

Mont Orgueil Castle

  • 1680 print

  • An early print displaying considerable artistic licence

  • The ceremony held in 1907 when the keys to the Castle were officially handed over to Jersey by the British Government

  • The ceremony held in 1907 when the keys to the Castle were officially handed over to Jersey by the British Government

  • The ceremony held in 1907 when the keys to the Castle were officially handed over to Jersey by the British Government

  • A view of the back of the castle

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  • The back of the castle in a 1906 photograph

  • The castle from the land side

  • Another image of the floodlit castle

  • Serres

  • Gosselin

  • Grose

  • Heriot 1775

  • Heriot 1775

  • Heriot 1775

  • Heriot 1775

  • Rybot reconstruction

  • Section of castle in 1775

  • 17th century sketch of castle

  • Gorey in a storm

  • From an 1856 guidebook

  • Mont Orgueil Castle and Gorey Pier

  • Looking north from Mont Orgueil

  • 1954

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  • 19th century view of the seaside of the castle

  • The castle gate - picture courtesy of Facebook group Jersey Temps Passe

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A bus leaves Gorey along the coast road in 1930

  • A Victorian albumen print of Gorey

  • 1786

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  • 19th century

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  • 1902

  • 1929

  • 1900 lantern slide

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  • Residential section of the castle

  • The castle viewed from the end of the harbour

  • An unusual view of the castle from inland

  • The great and the good at the ceremony of the handing over of the Castle keys

  • The handing of the keys of the castle to the States

  • The handing of the keys of the castle to the States

  • The handing of the keys of the castle to the States

  • The handing of the keys of the castle to the States

  • The handing of the keys of the castle to the States

  • The castle in 1848

  • 1906

  • The public entrance in the 1950s

The start of the pier many years before these properties became smart hotels and restaurants

  • The ceremony of the handing of the keys of the castle to the States

  • The old gatehouse

  • The castle in 1834

  • The castle in 1854

  • The less photographed back of the castle

  • Mont Orgueil from the air

  • The castle walls

  • The castle in 1680

  • An early postcard of Mont Orgueil

  • The castle has been the subject of many paintings over the years

  • A 1935 aerial photograph

  • The castle gate

  • Looking down on the castle green

  • St Mary's Crypt

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  • The castle by Thomas Philips, probably 17th century

  • 1690

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  • The castle has been regularly floodlit in recent years

  • The back of the castle in 1906

  • The castle belfry

  • The castle well

  • The beach at the back of the castle

  • Time for refreshments in 1927

A train pulls out of Gorey along the narrow track built on reclaimed land sandwiched by a pedestrian promenade and the road
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  • The castle at night

  • External steps

  • St George's Crypt

  • St Mary's Crypt

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  • By JC Hole in 1882

  • Frigates off Mont Orgueil by Dominic Serres

  • The castle in 1785 by Joshua Gosselin

  • The castle in 1776 by Francis Grose

  • A view by George Heriot

  • A view by George Heriot

  • A view by George Heriot

  • A view by George Heriot

  • By Norman Rybot

  • Section of the castle in 1755

  • A painting by Serres

  • A 1680 sketch

  • The Queen Elizabeth Gate, built in 1593

  • An 1858 impression of the Castle by Walter Cooper

  • An 1857 picture

  • An 1840 picture

  • Cannons on the ramparts in 1924

  • The castle viewed from the railway platform in the early 20th century

  • A 1907 picture

  • Norman Rybot's impression of the castle in its early years

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  • A print of the castle in 1777

  • The handover of the castle to the States by the British Government

  • The handover of the castle to the States by the British Government

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  • George II Gate

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  • A 1978 picture

  • A picture of the crypt by Hamilton Toovey

  • An entrance

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  • The castle under siege

  • The north side of the castle

  • The States receive the keys to the Castle

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  • Archaeological excavations in 1909

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  • The castle floodlit in the 1950s

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  • 1925

  • Mont Orgueil gateway in 1905

  • 1888

  • 1857

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  • 1929

  • Mont Orgueil

  • Castle plan

  • The sea side of Mont Orgueil

  • Mont Orgueil steps

  • Mont Orgueil entrance

  • 1894

  • Castle walls

  • The castle in 1875

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  • 1900

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  • Tree of Succession

  • Victorian slide

  • Victorian slide

  • Victorian slide

  • 1900

  • Internal steps

  • 1937

  • 1937

  • 1891

  • Albumen print

  • 1869

  • A young lady in danger of being caught on the rocks behind the castle by the incoming tide

  • The lodge at the main entrance to the castle

  • The castle seen from the south-east

  • Mont Orgueil 1899

  • 1896

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  • 1880s photograph by Philip Godfray of the back of the castle

  • The bell tower

  • Visitors on the castle steps in 1906

  • A very old drawing

  • 1925

  • 1951

  • A 1777 print

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  • An archaeological dig at the Castle in the 1920s, photographed by Emile Guiton

Who would recognise this as Mont Orgueil? A perpendicular view from a drone flying above the castle in 2018 has produced a remarkable perspective. The picture was first published in the Jersey Evening Post

The Village

  • The eastern fringe of the village viewed from the castle in the 1950s

  • A pump in the village, subject of a preservation order

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  • Gorey Village

  • Gorey Village

  • An early photograph of Gorey Village

  • Gorey Village

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  • The village celebrates in 1902

  • Gorey Village in 1908

  • Gorey Village in 1929

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  • Gorey Village

  • The village in 1906

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  • Gorey Village

  • 1898

  • Gorey Hill, late 1960s

  • The former post office in the village

  • Beresford Stores

The village shop run by the Le Cocq family

  • 1898

  • A general view

  • Gorey in 1860

  • Gouray Church

  • A ceremonial arch erected at Gorey for the coronation of Edward VII

  • The coast road between Gorey Village and the pier was not built until the late 1880s when the railway line was extended and a sea wall built

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  • Gouray Hill, leading from the harbour to the church

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  • Beresford Stores, 1907

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  • Sea Cliff, at one time an old people's home

  • Phil Perchard's village shop

  • Phil Perchard's village shop

Aerial and birdseye views

A view of the jetty from the castle above

  • 1897

  • EP15GoreyBunker.jpg

  • Gorey in 1960 – the German bunker still remained

  • View from the Castle

  • 1920s

  • Looking down on the bunker built during the Occupation

  • Aerial view of the harbour

  • Another aerial view of Gorey

  • A recent picture taken from a kite

  • Gorey in 1936, viewed from the castle ramparts

  • GoreyfromCastle.jpg

  • An aerial view

  • 0715Gorey.jpg

  • Gorey in 1860

  • A view from the top of Mont Orgueil Castle

  • The promenade which replaced the railway line

  • View of the pier from the top of the castle

  • 1967

  • USA15GoreyBirdseyeEarly.jpg
  • USA15GoreyJetty.jpg
  • USA15GoreyStation2.jpg
  • Sue15GoreyBirdseye.jpg

  • 1951 aerial photograph by Aerofilms

  • 1951 aerial photograph by Aerofilms

  • 1933 aerial photograph by Aerofilms

  • EB15GoreyTerminusBirdseye.jpg
  • Gorey6a.jpg
  • GoreyfromCastle.jpg

  • 1951 aerial photograph by Aerofilms

  • 1933 aerial photograph by Aerofilms

  • 1950s

This painting of Gorey is by Richard Principal Leitch (1826-1882), who was the son of the royal watercolour tutor William Leighton Leitch, who taught Queen Victoria, her daughters and her daughter-in-law Princess Alexandra for almost twenty years. The watercolour, dated 1860, was one of three views of Jersey and Guernsey by Leitch painted "according to the Queen's requests".

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Further photographs of the Gorey area can be found in the following pages:

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