May's Misc

We'll start this batch of snaps with a thumbs up for The Mansell Collection for tarting up a landmark building at First Tower (Streetview) and keeping it alive, as well as giving the island another attraction for visitors.

Next, some views around Town. A mix of old and not so old architecture at Nat West, Brook St.

Charing Cross from a distance, from King St with a view all the way through to Seaton Place.

Charing Cross / York St with the bunting up for Lib Day.

Sand St scene.

Lib Wharf...

.. still trying to make an empty unit seem used, by exhibiting art.

 .. but here's one new outlet...

.. More Than Sport

.. and at the other end of the Wharf, a franchise of UK chain Joe Delucci's - another chance to eat in a former public toilet :)

.. and in the former Tourist Info office, Seafish Cafe ...

.. menu close-up.

The little train is up and running for another season.

The Boat Show had good weather for a change...

.. some idea of the scale of the event.

More street scenes - Conway St...

Fresh new leaves around the Town Church...

.. new Crew shop in Halkett Place...

.. the old Trattoria Centrale (7-11 Don St), closed for some time, is nearing its transformation into Ormer - your chance to have Shaun Rankin cook for you.

The Fish Market is still there, although (unshown) one closed unit inside the place makes it look a bit unloved.

Something about this building and its balconies appeals to me, although those old windows suggest some cold winter conditions inside.

The old Victoria Club is now a Jersey Pottery foodie place, trying to emulate a posh London eatery by the looks of it...

.. looking up, they don't make 'em like this any more - more's the pity. The architects these days think that they can't do it any more, for reasons that only make sense amongst themselves.

They've called it Banjo, for some reason.

.. how the old chapel development "1875" (Wesley St, Dandara) is looming over Beresford St.

Looking along the Le Gallais section Bath St.

This week saw the start of the destruction of St.Martin's School playing field.. hoarding up around the playground...

.. a gap in the fence for access to build on the green field. Booooo!

Amazingly, although I noticed a bunker at Mont Matthieu many years ago, somehow I've never noticed (until now) the part with the view over the bay! As I'm always looking into the distance, I can't believe how I've missed that for all this time :)

Back again - misc

At this time of year you can get this outfall into a sunset shot (La Mare, Greve d'Azette).

A now bare and tree-less Victoria Cottage Homes sees the newly replaced grass starting to take hold.

Down Wellington Road, De La Salle now sports brand new gates with the school crest looking smart...

... that figure has an oddly small head!

At the bottom of the hill, a shop now closed and boarded up.

Another school hill, and the smashed wall has been repaired.

Coming soon - TGI Fridays to enhance the waterfront.

How many great holidays began with a trip down Jersey's first Roll-On-Roll-Off ferry ramp at Albert Pier?

... it's going to be removed and the gap in the marina wall filled in.

... a better look at that container ship.

There has been building work for ages now on the coast road, I couldn't remember what used to be there...

... Google Streetview to the rescue!

New : Clos de (la) Charriere at the start of Plat Douet Rd, near La Grande Charriere slip...

Should it be Clos de la Charriere rather than de Charriere? The 'la' or 'le' (contracted to 'du') seems to apply to nouns (e.g. Clos de la Gare, Clos de la Bataille, Clos de la Fontaine) and they're naming this after La Charriere (the slipway - noun) rather than a name like Clos de Patier, Clos de Balmain, Clos de Mon Sejour, Clos de Maitland, etc.

Now there's a job that calls for a good head for heights! (Castle Street if you haven't been around since the 80s and don't recognise it!)

.. and to the left, the current state of the Esplanade with the latest office block complete (former Swanson's Hotel site).

Another before-and-after... the CoOp in Burrard/DonSt looks fairly nice IMHO here in Streetview, but in reality used to look a bit dark and gloomy...

.. it's now brighter and cheerful with new roof and upper windows.

A new church car-park underway in St.Mary, using part of a field over the road from the school and parish hall...

.. with a new gap in the graveyard wall. Hopefully this much needed facility will prevent congestion from all the on-street parking on the main road when the church is busy.

North East - St.Cath's, Archie, Gorey

 I have actually found the time to take some shots and publish! Here's St.Catherine's Bay...

 .. the end of the breakwater, with Le Mainland behind...

 .. the Round Tower at Archirondel...

 .. beach cafe...

 .. and tower again.

 At Gorey, the castle from along the pier...

 .. the slipway and quayside...

 .. one of two castle floodlight buildings.

 Boats with the famous potato cotils behind.

 'Port Control' (not much of a port left to control - no ferries any more) and quite well desguised mobile phone masts in those chunky poles.

 For a few weeks now, some adverts for Cafe du Port, Gorey, have confused me. What's the point of an advert when it doesn't say where the (beep!) it is?! I assumed it was probably the one near the bottom of the hill (Cafe de Gouray - still with a Joyride Cafe sign there, just to confuse matters) but here it is at the end of the pier....

.. with quite extensive seating areas, as they say :)

Should be quite nice on a warm day.