TheSt Helier TOWN CRIER THE OFFICIAL PARISH OF ST HELIER MAGAZINE Jersey Hospice Care’s main entrance at Clarkson House Image courtesy of Karl Taylor Jersey Architecture Week 2013 • St Helier House Bicentenary Celebrations Constable’s Comment • Parish Matters • Jersey Heritage • Historic St Helier Parish Notice Board • Dates for your Diary • St Helier Gazette Delivered by Jersey Post to 19,000 homes and businesses every month. Designed and printed in Jersey by MailMate Publishing working in partnership with the Parish of St Helier. A09454 emagazine.pdf 1 05/06/2013 21:23 CELEBRATING OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY Not many of you may realise but Hi-Speed Freight Services Limited have been the DHL Jersey Agent since April 1985. We are a locally owned company employing 30 locally qualified staff. We have always tried to maintain a family style of atmosphere with a policy of ‘don’t work for us but with us’ that will hopefully see us through the next 30 years. 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Among the major the Evacuees’ Association Annual event on events taking place in our Parish this month the Albert Quay at noon on Sunday 23rd June, are Architecture Week (24th – 28th June) with and the event hosted by the Parish to mark its focus on the role of good architecture in the anniversary of the bombing of St Helier enhancing our town as a place to live and harbour at 6pm on Friday 28th June, also work in, the Rubis International Motoring on the Albert Quay. This year the special Festival (7th – 9th June) and, on the same guest will be John Nettles. PARKS AND GARDENS Liberation Day 5 Constable’s Comment 7 Parish Matters 8 Town Matters 11 National Vegetable Society 12 Historic St Helier 14 View on St Helier 15 Jersey Architecture Week 2013 16 Parish Notice Board 19 Jersey Heritage: Faces of The Great War 19 From the Polish Community 25 Parade Gardens The cover, to celebrate Jersey Architecture Week, shows the St Helier’s Parks and Gardens team have once again created new main entrance to impressive floral displays in the public gardens maintained by Clarkson House, Jersey our ratepayers, though by June the spring bedding (pictured) Hospice Care’s Mont Cochon will have been replaced by summer planting. This month is base. The architecture is by the busiest time of year for the section with over 400 hanging Waddington Architects with project management by Rowney baskets going out around the town, as well as window boxes Sharman (Jersey) Limited. and planters. Many of our hanging baskets are sponsored by local businesses, and if you look The St Helier Town Crier is published by the Parish of St Helier carefully you will see that in in association with MailMate. many cases the flower colours of Parish of St Helier: Town Hall, PO Box 50, York Street, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA www.sthelier.je the flowers in the baskets are Editorial contact: Annie Le Noury deliberately chosen to match the T: (01534) 811821 E: [email protected] colours of the businesses’ MailMate: Le Quai Bisson, Le Boulevard, St Aubin, Jersey, JE3 8JT logos. Our department, together E: [email protected] If you like the look of our magazine and think it would be the right place for with the Community in Bloom your company to advertise please contact Phil Osborne on 01534 493300 Group, is also working with or email [email protected]. local schools to encourage our Copyright notice: 2013©Parish of St Helier. The entire content of this magazine is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this magazine may young people to enjoy gardening be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any and to value their environment, means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise with prior written consent of the copyright owner. with wild flower planting in Reprint details: Reprints of articles can be obtained by contacting the publishers. St Andrew’s Park in conjunction Disclaimer: While the Parish of St Helier and their contributors to The St Helier with First Tower School, and Town Crier have provided the information contained in this magazine in good faith, they accept no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for any action taken flower or vegetable seeds by any other party as a result of the information provided. Independent and appropriate advice should always be sought on such matters. 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It reminds us of Liberation Day a time when ordinary people suffered extraordinary hardships iberation Day last month was and carried out extraordinary celebrated with the combination of acts of courage and kindness. ceremony, acts of remembrance, L Carved into the paving stones of entertainment and festivity that marks what is regarded by many as the most the Occupation Trail are important day in Jersey’s calendar. As quotations from some of those was the case in 1945, St Helier is the involved. By preserving them for focus of the occasion, and St Helier’s posterity, it is hoped that teams of municipal staff were out and humanity will never slip into that about early making sure that the town’s moral abyss again. streets were clean and tidy. Pop into the Town Hall to pick up a brochure which provides more The Parish Parks & Gardens team provide the floral information. displays around the stage in Liberation Square, and also erect the saluting dais by the Pomme d’Or hotel. This year’s ceremony at the Slaveworkers’ Memorial at the Crematorium ‘I have to do was attended by Deputy Rod Bryans who laid a wreath on behalf of the Parish. something for another woman’s son.’ Louisa Gould, Islander, who perished at Ravensbruck having been denounced for hiding an escaped slave worker The Parish’s Social Committee laid on a Many Hands cream tea for more than 140 parishioners, most of whom either lived through the Occupation, or were interned in Bad Wurzach or were evacuated to England; ‘Makes Light Work’ there were also members of the Armed Forces past and present. The Parish’s Domestic Agency young ambassadors, Miss St Helier With a one-off blitz or a regular (Kelly Ahearn), Junior Miss St Helier weekly, fortnightly or monthly clean.