SOCIÉTÉ JERSIAISE

 

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Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday April 19th 2005 at 5.15pm, Members’ Room

 

            Members present :

Frank Falle (Chairman), Jean Arthur, Marie-Louise Backhurst, Don Bell, Mary Billot (Secretary), Mervyn Billot, Gavin Booth, Bertram Brée, Francis & Anne Corbet, Gerry France, Douglas Hooke, Nicolas Jouault, Sally Knight, Suzanne Le Feuvre, Georgia Le Maistre, Bob Le Sueur, David Levitt, Will Millow, Winston Pinel, Wendy Tilling  (new member).

 

 

1.         Apologies for absence :

Yvonne Aston, Jean Bell, Guy Dixon, Mary Gibb, Sue Groves, Sue Hardy, Tertius Hutt, Sarah Jordan, Frank Le Blancq, David Le Maistre, Ian Machin, Bill Tower.

 

 

2.         Minutes of the meeting of February 15th 2005 and amendments

4.2        Jean Arthur emphasised that her offer to give an Autumn lunchtime lecture was only provisional as it depends on the amount of the information that she might receive from Newfoundland.

5.10      Winston Churchill visited Jersey on August 29th 1913 for four hours, as First Lord of the Admiralty. Frank Falle had found news pictures of him playing a round of golf. The almanacs recorded the event on August 30th (next day’s newspaper headlines).

5.12      Marie-Louise Backhurst (urban and medical history).

            The minutes were then approved as a correct record.

 

 

3.         Matters arising from the minutes not covered by the agenda

5.2        Bob Le Sueur asked about an improved sign for the grille from Gloucester Street prison chapel. Suzanne Le Feuvre reported on an exchange of e-mails with Peter Noble (St Helier Town Hall). The Town Church railings are to be repainted black with gold finials in the next parish financial year and the plaque will be improved at the same time.  She circulated photographs.  [See official minutes for e-mails and photos].

            Francis Corbet said that there was a complete division down the prison chapel with the grille and obscure glass. The special granite slabing in Hill St and Mulcaster St remained consecrated ground and parish property after the road widening. The churchyard was landscaped in the 1920s; gravestones and human remains were dug up. Some stones were used for paving; others went to landfill; Leslie Sinel was Church Warden at the time. Jean Le Capelain designed the black railings. Georgia Le Maistre said that the Le Capelain plaque has been repositioned on the correct States building (his studio on the site of No.1 Hill St).

5.13      Nick Jouault said that the Mandarin visitor from the Chinese junk (London, 1848) was mentioned in a BBC2 series last week (Days that shook the world).

 

 

4.         Chairman’s commun