Prison & House of Correction
Detained persons had been kept in the military forts, castles etc., and during the Republican period (1649-59) it is well recorded that a few Royalist sympathisers were imprisoned in the castle at Mont Orguel. The castle remained a convenient and secure place of dentention until the convenience became outmoded - ( too far from the town ). A purpose built structure was completed in 1699 at the western "entrance" to the town of St. Helier. A primitive seawall for the town ended here and the road passing to the west was straddled by the prison building . The next prison was built near the town's Hospital in Gloucester Street (1811) and remained so until the present Prison was constructed (1975) - once again remote from the town - on heathland at La Moye.
Govenors / Prison keepers or gaolers
1742 Philippe Perreé
1744 Thomas Silk
Pierre Hamon
Clement Picquet
Edouard Hacquoil
Philippe Ahier
Thomas Labey
Joseph Farley
Jean Babot
Nicolas Babot
Jean Moisson
John Kandish
John Le Rossignol
John Filleul
H. Le Seeleur
Thomas Foster
Edouard Briard
George Packer
A. Fisher
The St. Helier Fire Brigade
Inaugurated 25 September 1901
First Officers and men
Howard Eady
S Chapman
A. P. Brophy
Hon Surgeon Dr. P. B. Bentliff
J. Hibbs (sen)
J Hibbs (jun)
W Webber
E Webber
W Moody
C Easton
S. Guiton
E Collet
M Walden
J Harvey
W Beck
H Perham