Jersey Gallery

Boardwalk - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA - Rolling Chairs

Boardwalk - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA - note the holidaymakers being pushed around in wonderful little three-wheeled wicker seats (rolling chairs / miniature carriages / carts) over the boards - still very popular to this day. Date: circa 1907

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Channel Isles Squid

Fishermen of Jersey, Channel Islands, desperately fight this giant squid, but two of them lose their lives in the battle

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1922, August, Battle, Channel, Desperately, Fight, Fishermen, Folk Lore, Giant, Historical, History, Islands, Isles, Jersey, Lives, Lose, Sea, Serpent, Squid

Gathering Seaweed at Le Hocq, Jersey, Channel Islands

Gathering Seaweed at Le Hocq, Jersey, Channel Islands - the principle growing agent for the famed Jersey Royal Potatoes, although used less these days. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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