- Pictures from a 1921 holiday album Added 2021
- Pictures from a 1922 holiday album
- Pictures from a 1935 holiday album, including well-off and well-dressed air passengers
- An album of 1939 holiday photographs
- Keeping the tourists occupied, exercises on the beach in 1939
- An album of 1930s holiday photographs
- Pictures from a 1929 holiday album
- Another album of pre-war holiday photographs
- An album of photographs of guests at the Victor Hugo Hotel in 1937
- Fine dining in 1958
- Tourism advertising
- Beach huts
- Postcards
- Carriages and charabancs
- Hotels
- Bars, cafes and restaurants
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Miscellaneous holiday pictures
Holidaymakers at Elizabeth Castle in the 1930s
Waiters and waitresses race winners in 1957 ...
... the race in progress in 1957 ...
... and in 1968 ...
... and a waitress race on the beach ...
... and another waiters' race, also on the beach ...
... and the 1957 event again, in Peirson Road, past the Grand Hotel
Tour guide Harry in 1907
1938
1938
1938
Plemont 1938
A coach outing in St Brelade's Bay in 1936
Sports on the beach in 1934
Booking day trips to St Malo in the 1960s
Holiday train at La Haule
Tour guide Harry in 1907
A holidaymaker in Jersey in 1912
On the beach in the 1930s
1936 holidaymakers at Havre des Pas
1907 postcard
1920s holidaymakers
Visitors checking tobacco prices in a Wine Lodge window
Guests at Grahams Hotel in 1927
A holidaymaker in Jersey in 1912
A large group of holidaymakers poses for a photograph on the beach in 1930
A sack race provides summer entertainment for holidaymakers
Holidaymakers at Mont Orgueil Castle in the 1920s
Sports day on the beach in 1929
1929 beach games
1930 beach games
Netball on the beach at La Pulente in 1929 - Sandringham Hotel v Aberfeldy Hotel
Netball on the beach at La Pulente in 1929 - Sandringham Hotel v Aberfeldy Hotel
Honeymooners in 1964
A group of holidaymakers on the beach in 1935
At Corbiere in 1935
The war had ended and holidaymakers returned in 1945
St Brelade in the 1930s
St Brelade in the 1930s
1900s snapshots
Identity cards
When Jersey's tourism industry was at its peak tens of thousands of visitors flooded in by boat and plane, no passports needed. Indeed, many would not have had one because they had probably been to Blackpool the summer before and would head for Bognor the next year. Then they decided that they fancied a day trip to France, but how would that be possible without a passport? The answer that travel agents offering a day return package were allowed to issue a temporary identity card, valid just for the day in question. Everybody was happy: Jersey's attraction as a holiday destination was enhanced; it was good business for the French, who offered coach trips, excellent lunches and shopping opportunites to their transient visitors; and the ferry companies and tour operators prospered, too. The temporary cards usually had to be surrendered at the end of the day, although some are still in existence, but travel company Boutins offered their clients a complementary copy of the photograph taken for the card as a memento.
An excursion identity card
Guests from the Sandringham and Aberfeldy Hotels on the beach in 1930
1921 holiday snap
A charabanc collects guests at the Old England Hotel, Cheapside
The forerunner to today's coach tour - an excursion car
Bathers in 1919
An excursion car in the late 19tha century
The bathing pool at Havre des Pas was a major attraction for holidaymakers
1958 beach scene in St Ouen's Bay
Greve de Lecq beach in the 1970s
Physical training class on the beach in the 1930s
A packed beach at West Park in the 1920s
A charabanc outing
A tourist coach in 1911
Harry, a renowned charabanc guide
Michel, a popular guide from Paragon for French visitors
Donkeys are no longer seen on Jersey beaches
Edgar Andrews sold ice creams at Havre des Pas from the 1930s to the 'fifties
Honeymoon Special in 1956
A charabanc outing
Swansons Chelsea House
Christmas greetings from the Le Rossignols at La Chaumiere
A charabanc outing
The grand hotel
A family on holiday at Plemont in 1948
A St Brelade holiday family in 1948
1920s holidaymakers
Holiday camp badge
1920s holidaymakers
1919
1919
Holidaymakers at Havre des Pas
A 1930s snapshot
A 1930s snapshot
A 1930s snapshot
Continental Hotel guests in 1930
Aberfeldy Hotel guests in 1930
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
A 1933 snapshot
St Brelade's beach in the 1920s
1958 holiday photo
1958 holiday photo
1958 holiday photo
1958 holiday photo
Sandringham Hotel guests in 1932
On the rocks in the 1920s
Holidaymakers in 1958
Beauport in 1923
A holiday snapshot from 1933
Leicester House guests in 1935
A group of holidaymakers, at La Coupe, probably in the 1930s
A group of holidaymakers at Havre des Pas, probably in the 1930s
A group of holidaymakers at West Park, probably in the 1930s
A group of holidaymakers in 1914
1937
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
Ford Anglia hire cars at St Helier Harbour
1949
1949
1949
1949
Sports day on the beach for holidaymakers in 1930
Harry was a popular guide for excursions in the early part of the 20th century
An Avis hire car map
Chelsea Hotel guests in 1925
The 'Fantastic Tropical Gardens' were in St Peter's Valley
Fantastic Gardens
A group of holidaymakers at an unidentified hotel in the 1930s ...
... and another group in the 1920s
The Weighbridge tourist bureau in 1957
A beach photographer at work
Holidaymakers on Ouaisne Beach in 1936
A set of 1900 holiday snaps
Plemont
Carriage ride
St Helier Harbour
Corbiere
Plemont
Plemont
1000 French children
Those were the days! Jersey's tourism industry was nearing its peak in 1971 when the St Patrick brought 1,000 French children to the island on a day trip. A fleet of double-decker buses was waiting for them on the Albert Pier
Day excursions
And in the opposite direction, in 1939 day trips to French coastal towns were being actively promoted by Southern Railway
Physical jerks
Exercises on the beach at Havre des Pas and the Lower Park alongside Victoria Avenue in the 1930s
