Mono Monday - reclaimed…

What a rotten morning! I’ only got a little way from home and it started to rain; that heavy drizzle type rain that gets you surprisingly wet. I’ve just bought a rubber mac which has a super big hood to hide in so I should have gone back to put it on!

But back to Mono Monday. This land is close to the harbour and was reclaimed using rubble excavated from the construction of our Commercial Arcade. The Le Boutillier Brothers from Jersey decided to build an arcade and started in 1825. Unfortunately (or not) they ran out of money before the glass roof was added and to this day, I love that we may have the only arcade without a roof.

St Peter port is built on a cliff so there were tons of inert waste which had to go somewhere and this was used to reclaim the area in my blip. It is mostly our bus terminus now but there were no buses in sight early on a bank holiday.

I’ve included extras showing that the arcade is much higher than the seafront and before the wall of The Old Harbour was built the water would have lapped at the bottom of these steps.
There is another extra showing the steep steps that are needed to get to the top of town.

The third extra shows the hill which goes quite a way towards the top of town. Even that is too steep for horses to cope with so donkeys were used to transport anything that needed to get up or down the hill. That could be the reason we Guernsey peeps are called donkeys but I prefer the idea that it is because we are stubborn. Whatever the reason we are proud to be called donkeys!