Our version of D-Day had us walking the dogs after some more morning showers and then heading off to see some more sites in Guernsey that we had read about.
First a couple of photos of the very photogenic dogs.
We wanted to visit the Candie Gardens, which also contain the Priaulx Library, but we found a tower and cemetery as well.
We also went into a small green space with Victoria Tower and some WWI military guns. The tower was built in 1848 to commemorate Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s trip to the island in 1846. The German military guns were part of what England received or took after WWI. The best relics were kept for the British National War Museum and others given to dominion countries.
if you ask for a key at one of the local museums.
Across the street from the tower is the Candie Cemetery. It is a public cemetery which also contains five war graves as well as graves for the 60 victims of the 1832 cholera epidemic. Some photos of the different types of graves are below.
From the cemetery, it was a short walk to the Candie Gardens, which were established in 1894 in the grounds of Candie House, now the Priaulx Library. Admission to the garden is free.
The library and gardens are participating in the Liberation Trail, section 7 of which we saw at the downtown library the other day, so we got to learn some facts from section nine of the trail, re-occupation and recovery.
it is now the Priaulx Library
which is a lending library and local history center.
Along with information on the German surrender,
raising of the flag, and recovery information for the island,
it was noted that when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth landed at the airport on June 7, 1945,
it was the first time a British Queen had flown in an airplane.
The following are some pics from the gardens.
After visiting the gardens, we walked to Cambridge Park, which ended up being a lovely green space with some sports fields and a nice walking trail. On the way we got more views of the Channel.
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