This was Bayliss’s Garage, built to house some of the earliest motorised excursion vehicles which took visitors staying in the Havre des Pas hotels on their island tours. The garage was built immediately next to the slipway at the bottom of Green Street, opposite the Seaforth Hotel, which shows clearly in the picture above.

St Helier had no traffic-free streets until the late 1960s, when King Street, above, became the first pedestrian precinct, followed soon after by Queen Street, below. Jersey Tourism took the opportunity to commission these photographs to illustrate promotional glossy brochures to promote conference business in the island. Many of the buildings at the bottom end of King Street shown in the photograph had remained relatively unchanged, at least externally, and particularly above the ground floors, since they were built in the 19th century, but a long stretch of Queen Street, shown in the photograph, was rebuilt in the 1960s.

Traffic in King Street in the sunshine of July 1946.

This picture taken from Seaton Place in the south of the town of St Helier shows Seale Street on the left and Sand Street on the right. It was probably taken in the late 1950s, or early ’60s, by an Evening Post photographer, and as the Google Street View below shows, some things have changed in the intervening years and some have not. The view up Seale Street towards the Town Hall, which is on the far end of the left side of the street, has altered very little, as has the unusual triangular building in the middle, still with a public telephone box outside. Sand Street, although relatively unchanged on the left as viewed in the pictures, is unrecognisable on the opposite side, mainly because of the construction of a multi-storey car park.

Weighbridge in 1921.

Weighbridge Gardens in 1953, seen from the top storey of the Southampton Hotel. Queen Victoria’s statue is in the center- now situated near Peoples Park.