Throughout many evolutions, including the German occupation and World Wars, Jersey has also become revolutionized and has developed its landscapes as well as it’s people over the years. The occupants who live in Jersey have recorded their lifestyle and how they have lived as Jersey has been developing. These personal memories have become something of the past, however are still kept safe for people to look back on re-live certain periods of time.

These records are kept in a place called an archive and Jersey has many of these to showcase what Jersey has become. An archive is an accumulation of historical records. Archives are kept to show the function of a person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities.

Here are some archival images of Jersey:

Records of how Jersey used to be and look like against photographic records of how Jersey is today allows us to compare lifestyles and understand more about the development of our beautiful island.

You can find more archival images of Jersey here http://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org/ and here http://societe-jersiaise.org/photographic-archive