History:

The Maritime Museum is located around the Jersey harbour and has been open since 1997. The museum holds collections which include artefacts from the island’s maritime industry as well as from piracy and the 1692 Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue. The museum is housed in a set of five linked warehouses on the New North Pier in Saint Helier. This pier was constructed during the 1880s as part of the redevelopment of the harbour by the states of Jersey. The warehouses were built in 1889, and after the liberation of the island from German occupation in 1945, they housed the harbours customs and maintenance teams. The warehouses were then empty by the 1970’s due to changes in harbour practices with the development of containerisation. The pier was then converted into a marina from 1980. By 1992 the friends of the maritime museum group occupied the warehouses where they houses the maritime museum along with the occupation tapestry, after the 50th anniversary of liberation. In 1996 a memorial took place outside of the museum buildings to Channel islanders who died after being deported the Europe by the Germans. The museum then formally opened one year later in 1997. The collections within the museum cover the islands fishing and ship-building industries, its mercantile operations and piracy.

I took both these photos of the outside area of the Maritime Museum. I then edited them into a black and white photo by reducing the saturation to -100. I also increase the texture as I wanted the small details to stand out.