Cornet Street, Guernsey. Eyre &
Spottiswoode's
Woodbury Series, no. 4187.
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Cornet Street appears only rarely on postcards from the early 1900s.
This
is perhaps because it was by all accounts a disreputable area,
'virtually
a slum' in the words of the historian C. P. Le Huray. Between the two
World
Wars the States of Guernsey bought much of the housing on the north
side
of the Street, and demolished it. As a result it's very difficult to
identify
the exact vantage point for a photograph from the same spot today,
although
it might be possible by studying old plans of the street and working
out
the location of the water pump visible on the postcard. |