
Pedvin Street, Guernsey. Eyre & Spottiswoode's
Woodbury Series, no. 4184.
A very unusual choice of view, and a welcome change to the usual scenes of the harbour. On the right, at the bottom of Pedvin Street, the Britannia pub is still there; in the 1903 Kelly's Directory it was listed as the Sarnian Bar, proprietor George Francis Haynes, and so it must have been renamed before this card was posted, in 1911. Looking down the Bordage, the first building on the right is listed in Kelly's as the Forester's Café; opposite it were a variety of commercial premises, including Elias Henry, Stonemason, a corn merchant, a picture framer, a secondhand book dealer, a cabinet maker, and FG Fuzzey, "pianoforte and musical warehouse". Many of the buildings on the right of the Bordage have been demolished, and the buildings in the left foreground have been much altered: the monumental facade of Henry's (next to the two figures on the pavement) is a 1930s addition. There's another very similar view here.