Wednesdays

St Helier to St Aubin - Trains and Boats and Planes

10:30 - 13:00
Every Wednesday from April 04 - September 26 (except May 16 & September 19)
Meeting point: Liberation Square, St Helier - Finish at St Aubin, St Brelade
Price: £10
Guide: Arthur Lamy
Booking essential – Tel: 01534 853525
Grade: Easy – 3m (4.8k)

Follow the line of the Jersey Railways and Tramways Company to St Aubin and relive the sights and sounds of the age of steam. Hear about the 19th century shipbuilders, the bus service across the sands and the Bread Riots of the 1840s. Move into the 20th century as dance halls replace boatyards and our visitors start to arrive in biplanes that land on the sands. Philanthropists build parks on scrubland and renovate chapels of ease, whilst high-powered cars race along Victoria Avenue and thousands flock to the Battle of Flowers.

St Aubin - in the Shadow of the Black Hill

14:00 - 16:30
Every Wednesday from April 04 - September 26
Meeting point: St Brelade's Parish Hall, St Aubin
Price: £10
Guide: Arthur Lamy
Booking essential – Tel: 01534 853525
Grade: Moderate – 3m (4.8k) one steep hill

Take a stroll around St Aubin; once the commercial heart of Jersey and its main port. Hear about merchants, benefactors, privateers and fishermen. Find out how the village grew, the coming of Methodism, the Cod Triangle and the legend of Ghost Hill. See the old elementary school, the church of St Aubin on the Hill with its window created by Edward Burne-Jones (the Pre-Raphaelite artist), the pub where Karl Marx stayed and the ancient seat of the Seigneurs of Francfief.

St Aubin at Twilight - A New Evening Walk

18:30 - 21:00
Every Wednesday from April 04 - September 26
Meeting point: St Brelade's Parish Hall, St Aubin
Price: £10
Guide: Arthur Lamy
Booking essential – Tel: 01534 853525
Grade: Moderate – 3m (4.8k) one steep hill

Take an evening stroll around St Aubin as the lights come on and the bars and restaurants come alive. Once the commercial heart of Jersey and its main port, now the harbour walls are lined with pleasure craft and the main evening activity is eating and drinking! Hear about privateers who ruled the local waters, fishermen who crossed the Atlantic to the Grand Banks and merchants whose generosity is still with us today.