A home movie produced by Ronald Padgett of a family holiday to the Channel Islands mainly Jersey, but with an excursion to nearby Guernsey. The film begins in Jersey with the family on the beach before they go exploring the island visiting St Brelade’s Parish Church at St Brelade’s Bay, the German build observation tower overlooking Corbiere lighthouse as well as Grosnez Castle in Saint Ouen and Mont Orgueil Castle at Gorey. They take a boat trip to Guernsey and visit the famous Little Chapel...

A home movie produced by Ronald Padgett of a family holiday to the Channel Islands mainly Jersey, but with an excursion to nearby Guernsey. The film begins in Jersey with the family on the beach before they go exploring the island visiting St Brelade’s Parish Church at St Brelade’s Bay, the German build observation tower overlooking Corbiere lighthouse as well as Grosnez Castle in Saint Ouen and Mont Orgueil Castle at Gorey. They take a boat trip to Guernsey and visit the famous Little Chapel before returning to Jersey. The film ends with the family heading home by airplane. Title: Jersey Holiday 1963 A sunny beach with a group of women and girls chatting near some rocks. St Brelade’s Parish Church in the southwest corner of St Brelade’s Bay. General views of rocky coastline changes to a young boy and girl skipping through the surf on a sandy beach. They go climbing nearby cliffs while other either play in the sea or sit on deckchairs on the beach. On the clifftops overlooking Corbiere lighthouse the World War Two German Navy Tower MP2. The family walk the cliffs to reach the tower looking out both to the lighthouse in the distance as well as the sea and rocky coastline below. A road through sand dunes and in the distance the ruins of Grosnez Castle at St Ouen in the northwest corner of the island. Two men and a woman stand beside an open top car, a sign on a wall reads ‘Chateau de Groz Nez’. The family explore the ruins looking out to sea from various vantage points. At Gorey the family head into and explore Mont Orgueil Castle looking down on the village and sandy beach below from the battlements. In the harbour several small fishing boats changes to the family walking along the beach and admiring the boats moored just offshore. At St Helier an officer onboard a ship watches over a crewmember working to prepare ropes for departure, nearby a large steam powered crane. The ships ropes are cast off from the quayside as the ship heads out to sea travelling along the Jersey coastline. The boat arrives at St Peter’s Port on the nearby island of Guernsey changing to the exterior of the Little Chapel in the Les Vauxbelets valley, a chapel uniquely decorated with seashells, pebbles, and broken China. The ferry journey back to Jersey passing several fishing boats and more views along the Jersey coastline. Back on dryland the family go for a walk along the coastline before taking a second boat trip around St Helier harbour where a large ferry is docked. At Jersey Airport an airplane on the tarmac and passengers walking across the runway towards it. From onboard the airplane as well as from a viewing platform at the airport the aircraft takes off. The film ends with views from the plane looking down on Jersey below and it landed at another airport and passengers disembarking. End title: The end