Vingtaine de La Ville - Heritage

Heritage

Despite the effects of inflation and the passage of time, the funds available to the vingtaine are still sufficient to enable small-scale heritage projects to be undertaken.

The vingtaine has its own website here, which contains sites of historical interest, maps, and details of plaques.

In all there are over 50 plaques and features in the Vingtaine that have been erected to commemorate people and/or events that have a special place in the history of the Island or the Vingtaine.

  • Victor Hugo

  • Liberation

  • Quai des Marchands

  • Jean Chevalier

  • Albert Bedane

  • Jean Le Capelain

  • Elinor Glyn

  • First aircraft in Jersey

  • John Wesley

  • Jersey Railway

  • Royal Militia Island of Jersey

  • Charles Le Geyt and the Battle of Minden

  • Captain Mulcaster

  • Hemery Row

  • Piquet House

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Famous quotes containing the word heritage:

    “There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into the heritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony—unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe’s declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
    —Calvin Trillin (20th century)