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unusual facts about St Helier


St Helier, London

Landscaping on the large-scale town planning scheme was by landscape architect Edward Prentice Mawson.


Bad Wurzach

Despite wartime privations, friendships grew and a formal twinning was eventually made with St Helier, capital of Jersey.

Edward Prentice Mawson

Large-scale town planning schemes include London County Council's St Helier Estate (1934), and for Ulster Garden Villages Limited in Northern Ireland, Merville Garden Village, Abbots Cross, Fernagh, Princes Park, Kings Park, Whitehead and Muckamore Garden Villages, all in County Antrim.


see also

Dean of Jersey

For example, William Corbet Le Breton, father of Lillie Langtry, was rector of Saint Saviour at the time he became Dean, though transferred to St Helier in 1875.

George Nairn-Briggs

After this he was Vicar of Christ the King, Salfords and then St Peter, St Helier (Bishop Andrewes) in Morden.

Susan Jeune, Baroness St Helier

Lady St Helier appears as a character in the Canadian stage musical Billy Bishop Goes to War.