St. Peter Port, Guernsey - Vegetable Market - Freedom from Hunger stamp 1963

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• Picture / Image:  The Vegetable Market, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands [I think this is now a shopping arcade but I may be wrong]
• Publisher: Plastichrome / Guernsey Press Ltd
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  GB Freedom From Hunger commemorative 2&half d value
• Postmark(s): Guernsey 1963 wavy line
• Sent to:  Southampton, England
• Notes / condition: 

The land in the north and by the harbour is low-lying but not marshy. In the south, the land gets higher (but not as high as St Martin's or the Forest). Grassy, gently terraced cliffs behind sea walls (including projections) topped by trees characterise the southern part of the coast here (by an aquarium, underground military museum and historic battery at semi-wooded Havelet). In the north is the retail-centred and more built-up Fermain/Admiral's Park coastal locality.

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2014 was 18,207. In Guernésiais and in French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is St Pierre Port. The "port" distinguishes this parish from Saint Pierre Du Bois.

As well as being a parish, St. Peter Port is a small town consisting mostly of steep narrow streets and steps on the overlooking slopes. It is known that a trading post/town existed here before Roman times with a pre-Christian name which has not survived.

The postal code for addresses in this parish starts with GY1.

People from St. Peter Port, were nicknamed "les Villais" (the townspeople) or "cllichards" in Guernésiais.

St. Peter Port is on the east coast of Guernsey overlooking Herm and tiny Jethou, a further channel separates Sarkand surrounding islets such as Brecqhou; exceptionally Normandy's long Cotentin Peninsula and, to the south-east, Jersey are visible in clear conditions beyond from some, highest, vantage points. The parish borders St. Sampson in the north, The Vale in the north-west, St. Andrew in the west and St. Martin in the south.

The name of the nearest channel is the Little Russel, in which sits the Bréhon Tower; that separating Sark is the Big Russel. Both in width are less than half of Guerney's greatest length and dotted with coastal rocks and stacks quite near the islands, some of which are narrowly submerged.

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