Battle Lane

Not yet 24 hours into our second lockdown and   I’m loving how quiet it is with very little traffic. Don’t be fooled by the photograph; it’s a bright sunny day but I had a play with PS and liked the raindrops.
Here is the Guernseyman of the day...

Jean Le Tocq
Remembered in Guernsey as are the sacred geese on Rome’s Capitoline Hill, the ‘prentice boys in Londonderry or Paul Revere in Lexington; Jean Le Tocq, who so the story goes, lived at La Houguette in the Castel, was allegedly abroad at an early hour on the fateful day in 1372 when the island was invaded by Owen of Wales, so that he is reputed, from the vantage point of his abode, to have seen the insurgents making landfall at Vazon, and there upon raised  the alarm. Unfortunately, the warning did not suffice to enable the defenders to repel the onslaught threatening them.

The story does eventually have a happy ending with Owen of Wales and his army being dispatched. At one point they were fighting near a lane in town now called Battle Lane as shown in my pic. The slightly quaint wording is that of the author of the book I took the information from; L James Marr.
I may blip further detail another time.