Welcome to John's CI Postcard Site

Version 2009/01 May 2009

Select this map link to see an outline map of Alderney, which will lead you to pictures of postcards showing each area in Alderney, and to postcards from Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, and Herm.

A DVD is available which contains all the maps, postcard images and modern views here, in high and in ultra-high resolution. In addition to these pictures this CD also contains detailed maps, and prints of books and reports concerning Alderney including:

A House of Lords report concerning the Harbour and Fortifications of Alderney (from 1872, ~100 pp), and
A very scarce German booklet published in 1944 named "Die Insel Alderney" by Hauptmann Dr. Otto Bessenrodt, who was stationed on the island (in the original German, with wartime pictures, and also translated into English: 38 pp).

This DVD is available for 15 pounds sterling or $30 US (including airmail to anywhere in the world) from John Elsbury of Auckland, New Zealand

Click here to see some early Alderney prints and early maps.
Click here to see a catalogue of cards by publisher/author and serial number. This lists all cards owned by and known to the author
Click here to see a study of the fonts and styles used on the postcard backs.
Click here to see links to other sites also related to Alderney and the Channel Islands

Acknowledgements: The author acknowledges with sincere thanks the contributions of several collectors who have forwarded copies of postcards from their own collections and given permission for them to be reproduced here. Cards where the last two digits are less than 50 are the author's own: Numbers 50 and up are images supplied by others.

Copyright: The author believes that most of the cards here are no longer covered by copyright: however, where copyright does exist the author acknowledges this completely. All torts, errors, and omissions are the author's alone.
The author reserves all right to this work as a collection of images and advises that the collection (or significant parts thereof) may not be copied or duplicated for commercial purposes. Permission may be sought for use if individual images and will not be unreasonably withheld.