Islanders don’t know their place
Tuesday 12th May 2009, 2:57PM BST.
The Weighbridge on Liberation Day (00687512)
IT is sometimes difficult to keep track of the names of the new buildings sprouting up across St Helier.
But it’s an age-old area of land of historic importance that seems to be causing the most confusion among an ever increasing number of Islanders.
Thousands of Jersey residents and tourists gathered at the Weighbridge on Saturday to celebrate Liberation Day.
But had they gathered at Weighbridge Square, Weighbridge Park or even, as one over-imaginative Islander was overheard saying, Weighbridge Plaza?
Last year no-nonsense former Transport Minister Guy de Faye did his best to clear up the confusion by lodging a proposition to formally categorise the area as a park.
But the problem, it seems, was just too big for the former Deputy and six months on the mystery over the title of the cobbled plot of land remains.
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Fascinating.
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Would you want to sit on concrete seats, near one of the busiest road junctions in the island, looking at concrete, gravel, cobbles and no shade……that’s it WEIGHBRIDGE FOLLY !!!
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It would make sense to call it Weighbridge Place, or failing that the name the road used to have before it was paved over (the old left turn just before the tunnel, taking you past the museum to rejoin Mulcaster Street) which was called Caledonia Place.
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Mystery?
It’s a mystery how these minsters are voted in to office in the first place.
Leave it as the ‘Weighbridge’, as I’m sure the majority will always call it that irrespective of any name that our so called states will name it.
Then there are no consultants & over- spending committee to name this area!!!!
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PJ (4) you talk a lot of sense; right or wrong this place has become known as the ‘Weighbridge’ so lets us call it the ‘Weighbridge’. I could go on to talk a lot of clap trap about the real weighbridge being buried under the monstrous steam clock, but that would get us nowhere.
PJ has it. The ‘Weighbridge’ is the ‘Weighbridge’.
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years ago,before we parked buses on this site,its was a very nice victorian park, with queen victoria in the middle of it. in the days of double deckers.
it must of had a name then.
anyone recollect?
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Liberation Plaza – Appeals to Euro Tourist
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As a local resident,who has over 45yrs of living on the rock, i will always know this area as the Weighbridge.
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Why are we even considering changing something that works? It has always been known as the weighbridge and will always be known as the weighbridge by locals, no matter what authority decide to name it. As is the “Bus Station”.
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Everyone knows the weighbridge. Let’s just call it ‘The Weighbridge’ not just plain Weighbridge and no other fancy names either. If named anything else people will still say the weighbridge.
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How is this even a news story??
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Ch’est la Pièche du Bridge.
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Whatever it’s called, it was the wrong place for the Liberation festivities. No where to sit unless you were lucky enough to grab a seat at one of the few tables. What was wrong with the People’s Park where families could sit on the grass with picnics and all had a good time?
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Years ago, before it was a landfill site it was called ‘The Beach’ or its Jerriais equivalent when the tide was out.
I think that was the first name for it.
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