Former residents of Clos du Paradis got together after one of them returned from Canada.

ISLANDERS who lived at Clos du Paradis housing estate as children got together for the first time in 50 years recently when one of them returned from Canada on holiday.

Maureen McGuigan (née de la Mare) heard from another former Clos du Paradis resident, Graham Channing, who runs the Prince of Wales tavern in Hilgrove Lane, that Peter Dingle would soon be on holiday in Jersey.

She arranged for some other Islanders who shared his childhood with him at the estate in St Helier between the 1940s and 1950s to meet up with him and his wife Frances.

Also attending was Betty Abraham (née Pitman), Bill du Heaume and his wife Jill, John Le Basse and Graham Stephens.

Maureen said that it was wonderful for everybody to be together again after all those years.

‘Clos du Paradis was a very special place to grow up in at that time.

‘We were a very tight-knit community and shared happy and sad times,’ she said.

The group spent over two hours reminiscing about those days and sharing news of their families and interests.

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