The Alderney Blowers give a full concert, and there is a car and bike show.

These are a group of musicians who fly from England every year to play throughout Alderney Week.

The States of Alderney consists of the President, directly elected every four years, and ten States Members, half elected every two years for a four-year mandate.

Miss Alderney is chosen during the Easter Holiday weekend each year at a public event held at the Island Hall.

In mid-1942, both the Krupp and Dortmunder prototypes were shipped to the Channel Islands and installed together off Alderney, where they were used for unloading materials needed to fortify the island.

** Alderney, an annex of the concentration camp Neuengamme, is liberated.

At 3 pm on March 22, 1740, an English fleet composed of ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the Diamond frigate, the bombards Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transport Goodly and Pompey, under command of Vernon himself, began to bombard the Spanish fortress.

Over the years, there has been a steady Anglicisation of the island's nomenclature, and this erosion still occurs to a minor extent, in the replacement of authentic names, with new ones e. g. the northern tip of the island is properly called " La Pointe du gentilhomme " but is often referred to as " Alderney Point ".

Unlike the largely autonomous islands of Sark and Alderney within the Bailiwick, Herm is administered entirely by the States of Guernsey, and elects members to the States of Deliberation as part of the St. Peter Port South electoral district.

Lager Sylt, the concentration camp on Alderney was named after the island.

Lager Sylt, the Nazi concentration camp on Alderney was named after the island.

A 12-passenger boat, the Lady Maris II, operates regular services to Alderney.

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Anne's Alderney ( c. 1850 )

The Wildlife Trusts is an organisation made up of 47 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom plus the Isle of Man and Alderney.

* There are also single trusts covering the Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly, and Alderney in the Channel Islands.

Slowly Lake Passaic drained and formed swamps in the township, such as Troy Meadows, and Lee Meadows on the old Alderney Farm tract are perfect examples.

On 27 July 1726, at only four-years-old, he was created Duke of Cumberland, Marquess of Berkhamstead in the County of Hertford, Earl of Kennington in the County of Surrey, Viscount of Trematon in the County of Cornwall, and Baron of the Isle of Alderney.

The Channel Islands were heavily fortified, particularly the island of Alderney which is closest to Britain.

The German garrison on Alderney did not surrender until 16 May.

His parents were Charles Elton Halliley, a solicitor, and Amy Michelle ( née Le Mesurier ), whose family were from Alderney in the Channel Islands ; both families were affluent with histories of government service, or work in the legal profession.

Alderney (; ; Auregnais: Aoeur ' gny ) is the most northerly of the Channel Islands.

The only parish of Alderney is the parish of St Anne, which covers the whole island.

Alderney shares a history with the other Channel Islands, becoming an island in the Neolithic period as the waters of the Channel rose.

Formerly rich in dolmens, like the other Channel Islands, Alderney with its heritage of megaliths has suffered through the large-scale military constructions of the 19th century and also by the Germans during the World War II occupation, who left the remains at Les Pourciaux unrecognisable as dolmens.

Blowers should be operated periodically on a regular schedule.

* March 10 – Sampson Salter Blowers, American lawyer and jurist ( d. 1842 )

* The American Maid ( 1909 ), also known as The Glass Blowers.

The Glass Blowers and Desirée have had revivals, the latter having been released on CD like El Capitan, the best known of them.

They were assisted by Sampson Salter Blowers, whose chief duty was to investigate the jury pool, and Paul Revere, who drew a detailed map of the bodies to be used in the trial of the British soldiers held responsible.

At this time there was an inn attached to the estate, named Blowers.

Blowers Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States.

* John G. Blowers, Jr., Humble Oil heir, musician, closely associated with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Billie Holiday among others, philanthropist

& Trans Paul M. Blowers, Robert Louis Wilken.

The Mound City Blue Blowers had a number of hit kazoo records in the early 1920s.

The Mound City Blue Blowers featured Dick Slevin on metal kazoo and Red McKenzie on comb-and-tissue-paper kazoo.

* Jazz musician John G. Blowers, Jr .; former drummer for Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band.

In the late 20's, Hawkins also participated in some of the earliest interracial recording sessions with the Mound City Blue Blowers.

Sampson Salter Blowers ( March 10, 1742 – October 25, 1842 ) was a noted North American lawyer and jurist.

He was born in Boston, the son of John Blowers and Sarah Salter, but was raised by his maternal grandfather, Sampson Salter, after the death of his parents.

Blowers is probably most noted as one of the defence attorneys representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre, along with such notables as John Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr.

Blowers was also judge in the vice admiralty court from 1821 to 1833.

Because Blowers put the onus on slave owners to prove that they had a legal right to purchase slaves, slavery died out in Nova Scotia early in the 19th century.

Blowers died in Halifax in 1842 soon after he broke his hip in a fall.

Most of his estate went to his adopted daughter, Sarah Ann Anderson, who had married William Blowers Bliss.

Before the Second World War Maskelyne was a " blaster " in the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, a charitable parody of the Freemasons that operated from 1926-31.