Hobby turns into book for the man behind old photos series
PEOPLE seeking a shot of nostalgia were snapping up a new book at Beau Sejour over the weekend.
Marco Tersigni was signing copies of Guernsey Past and Present – From the Exact Spot.
It contains modern day images he has taken alongside those from yesteryear – taken from the same spot as the original.
There are 65 pairs of photographs in all, including some from the Guernsey Press and other sources.
Pat Prevel was one of the first in the queue.
‘It’s really interesting to see places we see every day compared to how they were years ago,’ she said.
‘It reminds me of what it was like when I was younger and how it would have been for my grandparents and great-grandparents.’
Sheralee Torode said many of the photos were from before her time and it was good to show them to the children.
‘I never knew that there was a village under the reservoir and it’s fantastic to see it,’ she said.
Josie Dorey said she had followed the Guernsey Days Gone By Facebook page for a while, where some of the images had first appeared, and it was good to be able to get a collection of them all together.
‘It’s just interesting to see how life has changed over the past few decades,’ she said.
John Rabey said it reminded him of a few years ago when he bought a book by former Guernsey Press features editor Carel Toms.
‘It featured a mill in Talbot Valley from about 100 years ago so I went there to look it as it’s not really the sort of place that you’d pass every day,’ he said.
Mr Tersigni, whose photographs also feature in the Guernsey Press every Saturday, said he started putting images up on Guernsey Days Gone By as a hobby about four years ago, though he said the profile was not his as some mistakenly thought.
‘Then people started saying that I should do a book.’
