Jersey jumper

GREAT BRITAIN’S first postwar Grand Prix was not held at Silverstone as is widely noted, but on Jersey in the Channel Islands. The event was held on the island’s 3.2-mile circuit, laid out on public roads and attracting the big names in motor sport, from 1947 until 1952, with a gap in 1951. For the final year, there was a feeling that the cars were becoming too fast, so sports cars replaced GP cars.

How many children have grown up being told to ‘put their winter jersey on’ to keep the cold at bay? Few imagine that the name has a connection to a small island off the coast of France, where heavy knitted pullovers kept 19th century fishermen warm in cold conditions. The Sangan family owned one such company involved in knitting these garments, the philanthropic Summerland Factory, which was initially attached to the Sacre Coeur Orphanage that afforded the girls at the orphanage