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⏱ QUICK READ
On this page we provide information about the most recent updates to Saint Helena Island Info, as well as details of previous updates. You can find information about earlier updates on page Page Updates History.
This site was last updated on 20 May 2025.
See also: ⋅ Page History
Pages by date last updated
These pages have minor updates unless listed in the Recent Updates section below.
Recent Updates
Listed below are the principal changes in each release, in addition to which there are generally new and improved images, corrections and other minor improvements throughout the site.
Below: 20th May 2025 2nd April 2025 26th February 2025 26th January 2025 30th December 2024 10th December 2024 Older Items
20th May 2025
We have added to every page a QUICK READ section, at the top of the page. This explains the purpose of the page and introduces what’s on it. If you have any comments on these please contact us.
Read about St Helena’s 1997 ‘Night of Fires’ on our page Unrest and Rebellion.
We have added information about the ‘Two-Hour Ships’ to our page Union Castle Line.
Jamestown has Jacob’s Ladder, but for a while in the late 1960s and early 1970s it also had Bagleys Ladder. More on our page Lost and almost-lost Buildings.
We have an update on the state of our beleaguered Fish Processing Industry.
Google™ tried to help us with our Speak Saint Phrases. It didn’t go well!☺ See our page Speak Saint.
If you want to know about Palm Trees see our page Zzyzx, and Prince Andrew School is now St Helena Secondary School.
2nd April 2025
We’ve added ‘Deggy’ to our Sounds of St Helena page.
We have expanded the information on Churchyards, for those who like exploring these.
There are some new interesting articles on our page LGBTQ+.
There is now some St Helena crime data on our page Could you live here?.
The Run is now safer to use, assuming you’re slim enough and not carrying voluminous bags of shopping…
We now give a Brief Mention to Lieut. W. Innes Pocock, RN, who didn’t contribute any new insights to our history, but did draw some pretty pictures.
26th February 2025
We’ve expanded the information about Saul Solomon in our page Important People, including a download from Trevor Hearl.
A new feature may prove helpful if you want to reference an image on the site (e.g. in a Social Media post). If you hover over the image a popup will appear, one line of which is the image ID, in the form #image_id_ with a number
. If you add this to the page URL you can link directly to the image.
e.g. https://sainthelenaisland.info/updatedthisrelease.htm#image_id_1
(the crest in the top left of the page).
Also, if you use a slower Internet connection, you may have noticed that our pages load faster - we have implemented compression technology.
26th January 2025
We have a NEW PAGE: New Year on St Helena used to be relatively quiet, but has grown in prominence in recent years so now has a page of its own.
We have the results of The Governor’s Cup 2024 race.
We have more about the re-formed Big Easy band on our page Sounds of St Helena.
We decided the ‘Mastodon’ Social Media platform does not meet our demographic requirements so have ceased posting on it. If you have suggestions for others we should explore please contact us.
We’ve tidied up our ‘next event’ highlights and added more information. Here’s an example:
30th December 2024
Naturally, we have added a few 2024 images to our page Christmas, and in the spirit of Christmas we’ve also added the sound of the Salvation Army Band playing carols outside The Market.
10th December 2024
Two (more) new Endemic Spiders have been discovered, and named after local conservationists. See our page Endemic Species.
SaintFM Community Radio didn’t shut down as planned, and has restarted, albeit in reduced form. Details on our page SaintFM Community Radio.
We’ve started posting On This Day and other items on the ‘BlueSky’ Social Media and ‘Mastodon’ platforms, and withdrawn from X™ (formerly Twitter).
Information about the 2024 The Governor’s Cup has been updated.
Lord Baden-Powell’s personal notes on his 1936 visit are amusing. See Famous Visitors.
Our page A Brief History (continued) has been brought up to date with 2024’s major events.
So you’re watching a Slide Show (Slide Show or Slide Show, Historic) and you want to know how long before it refreshes? The answer’s now in the title bar, with a simple countdown. See below:
Older Items
Older items can be found on our Page Updates History.
MY SPILL CHUCKER
Eye halve a spilling chucker, it came with my pea sea.
It plainly marks for my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a ward and weight four it two say
weather eye am wrong oar write - it shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee four two long
and eye can pot the error rite - its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye ran this poem threw it, I'm shore your pleased to no.
Its letter perfect awl the weigh - my spill chucker tolled me sew!
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Credits:
{a} Cato the Elder{1}{b} Anon
Footnotes:
{1} Who apparently also said If you allow them[women] to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters.