by Reg Langlois
Born at Sion Hall in 1936. A childhood under the German Occupation, the farm, the tomatoes, thirty years of camping, and a garden full of fairies. Told in Reg’s own words.
Reg’s story is told in five parts, followed by the Fairy Garden. Start at the beginning, or jump in anywhere.
Born at Sion Hall, a boy among German soldiers: the windmill, the Château, war-time dances and Liberation Day.
28 chapters · about 37 min
Tomatoes, Grandpa’s yachts, the first television and a first car: a boy grows up in the family business.
32 chapters · about 44 min
Meeting his future wife, a Vespa, a wedding in 1959 and learning business the hard way.
22 chapters · about 51 min
Running the St Brelade camping park: tents, publicity, jazz days and the best years of the eighties.
29 chapters · about 44 min
Thousands of tons of potatoes buried above Beauport Bay in 1992, and why Reg spoke up.
3 chapters · about 6 min
From a field of broken rock to six hundred fairies, built for BBC Children in Need.
8 chapters · about 17 minReg’s Garden, a short audio story about the garden Reg built.
Every chapter on this page was written by Reg Langlois himself. These are his own memories, in his own words.
Reg has severe dyslexia, and writing all of this was far from easy. He hopes his story might encourage others with dyslexia to give it a go and write their own.
In the early 2000s Reg wrote the story of his life and put it on his own website, reg-garden.com, with hundreds of photographs. When that website went offline the story was lost for a while; this page brings it back.
A few private chapters (the family register, some family matters and a dispute with neighbours) and Reg’s contact details are not included.