A recommendation to build harbours at St Catherine's in Jersey and in Alderney was approved in 1845, to be called "Harbours of Refuge" to avoid upsetting the French [REF].
There were three Royal visits by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Alderney, on 8/9 August 1854, when the Royal couple rode on an Alderney Railway car under a striped silk canopy, pulled by two black horses to the quarry before returning [REF].