"Guernsey gets on board in 1961 when Pru, a
Loner, arranges for meetings to be held in the study of the headmaster
of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School in St. Peter Port. When the group
moves to a room above a café, membership grows from six to a dozen. But
not until the group finds a permanent home at Princess Elizabeth
Hospital in 1981 will it undergo significant growth. A group starts
meeting in the nearby island of Jersey in 1962, and small inter-island
conventions are held for four or five years - in Guernsey in autumn, in
Jersey in spring. The first A.A. group on the Isle of Man, to the north
in the Irish Sea, will be formed in 1966."
(AAWS Inc)
