Editing History of Guernsey (section)

===Post-war===
After 1945 the Islanders had to rebuild their lives, the return of evacuees, especially children who could hardly remember their relatives. Many properties had been damaged through wood being stripped from them for fuel, the island had an enormous debt, tourism was destroyed and the growing industry was damaged. The amount of scrap metal collected is now regretted. Rationing continued as in the UK, until the mid-1950s.

Many traditional businesses, such as fishing and quarrying, would not return. So the Islanders looked to other opportunities, the physical import/export of goods was difficult as the harbours were too small and freight cost too expensive, so control of trade was looked at, the right to supply [[Mateus (wine)|Mateus Rosé]] to the UK was controlled by a Guernsey business and it became the top selling wine in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.wblakegray.com/2014/06/mateus-rose-once-worlds-biggest-wine.html |title=Mateus Rosé: Once the world's biggest wine, now ripe for hip revival}}</ref>

By the 1960s the island had recovered, tourism was important again, the [[horticulture industry]] was booming, 500 million tomatoes being exported annually, then came the crash. Cheap North Sea fuel allowed the Netherlands to provide cheap heating to their growers, the Guernsey industry was undercut on price, which combined with rising fuel prices saw the complete demise of the tomato industry after 100 years by the end of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey/content/articles/2009/03/18/tomato_growing_feature.shtml |title=The tomato growing industry |publisher=BBC}}</ref> Restrictions were introduced to make it harder and more expensive for people to move to the island as there was a fear of a massive population increase.

During the 1970s and 1980s the island began to boom in the finance industry. Not an easy transition for people from the growing industry to an office environment. Profits and salaries were good and the Island had revenues to support long term capital expenditure plans. Continuing through the 1990s with divergence to related industries, such as captive insurance and fund management have managed to keep unemployment low. Tourism declined in the 1980s when the price of a holiday in Spain became much cheaper than coming to Guernsey, leaving the island aiming to attract the higher end of the market.

Light industry businesses had continued to appear and operate for a few decades in Guernsey including electronic ([[Tektronix]] from 1957 to the 1980s) and the current [[Specsavers]] which was established in 1984.