26th December 2005
ITV broadcasts drama filmed at Hamptonne
ITV’s boxing day broadcast was an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree, starring Keeley Hawes. Much of the two-hour drama, which was set in the 1850s to 1870s, was filmed at Hamptonne, Jersey’s country life museum in St Lawrence, alongside many of the island’s churches and beaches.
ITV later provided the film’s star, Hawes, with another tangential link to Jersey. She played Louisa Durrell in The Durrells which, although set in Corfu, depicted the childhood of Gerald Durrell who would go on to found Jersey Zoo.
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A motorist is killed on a Jersey level crossing
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Seneca sinks off the Jersey coast
- A cargo ship called Seneca was wrecked as she approached Jersey in December 1836, leading to the loss of one crew member's life.
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Parishioners break into belfry demanding to hear bells
- When a vicar refused to have the bells rung at Christmas, his Jersey congregation broke into the belfry to make their demands.
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Occupation government head, Alexander Coutanche, dies
- Alexander Coutanche was head of the civil government in Jersey through the Occupation of the Second World War.
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