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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Other events that occured in December
263 Squadron bomber is shot down at St Brelade
- A bomber attached to 263 Squadron based in Dorset was shot down over St Brelade, Jersey, in December 1942.
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Poet and jurat Augustus Asplet Le Gros dies
- Augustus Le Gros was a poet who wrote in Norman French. At the age of 33 he was elected a constable of St Peter, Jersey.
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Jersey is granted its own flag
- Although it had flown a red saltire for some time, it wasn't until the 1980s that Jersey finally, officially, got its own flag.
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States of Jersey buys Springfield Stadium
- Spingfield Stadium is home to many large sporting events on Jersey. It was acquired by the States in December 1994.
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