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
Last ever episode of Bergerac is broadcast
- The BBC's long running Jersey-set detective drama series, Bergerac, finally drew to a close on Boxing Day 1991.
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TV naturalist wades into seagull row
- Plans to kill a playful seagull called Gulliver attracted the attention of a television naturalist, and the States of Jersey changed its plan.
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Channel Island cargo ships collide
- Two British Transport Commission cargo ships serving the channel islands collided in December 1955 resulting in significant damage.
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Jersey elects first woman to States Assembly
- In 1948, Ivy Foster became the first woman elected to serve in Jersey's States Assembly, although she was not the first to try.
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