When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office. Eventually, the Georgia Supreme Court settled the controversy.
Home BBC drama filmed in Dartmouth to air on 16th November. The Coroner, a series filmed in Dartmouth and the South Hams, is coming to BBC1. The first epsiode will air at 2.15pm on Monday 16th November.
Bill Owen (who played Compo) made the area his second home. He died in July 1999 and is buried nearby in the village of Upperthong. Many of the canal scenes in Last of the Summer Wine were filmed at Slaithwaite, which is frequently used as a location in ITV's 'Where the Heart Is'.Slaithwaite features in the canal section of this web site.Bamforths produced their saucy seaside postcards of nagging (buxom) wives and their (scrawny) hen pecked husbands at Holmfirth. Bamforths were also producers of 'Magic Lantern' slide shows and silent films.t's 'easy watching' TV, in the same mould as Heartbeat, Monarch Of The Glen, Where the Heart is and Ballykissangel. Downham's village pub, the Assheton Arms features in the programme as The Signalman's Arms. Damens railway station (Britain's smallest) is 20 miles from Downham and is seen as Ormston in the TV series.