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Paul Hilton  Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 21:34 on 25th December 2009 If you search for Imber on Poe, it has Awaiting Pictures. Perhaps not suprising as the town has been empty since 1943 when the Ministry of Defence moved all the villagers out from their home on Salisbury Plain and the village has been off limits ever since, except for a few days of the year. Christmas is one of the times it is opened for people to return to it, and on the BBC here, you can see a little bit of it......http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8426000/8426188.stm It's about 10 miles north-west of Stonehenge in the middle of Salisbury Plain. Edited by: Paul Hilton at:25th December 2009 21:49 |
Stephanie Jackson Posts: 3911 Joined: 13th Apr 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:03 on 26th December 2009 Must have been very sad for those people who had lived there for generations Paul. |
Cathy E. Posts: 8474 Joined: 15th Aug 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:16 on 26th December 2009 I agree Stephanie! And promised to be able to return after the war to find out you could never return. I think of all the disappointment and heartache. |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 17:12 on 26th December 2009 Wow, that's weird, Paul. How'd they ever single out Imber as the new training village? |
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