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  • finally, something on youtube worth watching, great job, nice historical story told by a caring person.........priceless

  • i want to hang out with ghost

  • I live very near tyneham :-)

  • A very poignant video. What a shame that the pledge was never honoured and that this lovely piece of England was allowed to fall into ruin. Not only the ruin of the village but of the villagers that had lived there for so many generations.

  • That's so sad, I've only just heard of this place, I'm hoping I can visit.

  • its icelandic

  • This is beautiful!

    We have just visited Tyneham last weekend with my wife - it is amazingly misterious how the past slips over the present amongst those ruins...

    It was a really unique experience seeing how the pictures on the walls echoing all the villagers living their life and seeing the contrast of the never-happened possibilities.

    I am sure we'll go back soon.

    Wishing all the best for those related to the village!

    Kind regards,

    Peter

  • Fascinating

  • That place looks beautiful..

  • What a wonderful collection of photos, such a sad sight now though...

  • that is more than wonderful, made me so sad, will definitely make a point of going there on our first trip to Dorset next Saturday.....thank you.......me and B

  • What a sad, sad film ~ There are many place's in Britain that have had the same fate as Tynham, and Warbarrow ~ It must be horrible to be thrown out of your home's, and to be promised it back, when the war was over ! ! ! ~ I love the music, really emotional, i don't think you could have picked a better track ~ Thank you for posting, even though it made me fill up ! ~ All the very best ~ Geoff

  • @williheckaslike Thank you for this share, Geoff! Yes, this is deeply heartwrenching, esp with the music. I cannot imagine the difficulties these people had to overcome. Makes me sooo sad for them, although when you join together as a community as you go through something like this, they must have truly connected in order to triumph in spirit! I couldn't imagine getting through it any other way. Blessings to you Geoff, and also for this post. min:-)

  • i love visiting tyneham my grandad used to collect there rubbish with his dad and also had a cousin that lived there her work is on show in the school and also her peg is still there with her name on it,i find it so interesting everytime i visit . i think the church is so lovely.

  • that was wonderful we are going to Bridport in August and it is a must to visit there, thank you..............

  • The most saddest place we saw a few years ago, & going back there tomorrow!!!! All these lost souls and the village gone forever. Thank you for sharing the pictures, as for the music was very moving. xx

  • Very, very poignant. The love and commitment that went into this really shows, and there's such a strong sense of the sadness of it all. The music's truly lovely as well. Thank you for posting this.

  • My Grandfather, John Gould was born and raised in the village, he is even in 2 of the photos in your video!!! The one from school, and the picture of the Everetts wedding!! He just recently died (Jan 2010 aged 97) but he always spoke about Tyneham, and we have some wonderful photos and even an accounts book from the church (Tom Gould, his father, was gardener for the Bonds and the church) we are going down to visit Tyneham with our children and to scatter his ashes next week

  • My father in law went to tyneham school his name was Dennis james wellman,he is no longer with us,i married his daughter june who sadly has allso passed away,

  • i know junes brother Peter as i have interviewed him for some films for tyneham

  • peter would be junes uncle i think,june was dennis or jim wellmans daughter jims wife daphne still lives in corfe

  • @cods27 This comes late- but I am sorry for your loss... I found this video to be sad and the gov's actions outrageous!! All the history lost!! I am a young middle-aged woman in Colorado with no real family at present and I've never known my heritage except to hear of some long ago kin in the UK. My heart longs for both! Most people don't know how blessed they are to have deep roots and a strong sense of family lore. I hope the days to come bring you peace and joy....

  • this music is called Voon by Sigur Ros and islandic band

  • @loic1980 I loved the photos but it is truly sad that so many families were separated. War does that but one doesn't expect internal displacement.. I never met nor know my family left behind in a village in rural Spain after the civil war was lost. All scattered like leaves now, I suppose, since Franco made their farms into part of a national park in the Picos. I love the music but one question, Sigur Ros, you say is an "islandic band" do you mean one of the British Isles or Iceland?

  • Beautiful - many thanks for the insight into your world. Perfect music, haunting images and all the time I'm thinking what must it have been like ?

    Again, thanks

    PS - what was that music ?

  • this music is called Voon by Sigur Ros and islandic band

  • interesting.....

    yet a sad story... Tyneham has...

  • i went to this town a few years ago. spooky place. theres a town like this aswel called old ringstead.

  • We went to Tyneham on Sunday, the first time I've visited it, though we only live in Poole. It's a lovely place, but what a sad story - what happened to all the families, did they keep in touch - where did they move to?

  • this monday my grandmother who lived in the village met some of her family members who also lived in the village they had not seen each other since 1937 and they met back in there home village. the army were great and took them in to no mans land to their old home. we are finding members of our family all the time thanks to the net. i found that 2 persons i went to school with are my counis

  • Amazing, it must be nice to have such a big family.

  • Hey great video its looked like a really nice place to live

    whats the name of the song that was playing ?

  • Thank you to let us see your Family video

    Thanks again.

  • Hauntingly and majestically put together video...excellent work

  • belíssimas fotos.

  • Very moving thank you for posting these personal photographs

  • also the village is not a tourist attraction its only known by a few and its location is hard to find by non locals. some parts of the village are out of bounds like the great house. i have visied and its a magical place where i can go and be at total peice if the army were to leave i would think the same place a 8 foot high fence around it and let nature take control but i loved my family to much to let the army leave and the family memories die.

  • Hey There, I'm an artist working on a project about Tyneham and the Protest and Campaign Groups that campaigned to get Tyneham 'freed' from military control. I was wondering if you might be willing to be interviewed for this project?

    Intersesting Film by the way

  • thats also how i felt but now i feel diffrent thanks to the army then have helpt keep the memory of my family alive. if the army didnt spend around £100.000 a year to maintain the village it would to lost to time for good

  • maintain it !!! HELOOO! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO RECKED IT!!!!!!! WHY R THEY STILL THERE???

  • Didn't you read the info, they own it.

  • remove the millitary from these grounds! let the dead town sleep into oblivion...

  • hey, why is part of my message missing?

  • When the oil runs out, places like Tyneham will be needed back.

    From Patrick Wright's "The Village That Died For England" I glean that bitterness over "landlordism" guaranteed its non-survival in the postwar period.

    Tyneham and other oppressed farming communities will rise again... even landlords need to eat! LOL, and respect to the Hopi nation - "you cannot eat money"!

    Great soundtrack too! Thanks for this video. Tyneham sounds a warning for the futures of all of us.

  • i think the village shoud be left in peace... not transformed into some tourist attraction...this place, after all that happed here...after all the greed and ager that has ripped the land and rended memories...we should leave it to the woods and let its lonely sorrow rest...

  • I couldn't agree more. At the end of the day, the people belong to the land, not the other way round. We owe it to those who came from there to preserve it for them, as it is truly a mother to them. They grew strong from the local produce.

    Why are the tourists there? Patrick Wright reported finding some wanting to watch the tanks blow the place apart!

    If it were revived *now*, it would be a freak show. Just wait a while and revive it as a true, living village. For all of us who care.

  • It was a joy making it and a joy following in the family foot steps working in the village.

  • A fascinating piece of social history. Thanks.

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