PROJECT=[X]=IMBER WILTSHIRES GHOST TOWN V1.2 by Aaron Dobson

PROJECT -=[X]=- IMBER WILTSHIRES GHOST TOWN

In the w...
PROJECT -=[X]=- IMBER WILTSHIRES GHOST TOWN
In the winter of 1943, the War Office informed the inhabitants of the small Wiltshire village of Imber that their home was being requisitioned for the war effort. With the D-Day landings just a few months away, the government needed places to train American troops for the sort of house-to-house fighting that they expected to encounter in Nazi-occupied Europe, and presumably because of its location in the middle of Salisbury Plain, Imber was an ideal candidate. The villagers were given a month to evacuate, and told they'd be allowed back when the war was over. They never were. ..Ruth Underwood as the performer and composer of the song

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[Tomstone1000]

Lovely pictures,sad story!It would have been nice to acknoweledge Ruth Underwood as the performer and composer of the song.Very powerful.

[chaff79]

@Tomstone1000 Done :D

[007christine1]

There are some good picture's on Briitsh pathe news ..Imber stays khaki

[007christine1]

Great video!- shame though that there was not more picture's of Imber' before the war- the Manor (which still remains) -though it has lost one storey and gained a tin roof...and the variouse thatched cottages that where destroyed.

[GUARDSMAN24488]

That was great i spent a lot of time in Imba doing F I BI A alwas thought about the ones who used to live there.the farms as you leave are quiet creepy at night on your own

[rodneycruse]

Thank you so very much for this video. My family come from Imber. Many generations buried in St Giles churh yard, also in the burial ground of the baptist church

[sdixon92]

your not qutite right imber is marked and all the houses are shown on military maps but not on normal ones

[djtaylor91]

went there on amy exersize earlier this year good training, although i do think its natural beauty is spoiled by the millitary debris somewhat.

cdt taylor

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