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Alan Drover

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Easter Open Days at Imber.
« on: March 14, 2023, 05:07:37 PM »
The village of Imber on Salisbury Plain is open Good Friday April 7th to Easter Monday April 10th. The church is open 10am/4am except Easter Monday when it's open 10am/3pm.
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Re: Easter Open Days at Imber.
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2023, 11:18:47 PM »
Quote from: Alan Drover on March 14, 2023, 05:07:37 PM
The village of Imber on Salisbury Plain is open Good Friday April 7th to Easter Monday April 10th. The church is open 10am/4am except Easter Monday when it's open 10am/3pm.

The Army folk among us will have spent many a happy hour getting rained on/digging into the chalk at Imber and its environs :-)

I believe the original inhabitants were promised their homes would be returned post-war but the cost of clearing unexploded ordnance means.... 
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Re: Easter Open Days at Imber.
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2023, 09:49:47 PM »
I went there with the LRSOC just before Christmas and had a great day. I understand that the original inhabitants were in fact tenants, nit owners. The MOD (or whatever it was in those days), had bought the entire village before the war. Poor sods actually didn't have a leg to stand on.

Was it the War Office then?
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Re: Easter Open Days at Imber.
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2023, 06:34:59 PM »
Quote from: diffwhine on March 15, 2023, 09:49:47 PM

Was it the War Office then?

Nearly, the War Department  :cheers
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Re: Easter Open Days at Imber.
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2023, 08:33:13 PM »
Quote from: LN11AAB498A on March 17, 2023, 06:34:59 PM
Nearly, the War Department  :cheers

That’s the year I was born…. :thud
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Re: Easter Open Days at Imber.
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2023, 09:20:44 PM »
Quote from: crumbly65 on March 17, 2023, 08:33:13 PM
That’s the year I was born…. :thud

1944, an excellent year, D-Day & David  :-* :-X  :tiphat
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Re: Easter Open Days at Imber.
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2023, 09:12:33 AM »
Quote from: LN11AAB498A on March 17, 2023, 09:20:44 PM
1944, an excellent year, D-Day & David  :-* :-X  :tiphat

 :cheers
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