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A lovely day, the ranges were open to the public and as I had never been to Imber although I have lived in Wiltshire for the last 40 years I grabbed the camera and the young master Scrote and off we went.

A short history of the place is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imber

On the way in the first thing you come across is the derelict and blown apart tanks
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the army has built a load of new houses to practice street fighting


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Imber court the posh house of the village although open it was guarded by a couple of chaps in a landrover which was a shame

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sign on the wall of the court
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a modern pillbox guarding the entrance to the court

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the pub
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the church
The church is still a working building and unfortunately was closed but I've bunged a couple of exteriors up
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war memorial

farm house
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farm building
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I don't know what this one was but a substantial building nevertheless
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I shot a fair bit more mainly signs and silly bits.I also got talking to the Range Warden who was telling how he finds unexploded ordnance including on one occasion a WW1 hand held bomb that would have been dropped by hand from an aircraft,also told me that soldiers on exercise are very occasionally killed by unexploded ordnance on the ranges
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Always wanted to go back to Imber since I did some of my training there. Very interesting place.
It suffered a tragedy during WW2 when a fighter plane fired on the wrong area killing quite a few.
Google up "Imber incident" for the full story.
 
Always wanted to go back to Imber since I did some of my training there. Very interesting place.
It suffered a tragedy during WW2 when a fighter plane fired on the wrong area killing quite a few.
Google up "Imber incident" for the full story.

Thanks for the link, It was quite sad really tragic and the pilot was killed not long after.
 
Always wanted to go back to Imber since I did some of my training there. Very interesting place.
It suffered a tragedy during WW2 when a fighter plane fired on the wrong area killing quite a few.
Google up "Imber incident" for the full story.

Cheers for that, I'd heard of the incident but never read about it,makes for sobering reading.
 
Shame the church was closed, it's got 17th century bell ringing changings painted on the walls.

Someone should give that war memorial a good clean.
 
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