The Ghost Of Salisbury Plain
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2015
- 1993 Documentary by director Chris McCall about the ghost village of Imber on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, southern England. Imber was evacuated in 1943 in preparation for the D-Day landings and controversially never returned to its original occupants after World War II. It is now part of a military training area.
Nice to hear the full story of what happened to Imber. I grew up in Warminster in the 1970s & 80s. We all knew about Imber as the village where everyone was moved out for the war effort. During the Easter bank holidays we would cycle up to Imber and look at the knocked out tanks (from the road!) before looking around the village. There was not much left of the original buildings by then. The church was still intact though. As other people have said at least the area is protected from developers, for now anyway. Another consolation is the uncountable number of soldiers lives saved by their training here.
I'm so interested in Imber. It's not far along the Salisbury road from my home village of West Lavington. My hope is to visit Imber during the summer opening. There is something quite eerie about it - I wouldn't want to be there at night.
A valuable piece of local history. Incidentally, Patrick French, here as a member of West Wiltshire Green Party, is also a published author of historical books on explorers and adventurers.
I have no connection with Imber whatsoever but what a fascinating film. I plan to get a glimpse next time I'm down that way.
Also, I love the way your man says "yuppies coming down building £100,000 houses". Crazy days lol, cracked me up.....
I ended up in Imber whilst on exercise from Larkhill camp in 1982. Odd place, with a strange feeling.
They should have taken it back soon after the war.
Shocking the treatment of Imber residents by the Government. Not allowing them to say goodbye and have a decent XMAS gathering was so inhumane.
Because that was important during WW2 😑
A very interesting film. Clearly, the way the villagers were treated, is appalling and disgraceful. However, looking at other development in the area, (Amesbury for example) I am inclined to agree with the comments of John Syme, that the landscape, at least has been preserved. Demand and Town planning, being what it is, had it not been 'stolen' by the military, it would probably be the Imber 'New town' housing estate by now.
How spooky, i watched a you tube video last week, where somebody had recovered that exact tank at 4:56 to restore it as its a rare type of centurion in fact theirs a few of them, there all close to each other, so he was taking all of them to salvage all the bits to make one or two good ones, they wasnt that colour though due to the elements so no way did this documentary get made in 2015 some parts of them was nearly rusted away...
Good morning is there any chance this video footage is available on DVD or anything kind regards Chris.
Hey is this available on dvd at all please 👍🏻
I thought the army's lease for Salisbury Plain ran out and they could not afford to renew the lease!!!??? Not sure but worth looking into...
Hi Annamarie. It's some time since I made this documentary, but I am pretty sure the army owns the freehold for pretty much the entire restricted area of the plain apart from the land on which Imber church stands. I know Wiltshire County Council passed a motion some time in the 1990s that Imber would remain permanently with the military.
The M.O.D. owns Salisbury Plain training grounds, no lease involved.