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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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34 access was ever so hard
35 but I was in
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
1
2
3
4
the army has built a load of new houses to practice street fighting
5
6
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
7
8
sign on the wall of the court
9
a modern pillbox guarding the entrance to the court
10
the pub
11
12
13
14
15
the church
The church is still a working building and unfortunately was closed but I've bunged a couple of exteriors up
16 the Scrote Junior
17
18
war memorial
farm house
19
20
farm building
21
22
23
24
I don't know what this one was but a substantial building nevertheless
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
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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34 access was ever so hard
35 but I was in
