Imber
The Second World War required many civilian hardships and sacrifices. Whole tracts of land were appropriated for military use, some like the villages of Tyneham on the Dorset Coast and Imber on Salisbury Plain were never handed back.
Today Imber is a training area for FIBUA – sometimes irreverently referred to as FISH and CHIPS (Fighting in Someone’s House and Causing Havoc in Public Spaces) It is open to the public on just a few days each year, an opportunity taken by descendants of the displaced villagers to reminisce and to tend the graves in the churchyard.
