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Welcome to the Forever Imber website

Contact: Ruth Underwood, 2 St John's Grove, London, N19 5RW | Tel: 020 7272 8500

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Over the three day Easter period from Saturday 11 April to Easter Monday 13 April 2009 an estimated four thousand people visited Imber Village and St Giles Church. To view a four minute audiovisual piece by freelance Bristol photographer David White please click on:

http://vimeo.com/13325438

  • The roads through Imber Village from Gore Cross to Warminster and from Bratton to Heytesbury will be open from 4.00pm on Tuesday 30 August until 4.00pm on Tuesday 6 September.

    St Giles Church will be open at the following times:
    Wednesday 31 August: 10.00am to 5.00pm
    Thursday 1 September: 11.15am to 5.00pm
    Friday 2 September: 10.00am to 5.00pm
    Saturday 3 September: 10.00am to 5.00pm with Annual St Giles Day Evensong Service at 3.00pm
    Sunday 4 September: 11.15am to 5.00pm

  • The ninth annual Remembrance Service will be held this year for the first time on the day before Remembrance Sunday, in St Giles Church on Saturday 12 November at 11.00am.
    Imber will be open both on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 November.
  • The opening period for Christmas 2011 and New Year 2012 will be from Saturday 17 December 2011 until Monday 2 January 2012.
  • The third annual Christmas Carol Concert will be held on Saturday 17 December at 2.30pm.
  • The tenth annual Peace Vigil will take place on Saturday 31 December at 12 noon.

 

* A new website has been set up by Neil Skelton: www.imberchurch.org.uk giving opening times for the church. You can contact Neil by email on contactimber@virginmedia.com or on 07968 242 075.

* For information about Henry Buckton's Lost Villages DVD please see www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk Memories of a ghost village brought to life on DVD.


* The story of Imber has now reached Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Anna Aslanyan, a journalist from Moscow has compiled a feature for Radio Free Europe. You can hear the story and interviews in Russian here.

* There is a four-page article by John Hannavy, entitled Restoring Imber Church, in the April/May 2009 issue of Wiltshire magazine. It can be viewed online by following this link: johnhannavy.co.uk or by going to www.wiltshiremagazine.co.uk and finding April/May edition, pages 28-31.