Forever Imber

Welcome to the Forever Imber website

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

email: ruthunderwood@kitty123.fsnet .co.uk

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://www.duckrabbit.info/david/publish_to_web/

The roads through Imber Village from Gore Cross to Warminster and from Bratton to Heytesbury will be open from 6.00pm on Friday 18 December 2009 to 6.00pm on Sunday 3 January 2010.

Please contact the Ministry of Defence at Westdown Camp on 01980 674679 or 01980 620819 for further information.

A Service of Remembrance will take place in St Giles' Church at 11am on Saturday 19 December conducted by Rev Graham Southgate, Vicar of Edington.

A Christmas Concert of music and readings by candlelight will be held in the church at 2.30pm on Saturday 19 December, followed by mulled wine and refreshments. As last year the programme will include the Salisbury ladies' choir, Babes and Ballads, conducted by Fiona Clarke, St Thomas's Church Handbell Ringers led by Margaret Romano and a String Quartet.

A New Year's Eve Peace Vigil, the eighth consecutive one to be held at Imber since 2002, will be happening in St Giles' Church at midday on Thursday 31 December 2009. It will include music, words and meditations.

Please note that Imber can be extremely cold in winter and do wrap up warm for these events. Please be prepared - there is no heating, electricity and there are no toilet facilities.

* 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.