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The Village that "died for England"

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    DHYNZY
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭DHYNZY


    Kind of haunting.


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    MarchDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭MarchDub


    DHYNZY wrote: »
    Kind of haunting.

    Not half as haunting or disturbing as the many villages that died for Ireland - in the Famine. Just saying.


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    sponsoredwalk
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    I was expecting this to be the story of one of those villages in which plague
    victims were locked in in order to die off killing the disease with them :p

    You want haunting :pac:


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    johnny_doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭johnny_doyle


    Imber on Salisbury Plain is another that was cleared in WW2. Still used for "urban" warfare training.


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    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    There is an old Turkish village on the British sovereign base at Episkopi in Cyprus. It was a fully functioning village up until the Turkish invasion when one night all the residents up and leftvfor the Turkish sector. The eerie thing is, they dug up all the graves in the cemetery and took the bodies with them.

    The mosque was there up until about 20 years ago until the BA took it apart brick by brick and shipped it off to the new village they had built in the north.


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