The Village that "died for England"

losthorizon · 28-09-2010 12:22pm #1

Really interesting pictures of a village in Doset called Tyneham which was evacuated in 1943 so that the War Office could use it as a firing range.

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-village-that-died-for-england/

DHYNZY · 28-09-2010 12:27pm

Kind of haunting.

MarchDub · 28-09-2010 7:02pm

DHYNZY wrote: »

Kind of haunting.

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

sponsoredwalk · 28-09-2010 8:27pm

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

You want haunting :pac:

johnny_doyle · 06-10-2010 10:43pm

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

Fratton Fred · 06-10-2010 10:53pm

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.

The Village that "died for England"

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