St Giles Church, Imber Newsletter No 50 30 October 2013 Welcome to New Readers Welcome, if you have recently joined the St Giles Church Mailing List. We now have over 1,300 readers. You can be assured that we do not make your details available to any third parties and they will remain confidential. If you want to change your details or unsubscribe, just go to the bottom of this newsletter and click on the link at any time. Reminder - Service of Remembrance, Saturday 9th November The annual service of remembrance will be held on Saturday 9th November at 1100hrs. If you are planning to attend the service of remembrance you should go to Warminster Vedette Post No 2 no later than 1015hrs (10.15am). All vehicles will be escorted to Imber by the Army. All visitors will be escorted back to Warminster immediately after the service. It is essential you arrive at Vedette Post No 2 no later than 10.15am - any later and you will not be able to access Imber. Where is Vedette Post No 2 ?? A number of people have been asking how they can get to Vedette Post No 2 (VP2). To reach VP2, proceed along Imber Road in Warminster, pass the Garrison Church of St Giles and Land Warfare Centre on the left. VP2 is at the top of Sack Hill. Christmas at St Giles Access The Ministry of Defence has told us that, subject to overriding operational need, the roads to Imber will be open between 1600hrs on 20th December 2013 and 0800hrs on 6th January 2014. We hope to have St Giles Church open to visitors over the Christmas and New Year period, dates and times will be notified soon. Carol Concert The Christmas Carol Concert is arranged for Saturday 21st December at 2.30pm. Tickets. Ticket sales have been delayed by a few days. We hope to advise you how to apply for tickets on 1st November. Numbers attending this years concert will be restricted, but as a member of the mailing list you will be given the chance to apply for tickets in advance of it being advertised on the web site. You will not be guaranteed a ticket as applications will be processed on a first come first served basis. A previous newsletter advised that tickets will be free of charge, this was an error, there will be a charge for each ticket. You will be contacted with a special newsletter on 1st November with all the details of the concert and how to apply. So, check your emails on November 1st !! Open Days We hope to have St Giles Church open to visitors on some days between Christmas and 6th January 2014. The days on which the church will be open have not yet been confirmed. You will be among the first to hear when dates are arranged. Inclement Weather The weather on Salisbury Plain in winter can be unpredictable. As you are a member of our mailing list, you will be contacted as soon as we are aware of bad weather which causes any open day or the carol concert to be cancelled. Dollys Imber Almost 70 years after the evacuation of Imber, Dollys Imber provides a snapshot of what it was like to live in the village. Dolly Rebbeck spent ten years of her childhood in what she considered to be an idyllic location and her son-in-law, local speaker and writer Gordon Lewis, has captured something of her memories in this recently published booklet. The cost per booklet is £2. 99 which includes UK postage and can be purchased at: gordonlewis.co.uk St Giles and Imber Commemorative Booklet This is to remind you the the Westbury Music & Arts Festival held a church service at Edington on 5th October to commemorate the evacuation of Imber. They have published an Imber 70th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet It contains short histories of the village and St Giles church, and the story of an Imber resident, plus the Order of Service for the 5th October. There are a number of photographs. We have a supply of the booklets which cost £4.00 plus postage. If you cannot wait until the next church opening when the booklets will be on sale then send an SAE size 240mm x 165mm with a 50p stamp (second) or 60p (first) together with a cheque made payable to N Skelton to 4, Chantry Road, Wilton, Salisbury, SP2 0LS. Latest SPTA Newsletter The November 2013 Salisbury Plain Training Area Newsletter is now available on imberchurch.org.uk Go to the home page and then to the newsletter. Past editions of the SPTA newsletter are also available. Restricted Access to Imber We who look after St Giles Church in Imber are not able to grant access to Imber Village. Apart from the church, churchyard and access roads and path from the road to the church, the rest of Imber village and the buildings used for military training are out-of-bounds to the general public at all times including days when the metalled roads are open to the public. Members of the public entering any of the buildings are liable to injury from unexploded ordnance and/or prosecution under Salisbury Plain Training Area Bylaws. It follows that we are not in a position to grant permission for access to Imber village and its buildings when the roads are closed to the public. Those wishing to gain access to the village of Imber must contact the Ministry of Defence, however, it should be remembered that the Salisbury Plain Training Area is in constant use and permission to enter it is unlikely to be granted. Greetings Card on Sale A local company continues to offer for sale greetings cards featuring a reproduction of a watercolour by Clifford Meade of Church Street, Imber before the evacuation of the village in 1943. The card is A5 size and comes complete with envelope. It is left blank inside for your presonal greeting. A proportion of the income received from sales is being donated to St Giles Church for upkeep. If you are interested in purchasing this lovely card to send to friends, relatively, or just to keep for yourself, you can get further details by going to gordonlewis.co.uk * Please note that we have no commercial link with gordonlewis.co.uk and cannot be held responsible for any disputes you may have with that company resulting from this advertisement Travelling to Imber Even though St Giles Church is closed and access to Imber is restricted, we feel we must remind you that when you can reach Imber you must use only the metalled roads from Warminster, Gore Cross (A360), Heytesbury and Bratton and the track leading to the church. An outline map of how to reach Imber is on imberchurch.org.uk All other areas are out of bounds to the general public. You can read the latest SPTA Newsletter on imberchurch.org.uk for detailed safety information regarding the Salisbury Plain Training Area. As you are probably aware, the Ministry of Defence always reserves the right to deny access to SPTA at short notice for operational reasons. We always contact mailing list members as soon as we become aware of changes to dates and times when the MoD will allow access or at short notice we post on the web site imberchurch.org.uk Such decisions are outside our control so we cannot be held responsible for any nugatory travel or expense as a result of last minute closures. copyright St Giles Church, Imber 2013
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