{"id":65,"date":"2012-10-01T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2012-10-01T22:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:59:24","slug":"sparks-imber-church-enjoys-annual-open-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/sparks-imber-church-enjoys-annual-open-days\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sparks’ Imber Church enjoys annual open days"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Giles Church, in the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Common (the main location for series three episode Sparks<\/em>) enjoyed one of its all-too-brief annual open weekends at the end of September, as reported on the BBC News<\/a> site (29 September 2012).<\/p>\n

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Deserted Salisbury Plain village of Imber opened to public<\/h3>\n

A village in Wiltshire that was abandoned during World War II and then taken over by the military opened for the weekend.<\/p>\n

The village of Imber is normally closed to the public as it is in a military training zone on Salisbury Plain.<\/p>\n

More than 100 people attended a service at St Giles Church, in Imber, on Salisbury Plain.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a full peal of the bells was rung which took some two-and-a-half hours to complete.<\/p>\n

It is the fifth time a full peal has been rung since a new set of six bells was re-hung in August 2010, after the original bells were taken out in 1950.<\/p>\n

The entire civilian population of the village was ordered to leave in December 1943 to provide a training area for American troops preparing for the invasion of Europe during World War II.<\/p>\n

They were never allowed to return.<\/p>\n

Since 2005, when the church was taken over by the Churches Conservation Trust, more than \u00a3300,000 has been spent on renovations.<\/p>\n

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Photo and text (c) BBC News<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St Giles Church, in the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Common (the main location for series three episode Sparks) enjoyed one of its all-too-brief annual open weekends at the end of September, as reported on the BBC News site (29 September 2012). Deserted Salisbury Plain village of Imber opened to public A village in … Continue reading “‘Sparks’ Imber Church enjoys annual open days”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-13","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}