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Dorset's Lost Village
Tyneham, Dorset. In November 1943 the residents were given 28 days to leave as the land was being requisitioned by the army for training. They were never to return: it’s still within the bounds of MoD land, but open to visitors most weekends and occasionally at other times.
Alex Mck, clive BRretired and Mike Ashworth2 Comments-
Lovely! And the church views are beautiful! I sometime wonder if we have the skill’s today of the past? What foreign skills arrive on Southern shores in rubber boat’s, Does anyone bother to investigate? Would I dare suggest returning such boats with them that turn down their 3rd job interview in the UK?
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@nostalgia Some of the old skills are kept alive, if only by a few these days. I remember reading of York Minster stonemasons helping their French counterparts after Notre Dame burned down, and then there’s still a bell foundry—Taylors—in Loughborough where they cast traditional church bells. And the old hands at the railway where I volunteer are passing their knowledge on to the next generation.
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