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3rd September 2011...
The Bus to Imber
Rides Again
Here, you'll find few "record"
shots of the Imberbus running day of 3rd September 2011. Rather, here
are some of the more unusual shots of the event.
On several sixties &
early seventies Sundays a year, my father would take my mother and
me from Stroud to Poole. Poole, so my mother could visit her
brothers, sister and her own mother. Sundays, because my father
worked all day Saturday. Our steed was a difficult to start,
second-hand, two-tone green two door Mk I Ford Cortina 1500 Super
AAD 547B.
En route, we'd make just one stop,
at Warminster, for long enough to stretch legs, so to speak. That
was my only contact with the town, till yesterday. And, some 40
years on, the subterranean public lavatories, the reason for our
stop, were still there.
Occasionally, my parents would divert
via nearby Westbury to see the famous White Horse. They'd remark
that much of the adjacent Salisbury Plain was abandoned to the army,
for training. I had boyishly vivid images of war, blood, heroism and
exploits & achievements against an enemy I didn't know or
understand. I wondered what it might be like to stray upon the
forbidden land where tanks rumbled and officers barked orders
between the clack of ammunition rounds.
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