Sign words: “No Tracked Vehicles” near a idilic English village Tyneham Dorset, lost in WW2 not to the Germans but to the British Army. In 1943 the 225 residents were asked to leave ‘temporarily’ their homes in the small village Tyneham in Dorset, to help the war effort, until the war was over. They went to stay with friends and family. The Army required the area for tank firing practice, preparing for D-Day. The army found it suitable and kept it after the war ended. The residents never were permitted to return to their homes. After much appealing and campaigning in 1974 the Ministry of Defence allows more public access when the land is not being used for shooting practice and makes remaining buildings safe, but rejects a hand back of the land. Tyneham, Dorset, UK
Date: 20/05/2017
Location: Tyneham, Dorset, UK
Photographer: richard keith wolff
