Friday 23rd August 2013
Gordon Lewis has compiled a booklet of his late mother-in-law’s childhood memories of living in Imber. Dolly Rebbeck spent 10 years of her childhood in the village on Salisbury Plain prior to the evacuation of all the villagers in November 1943. Dolly died in 2006.Â
The booklet, called Dolly’s Imber, can be purchased for £2.99. There are three ways to obtain a copy. It can be purchased online at www.gordonlewis.co.uk or cheques made payable to ‘Gordon Lewis’ can be sent to him at 51 Greenfields Avenue, Totton, Southampton, SO40 3LU. Or the booklet will be available at selected Imber village open days. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of Imber.
Also available from Gordon Lewis is a greetings card featuring a watercolour of Imber, by Dolly’s other son-in-law Clifford Meade who is a freelance artist. The watercolour, which depicts St. Giles’ Church, Imber and the cottage Dolly lived in, is also available via Gordon’s website or by post from the above address. The watercolour costs £1.99.
Footnote: If the name Gordon Lewis sounds familiar to dannyhowell.net readers, it is probably because Bedeguar Books published Limb And Blood, a book by Gordon about his family history, back in 1995. Copies of Limb And Blood are still available via Gordon’s website or by post from him at the address above.