Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.214
Object Name
Poster
Title
Reclaim Chilwell
Date
1984
Description
A yellow poster produced by Nottingham Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, featuring black text and an image of vie people and a dog moving through a gap in a netted fence. Text reads: Together we can / RECLAIM CHILWELL Sunday July 1st / MASS TRESPASS / (IN NOTTINGHAM) / AT THE LATEST U.S. BASE / Local Contact: [here a space has been left blank for people to fill in details specific to their areas] / Further information: reclaim Chilwell, C/O Nottingham CND, 15 Goosegate, Nottingham / Telephone: 0602 581948.
The CND logo is in the bottom right corner.
This protest, against US Cruise missile bases in the UK during the Cold War era, occured in 1984 as an homage to the mass trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932. The protest was in response to land being used for weapons deployment rather than for public good.
