"Molesworth Blockade songbook" [NMLH.1993.181.1]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.181.1

Object Name
Song Book

Title
MOLESWORTH BLOCKADE. THE BLOCKADERS. INFO SONGBOOK. FEB.6

Place
Molesworth; Huntingdonshire; Salford

People
Salford CND.; Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Description
Printed songbook with several pages of information, maps and song lyrics stapled together. The front page features a photograph of people protesting with banners reading "Refuse Cruise" and text reads "MOLESWORTH BLOCKADE FEB 6". Around the photograph, the booklet's title reads "The Blockaders' Info Song Book."


RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire was one of three sites chosen to deploy 64 US Cruise missiles during the Cold War. In 1980, various peace campaigners started building a protest camp on the land, called 'Peace Corner'. In 1985, over 100 people were living there until the camp was evicted by police in April that year. Despite this, the campaign continued with various protestors camping in or around the site. Nuclear missiles were removed from the RAF Molesworth base in 1987 when The United States and The Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and the camp officially disbanded in 1990, just before the end of the Cold War.

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