Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.19
Object Name
Newsletter
Title
Children's Art Comes To Molesworth
Place
RAF Molesworth
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
1985
Description
The Molesworth Bulletin newsletter with a child's colourful drawing as the front colour. It shows three children holding hands in a circle with a policeman. The title reads "Children's Art Comes To Molesworth" and one character's speech bubble says "Save Eirene". Inside lists coming events and a comic strip called "Peace-Nuts".
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.
Eirene (Greek for âpeaceâ) was a multi-faith chapel built at the peace camp. The original Eirene was built in spring 1982 but was destroyed when the camp was evicted in July 1983. At the campâs new location, a stone chapel was built in 1984. It was bulldozed in April 1986.
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