Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.36
Object Name
Newsletter
Title
Eirene Day
Place
RAF Molesworth
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
1985
Description
Womyn at Molesworth newsletter with "Eirene Day" and an illustration of the stone chapel on the front cover. 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.
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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