"Save Eirene leaflet" [NMLH.1994.62.4.11]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.62.4.11

Object Name
Leaflet

Title
URGENT! Save Eirene

Place
RAF Molesworth

Events
Molesworth Peace Camp

Date
1983

Description
Leaflet titled "URGENT! Save Eirene, All Faiths Peace Chapel at Molesworth" with an illustration of the chapel, some stone walls and arches among young trees.


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 ‘peace’) 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 camp’s new location, a stone chapel was built in 1984. It was bulldozed in April 1986.

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