Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.11.3
Object Name
Postcard
Place
RAF Molesworth
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp
Date
1980s
Description
Photographic postcard titled "Carry Molesworth home". The front features a photograph of a small table with checked tablecloth. A glass vase is positioned to one side with three cut roses, and another is laid on the table. At second glance, the roses' stems are made from razor wire. On the wall behind are three V-shaped cuts of razor wire, to look like three flying bird decorations.
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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