Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.184.8
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
The Friend
Place
RAF Molesworth
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Quakers
Events
Molesworth Peace Camp; Peterborough
Date
circa 1985
Description
Leaflet made up of pages stapled together. The front cover is from The Friend, A Quaker Weekly Journal, November 8, 1985. The main photograph shows a group of people planting a large wooden cross in the ground, with the caption "The cross at Molesworth has been planted by Christian CND as a gift to the diocese of Peterborough". Other pages detail services at the peace corner at Molesworth.
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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