From The Archives- Protest At RAF Molesworth 1985

[poliphilo]

In 1981 the government decided to deploy Cruise missiles at the Molesworth RAF base in Cambridgeshire- making it a focus for protest by peace campaigners. I was there on a demo in 1985 (I think)- and took these pictures.

Comments

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

It's the all faiths chapel that was built by the peace camp - it wasn't finished when they put the fence up

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. Chapel Perilous, indeed. Clearly the fate of Western democracy hangs by a thread if even that requires an armed guard.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

We had asked for access to the chapel, and they thought that we might try to reach it - over the years, quite a few people tried to reach it by various ways - one person climbed a tree that overhung the fence, and there were mass cuttings of the fence, but I don't thin kt hat anyone reached it
There were also Snowball actions, but those didn't involve the chapel - in those, the fence was cut on the other side of the bridle path, into the base itself