Name/TitleChain letter: Women's Action ~ Holy Loch
About this objectBriefing document (torn in two) for Women's Action at the Holy Loch American naval base on 21st January 1984. The top left of one side is headed 'This is a chain letter - PLEASE photocopy it, and send it to all your women friends. - Spread the words of PEACE........' and has a handwritten letter of explanation from Women for Peace (Scotland). The other side includes a small map of the base at Sandbank, near Dunoon, plus facts about the base and the nuclear powered submarines and missiles located there.
MakerWomen for Peace
Date Made1984
Period1980s
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 210 x W: 146 cm (folded)
H: 210 x W: 292 mm (unfolded)
Subject and Association KeywordsPeace movement
Subject and Association DescriptionPart of a donation collected by a Greenham Common peace activist in 1982/3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Loch:
The Holy Loch (Scottish Gaelic: An Loch Sianta/Seunta) is a sea loch, a part of the Cowal Peninsula coast of the Firth of Clyde, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The "Holy Loch" name is believed to date from the 6th century, when Saint Munn landed there after leaving Ireland. Kilmun Parish Church and Argyll Mausoleum is said to stand where Saint Munn's church was once located. Robertson's Yard at Sandbank, a village on the loch, was a major wooden boat building company in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During World War II, the loch was used as a British Royal Navy submarine base. From 1961 to 1992, it was used as a United States Navy ballistic missile submarine base. In 1992, the Holy Loch base was deemed unnecessary following the demise of the Soviet Union and subsequently closed [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenham_Common_Women%27s_Peace_Camp:
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began on 5 September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British government to allow cruise missiles to be stored there. After realising that the march alone was not going to get them the attention that they needed to have the missiles removed, women began to stay at Greenham to continue their protest. The first blockade of the base occurred in March 1982 with 250 women protesting, during which 34 arrests and one death occurred. The Camp was brought to a close in 2000 to make way for the Commemorative and Historic Site on the land that housed the original Women’s Peace Camp at Yellow Gate Greenham Common between the years 1981 and 2000.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeDocument
Object numberGWL-2017-67-3
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