Z118/B/3

Publicity Committee file including correspondence about publicity for BARA, opposition to the airport and aspects of the campaign; including notes of events at which the Association would be present or was organising; letters to the media; letters from sympathisers and supporters suggesting ideas; and letters regarding the organisation and function of BARA and the publicity campaign. The file includes correspondence on numerous subjects including, amongst many others, the following examples: - Publicity Committee Campaign Proposals compiled by Francis Schuster Limited, Professional Communications Services, BARA's publicity consultants setting out a strategy [Apr 1969]; - concern expressed at local committees organising campaigns, seen as the job of the main Publicity Committee [May 1969]; - suggestion by correspondent that BARA should send cars equipped with recordings of aircraft taking off and play them in public areas to raise awareness [May 1969]; - amended list of publicity projects for May-July 1969; - National Farmers' Union suggestion of roadside signs telling people they were approaching the site of the proposed airport [May 1969]; - letter from Harrold branch enquiring as to the Public Relations firm employed and criticising publicity to date as "somewhat disappointing" [May 1969]; - notes of some effects of "Aircity" of 250,000-500,000 people proposed to be built with the airport [May 1969]; - examples of leaflets designed to attract members; - letter suggesting a sponsored pub crawl to raise money [May 1969]; - quotation for BARA beer mats [May 1969]; - letter correcting statement in BARA News that no planning permission was needed to erect signs of less than six months' duration [May 1969]; - BBC TV opinion on the effect of an airport on local reception [May 1969]; - correspondence regarding a publicity opportunity highlighting the boot and shoe making industry locally and the affect an airport would have on it [May 1969]; - letter to editor of Daily Mail suggesting an article on BARA in which it is stated that a farm would be destroyed by the airport which produced pedigree cattle for the Bovril products farms in Argentina [Jun 1969]; - advertising leaflet from Glenwood Products of Woburn Sands advertising their services in manufacture of advertising gifts [Jun 1969]; - letter suggesting a picture of a field with superimposed photographs of the things it produced to be used in campaign [Jun 1969]; - letter in reply to criticism of an officer's organisation of an event in which he states that he could not "work myself into the ground and only get abuse in return" [Jun 1969]; - letter regarding recruiting of and dresses worn by "BARA Commandos"; - draft leaflet - Your Fight Against An Airport and City at Thurleigh - Danger Points annotated as "not used" and memorandum about it to Francis Schuster [May 1969]; - letter from Francis Schuster Professional Communications Services giving advice on contents of BARA publicity leaflet [Jun 1969]; - list of people donating £50 or more to BARA; - letter of resignation from secretary of Publicity Committee, claiming that "on many occasions the Minutes have been drastically amended and I can see no point in wasting any more of my time [Jul 1969]"; - correspondence with Anglia Television regarding the accusation of bias against BARA and the people of Bedfordshire in a report on About Anglia [Aug 1969]; - notice from Renhold advertising protest at Thurleigh [Sep 1969]; - statement by Bedford Communist party opposing the airport and the activities of TECDA who supported the idea of an airport [Sep 1969]; - report of meeting to discuss the possibility of holding a Flower Festival in aid of BARA [Dec 1969]; - ticket for BARA BQ at Melchbourne Park [Aug 1969]; - anti-airport leaflet for people living in St.Neot's [Huntingdonshire]; - letter criticising a Sunday Times poll purporting to show that the majority of people in Thurleigh supported an airport and quoting figures from a poll [organised by BARA?] showing 275 against, 35 for and 27 undecided [Apr 1970]; - anti-airport poem written by a twelve year old [Jun 1970]; - letter announcing BARA's solidarity with Wing Airport Resistance Association in opposing Cublington [Buckinghamshire] as an airport site. [BARA 3].

1969-1970

From: 1969 To: 1970

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Bedfordshire Airport Resistance Association,
Francis Shuster Limited,
National Farmers Union,
British Broadcasting Corporation,
Bovril,
Glenwood Products,
Francis Shuster Limited,
Anglia Television,
Wing Airport Resistance Association,
Thurleigh Emergency Committee for Democratic Action

Bedfordshire Airport Resistance Association, pressure groups, political correspondence, Francis Shuster Limited, noise, motor vehicles, National Farmers Union, population statistics, general inns, British Broadcasting Corporation, television, bootmaker, shoemaker, Daily Mail, cattle, Bovril Limited, specific farms, Glenwood Products, advertisements, photographs, clothing, airports, Francis Shuster Limited, Anglia Television, Communist, poems, Sunday Times, Wing Airport Resistance Association, Thurleigh Emergency Committee for Democratic Action, HARROLD, Argentina, WOBURN SANDS, THURLEIGH, RENHOLD, MELCHBOURNE, Melchbourne Park, St.Neots, Cublington