Z118/F/8/1

Bundle of press cuttings [including photocopies] from local and national newspapers; as well as Thurleigh the cuttings cover the other three potential sites - Wing/Cublington [Buckinghamshire], Nuthampstead [Hertfordshire] and Foulness [Essex] as well as articles and letters about the general question; accompanying articles and amongst others are the following photographs: - a barn at Little Staughton painted with "THURLEIGH! NO!"; - anti-airport protesters at the rear of Bedford Town Hall; - a barn at Keysoe painted with "LONDON AIRPORT NO.3 GO AND STICK IT IN THE SEA"; - speakers at a BARA meeting - Hugh Lawson Johnston, Stephen Hastings MP, Sir John Howard, Brian Parkyn MP and David Spreckley of Huntingdonshire County Council; - BARA Commando chief Helen Corbett in the "Hands off Thurleigh" paper minidress; - BARA commando Alison Thompson receiving a £300 cheque from Arthur Luckhurst on behalf of Little Staughton .

Nov 1968 - May 1969

From: 1968 To: 1969

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Bedfordshire Airport Resistance Association,
Lawson-Johnston Hugh de Beauchamp,
Hastings, Stephen,
Howard, John,
Parkyn, Brian,
Spreckley, David,
Corbett, Helen,
Thompson, Alison,
Luckhurst, Arthur

newspapers, Bedfordshire Airport Resistance Association, pressure groups, photographs, Bedford MPs, rest of Bedfordshire MPs, Huntingdonshire County Council, THURLEIGH, Wing, Cublington, Nuthampstead, Foulness, LITTLE STAUGHTON, BEDFORD, Bedford Town Hall, KEYSOE