Z118/F/8/2

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: - first public meeting of BARA, including Brian Parkyn MP (Labour, Bedford), Stephen Hastings MP (Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire) and Sir John Howard; - Keysoe branch of BARA with float at Raunds Carnival; - John Sheard of Honeydon fixing a "THURLEIGH NO" poster to Jordan's grain silo, Mile Road, Bedford; - BARA fete with Hugh Lawson Johnston, Mrs.Lawson Johnston, Dorothy Wagstaff and David Osbourne; - BARA fete with, amongst others, Elizabeth Measures, Rebecca Fitzgerald and Ida Fitzgerald; - bean harvester - "BARA All-Crop Harvester" at east of England Show with Alan John, Primrose Lawson Johnston and John Sheard; - Gilbert Beazley of BARA and James Curran of TECDA before a public debate at Huntingdon; - BARA children's float at Thrapston Carnival; - BARA Commandos Nicky Scanlow and Pam Mundy at Howbury Hall Gymkhana, Renhold; - poster reading "HELP OAKLEY PUT IT IN THE SEA" recommending the airport be built at Foulness; - young people at a BARA dance at Castle Farm barn, Bletsoe; - James Curran, Chairman of TECDA, Bill Picton, Treasurer of TECDA, John Main, director of Fords (Finsbury) Ltd of Kempston, Gilbert Beazley of BARA and Daphne Payne of BARA; - BARA Commando Helen Garside of Sharnbrook, aged 17, with "NO THURLEIGH AIRPORT" placard and a man writing on her bare midriff, [she was later suspended from The Convent School, Bedford for her action]; - BARA rally at Thurleigh; - James Curran of TECDA and Hugh Forbes QC, counsel for BARA; - Brian and Christopher Ball of Luton with their model aircraft at a BARA event at Thurleigh; - Mr. Justice Roskill; - Paul Reynolds of Thurleigh, aged one, with a flag reading "NO AIRPORT AT THURLEIGH"; - V.Ibbett and F.Folwell, organisers of St.Neots Airport Resistance Group.

Jun-Nov 1969

From: 1969 To: 1969

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Bedfordshire Airport Resistance Association,
Parkyn, Brian,
Hastings, Stephen,
Howard, John,
Sheard, John,
Lawson-Johnston Hugh de Beauchamp,
Lawson-Johnston, Pearl,
Wagstaff, Dorothy,
Osbourne, David,
Measures, Elizabeth,
Fitzgerald, Rebecca,
Fitzgerald, Ida,
Beazley, Gilbert,
East of England Show,
John, Alan,
Lawson-Johnston, Primrose,
Curran, James,
Thurleigh Emergency Committee for Democratic Action,
Scanlow, Nicky,
Munday, Pam,
Picton, William,
Main, John,
Fords (Finsbury) Limited,
Payne, Daphne,
Garside, Helen,
Forbes, Hugh,
Ball, Brian,
Ball, Christopher,
Roskill, Eustace Wentworth,
Reynolds, Paul,
Ibbett, V.,
Folwell, F.,
St.Neots Airport Resistance Group

Bedfordshire Airport Resistance Association, pressure groups, newspapers, Bedford MPs, rest of Bedfordshire MPs, photographs, fetes, Thurleigh Emergency Committee for Democratic Action, dancing, Bletsoe Castle Farm, Fords (Finsbury) Limited, Convent of the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Secondary School for Girls, barrister, model aeroplane flying, St.Neots Airport Resistance Group, judges, THURLEIGH, Wing, Cublington, Nuthampstead, Foulness, KEYSOE, Raunds, Honeydon, BEDFORD, Bedford Mile Road, Huntingdon, Thrapston, Renhold Howbury Hall, RENHOLD, OAKLEY, BLETSOE, SHARNBROOK, St.Neots