Papers of Jean Alcock and Marian Daltrap relating to Greenham Common and the Manchester, Chorlton and Didsbury Greenham Common Women's Support Groups

M721/BOX 1

Didsbury Greenham Common Women's Support Group: Diary compiled by Jean Alcock, August 1986-August 1987. Includes membership list and accounts of visits to Greenham Common. 1 volume.

Chorlton Greenham Common Women's Support Group: 'Telephone Tree' and membership list. 1 item.

'The say it (if you don't know the tune) or sing it (if you do!) Greenham Book' (n.d.) [Greenham Common Song Book]. 1 volume.

'Sound around Greenham', Songbook No. 1, n.d., 1 pamphlet

Various carols and song sheets, n.d., 1 bundle

CND regional contacts for the North West, 1 item

'Greenham Visit' (1983), compiled by Dr Ruth Cowling of the United Reform Church in Greater Manchester. Describes the visit to Greenham Common in 1983 by 51 members of the United Reform Church and other denominations. 1 booklet.

Ann Gill, 'Greenham Revisited' (Peace Concern, Sale, March 1985). An account of an overnight stay by three women at Greenham. 1 pamphlet.

'Manchester Greenham Common Women's Support Group' Newsletter (June 1985). 1 booklet.

'Four Minute Warning' Chorlton and district CND Magazine, Summer 1985, 3 copies

Minutes, 'Manchester Umbrella Green and Common', n.d., 1 item)

'Cruise Resistance Bulletin No. 1. Including report of Conference Against Cruise Manchester Town Hall March 16/17' (1985). 1 booklet.

'Networking Newsletter', Issue 31 (May/June 2002). Includes articles relating to green, peace, human, animal and debt campaigning in Greater Manchester.

'The Greenham Factor' (Greenham Print Prop, 1984). 1 booklet.

Pamphlet about Greenham (?produced by Greenham Women), n.d., 1 pamphlet

Leaflet about Pacific Women's Tour, 1-16 March 1986 (invited by the Nuclear Free Local Authorities and Women Working for an Independent Nuclear free Pacific), 1 item

Various leaflets advertising peace events and marches in Manchester and London, 1 bundle, 1980s.

Photographs:

Photographs relating to Manchester Greenham Common Women's Support Group taken by Marian Daltrap, c.1980s-90s. 1 file. Includes photographs of events and marches for the miner's strike.

Greenham Common Christmas Cards [n.d.] [?designed by Marian Daltrap]. 8 items.

M721/BOX 2

Mounted photographs relating to Manchester Greenham Common Women's Support Group used for an exhibition. Includes annotations by Marian Daltrap. 1983-1990s. Includes:

'bringing down the fence' 29 October 1983

'100 Greenham Women walk across Salisbury Plane to regain it for nature and the people' May 1985

'Blockade at Upper Heyford' 1 June 1983

'Blockade at Greenham Common' c.1983

'Manchester women arrive at Indigo Gate camp'

'Greenham Women welcome 2 women from the Pacific Islands at the beginning of their European lecture tour, sponsored by Greenham Women and Manchester Nuclear Free Unit'

'The Pacific women tell their story to the North West on radio'

'Women demonstrate at the US Embassy, London and tell the U.S. to 'Get out of Micronesia''

'Miners' Demo in Albert Square listening to Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill'

Photographs of women being evicted from Greenham Common camp

'The 'Awesome Grannies for Peace' drove a large trunk to the refugee camps in Slovenia regularly. They took mainly vegetarian food for the Muslims and essential toiletries'

M721/BOX 3

Folder 1:

Photographs and postcards, 1997;

Publicity from the campaign to save Abbey Pond, 1993;

The Victoria and Stephen Campaign Day Book, 22 Aug-24 Oct 1989;

'Creating a Peace Culture' by Beverley Butler, Manchester, 1992;

Festival for Peace and Freedom in Latin America concert programme, 1983;

Letter from the Campaign Against State Terrorism in Sri Lanka, 1994;

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings on the Cambodia campaign, the extradition case of Lorrain Esme Osman, and the Gulf War, 1989-1991.

Folder 2:

Correspondence between Jean Allcock and Harrogate Borough Council regarding planning applications at Menwith Hill, newspaper cuttings on the same subject, and issues of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases newsletter, 1998-2004.

Folder 3:

Photographs of the Manchester Menwith Hill Women's Support Group, correspondence and publicity of the Sellafield Women's Peace Camp and the Aldermaston Women's Peace Campaign, 1981-2002.

Folder 4:

Press cuttings on Catherina Barnes, peace campaigner; press cuttings, publicity by local and women's groups, and correspondence on anti-nuclear campaigns, 1980s-1990s.

Related Material:The Women's Library holds some national material relating to Greenham Common.