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  RAF Greenham Common - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenham Common is a piece of land in the south of England near the town of Newbury, Berkshire.
Greenham Common was a piece of common land.
On September 11, 1992, the USAF returned Greenham Common airbase to the RAF and on February 9, 1993, the Greenham Common airbase was declared surplus to requirements by the Secretary of State for Defence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenham_Common   (1365 words)

  
 RAF Greenham Common Wilderness Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Greenham remained practically unused as an airfield in the years that followed which also coincided with the closure or rundown of other USAF bases in Britain.
Greenham then came under the charge of the 7551st Combat Support Squadron, serving as the sister site to the huge USAF ordnance storage complex at RAF Welford 14 miles away, until its control passed to the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing at Upper Heyford in May 1970.
Greenham Common was not a vast distance from the Oxfordshire home of the F-111s and was chosen as the temporary base to host planes, crews, and support staff.
www.megspace.com /politics/greenham/index_000005.htm   (2375 words)

  
 Greenhams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Greenham Tasmania is calling for submissions for its 2005 $10,000 scholarship created to help young people in Tasmania prepare for a future in the Australian dairy and beef industries.
Greenham Tasmania’s Manager, Peter Greenham, said the aim of the scholarship was to promote education within these industries and to encourage young Tasmanians to better prepare themselves for a rewarding future either on the land or in an associated industry.
Greenham Tasmania is a subsidiary of HW Greenham and Sons Pty Ltd which has six generations of involvement in the Australian meat industry and close links to dairy and beef producers.
www.greenham.com.au /tas_news7.html   (602 words)

  
 Greenham Parish Council - St Mary's Church 1876 - 1976
Greenham has never been a village in the accepted sense of that word although it did have a manor house; it did not have a parish church until 1 859 when it was created a new parish and Archibald Hamilton became the first vicar.
Greenham then was a poor, scattered community of relative unimportance with a population of at the most a few hundred people.
Greenham had been a new parish for some 15 years when under the influence of 'second wave' tractarianism and the fashionable desire to build new churches a parish meeting decided to replace the 13th century chapel which had existed for so long and build an entirely new church.
www.greenham.gov.uk /church.html   (4540 words)

  
 RIchard Greenham: Portrait of an Elizabethan Pastor Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Primus, professor of Religious Studies at Calvin College, argues that Greenham was representative of the moderate Puritanism of the Elizabethan era that was loyal to the crown and to the Church of England.
Greenham desired an untroubled ministry free of political involvement and preferred to maintain peace and harmony in his parish, steering clear of the political conflicts of his era.
Greenham's position on the physical presence of Christ in the elements reflects the compromise view of the Church of England and the Thirty-Nine Articles.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200012/ai_n8922482   (945 words)

  
 Greenham Protest: Best known case of microwave harassment.
Zapping peace campaigners at Greenham Common the height of the deployment of Cruise Missiles in the American bases in the U.K., women peace campaigners staged a series of peaceful protests outside the American bases.
It is not clear whether the Greenham women were deliberately targeted by a microwave weapon or were irradiated by prolonged proximity to a microwave security fence.
Greenham Common was the site of a continuous women's peace protest from 1981 until the final American Cruise missiles were removed in March 1991.
www.geocities.com /adrian9999999999/greenham.htm   (860 words)

  
 Services on www.greenham.com
Greenham is committed to ensuring that its business is conducted in all respects according to rigorous ethical, professional and legal standards.
The Greenham e-commerce philosophy is to amortise the power of the internet to connect customers with data and program computer systems to manage the process automatically.
All Greenham IT systems at head office and branch level are linked via a powerful wide area network for voice and data transmissions.
www.greenham.com /greenham/services.aspx   (918 words)

  
 the f-word - From Greenham to Menwith: The women's peace campaign at Menwith Hill
While the military boy's games went on behind the razer wire, and trillions were being spent on weapons of mass destruction, women protested that so many die without clean water or food or medicine, that hospitals and schools were underfunded, that women's refuges had to run on charity and mourned the many killed in war.
Greenham touched so many women, not just those who went there, but so many around the world who heard about it on the news, read about it in papers and magazines.
The reasons those women at Greenham so many years ago changed their lives, gave up their jobs, lived outside in all weathers through hard times, risked prison, and dedicated their lives to peace, are no less valid now.
www.thefword.org.uk /features/2003/09/from_greenham_to_menwith_the_womens_peace_campaign_at_menwith_hill   (1146 words)

  
 Greenham Common, Berkshire
At Greenham Common the airborne troops assigned to the 438th TCG were all inside the perimeter which was ringed with armed guards.
By the time they reached Greenham Common their morale was at rock bottom, but with a heavy and successful training programme came a steady improvement and they were declared operational in April.
Greenham Common was formally handed over to the 7th AD on June 18 1951, by which time it had become known locally as Tent City because of the vast array of canvas on the site.
home.comcast.net /~aero51/html/airfield/greenham_common.htm   (2554 words)

  
 Cruise and the Common: 1979-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Greenham Common would also be the very first base in Europe to receive its first flight of 16 missiles in late 1983.
The high speed vehicle was tested on the runway at Greenham Common and was later to be taken to Nevada where it broke the land speed record in 1983 at over 630 mph driven by RAF Officer, Richard Noble.
The deployment became highly politicised and Greenham was becoming a tangible and highly visible sign of the deterioration in East-West relations and the heating of the arms race.
www.megspace.com /politics/greenham/index_000006.htm   (4440 words)

  
 CNN.com - Women end Greenham protest after 19 years - September 6, 2000
The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was set up outside the main gates after it was decided to deploy 96 U.S. cruise missiles at the base during the Cold War.
"Greenham was an extraordinary movement which certainly raised the profile of the anti-nuclear campaign," said Lionel Trippett, from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament..
Others, like Lucia Brandi, who was a Greenham regular for more than 10 years, stress that the end of this particular era is not the end of the anti-nuclear story.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/09/05/uk.greenham/index.html   (923 words)

  
 Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
Richard Greenham, a pastoral pioneer, was incumbent of Dry Drayton, seven miles from Cambridge, from 1570 to 1590.
Greenham was a pastoral counsellor of uncommon skill.
In rural England in Greenham's day, there was much fallow ground to be broken up; it was a time for sowing, but the reaping time was still in the future.
www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?61   (655 words)

  
 Arrival of Cruise Missiles at Greenham Common: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
A protest march to the base from Cardiff in August 1981 led to the establishment of a 'Women’s Peace Camp' outside its perimeter.
Although the campaigners did not prevent the deployment of the missiles, whose arrival under the 1979 deployment plan is reported in The Times of November 15, 1983, they did raise the issue of nuclear disarmament to greater public awareness.
The missiles were subsequently withdrawn from Greenham Common as part of the reductions negotiated in the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force (INF) treaty, with the last missile returning to the United States in 1991, a year before the USAF left Greenham Common.
uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1461501541/Arrival_of_Cruise_Missiles_at_Greenham_Common_The_Times_Report.html   (205 words)

  
 Peace camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peace camps are physical camps that are set up outside military bases by members of the peace movement who for one reason or another oppose either the military bases themselves or the politics of those who control the bases.
People came to live outside these military bases in order to witness and nonviolently protest against the presence of nuclear weapons in Europe that were directed against the then Soviet Union by the United States, calling for nuclear disarmament.
The women at Greenham Common were particularly against the placing of US cruise missiles at Greenham Common, something they claimed made the area a direct target of Soviet Union aggression.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peace_camp   (485 words)

  
 RAF Greenham Common - United States Nuclear Forces
Greenham was declared surplus and closed down on 01 June 1946.
The 501st Tactical Missile Wing (TMW) was activated at RAF Greenham Common in July 1982 and the 303rd TMW at RAF Molesworth in December 1986.
Greenham Common in the United Kingdom had 101 missiles and 29 launchers; Comiso in Italy, 108 missiles and 31 launchers; and Wuescheim in West Germany, 62 missiles and 31 launchers.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/greenham_common.htm   (785 words)

  
 Military Photos Images Pictures Discussion - RAF Greenham Common 1944 - Powered by PhotoPost
Greenham briefly passed back to the control of RAF groups 92 and 70 and was used for flight training on Airspeed Oxfords of No 15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (PAFU) until the end of September 1943 and from May 1943 No 1511 Beam Approach Training Flight from RAF Upwood used the site.
Greenham Common became the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing HQ under the command of the USAAF's IX Troop Carrier Command.
Greenham Common was formally handed back to the RAF on July 1st 1964 In January 1967, Greenham and RAF Sculthorpe in Norfolk were brought back into American use.
www.militaryimages.net /photopost/showphoto.php/photo/10937   (1210 words)

  
 AEHS Magazine- October 2001
Greenham and Crookham commons were bought in 1939 for use as an open space and common area for the people of Newbury by the then Borough of Newbury.
The USAF left Greenham common in 1992 and the air base was closed.
Most importantly Greenham common is situated in an area of the Kennet valley with several areas of special scientific interest.
www.aehsmag.com /issues/2001/october/greenham.htm   (1039 words)

  
 BBC News | GREENHAM COMMON | The women's peace camp
People who went on to join what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp recall that the station commander decided to leave the protesters exactly where they were, in the hope that they would get fed up and skulk off.
They didn't, and more than 18 years down the line - and a decade since the Cold War ended and the Americans packed up their missiles and went home - there is still a peace camp at what was once the country's most controversial military establishment.
Events at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp were at their most fervent in the strife-filled early to mid-eighties.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/11/99/greenham_common/503679.stm   (1007 words)

  
 THE HISTORY OF GREENHAM COMMON
Greenham Common has been, for most of its history, a valuable piece of common land and a shared sustainable resource for local farmers and cottagers.
By 1990 the cruise missiles had gone and in 1992 Greenham Common Airbase was declared redundant for military purposes.
For many, Greenham Common is synonymous with the Cold War and the peace protests against the siting of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) at the former airbase during the 1980's.
www.greenham-common-trust.co.uk /history.htm   (647 words)

  
 Radioactive Greenham Common
Greenham Common was the site of a long occupation by women against the stationing of Cruise missiles by the US Air Force at the base in the 1980s.
The uranium-235 was detected in two large circles to the east and west of Greenham Common.
This means that all the thousands of women who camped at Greenham Common over the years must have been contaminated by the surrounding radioactivity.
www.csun.edu /CommunicationStudies/ben/news/960915.green.html   (458 words)

  
 Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
The commitment to non-violence and non-alignment gave the protest an authority that was difficult to dismiss – journalists from almost every corner of the globe found their way to the camp and reported on the happenings and events taking place there.
The conduct and integrity of the protest mounted by the Women’s Peace Camp was instrumental in the decision to remove the Cruise Missiles from Greenham Common.
Lecture for the BBC, referring to the Bylaws case (won by Greenham women in the House of Lords in 1990) said ‘…it would be difficult to suggest a group whose cause and lifestyle were less likely to excite the sympathies and approval of five elderly judges.
www.greenhamwpc.org.uk /index.htm   (649 words)

  
 Threat To Greenham Common
Greenham Common, situated near the Kennet River less than two miles outside Newbury, is one of a band of Berkshire Commons.
In 1941 the Air Ministry requisitioned Greenham Common for an airfield.
He undertook to consult Newbury Corporation as to the disposal of the land if and when it ceased to be used for the purposes of an airfield.
members.tripod.com /ChrisRoadbuster/PeaceGC.html   (1081 words)

  
 The Danish Peace Academy : Greenham Common Peace Camps Songbooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
By publishing this untitled and mostly hand-written Greenham Common songbook I hope to be able to add substance to the struggle against nuclear weapons during the cold war; especially the way women protested against nuclear weapons and against nuclear war.
Greenham was an amazing experience altogether, the songbook brought a lot of memories back to me, especially the sound of many many women singing 'You Can't Kill The Spirit' in the bible flness of night while surrounded by a huge police force.
Greenham Common and RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire would be the two GLCM bases in Britain.
www.fredsakademiet.dk /abase/sange/greenham.htm   (15515 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Background | Choices and Features | Military history of the common
It earmarked Greenham Common, near Newbury in Berkshire, for a bomber operational training unit, and title for the land was obtained from Newbury District Council in May 1941.
Following Operation Overlord, the Americans moved their entire operation to France and Greenham Common reverted to RAF control until it was closed in 1946.
Although the military has pulled out of Greenham Common, it still owns three areas - including the silos - which are available for the Russians to inspect under the terms of the INF treaty.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/11/99/greenham_common/503665.stm   (530 words)

  
 Company information about Greenham Regis Marine Electronics
Greenham Marine Limited was established, in Poole, in 1964.
Regis Electronics Limited was established in 1984 by Reg Suter (now Chairman of Greenham Regis marine electronics) and Keith Ash (now sales Director of GREENHAM REGIS marine electronics).
GREENHAM REGIS marine electronics, being an independent company 100% owned and managed by the four directors (Reg, Andy, Keith and Malcolm) takes great pride in it's investment in staff.
www.greenham-regis.com /company.html   (406 words)

  
 Greenham Common free festivals 1981-82
he Greenham Common Womens Peace camp was a major thorn in the side of the Thatcher Government throughout the 1980s.
The camp, established in 1981, was situated outside the Greenham Common Airbase,the aim was to protest peacefully against the government plans to install nuclear warhead equipped Cruise missiles supplied by the US.
Ahead of them lay a full blown confrontation in progress, where the authorities were already completely absorbed in ridding the area of the three dozen or so women of the Peace Vigil.
www.ukrockfestivals.com /greenham-menu.html   (885 words)

  
 Greenham Parish Council - Greenham, Newbury, Berkshire, UK.
In 1997 the airbase was restored to common land with 850 acres being used once again for grazing and leisure purposes.
Greenham Common Trust manages the funding of the Common from the business rentals and makes awards to many local good causes.
The Parish Council has also funded the purchase of a defibrillator for use by a local paramedic to provide immediate first aid to victims of cardiac arrest and contributed to the cost of the local Neighbourhood Warden Scheme.
www.greenham.gov.uk   (362 words)

  
 The Danish Peace Academy: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Songbook
Greenham police congratulated / Trevor Bown ; John Rentoul.
A FORMER Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police left court in Disgrace yesterday after he was convicted of shoplifting.
Originally a senior officer in the Thames Valley force, [he], a tall and dashing figure, was the highly successful commander of policing outside Greenham Common airbase in the early 1980s.
www.fredsakademiet.dk /abase/sange/greenham/song1.htm   (264 words)

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