Stop Torness Festival Poster/Flyer
dt0108-StopTornessFestivalFlyer1983.pdf
size: 446.58 kB
Year: 1983
Source: scan from David Taylor personal archive
Archived: May 2017
Summary:
Poster/flyer for Stop Torness (nuclear power station near Dunbar, Scotland) event on May Bank Holiday 1983. Poster features image of crowd holding hands around a reactor with a tree sprouting from its cracked shell. Leaflet draws connection between nuke power and weapons. A "walk for life" from Faslane to Greenham Common arrives at Torness on Bank Holiday Monday.
Contents:
Scan of A4 double sided original print on orange-yellow paper with dark brown and red ink (red only on poster side). Landscape format. Flyer side typeset in four columns under bold "Stop Torness" head and with hand-drawn location map.
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- 1979 : leaked Cabinet Papers reveal effort to "reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration"
- 1953 : Macmillan tells the truth about committees
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All Our Yesterdays - On This Day
Links to All Our Yesterdays site for events that happened on this day in (Green) History
- 1998 : coal guy becomes Australian environment ambassador
- 1989 : Small Island States say "er, we gotta do something before the waves close over our heads"
- 1979 : leaked Cabinet Papers reveal effort to "reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration"
- 1953 : Macmillan tells the truth about committees
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