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.
All Our Yesterdays - On This Day
Links to All Our Yesterdays site for events that happened on this day in (Green) History
- 1992 : Australian business predicts economic armageddon if any greenhouse gas cuts made
- 1991 : UK Energy minister fanboys nuclear as climate solution. Obvs.
- 1983 : idiots get their retaliation in first...
- 1977 : UK energy experts gather at Sunningdale
- 1957 : Guy Callendar to Gilbert Plass on how easy it is to criticise, how hard to build theories
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