Memorial at Greenham Common bulldozed

27.8.13

I have just heard via a local woman that the memo­r­i­al to the sis­ters who protest­ed out­side the Green­ham Com­mon Nuclear site from 1982 until the gov­ern­ment was forced to remove the nuclear cruise mis­siles locat­ed there has today been removed by the own­ers of the Green­ham Com­mon Enter­prise Cen­tre that owns the site. 

 

27.8.13

I have just heard via a local woman that the memo­r­i­al to the sis­ters who protest­ed out­side the Green­ham Com­mon Nuclear site from 1982 until the gov­ern­ment was forced to remove the nuclear cruise mis­siles locat­ed there has today been removed by the own­ers of the Green­ham Com­mon Enter­prise Cen­tre that owns the site. 

 

Bull­doz­ers arrived at around 8am and began to rip up all the flow­ers and stones includ­ing even the memo­r­i­al to Helen Thomas who was killed while protest­ing there.   The memo­r­i­al was a gar­den of sev­en stand­ing stones encir­cling the ‘Flame’ sculp­ture which rep­re­sent­ed a camp fire.  I have called the Green­ham Com­mon Trust who run the site and they said the memo­r­i­al had “been there long enough” and was “a prob­lem for local traf­fic”.  I under­stand the entire gar­den is now gone and the land is sim­ply earth with all traces removed.

 

Peo­ple may wish to con­tact the Green­ham Com­mon trust and let them know what they think of this dis­gust­ing action