The Gates of Greenham
Alec Davison reflects on what promises to be a highlight of this year’s Britain Yearly Meeting
Thirty years ago, on Easter Monday 8 April 1985, what is reputed to be the largest gathering of Friends in the twentieth century assembled in the Royal Festival Hall, London.
It was the premiere of a peace passion, The Gates of Greenham, to celebrate a four-year ongoing witness of the women’s peace camp on Greenham Common against the arrival and then establishment of cruise missiles at the American air base. Some of the women were Friends. Through words and music the eight gates of the base echoed the eight openings of the spiritual quest.
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