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So there is one set question which it's not it's not gonna be particularly surprising I don't think which is why do you think it's important that Greenham gets remembered by subsequent generations? It's it's it's it's a piece of history it's I can't believe that it isn't in

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all the history books I kind of assumed it was until somebody told me that it wasn't particularly and until I found myself doing a talk at the BBC last year for the centenary of women getting the vote and I mentioned that I had been at Greenham Common and the person facilitating it said you're going to have

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to explain to these women what Greenham Common was and I was really shocked I thought everybody would learn about it but they don't and actually my experience is exactly that is that when I mentioned the project to younger women especially a lot of them have never even heard of Greenham Common, which feels shocking to me, so tell us a little bit about about how you got involved okay so so my role was

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very much Bristol based I was a teacher at the time and so I couldn't live there all the time believe me I would have done I did I decided that I needed to hang on to my job and also for quite a lot of the time that I was active I was also pregnant with my first child so it wasn't really practicable to just take

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off and you know give up the job and go and live there and be pregnant that didn't seem sensible really so so I kind of did the next best thing and I mean Bristol you know is full of strong women who want to get active in these things there was so much support for Greenham near Bristol and so I would say two or

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three of us organized the Bristol Greenham women's support group and the group was about 200 strong so that that was just the number of people who turned up to meetings but but actually far more than that were involved in the whole Greenham effort and on one occasion I think it was the hands around the

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base session we actually got 51 coaches of women from Bristol to Greenham which is considerable yes you know and just shows the level of support that there was here yeah so we did things like we raised money for the Greenham women some of us went up almost every weekend to we did night shifts there because you

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know to give the women a break I personally spent a lot of time at Green Gate also Blue Gate and then at Yellow Gate so so you know we went went to different places met different women were able to kind of help out yeah keep the night fires burning and that sort of thing we also helped we went up to

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accompany women going to court and to give them support and so on we also did a lot of lying in the road yes we used to go out and demonstrate on the motorways telling people that this is where the missiles would be coming and I used to carry in my car in my little to CV I used to carry my banner yeah and

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sometimes on my way to work a handful of us would go out and wreak havoc on you know on the motorway on one of one of the roads around Bristol with various slogans that we had we also did a demonstration in Bristol where we stopped all the traffic in Bristol until we got moved on that love that was a good one

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you name it really we did it you know we back in the day we had a wonderful banner that we used to march behind and I don't know what's happened to that you know somebody made that and it was it was glorious on the on the days when we went up to Greenham when there were loads of us we would all stop off at

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Reading services on the way and then we would take over both lots of toilets and the men's and the women's there were so many of us there wasn't anybody to come across you know so huge effort actually and we made loads of money and and gave it you know we sponsored various women up there so that they

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could stay there and it was that kind of activity really but I mean I was just saying I was there when Joan Byers came and I have photos of that so it was that's a piece of history all on its own yeah Joan Byers coming to Greenham Common and what was so extraordinary about that you you've got to realise

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after a while that the women who were there all the time had become really quite swarthy and quite dark-skinned you know quite outdoor living you know and then and then Joan Byers turned up and look she had this white roll neck jumper on and her face looked kind of gorgeous and she stood out like this hugely clean woman

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and everybody else you know she was massively warmly welcomed and I think when you when you've got Joan Byers turning up and you know and we all sang of course we sang and sang because we did that all the time it was that really did feel like a piece of history I thought well when Joan Byers comes to your

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protest movement this really made it you know and that was hugely exciting and gave the women a real boost yeah I'm sure it did I one of the things that struck me with everybody I've spoken to is how much spin-offs the wrong word but how much independent action happens both to support Greenham and also just

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like additional protest yeah so so what we had in Bristol because the idea was that whenever a convoy came out we would take to the roads and you know do our bit to stop them coming up so what I've got here are the four phone trees and I know and then we would we would person in the middle would ring you know

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the people in the ring around them and then they would ring those people in there because we didn't have mobile phones you know this was the 1980s and so that was what we did and you can see we've got hundreds of names on there people that when I look at it now I still know some of these people yeah and it

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was a good system you know it was in its own way it was quite efficient and it was the time I slept through a phone call that wasn't great but but my phone in in my house my landline it never stopped ringing that year that I was really heavily involved it rang and rang and rang so all evening I would be

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answering queries from women wanting to know you know how to get there or where to go or which gate to go to or when was a good time all sorts of things like that and there was so much support in Bristol it was it really made me proud actually I mean I didn't realize quite the scale of it actually and I I spoke

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to at least I will take a photograph okay that's all right yes I spoke to at least one other woman who said that initially sort of when they first were coming through the CND were not very supportive and it sort of took a took a sort of sort of separate women's initiative to get things going and get

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the support going and go and join I don't know whether you found that or how you found out about it in the first place I don't know how I found out about it in the first place I just kind of took an interest in it yeah and again I sort of it feels like there wasn't a lot of central organization you know within

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the camps you know they were often very sort of no nebulous yeah but connected but the amount of organization that went on around it and an individual protest is phenomenal actually yes but and what wasn't it interesting the way the different gates had kind of different almost different functions I mean yellow

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was the main gate I just remember that and that's where most of the action actually took place and so if you spent a couple of days at yellow gate you know you would you would see horrendous sites you would see women dropped on their heads for example by police the police were incredibly brutal I've never seen

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anything like it you know I thought the police were there to kind of protect us and turns out you know they're not always and I think the real thing for me about Greenham was that everybody that but it was the police really the Metropolitan Police they they couldn't stand that women were standing up to

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them they could not bear it they couldn't tolerate it at all and so they tried to stamp it out stamp it out stamp it out all the time and one night I was on duty at yellow gate and we had a little bonfire keep us warm in the night and and then the police turned up you know a couple of big bruisers and

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with fire extinguishers and proceeded to sort of you know go crazy over putting this little fire out loads and loads of fire extinguisher action going on and I got really gnarky with them and the other women said to me no don't you know don't don't waste your energy it's fine we'll just sit here because it was after

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all peaceful protest and so I shut up and did what I was told and police did that and then they kind of harumphed and and went off again and then we waited a bit and then the women just relit the fire and it always relit me I don't know how fire extinguishers work and we I suppose we must have put new wood on it

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on the top of it and everything but that fire never went out and they and they repeated that throughout the night they would come back do it all over again because it was driving them nuts that we'd still have this fire and there it was again you know and so this was this little cat and mouse game that they

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played all night with the women completely pointless but and the women always won they always won everything they did they won they were so creative you know so so spirited and so clever the amount of stamina it must take emotional and mental stamina to stay yeah I'm just keep going through all of

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that I mean it's beggars belief really I know one day when we were up there there was a suddenly there was this huge waste truck you know one of the like refuse vehicles that and it was from Bristol and a load of kind of red redneck blokes in it you know real kind of cowboy blokes and they drove this

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thing at speed through all the women's vendors and if if anybody had been in them at that time of day they could have been killed and I don't know how people weren't killed and injured but but you know so that was the other side of what Bristol was doing was kind of sending up like you know

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yobby horrible cowboy men having a go at women and I've remembered that I'm not surprised and I'll tell you a story by all means it does seem to be a common thing that men are very threatened by women not doing what they're told

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I mean is it as basic as that yeah I think it is I think it kind of it it brings out the worst kind of misogyny in them and somehow they find that terribly threatening and especially when it's women on mass you know I mean we find this in all sorts of walks of life don't we? Yes we do. I think I found it just now.

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Yes, I should imagine you did at council. Absolutely. And then were there men involved in the support group or was it women only as well? No it was completely women yeah and I suppose you know when it started out from from Wales and the men took that decision to go because they thought I'm

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not sure if this was right or not that that the police would perhaps be less thuggish if the men weren't there I'd be interested to know whether that actually became true or not. It's hard to tell so I think there's a lot of in all the conversations I've had there's some feeling that it would have been more

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violent had there been men there because of the retaliation and the license to be violent with other men but equally it doesn't mean that the women were not recipients of quite brutal behavior so it's hard to know objectively I think it varies from people's experience you know and the police as

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you witnessed were... They were brutal with the women yes yeah they were I guess not being fought back means maybe it doesn't escalate but then I guess passivity can be infuriating to people as well. I think so I think so I think I think they find that absolutely infuriating that you sit there and or that you go limp or you know I mean... It's very disempowering somebody not reacting to you actually.

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I mean there were rumors that women were covering themselves in menstrual blood I never had any evidence of that. Yes I've heard that. A friend of mine is married to a soldier who was is convinced that they were throwing sanitary towels at soldiers and all sorts of stuff. But I have not heard first-hand from anyone that this was something that actually was going on.

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No I mean that might have just been a sort of an attempt to... A literal smear! Yes I was going to say smear and then I thought I wouldn't. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring the tone down. But yes you don't know what's propaganda and what's true I suppose in other cases.

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No and I mean you know fair play to them it's quite a creative response when you're a bit desperate that's the kind of thing you know you would do. So when you were there at the weekends did you stay over always? Yes and then we would have to drive back to work on Monday morning and I remember one Monday two of us we just had to pull off the motorway into a sort of side thing and go to sleep because we were so exhausted. We were dangerous we were going to fall asleep driving you know. It was always exhausting at Greenham.

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Very very very tiring and you know and I wasn't there full-time so I just amazing to those women that were. So how did you cope with being pregnant and working full-time potentially and going away every weekend? Well it was I think it kind of kept me going really these things do you know there was so much impetus behind it. It was it was exciting it was it was hugely exciting and I'm going to say that but it was really really important it was important that we won this and so we weren't going to give up on it.

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Do you feel you did win? It's a question we we ask ourselves I like to think that we were completely and utterly responsible for those missiles leaving. I think you can take that one. It can't have had no impact it's impossible that it had no impact.

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It must have done and it had impact all across the world really didn't it you know we we were getting messages from women all across the world. We didn't have social media so it made it more difficult but and I used to edit the Greenham Common newsletter. So a small group of us would meet at my house and collect together all the available information that people used to send me articles and things. And then you see we didn't have printing we didn't you know I mean honestly it sounds I feel like I'm about 100 or something in the old days when we didn't have printers and things.

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So we had to write this stuff by hand on it and use a gestetner machine to duplicate it. Believe it or not I've used a gestetner. Have you used a gestetner? Yes they do still have them in schools.

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Did they? Yes they do. So this gestetner was in my bedroom I seem to remember. Where did you sleep?

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Next to it. And then we would kind of you know get to with this thing and I can remember I don't know where I was anyway I was selling them somewhere for 10p with a load of other people who were selling all sorts of other stuff. And Ken Livingstone came along and he wasn't going to buy anything from anyone and then he spotted the Greenham Common newsletter and bought one. So that was like a little victory really you know it was like I've got the only really good thing along here.

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This is worth having. So we did that for a while and that was all alright until there was an argument around censorship. And then there was a problem because you literally couldn't print everything that came your way because we were just a small group of women we didn't have the time or the resources to keep going so we just did our best. And then if your article didn't get in people felt like it had been censored which was difficult because it would have got probably into the next one.

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But you know there were all these issues that we would always be discussing so none of this was easy or straightforward as women's struggles are not easy and straightforward and indeed we continue now having many discussions around a whole variety of issues. But back at Greenham I think things were clarified and that we had a kind of common purpose really. Yeah absolutely it seems that way. I mean the organisation kind of fascinates me that sort of how do you make decisions when there is no clear hierarchy.

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How did you organise a support group? Was it purely whoever wanted to could just do things or did there end up being a sort of committee process? No I think we were pretty good at reaching consensus. I mean it's a lot of people 200 to reach consensus on things but we did it and somehow yes I don't remember it being a difficult thing to organise actually at all. I mean we met in a Quaker meeting place and they were pleased to have us.

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Yes there seems to be a lot of Quakers involved. Yeah actually that's true, yes that is true there were. And we were a wonderful mixture of ages and sort of kinds of women. Yeah it was a great group actually and I thought we all got on pretty well to be honest and we did have some fiery arguments as well.

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Some of us kept in touch with each other, there was a little group of women who to this day meet calling themselves the Greenham Support Group which I love. Oh lovely, that is really nice. Some women have died you know so it kind of came to a sad end really. Do you think there is a natural time frame or a natural size for things? I mean I guess it's very hard to make sort of parallel organisations.

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Well maybe for that kind of initiative it would have been really hard to keep going. I mean if the missiles were still there, would we still be there? I can't believe 30 years later you know. That's the first time someone has said that, that's a really good point.

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Surely we would have all said this is not sustainable. But after it had all gone I got sent to Greenham Common by my dentist. It was the most bizarre thing. I was having a crown fitted or something and he said well I need you to go and get a colour match and the technical lab is at Greenham Common.

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And I said what? He said yeah it's at Greenham Common so could you go there? And I said yes of course, I'll go back there, I'd love to. So I drove there and went straight in at Yellowgate, no bolt cutters, nothing, just drove in. Really?

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Yes. There was a technical lab, a dental technical lab? Yes, there was all sorts of things there now. There were no soldiers there, just odd businesses that had set up in this weird place that still had the fencing surrounding it.

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But there was nothing else there, no military presence. But outside of the gate was a caravan and there were two women still living there. When was that? Roughly, not exactly.

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I honestly can't remember but it wouldn't have been ages after Greenham Common but I think it was a couple of years. I think there was a presence there up until the mid to late 90s. Right, well it must have been some time then, doesn't it? And I did ask about the women in the caravan and they said well we don't think they've got anywhere else to live.

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Which may have been true because people did give up their homes really to go and live there. And it's a bit of a desperate place to be. Yes. I didn't actually see the women. I would have liked to, I would have liked to have talked to them.

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Absolutely, seeing what they were up to. And then of course we wanted a statue outside the base and apparently all sorts of things have happened. And then they've been vandalised or never happened or whatever and that hasn't been possible for some reason. And that's a shame because that should be marked.

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It should be marked in some way. Perhaps we could erect one in Newbury or Reading or somewhere. I wonder what Newbury, Newbury probably has very mixed feelings about it, doesn't it? Yes, it seems to be that it wasn't very welcoming.

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No, well I can see. It's quite a little county. I do know somebody who used to let their house be used so the women could go and have a bath and things like that. But it never went down well with the neighbours.

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You used to get a lot of abuse if you did things like that. It is amazing the sort of strength of feeling against women just in general in Newbury and the surrounding areas. Really? Yes, I spoke to one woman who lived at the camp for a while and said you just got spat at every time you went to town.

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You'd come back and you'd become more of a gob. Oh God, isn't it disgusting? It is, it is more than a little bit disgusting I have to say. There's us, that's us stopping the traffic in the road with the police.

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Let me see if you can see me. That's me just behind that with my green umbanna. Wow. Don't I look young? Can you just see my face?

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I can see your hair which is wonderful. We were blocking Newfoundland Road in Bristol, carrying placards and a banner. Police were quickly on the scene. I bet they were, I bet they were.

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Do you think women are likely to organise in those sorts of numbers today about anything? Or do you feel we've been a little bit disarmed? Well, there was that amazing women's march against Trump, wasn't there? Which is the sort of thing where women really do come together.

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Yeah, that is true. Did you by any chance see or take part in our extraordinary lantern parade out here? No, I didn't. I did know that it was happening but I didn't, I wasn't able to which is such a shame. It was quite one of the most wonderful days of my life.

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It was amazing, about 4,000 women. Really, wasn't that many? And with these huge lanterns with slogans on and those massive suffragette puppies walking, striding around amongst us. And then the 100 girls singing and the brass band called Burning Brass that we had.

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You know, it was amazing. So yeah, women do come together and they, you know, they do do things. But we haven't had occasion, fortunately, to have to set up camp around a military base. Not for a while now.

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But if such a thing were to exist, I think we would all do it again. Yeah, quite sure of that. Definitely we would. I hope so. It would be good if we did. I'm glad we're not so terrified as we were back then.

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Yes, it was frightening times actually. Very frightening. Was there a point when the fear lifted? Or was that when the Cold War ended? Yes, I don't think it lifted until the Cold War ended. I think we're all very frightened again now though.

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Perhaps not quite the same way, but you know, the world's a very dangerous place now. And women's rights, if anything, are going backwards. We've got a lot of work to do. Yes, I do feel like that.

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And that's what I am doing. Yes, it is what you are doing. Did it change the course of your life, do you think? You're not a teacher anymore, did it? No, no, I haven't been a teacher for a long time.

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Is there anything to do with Greenham? Or was that just to do with education? No, no, that was all to do with not being allowed to go back to my job as part-time or a job share because you couldn't, basically. Or at least, we could have, but my head wouldn't have countenanced that and didn't,

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even though there were two of us. So yes, it's all around women's rights, of course. But fortunately, I've been able to be involved in women's rights ever since. So were you an activist prior to Greenham?

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Was Greenham something, or did it make you an activist? Well, of course, I've been around a long time. One of the first things, when I was at university, late 60s, early 70s, was when women's liberation was just beginning.

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So yes, I went to all those conferences, I was involved in all of that. It seems extraordinary, really, that in many ways we're fighting those same battles all over again. And then, as a teacher, I was involved in trying to get school materials to be less sexist. And so I set up a group within my school called, this went down well,

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it was called something like the anti-sexism group or something. Which our head teacher really hated and tried to stop. But because we used to write all our own materials, we were actually able to have some influence on that. So yes, I've always been active, but it was only since.

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So for the last 20 years, I've been working in, I set up a company with another woman. And then I was able to do a lot of work in equalities and as much as possible in gender. And then, as you know, I've been playing Bristol Women's Voice for seven years now. And Bristol Women's Commission for five years.

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We've just celebrated our five year anniversary. And that's been a fantastic experience for me. Well done. Thank you.

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Thank you for saying that. It's true, an amazing amount of stuff to be achieved. I suppose the reason I ask those questions is because I guess for some women it was their first experience of activism or of being involved in overtly political action.

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Whereas it sounds like you were already well on the way before Greenham came along. Yeah, but I don't think I sort of, I mean, I had joined in demonstrations and done things like that. And I'd been to some very active kind of conferences and things like that. But it wasn't really until Greenham, I'll probably remember something else in a minute.

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But I mean, you know, things like running a girls football team, for example, when I was a teacher. You know, because there wasn't any such thing as girls football and that kind of thing. But that's not the same as sitting down in the road. It was only really at Greenham that I sort of totally got into that side of things.

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Because it felt necessary. Yes. It wasn't just for fun. No.

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This was serious stuff, really. It was absolutely imperative that people acted in the way they did. Yeah, absolutely. And we couldn't find any other way to do it.

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I mean, it is a bit like the suffragettes, you know, who had to resort to kind of burning places down and smashing glass and all the rest of it. And I don't suppose for one minute they did it from choice. And look what they went through with, you know, the force feeding and the brutality from the police. And, you know, and that was for the right to vote.

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So when things are really, really important, this is what women do and it's what we have to do. Do you think there'll be a rehabilitation eventually, like there has been with the suffragettes, in terms of public opinion or standing? That's a really difficult question. I don't know.

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I don't know what the public perception of the Greenham women is. They probably just think it was women covered in menstrual blood, you know. Fortunately, that may be true, if they've heard of them at all yet. I think they were either there or disapproving.

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Yes. So many women were there. Well, when we used to go there for the very big events, I used to see friends from Southampton and Gloucester and Norfolk. And, you know, it was just truly amazing.

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It felt like everybody was there, really. It was extraordinary. And in the group, in the Bristol support group, in terms of supporting women who were up in court, what did that kind of work entail? Was there a lot of...?

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Well, I mean, there were a couple of women who had some sort of legal background and were able to actually offer a bit of legal support. But more than that, really, it was just being there with them. Were you ever arrested? I think it felt important, probably, not to be arrested.

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It didn't seem very sensible to be arrested. Generally, it isn't. You avoided it. I don't think it's like a badge of honour that you have to...

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No, not really. ...that you have to wear, I think. Yeah, it's one of those things that might happen, but probably is not something you should be... Yeah, well, I mean, it could have happened.

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Yeah. But, you know, it just didn't. And that's because there was strength in numbers. There were always so many of us.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I suppose they would have picked on the ringleaders, really. Oh, he was near his time, I think, sometimes. What were the police like in Bristol when you were protesting here?

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Well, they didn't really understand it. They were like, you know, why are you doing this here? This isn't Greenham Common. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You know, what's this got to do with you kind of thing? Yeah, yeah. So, and it was quite a difficult message to get across to people, that we should all be caring about this.

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But, as I say, the support from the women in Bristol was phenomenal. Yeah, yeah. Yes, it sounds it. So, the message was getting out, you know, but maybe only to the women.

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Yes, yes. I don't know. What were the press like? Did you have many...

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I can see you've got some press cuttings. Well, there's a few press cuttings, but then there's one where we wrote a letter to the press and all that got in of our letter, in the letters page,

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was this tiny little thing that said, Greenham women thank the women of Bristol for the contribution that they've made and the money they've given them. It was like three or four lines

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and we'd written a whole letter about Greenham Common. The press chose not to report on it. But, of course, the minute we took to the streets with our banners and so on, peace women blocked the road, you know.

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So, there we were.