Ginette's Orange Gate Journal

One Woman's View of the
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

From November 1982 'till January 1985 Ginette was visitor and then regular member of the women's community at Orange Gate, part of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

Orange Gate was one of several gates – all with women's peace camps – that surrounded the Greenham Common air base and infuriated officialdom. American cruise missile nuclear weapons were deployed at RAF Greenham Common 1983.

Ginette's personal and often very funny perspective was written within hours of it happening. The document is clearly the unedited typed original; only identifying names have been removed.

The scanned file has been split into 9 sections for easy downloading. Click the blue underlined link to download the .pdf file:

• Sections 1 - 2, Nov/Dec 82: 9MB pdf
• Sections 3 - 8, 1983: 23MB pdf
• Sections 9 - 12, Mid Winter 83/4: 21MB pdf
• Sections 13 - 15, Early Spring 84: 15MB pdf
• Sections 16 - 18, Spring 84: 17MB pdf
• Sections 19 - 22, Early Summer 84: 19MB pdf
• Sections 23 - 24, Mid Summer 84: 16MB pdf
• Sections 25 - 26, Autumn 84: 16MB pdf
• Sections 27 - 29, Mid Winter 84/5: 20MB pdf

Some External Links:

• The original journal documents are part of the collection held by The Women's Library
• Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Website
• The Guardian's excellent Your Greenham Website. Has a glossary of Greenham terms along with videos, words & images
• Wikipedia: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
• Wikipedia: RAF Greenham Common

Any queries?

Contact Ginette's son Mark by email on mark@meta-synthesis.com