SOS (Save Our Sands) campaign papers

SOS (Save Our Sands) campaign papers.

The Save Our Sands campaign ran between 1969-1971 and began as a reaction to the decision made by the Ministry of Defence to relocate the Shoeburyness experimental gunnery range to Cefn Sidan [Pembrey beach, Carmarthenshire]. This move would have rendered 15,000 acres worth of land in Pembrey inaccessible to the public, including the eight miles of Cefn Sidan beach. Among those groups who came together to form the campaign were the Kidwelly Anti-Gunnery Range Committee, from whom this collection originates. The protesting took many forms from lying down in front of military vehicles, to a sponsored walk undertaken by school children to raise campaign funds, to guerrilla vandalism of construction equipment at night. The dispute eventually went to a public inquiry and the local community came together to fundraise for barristers to represent their side. The Ministry of Defence lost the case, and the Pembrey Country Park was established on the grounds where the gunnery range would have been.

Grouped into 24 files.

Ar Agor / Open

Dim cyfyngiadau / No Restrictions

Adnau preifat / Private deposit

Acc No: 8051.

Mae copiau clawr caled o`r catalogau ar gael yn Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin ac yn y Gofrestr Cenedlaethol Archifau. Polisi Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin yw catalogio yn iaith y ddogfen / Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Carmarthenshire Archives and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Carmarthenshire Archives to catalogue in the language of the document.

Cyflwr da / Good condition

Compiled by Emma Gordon for Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin / Carmarthenshire Archives.

Mae'r holl gofnodiadau sy'n cydymffurfio â pholisi casglu Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin wedi eu cadw / All records which meet the collection policy of the Carmarthenshire Archives have been retained

Deposited on the 20th January 2009.

Ni ddisgwylir croniadau / Accruals are not expected