Cat no. 213017

Anglia News: Village of Finchingfield Awaits Ban The Bomb Marchers

Running time1:04 Black & White Silent 1961 Finchingfield, Essex

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Anglia Television news item from a village close to RAF Wethersfield.

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NewsTelevision

A mute Anglia Television news report on the village of Finchingfield, Essex, as it awaits an influx of anti-nuclear demonstrators for a planned march on nearby RAF Wethersfield.

The picture-postcard village of Finchingfield is shown as a quiet, serene place, but a more sinister undercurrent is clear from the crude graffiti daubed on the town's walls and bridges. The report concludes with a broad vista of the village, panning across to a road sign which points to RAF Wethersfield, home to United States Air Force fighter squadrons since 1951.

Anglia Television