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Hundreds of village folk formed a human river of light on the evening of April 2nd 1971. For two and half years they had fought against a proposal to site a Third London Airport, more than twice the size of Heathrow, in the Vale of Aylesbury, a beauty spot in Buckinghamshire, England. Three villages, Stewkley, Cublington, and Soulbury, were to be flattened, their churches, public buildings, public houses, and farms destroyed. Neighbouring villages too would not have survived in any recognisable form. The proposal to site the airport at a location called Cublington by the planners was the work of the Government-appoint Roskill Commission that undertook the longest and most expensive planning exercise ever undertaken in Britain. In the end it was a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street that quashed the proposal. The film shows villagers congregating at St Michael’s Church, Stewkley, a building that has stood since 1157. BBC cameras are evident, along with a giant mast used to relay the pictures live on British television. After a church service, flaming torches were lit and paraded along the High Street before ending at a giant bonfire on which protest signs were burned, no longer needed.
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