This duffle coat had two lives.

Fashionable.
In the 1950s
Frances was proud to wear it
to go to Croydon School of Art.

Warm.
In the 1960s
Frances snuggled up in it
on Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND) marches.
Her badge shows the CND logo.

Frances joined the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND):

"The first time I went along
I was really inspired.
The people who belonged to CND then were
in the main
socialists, doctors, teachers
and quakers."

"The Croydon branch was fairly big -
we had about 200 members -
and I was fundraiser.
It used to annoy me
that I would do all this fundraising
and the money was spent on leaflets
which we handed out
when we marched
down Croydon High Street,
and they just littered the pavements
and I thought,
this is ridiculous.
Why do we print all these leaflets?
People thought we were cranks,
but harmless cranks."

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
or CND,
started in 1958.
In that year
5000 people marched on Aldermaston,
Britain's nuclear weapons research base.
Just four years later
the number of people on the march
had grown to 100,000.

Protesters were driven
by horror and fear.
Horror at the aftermath of the bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Fear that nuclear weapons
might be used again.
CND is still campaigning for peace
and against nuclear weapons.

To find out the history of CND
visit there website at:


http://www.cnduk.org/pages/binfo/hist.html