A TTV Team trip to Greenham Common with Nicola Chester
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Lived Experience at Greenham
Nicola Chester won BBC Wildlife magazine’s Nature Writer of the Year Award in 2003 and has written a regular column for the RSPB members’ magazine Nature’s Home (formerly Birds) for over 13 years. She grew up alongside the internationally known environmental and political battlegrounds of Greenham Common and the Newbury Bypass protests, in which in her twenties she became involved, returning to live in a tied cottage on the nearby Highclere Estate (now famous as the setting for ‘Downton Abbey’) during her early married life.
Isla writes, ‘Nicola explained all the sounds and things she saw and heard when she was younger like when the sirens would go off and you would have to hide under a table and put books around you and thinking that this could be my last minutes.’