An additional document for 1980 can be found here together with additional documents from other years.
(1) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to Frances Donnelly, Producer Personal Call, January 17, 1980
Re the above, see below for reply.
(2) Letter John Smithson of Personal Call to David Webb/NCROPA, January 25, 1980
(3) Letter to all NCROPA Committee Members, February 25, 1980
The above heavily tippexed document concerns the Williams Report; it appears to be a draft.
(4) Letter from the NCCL, circa February 28, 1980
The above is apparently an undated, generalised overdue subscription reminder that was sent to NCROPA and probably a few other organisations.
(5) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to TV & Home Video, March 5, 1980
(6) Letter David Webb, to the British Humanist Association, March 13, 1980
The above concerns the Williams Report, and was apparently written in a personal capacity.
(7) Copy NCROPA Press Release, March 31, 1980
The above is on pink carbon, and concerns an address given by David Webb on March 25. It may have been sent only to one newspaper, the Hendon Times.
The following, documents (8)-(11), are five reports from the press – three national and one local newspaper. The provenance of document (9) is unconfirmed.
(8) Daily Mail & Guardian press cutttings, April 14, 1980
(9) Daily Telegraph press cuttting, April 14, 1980
(10) THE TIMES press cuttting, April 14, 1980
(11) Wolverhampton Express & Star press cuttting, April 14, 1980
(12) Letter Patricia Hewitt of the NCCL to David Webb/NCROPA, May 2, 1980
(13) Dirty Pictures, May 17-8, 1980
The above is an alluring document from the ICA.
They were two sheets of paper next to each other in the file. The first two pages as scanned here are sides 1 & 2 of the first sheet. The first page may look as though it has not been scanned properly, but it has.
The third page as scanned here is the second sheet in the file; it appears to be a photocopy, and is one-sided.
I’m not sure if they are in the right order, nor even if they are the same document, though in the file is a letter from Nicky Singer of the ICA; dated 24.4.80, it contains the first two pages only, which is said to be “our leaflet on the event”.
(14) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to Don MacLean, May 26, 1980
(15) Letter Miss C.J. Stewart for the Home Secretary to David Webb, June 5, 1980
(16) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to Look North BBC Manchester, June 5, 1980
The above is one of several letters sent to Northern media; for example, the same or extremely similar letter was sent June 4 to Martin Henfield of BBC Manchester.
(17) Copy letter to NCROPA supporters from David Webb, June 12, 1980
(18) NCROPA press statement re Mary Whitehouse, June 15, 1980
(19) Letter E.A.C. Goodman to David Webb/NCROPA, June 23, 1980
(20) What a filthy mess our porn laws are in, July 3, 1980
The above was written by NCROPA Committee member Dr Brian Richards.
(21) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to THE TIMES, July 4, 1980
(22) DOCTOR BARES THE SAUCY SECRETS OF CLEAN-UP BRIGADE by David Roxan, July 6, 1980
The above is an article about NCROPA Committee member Dr Brian Richards, from the News Of The World.
(23) Agenda for NCROPA Committee meeting, July 10, 1980
(24) Letter Dr Brian Richards to David Webb, July 21, 1980
(25) Letter from thePatent Office, August 20, 1980
(26) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to THE TIMES, August 21, 1980
(27) Letter David Webb/NCROPA to the Reverend Philip Myatt, September 3, 1980
(28) Letter Joe Ashton MP to David Webb, September 4, 1980
(29) Oh! what an ungodly fuss by David Webb, September 9, 1980
The above letter in the Bath And West Evening Chronicle may be page 3 or page 4; the heading – which had been secured separately - had come unglued.
(30) Letter J.E. Beck of the Video Exchange Club to David Webb/NCROPA, September 10, 1980
(31) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to John Swinfield of Anglia Television, September 12, 1980
(32) Memorandum by David Webb re Tuesday Call, BBC Radio 4, September 16, 1980
(33) Letter Joe Ashton MP to David Webb, September 25, 1980
(34) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to Chrisopher Ralling of BBC Televison, September 26, 1980
(35) Letter Don Maclean to David Webb, received September 29, 1980
(36) Letter Alasdair Milne of the BBC to David Webb/NCROPA, October 13, 1980
The above is a response to document (34)
(37) Letter Albert B. Gerber of the First Amendment Lawyers Association to David Webb/NCROPA, October 13, 1980
(38) Telegram/Press Statement David Webb/NCROPA re The Romans In Britain, October 17, 1980
(39) NCROPA News Media Release re The Romans In Britain and Mrs Whitehouse, October 29, 1980
(40) Fury as the show goes on by David Norris, from the Daily Mail, October 29, 1980
NCROPA gets a mention in the above article, see document (39).
(41) Letter Dr William D. Wilder of University of Durham to David Webb/NCROPA, November 2, 1980
(42) Letter Lawrence Copley Thaw to David Webb/NCROPA, November 4, 1980
(43) Letter David Shipman to David Webb/NCROPA, November 4, 1980
(44) Letter Allen Morris of the London Monday Group to David Webb, November 5, 1980
(45) Letter Alex Kennedy of the Office of the Western Buddhist Order to David Webb/NCROPA, November 5, 1980
There was apparently an enclosure with the above letter.
(46) Letter Alexander Barrie to David Webb/NCROPA, November 6, 1980
Re the above, Alexander Barrie became a NCROPA Committee member.
(47) Letter Mr & Mrs Davis to David Webb/NCROPA, November 6, 1980
(48) Letter William McIlroy of Brighton & Hove Humanist Group to David Webb/NCROPA, November 6, 1980
(49) NCROPA Press Statement, November 10, 1980
(50) Letter Connie Borken-Hagen to David Webb/NCROPA, November 11, 1980
(51) The Romans in Britain, Act 2: David sues Mary W. from Gay News, November 13-26, 1980
(52) Letter Director of Public Prosecutions to David Webb/NCROPA, November 14, 1980
(53) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to Alexander Barrie, November 24, 1980
(54) Copy letter David Webb/NCROPA to Mr & Mrs Davis, November 24, 1980
(55) NCROPA News Media Release, November 26, 1980
(56) Letter David Weldon to David Webb/NCROPA, November 29, 1980
(57) Further letter Director of Public Prosecutions to David Webb/NCROPA re Mrs Mary Whitehouse, December 1, 1980
(58) Our 104-year old obscenity, by David Webb/NCROPA, December 2, 1980
The above is a long letter in the Guardian newspaper.
(59) Letter from David Webb/NCROPA and report in The Stage and TELEVISION TODAY, December 4, 1980
(60) Letter Ron Machell of CHE Hampstead Group to David Webb/NCROPA, December 5, 1980
(61) NCROPA News Media Release, December 9, 1980
In the above, the words NEWS MEDIA RELEASE were sellotaped on by me. For those of you who can’t remember a world without computers, in the old days documents of this nature, and indeed entire newspapers, were assembled in this fashion.
(62) Letter Chief Constable of Devon & Cornwall Constabulary to David Webb/NCROPA, December 10, 1980
The above is undoubtedly the nicest letter David Webb ever received from any police officer.
(63) Whitehouse: no prosecution, a press cutting December 11, 1980
(64) Letter David Webb/NCROPA to Miss J.E. Fairburn of the Home Office, December 19, 1980
(65) Letter New Scotland Yard to David Webb/NCROPA, December 30, 1980
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