Aberfan disaster

2022 - 10 - 21

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Remembering the Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (South Wales Argus)

56 years ago today, 116 children were killed in the Aberfan Disaster. It remains a trauma from which south Wales Valleys towns have never truly…

The report was apparently “put in a drawer and forgotten until 1965”. In 1963, tip 7 itself slipped, and it’s likely that this movement contributed to the disaster of 1966. The 1939 landslide in Cilfynydd, just five miles from Aberfan, was extremely serious. Most of the victims are buried at Bryntaf Cemetery, where their graves are marked with distinctive white granite arches. They found that part of the tip had sunk, taking the track with it. into the mist.” Around two hours before the tip collapse, a handful of men had arrived at Merthyr Mountain to begin work. “A lot of the focus was on safety in the mines underground - that kind of thing. “The south Wales landscape was literally reshaped in the image of the coal industry, in many respects. In all, 28 adults and 116 children died. “The springs were on an Ordnance Survey map in 1919, and on a geological survey map in 1959.” It started to rise slowly at first…

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'Never forgotten': New Aberfan disaster collection on display at St ... (Nation.Cymru)

A new collection of objects telling the story of the Aberfan disaster is now on display in the 'Wales is' gallery at St Fagans National Museum of History.

“The Aberfan disaster is a significant part of Welsh history, and we are pleased that the story is represented in the museum,” said Principal Curator of Modern History at St Fagans National Museum of History Sioned Williams. A new collection of objects telling the story of the Aberfan disaster is now on display in the ‘Wales is’ gallery at St Fagans National Museum of History. Mike Flynn was a postman who was a paramedic (for the paratroopers) in the Territorial Army at the time.

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How The Crown portrayed the Aberfan disaster in Wales (The Independent)

At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales.

It was a sort of lesson for us that you need to show sympathy and to be there on the spot, which I think people craved from her,” It’s ridiculous how they portrayed the Queen as unfeeling during the Aberfan disaster. There’s a video on YouTube of her visit and she is clearly upset,” another [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. The total number of fatalities reached 144. This led to rainwater building up within the colliery tip, causing it to collapse and cause a slurry. Most of them were digging for their own children.” They were digging now for bodies.” [stated](https://twitter.com/mmgreyes7/status/1196250608996667393?s=20) that they found the portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the episode as “cold-hearted”. [recalled](https://twitter.com/ayesleft/status/1196091522141368320?s=20) how the pain of the Aberfan disaster is “still felt today” in South Wales. But still they kept going.

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Aberfan 56th anniversary: The story of the coal-mining tragedy (Evening Standard)

Every year, the UK - and especially the Welsh - pay tribute to the victims and the community of Aberfan.

Remember the shameful response of the Government and coal board.” Wales can’t, and won’t, forget.” She visited the village a number of times over the years, throughout her reign. We will always remember those who lost their lives – most of them children. And those responsible have dodged accountability for far too long. Remember the criminal negligence that caused it. It has since been replaced by the Mines Regulations Act 2014. Prince Philip, Lord Snowdon, and the then-prime minister Harold Wilson were among those who visited the village the following day. Its colliery opened in 1869, but by 1916 it had run out of space to dump waste on the valley floor. I just remember looking around; desks, chairs, mud, slurry. The aftermath of the Aberfan Disaster [Wales](/topic/wales) and the UK pay [tribute](/topic/tribute) to the victims and the community of Aberfan on the anniversary of the disaster.

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