TheLoneRanger
Ivor Allchurch
https://twitter.com/WalesOnline/status/1318807181010046977?s=20
Squarebear said:What with this and Moira Hindley, it's no wonder my mother used to shyte her pants every time I asked to go outside and play.
Monty said:Squarebear said:What with this and Moira Hindley, it's no wonder my mother used to shyte her pants every time I asked to go outside and play.
Her sister Myra was a bit of a devil too
lucky_jack said:A letter home by a young journalists covering the disaster
https://fleetstreetmemories.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/aberfan-disaster/
BanosSwan said:lucky_jack said:A letter home by a young journalists covering the disaster
https://fleetstreetmemories.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/aberfan-disaster/
Tough read.
Muteswan said:144 people, 116 of them children, were killed in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan when tons of slush, from a nearby coal slag tip weakened by rain, slid downhill and engulfed the village school, a farm and a row of terraced houses. The tragedy occurred at the beginning of the school day and on the day before the school closed for the half-term holiday. The children are buried in Aberfan's cemetery, on the hillside above the valley.
The memory I have of this was horrendous. I was at Penlan school and I remember Mr. Bill Hughes (most people remember him as owner of Barons Nightclub), a teacher, dropped everything and went to Aberfan to help in the rescue. The news was full of pictures which, even as a teenager, filled me with a sense of WTF, how can this possibly happen? The rest , as they say, is history.
Younger people, who were not aware of the events of that day ,I feel, should take time out to read up about this tragedy and hopefully can have some sort of idea as to what really happened and who was to blame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
RIP.
DJack said:BanosSwan said:Tough read.
Not read it and I guessed it would be as you've stated...I'll have to pass.