Aberfan ... 09.13am 21st October 1966

[TheLoneRanger]

https://twitter.com/WalesOnline/status/1318807181010046977?s=20

 

[Muteswan]

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.

 

[Muteswan]

Apologies. I was typing my post when you posted.

 

[Squarebear]

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]

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

 

[Darran]

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]

A letter home by a young journalists covering the disaster

https://fleetstreetmemories.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/aberfan-disaster/

 

[BanosSwan]

A letter home by a young journalists covering the disaster

https://fleetstreetmemories.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/aberfan-disaster/

Tough read.

 

[DJack]

A letter home by a young journalists covering the disaster

https://fleetstreetmemories.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/aberfan-disaster/

Tough read.

Not read it and I guessed it would be as you've stated...I'll have to pass.

 

[K23]

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.

I was 14 then and to this day I can picture my mother sitting watching the TV and I'd never seen a grown up in tears like that or for so long. It was a horrendous day. She's 97 now and even the mention of Aberfan still brings her to tears. Some events can cut your so deeply, if never fully heals. I can remember a Welsh TV reporter called Bryan Hoey who was in tears as he struggled to report rom the scene. The whole event effected him so badly, I think he left his job shortly afterwards. Grim, and a great many other words, don't even come close to describing the horror and sadness of that day.

 

[Longlostjack]

I was 6 and remember my mother and her friend in tears talking about it. They‘d picked us up from school. I distinctly remember walking over a manhole cover as they were talking and thinking that it had to do with something under that cover. Terrible tragedy. As for George Thomas .....

 

[BanosSwan]

Tough read.

Not read it and I guessed it would be as you've stated...I'll have to pass.

It's worth reading

 

[Dr. Winston]

And not one of the NCB apparatchiks got so much as a demotion.