@todayilearned

This was just before I was born.

It was an absolute tragedy. Little Health & Safety in those days.

#Wales #Aberfan #Mining #Tradegy #Accident

This trip to Wales has raised a number of questions in my mind about Welsh identity and how it applies to someone who’s spent almost half their life on the opposite side of the planet.

So today, I visited #aberfan

[CW: #Aberfan don't listen to track 12 unless you want a good hard cry]

#Folk

A Criminal Record by Sweet Felons All
https://sweetfelonsall.bandcamp.com/album/a-criminal-record

RT @thehuwedwards@twitter.com

116 children. 28 adults. Remember Aberfan 21 10 1966. Remember the criminal negligence that caused it. Remember the shameful response of government and coal board. #Aberfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thehuwedwards/status/1583381117956390913

There are alternatives to red tape and the so-called nanny state. I don't like the look of them

RT @emmaZbolland@twitter.com

Today we should remember #Aberfan. Despite villagers and workers questioning the safety of the slag heap, nothing was done, with the result that on this day in 1966, 116 and 28 adults were buried alive and lost their lives. https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1583371271974244352

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emmaZbolland/status/1583398197862363136

RT @thehuwedwards@twitter.com

116 children. 28 adults. Remember Aberfan 21 10 1966. Remember the criminal negligence that caused it. Remember the shameful response of government and coal board. #Aberfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thehuwedwards/status/1583381117956390913

RT @thehuwedwards
116 children. 28 adults. Remember Aberfan 21 10 1966. Remember the criminal negligence that caused it. Remember the shameful response of government and coal board. #Aberfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Just watched the #Aberfan episode of The Crown. That was a hard one to get through. I had family went up to help dig. I remember as a dwt when we'd drive through the village the whole car would be silent for the duration, mum, dad, me and my sisters. Not planned, just speechless in its presence.

I found the episode to be quite respectful and well done. Anyone else see it?

I don't know Aberfan, or any similar mining villages. So, I've always imagined the geography of Aberfan to be a bit like the village in How Green Was My Valley (1941).

https://fitheach.co.uk/life/how-green-was-my-valley-1941/

#Aberfan #movies #films

On this day, October 21, 1966, the Aberfan Disaster occurred. The colliery spoil slippage engulfed the village school, and many houses, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

The actions of the National Coal Board and the Westminster government, before and after the tragedy, were severly criticised. The disaster could've been prevented, and remedial action elsewhere was fought against on the grounds of cost.

#Cymru #Wales #Aberfan #OTD

This is #Aberfan shortly after the disaster. The school and most of its children are buried under that slurry, along with twenty houses. The tragedy was preventable, but the people in charge didn't care enough.

Fifty-two years ago today, in #Aberfan, 116 small children and 28 adults met a sudden and gruesome death because they were working-class and Welsh. The last minute of their lives has been running through my head all my life.

People talk about lives lost at Aberfan.

Lives weren't "lost". Lives were taken, by those who could have prevented it all but didn't give a damn.

Never forget the dead, and never forget why they died.