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50Th Anniversary Of The Aberfan Disaster
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On the 21st of this month, it will be the 50th Anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.
Sir Karl Jenkins has composed a wonderful new choral work, to commemorate the event :::::::
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Sir Karl Jenkins has composed a wonderful new choral work, to commemorate the event :::::::
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ichkeria....I was 13 at the time. I came bounding in from school, expecting to see my favourite TV program....Blue Peter perhaps, but finding that the schedules were completely taken over by the disaster.
We were doing Wales in Geography at the time and our Teacher, a lovely man called Mr Garland, who came from Swansea, told us all about the mining in the area in school afterwards. I was still living in Somerset at the time.
If you read the history of the event, it will make you very worked up, as this was a disaster that some had seen coming, but the bloody coal board did begger-all about.
When I later joined BT Telephones ( BT ) I recall people telling stories about how they worked in the hours after the disaster, laying emergency telephone cables right across people rear gardens, where they stayed, in working order for months afterwards.
A few years ago I met a lady who was 16 at the time of the disaster, who had lost her little 10 year old brother. She had his school photo on her mantelpiece. She said that her Mother wouldn't let her out of her sight for weeks after the event, as she was the only child left in the street.
A very sad event.
We were doing Wales in Geography at the time and our Teacher, a lovely man called Mr Garland, who came from Swansea, told us all about the mining in the area in school afterwards. I was still living in Somerset at the time.
If you read the history of the event, it will make you very worked up, as this was a disaster that some had seen coming, but the bloody coal board did begger-all about.
When I later joined BT Telephones ( BT ) I recall people telling stories about how they worked in the hours after the disaster, laying emergency telephone cables right across people rear gardens, where they stayed, in working order for months afterwards.
A few years ago I met a lady who was 16 at the time of the disaster, who had lost her little 10 year old brother. She had his school photo on her mantelpiece. She said that her Mother wouldn't let her out of her sight for weeks after the event, as she was the only child left in the street.
A very sad event.
ichkeria....if you are ever in the area, I would recommend a visit to the graves.
The 3 rows of graves are immaculate, most made of white marble. Some of them have those little ceramic photos on the graves stones. Its a very sad sight in deed. When you get to the graves with 2 siblings and some with 3 siblings in them, I defy anybody not get the hanky out.
Here is the Wiki entry. Its worth reading all the links, especially the ones that deal with the aftermath, and Enquiry.
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The National Coal Board comes out of the whole affair extremely badly. The Miners Pension Fund was even raided to pay for the making safe of other tips, a wrong that Tony Blair remedied as soon as Labour came into power in 1997.
The 3 rows of graves are immaculate, most made of white marble. Some of them have those little ceramic photos on the graves stones. Its a very sad sight in deed. When you get to the graves with 2 siblings and some with 3 siblings in them, I defy anybody not get the hanky out.
Here is the Wiki entry. Its worth reading all the links, especially the ones that deal with the aftermath, and Enquiry.
https:/
The National Coal Board comes out of the whole affair extremely badly. The Miners Pension Fund was even raided to pay for the making safe of other tips, a wrong that Tony Blair remedied as soon as Labour came into power in 1997.
It was a terrible thing and I remember at the age of 19, with 12 younger brothers and sisters, and recently having just left the mine industry after deciding that it was not for me being very moved by it. But remember, spoil tips just like that one were dotted all over Britain. Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and many other places. The tips had been generated during the war when the only criteria was, get the coal out of the ground and keep the railways and factories running, fight the Nazis at all costs. The mines and infrastructure were vastly undermanned due to military requirements and short cuts were taken in the National interest. The poor children and their families paid a terrible price for those strategies and I for one would not countenance using that set of circumstances to make political points.
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