Aberfan

Subject: History
Language: English
Topic: Modern Wales and Britain
School Level: 7-9
Sub-Topic: Aberfan
Duration: 1' 39"

Content Description
A look back to the day of the disaster at Aberfan in 1966 when a coal tip slid down the mountain and buried a local primary school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

Points to note:
What happened in Aberfan? Why?

From Timewatch Remember Aberfan first broadcast 15/10/96

K White, Warwickshire
Still very upsetting to watch. My thoughts are with Aberfan today.

Stephen Parry, Montgomery but then Machen
I was coming home form school and got told that something had happened up the valley, but we didn't really know what. Then when I got home, Mam was watchiing the TV. This was unusual because TV was only on after all the work was done. But the main thing I remember from those days was silence. Everywhere people talked quietly, no one shouted and no child played. And in Trethomas and Machen people just stood and watched the tips above us. Not much notice had been taken of then. You watched the journeys going up to Machen if you had nothing better to do, but for the rest they were just there. But now they loomed large in everyone's mind.

colin samuel rockingham western australia
very sad to look at the photoclip.to every one in aberfani will be thinking of youon thissad day.

Josephine, Northamtonshire
Im learning about the aberfan disaster at school right now, i feel so sorry for the children who got killed in it :(

T Power Yorkshire
It still makes me very sad when I think of the Aberfan tragedy

julie Rotherham
its as horrific today as it was to a just 10 year old girl from a mining community

Leslie Pask
I was 14 when Aberfan happened My father who was a miner and went to the village to help. Why no one was held for manslaughter from the then labour gov ? beats Me....

Bryn Priddle,Pontypool
Tears

sarah nantyglo
children of the future should be told about aberfan and what the goverment and coal board did to this village.

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