Never forget the victims, the neglect of the NCB or the poor compensation their families received in the aftermath.
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The fluidisation of slag heaps and ordinary ground was not a study field until after Aberfan. Railways only became safe due to accidents, likewise almost all other occupations and building structures are only regognised as risks after an accident happens. This is unfortunately the ‘human way’.
In our village , a long way from Aberfan the grieving for the lost in Aberfan was intense and emotional. So different from the normal risks in our area which were mainly to do with seafaring.
Ahh, my Taid often told us of how he helped to dig through the grit and sludge in an effort to find the missing children. They were using anything they could find from helmets and tin cans. He was driving my Nain and Mam home from south wales back up to Dolgellau after a holiday and they his a closed road and the bobby told them what had happened and my Taid rushed them back to south wales and drove back to help. He also told ua about Queen Elizabeths visit to the families of the lost children and how she was told by her Father to show emotion as the Welsh people expect it. She tried her best, but it was when she returned to Windsor and listened to a recording of the Welsh choir singing the song they sang as they dug into the sludge is when she broke down with sorrow. My Taid said it was the saddest time in Wales and for him personally too.
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Anghofiwn ni byth.
We will never forget.
Never forget the victims, the neglect of the NCB or the poor compensation their families received in the aftermath.
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The fluidisation of slag heaps and ordinary ground was not a study field until after Aberfan. Railways only became safe due to accidents, likewise almost all other occupations and building structures are only regognised as risks after an accident happens. This is unfortunately the ‘human way’.
In our village , a long way from Aberfan the grieving for the lost in Aberfan was intense and emotional. So different from the normal risks in our area which were mainly to do with seafaring.
Ahh, my Taid often told us of how he helped to dig through the grit and sludge in an effort to find the missing children. They were using anything they could find from helmets and tin cans. He was driving my Nain and Mam home from south wales back up to Dolgellau after a holiday and they his a closed road and the bobby told them what had happened and my Taid rushed them back to south wales and drove back to help. He also told ua about Queen Elizabeths visit to the families of the lost children and how she was told by her Father to show emotion as the Welsh people expect it. She tried her best, but it was when she returned to Windsor and listened to a recording of the Welsh choir singing the song they sang as they dug into the sludge is when she broke down with sorrow. My Taid said it was the saddest time in Wales and for him personally too.
Cofiwch Aberfan ♥️
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