- The
Aberfan disaster was the
catastrophic collapse of a
colliery spoil tip on 21
October 1966. The tip had been
created on a
mountain slope above the...
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Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan]) is a
former coal
mining village in the Taff
Valley 4 mi (6 km)
south of the town of
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales....
- The
Tribunal of
Inquiry into the
Aberfan Disaster (the
Aberfan Disaster Tribunal),
chaired by Lord
Justice Edmund Davies, was
established in 1966 to inquire...
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Aberfan Cemetery (Welsh:
Mynwent Aberfan) is a
cemetery near the
village of
Aberfan,
Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of five
cemeteries in
Merthyr Tydfil County...
- of
Pantglas Junior School in
Aberfan, Wales. He is
known in
Wales and
throughout the UK as one of the
heroes of the
Aberfan disaster of 1966,
dying in the...
- was a
school dinner lady at
Pantglas Junior School in
Aberfan, Wales. She was
killed in the
Aberfan disaster of 1966, but
saved the
lives of five children...
- (or
Aberfan: The
Green Hollow) is a "film-poem",
which was
broadcast by the BBC on 21
October 2016 to mark the
fiftieth anniversary of the
Aberfan disaster...
-
years as
Chairman of the
National Coal Board, and later –
despite the
Aberfan disaster –
headed a
major inquiry which resulted in the
Robens Report on...
- and My Family. Owen won a
Welsh BAFTA in 2007 for the do****entary The
Aberfan Disaster,
which he co-produced with
Judith Davies. In his
later teens he...
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attention in
October 1966 in the
English speaking world when a
spoil tip at
Aberfan in Glamorgan, Wales, gave way,
killing 144 people, 116 of them children...
