This hub is very well written and quite informative. ... the Report which follows tells not of wickedness but of ignorance, ineptitude and a failure in communications. She lost a brother and a sister in the tragedy. The official inquiry established that the slip happened so fast that a telephone warning would not have saved any lives.Williams explained to the inquiry that "Being of the nature of a liquid the whole mass then moved very rapidly down the hillside, spreading out sideways into a layer of substantially uniform thickness. He telephoned A makeshift mortuary was set up in the village's Bethania Chapel on 21 October and operated until 4 November, 250 yards (229 m) from the disaster site; members of the By the morning of Saturday 22 October, 111 bodies had been excavated, of which 51 had been identified. I saw that the houses in Moy Road had vanished in a mass of tip-waste material and that the Junior School gable-ends, or part of the roof, were sticking up out of this morass. 96% of Comments are left by our fellow writers here at HP. I would like to be a photo volunteer. The people who died. Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales ... Public Name. The result was that thousands of volunteers travelled to Aberfan to help, although their efforts often hampered the work of the experienced miners or trained rescue teams.With the two broken water mains still pumping water into the spoil in Aberfan, the slip continued to move through the village, and it was not until 11:30 am that the water authorities managed to turn off the supply.An NCB board meeting that morning, headed by the organisation's chairman, Hughes visited the scene at 4:00 pm for an hour. I hope that the Minister and the Secretary of State for Wales will be with us on this matter.To pay for the removal of the tips, £150,000 was taken from the disaster fund—lowered from the initial £250,000 first requested—the NCB paid £350,000 and the government provided the balance, with the proviso it was only up to a million. The inquiry report also advised that "action needs to be taken to safeguard the future condition of the tips at Aberfan".The sociologist Barry Turner, in a 1976 study, identified several errors that led to the Aberfan disaster. There were 116 children buried alive on that day, most of those will have been in their classrooms - others were still walking to school and were swept away from the school yard and outside.But Aberfan disaster survivors names are harder to find.There were 28 adults who lost their lives that day - five teachers in the school and residents of the houses adjacent to the school, which were engulfed and buried by the coal tip slurry that moved like an avalanche and buried the school and row of terraced houses in However, you might then ask is there a list of Aberfan survivors' names?In short, there isn't. Gaynor Madgwick (nee Minett) was pulled alive from the rubble; she lost her brother and sister and has since written a couple of books - the first of these books was based on her memories of the event, that she wrote when she was 12. Again, use standard family history websites to work out who else lived in their house with them. There are two tips right at the top of the old tip, to be seen glaring at us every day, full of threat. Some were quoted at the time of the event, others have been interviewed in the intervening years, most often at the 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th anniversaries, when the newspapers will have wanted to write a short article.These survivor quotes will give you a list of those people - although sometimes quotes taken more recently will be in the married name of a female who was a survivor.So, you need to get sleuthing to find a full list of Aberfan disaster survivors names.I used standard family history websites and methods to come up with a list of survivors. There were seven spoil tips on the slopes above Aberfan; Tip 7—the one that slipped onto the village—was begun in 1958 and, at the time of the disaster, was 111 feet (34 m) high. 116 died, so you're about 84 short somewhere.... that's 84 potential survivors. The In addition to news and historical coverage, the Aberfan disaster and its aftermath have been described in books, including histories of what happened, personal memoirs from those involved and collections of poetry, in music, song and on screen.In May 1997 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh planted a tree at the Aberfan Memorial Garden.What we can do, however—in this week of the 50th anniversary—is try to focus the attention of many in Britain and beyond on the lessons of Aberfan, lessons which are still of profound relevance today. In 1997 the British government paid back the £150,000 to the ADMF, and in 2007 the Tip stability is affected by water conditions. The school and 19 houses were engulfed by the coal waste, killing 116 children and 28 adults in the real Aberfan disaster. I hope & pray they've all found happiness & some kind've peace, & we must never forget.My Husband volunteered to go to the disaster to help with the mechanical machinery fro The British Steel works at Port a Talbot ,he was there for Three days,he came home looking like a coal miner,I will always remember that tragic time .We had a little boy nearly Two at the time who will be 52 in November. This was 'the dark glistening wave' which several witnesses saw burst from the bottom of the tip.The avalanche struck Pantglas Junior School on Moy Road, demolishing and engulfing much of the structure and filling classrooms with thick mud, sludge and rubble; 109 children, from 240 attendees, and five teachers were killed in the school. Researching Aberfan you find that the Junior school could take ~200 pupils. In his book, published 40 years later, the primary focus was on the children who had survived - and one of the photos in his book is of the "25 survivors", the remaining children of Aberfan, this book gives some Aberfan disaster survivors names.These will be the surviving children, presumably who were dug out of the slurry and survived. About 50 of the survivors were on a bus that was running late as it was foggy that morning; they survived by not being present - is that a survivor?The Senior School was mainly left intact, the children who died and attended the Senior School were mostly swept away from the surrounding road as they approached the school.


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