I am a Spanish professor and I teach surveying at the School of Mining Engineering. As a tribute to the victims and in order to show my students the consequences of not doing their job well, for many years my first lecture is to show them a video about this disaster.
I was only 7 when this happened, but I remember it so well. Incredibly sad and disgusting that the coal board weren't prosecuted for such negligence. RIP and sleep well in the arms of the Angel's.
I visited aberfan yesterday with my wife, her mother lost 2 brothers in the disaster aged 9 and 11 always a sombre occasion I well up every time rip the children, teachers and people lost to this terrible disaster.
Reminds me of the 1889 Johnstown flood, when a large earthen dam once owned by the Pennsylvania Canal. Many Pittsburgh millionaries modeled it for their private use. When the dam failed, over 3000 people lost their lives.
Human being are suppose to learn from there mistakes but they never do! Ignorance is bliss most of the time- I’m 66 and remember seeing an headline outside a newsagents on my way to school the day after the disaster-don’t blame god for this. That as stay with me from that day to this
I am a Spanish professor and I teach surveying at the School of Mining Engineering. As a tribute to the victims and in order to show my students the consequences of not doing their job well, for many years my first lecture is to show them a video about this disaster.
I was only 7 when this happened, but I remember it so well. Incredibly sad and disgusting that the coal board weren't prosecuted for such negligence. RIP and sleep well in the arms of the Angel's.
I visited aberfan yesterday with my wife, her mother lost 2 brothers in the disaster aged 9 and 11 always a sombre occasion I well up every time rip the children, teachers and people lost to this terrible disaster.
Reminds me of the 1889 Johnstown flood, when a large earthen dam once owned by the Pennsylvania Canal. Many Pittsburgh millionaries modeled it for their private use. When the dam failed, over 3000 people lost their lives.
I was six and my brother was seven but we went to different school my dad was one of the miners help with rescue then
My own opinion is the disaster was so preventable, shame on the NCB.
Sad...
Human being are suppose to learn from there mistakes but they never do! Ignorance is bliss most of the time- I’m 66 and remember seeing an headline outside a newsagents on my way to school the day after the disaster-don’t blame god for this. That as stay with me from that day to this
So sad
Yet so silly that the NCB could do such a thing