Aberfan

of the coal-mining village of Aberfan. This massive breakaway from a vast tip overwhelmed two Hafod-Tangiwys-Uchaf farm cottages on the mountain side and 

18 Nov 2019 The Aberfan disaster killed 116 children and 28 adults. Its re-imagining in The Crown reminded the nation of the tragedy that photographer  22 Nov 2019 The Aberfan disaster resulted in the deaths of 116 children and 28 adults in a Welsh mining village in 1966; Tragedy has been brought to life  20 Nov 2019 Queen Elizabeth really did wait eight long days to visit the site of an infamous coal-mining tragedy. Here's the true story of the Aberfan disaster  18 Nov 2019 The Crown season 3 depicts the Aberfan disaster and Queen Elizabeth's (Olivia Colman) reaction. She's said her delayed response is the 

21 Oct 2016 It is exactly 50 years since tragedy swooped down on Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. Revisiting the "obscenity" of 21 October 1966, 

21 Nov 2019 More than 50 years ago, Aberfan, a small coal mining town in Wales, was irreversibly changed in a few minutes when 144 people, mostly  21 Oct 2016 It is exactly 50 years since tragedy swooped down on Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. Revisiting the "obscenity" of 21 October 1966,  4 Jan 2019 The avalanche wasn't snow—it was coal waste that had slid down a rain- saturated mountainside. On October 21, 1966, nearly 140,000 cubic  17 Nov 2019 How filming the agony of Aberfan for The Crown revealed a village still in trauma. This article is more than 4 months old. Peter Morgan, creator of  17 Nov 2019 Aberfan was a Welsh mining village founded in the late 1800s—one of many such villages that burgeoned near the Methyr Vale colliery, which 

22 Nov 2019 The Aberfan disaster resulted in the deaths of 116 children and 28 adults in a Welsh mining village in 1966; Tragedy has been brought to life 

22 Nov 2019 The Aberfan disaster resulted in the deaths of 116 children and 28 adults in a Welsh mining village in 1966; Tragedy has been brought to life  20 Nov 2019 Queen Elizabeth really did wait eight long days to visit the site of an infamous coal-mining tragedy. Here's the true story of the Aberfan disaster 

21 Oct 2016 Magnum's David Hurn and Ian Berry look back on their coverage of the Aberfan disaster 50 years on.

The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip at around 9.15 am on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope  27 Oct 2016 In Aberfan, a Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil, a 40-foot wall of coal waste had slid down a mountain at over 100mph and hit the Pantglas Junior  21 Oct 2016 Magnum's David Hurn and Ian Berry look back on their coverage of the Aberfan disaster 50 years on. 28 Nov 2016 On October 21, 1966, after several days of heavy rain, the children of Aberfan village, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, had just arrived in their 

15 Nov 2019 “The Aberfan disaster is a terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude by many men charged with tasks for which they were totally unfitted, of failure to 

21 Oct 2016 Archival footage of one of the world's first televised tragedies: the avalanche of coal waste that crushed a school in the Welsh village of Aberfan  26 Nov 2019 The return of Netflix's hit drama "The Crown" after a two-year hiatus spotlights a dark chapter in modern British history: the Aberfan disaster. 18 Nov 2019 The Aberfan disaster killed 116 children and 28 adults. Its re-imagining in The Crown reminded the nation of the tragedy that photographer 

of the coal-mining village of Aberfan. This massive breakaway from a vast tip overwhelmed two Hafod-Tangiwys-Uchaf farm cottages on the mountain side and  21 Oct 2019 On Friday 21st October 1966, 240 children aged 7-10 arrived at Pantglas Junior School, in Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Imagine