Aberfan
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david63
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Boris+
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Re: Aberfan
A sad remembrance indeed. It should never have happened.
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GillD46
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Onelife
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Re: Aberfan
Hi David....l can't imagine there being a worse pain than that of losing a child, but to do so in such tragic cercumstances must have been an unbearable torture for those left behind.
Perhaps Aberfan and the relatives of the children who perished can on this day take some comfort in knowing that most of the children will, by now be in the arms of their mom's and dads who loved them so much.
I've just read a story about how the then deputy headmaster was found with his arms around 5 of his pupils......l don't mind saying it brought tears to my eyes.
Rest in peace little ones.
Perhaps Aberfan and the relatives of the children who perished can on this day take some comfort in knowing that most of the children will, by now be in the arms of their mom's and dads who loved them so much.
I've just read a story about how the then deputy headmaster was found with his arms around 5 of his pupils......l don't mind saying it brought tears to my eyes.
Rest in peace little ones.
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Not so ancient mariner
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Re: Aberfan
What is little known is that a repeat of this tragedy came very close to happening in Tredegar in 1992. Heavy rainfall caused a similar landslide, but a monument to a closed mine diverted much of the landslide, so only a relatively small amount hit the school, and it happened very early in the morning when the school was empty.
From The Independent.
Mine memorial saves school in slurry landslide
TIM KELSEY and TONY HEATH Thursday 3 December 1992
A MEMORIAL marking the site of a former colliery saved a school in South Wales from disaster yesterday as torrential rains and winds continued to cause damage across the country.
Thousands of tons of old coal waste slid onto the empty Tredegar comprehensive school in Gwent early yesterday after heavy rains on Tuesday had loosened a huge slurry tip. A pit wheel, left to mark the site of the Ty Trist pit closed in 1960, prevented much of the mud reaching the buildings. But the school yard was left thick with waste and classrooms flooded with mud.
Gordon Davies, the head teacher, said: 'It was fortunate that it didn't happen when the children were coming to school, making their way towards their classrooms.'
From The Independent.
Mine memorial saves school in slurry landslide
TIM KELSEY and TONY HEATH Thursday 3 December 1992
A MEMORIAL marking the site of a former colliery saved a school in South Wales from disaster yesterday as torrential rains and winds continued to cause damage across the country.
Thousands of tons of old coal waste slid onto the empty Tredegar comprehensive school in Gwent early yesterday after heavy rains on Tuesday had loosened a huge slurry tip. A pit wheel, left to mark the site of the Ty Trist pit closed in 1960, prevented much of the mud reaching the buildings. But the school yard was left thick with waste and classrooms flooded with mud.
Gordon Davies, the head teacher, said: 'It was fortunate that it didn't happen when the children were coming to school, making their way towards their classrooms.'
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Raybosailor
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Re: Aberfan
On the same day American bombers dropped a bomb that wiped out a school in Vietnam killing several children but that was kept very quiet by the USA.
Luke 18:16 Suffer little children to come unto me.
Luke 18:16 Suffer little children to come unto me.