First not fist. Friggin' predictive text again.

Quite a few people at work today said they hadn't heard of Aberfan before. I was genuinely surprised as I'm not talking about young people.

The incompetence of the NCB and the subsequence response was shameful. The Labour and subsequent Tory governments should hang their heads in shame. Raiding a charitable fund. c***s of the highest order.

I would also recommend downloading Huw Edwards documentary on BBC I player from Tuesday night

I hope Lord Robens is burning in hell.

Edited by Y Ddraig Goch (21 Oct 2016 8.05pm)

I think it was just on BBC 1

I'm not 100% sure as ironically I was over in Wales on Tuesday night.

remember it only too well.
depends on age I guess.

meanwhile BBC will be pushing bake off & strictly.
sad times.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

If I can give you some insight......
My Father was born in the next Village and had many friends in Aberfan. He actually lost 2 in the disaster who lived in the row of houses that were completely taken out.
I was aged 9 and we were visiting relatives in Oakfield Street about 2 weeks before the slip and one of my defining memories was walking with one of them around the tip and me commenting to him our wet the ground was. He saying that there were many springs underground.
We went down again about a month later an although the area had been cleared away you could still see the devistation it caused and with it the tide marks where the slurry got to.
The victims didn't stand a chance and the pain and suffering it caused completely changed people's lives for ever, it literally wiped out a generation.
Virtually every family was touched, some losing one child, others all. The lucky ones who survived consumed with guilt, they call it survivors guilt I believe.
Donations were made from virtually every corner of the world such was the grief felt. A fund was set up which reached a huge amount and it still came in. That sparked a problem as to what would be its best use, and with it regretfully arguments and bad feeling!
A committee was formed and capital projects were built such as the community leisure centre and the beautiful memorial gardens, above which are the graves of all those who died.
On all of the children's tombstones there was laid their favourite toys and in most cases a photo of them complete with heart rendering messages from their parents.
Many people left behind simply went to pieces unabl to come to terms with their grief. This man made disaster didn't stop taking lives when the tonnes of slurry hit the School and houses but continued in the months and years that followed, many literally of broken hearts.
As a thank you to all those who donated a choir was formed and named The Ynysowen Male Voice Choir who to this day sing anywhere in the UK and Europe for expenses only. You may have heard them in venues around Croydon, they are very good.
Until his death in 1992 my Father was one of the Vice-Presidents (he was also a Palace man through and through).
To think that no one single person was ever prosecuted is criminal in itself.
If you can make time, please pay a visit to Aberfan; I can say without hesitation that it will be a very moving experience.
So, when the Palace are having a mare and you are in total despair just spare a thought for those who lost their lives that terrible day an the ones it left behind.
Sorry for the War & Peace but hopefully it has provided an insight.

Bring back Brolin

Wonderful post Dynamic and I wished you didn't have to make it but glad that you did. The disaster, totally man-made and criminally negligent, seemed to have happened in a time when 'superiors' could not be found guilty. Of anything. Hence no jail time for those responsible.

Those poor parents. Unnecessarily losing their kids AND no one legally to blame. Truly shocking and so wrong. Thank god we have moved on from those times.

Edited by Kermit8 (21 Oct 2016 10.19pm)

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