Aberfan (3 Viewers)

[LarryGrayson]

Should never be forgotten really.

Aberfan disaster: The portraits that helped bring the children home

An artist living hundreds of miles away felt compelled to help the village that lost its children.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[rob9872]

I liked knowing me knowing you and Super Trouper, but never really a fan of Take a chance on me.


Too soon?

 

[fernandopartridge]

Should never be forgotten really.

Aberfan disaster: The portraits that helped bring the children home

An artist living hundreds of miles away felt compelled to help the village that lost its children.

www.bbc.co.uk

Agreed, it doesn't really get talked about much considering the scale of death and the fact that a lot of the victims were children.

 

[LarryGrayson]

Agreed, it doesn't really get talked about much considering the scale of death and the fact that a lot of the victims were children.

Wave not just your own off to school for them not to come back, but also your neighbour's, and your neighbour's neighbour's...

Unimaginable.

 

[Grendel]

I liked knowing me knowing you and Super Trouper, but never really a fan of Take a chance on me.


Too soon?

Not really appropriate

 

[rob9872]

Not really appropriate

60 years after, before most of us were born, most if not all their living relatives no longer around, on a football forum in a different country.

Was it a shame? Of course. Can we change history? Unfortunately not.

If that's off limits, then what's the fekkin point?!

 

[LarryGrayson]

most if not all their living relatives no longer around

Well the article I quoted is all about peoples' sisters and brothers suddenly having an empty space next to them in bed and at the dining table.

FWIW they still remember.

The morning of the disaster remains painfully vivid, as Jeanette recalled how Edwina quickly returned home before the school day had begun.

"She came running back and she said, 'Mammy, I forgot to give you a kiss'," Jeanette said. "And so my mother gave her a kiss. My mother always said that, at that time, she wanted to keep her home. And my mother rued that day for the rest of her life. She just wished she'd listened to herself."

Jeanette's father found eight-year-old Edwina trapped beneath the wreckage.

"She was alive," Jeanette said, but it was a heartbreaking situation. "He couldn't get her out because the roof would have fallen in. The men all said, 'Teddy, you can't and my father laid by the side of her, held her hand and she suffocated."

It's obviously not of the same scale as certain things but if you go there, it's still etched on the place. It carries a sadness partly due to the harsh landscape, partly due to what happened to it. This and the Bradford fire are the ones I feel get forgotten too easily when there are still people around with stories to tell, people they've lost yes, for 60 years but who are still right there in their memories.

 

[ccfc1292]

Read that earlier, very lovely touch for something so disastrous.

The episode in The Crown focusing on this was very well done too.

 

[oscillatewildly]

There was a playground built in the village from donations from the people of Coventry - Named, not surprisingly, 'The Coventry Playground'.
That's long gone - was demolished to make way for housing.

 

[Captain Dart]

I remember being upset seeing TV news of the Aberfan disaster, harrowing stuff.

 

[LarryGrayson]

60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived

It was one of Wales' darkest days that changed a mining community forever.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[rob9872]

60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived

It was one of Wales' darkest days that changed a mining community forever.

www.bbc.co.uk

Seems to be missing the bit about Labour and the NCB stealing all the public funding.

 

[rob9872]

'A terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude... of failures to heed clear warnings and a total lack of direction' | Wales Online 'A terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude... of failures to heed warnings'

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

'A terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude... of failures to heed clear warnings and a total lack of direction' | Wales Online 'A terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude... of failures to heed warnings'

Yep, because the Tories are well known for their public spending, not ignoring warnings and doing things on the cheap, and are especially known for their help in places likes Wales and in mining communities...

 

[rob9872]

Yep, because the Tories are well known for their public spending, not ignoring warnings and doing things on the cheap, and are especially known for their help in places likes Wales and in mining communities...

'Yeah but the Tories' is not an excuse. This was long before any sleaze and the repayment of only what was taken 30 years later was also an insult.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

'Yeah but the Tories' is not an excuse. This was long before any sleaze and the repayment of only what was taken 30 years later was also an insult.

And 'it was Labour' is not an excuse either. Conservatives had been in power for 13 of the 15 years leading up to that point so why hadn't they made the investment to keep the place safe either? Those problems would have been there for longer than the two years Labour had been in at that point.

 

[rob9872]

And 'it was Labour' is not an excuse either. Conservatives had been in power for 13 of the 15 years leading up to that point so why hadn't they made the investment to keep the place safe either? Those problems would have been there for longer than the two years Labour had been in at that point.

It was the NCB issue nothing to do with politics at the time until Labour stepped in.