46+ Aberfan Wales 1966 Landslide PNG. Pan down the aberfan tip, pan across to the cemetery showing a giant cross in the form of flowers on the hillside. The aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in wales on 21 october 1966.
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At pantglas junior school, in aberfan, south wales, 116 pupils perished, a further 28 adults also died. The aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in wales on 21 october 1966. Landscape, buildings, an entire schoolhouse.
The aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the welsh village of aberfan, near merthyr tydfil, on 21 october 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
On that morning, october 21, 1966, i was going to pontypridd so i left merthyr tydfil about half past nine and that would have taken me down through the valley, through merthyr vale, which, of course, is opposite aberfan. The aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in wales on 21 october 1966. Terence spencer and marvin lichtners photographs of the 21 oct 1966 aberfan mining disaster. Aberfan lies on the banks of the river taff and was overlooked by the tips of the merthyr vale colliery.
