Download Aberfan Disaster Victims Pictures. Prince charles has visited the aberfan memorial garden and will unveil a plaque in memory of the victims. Not quite—as pictured on the crown, the queen sent a message of support to the victims—but she didn't actually visit aberfan until eight days after the disaster, sending prince philip.

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.

Alix palmer, then a daily express journalist on her first major assignment, has reproduced the letter to her mother about the disaster that killed 144 people. The victims and their addresses were actually listed in the newspaper at the time. Not quite—as pictured on the crown, the queen sent a message of support to the victims—but she didn't actually visit aberfan until eight days after the disaster, sending prince philip. Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people, is one of great britain's worst coal mining disasters ever.