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	Aberfan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aberfan (in Welsh, the 'f' is pronounced like the 'v' in English) is a small village 5 miles (8 km) south of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.
		At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster the NCB was found responsible for the disaster, due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication".
		The collapse was found to have been caused by a build-up of water in the pile and, when a small rotational slip occurred, the disturbance caused the saturated, fine material of the tip to liquefy (thixotropy) and flow down the mountain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aberfan (570 words)

	M/C Journal
		Aberfan was the archetypal coal mining town, but what made it distinct was tragedy.
		Aberfan was distinct from the other great national tragedies in the manner the public perceived the events unfolding in the village.
		To argue that all who have seen photographs or televisual footage of Aberfan ‘share’ an equivalent collective memory to those directly touched by the event, place, family or industry is not only naïve, but initiates a troubling humanism which suggests that we all ‘share’ a common bank of experience.
	journal.media-culture.org.au /0304/07-blackandgrey.php (2532 words)

	Aberfan book reveals 'uncaring' government
		The publication of Aberfan - Government and Disasters uses previously unpublished government documents on the fatal landslide in 1966.
		In contrast, parents of children received £500 each from the NCB and had to 'prove' that they were 'close' to their children before any payment for mental suffering were made.
		Aberfan had to wait nearly 30 years for an apology from the Charity Commission.
	www.fire.org.uk /BBC_News/news/bbc211000b.htm (532 words)

	Aberfan Photos
		The elementary school building was the first structure in its path and the school was demolished by a thousand tons of fl mud.
		Over one hundred images from the collection of photographs taken in Aberfan in November and December of 1966 will go on display in the main exhibit hall of The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, Wales on April 9th and continuing through June 18th.
		They lived on a dairy farm a half mile out of Aberfan on the road to Merthyr on the side of the village closest to the schoolhouse.
	www.rapo.com /icrgallery/Aberfan.htm (704 words)

	Aberfan: The Days After by I.C. Rapoport- The Digital Journalist
		In New York I watched news report after news report from Aberfan with my four-month-old son lying nearby, and was deeply affected by the tragedy.
		I left Aberfan on Christmas Day 1966, never to forget the events I witnessed, the faces of the decent people I studied, their stories, and their sorrows.
		The Aberfan project was the longest and largest assignment of his career.
	digitaljournalist.org /issue0506/aberfan.html (869 words)

	CUSP Review - Brian Cathcart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the Aberfan coverage, reporters spelled out the scale of the disaster, described the rescue efforts and included a modest amount of colour - a father who ran three miles to be at the scene and worked for ten hours digging; the deputy head found dead with five dead children gathered in his arms.
		By the Tuesday, four days after the disaster, Aberfan was down to two paragraphs on the front page, pushed aside by the fallout from the George Blake escape, which had happened over the weekend.
		Inside, the main Aberfan story was on the parliamentary page, in an old-fashioned report of proceedings in the Commons.
	www.kingston.ac.uk /cusp/Publications/CuspReview/Cathcart.htm (4612 words)

	Aberfan Colliery Disaster, 1966 :: Gathering the Jewels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster the National Coal Board was found to have been responsible for the disaster due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication".
		Donations flooded in to the Aberfan Disaster Fund set up by the Mayor of Merthyr to aid the village and the bereaved.
		The loss of so many lives, together with the underlying suspicion that this was the price of years of cheap coal, led to a widespread concern to do something to help.
	www.gtj.org.uk /item.php?lang=en&id=28994&t=10 (326 words)

	Time Trips: Precognition (The Aberfan Disaster)
		Perched high on a hill overlooking Aberfan was a coal tip, where waste from the mining process was dumped.
		Although she was the only schoolchild in Aberfan to have a future vision, she wasn't alone in her precognitive experience.
		That night she was watching a program about the Aberfan tragedy when she saw both the terrified boy from her vision and the rescuer.
	www.jamesmdeem.com /timestory1.htm (983 words)

	::::JUNIPER TV::::
		Forty years ago a terrible tragedy struck at the Welsh mining village of Aberfan.
		A mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
		Images of Aberfan’s terrible plight were broadcast around the world; it became the world’s first televised disaster and one of the defining moments of the Sixties.
	www.junipertv.co.uk /zaberfan.html (140 words)

	Official website of South Wales Police - Heddlu De Cymru : The Aberfan Disaster
		At approximately 9.15am on Friday 21st October 1966, Merthyr Vale colliery tip situated on the mountainside overlooking the village of Aberfan in South Wales, slipped and descended on Pantglas Junior School like an avalanche, destroying both the school and 20 nearby houses in its path, and rendering other houses in the vicinity unsafe for habitation.
		A second mortuary at Aberfan Calvinistic Chapel was in use from Saturday 22nd October until Saturday 29th October.
		The main funeral took place at Aberfan cemetery on Thursday 27th October 1966, but individual funerals were carried out daily between 24th and 31st October.
	www.south-wales.police.uk /fe/master.asp?n1=8&n2=253&n3=492 (1410 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Disaster at Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
		A close-knit community living in a village named Aberfan, in the county of Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, consisted of mainly coal miners and their families.
		Her majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Aberfan a couple of times and wept while talking to bereaved mothers.
		The Queen did not visit Aberfan immediately after the disaster but the villagers welcomed her later visits and thanked her for coming.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A517673 (660 words)

	Wales At Heart
		… the Aberfan Disaster is a terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude by many men charged with tasks for which they were totally unfitted, of failure to heed clear warnings, and of total lack of direction from above.
		However, the report made clear that it was a tale of "not of wickedness but of ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communications." No one faced criminal proceedings but those named (and others cleared) had to live with the disaster on their consciences for the rest of their lives.
		Controversy did reappear over the salary of the Fund's secretary/treasurer and the situating of his offices in Merthyr rather than Aberfan, but the biggest scandal was still to come.
	www.walesatheart.com /wah%20about%20wales/aberfan.htm (1670 words)

	Aberfan disaster 'a defining moment for Wales' \| 24dash.com - Communities
		The Aberfan disaster which killed 144 people 40 years ago this week, most of whom were children, was a defining moment in Welsh history, Wales's First Minister Rhodri Morgan said today.
		He compared the impact of their deaths to the impact the 9/11 terror attacks and the Kennedy assassination had on America.
		Coal was so important that we all accepted - until Aberfan - that there was a price to pay and we were all prepared to pay it.
	www.24dash.com /news/7/11777/index.htm (534 words)

	The Celtic Connection - Features \| Health
		Stories and personal recollections in the media during last month's fortieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster showed that the grief and horror surrounding the tragedy had diminished very little.
		Expressions of sympathy and contributions to the Aberfan Disaster Fund came in from all over the world, eventually totalling £1.75 million.
		In a telling coincidence, a few days before the Aberfan anniversary a BBC News series on the Welsh economy announced that the last deep coal mine in South Wales, the privately-owned Tower Colliery in Hirwaun near Aberdare, would close within the year.
	www.celtic-connection.com /features/feat2006_11_03.html (819 words)

	BBC - De Ddwyrain - Aberfan
		Owen Edwards yn holi un o bentrefwyr Aberfan wedi'r drychineb.
		Gwyn Llywelyn oedd un o'r newyddiadurwyr cyntaf i gyrraedd Aberfan wedi'r drychineb.
		Dyma safle arbennig i nodi'r deugain mlynedd a aeth heibio ers trychineb Aberfan ym 1966.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cymru/deddwyrain/safle/aberfan (188 words)

	Aberfan Canoe Club - About Us
		We are an active, friendly, family club based in Aberfan, South Wales, UK.
		The club is actively involved in canoeing at all levels from recreational to international competition.
		We run a weekly pool session on Fridays all year round for people to learn and develop their skills in a warm safe environment.
	www.aberfancanoeclub.co.uk /About_Us.htm (260 words)

	Aberfan 1966
		The Aberfan disaster occurred at 9:15am on Friday October 21st 1966.
		Coal waste from the mountain above the village rushed down the mountain, first destroying a cottage, and then engulfing the school and some houses in the village.
		Is it still raining in Aberfan?: a pit and its people.
	www.agor.org.uk /cwm/themes/events/aberfan.asp (306 words)

	Aberfan
		Miners were on the way to work and children were rubbing their eyes and thinking of getting up for school: all the time high above them on the mountain side the killer tip was getting ready to move.
		When Robens eventually condescended to honour Aberfan with his presence he concluded, on inspecting the slide, that the sole cause of its movement was due to
		No-one was prosecuted despite the damming report and only a paltry £500 was paid in compensation for each child, In concluding my few words on this terrible event I just hope that when the time comes/came for Robens and anyone else that had even the slightest responsibility for the disaster to approach the Pearly gates,
	www.red-dragon-wales.com /SpecialPlaces/Aberfan.htm (748 words)

	Aberfan, South Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I remember the Aberfan disaster well and have signed the petition, made my comments and forwarded the website to others.
		I guess we must be of the same age as I was also a student nurse at the time of this terrible tragedy.
		I have not been to Aberfan, but I know the Yartag, Bleanavon, Pontypool and Tredeger and am aware of the blighted countryside where only now are the slag heaps becoming covered by grass and where the proud people of the Valleys were left high and hung out to dry when the pits closed.
	www.healthypages.net /forum/tm.asp?m=117613 (1373 words)

	activehols.co.uk :: Aberfan memory fresh 40 years on
		A private service is to be held later to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people, most of them schoolchildren.
		The lives of 116 children were lost when a coal waste tip slid down a mountain, engulfing a school and surrounding houses on 21 October 1966.
		Representatives from Aberfan's memorial committee, parents who lost their children and some survivors, were among those who attended the public service St Mary's Church, Merthyr Tydfil, on Thursday.
	www.activehols.co.uk /news/Aberfan-memory-fresh-40-years-on_22255.html (631 words)

	Guardian \| Aberfan pictures on show
		The little boy was looking up at the camera with an expression that still haunts the photographer almost 40 years later.
		The child had survived the Aberfan disaster in south Wales on October 21 1966, when a mountain of rain-sodden colliery slurry moved - as local people had warned it would - and swallowed the local school.
		He was 29 when he arrived in Aberfan weeks after the disaster.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5166842-103690,00.html (389 words)

	Cognitive Edge: Aberfan
		The causal and callous indifference that followed Aberfan amplifies the tragedy but is regrettably all too common in the history.
		The Ospreys draw much of their support from the mining communities of South Wales and a minutes silence was called in memory of the victims of Aberfan and it was absolute.
		As the camera panned the crowd the memories of that day were evident in the eyes and faces of the crowd, and awareness in those too young to have memories.
	www.cognitive-edge.com /2006/10/aberfan_1.php (448 words)

	Aberfan: why me?
		Those who survived the disaster lost their innocent, carefree life as they were pulled from the rubble of their classrooms.
		She is divorced and has three grown-up children – her daughter lives with her and her sons have houses in the same street.
		After 15 years working in finance in London, he returned to Aberfan, appalled by the low morale of youngsters there due to lack of education and work and determined to help the community.
	www.sludgesafety.org /news/2006/10_16a.html (2386 words)

	Save the Aberfan Memorial petition - Soccer Fans Network Forums
		THE family of a boy who died in the Aberfan disaster has condemned plans to bulldoze a memorial to the victims.
		Aberfan was a Welsh national and inter-national disaster.
		PEOPLE who paid for a memorial to the victims of the Aberfan disaster say they are disgusted at plans to demolish it.
	forums.soccerfansnetwork.com /showthread.php?t=21195 (1452 words)

	Picture of Aberfan - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com
		At 9.15 am on Friday, October 21st, 1966 the small Welsh community of Aberfan changed forever.
		144 people died in the Aberfan disaster: 116 of them were school children.
		Pictures of the village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.
	www.freefoto.com /browse.jsp?id=1054-4-0 (127 words)

	Aberfan Disaster - PC-Media Tech Forums
		Aberfan is definitely one to remember, a shocking waste of young life.
		Aberfan is about twenty miles from where we were living at that time, in 1966 technology was not quite like it is today, all we had were dodgy fl and white TV's and radio for the news.
		Although mine collapses were not exactly common they were not unheard of either and the hardy mining folk of the valleys just seemed to take these problems in their stride, but this was different, now you are talking about kids, innocents who had just arrived at school for the day.
	forum.pcmech.com /showthread.php?p=1165323#post1165323 (437 words)

	Aberfan on Odeo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One such tip was on the hillside overlooking the village of Aberfan.
		Altogether, 143 people died in the Aberfan disaster, including 119 children – that is, over half of the children at the school.
		It emerged that junior officials in the National Coal Board had been worried by the condition of the Aberfan spoil heap, but their bosses had done nothing.
	odeo.com /audio/2213645/view (486 words)

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