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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 (537 words)

	Atlantis Rising Magazine, Premonitions of Disaster, Titanic Aberfan Lusitania, by Preston E Dennett
		Ideally, a premonition of a disaster should be used to prevent the disaster.
		The disaster touched nearly every family in the town and effectively extinguished an entire generation of children in the town.
		The mother of one of the deceased students reported that her ten year old (who had died in the disaster) had a dream the night before which foretold the disaster.
	www.atlantisrising.com /issue18/18premonitions.html (2047 words)

	Aberfan 1966
		A mass funeral was held on the 25th October, and the children buried on the hillside.
		A disaster fund was launched, and it collected over £1 million in the four months it was open.
		As a result of the disaster, The Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 was passed, which states it is 'An Act to make further provision in relation to tips associated with mines and quarries; to prevent disused tips constituting a danger to members of the public; and for purposes connected with those matters'.
	www.agor.org.uk /cwm/themes/events/aberfan.asp (306 words)

	M/C Journal
		Aberfan was distinct from the other great national tragedies in the manner the public perceived the events unfolding in the village.
		The Aberfan disaster has been included in the UK School curriculum and to avoid the small libraries and the Community Centre being overstretched, the Website possesses a gatekeepping function.
		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)

	Official website of South Wales Police - Heddlu De Cymru : The Aberfan Disaster
		This was a disaster unprecedented in the history of coal mining in Wales, and the police had to overcome their own feelings of shock and grief to deal with the practicalities arising from the tragedy.
		As a result of the disaster at Aberfan, the Mines and Quarries Tips Act of 1969 was introduced.
		In the wake of a number of national disasters elsewhere in Britain, an emergency-planning department was established by the South Wales Constabulary in 1992.
	www.south-wales.police.uk /fe/master.asp?n1=8&n2=253&n3=492 (1410 words)

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		Their objective is to act as a starting place for those interested in finding out about the disaster.
		The Aberfan Disaster Archive held at Merthyr Tydfil and Dowlais
		These pages are dedicated to the memory of all those who lost their lives in the Aberfan Disaster.
	www.nuff.ox.ac.uk /politics/aberfan/home2.htm (204 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since the time of Aberfan and before, for example, we have learnt that in most disasters an outpouring of volunteering, altruism and helping behaviour is both normal and to be expected.
		So disaster support includes thinking about the practical and planning implications of supporting those volunteers who are likely to wish be part of any response.
		Disaster support is also about restoring a sense of social community: it ‘requires a public forum where victims can speak their truth and their suffering can be formally acknowledged’ (Herman 1997:242).
	www.wcdm.org /eyre.doc (699 words)

	Aberfan Disaster - PC-Media Tech Forums
		I was nine years old when this terrible disaster happened, I can still remember the policemen coming around the houses asking for wellingtons or waterproof shoes and shovels or spades so they could go and help with the rescue efforts.
		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.
	www.pcmech.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1165323#post1165323 (437 words)

	Aberfan book reveals 'uncaring' government
		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.
		He later blamed the disaster on 'natural unknown springs' and later ran a media campaign to maintain his position as NCB chairman ahead of the inquiry report.
		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)

	Time Trips: Precognition (The Aberfan Disaster)
		Although she was the only schoolchild in Aberfan to have a future vision, she wasn't alone in her precognitive experience.
		She was stunned to hear about the disaster, but even stranger is what she saw while watching television two days later.
		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)

	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 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 said that the disaster prompted Wales to take account of its environment and sparked a movement of environmental and economic renewal.
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	www.24dash.com /communities/11777.htm (568 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Disaster at Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
		BBC - h2g2 - The Disaster at Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
		The primary cause of the disaster was an underground spring beneath the tip.
		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 /dna/h2g2/A517673 (660 words)

	A Welsh View: Aberfan Disaster Remembered
		Survivors of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people, mainly children, have joined bereaved relatives at a private service.
		The NCB was subsequently blamed for the disaster.
		Whilst that alone would have made Robens a hated man, on the day of the disaster he did not rush to the scene; he instead went to accept an appointment as chancellor of the University of Surrey.
	xo.typepad.com /blog/2006/10/aberfan_disaste.html (246 words)

	CUSP Review - Brian Cathcart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		The report, however, stressed that the disaster was not the result of wickedness, but of ignorance, ineptitude and a failure in communications.
	www.kingston.ac.uk /cusp/Publications/CuspReview/Cathcart.htm (4612 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Private ceremony marks Aberfan disaster
		A private ceremony has been held to remember the coal tip disaster that took the lives of 116 children in Aberfan, south Wales, 40 years ago today.
		Families affected by the tragedy and those who survived it laid wreaths in memory of the dead at the cemetery where they were laid to rest.
		The unprecedented disaster had a profound effect on the country and the village's name became synonymous with tragedy.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/21/uaberfan.xml (509 words)

	Aberfan The Loss of a Generation - Forum Junkies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The artist had never heard of Aberfan before going to the town, and wants to help provide the village with an alternative public face from the well-known pictures of the disaster.
		Thirty-four years after the 1966 disaster, Jeff Edwards, one of the children to survive the disaster, was a local councillor in Aberfan, working alongside another councillor - a former fireman called Roy Thomas.
		Forty years on Aberfan is giving thanks for the lives that were saved, and the brave men who struggled to bring them out alive.
	www.forumjunkies.co.uk /junkies/showthread.php?p=266051#post266051 (2401 words)

	Aberfan Study
		Recorded memoirs of Emlyn and Elaine Richards, parents of a victim of the 1966 disaster at Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan.
		Recorded memoirs of Mrs Sheila Lewis, a parent of a victim of the 1966 disaster at Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan.
		Recorded memoirs of Rev Kenneth Hayes (parent of victim of Aberfan disaster and Minister of Baptist Chapel), Bryn Carpenter (parent of victim of Aberfan disaster) and Doug Pearson (Member of Community Association) concerning the 1966 disaster and its aftermath at Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan.
	lisweb.swan.ac.uk /swcc/audio/aberfan.htm (350 words)

	Welsh Coal Mines Forum :: Tales and Experiences :: aberfan disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I first heard about the disaster at Aberfan on the Thursday morning of its happening when I was studying electrical engineering at what is now the University of Glamorgan at Treforest.
		Only one or two JCBs were in evidence, since the nature of the disaster dictated that only manual efforts were considered safe due to the possibility of someone still being alive under all that muck.
		I asked my dad about the Aberfan disaster this evening due to the coincidence of Ivor Coggan being in the same college as my dad on the same day doing the same course.
	www.welshcoalmines.co.uk /forum/read.php?10,1340,1344 (628 words)

	Shared tragedy and mediated grief: television as collective witnessing - On Line Opinion - 26/5/2003
		Aberfan was not merely a disaster that cost life.
		It was the disaster where cameras recorded the unerring screams of grief, the desperate search for a lost - presumed dead - child, and the building anger of a community suffering through a completely preventable 'accident.' The cameras intruded on grief and privacy.
		The Aberfan disaster has been included in the UK School curriculum and to avoid the small libraries and the Community Centre being overstretched, the website serves a gatekeeping function.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=343 (1727 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)

	Disaster at Aberfan \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		A disaster which overwhelms a school is a disaster of a special type.
		This disaster was not natural, it was man-made.
		Aberfan is one of scores of communities in South Wales which huddle at the foot of slag-heaps.
	www.guardian.co.uk /fromthearchive/story/0,,1927723,00.html (407 words)

	Material on the Aberfan Disaster held at other libraries
		Papers of the Glamorgan County Council Civil Defence Officer on the rescue and recovery operation at Aberfan, includes details of Civil Defence volunteers at the scene, letters of thanks on the part played by the organisation and the County Civil Defence Officer's report on the disaster, 1966-67.
		Papers relating mainly to Aberfan where he was Presbyterian Minister at the time of the disaster.
		There are photographs of the remaining slagheaps surrounding the area, the effects of the slip itself, close ups of specific areas within the landslip and slagheaps, and panoramic views from the bottom and the top of the slip.
	www.nuff.ox.ac.uk /politics/aberfan/other.htm (2667 words)

	BBC - Wales On Air - Aberfan disaster
		At 9.15 am on Friday 21 October 1966, after several days of rain, the Pantglas Tip at the Merthyr Vale Colliery began to shift.
		News of the disaster sent shock waves through Wales and beyond.
		Offers of help for the grieving village came from all parts of the country and abroad.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/walesonair/database/aberfan.shtml (140 words)

	ejs
		On October 21, 1966, tragedy struck the town of Aberfan, Wales, in the United Kingdom when a huge pile of mine trailings (“tip”) slid down a mountain and crashed into the town.
		cause of the disaster– the disaster was caused by the actions and inactions by people and organizations.
		This is only the tip of the iceberg in that many different organizations were involved in the investigation of the disaster.
	www.siue.edu /SOCIOLOGY/journal/v32fulk.htm (4455 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 21 \| 1966: Coal tip buries children in Aberfan
		At first the rescue was held up by fog, the same fog that delayed 50 children travelling to the Aberfan school by bus from the neighbouring village of Mount Pleasant.
		Three people died in the farm hit by the disaster and a pregnant woman whose son was killed in the tragedy went into labour when she heard the tragic news.
		The NCB and Treasury refused to accept full financial responsibility for the tragedy so the Aberfan Disaster Fund had to contribute £150,000 towards removing the remaining tip that overlooked the village.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/21/newsid_2705000/2705335.stm (498 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| 'It was something beyond tragedy'
		Broadcaster John Humphrys was a young reporter when he was sent to cover the Aberfan disaster of 21 October, 1966.
		I had covered and have since covered many more disasters - colliery disasters, where miners have died, and of course that is a great tragedy.
		But there has never been anything to compare with Aberfan, partly I suppose because I was a relatively young man. I was in my early 20s and had not been a reporter for long.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/5370862.stm (1231 words)

	National Disaster - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		National Disaster is an ITV documentary series on Wednesday nights from 10:35pm.
		Using news footage from the time, still photographs, interviews with survivors and relatives of the victims, and some computer simulation, the programme tells the story of each disaster in a compelling way, without resorting to sensationalism.
		April 4th’s programme concentrated on Aberfan in South Wales, the site of a tragedy in 1966 when a mountain of coal waste slid down onto a school and some houses, killing 28 adults and 116 children.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/national-disaster (205 words)

	Disaster Mental Health * Trauma Information Pages
		They may be used in the service of mental health disaster assistance provided authorship credit is given (where known), and no fee is charged to any recipients.
		Expectable reactions to trauma or disaster in children and adults, ways to cope, and guidelines for parents and teachers.
		Historical and political analyses of the 1966 man-made disaster at Aberfan, in South Wales.
	www.trauma-pages.com /disaster.php (4966 words)

	Aberfan Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		George Williams, who was trapped in the wreckage, remembered that 'In that silence you couldn't hear a bird or a child'.
		For some years I was aware of a Minney connection to the tragic Aberfan disaster.
		In some online archive material relating to the Aberfan Disaster there was a reference to Mr R M Minney,miner & parent of victims.
	freespace.virgin.net /b.minney/aberfan.htm (728 words)

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