Pum deg naw mlynedd yn ôl heddiw / Fifty nine years ago today.

[Chislenko]

Byth anghofio

Never forget

Aberfan

Cysgu'n dawel

Sleep peacefully.

 

[Drago]

Strewth, seems so long ago but was only just before I was born. A terrible incident.

 

[Sharky]

Remember it well, the whole nation was shocked.

 

[raleighnut]

I was only a nipper (4 and a bit) but I remember my parents being shocked by the disaster, my mum especially.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Byth anghofio

Never forget

Aberfan

Cysgu'n dawel

Sleep peacefully.

First time I saw my Mother cry

it was on the radio and she left the room crying
I asked my Dad what was wrong and he explained that some children had died and Mum was upset

still remember that after all these years

There is a plaque on the Anglesey side of the Menai Straits Bridge - no indication or anything, but it is there
always brought a tear to my eye when I came across it when I lived there - and if I was walking past I made a point of visiting it

 

[ianrauk]

Horrific.

 

[secretsqirrel]

I was pre-school but on that day I remember my older brother who was in infants school running into the house crying “a mountain has fallen on a school and killed all the children”.
I didn’t fully comprehend, but I understood enough to know something terrible had happened that was very frightening.

 

[Webbo2]

The chairman of British coal refused to attend the scene instead going somewhere to receive an award.
British Coal also tried to appropriate the money raised for the victims of the disaster.

 

[Drago]

The government of the day appropriated 150k of the victims memorial fund to pay for the cleanup, essentially forcing the victims to pay to clean up the NCBs mess. How nice of them.

The government did, with some embarrassment, repay it in 1997 but didnt account for interest or inflation.

No one in authority acquitted themselves honourably in the wake of that horrible incident.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

There are some honest and decent politicians

but the bad ones do seem to rise to the top easier in all generations

 

[PeteXXX]

I drove through Aberfan years after the disaster.. I was almost in tears just thinking about it,
Virtually a whole generation of the village wiped out 😔