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Paul Walter

Remembering Aberfan

By Paul Walter | Fri 21st October 2016 - 8:24 pm

We end the day as we began it by paying tribute to the people, past and present, of Aberfan. Here is a newsreel of the day from British Movietone:

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The Voice

Remembering Aberfan – ‘a generation wiped out’

By The Voice | Fri 21st October 2016 - 9:15 am

At this moment fifty years ago, disaster hit a mining village in Gwent, Wales, as the BBC remembers:

It took just five minutes for the coal tip above Aberfan to slide down the mountain and engulf a farm, several houses and a school.

Pupils at Pantglas Junior School were just beginning their first lessons of the day when the rushing landslide of mud and debris flooded into their classrooms.

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