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I haven’t been keeping up with the crown but i think the episode that will forever stick out the most to me is the episode covering the aberfan disaster. it breaks my heart all over again if I think about it too much.
the way it opens showing the children coming home from school the day before the disaster and spending the evening just being children. having no idea what’s going to happen to them the next day.
and the way the last shots of the kids are them screaming in fear hiding under the tables.
all the little coffins in the funeral scene 💔
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#Myfanwy#Wales#Welsh#Aberfan#pantglas school disaster#Aberfan disaster#Cymru#Cymreig#Cymraeg#Youtube
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Don't forget the awful behaviour of the National Coal board on this day in 1966 that resulted in 116 kids and 28 adults dying in a preventable disaster.
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Oh fuck, I've just realised the date
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today we honour the 116 children and 56 adults who died in the aberfan disaster in 1966❤️
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The Aberfan disaster was 56 years ago today. Local people had been campaigning for years for the government and the Coal Board to remove the spoil tips above the village. It was, of course, deemed far too expensive.
Tip 7 - which had suffered two smaller slips in 1963 - was 111ft high by 1966, overlaying a natural spring, and after three weeks of heavy rain it became so saturated it slipped down the mountain. The first pic shows how it smashed through residential houses and straight into Pantglas Junior School.
The timing of it was so disgustingly cruel. It was the last day of term - so if it had happened a few hours later the school would have been empty as the day was finishing at noon. Morning assembly had just ended and at 9:15 the kids were settling down in their classrooms - so if it had happened a few minutes earlier most of the kids would have survived, as the hall was relatively undamaged.
As it was, the spill buried the classrooms, so most of those the avalanche didn’t kill instantaneously slowly suffocated as rescuers attempted to dig them out. Only 27 were eventually pulled out alive, one of those dying en route to hospital, and after 11am there were no more survivors, though body retrieval took a full week.
In total 144 people died - 28 adults and 116 children, the majority aged between 7 and 10.
I was Mayor for a nearby borough the year of the 50th anniversary so had to go to a lot of memorials, etc, and it was so unbelievably upsetting even after all that time. Just the age old story of human life mattering less than money and convenience, culminating in rows of little white gravestones.
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*This article is related to The Crown season 3 episode 3 “Aberfan” -
A horrible disaster in the Welsh town of Aberfan leaves scores of children dead, but when the Queen (Olivia Colman) takes a week to decide to visit the town to offer solace to its people, she must confront her reasons for postponing the trip. Directed by Benjamin Caron
Kate Middleton and Prince William Visit Aberfan, Where Mining Tragedy Killed 116 Children
The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales to pay their respects to the families who lost children in the 1966 disaster
By Simon Perry, People Published on April 28, 2023
Prince William and Kate Middleton David Davies (R) during a visit to the Aberfan memorial garden. PHOTO: BEN BIRCHALL/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Kate Middleton and Prince William are paying respects to the Welsh village that lost a generation of children in one of the darkest days in Britain's peacetime.
On Friday, the Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales, where on October 21, 1966, 116 children aged between 7 and 10 lost their lives when their school was engulfed in 150,000 tons of mud and slurry — loosened by heavy rain and springs underneath — from the local coal waste dump. A total of 144 people died in the disaster.
The couple spent time at the Aberfan Memorial Garden, which sits on the former site of the Pantglas Junior School. The garden, a place for the bereaved families and survivors to reflect and remember their loved ones, was opened by the late Queen Elizabeth in 1974 on one of several visits she made to the Welsh village following the tragedy.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Aberfan. BEN BIRCHALL - WPA POOL / GETTY IMAGES
Prince William, 40, and Princess Kate, 41 — who wore a Catherine Walker & Co. jacket with earrings by Emily Mortimer and a leek brooch, a symbol of Wales — were guided around the site by a survivor and spent time with some of the "Aberfan Wives," relatives of the children who lost their lives during the disaster. They also met trustees from the Aberfan Memorial Trust who do maintenance of the garden.
When King Charles (then the Prince of Wales) visited Aberfan on the 50th anniversary of the tragedy in 2016, he said in a speech, "Anyone who is old enough can remember where they were when they heard the appalling news about the Aberfan disaster. I was at school in Scotland, having just returned from a period at school in Australia, and I can never forget the feeling of utter despair as I heard of the unspeakable tragedy that had befallen your community . . . Aberfan showed the world the darkest sorrow, but also the most shining selflessness: a spirit which endured not just for the time of crisis, but for a lifetime."
Kate Middleton and Prince William. BEN BIRCHALL - WPA POOL / GETTY IMAGES
The disaster was also the subject of an episode in The Crown's third season. Queen Elizabeth didn't visit the site of the tragedy until eight days after it occurred, despite her husband, Prince Philip, going sooner. The monarch's delay in going to Aberfan attracted criticism — and years later, her former private secretary Lord Charteris said he felt he had given her poor advice.
"We told her to stay away until the preliminary shock had worn off," he said, according to the BBC, adding that it was the biggest regret of her reign.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Aberfan. BEN BIRCHALL - WPA POOL / GETTY IMAGES
Friday was the second of two days in South Wales this week for the Prince and Princess of Wales. On Thursday, Prince William and Kate spent time with mountain rescue teams who work in the hills and valleys of the nearby Bannau Brycheiniog National Park and visited a local rugby club in Dowlais.
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**On April 29, Prince William and Kate Middleton celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary!
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The Crown 3x03 Aberfan (2019)
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Hiraeth
Welsh word that means 'longing for a place or state of being to which there is no return'.
First heard by author Lucy Easthope when researching the Aberfan tragedy in Wales in which 144 people after a colliery spoil tip collapsed.
"Disaster is perpetual, chronic, with a pain that ebbs and flows like tides."
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I cry every time I watch The Crown's Aberfan episode. Oh how my heart hurts to think about all those babies lost like that and the families left behind in the aftermath.
#my thoughts#netflix#the crown#aberfan#tw death#tragedy#i want to skip the episode every time i watch the series#but i can't bring myself to do it
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me when I'm vibing and then suddenly remember the date
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#prince william#hrh catherine the princess of wales#prince of wales#princess of wales#british royal family#brf#royal family#pwpow#cpow#aberfan
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I am a day late but I’m still going to share some Aberfan stuff Because.
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