Village Destroyed by Nearby Coal Mine | Last Moments

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  @Qxir · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @y_fam_goeglyd · 4 years ago

  My dad was one of the &apos;rescuers&apos; that day. He was in the civil defence. He was a steelworker, so not immune to danger himself. I have two older sisters, 8 &amp; 10 years older than me. I was a year-old baby when this happened. Dad was carrying out bodies of &quot;babies&quot; (his word - the only time he ever talked about it to me when I discovered his civil defence overall which had been stuffed in the back of a cupboard) the same age as my next sister up. Dad never got over it. He died a few years ago in his late 80s, but that day never left him.

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  @B4R0N. · 4 years ago

  &quot;Oh your child died? Here, 50 quid.&quot;<br>&quot;Okay, okay. 500 quid. Because I&apos;m generous.&quot;

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  @kairoscomic · 4 years ago

  We were taught about this in school. There were a handful of kids who were off sick that day, when all the rest of their class were killed - they suffered from huge survivor&apos;s guilt. Thanks for talking about this!

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  @Buckeyboy_j · 4 years ago

  Imagine having your child killed by negligence and oversights and then being told 50 pounds is generous…

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  @disgruntledwelsh3817 · 4 years ago (edited)

  You can ask practically any person in South Wales and they&apos;ll know someone who was, or they themselves were, affected by the Aberfan disaster. The gardener that swings by our house is a survivor and is missing fingers because of it. My grandfather helped dig. The disaster scarred my country so deeply that it will never be forgotten, never can be forgotten, as we remember the people who should be here and who&apos;s graves now overlooked the valley they called home.

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  @Sam-Samington · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m 23 and Welsh and I just want to say thank you for covering this topic.<br>Everyone remembers Aberfan in Wales from the old people to the young wannabe chavs, they even teach it in schools.<br>This event made the Welsh people lose hope in their local governments and its officials, mp&apos;s ect even to this day.<br>Also you get extra points for correctly pronouncing Aberfan.

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  @davidtraynor8075 · 4 years ago

  When those we trust place more value in money than us, that&apos;s when you know tragedies like this are inevitable. &nbsp;Avoidable, &nbsp;inexcusable and horrific. The aftermath and legacy just adds the salt to the wounds.

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  @jacthegamer9108 · 4 years ago

  Thanks for covering a Welsh tragedy, our dark days are not often talked about on an international stage

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  @iainballas · 4 years ago

  Every time someone says &quot;And then the government had to step in to meet the rest of the cost of cleanup&quot;<br>I hear<br>&quot;The corporation successfully billed the general public for cleanup after dumping (usually toxic) waste on their community.&quot;

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  @sirrliv · 4 years ago (edited)

  One infamous story I recall from a documentary told that during the debate over responsibility, some Aberfan miners filled their trousers with spoil from the disaster site and travelled all the way to the National Coal Board headquarters in London, whereupon they emptied the spoil onto the lobby floor, a symbolic gesture to say &quot;This waste, and our childrens&apos; blood, is on your hands.&quot; <br><br>This isn&apos;t even the latest in the long and often tragic history of the Welsh mining industry. And yet almost paradoxically the decline and gradual end of that same industry that has cost so many lives is costing lives of its own. Without the mines, vast swaths of Wales are being left destitute for gainful employment; for many villages and even large towns the mines were all they had, and now that they&apos;re gone there&apos;s no work to be had. And with that loss of employment prospect breeds financial and even psychological deprivation; I&apos;m sure many Welsh viewers will cringe at the mentioning of the name Bridgend and I almost needn&apos;t mention why. The mines may have been dirty, backbreaking and dangerous, but without them what is there? A question much of Wales is struggling to answer.

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  @sentientweetabix2228 · 4 years ago (edited)

  When I was younger I told my Granda from Sunderland that I thought mining sounded like a fun job, he told me loads of grim stories like the time he saw a pair of bloody overalls spinning in one of the machines, or the time he nearly lost his life as he crawled through a tunnel screaming as a digging machine slowly and nearly caught up to him, I quickly realised that mining wasn’t as easy and as fun as a young me had thought. Hearing this paired with my Granda’s stories made me feel sorry for all those who suffered and awful and for ever thinking mining could be a good job that wasn’t dangerous.

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