Aberfan disaster

I remember the schoolteacher at the school I was attending in North Wales asking for all the children to bring in a piece  of their clothing and any pocket money to be given to the relief effort. Every single child in our class gave up their pocket money and the Assembly the following morning was just a hall full of tears. I still well up now and still remember the tales of teachers trying to protect the children with their own bodies from the slag heap. A dreadful tragedy.

I  am,  now,  by  any  standards  an  old  man  &  have  seen  &  been  involved  in  many  sad  things.

Never  the  less  to  see,  again,  the  tragedy  reviewed  on  T.V.  today  &  to  hear  the  stories ,  so  simply  &  clearly  told,  of  some  of  those  'children'  at  the  Aberfan  Memorial  Garden  still  choked  me  up .

Nothing  more  I  can  say.

Brian  A B M

Agree ABM i watched the programme last week where they showed footage of the rescue and talking to the parents who lost their children plus some of the surviors brought a tear to my eye.

I remember the event but was only 9 at the time. Such a terrible disaster. The memories still linger.

I can't bear to watch much of the footage of it.  As a child, I was brought up in the valleys and I wasn't aware of the dangers of the slag heaps as they were considered the 'norm' in those days.  Thank God we have moved on since then but it was such a shame that this terrible disaster had to happen before something was done! 

I remember it clearly. I was only10 at the time and remember sitting in our back room watching it on tv and felt sad that they were around the same age as myself and that tragedy cut their lives short. We've passed through Aberfan over the years many times and still feel sad when I think of what happened and what could have been avoided if only they had listened. I for one have never forgotten and don't think I ever will.