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The Aberfan Disaster Memorial Fund (ADMF) was established on the day of the disaster. It received nearly 88,000 contributions, totalling £1.75 million. The remaining tips were removed only after a lengthy fight by Aberfan residents against resistance from the NCB and the government on the grounds of cost.
Memorial marking the graves of children killed in the disaster. The Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster (the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal), chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies, was established in 1966 to inquire into the causes of and circumstances of the Aberfan disaster.
Season three of “The Crown” portrays a mining-town disaster where 116 children and 28 adults were killed. Here’s the real story behind the tragic event.
It has been said that Queen Elizabeth's biggest regret is her response to the Aberfan mining disaster. Here's why it took her eight days to visit, as depicted in 'The Crown' season 3.
Disasters like the Aberfan mining disaster scarred the nation but led to radical changes.
October 21, 1966: Aberfan disaster, Aberfan, Wales. A catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil-tip killed 116 children and 28 adults. October 30, 1971: Certej dam disaster, Certeju de Sus, Socialist Republic of Romania. A tailings dam failed due to overfilling.
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a coal-mining spoil tip that caused the deaths of 116 children and 28 adults on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan , near Merthyr Tydfil , and overlaid a natural spring.
Fifty-six years ago, a colliery slag tip slid down the side of a hill and engulfed a row of houses, a farm and a school in the Welsh mining village.