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During the first three weeks of October 1966 there were 6.5 inches (170 mm) of rainfall, nearly half of which was in the third week. [21] During the night of 20–21 October the peak of Tip 7 subsided by 9–10 feet (2.7–3.0 m) and the rails on which the spoil was transported to the top of the tip fell into the resulting hole.
Six Bells colliery before demolition in 1989. Six Bells Colliery was a colliery located in Six Bells, Abertillery, Gwent, Wales.On 28 June 1960 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 45 of the 48 miners working in that part of the mine.
Wales is part of Bronze Age Britain, a maritime trading culture, [7] selling tin, lead, iron, silver, gold, pearls, corn, cattle, hides, skins, fleeces, trained hunting dogs and slaves, and buying ivory, amber, glass vessels and other luxuries; [8]: 12 bronze axeheads from this area have been found on the coasts of Brittany and Germany. [9]
This is a list of the bays of Wales by principal area, taken clockwise around the Welsh coast from the English border at Chepstow to the Dee estuary.It includes coastal indentations which are known by names other than bay (e.g. haven, porth) but which nevertheless have similar characteristics.
The earliest known item of human remains discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales; it dates from about 230,000 years before present (BP) in the Lower Palaeolithic period, [1] and from then, there have been skeletal remains found of the Paleolithic Age man in multiple regions of Wales ...
Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan]) is a former coal mining village in the Taff Valley 4 mi (6 km) south of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.. On 21 October 1966, it became known for the Aberfan disaster, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed into homes and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
29 June – The A55 Colwyn Bay bypass is completed. 4 July – At the Brecon and Radnor by-election (caused by the death of sitting Conservative MP Tom Ellis Hooson ) local farmer Richard Livsey takes the seat for the Liberals.
Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd; colloquially "The Bay") is an area and freshwater lake [1] [2] in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary , it is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely .