Queen Elizabeth II Returns to Aberfan (1997)
In October 1966, the community of Aberfan suffered an unthinkable tragedy when a colliery tip – a giant pile of mining waste – collapsed on...
In October 1966, the community of Aberfan suffered an unthinkable tragedy when a colliery tip – a giant pile of mining waste – collapsed on...
Travel UK: Aberfan, Merthyr Vale, Wales At 9:15 am on October 21, 1966, 144 people of Merthyr Vale lost their lives when a colliery tip...
New BBC Sounds podcast Aberfan: Tip Number 7 tells the in-depth story of Aberfan - and the decades of injustice that followed.
queen elizabeth ii (olivia colman) visits the mining village of aberfan after a landslide buries an elementary school, killing 116 children.
On 21 October 1966, a quiet Welsh village changed forever. 🕊️ Aberfan lost 144 people, including 116 children, when a colliery spoil...
Children from Ynysowen Community Primary School and Ysgol Rhyd y Grug were joined by members of the Ynysowen Male Voice choir to sing for dignitaries including...
March 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new community centre in the village of Aberfan.
A deeply moving, finely crafted film by Jonathan Jones on a preventable disaster that claimed the lives of 116 children, with Juniper Communications for...
As grown men, we cried without shame” 60 years on from the Aberfan disaster, we wanted to share this clip from Songs of Praise in 2016 in...
... Aberfan disaster: what the village was built beneath, the ignored warnings, the six days of digging, the tribunal, and the second tragedy...