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Bezig met laden... Aberfan - A Story of Survival, Love and Community in One of Britain's Worst Disastersdoor Gaynor Madgwick
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On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass crashed through the local school and 144 people were killed: 116 were schoolchildren. Gaynor Madgwick was 8 at the time and severely injured. Here, Gaynor tells her own story and interviews people affected by that day. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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My visit to Big Pit was made more poignant when I realized that those people involved in the tour and introducing us to the tough unforgiving dangerous lives of miners, were none other than ex miners themselves. Due to the fact that coal nowadays is cheaper to import from abroad the last 30 years has seen the mining industry in the UK virtually disappear and once proud miners left adrift with little hope of future employment. Each one of those ex miners told me that irrespective of the dangers and the poor and sometimes brutal working conditions, they would all happily return underground to their old way of life. I was astounded to hear this...why I asked? why work in such dangerous unforgiving conditions? The comradeship they said, they were a band of brothers and would happily live and die for eachother. I came away extremely humbled knowing that those in governments who choose to destroy the mines and therefore the livelihoods of these proud men did not realize that by doing so they destroyed communities and the heart of the noble Welsh men, women and children that lived therein. Aberfan is a tough read but it is a story that should be understood and the memories of those who lost their lives and the families that still grieve should never be forgotten. ( )