File:Aberfan Memorial Garden-geograph-3379614-by-Stephen-McKay.jpg

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aberfan_Memorial_Garden-geograph-3379614-by-Stephen-McKay.jpg Description English: Aberfan Memorial Garden. Aberfan was the site of one of the worst ever peacetime disasters to occur in the UK. On the morning of 21 October 1966 a tip, where waste from Merthyr Vale Colliery was heaped up, slid down onto Pantglas Junior School destroying most of the school as well as a farm and twenty houses. Children in the school had just left their morning assembly when an avalanche of half a million tonnes of waste debris crashed in to the classrooms. 116 children aged 7-10 were killed out of a total death toll of 144. The subsequent inquiry firmly blamed the National Coal Board, which owned and managed the colliery; the tip, which covered several springs, was known to be unstable - there had been slides before - and prior to the day of the disaster there had been a prolonged period of rain. Date	19 March 2013 Source	From geograph.org.uk Author:	Stephen McKay. Permission (Reusing this file) Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0 Camera location	51° 41′ 41.58″ N, 3° 20′ 50.57″ W 247°	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth