Yep thanks David
I watched the documentary on it last week. Didn't know that a similar collapse had happened a few years before that had come within spitting distance from the school!
British Coal offered the affected families £50 at first [which equates to around £840 in todays money! [according to https://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/?redirurl=calculators/ppoweruk/]
BC also took £150,000 from the relief fund/donations to pay for the spoil heaps to be sorted out!
Tragic and shameful part of our industrial heritage
Regards
Dave
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From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nattalie Kennedy/CEXEC/STHMBC
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Subject: Re: Remembering Aberfan
Remembering Aberfan - thanks for this reminder David
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From:David E Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:21/10/2016 13:13
Subject:Remembering Aberfan
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Dear List,
I thought as a group we may take a moment to remember the 166 children and
28 adults who lost their lives in the Aberfan Colliery disaster 50years ago today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-150d11df-c541-44a9-9332-560a19828c47
As a mining engineering student in Cardiff during the 1980s this case was highlighted to me as an engineering case study. The true learning, however, comes from the extraordinary sadness of personal loss, the callous corporate and governmental disinterest shown the victim's families and the lasting legacy of psychological damage caused by this monumental catastrophe, which continues to this day.
David
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