Download or read book Aberfan written by Iain McLean and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events at Aberfan on the morning of October 21 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults died in a sea of slurry following the collapse of a coal tip, will forever be etched in the memories of the people of the industrial valleys of south Wales.
Download or read book Aberfan written by Gaynor Madgewick and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aber-fan. The black mass crashed through the local school. 144 people were killed. 116 were schoolchildren. Gaynor Madgwick was there. She was eight and severely injured. In this book, Gaynor tells her own story and interviews people affected by the day's events.
Download or read book Aberfan written by I. C. Rapoport and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of sensitive photographs commemorating the dignity of the people of Aberfan and life in the town following the tragedy of 1966; including an introduction by the photographer and an afterword by Dr Jeni Williams. First published in April 2005.
Download or read book Surviving Aberfan written by Sue Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of surviving the Aberfan Mining Disaster (50th Anniversary)
Download or read book Public Inquiry Into the Aberfan Disaster written by Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Disaster at Aberfan on October 21st, 1966 and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aberfan written by Peculiar Papers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a coal spoilage tip above a junior school in Aberfan, Wales, on October 21st 1966. Killing 144 people, the majority being children, it is one of the worst manmade disasters in British history. Not only did the small village lose so many of its children, but the government repeatedly failed to help the community afterwards. This book gives the full story, from the moment the tip started sliding towards the school, to the outcome and legacy of such a heart-breaking disaster.
Download or read book The Attraction of Onlookers written by Shimon Attie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed installation artist/photographer Shimon Attie was approached to create an artwork commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. His artistic work is built around memory, place, and in particular working with communities and their collective memories. This book accompanies his artwork.
Download or read book A Terrible Kindness written by Jo Browning Wroe and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A BOOK OF THE MONTH RADIO 2 STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON PICK**AN OBSERVER DEBUT OF 2022**AS FEATURED ON FRONT ROW*When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . .It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan.William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalmer, and it will be one he never forgets.His work that night will force him to think about the little boy he was, and the losses he has worked so hard to forget. But compassion can have surprising consequences, because - as William discovers - giving so much to others can sometimes help us heal ourselves.'I LOVE IT! Utterly and completely brilliant.' JOANNA CANNON'It's a long time since I've read a debut novel that moved me so much.' RACHEL JOYCE'Extraordinary.' SOPHIE HANNAH'A brave and tender novel.' JOANNA GLENWhat readers are saying:'One stunning read to remember.''Beautifully written . . . I would recommend this book to all.''Utterly heartbreaking and uplifting . . . I loved it.''Tremendous.'
Download or read book To Hear the Skylark s Song written by Huw Lewis and published by Parthian. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Hear The Skylark's Song is a wonderfully evocative memoir of growing up in a village in south Wales in the 1960s and 1970s. The village is Aberfan. This is an account of life in a Welsh mining village towards the end of its role as an industrial settlement. And, of course, amidst the inconsolable grief of a place made bereft of a generation of children when tip No.7 slid onto Pantglas school on 21 October, 1966. To Hear The Skylark's Song is a moving story of how Aberfan lived on. Huw Lewis mixes memory with mature reflection to reveal the shadow that fell on his individual existence and the dynamics of a still vibrant community lifted up by the spirited joy of a skylark's song.
Download or read book Public Inquiry Into the Aberfan Disaster Held at the College of Further Education Merthyr Tydfil Wales and at the Cardiff College of Food Technology College of Commerce Before Lord Justice Edmund Davies at Al written by Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Disaster at Aberfan on October 21st, 1966 and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.
Download or read book Wales A Historical Companion written by Terry Breverton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and uniquely accessible history of Wales.
Download or read book Aberfan Disaster Memorial Papers written by Dewi-Prys Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers, 1967-1996, including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, plans and photographs of the memorial site of the Aberfan disaster, 1966. Included are letters from Dewi-Prys Thomas, Head of the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff, and his design.
Download or read book Death of Justice written by Michael O' Brien and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing autobiography of Michael O'Brien (one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three) who was imprisoned for 11 years for a murder he didn't commit. Michael received the largest payout ever by the police to anyone who has been wrongly convicted.
Download or read book Aberfan written by Iain McLean and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
