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Aberfan Disaster
In the quiet valleys of South Wales, danger often comes dressed in routine. Coal dust settles on boots, children walk to school, and the hillside above Aberfan looms motionless—until the day it doesn’t.Aberfan in the autumn of nineteen sixty-six was a village shaped by coal, its streets and lives arranged according to the needs of the mine above. The Merthyr Vale Colliery dominated the landscape, its spoil tips climbing higher with every shift. Houses clung to the lower slopes, the railway threaded through the valley, and the school—Pantglas Junior School—sat in the shadow of it all. Life…
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