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“I regard it as extremely serious as the slurry is so fluid and the gradient so steep that it could not possibly stay in position in the winter time or during periods of heavy rain,” one engineer wrote in a June 1963 letter.
Several years earlier, the local council had contacted the National Coal Board, which ran the nearby Merthyr Vale Colliery mine, to express concerns regarding the spoil tip-a massive pile of accumulated coal waste material removed during mining-situated just above the Pantglas school. Instead, the children’s conversations centered on plans for the coming half-term holiday: Following an early afternoon assembly, all students would be dismissed for vacation. The 240 students enrolled in the school walked to class in the rain, but few were focused on the weather. Much like the days that preceded it, the morning of the disaster found Aberfan, a southern Wales village home to some 8,000 coal miners and their loved ones, blanketed in a wet fog. The moving mountain of coal sludge after the disaster at Aberfan when the coal tip avalanched through the Pantglas Junior School, killing 116 children and 28 adults. Per a statement from the show’s producers, “All strongly felt the Aberfan disaster and the events that followed must be included, especially as it continues to hold a deep resonance for the nation and the queen herself.” To ensure the television biopic portrayed the incident “truthfully and responsibly,” the cast and crew consulted survivors and current residents of Aberfan.
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The Aberfan disaster features heavily in season three of Netflix’s award-winning series “ The Crown,” which returns to viewers’ screens this Sunday after a two-year absence. The tragedy, according to BBC News’ Ceri Jackson, was a “mistake that cost a village its children” in the words of a tribunal commissioned to investigate the incident, the deadly accident “could and should have been prevented.” In total, the October 21, 1966, disaster killed 144 people, 116 of whom were students at the Welsh town of Aberfan’s Pantglas Junior School. Edwards, the tenth child rescued that morning, would be the last survivor pulled from the debris.
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A fireman used a hatchet to free the young boy from beneath his desk, then passed him along to safety via a human chain. With every passing minute, he said, “They got quieter and quieter, … buried and running out of air.”Īround 11 a.m., someone spotted a tuft of Edwards’ blonde hair amid the rubble.
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Over the next hour and a half, the then-8-year-old Edwards struggled to breathe as his classmates, trapped under a torrent of liquefied coal waste, cried out around him.
My desk was pinned against my stomach and a girl’s head was on my left shoulder. “My right foot was stuck in the radiator and there was water pouring out of it. “The next thing I remember was waking up,” he later recalled. Jeff Edwards’ primary school teacher had just started the day’s math lesson when an ominous rumble sounded in the distance.