I.C. Ronald Dumont/Express/Getty That was dreadful. They found my father with children wrapped in his arms. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper,

Ron Burton/Mirrorpix/Getty Snaking through the landscape is a line of green - the foliage flanking the now restored River Taff, a potent symbol of regeneration in the village.Once a stinking, steaming streak of pollution the water at Aberfan now runs clear and clean.The decline of local industry and the closure of pits in the 1970s and 1980s devastated the economy but the waterway benefited and is now a source of local pride, not to mention trout caught by anglers.Peter Gough, principal advisor at Natural Resources Wales who has worked on the recovery of that stretch of the river on and off since 1974, says locals are rightly proud and emotional about their waterway.Pollution from mines, steel, copper and tin plating works had been spewed into the water for more than a century.“In 1966 Aberfan would have had a black river running through. Aberfan Disaster, which killed 144 people, is one of Great Britain's worst coal mining disasters ever. My mum said there’s a disaster taken place in Aberfan, apparently the school had collapsed. At that age I didn't know what had happened – I just thought a bomb had gone off or something. We were told ‘get home as quick as you can’.

There were hundreds at his funeral. The fireman who rescued me used his hatchet and broke the desk up and he pulled the stuff away.

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It started off with the weather.

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My desk was in the middle of the classroom but I was pushed right across to where the hallway was.

It sounded exactly like thunder.
A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.It was one of the United Kingdom's worst tragedies, and it was a man-made disaster.In 1966, 300,000 cubic yards of coal sludge buried a Welsh primary school, and 19 houses in Aberfan, Wales. Dennis Stephens/Mirrorpix/Getty

Survivors of the 1966 Aberfan tragedy speak to RadioTimes.com about the disaster that rocked their small Welsh community - and the royal family He would be 58 this year and it’s so sad that a generation of young people were just wiped out.

I said ‘I don’t know’. He was a devoted teacher and would have seen it as his job to protect the children in his care. I haven’t spoken about this in 50 years. We were reliving what happened to us in days, the weeks and the months after. She gave me a hug and she said that in 50 years I’d never spoken about it so she couldn’t even think what it had been like for me.

So I did the usual thing: ‘Pull yourself together now and get on with it’.

"That wider empathy swept into our community like a huge wave of loving support most recently in 2016 and the 50th anniversary." We had just had registration and we could hear this rumbling noise.

Obviously, I didn’t know what had happened, other than the fact I was trapped. You didn’t go anywhere. Paul was their only child. I thought ‘I’ve taken that first step’.


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