The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the...

Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan]) is a former coal mining village in the Taff Valley 4 mi (6 km) south of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales....

Aberfan Cemetery (Welsh: Mynwent Aberfan) is a cemetery near the village of Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of five cemeteries in Merthyr Tydfil County...

The Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster (the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal), chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies, was established in 1966 to inquire...

was a school dinner lady at Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, Wales. She was killed in the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but saved the lives of five children...

(or Aberfan: The Green Hollow) is a "film-poem", which was broadcast by the BBC on 21 October 2016 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster...

years as Chairman of the National Coal Board, and later – despite the Aberfan disaster – headed a major inquiry which resulted in the Robens Report on...

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath's respective terms as prime minister, the Aberfan disaster, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the 1969 Investiture of Prince Charles...

of Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, Wales. He is known in Wales and throughout the UK as one of the heroes of the Aberfan disaster of 1966, dying in the...

Aberfan railway station served the village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Opened by the Quakers Yard & Merthyr Railway, a joint Great Western...

as Aberfan, where it descends below the road and continues through the mainly residential areas of Aberfan. At this point, it passes the Aberfan Cemetery...

scene of the Aberfan disaster (21 October 1966), and was later involved in the controversial government decision to use money from the Aberfan Charity Fund...

Queen was criticised for waiting eight days before visiting the village of Aberfan, where a mining disaster claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults...

choral work Cantata Memoria: For the children, a response to the 1966 Aberfan disaster with a libretto by Mererid Hopwood and commissioned by S4C, premiered...

and My Family. Owen won a Welsh BAFTA in 2007 for the documentary The Aberfan Disaster, which he co-produced with Judith Davies. In his later teens he...

attention in October 1966 in the English speaking world when a spoil tip at Aberfan in Glamorgan, Wales, gave way, killing 144 people, 116 of them children...

Premonitions Bureau was formed in 1966 by psychiatrist John Barker after the Aberfan mining disaster in which 144 people, including 116 children, died when...

1966, the village of Aberfan in the Taff valley suffered one of the worst disasters in Welsh history, referred to today as the Aberfan disaster. A mine waste...

channel based in Wales, and was the first reporter on the scene of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people and destroyed entire parts of a town...

the mainland path at the bridge end. The bridge has a memorial to the Aberfan disaster victims on the Anglesey side.[citation needed] The nearest settlement...

words Cofiwch Aberfan 1966 ("Remember Aberfan") were added underneath the original message. This message was referring to the Aberfan disaster of 1966...

been filled and landscaped, but new operations continue. Following the Aberfan disaster of 1966, when a coal-tip slurry flow buried a school, mine-waste...

colliery spoil tip above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales caused the Aberfan disaster. The tip had been created on a mountain...

heavy rain, killing 116 children and 28 adults in the Welsh village of Aberfan. In contravention of the National Coal Board's procedures, the tip was...

"Margaretology" Benjamin Caron Peter Morgan 17 November 2019 (2019-11-17) 23 3 "Aberfan" Benjamin Caron Peter Morgan 17 November 2019 (2019-11-17) 24 4 "Bubbikins"...

for writing the episodes, "Assassins" (2016), "Mystery Man" (2017), and "Aberfan" (2019). On 15 November 2020, the fourth series of The Crown was released...

2017, the words Cofiwch Aberfan 1966 ("Remember Aberfan 1966") were added underneath the original message, referring to the Aberfan disaster. After the wall...

risk of coal tips becoming more unstable. The 1966 Aberfan disaster, where a coal tip in Aberfan collapsed killing 116 children and 28 adults, was the...

typical coal. Culm is the term for waste anthracite coal. In the 1966 Aberfan disaster in Wales, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, engulfing a school and...

for Masters of Sex Welsh BAFTA Award for Best Actor (2017)—nominated for Aberfan: The Green Hollow Welsh BAFTA Award for News and Current Affairs (2017)—win...