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Great photography, story sensitively told. Well done.

I was in Junior Infants class in Murroe National School in County Limerick, Ireland when the Aberfan disaster happened. I can still vividly remember our teacher Ms O'Neill leading us little tots in prayer for the victims of Aberfan. We did not know where Wales was, let alone Aberfan...but we understood from our teacher that something really terrible had happened to children just like us and that was enough. This was a disaster that deeply affected everyone here in Ireland too. God Bless all the deceased and their families...and Ms O'Neill who passed away herself in the past year or so. Rest In Peace all of you....

Why did they bury the dead on a hillside, below those tips? That does not look good!😢 why were their coffins not in vaults? Coffins placed in dirt holes. 😢 fast burial.

Heartbreaking, ❤️❤️❤️

These stories breaks my hart, I was 14 at school when we heard about this tragedy, being so young I never grasped the tragic events fully, only when I got home , my mother & fathers body language from television

This documentary is so heartbreaking but beautiful, we will never forget the little loves lost , their teachers, the families in the houses & the farm. To the survivors, we hold your hands. We love you so much Aberfan xx😢

Thanks for your sentasive commentary

Im 64 in December. I remember this so clearly. This is the first film where i didnt feel red hot anger but cried and smiled. Thank you fir the good memories of the 60s ❤❤

Aberfan eposed how little the elites cared about the underclass.

I remember it so vividly😢. Quakers Yard, the nearby school I attended sent certain classes hot foot to the site to help. A few of the fittest of us got there ahead and went in line for picks and shovels. From our school we came over the mountains and when we got there the tip was still moving under our feet. My sad memories are of the total silence. Which was eerie given the amount of frantic efforts at digging that was going on. In the years that followed I gained a massive appreciation for the way Aberfan ppl showed their strength and resilience to rebuild their lives. But will NEVER forget.

The most poignant and touching documentary of the Aberfan disaster. Photojournalism of the absolute highest order. A great shame that such professional journalism seems to no longer exist in everyday life. Thank you.

I’m English and was 14 years old at the time of the disaster. I lived in England, a long way from Wales but I remember watching reports of the tragedy on the evening news after school with Cliff Mitchelmore reporting from the site and my mum in floods of tears. I’m in my 70s now (and live in Wales) but the stir6 of what happened has always stayed with me. The loss of the children was bad enough, but the response by the Coal Board afterwards was utterly and thoroughly shameful.

Wow! An absolutely stunning documentary that captures the heartaches of that period in time. I was nine when Aberfan happened, a child myself, going to school in Liverpool, sad for the children who died that day. The people of Wales are beautiful ❤️. RIP little ones.

This is a strong story! I am very affected. Thanks for sharing.

Some of my fathers work mates in Cardiff lost their children in the Aberfan disaster. So cruel and tragic and it is something I will never forget. I visited the cemetery to pay my respects in the 1980s as I was school age at the time of the tragedy. I will never forget the ornate rows of graves in white. The tips are still dangerous with water still running through them and underground streams - they were never completely cleared by the coal board and there is always a lot of rain there. They need to invest in the area which brought the country so much wealth from the mines and miners hard work. RIP 🌹❤️

Only one from 2024 so far.....

Lovely, compasionate, simple. Thank You, Cariad.

Thank you

Got clickbated

I remember my father coming home heart broken because he'd been down to Aberfan to help dig the children out, And for me i was in school myself when we heard the news and one of teachers brother was killed there, god bless all who suffered because it is something i will never forget and i am 66 now.

The best movie ever 😂

For me, the most piercing aspect of this video, was how you ( the narrator ) were not trusted after the wolves of the media ( we all know who they are ) had already been there before you, with their sensationalism and their lust for headlines. Nothing has changed and these people are the scourge of all mankind.

I was 9 years old when it happened. I remember my mum packing a bag to go To Wales as we lived in Berkshire. I didn’t quite understand what was going on. My dad said mum will be home soon. She was in Wales for about three weeks. She came home and hug us all, but I still remember her crying at night she was born there.

This tribute to all the little children mothers and fathers made me cry so helpless was the feeling all I can say is sorry

Ni allaf anghofio, Nid anghofiwn, rhaid i'r byd beidio ag anghofio

I was 7, it was my dad's birthday. I still remember the tears in his eyes and we were watching it on our new TV 100miles away. I had to pay a visit to the cemetery a few years ago and choked when I saw parents now buried with their children..

My nan actually lost one of her cousins in this. My nan lived the next village over. We know she visited aberfan the day after everything happened with her grandmother......she never spoke about it. Ever. Other than to say she missed her cousin every day. Even though it didn't physically hurt her, it still traumatised her. Her and her cousin were both 9-10 years old. This was beautiful.

Nice hair Frankie 😆

This is the best ive ever seen describing this dreadful ever. Thank you muchly for doing it Justice.

I agree with the comment below. In Portsmouth I was eleven years old and my brother Paul just three when this happened. Our mum Rose sent 10/- to the fund and I still have the letter and receipt from Merthyr. The tears still flow even now some 60 years later. Disasters like that never go away. The children and the families are forever in our thoughts and prayers.

Done with empathy, i am welsh and this happened a few miles from my home i remember it so well, i was in school that day and wecwere called into our assembley hall to be informed of the disaster and told to pray for the children , still haunts me today.

My papaw had a lot of child loss when he was a child

I am from Cardiff, l came to live in kibbutz in Israel in 1965. I shall never forget the day we heard about it on the radio. No TV then. Impossible to imagine the heartbreak

Tsunami really? 😂

Jim Hicks was heartbroken

Lamenting

This isn't a Tsunami it's called high tide low tide....Flood and Ebb of ocean waters!

what is arborfan

i was driven past this site when 5 with my parents . we now live in australia and have done sinse 1980 but no matter the time i spend in this wonderfull land australia the voice of the valleys for ever haunts me as if calling come home ..the older im getting the louder its gets ...what is with that ?

I remember my mother talking about it ,,I was a kid in Dublin....then I met my future wife, year's later obviously, and her mother was Welsh....a beautiful strong woman, who chastised me many a time ,,,😂 for my own good...She lost brother's in the mines in Wales, ,,,,as did my Father in law from Dublin,,,he lost brother's in the Yorkshire mines..Brilliant video brother....

So heartbreaking xxxxxx

I lived in a mining village about 10 miles from Aberfan, my father was a miner underground when the tip slid. As soon as the news reached our pit the men were brought up and loaded into busses and told to wait, This was about 10 in the morning, about 3/4 of an hour after the tip had gone, again they were told to wait as there were too many people at Aberfan and more were coming in all of the time. My father spent 12 hours in the bus waiting for a call that didn't come. Experienced miners sitting on a bus when 100s of well meaning but clueless people without a clue of working with coal struggling . I'm not having a go at any of those well meaning people but getting experienced miners to Aberfan as quickly as they could would have been better. R I P Aberfan

This was great

I’m watching this in December 2022 ~ 56 years from that horrendous time when Aberfan was fighting to stay alive. The documentary is an honorable tribute to those lost ~ 116 children and 28 adults ~ but also to those who survived and kept on living.

This is so touching.thank you for this film

What a beautiful Documentary .. nicely done 💙💓

*tears* ... just more tears

If the water the beach far away then you usually is IT IS TIME TO RUN

ua-cam.com/video/1dhHrSl766k/v-deo.html I filmed this exactly 50 years to the minute from the location of tip 7, the cause of the disaster