“As far as I’m concerned it’s always with you,” he said. With remarkable discipline and heroic absence of panic exhibited by staff and pupils alike, the school was evacuated and the pupils gathered in the front of the building for a roll call.
Both the boulder clay and the Head had similar characteristics. He was accompanied by brother Vincent – a fellow DJ who lived in Cardiff – and local politicians.

Outside those houses three of Howard’s school friends were killed while sitting on a wall. 316, H.C. 553 by Sir Herbert Edmund Davies, one of Her Majesty’s Lord Justices of Appeal, as chairman and Harold Harding and Vernon Lawrence, Esq., C.B.E. She was rescued from the wreckage of the school with two broken legs and spent months in hospital before Savile’s visit.

Mr. David Jones set off down the mountain with a message and the telephone that had been at the top of the tip had been removed because the wire to it had repeatedly been stolen. The Tribunal made the following recommendations: 1). The next minute she was pushed “up against the wall” by tonnes of rubble as the school was crushed.

7). Prince Charles also delivered a personal message from the Queen, who first visited the area eight days after the disaster.

Survivors and former pupils at the school met former classmates and teachers, while other poignant reunions were held between people who’d not seen each other in decades. The sister villages of Aberfan and Merthyr Vale are in the valley of the Taff about four miles to the south of Merthyr Tydfyl. Leslie Davies did just that and told Mr. Thomas of the ten foot hole. April, p. 402, 21st. It has sent letters before action to the BBC, Leeds General Infirmary, Stoke Mandeville and Broadmoor hospitals and the executors of Savile’s estate.

Lawyers Slater and Gordon is acting for 36 people who were aged from eight to 23 when they were abused. All tips should be regarded as potentially dangerous and should be treated as civil engineering structures. “When you look at the picture now, knowing what he has done, it makes your stomach turn,” Gaynor said.

They lost brothers, sisters, friends and teachers in the rubble of the Aberfan disaster. He was struck by flying material and would have been buried if it had not been for a piece of corrugated sheeting which acted as a shield until he was rescued by some Council workmen. This rose to a height of 85 feet and was composed of mine rubbish and discarded coal from the preparation plant and boiler ash. In fact the arm belongs to someone else in the picture. Please feel free to help yourself to anything you find within my site as it is all here to be used although i would greatly appreciate a link back to my blog. He was in the assembly hall when, in his own words-.

Denise Morgan, 61, was in school in Quakers Yard at the time of the disaster. 21st. 2).


Mr. David Jones made his report to Mr. Leslie Davies and him in his turn to make a report to Vivian Thomas. Thank you also for the kind gift of £100 given by you and your brother at the evening show.

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