In November that year part of the tip slid 1,600 feet (490 m) down the mountain to stop approximately 500 feet (150 m) above the village. small)" (amongst many other meanings): above the yard seam, the shaft acted as the downcast; the staple (connected to the furnace of a boiler on the surface) acted as the upcast, Further supplies (together with air tubing) were offered unprompted by the manufacturer, and forwarded by passenger train from Manchester, but it is unclear when they arrived, similar delegations had gone down previously ; for example on Monday night, A number of the victims (eighteen according to the. The dead pony was untouched; its corn bins had been emptied and some of the dead had corn in their pockets. Three miners from Hartley were amongst the death toll of an explosion at Burradon in 1860 because (explained the Durham Chronicle) "little work has been doing at Hartley colliery lately owing to an accumulation of water". April, 1898.

Five of the adults who died were teachers at the school. This required all new mines to have two shafts and all existing mines to ensure access to a second shaft before the end of 1864;[44] the maximum penalty was £10,[45] but the prohibition was enforcable by injunction. Although he was aware of the potential of tips to cause fatalities through slippage, he did not discuss the matter with the right people, and "did nothing towards the curing of the situation", according to the tribunal report. [86], Nine employees of the NCB were censured by the inquiry, with "many degrees of blameworthiness, from very slight to grave", although McLean and Johnes consider that some senior staff whom the evidence shows to have been culpable were omitted, and one junior member of staff named in the report should not have been blamed. A period of heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and other buildings. [43] From 1929 onwards a series of takeovers and modernisations occurred until eventually in 1947 the new National Coal Board took over. [52] In his autobiography, Robens stated that the decision for him not to go was because "the appearance of a layman at too early a stage inevitably distracts senior and essential people from the tasks upon which they should be exclusively concentrating". [71] A mass funeral for 81 children and one woman took place at Bryntaf Cemetery in Aberfan on 27 October. By Saturday the works were complete and the sinkers and shaftmen withdrawn.

[5], The vulnerability of such an arrangement had already been identified and publicised before the colliery was sunk. [75] Before the tribunal began, Elwyn Jones, the Attorney General, cautioned the media that commenting on matters to be investigated by the tribunal could lay them open to the same consequences as contempt of court. On bucket pumps heavy spears would add to the load on the pumping stroke; on plunger pumps heavy spears gave a quicker return stroke, and therefore there was always a tendency for bucket pumps to have less substantial spears. Northumberland during the 13th century; the earliest extant records date from 1291. [36] The adjacent secondary school was also damaged, and 18 houses on surrounding roads were destroyed. [175] In February 2007 the Welsh Government announced a donation of £1.5 million to the Aberfan Memorial Charity and £500,000 to the Aberfan Education Charity, which represented an inflation-adjusted amount of the money taken. [28] Fifty men were employed in digging the graves, and they did not complete their task until well after interments started (at about one thirty); dusk was falling as the last coffin was buried.