Could the Aberfan Mining Disaster Have Been Prevented?
Pit Village Britain
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Coal mining documentary: the Aberfan disaster, South Wales — 1966's deadliest tragedy in British mining history. Could 144 lives have been saved?
Pit Village Britain explores the true story of Aberfan, a small Welsh mining community where a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto a village school. From the warnings that went unheeded to the official Tribunal's findings, this is the story of what really happened — and why it changed how Britain viewed its coal industry forever.
We uncover the community's grief, the fight for accountability, and what remains today at the memorial garden that marks this moment in British mining history.
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The problem was the method of extraction of materials other than coal from the pit.
Solid shovels throwing soil slack slag stone waste and other waste into the tubs along with coal without sifting it led to instability below and above ground...
A different implemrnt was required something similar to the Irish 'greip'
fork used for digging potatoes adapted for coal removal...
The coal shovel was inefficient as a method of coal and slag removal...
I remember my mother being heartbroken about this tragedy...
Corporate manslsughter...
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As usual Queenie late to the 'party' photo opportunity...!
Could the Aberfan Mining Disaster Have Been Prevented?
Pit Village Britain
276 views
Coal mining documentary: the Aberfan disaster, South Wales — 1966's deadliest tragedy in British mining history. Could 144 lives have been saved?
Pit Village Britain explores the true story of Aberfan, a small Welsh mining community where a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto a village school. From the warnings that went unheeded to the official Tribunal's findings, this is the story of what really happened — and why it changed how Britain viewed its coal industry forever.
We uncover the community's grief, the fight for accountability, and what remains today at the memorial garden that marks this moment in British mining history.
Subscribe for untold British history from the coalfields.