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NGW311336 October 21, 1966 at 09.15, colliery waste tip number 7 containing unwanted rock from local mine, slid down Merthyr Mountain onto a Junior School killing 144 people incl. 116 children;

NGW311342 October 21, 1966 at 09.15, colliery waste tip number 7 containing unwanted rock from local mine, slid down Merthyr Mountain;

NGW311340 October 21, 1966 at 09.15, colliery waste tip number 7 containing unwanted rock from local mine, slid down Merthyr Mountain;

NGW311337 October 21, 1966 at 09.15, colliery waste tip number 7 containing unwanted rock from local mine, slid down Merthyr Mountain;

NGW311338 October 21, 1966 at 09.15, colliery waste tip number 7 containing unwanted rock from local mine, slid down Merthyr Mountain;

NGW311339 October 21, 1966 at 09.15, colliery waste tip number 7 containing unwanted rock from local mine, slid down Merthyr Mountain;

NGW311341 Colliery waste tip number 7 (containing unwanted rock from local mine) slid down Merthyr Moundtain;

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MPX5154857 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

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MPX5154854 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5137896 Workers clear debris from the coal landslide on Aberfan October 1966

MPX5154864 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154853 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154863 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154852 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154866 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154856 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154861 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154870 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154848 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154850 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154851 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154841 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5154855 The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

MPX5137864 Workers clear debris from the coal landslide on Aberfan in Wales October 1966

MPX5134703 Tasker Watkins VC, Counsel for the Aberfan Tribunal, pictured arriving at court 2nd December 1966. Watkins was commissioned into the Welsh Regiment in 1941. A lieutenant in the 1/5th battalion, he was one officer in a group in Normandy post D-Day leading an assault on a Wehrmacht machine gun post. After all the other officers were killed in the approach, Watkins continued to lead the group and won his VC for two actions on 16 August 1944. I) he led a bayonet charge against 50 armed enemy infantry ii) then single-handedly took out the Nazi machine-gun post to ensure the safety of his unit

MPX5120741 Surrounded by the surviving children, the royal party on Saturday walk through the streets of sorrow that is Aberfan, October 1966

MPX5137868 Police and rescue workers outside the school at the Aberfan, where a coal tip landslide killed schoolchildren October 1966

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MPX5138025 An aerial view of Aberfan in Wales showing the devastation caused after the coal mountain collapsed onto the village October 1966

MPX5120753 On top of the engulfed school in Aberfan, Wales, a host of volunteers, mostly miners, keep digging and listening for a cry, October 1966

MPX5138113 Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of Aberfan after the coal mountain collapsed onto the small Welsh village October 1966

MPX5137914 Rows of tiny coffins in Aberfan where, 81 children and one adult were buried after a coal tip disaster October 1966

MPX5120744 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II listens to a father recalling the day that brought desolation to Aberfan following the tragic landslide, October 1966

MPX5158829 Crowds block the road leading to Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan as rescue workers force their way in to the crushed school building. The school and parts of the village were entomb in mud following a land slide from the local mine spoil heap killing 116 children and 28 adults. 21st October 1966

MPX5158838 A policeman carries a little girl from the wreckage of the Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan as a woman anxiously looks to see if she can recognise her (right). The school and parts of the village were entombed in mud following a land slide from the local mine spoil heap killing 116 children and 28 adults. 21st October 1966