Fifty-Two years ago today, at 9:30 in the morning, a colliery waste tip slid down a mountainside and slammed into the very heart of the mining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The landslide engulfed a farm cottage,…
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By the year 1829, a depression had set in the Welsh iron industry which was to last for three long years. As a direct result, the Ironmasters of Merthyr Tydfil made hundred of workers redundant and also severely cut the…
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