Aberfan: the desolate village

The front page of The Illustrated London News, reporting on the Aberfan disaster. An aerial view of the path of destruction left by the rain-soaked coal tip that slipped 500 yards down the mountainside into the mining village of Aberfan, Glamorgan, South Wales. The Pantglas infants and junior school, a farmhouse and a terrace of houses were engulfed in the slurry

Aberfan Desolate Glamorganshire Heap Infants Junior Landslide Slag Slurry

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