Aberfan
A Story of Survival, Love and Community in One of Britain's Worst Disasters
On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass crashed through the local school and 144 were killed including 116 schoolchildren. Gaynor Madgwick was there – she was eight and severely injured – and here tells her own story.