David Hurn Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag. Over one hundred children in the apparent s (...)
afety of their school were buried under the waste of a sliding coal tip. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of wate (...)
r in the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated (...)
rock and shale which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated (...)
rock and shale which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated (...)
rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated (...)
rock and shale which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the GB. Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of (...)
water in the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of wate (...)
r in the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
Ian Berry In the early light of the morning after the disaster, older boys, shocked by what has happened, gather to look at the area demolished by the avalanche of mining debris and to try and help. Althoug (...)
h the senior school next door to the Pantglas Junior School was also hit by the tidal wave of coal mining detritus, none of the older boys were harmed. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © Ian Berry | Magnum Photos
Ian Berry The memorial stone in English and Welsh at the entrance to the memorial garden on what was the site of the Pantglas Junior School where 116 children between seven and 10 and five teachers died in t (...)
he Aberfan Disaster. The cemetery is located on the hill above. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 2016. © Ian Berry | Magnum Photos
Ian Berry In the early light of the morning after the disaster, older boys, shocked by what has happened, gather to look at the area demolished by the avalanche of mining debris. Although the senior school n (...)
ext door to the Pantglas Junior School was also hit by the tidal wave of coal mining detritus, none of the older boys were harmed. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © Ian Berry | Magnum Photos
Ian Berry Under the temporary arc lights, miners, police and helpers dig through the coal mine slurry that enveloped the village earlier in the day, passing it back through a chain of helpers with buckets. (...)
In the background steam comes off the avalanche debris. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © Ian Berry | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil in the Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in (...)
the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil in the Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in (...)
the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales, GB. 1966. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos