Aberfan

This was my first real childhood memory.
It was the first day of half term & I was 5, I went to my friend’s house & saw the footage on her television. Both her parents were in tears.I will never forget it.

Our HT came in to tell us about it, as his friend was a HT in a neighbouring Welsh school. My friend remembers our school secretary bursting into the classroom in tears. Our school was quite close to the slag heaps in our pit village and I can remember looking up at the high windows in the classroom and wondering if the same thing might happen to us.

I was in the first week of a new job having just returned from honeymoon. I heard it on the lunchtime radio news, went on shift,and broke the news to my new colleagues. We were all very shocked and saddened. 😢