NOVA_GTEUK
19-10-04, 01:02 AM
"At 9.15am on October 21st 1966 144 people died when a coal tip collapsed onto a primary school in Aberfan, South Wales. 116 of the victims were children. The pictures from the time were truly horrifying. After the disaster the people of Coventry paid for a memorial playground to be built as a lasting memorial to the dead.
Now, the disgraceful Merthyr Housing Association plan to destroy the playground to build a new housing development.
An online petition to stop this development has been launched at
http://www.petitiononline.com/aberfan/petition.html
It's worth not only signing the petition but also reading the comments of the more than 3,500 people who have already done so.
It's good to know that not everybody has the expedient gold fish memories which the Housing Association seem to be endowed with.
Need I say more. Anyone who saw the pictures at the time will never forget it, and it's an absolute disgrace that they're planning to destroy this memorial now.
Please sign the petition and spread the word around.
Background Info on the Aberfan Disaster
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/politics/aberfan/home2.htm
Please sign it !
Now, the disgraceful Merthyr Housing Association plan to destroy the playground to build a new housing development.
An online petition to stop this development has been launched at
http://www.petitiononline.com/aberfan/petition.html
It's worth not only signing the petition but also reading the comments of the more than 3,500 people who have already done so.
It's good to know that not everybody has the expedient gold fish memories which the Housing Association seem to be endowed with.
Need I say more. Anyone who saw the pictures at the time will never forget it, and it's an absolute disgrace that they're planning to destroy this memorial now.
Please sign the petition and spread the word around.
Background Info on the Aberfan Disaster
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/politics/aberfan/home2.htm
Please sign it !