Malt 379 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 RIP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Onlyworkmatters 1,584 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Read that the labour govt made the Aberfan disaster fund give money to pay for the tip that slipped onto the school to be removed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnny boy68 11,726 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Read that the labour govt made the Aberfan disaster fund give money to pay for the tip that slipped onto the school to be removedThe Labour Goverment in 96 paid back what was taken from the Aberfan fund to pay for removal of the tips. Some Lord someone or other to do with NCB used the fund to pay for the removal rather than NCB money. Talk about f****n heartless!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,352 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 A sad day in Welsh history. http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/october-21-1966-coal-tip-buries-children-in-aberfan-11364011683753 TC Fair play to you for putting this up matey.......here is a little story I was listening to radio 4 the other year and they had this series on about old traditional songs and the memories some people had associated with them. A welsh lad came on and started to tell a story and there was this really mournful song playing in the background being sung in welsh. He said that him and a pal were driving along the road and his pal said "that mountain has just moved!"........and sure enough as he looked the whole hill was slipping down. He pulled off the road and drove down to see if he could help and when they saw it was a school they set too digging with their bare hands (I'm struggling a bit as I write this)......anyway, he unearthed a child, a young girl and he said he knew she was dead but he cradled her in his arms and stroked her hair and sung this beautiful but sorrowful song to her little lifeless body. It went something along the lines of "don't be scared little one, rest now....." I forget the exact words but it was so beautiful. The man wept bitterly as he retold this story from so many years ago, I was driving at the time and I don't mind admitting that I had to pull over and I wept with that stranger on the radio. It was one of the most profoundly sad things I have ever heard. God bless all those little ones. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,352 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 (edited) I found it......I recalled the words totally wrong but such is memory.......anyway I couldn't listen again but some of you may be able to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418kfw The hauntingly beautiful Welsh song Myfanwy 'is in the air in Wales' according to singer Cerys Matthews. She along with others discuss what the melodic tale of unrequited love means to them. They include a Welsh woman living in Sicily for whom the song represents 'hiraeth', a longing or homesickness for Wales and another who believes it expresses the 'wounded soul of the Welsh'. A man remembers how his late brother and he used to sing it in pubs in North Wales and how the song symbolises the unrequited love he felt for him. Members of the Ynysowen choir, started after the mining disaster in Aberfan as a way of dealing with the emotion, talk about the song's power, and an ex soldier recalls digging for survivors with lines from it playing in his head "Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy". Producer: Maggie Ayre. Edited October 22, 2015 by WILF 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnny boy68 11,726 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Great post WILF and such a poignant song. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David.evans 5,323 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Johny boy just watched that vid , and listened to the music and its busted my balls , very very sad enough said! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 A sad day in Welsh history. http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/october-21-1966-coal-tip-buries-children-in-aberfan-11364011683753 TC Fair play to you for putting this up matey.......here is a little story I was listening to radio 4 the other year and they had this series on about old traditional songs and the memories some people had associated with them. A welsh lad came on and started to tell a story and there was this really mournful song playing in the background being sung in welsh. He said that him and a pal were driving along the road and his pal said "that mountain has just moved!"........and sure enough as he looked the whole hill was slipping down. He pulled off the road and drove down to see if he could help and when they saw it was a school they set too digging with their bare hands (I'm struggling a bit as I write this)......anyway, he unearthed a child, a young girl and he said he knew she was dead but he cradled her in his arms and stroked her hair and sung this beautiful but sorrowful song to her little lifeless body. It went something along the lines of "don't be scared little one, rest now....." I forget the exact words but it was so beautiful. The man wept bitterly as he retold this story from so many years ago, I was driving at the time and I don't mind admitting that I had to pull over and I wept with that stranger on the radio. It was one of the most profoundly sad things I have ever heard. God bless all those little ones. Jesus Christ think I've got something in my eye Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 I found it......I recalled the words totally wrong but such is memory.......anyway I couldn't listen again but some of you may be able to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418kfw The hauntingly beautiful Welsh song Myfanwy 'is in the air in Wales' according to singer Cerys Matthews. She along with others discuss what the melodic tale of unrequited love means to them. They include a Welsh woman living in Sicily for whom the song represents 'hiraeth', a longing or homesickness for Wales and another who believes it expresses the 'wounded soul of the Welsh'. A man remembers how his late brother and he used to sing it in pubs in North Wales and how the song symbolises the unrequited love he felt for him. Members of the Ynysowen choir, started after the mining disaster in Aberfan as a way of dealing with the emotion, talk about the song's power, and an ex soldier recalls digging for survivors with lines from it playing in his head "Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy". Producer: Maggie Ayre. That has to be one of the most moving, heart-wrenching things I've ever heard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiercel 6,986 Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Great post WILF and such a poignant song. Sitting here, with tears running down my face. I could not listen to the link Wilf put up, it really would have cracked me up. TC Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bob84 189 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Listening to that man really pulls at the heart strings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
s.e.s.k.u 1,893 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Jesus..this is the first I've heard of this tragedy..rip little ones..so sad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 RIP little angels ....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnny boy68 11,726 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 I found it......I recalled the words totally wrong but such is memory.......anyway I couldn't listen again but some of you may be able to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418kfw The hauntingly beautiful Welsh song Myfanwy 'is in the air in Wales' according to singer Cerys Matthews. She along with others discuss what the melodic tale of unrequited love means to them. They include a Welsh woman living in Sicily for whom the song represents 'hiraeth', a longing or homesickness for Wales and another who believes it expresses the 'wounded soul of the Welsh'. A man remembers how his late brother and he used to sing it in pubs in North Wales and how the song symbolises the unrequited love he felt for him. Members of the Ynysowen choir, started after the mining disaster in Aberfan as a way of dealing with the emotion, talk about the song's power, and an ex soldier recalls digging for survivors with lines from it playing in his head "Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy". Producer: Maggie Ayre. Just tried to steel myself to listen to that and was doing fine until 20.00 onwards and then I just became a wreck. :cray: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,352 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Your not alone mate, no shame in that 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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