Скачать или смотреть DAYS OF HORROR: The Aberfan Village Disaster

59 Years ago, as the children congregated for morning assembly, they were excited.

At midday the half-term holiday would begin.

Their daily rendition of ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ – a hymn written a few miles away in the bucolic tranquillity of the Usk Valley – was postponed that day.

They would sing it before they went home when the head teacher planned to wish her pupils a safe and enjoyable holiday.

The children filed into classrooms.

And so the world turned in Aberfan much as it had done for the past 100 years, when the community burgeoned around the Merthyr Vale colliery which began in 1869.

Little did they know that disaster was about to strike.