Bronze Age Gold from Wales

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

HURN David (Photographer)

Full title: 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 safety of their school were buried under the waste of a sliding coal tip.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 57497

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1966

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017

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Techniques

Gelatin silver print

Material

Photographic paper

Location

In store

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