Lord Bracknell
On fire
Browsing through Wrexham's RedPassion website, I came across this message from White Eagle of Snowdon:-
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 truely 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 houses.
THEY ARE LIKE GRAVE ROBBERS IN THE NIGHT.
An online petition to stop this development has been launched.
These plans cannot be allowed to happen. For the sake of the memories of the children I urge you to sign the petition and inform everyone that you know to do the same. Please get the petition listed on any websites you may have access to and lobby all MPs and members of the Welsh assembly in Cardiff. Also send an email to Merthyr housing association and tell them of your disgust.
DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN.
He also posted this:-
I've been trying to get it on the brighton website but I am having no luck.
The petition can be found here
I guess most NSC users are too young to remember the events of October 1966. I'm not. The tragedy happened very shortly after I first moved to Brighton and I have friends I met in those early days down here who lived very near to Aberfan.
What is going on is disgraceful.
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 truely 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 houses.
THEY ARE LIKE GRAVE ROBBERS IN THE NIGHT.
An online petition to stop this development has been launched.
These plans cannot be allowed to happen. For the sake of the memories of the children I urge you to sign the petition and inform everyone that you know to do the same. Please get the petition listed on any websites you may have access to and lobby all MPs and members of the Welsh assembly in Cardiff. Also send an email to Merthyr housing association and tell them of your disgust.
DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN.
He also posted this:-
I've been trying to get it on the brighton website but I am having no luck.
The petition can be found here
I guess most NSC users are too young to remember the events of October 1966. I'm not. The tragedy happened very shortly after I first moved to Brighton and I have friends I met in those early days down here who lived very near to Aberfan.
What is going on is disgraceful.
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