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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    I didn't look at it at all that way Steve,

    I was 14 when it happened, and remember that awful day well.

    116 little kids... plus their teachers, were crushed and smothered to death in their school building, that's all.

    I feel compassion for their families and friends.
    I was abt 22 then it seems most of the covering up was done by the "National Coal Board"
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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    I didn't look at it at all that way Steve,

    ... remember that awful day well.

    116 little kids... plus their teachers, were crushed and smothered to death in their school building, that's all.

    I feel compassion for their families and friends.
    One survivor taking part in a memorial service, Janet Bickley - now 58 - recalls the fateful day in 1966 ... when she and her classmates were trapped under the coal debris that engulfed the building :

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37728985 (video)


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    Quote Originally Posted by mickcant View Post
    It seems most of the covering up was done by the "National Coal Board" ...
    Mick.
    ... looks that way.

    Quote Originally Posted by mickcant View Post
    I was about 22 then ...
    So was I ... !


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