# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZHokT8oAfE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66233167-wild-history-uk-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-03T09:51:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

Aberfan, South Wales.

A school sat beneath a mountain of coal waste.

Warnings had been raised.
The springs were on old maps.
The National Coal Board was blamed.

116 children died.
28 adults died.
Nobody was prosecuted.

Then £150,000 was taken from the Aberfan Disaster Fund to help remove the remaining tips — money donated in grief, used to clean up the failure left behind.

It was not returned until 1997.

When a public body is blamed for 116 children’s deaths and nobody is prosecuted — is that justice, or protection?

#Aberfan #WelshHistory #BritishHistory #DarkHistory #UKHistory

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aberfan, britishhistory, welshhistory, darkhistory, ukhistory

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