Welsh Speaking Communities in Southwalls Valleys

The abafan disaster was when a slag heap that was above the village of abafan in south wales collapsed, submerging,. or partially submerging, the village and killing a hundred and forty four people. The response of the national coal board was really, in many ways, it was just a disaster. There's sort of echoes of grenfell tower here. And so thout in that flooding of of the valley to make the reservoir for liverpool. So this disaster at the heart of the kind of the labor hartlands in southwalls valleys, this industrialized belt is really significant.