Married, 2 Daughters.Worked 10yrs underground,7yrs a steelworker,now a Paramedic. Father,Grandfather, Husband,Legend! Tweets in a personal capacity.
Resolven, Republic of Wales
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*MI5 agent Roger Windsor
#OnThisDay 1984. Media reports show NUM official Roger Windsor meeting with Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.
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Security forces spook, named in Parliament, exposed on Seamus Milne book ‘The Enemy Within’
First spin out on the motorcycle on my own today. Never ridden on my own on gears. Passed test a month ago. Enthralled & terrified in equal measure #RoyalEnfield #SuperMeteor #MidLifeCrisis
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Nansi Williams was a dinner lady at Pantglas Junior School when the slurry hit. She threw herself over the children nearest to her. Five survived. She didn’t. On 30 October a Purple Plaque will bear her name. Today we remember #Aberfan, and Nansi. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw1m…
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Howell Williams was a PE teacher at Pantglas Primary School in Aberfan on October 21, 1966
He was just 25 and newly qualified
He helped to free as many children as he could
Mr Williams died at the age of 82 in 2023. But, his heroic actions that day will be remembered forever.
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Our interview with Viv Jones broadcast on #c4news this evening ⬇️
teapawt.net/adavies4/status/211263…
"I can still see him in my arms"
Viv Jones was fifteen when 144 people were killed in the Aberfan disaster, including his nine-year-old brother Paul
It's taken him 60 years to share publicly what happened to them both on that catastrophic morning of October 21st, 1966
Our #c4news report
[with team @c4marcus & @daibaker 🎥]
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In 60 years, Viv has never spoken publicly about what happened to his brother, until this anniversary.
His own story of what he himself as a fifteen-year-old experienced, among the first to reach the school that morning, is heart-breaking.
And I’ve written about it here:
channel4news.substack.com/p/…
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Viv Jones, now 75, was fifteen when his brother Paul died.
In a deeply moving interview for #c4news he tells me, @c4marcus & @daibaker how he treasures memories of the boy who always had a smile on his face:
“He was a great kid, always happy and really enjoyed life. I remember him so well. I would have loved to have seen him grow up”
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The wallet also contains a card with the nine-year-old's name and address above the words “In event of accident please notify”
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Paul had also kept a copy of his times tables test (43/48 correct!) which his brother Viv says he’d proudly kept to show his mother. And tucked inside the wallet also was thruppence for his lunch... “which obviously he never got to spend”.
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The faux leather wallet contains a pristine collection of cards from the then hit TV spy series ‘Danger Man’ - starring Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake
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The children had been due to break up for half-term that afternoon.
Paul clearly couldn’t wait.
He’d written himself a note, first drafted in pencil…and then in blue ink:
‘All Aberfan schools will be closed for next week half term’.
He signed it ‘Paul’ with a large, enthusiastic tick…
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This was his “Scholar’s Weekly [bus] Ticket” costing fivepence.
The right hand side shows holes punched for all the week’s journeys inbound to school.
On the bottom left: nothing for the return journey home on Friday.
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His family has shared with us its contents, making it public for the first time.
It provides a desperately poignant snapshot into the preoccupations, hobbies and hopes of the many children who went to Pantglas Junior School that Friday morning but never returned
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On Friday 21st October 1966 one of the 116 children killed in the Aberfan disaster was a nine-year-old boy called Paul Jones.
When his body was recovered, they found a small wallet in his back pocket…
[all images©️ 📷 Viv Jones & @Channel4News]
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Every year I share this,
For those of you that haven't seen it before it was drawn by my Dad,
Who was there,
Not digging for coal,
But digging for children,
This is his abiding memory of that day,
He will never forget,
And neither should we.
#Aberfan60
#CofiwchAberfan
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"We meet together in the middle of a momentous and titanic struggle to defend basic trade union and democratic rights and civil liberties for that is what the miners strike is all about."
#OnThisDay 1984. Tony Benn speaks at the Militant tendency rally.
