Aberfan Disaster Archive - Dowlais Collection Class H

Aberfan Disaster Archive
Dowlais Collection

Class H

Original folders containing letters to/from MTBC & ADF re varying aspects of the Disaster Fund, 1966-69.

H/001 Title of folder: Letters requesting permission to start a collection

24/10 - 13/12/66

TS/MS
8 letters

H/002 Title of folder: Donnors [sic] annoyed at the handling of the Fund & others stating they sent their donations for other purposes

4/11/66 - 22/2/67

TS/MS
12 letters

H/003 Title of folder: Letters requesting the return of their donations or the transfer of donations to other sources

11/11/66 - 18/4/67

TS/MS
17 letters

H/004 Title of folder: Letters stating that a fund has been opened and the money will be forwarded

21/10/66 - 9/12/66

TS/MS
15 letters

H/005 Title of folder: Donors requesting that they can hand in their donations personally

25/10/66 - 6/11/66

TS/MS
3 letters

H/006 Title of folder: Foreign letters for translation

23/10/66 - 24/1/67

TS/MS
6 letters

H/007 Title of folder: Request for information

25/10/66 - 2/5/67

TS/MS
24 letters

H/008 Title of folder: Letters stating money sent for bereaved

4/10/66? - 7/3/67

TS/MS
46 letters

H/009 Title of folder: Letters asking Mayor to attend functions & make or send speeches

24/10/66 - 25/3/69

TS/MS
48 letters

H/010 Title of folder: Letters enquiring if fund is still open

5/11/66 - 16/3/67

TS/MS
24 letters

H/011 Title of folder: Enquiries re the addressing of donations

24/10/66 - 26/1/67

TS/MS
22 letters

H/012 Title of folder: Offers of holiday & residential accommodation

22/10/66 - 5/3/67

TS/MS
66 letters

H/013 Title of folder: Letters re surplus toys

27/10/66 - 16/3/67

TS/MS
25 letters

H/014 Title of folder: Offers of help (professional & other)

23/10/66 - 3/2/67

TS/MS
47 letters

H/015 Title of folder: Offers of furniture, clothes & puppies

24/10 -22/12/66

TS/MS
18 letters

H/016 Title of folder: Letters asking what sort of help is required

22/10 - 20/12/66

TS/MS
6 letters

H/017 Title of folder: Donations sent in memory of the disaster to other organisations

10/11/66 - 5/1/67

TS/MS
9 letters

H/018 Title of folder: Permanent Cross at Cemetery

27/10/66 - 14/2/67

TS/MS
16 letters

H/019 Title of folder: Letters stating annoyance at the limited Aberfan Representation on management committee

28/10 - 17/11/66

TS/MS
12 letters

H/020 Title of folder: Requests for info on what donations will be used for & suggestions as to how donations can be utilised

2/10/66? - 2/5/67

TS/MS
59 letters

H/021 Title of folder: Letters re removal and making safe of the tips
H/021/01

26/5/67

MS
Pages: 3

Asking NCB to ensure it never happens again by looking at all possible situations

Location of sender: Toronto

H/021/02

14 - 17/5/67

MS/TS
Pages: 5

Removal of Tips can only be achieved by Tory council and government

Location of sender: Merthyr Tydfil

H/021/03

5/5/67

MS
Pages: 3

Put rubbish in disused pits, fear fund will not all be used

Location of sender: London

H/021/04

12/4/67

MS
Pages: 6

re A level project on landslides

Location of sender: Cheshire

H/021/05

8/4/67

MS
Pages: 2

Bury the waste

Location of sender: Leeds

H/021/06

6/2/67

MS
Pages: 2

Use ADF to move the tips

Location of sender: Wakefield

H/021/07

15/2/67

MS/TS
Pages: 5

Remove the tips

Location of sender: Wrexham

H/021/08

3/2/67

MS
Pages: 1

Use the ADF to landscape the area

Location of sender: Middlesex

H/021/09

21/1/67

TS
Pages: 4

Money System responsible for the disaster and the failure to remove the tips

Location of sender: Surrey

H/021/10

9/1/67

TS
Pages: 26

Letters from company scrapbook giving evidence of NCB's "stupidity" in their operations

Location of sender: Newcastle

H/021/11

nd

TS
Pages: 2

Level all hills above Aberfan

Location of sender: Kornfield International Consulting Petroleum Technologists

H/021/12

22/12/66

TS
Pages: 2

Suggesting name of expert advisor on landslides

Location of sender: London

H/021/13

16/12/66

TS
Pages: 1

Tips can be stabilised, offers free demonstration to show how

Location of sender: D. C. Thompson, Doncaster

H/021/14

16/12/66

MS
Pages: 1

Use ADF to remove tips

Location of sender: Michigan, USA

H/021/15

14/12/66

MS
Pages: 3

Ask Queen for Army help in removing tips

Location of sender: Middlesborough

H/021/16

1/12/66

MS
Pages: 2

Use ADF to remove tips and build amenity areas instead

Location of sender: Westmorland

H/021/17

29/11/66

MS
Pages: 3

Use ADF to remove tips

Location of sender: Middlesex

H/021/18

21/11/66

TS Pages: 3

Company has machine that can turn waste into petrol

Location of sender: Ideas Marketing Pool, London

H/021/19

21/11/66

MS
Pages: 3

Remove the tips as memorial

Location of sender: Sussex

H/021/20

16/11/66

MS
Pages: 1

With NCB help, use money from ADF to set up company to remove the tips

Location of sender: Northumberland

H/021/21

4/11/66

MS
Pages: 2

Use slag to make bricks, includes press clipping on the same

Location of sender: Southampton

H/021/22

2/11/66

TS
Pages: 3

1st priority of ADF should be removing tips

Location of sender: Newport (Mons.)

H/021/23

1/1/66

TS
Pages: 1

Use ADF to remove tips

Location of sender: Leeds

H/021/24

29/10/66

MS
Pages: 1

Use ADF to remove tips

Location of sender: Bath

H/021/25

28/10/66

TS Pages: 1

Offering support in efforts to prevent future such tragedies

Sender: Socialist Medical Association

H/021/26

28/10/66

TS
Pages: 2

Letter to Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Wales & Lord Robens urging Inquiry and tip inspections

Sender: Presbyterian Church in Wales

H/021/27

26/10/66

MS
Pages: 2

Letter to Prime Minister asking money to be made available for surveying of tips

Location of sender: Kent

H/021/28

26/10/66

MS
Pages: 1

Put waste down mines or at sea

Location of sender: Gloucester

H/021/29

nd

TS
Pages: 1

Calling on engineers & geologists to unite to avoid environmental problems

Location of sender: International Earth Resources, Denver

H/021/30

25/10/66

TS
Pages: 1

To Prime Minister, Exchequer should pay for all tips to be inspected

Location of sender: Amalgamated Dental Engineering Industries Ltd.

H/021/31

24/10/66

MS
Pages: 3

To Cledwyn Hughes, put tips in sea & build on them as in Brazil

Location of sender: Basingstoke

H/021/32

nd

MS Pages: 2

Did miners start new seam before disaster ?

H/021/33

nd

MS Pages: 6

Thought ADF would be used to remove tips

Location of sender: Somerset

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