Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 20, 28, 24, 26, 27
Annotations on front cover:
AG's opening, p.17 MBC 'responsible as they were
for the safety of their burgesses' p.36 Doubtful if tip a 'structure' within s 86 M
of Q Act 1954. No Act etc governs tips.
P.36. p.37 HM Insp of Mines has no staff competent to judge stability
of tips
Attorney General's opening statement
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 53, 62, 63, 65, 66, 69, 79, 83, 85, 88, 89, 90, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98
Annotations on front cover:
AG's opening concluded // Chief Constable // Thomas
Davies - 13 years // Howard Rees - 14 years // Gareth Groves - 13 years // p.62
Develop plan approved by Minister // p.63 Tipping in fact never went into extended area (with minor
exception) cf.DAY 60 p.341 //. pp.68-69 AG refers to Article 4 w/o mentioning compensation.
Ref. discontinuance order he says compensation payable but does not
refer to purchase notice. p.83 MTBC did warn PD of NCB, but why didnt they inspect
? Why not press complaints higher in Board ? // Why not use planning powers ?
// Why not seek injunction ? // p.85 Questions. (7 in all) // N.6. WHAT EFFECTIVE
ACTION BY AUTHORITIES BODIES + PERSONS OTHER THAN NCB WAS TAKEN, COULD
HV BN TAKEN, + OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN W REG. TOT/TIPS AT ABERFAN
+ IN PARTIC TO TIP 7 ? // NO. 7. WHAT STATY POWERS + DUTIES EXIST
RE SAFE TIPPING = ARE THEY ADED ? // PW's STATEMENT pp87-91 // p.90.
No employee foresaw. MT did noit foresee - if foresaw had powers to stop
tipping
Annotations on back cover: DA's Questions // No.11 (The main - perhaps not the only - one affecting MTBC) Page 93 // DID T CORPN. EXSE ITS POWERS AND COMPLY WITH ITS DUTIES WITH SUFFICIENT VIGOUR ? // B Gibbens 'A local fault' - ignoring well know rules. // G Howe No statutory or other obligations re tips - p97 // Officials had no training re tips - p98
Statements by: Alun Talfan Davies; Philip Wein; Desmond Ackner; E. Brian Gibbens; Geoffrey Howe;
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 132, 146, 152,
Statement concerning stability of tip 7
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 272, 274, 275,
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 335
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 475, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481,
NB day 10 index in day 11 volume
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 815
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 888, 906, 913, 914, 915, 916,
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 926, 927,
Annotations on front cover:
17.918 The slide of No 7 = No 4
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1010
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1047, 1048, 1050,
Annotations on front cover:
R. V. THOMAS Coal Coll Mech // J. S. WATERS Under
Manager // TREVOR EVANS Dep Mech Eng // A. WAY: Coll. Surveyor
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1086, 1088, 1115, 1116, 1118,
Annotations on front cover:
A. WAY Surveyor on col 1086-1099 // R. N. Lewis
1101-1114 Group Man No4 xd TW 1114-1139 Ack 1139-1144
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1161, 1162, 1163, 1164, 1206, 1207,
Annotations on front cover:
R. N. Lewis 1145-1183 // A.D. Laidlaw. 1183-1200
// D. D. Davies 1200-1209
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1271, 1272, 1273, 1274, 1275, 1276, 1283,
Annotations on front cover:
T. J. Wynne xd by T.W 1271 Ack 1289
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Day 33
Pages: 1768 - 1775
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Day 34
Pages: 1825 - 1853
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Annotations & underlinings on pages: 1924, 1925
Annotations on front cover:
D. L. Roberts 1925 Rex. Wien // Gwynlais JAMES
1930-1938 // R. E. Exley 1938-1951 //xd. T.W. 1951-1983 // xd. Ack 1983-1988
Annotations on front cover:
R. E. Exley Cont 1989-2005 // xd Ack cont 1989-1998
// xd Howe 1998-2003 // H.E. Young 2005-2021 // D.P. Davies 2021 - // xd ATD 2046
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2074, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083,
Annotations on front cover:
D. P. Davies xd How 2053 // W.D. LLEWELYN Area
Est. M. 2060-2077 // xd ATD 2072 // N.W. MACINNES Planning Eng 2077-2115 // Ex. Wien
2077-2092 // xd T.W 2092-2112
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2121, 2130,
Annotations on front cover:
N. W. MACINNES Cont 2116-2137 // xd. ATD 2116-2134
// J.J.D. BOWEN. 2137-2147
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2282, 2293, 2294, 2295, 2296, 2297, 2302, 2306, 2309, 2318, 2319, 2320, 2321, 2337
Annotations on front cover:
PM Grant (ctd) // T. Wright AGM // 2320 Doubtful
list // Grant // pp2292-99 xx ATD re Ty mawr - relu bet Ppdd UDC + NCB // NB p2296 Only
after dangerous incident at Ty mawr did NCB take any real steps // NB p2297 Chairman 'Highly
qualified men regularly inspect tips' untrue? (Press report) // p2203. ATD dates the
press report as being between 29 March & 10 April 65. // Wright // p2306 B1/202
NCB awaiting further correspce fr MTBC (stiles' memo - doesnt look right) // p.2309.
If I had known of Cilfynydd I wd hv handled it myself // Of 13 public bodies 12
write to AGM & only one to subordinates // p2317. McGinty & Tudor at lurely at Black
Lion Aberdare 18 Nov 1963 - no mention of tip stability. Visit of Lord Robens 28 Nov
1963 to Merthyr BC offices. Never saw 26 Nov. Consult cttee minute SEE OVER
Annotations on back cover:
p2319 McInnes had no authy. to promise terracing
// p2320 Category of M.V. // 2322 NCB proposals - L22 // 2337 Various types of meeting
- some daily
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2509
Annotations on front cover:
CLIFFORD JONES Divisonal Mech ENG 2446-2501 //
EX 2446-24522 // X.TW. 2452-2477 // X Ack. 2477 - 2492 // MHR Hill: Area Secretary
2501 // Gareth Jones. Dw Civil Engineer 2503
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2563
Annotations on front cover:
G.A. Jones (cont.) // Ex. B.R. 2517-2528 // X.
Ackner. 2528-2549 // X Howe 2549 // B.T. EVANS 2564-2581 // EX 2564-2575 // X B.R. 2575 -
2577-2578 // X ATD 2578-2581
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2602, 2610, 2611, 2612, 2613,
Annotations on front cover:
D J Div Eng // Ex 2610 // X.T.W 2636
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Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2698, 2703, 2704, 2722
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Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2865, 2866, 2868, 2869, 2870, 2871, 2872, 2873, 2874, 2875, 2876, 2877, 2878, 2882, 2884, 2889, 2891, 2892, 2893, 2894, 2895, 2896, 2898, 2899, 2900, 2901, 2903, 2904, 2905, 2906, 2907, 2908, 2909, 2910, 2911, 2912, 2913, 2914, 2915, 2919, 2918, 2917, 2920, 2921, 2922, 2925, 2926, 2927, 2929, 2930
Annotations on front cover:
C. Leigh 2864 - 2887 // Selwyn Jones 2888 - 2900
// PAGES to be Cited 2868 2874
NB pages 2923-2924 missing
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 2938, 2939, 2940, 2941, 2942, 2944, 2945, 2946, 2949, 2950, 2951, 2959, 2960, 2961, 2962, 2963, 2965, 2966, 2967, 2968, 2969, 2972, 2973, 2975, 2976, 2983, 2985, 2987
Annotations on front cover:
TOWN CLERK ctd // fr xx TW 2932 Ext. tpg area //
'Site' p2938. cttee were advissed there was no answer to NCB's contention. // pp.2930-40
TW's argument ignores the words, in s12, of n GDO XIX (3) about whether or no superficial
area extended.) // p2940. (SJ puts the above point very clearly) // p2942. 'Designates'
- quite wrong, see TC PA S12 (3) // 2949 TW's contention that plg permn. was required,
even in reln to the 42 acres (!!) // 2950 TW relates Art 4. to prs to stop tipping
// 2951 Min of health (L37) circular re burning tips advises LA's to go to colliery mgr or
AGM. (So much for going higher ?) // 2959 AM: 'wd v regard it as the primary duty of
LA to take steps so as to protect the lives & safeguard the health of the residents
of the community ?) - We are not driven to rhetoric to ascertain the duties of Las - they
are set out by statute // SJ: Art 4. wd not hv affected existing tips. // 2960; s28. EPL -
AM drops like hot brick 'outside indept advice' - boreholes? on active tip? Over NCB's
dead body. //2960 & 2962. Ascertaining the expertise of those who gave assurances'
How do you do it ? Set them an exam ? // 2962 'Everything looking back wd strike you
as good sense' // 2966.Possible colliery closure has ? my mind but nobody has ment.
it to me. // Rx ATD 2968-2977 // 2972 - Cwm // Chairman Ie MT not alone? In perspective
Annotations on back cover:
[why not petition the Queen ? Why not organize
a strike?] [[crossed out]] // JF Bradley // 2979 Floods continue // 2983 No refce to fatality
in correspce // 2985 Speed of slips in my prev. expce wd hv alld people to get away
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Annotations & underlinings on pages: 3288, 3289, 3290, 3291, 3293, 3294, 3308, 3344
Annotations on front cover:
SO Davies MP x ATD 3287 // MV Closure xx TW 3291
// 3291 I was never asked by ? to intervene re tip' // xxPW 3298 // xx DA 3307
// xx PLWO 3309 // 3293-4 'Youll close the pit' // JW Seddon xx TME 3311 // xx TW 3319 // xx NF 3324 //xx DA 3325 // xx ATD 3326
// xx PLWO 3327 // S O Davies MP recalled xx BG 3331 // xx ATD
3340 // 3344 Chairman: ??? things staring one ? the // JHR Morse CC Aqueduct Foreman
since 1960 x TME 3345 // xx BR 3347 // xx PW 3349 // FJ Rees retired aqueduct
foreman in 1960 x TME 3351 // xx PW 3353
Annotations on front cover:
Proctor Photogrammetry // Farmer o/survey // Bevan
O/survey // Lyndon James NUM in chief 3541
Statement by Tasker Williams concerning expert evidence
Annotations on front cover:
Lyndon James NUM (resumed) 3544 // xx TW 3554 //
xx PW 3563 // xx DA 3566 // xx CP front cover: 3568 // K Wardell residents Mining Engineer x DA
3571
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 3595,
Annotations on front cover:
K Wardell Ltd. (Largely concerned with the proposed
responsibility for ensuring the safety of tips. matters relating to local authorities
are aminly on p3595 & pp3609-3610.) // WE Raybold // Samples taken from tip were not tailings but a breakdown product of washery shale // RJ Piggott
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Annotations on front cover:
GMJ Williams cont // Prof. Moore // Prof. Nash
Annotations on Prof. Nash // Dr woodland // Dr Evans
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 3832
Annotations on front cover:
Prof. Bishop x TW 3797 // x PW 3817 // x DA 3827
// x ATD 3831 // x BG 3832 // x HW 3833 // x TW 3837 // Speech, DA 3839
Closing statement by Ackner
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 3859, 3871, 3887,
Annotations on front cover:
DA on MTBC 3899-3903
Closing statement by Ackner continued
Annotations on front cover:
DA ctd // Lord Robens interposed x PW 3914 // xx
TW 3916 // xx DA 3919 // xx BG 3929 // xx PW 3932 // DA concludes 3932 // TME 3943 //
PO 3947 // BG starts 3961
Closing statement by Ackner continued. Closing statements by Michael Evans, Philip Owen, Brian Gibbens
Annotations on front cover:
BG concludes // ATD 4001
Closing statement by Brian Gibbens continued. Closing statement by Alun Talfan Davies
Annotations & underlinings on pages: 4023
Annotations on front cover:
ATD continues
Closing statement by Alun Talfan Davies continued
Annotations on front cover:
ATD concluded 4041 // GH begins 4071
Closing statement by Alun Talfan Davies concluded. Closing statement by Geoffrey Howe begins
Closing statements by Geoffrey Howe & Philip Wien
Closing statement by Philip Wein continued. Application for costs by Hugh Williams, Closing statement
Closing statement by Tasker Watkins continued. Concluding remarks by the Chairman