On Friday October 21, 1966 a waste tip slid down the mountainside at Aberfan, South Wales destroying the local school and killing 116 school children and their five teachers. On the way down it killed another 23 people who could not get out of the way in time. Aberfan was an isolated mining village and in the view of many local people the community has never recovered from the disaster. On the evening of the disaster Penny and I were called by two German magazines and asked separately to cover it. We left London at once and took five hours to get there. This is of course, in the days before motorways. On arrival Penny's two photographers who had come from Germany and I went and started to take photographs. That night there was not much to be done. Everyone within a fifty-mile radius had come to the site armed with tools to help with the digging, but still there was silence all around. My set of pictures numbered 63 negs of which a few are shown here. If you want to see the whole set contact me. The National Library of Wales has recently purchased a collection of the images from me.