'We wear Aberfan on our shirts with pride'

PLAYERS from an ex-mining village's growing football club have come together to remember the victims of one of Wales’ biggest mining disasters.

- ELLIE GOSLEY

Members of Aberfan Football Club at the Aberfan Memorial Garden in honour of the victims of the mining disaster Team captain Hannah Thompson lays flowers The Aberfan disaster, when a colliery spoil tip engulfed Pantglas Junior School on October 21, 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults

(RICHARD SHRIGLER)

Aberfan FC’s new women’s team joined with players from the men’s and junior teams to lay a wreath at the Aberfan Memorial Garden before their games on the weekend.

Tuesday, October 21, marked 59 years since the Aberfan mining disaster, when a coal tip collapsed and buried Pantglas Junior School and surrounding homes, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

Hannah Thompson, who is from the nearby village of Troedyrhiw, is one of the captains of Aberfan FC's new senior women’s side which decided that it wanted to honour the history of the village where they play.