Odds & Ends (April 6-10, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections Sweet Talk. Saturday. She was talking with the shopkeeper while finalising her purchase, when I entered the shop. They were discussing their respective Easter-weekend plans. The man behind the coun…

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#diary #websitedevelopment #aberfandisaster #easter #resurrectionjesus

Summa: diary (April 1-2, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections April 1 (Wednesday). 7.00 am: Proof of presence: 7.15 am: The month’s and the day’s first ambulation. I’ve been told that the light during the first few hours of the morning is un…

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#diary #soundart #collage #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (March 28-31, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections I disapprove of myself. March 28 (Saturday). 7.15 am: An ambulation through the town and along the Promenade. ‘Hood up, zip up, and buck up, Harvey! “Sweet”, you are not’. A…

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#diary #walking #imagemaking #collage #digitisation #friendship #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (March 21-27, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections An itch is not a scratch. March 21 (Saturday). 8.15 am: Breakfast at The Hut. Laying down the memories. I’ll miss the local accent; its comfortable (snug) and has a winsome lilt. South Walian…

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #corscaron #juliebrominicks #rowanbartram #scaffolding #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (March 14-20, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections That was so long ago; it might just as well have been an incident in someone else’s life. March 14 (Saturday). Thomas Rowlandson, Vauxhall Gardens (c. 1784) watercolour, Victoria & Albert…

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#dairy #soundart #aberfandisaster #johnkeats #sonnet #inmemoriam #stereophony

Summa: diary (March 6-13, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections ‘But the end is not yet’ (Matthew 24.6). March 6 (Friday). Aberystwyth to Milton Keynes. 9.30 am: ‘The off’ (as they say in horse racing). A second consecutive weekend away …

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#dairy #miltonkeynes #bletchleypark #soundart #pictorialbibleseries #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (March 1-6, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections March 1 (Sunday). St David’s Day (Cardiff). 9.15 am: Proof of presence. I was in Cardiff for the weekend, as the guest of two friends from Aberystwyth, who’d moved to the city a decade …

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #cardiff #penarth #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (February 23-26, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections February 23 (Monday). At the weekend: rain so fine, it felt like cobwebs on my face; and after the rain, sunlight — like a tender love unannounced, rising slowly when you least expect it. On …

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #walking #Aberystwyth #aberfandisaster #ageing #menshealth

Summa: diary (February 14-20, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections February 14 (Saturday). ‘Be my Valentine!, birthday girl’. Love, in absentia. 7.00 am: 1°C. An ambulation, with hands in pockets and my coat-collar turned up. I could count the number o…

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #aberfandisaster #valentinesday #hymns #chinesenewyear #susanforsterartist

Summa: diary (February 9-13, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections The world, the flesh, and the devil. (We make monsters of ourselves.) Francesco Salviati, Left: Serpent and Adam; Right: Adam and Eve (c. 1550-60) pen and brown ink with grey-brown wash and white g…

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #aberfandisaster #portraiture #ireland

Summa: diary (February 1-6, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections Folly. February 1 (Sunday). Candlemas. 12.15 pm: Proof of presence. ‘I can hear bird song again!’. Over the weekend, I made trial of my ‘new ears’. With the upper-frequencie…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (February 1-7, 2026)
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#dairy #soundart #soundmixing #writing #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (January 27-30, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections Rachel Whiteread, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (2000) Vienna. January 27 (Tuesday). Holocaust Memorial Day. 6.00 am: Writing. 8.30 am: Studyology. I returned to the text for the 144 Variations alb…

John Harvey, Summa: dairy (January 27-30, 2026)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster #hearing

Summa: diary (January 17-22, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections January 17 (Saturday). 7.45 am: An ambulation across the Promenade and to the summit of Constitution Hill. From here, in September 1982, I first surveyed the town that would become my home for the …

John Harvey, Summa: diary (January 17-22, 2026)
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#dairy #Aberfandisaster #soundart #Aberystwyth #friendship #artteaching

Summa: diary (January 10-16, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections ‘This is the day’. January 10 (Saturday). 8.15 am: This is the day when the stone-steps leading up to my front door turned to glass. This is the day when, all at once, thousands of star…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (January 10-16, 2026)
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#diary #soundart #Aberfandisaster #snow #digitalphotography #popart #spaceexploration #ElizabethLloyd

Summa: diary (December 13-19, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections December 13 (Saturday). The ideal endures because it has never been tested against reality. 7.15 am: I was led by a bright-star into the town, passed illuminated Christmas trees and decorated domes…

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#diary #soundart #soundcomposition #Aberfandisaster #Aberystwyth #stars #Christmas

Summa: dairy (December 6-12, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections December 6 (Saturday). ‘An old blues’; a new muse. 7.15 am: An ambulation, from St David’s Road, down Llanbadarn Road, to Northgate Street to Great Darkgate Street, down Pier Stre…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 6-12, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #Aberfandisaster #walking #deathofchildren

Summa: diary (December 1-5, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections Might you have already had the happiest days of your life, without knowing it? December 1 (Monday). 6.30 am: Proof of presence/morningtide. 7.00 am: A communion. 8.15 am: Writing and self-reflectio…

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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (November 25-28, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections ‘In the end, John, it’s all stubble and straw ‘ (Marilynne Robinson, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA (April 16, 2011)). November 25 (Tuesday). 6.30 am: Blisteringly cold in th…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 15-28, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster #death #Salem

Summa: diary (November 15-19, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections ‘If your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!’ (Matthew 6.23) 6.30 am: Morntingtide. Lookin…

John Harvey, Summa: dairy (November 15-19, 2025)
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#dairy #Aberyswyth #AnastasiaWildig #PhDFineArt #Aberfandisaster

John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 1-7, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #death #remembrance #AllSaintsDay #AllSoulsDay #Aberfandisaster

Summa: diary (October 25-31, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections October 25 (Saturday). I’m alive! 7.30 am: The morning ambulation, against the wind and in semi-darkness: invigorating and comforting. 9.00 am: Back home, Harvey the Younger — who&#8217…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 25-31, 2025)
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#diary #memorabilia #decluttering #modelrailways #musiclboxes #soundart #aberfandisaster

aberfan disaster

59 years ago the Aberfan disaster took place taking the lives of many children at their primary school. My grandfather went and dug for survivors, and by all accounts was never the same afterwards!
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aberfan disaster

59 years ago the Aberfan disaster took place taking the lives of many children at their primary school. My grandfather went and dug for survivors, and by all accounts was never the same afterwards!
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"Palace of Gold" was #LeonRosselson's response to the #Aberfan disaster. 59 years ago today, 116 children and 28 adults were killed a spoil heap collapsed at 9.15am, engulfing Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses.

The #AberfanDisaster happened because #NationalCoalBoard safety guidelines […]

In the dark welsh valley,
On the mountain side,
Lay the little children
Close to where they died.
Their little lives are ended
Before they reach their goal,
Tender little children
Have paid the price of coal.
Aberfan 21-10-66
The day the NCB got away with murder

#AberfanDisaster

In 1967 zongen de @beegees "New York mining disaster 1941". Maar in 1941 was daar geen mijnramp. De inspiratiebron was de mijnramp op 21 oktober 1966 bij Aberfan in Wales waarbij 144 mensen om het leven kwamen. #AberfanDisaster youtu.be/S43YhQ_eGTw?...

59 years ago today we witnessed the Aberfan disaster where 116 children & 28 adults perished. A wholly avoidable event that was predicted & anticipated by the whole village. This tragedy played large in my childhood as I was recovering from a life threatening accident. I was 12. Luckily I survived but my abiding memory when I first woke up was the terrible black & white images that have haunted me and the survivors in Aberfan since that day. A minutes silence this morning seems such a small thing in the scheme of things. It's still close to home for me, always reminds me I'm still here. Thoughts are with the families & survivors today 59 years on. This evocative poem by Chris Peregrine chris.peregrine@swwmedia.co.uk/ @Perers71 sums it up. ON THE HILL Disaster comes As no surprise To heaven That ticking bomb of slurry On the hill Came down to bury Children of eleven And leave A happy valley Cold and still They danced their way to school That very morning Their laughter disappearing In the mist Their bodies disappearing Without warning Fresh faces newly washed And newly kissed There is a court convening In the ether To try the people Of the NCB Who knew about the watercourse Beneath the Mounting slag But strove indifferently They're ready now to greet you Smiling still That row of angels sleeping On the hill Chris Peregrine chris.peregrine@swwmedia.co.uk

A moment of #Quiet contemplation today as I remember those lost in the #AberfanDisaster 21st October 1966 #BlueTue
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Summa: diary (October 11-17, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections October 11 (Saturday). ‘Do you demand enough of yourself, John?’ 8.15 am: An ambulation, passed places of personal significance, silent sea, and the railway station where, this time las…

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#dairy #soundart #selfanalysis #aberfandisaster #oldcollegeaberystwyth #friendship #past #autoiography

Summa: diary (October 1-10, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections And then I began to breath again. October 1 (Wednesday). Yom Kippur [יוֹם כִּפּוּר]. 7.30 am: Proof of presence. 8.00 am: Writing. The previous ‘Summa’ was for a 3-day period only, so t…

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#dairy #soundart #Aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix #electricguirar #digitalglitch #friendship #AberystwythUniversity