I'm Welsh and didn't know much about it, it hasn't really been covered until this year. I know it's the 50th anniversary milestone but you'd think it would have been covered a bit more previously.
It was the most infamous domestic disaster that occurred during my childhood and was very big news for a long time. So big that those of us alive at the time would never forget the name. For that reason it never really occurred to me that it has been more or less consigned to history until now, and that so few people born afterwards have heard of it.
Anyone interested who hasn't heard of it can read about it here, amongst other sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-150d11df-c541-44a9-9332-560a19828c47 Just another inevitable result of a society that puts profit before lives.
The biggest disgrace after the event was the government raiding the charity that had been set up for the famalies, to fund the removal of the tip, £150,000, after the NCB refused.
It's very closer to where I live and does feature in the news now and then. There was a good programme about it last night.
Think I remember seeing something about this last year but never really knew much about it. Doesn't get a lot of coverage.
One of my earliest memories, old black and white TV and my mum crying as she watched it. the HSE, much derided by the Richard Littlejohns of this world as 'red tape' was born out of this disaster. RIP
It's amazing that such a massive disaster is relatively unknown. I remember it as clear as day as an 8 year old.. Shocking stuff.
i was a bit young when the disaster occurred to fully understand but it remained in the public eye for enough years for me to gradually understand the full horror of that day
Happened over a decade before I was born. There again Sellafield fire was even earlier, no one died and I heard plenty about that.
The biggest amongst many disgraces. We now know more about how the establishment "work", thankfully. To their credit, the Welsh Assembly have now repaid the charity (with interest).
