Happy Trafalgar Day
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Like a bit of Naval history. National Maritime Museum is worth a visit. Interviewed for a job there once. Didn't get it but I would have loved that.
Any fanfare on the BBC? No, but a story about our new attempts to better the nill point from last year's eurovision song contest.
Decent read mate thanks for the post mate
Dunno mate but there’s a parade in Trafalgar Square.
Probably BLM trying to pull down his statue if they can get big enough ladders, would love to kick the ladders away with them ****s on it, but i think they are a spent force anyway
Pleased to remember the Battle of Trafalgar, but here in Wales since 1966 today has only one meaning - Aberfan
Not at all, you do realise that Welsh fought and died at Trafalgar ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-11587410
An absolutely tragic day, mate, that should never be forgotten.
Yes. There was a Trafalgar veteran who lived in Shotton and the headmaster of one of the local primary schools used to fly the England expects signal hoist on the school's flag pole, but he stopped after 1966.
Even though the coal mines of Deeside had been closed for a few decades by 1966 there were quite a few miners and ex miners living in the area, which was part of the North Wales coalfield. Coal was still a big part of everyone's life.
Aberfan wasn't just about the lives lost, there was the lack of any accountability, the injustice of keeping compensation payments low because the authorities said the families wouldn't know what to do with the money so it would ruin their lives and finally there was the ignominy of taking money given by the public to pay for removal of the remaining spoil heaps.
Aberfan happened within my lifetime, my mum had four of us at infant school that very day. I can't help it if her reaction and my memories overshadow Trafalgar Day.
At least 600 welshmen fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and there were probably many more than that seeing as there were, apparently, about 20,000 men involved on the British side and 3573 of them were Irish and at least 1154 of them were Scots.
There were also 361 Americans, 78 Swedes, 25 Norwegians, 23 Prussians, 9 Russians, 115 Italians, 31 Canadians, 17 men born in Africa and 123 born in the West Indies. There were even 20 Frenchmen and 8 Spaniards serving in the British Navy at Trafalgar. (This is from a variety of sources so the numbers don't add up and are a bit vague).
I wasn't having a go mate
Just pointing out both should be remembered as you said there's only one