That is lovely, I didn’t know he was back in hospital i must admit. It is wonderful that you met him and a lovely thing to get an autograph from him. I never met him sadly, but he seemed to be a lovely chap. He’s in the Nag’s Head up there i’m sure Sorry Taff I thought I was replying to Cllr Paul
I was chatting yesterday with a former South Wales Police District Commander for the Neath Area. When my wife asked him how he was, he replied ‘Not good…’ He said that he never is at this time of year. John went on to explain at that time he was on beat in Neath Town Centre and all the PCs in the Neath Station were called in and put on a bus. They were not told where they were going - in fact it wasn’t until they got to Glynneath 10 miles away that the driver mentioned that they were going to a place called Aberfan but no one knew why. John was there for 3 days: the wailing and crying (his words) of the parents, uncles, aunties and grandparents have stayed, and will stay, with him all his life. Moreover, the bodies of the children were taken to a temporary morgue (a chapel I think he said) and the bodies needed to be identified: it was John’s and his colleagues’ ‘job’ to wash the coal dust away from their faces to enable identification…..
