It was 9:15 in the morning, and the pupils at Pantglas Junior School had just finished singing “All Things Bright and Beautiful” at the school assembly. Mr. Davis, the math teacher, had walked up to the chalkboard and written the sums. The half-term holiday was less than three hours away, and his pupils were busy, bent over their work.
That was when the rumbling started. Survivors described it as loud as a jet plane. Work in Mr. Davis’s math class stopped. The room fell silent. Everyone froze in their seats except for eight-year-old Gaynor Minett, who stood up and reached the end of the desk just as the sound grew louder and nearer, and all that ...
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