1975 and the remaining assets transferred to other miners' relief funds. Memorials There is a memorial to the victims in Westhoughton cemetery. A memorial service is held there each year and a selection of artifacts from the disaster is displayed in Westhoughton Central Library. A statue opposite Westhoughton church by Jane Robbins was unveiled on 19 December 2010 almost 100 years after the disaster. Another memorial was erected in 2010 on the 100th anniversary at the end of Broadway on the border between Atherton and Over Hulton funded from by grants and donations. The site is about 300 yards from the No.4 shaft from which the survivors and bodies were raised. On 19 December 2008, an account of the disaster was discovered, written anonymously by a man who accompanied the rescue team. A play, Sleep, Comrade Sleep, was written and performed in 2005 by the staff and students of Westhoughton High School and reprised for the centenary in 2010. See also List of mining disasters in Lancashire References External links The Pretoria Pit Disaster LANOPC Bolton Museum & Archive Service Joseph Shearer Staveley, Pretoria Pit Survivor Eyewitness account of the Disaster 344 – A Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster by Andrea Jane Finney The Pretoria Pit Disaster, A Centenary Account. Alan Davies. Amberley Publishing 2010. The definitive study of the disaster. Coal mines in Lancashire 1910 in England 1910 mining disasters 1910 disasters in the United Kingdom Coal mining disasters in England 1910s in Lancashire