Pay your respects at a commemoration service to 344 people killed in a mining disaster in Wigan borough
A commemoration service will be held on the 115th anniversary of one of the country’s worst mining disasters.
A total of 344 men and boys died when an underground explosion took place at Pretoria Pit at 7.50am on December 21, 1910.
Boys as young as 13 were killed in the disaster, which happened on the border of Atherton and Westhoughton.
A poignant service is now held each year at the Pretoria memorial, which is on Broadway in Atherton.
It will take place at 2pm on Sunday, December 21.