When the officials of this district decided to commemorate this tragedy, they ignored many of the families with relatives still in the region.
Two, former Royal Marine Dennis Shambley and his sister, had to go to extremes to make sure they could attend as their grandfather was a victim. The organisers had ignored them although they have never moved from the Westhoughton region.
When Dennis, a BNP activist, is subjected to abuse mainly from immigrant supporters, his historic inheritance is thrown out of the window. This is just a part of what creates in each of us our beliefs.
When Lancashire has no more Lancastrians, the Controllers will be happy.
Pretoria Pit mining disaster remembered 100 years on
Almost 900 men and boys went to work at the Pretoria Pit on 21 December 1910 - 344 never returned home.
A huge explosion at the pit, officially named the Hulton Colliery, on the outskirts of Westhoughton, Bolton at 0750 GMT was the third worst in British mining history.
It had a devastating impact on the town, with almost every family knowing someone who had been affected by the blast.
The youngest victims were just 13, and the eldest 61, Pam Clarke, chairwoman of Westhoughton local history group who has researched the disaster, said.
Dennis Shambley fought for this country, not like his cowardly detractors.
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