Wigan Album

Johny Goulding and Alan Taylor at the back.

Such a terrible event to have happened, I remember walking up to the sound of the pit whistle it blew such a long time.
Church was full for the first service and people stood outside.
So many good men died.
The money collected to help the widows got robbed and the man who took it shot himself. He was a nice man but he did a stupid thing and could not live with hinmself after it was discivered what he had done.

This event happened several years after the disaster, I don't think it was the disaster money which went missing, I think it was the welfare fund money if I remember right. But it ended in tragedy as you say.

Kenny Whittaker in the middle

ivan it was jonny roberts who took that money & he was the union man in charge, but it was from union funds not from the funds you named . jonny could,nt face the men which he was supposed to do in the labour club near the pit . we was all coming up early to go to it when the afternoon shift was coming on they told us he could,nt face the men & shot himself . he was a good guy & i think the men would,ve forgiven him ,but he just could,nt go thru with it . a tragic end to it all .