The children's bodies were brought up from the pit and buried together in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Silkstone. A memorial was erected bearing the names and ages of those who died, which today is the logo of the village's primary school. Nationwide, the disaster shocked public opinion, and the resulting inquiry led to the
1842 Mines Act which sought to introduce some protection for child miners and meant that all girls and boys under the age of ten were prohibited from working underground. In 1988, the community of Silkstone Parish built another memorial in Nabs Wood, depicting two children at work underground. In 2008, to mark the disaster's 170th anniversary, the event and subsequent inquest were turned into a play by Sylvia le Breton and performed by the local Grass Roots theatre group in Silkstone church. In 2010, a commemorative stained glass window crafted by local residents was installed in one of its chapels. A book by Alan Gallop about the event's history, "Children of the Dark: Life and Death Underground in Victorian England" was published in 2003 and Peter Bond wrote and performed a song, "Act of God" about the tragedy; the song is included on the 1979 album "See Me Up, See Me Down" from Highway Records. The
Kate Rusby song "Halt the Wagons", from her 2019 album
Philosophers, Poets & Kings, references the tragedy from the point of view of a grieving mother. ==References==