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Age: 14 days old

Sex: female

Date: 31 Jul 1901

Place: Blackpool Beach

A roadman employed by the Corporation found the body of a female child in Spen Dyke near Daggers Hall Farm.

The body was wrapped up in a bundle, tied with string and jammed against a spar. The man said that he had been working on the road for the past three weeks and had not noticed the bundle before.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 31 July 1901

see Unsolved 1901