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.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 31 July 1901
see Unsolved 1901