William Brownbill

William Brownbill drowned in the Bridgewater Canal at Trafford Park and was said to have been pushed in.

William Brownbill had lived on Rixton Street in Salford and had been in Trafford Park with some lads. A boy who saw them said that William Brownbill was sitting on a plank on the canal side and that the lads were getting out. The boy said that he asked them if they were going in again but they told him that they were not.