Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 15 May 1938
Place: Grand Union Canal, Barrets Green Road, NW10
The body of a newly-born child was found in the Grand Union Canal near Barrets Green Road, NW10 on Sunday 15 May 1938.
The man that found it on the Sunday morning said that he had seen a brown paper parcel floating in the canal and then touched it with his foot, and said that he thought that it was rather heavy and so his companion pulled it out and when they opened it and found the child's body, they went off for the police.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see West London Observer - Friday 20 May 1938
see Unsolved 1938