Baby

The body of a newly born female child was found in the River Ribble by a fisherman on Saturday 26 April 1947.

He had been fishing in the river when he saw a pillowcase containing the body of the child and two half-bricks. He said that he had started fishing in Brungerley Park at about 2.35pm on 26 April 1947 about 70 yards from the West Bradford entrance. He said that as he was working downstream towards Brungerley Bridge he noticed the white bag near the Clitheroe side of the river in about 18 inches of water about a yard from the river bank, noting that it was about four yards away from him when he first noticed it and that the top of the bag was lying across some stones projecting above the water. He said that the bag was tied with string halfway down and that he then cut the string and found that it contained a brown paper parcel and then when he then removed part of the brown paper he saw the limb of a child.