Baby

The body of a newly born female child was found on the evening of Monday 25 June 1906 wrapped up in a brown paper parcel off the Long Hedge on Blow's Down near to Church Street railway station.

The body was found by a labourer who had gone out for a walk on Blow's Downs in the company of others. They had gone along the Long Hedge, which was a public footpath from the Great Northern Road to the Downs when he had seen a brown paper parcel lying on a bank under a hedge about 30 yads from Half Moon Lane. He said that he picked it up and put it on the path and that another member of his company then cut the string of the parcel. He said that one end of the parcel was wet, but that the other was dry. He said that when they unwrapped the brown paper, which he said had no writing on it, they found a cardboard box tied up with string and that when they opened it they found the body of the child inside underneath some cotton wool.