Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 31 May 1955
Place: Preston-Kendal Canal, Slyne, Lancaster, Lancashire
The body of the newly-born female child was found in the canal at Slyne by three school boys on 31 May 1955.
The school boys had been walking along the Preston to Kendal canal towpath at Slyne at about 9.50pm when they saw the child's body floating in the water and told a local farmer who then called the police.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Morecambe Guardian - Tuesday 12 July 1955, p7
see Lancaster Guardian - Friday 10 June 1955
see Lancaster Guardian - Friday 08 July 1955
see Unsolved 1955
