Baby

The body of a newly-born child was found in the Burton Canal on Sunday 16 April 1911.

It was found in the water by a chimney sweep who had lived at 9 Little Burton East, about 200 yards down the canal on the Burton side from the Hillfield Lane Bridge near Clay Mills at about 11.50am. He said that his attention had been attracted by an object floating in the water and that when he pulled it out that he was astonished to discover that it was the perfectly nude and somewhat decomposed body of a newly-born female child.