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I can remember myself & Peter Holcroft,from Francis St going for a walk over to the canal with his older sister Kathleen,we were having a bit of a splash about in the bywash,and the next thing......Kathleen wasn't there

Me and Pey were looking all over for her,thinking she was hiding,right down to the rabbit rocks..no sign

The bywash we were paddling in was one of those that went underground,we absolutely bricked it

All the way home we were skryking our eyes out,wandering what to tell our mams,we would have got a right going at for getting anywere near the cut,but as we got to Barans,[spelling]wood yard at the top of York St?..we heard a girl shouting "why dint you wait for me" Kathleen had slipped in the bywash,but as luck would have it she grabbed hold of some weeds in the tunnel,but it took her ages to get back out,thankfully she did..and she now tells the tale,coz she lives next door to my mother-in-law in Scholes