DEEP concern was expressed by Berrow's Journal this week 100 years ago over the drowning of a young man in Worcester's only public swimming facility of the time - the "Corporation Barge," a floating wooden contraption moored alongside Pitchcroft.
"The evidence given at the inquest on the young man Stanton, drowned in the Swimming Barge, has greatly surprised and worried citizens. They had no idea that such a death trap existed in part of the waters of the barge.
"It certainly seems very strange that the caretaker should not have alerted the authorities of the dangers since he told the inquest he had 'pulled scores of swimmers out of the same hole'."
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