A woman clutching her baby prepares to leap from bridge into the river below.

Account of an Edgware woman's suicide in Sevenacres Pond, Canons Park. Illustrated Police News, 21 July 1927.

Pond, Canons Park in happier times.

#GloomySunday July 1927. Mrs Gladys Devereaux, 28, drowns herself & infant daughter, Dorothy Mary, in #SevenAcresLake, #CanonsPark. #thegoodolddays #Sevenacres #StanmoreMacabre #suicide