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

Rebel, the dog of Dem. 🖤

... there was an Alsatian who died there and some say his soul is not at rest." Harrow Observer, 10 Sept 1976 #StanmoreMacabre #Haunted #HarrowWeald

NB, #phantomdog stunt double in photo is Rebel [RIP]. 🖤