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Raikes Hall was a convent owned by the Sisters of the Holy Child between 1860 & 1870.

 
The Preston Guardian, Saturday, June 12, 1869.

DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN A POND NEAR A CONVENT AT BLACKPOOL.

On Sunday evening last, as some of the inmates at the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Child" were out walking in the grounds adjoining the Convent house, on Raikes-hill, Blackpool, they discovered what seemed to be a bundle, floating in a pond.

Having got it out, it was found to be the body of an infant. The police authorities were communicated with, and on Tuesday an inquest was held on a body, at the police-station, Blackpool, before M. Myres. Esq., coroner, and after the evidence had been given, the jury returned a verdict that "The child found in the pond was stillborn."