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Original Text (Annotation: EPW049186 / 602567)

' This was known as the Copperworks Pond. It was a man made reservoir & when the Tharsis Sulpher & Copper Company pulled out of Hebburn the reservoir was left unfenced & dangerous. Kids, myself included knew how dangerous it was. It was constructed with brick sides that sloped steeply to possibly 30ft deep. We used to catch sticklebacks in it in the late 1940s early 50s. One Saturday afternoon around 1950 ish a local lad called Colqhoun from William St area drowned in it. In previous years other children had drowned in it. Today Health & Safety would have made sure it had been filled in . '