Echo Memories - When Dr Begg Was Sunk by a Human Salmon
The Northern Echo › March 29, 2006
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Fishy tales of the park's strange contest, Peter Penguin's pals and a menagerie of four-footed visitors THERE have been many extraordinary events in Darlington's South Park, but none can have been more extraordinary than when the human fish took on the human angler.
In 1921, Darlington council had put 250 unemployed men to work digging out a huge lake opposite Blackwell Grange. It took two-and- a-half years to complete. It covered ten acres, and was deep enough to hold 12 million gallons of water.See the full content of this document
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Echo Memories - When Dr Begg Was Sunk by a Human Salmon
"Darlington's new lake has confounded the pessimists who predicted that it would never hold water, " reported the Darlington and Stockton Times in April 1924. "In the sunshine of yesterday, it sparkled with almost Venetian splendour."
An inaugural Regatta and Aquatic G...See the full content of this document
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