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After Freda Marsh left the quarry the pumps clearing the water were turned off and the natural spring began to fill the quarry, becoming what was considered a natural beauty spot.
Neil Smitham, Chairman of the Trafford Sub-Aqua Club has kindly given us permission to share these pictures. Taken in the early 90's, a group from the club on the beach. Taken 8/4/95 in the early evening. They dived for 43 mins in a three to a depth of 9.5 meters and vis was a max of 3ft!!
October 15, 1979 Eccleston Delph, a flooded quarry in the heart of Lancashire, was never meant to reveal it's gruesome secret. But the body of Martin Johnstone never hit the bottom. The naked, mutilated corpse was found by amateur scuba divers.Read all about it here
'Eccy Delph' was redeveloped into the diving centre from 2000 onwards, here are a few photos Many thanks to Smudge at ProScuba for providing some of the photos on this page. October 23-29 2004 Vol 196 No 3363
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And at Eccleston Delph - it's actually in neighbouring Heskin - they film the dumping of his heavily weighted body, its discovery by two amateur divers who thought it was a tailor's dummy, and its recovery by police frogmen. Lancashire police have co-operated with the makers. Few police forces, they believe, could have concluded the case in the ...
Eccleston Quarry. Coordinates: 53.6291°N 2.7291°W. Eccleston Quarry is a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. It is also called Eccleston Delph and Eccy Delph (pronounced "ekky"). It is an old stone quarry that flooded. It is a popular site for scuba diving. Visibility is generally very poor and ropes have been strung between each underwater ...
Dec 3, 2023 · Today, Eccleston Delph remains a popular dive centre for sub aqua enthusiasts and open water swimmers alike. In 1999 the quarry was drained and more than 100 cars pulled from the depths. Now visitors to the Delph can explore children's play equipment, a tank and other underwater curiosities with no trace of the grisly discovery made more than ...
Aug 29, 2023 · Known widely as ‘The Handless Corpse’ case, the investigation began in 1979 when two amateur divers at Eccleston Delph, a water filled quarry near Chorley, discovered a mangled body in the water.
May 15, 2020 · Quarried stone exposes roots. Eccy Delph is a quarry a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. Objects have been submerged for dive training such as speedboats, a Jet Provost, armoured personnel carriers, a light tank, containers, a concrete tube, and a gnome garden, and a playground. As well as these there are training platforms at various depths ...
