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Terrified children discovered the body of a man while playing on a street in Liverpool.
They discovered the body of the man, who was dressed in Victorian-style clothing, inside a metal cylinder in 1945 on Great Homer Street.
It is not known how long the cylinder was left on the street, but around 1941 the Germans dropped a bomb on the street, with the 6.5-foot-long cylinder among the rubble.
For four years it stood by the side of the street, people used it as a bench and children played on it.
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However, in 1945 the group of children decided to look inside the cylinder and made the grim discovery.
A pathologist reportedly believed the remains were those of a man aged 30 to 50, although no formal identification has ever been made.
The man was wearing a collar and a white shirt, but there were no cufflinks or collar studs.
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No money was found on the body, but diaries and other papers including tally sheets relating to TC Williams and Company, Leeds Street, Liverpool were found among the possessions.
A postcard dated July 3, 1885 and a receipt with TC Williams’ name were also found.
It was noted that TC Williams was a paint manufacturer in Liverpool.
Police said they could not find any evidence of Mr Williams ‘burial and said “it could not have been” the remains of TC Williams’ son born in 1859.
The coroner said it was impossible to determine the cause of death, but said they had “no reason to doubt” that the man crawled into the cylinder.
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