This picture is of a fisherman from Bolton-le-Sands who regularly went out cockling on the sands in Morecambe Bay.

The name on the cart is partially obscured but seems to read R Watson, Fisherman, Bolton-le-Sands. Cockles would be raked from the sand and placed in baskets.

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