The girls don't look too happy to be posing for their photo to be taken. The shack, which was near to the golf clubhouse, was lived in by Bella, one of the cockle girls.
Date (of image) : 1888
Donor : Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Creator : James Whitehead Pattison
Part of the "Pattison's Photographs" collection
Location
Cockle girls of Seaton Carew and West Hartlepool. The girls made a living by going out onto the rocks at low tide to collect shell fish and then sell their catches on. Bella, one of the girls had a shack on the Snook near to the golf clubhouse.
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