Cockle Fishing
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: Come cockle-fishing at Leigh-on-Sea with the Osborne family who, for four generations, have beached their little boats at low tide in ankle-deep water way out on the rich shellfish beds. It’s a colourful trade, collecting the cockles that warm the winkles of a Cockney heart and we follow them through from sandbank to street stall in the East End. But what’s the difference between a snail of the sea and...
- Keywords
- Food and cooking; Fisheries
- Locations
- England; Essex; Leigh-on-Sea
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Richard Norton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 309
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How to cite this record
'Cockle Fishing', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 534, 18 Mar 1965. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121627 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)