[Margaret Pilkington]

The only time we got shellfish was when we went to St Anne's and dug up buckets and buckets full of cockles......I never ate them...when I saw them cooked I thought they looked horrible too...so while my dad and the lads had them with salt and vinegar and bread and butter....I just had the bread and butter. Ma never ate them either....she just had a fag and a cup of coffee for her tea.