Cockle Collection

Cockle Sheds, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Cockle Sheds, Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1900s

Three cockle women of Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three cockle women of South Wales, in a posed photograph. They are probably from the coastal village of Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

A cockle woman of Pembrokeshire, South Wales
An elderly cockle woman of South Wales, in a posed photograph with a painted backdrop behind her. She is probably from the coastal village of Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed

Cockle Picker, Ulverston
A cockle picker outside her cottage near Ulverston, then part of Lancashire. An old woman holds a large basket. On a wooden bench is another basket full of cockle shells

Cockle gathering at Penclawdd 1857
Eight miles from Swansea on the Loughor river, women gathering and preparing cockles for market. Date: 1857

Gathering cockles, Benbecula, Scotland
Women gathering cockles on the island of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Parable of Good Seed
The Parable of the Good Seed, and the Cockle that is sown by his enemy while the good men are sleeping

Leigh on Sea Cockling Shed Victorian period

Spiny cockle, Acanthocardia aculeata (Cardium spinosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Corn cockle, Agrostemma githago. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Thorny cockle, truncated purr and eight-ridged tooth shell
Thorny cockle, Cardium echinatum, truncated purr, Donax crenulata, and eight-ridged tooth shell, Dentalium octangulatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason

Heart cockle, Glossus humanus (Heart chama shell, Chama cor). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw

Grain variety, Ustilago, darnel, Lolium temulentum, and wall barley, Hordeum murinum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Bivalvia clam shells: Venus clam, Hysteroconcha dione 1-3, spiny cockle, Acanthocardia aculeata 4, 5, heart cockle, Corculum cardissa 6-9, fluted giant clam

Rose campion, Silene coronaria (Rock cockle or campion, Agrostemma coronaria). Handcolured copperplate engraving and botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis The Botanical

Bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Curtis British Entomology Plate 61
Hymenoptera: Anthidium manicatum (Muff-bodied Bee) [Plant: Agrostemma githago (Corn Cockle)] Date: 1824-39

PILGRIMS AT LIESSE
Pilgrims at the shrine of Notre-Dame de Liesse pray before the miraculous statue of the Virgin; note the man on the left in true pilgrims garb, cockle shells and all Date: 19th century

Contrary Mary / Greenaway
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And cowslips all of a row

Short S1 Cockle G-EBKA
Short S1 Cockle, G-EBKA

Llangwm cockle woman, Haverfordwest, South Wales
An elderly cockle woman from the coastal village of Llangwm rests outside St Marys Church in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. She is on her way to the Portfield area of the town

Woman selling cockles in Scotland, c. 1830
Woman selling cockles in Scotland to two boys, c.1830 Date: C.1830

Book cover, Nursery Songs and Rhymes
Book cover in blue and silver, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, edited bys Baring-Gould, with illustrations by members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A J Gaskin

Illustration, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Illustration (possibly the frontispiece), Mary Mary Quite Contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: 1895

Japan, Two children digging for shellfish, low tide riverbed
Japan - Two children digging for shellfish on a low tide riverbed. Both hold small picks/shovels suited for this purpose. Date: 1906

Mademoiselle Mona de Gray (real name: Florence Cockle) (1893-1987) - British Contortionist and acrobat. Date: circa 1910s

Nine molluscs, including bivalves and gastropods
Watercolour 391 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Kow-er-ring, Kow-ill, Kaa-din, Wal-gan, from the Watling Collection

E Richards. Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow. Silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all of a row. 20th century

Agrostemna Githago
Corn Cockle Personified

Agrostemma Coronaria
Corn-Cockle or Rose-Cockle

Advert / Ginger Wine C1900
Cockles Ginger Wine - stimulating, digestive

Notre Dame De Liessee
Pilgrims at the shrine of Notre-Dame de Liesse pray before the miraculous statue of the Virgin; note the man on the left in true pilgrims garb, cockle shells and all

SEA SHELLS
A variety of sea shells including clams, cockles, razor-clams and mussels

Shells and Bivalves
A variety of different sea shells, including varieties of clam, mussel, whelk and cockle

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