Chinese Cockle Pickers

Sun setting over Morecambe Bay

Today is ten years since the tragedy of the twenty Chinese Cockle pickers who died in Morecambe Bay.  We remember them and their families at this time.  
At the memorial service held 3 weeks later at St Peter's Cathedral, nearly a 1,000 people attended to remember and show their support.  At the start of the service they were invited by a member of the Chinese community to "Let peace return, let hope begin" and Bishop Patrick Kelly from Liverpool who joined Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue and other faith leaders closed his homily by saying he hoped for  "A beautiful sunset, for each and every person at the moment of their death, over Morecambe's glorious bay."  For an account of the service.

Poem in memory of the Chinese Cockle Pickers