Seafront, Marine Drive
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Coming away from the beach now you can take a stroll along the seafront from behind the sea wall, this is also ideal if the tide is high. In the past, very much like the pier and Lord Street, this would also have been the perfect place for the fashionable set to parade up and down, meet each other and ‘be seen’. There would also have been seafood vendors posted at intervals selling their catch of the day. Marine Drive and the Coastal Road run from Banks to Woodvale, creating a beautiful, sweeping view of the horizon for a leisurely drive at sunrise and sunset.
Alida Poll remembers the Southport Cockle Chap selling his wares when she was a youngster. He would pull up with his cart and shout ‘cockles and mussels!’ She also recalls collecting orders for members of her family in a tin vessel and how the chap sold fish from the bottom of his cart too.
Recording ref - UAP014/153 S1 (BOLTONOH/103) – Alida Poll - ©️ Bolton Library and Museum Services
Image ref - NSP7847 - Cockling at Marshside, Southport, 1890 - ©️ Sefton Libraries Information Services courtesy of Sefton Looking Back - Image Archive
