The "Cookle Women Of Penclawdd" -- A typical cockle women is Mrs. Annie Rynon, and as the tide goes out so does Mrs. Eynon on her donkey, complete with the sieve which is the chief implement of her trade. The block Atlantic winds which sweep the desolate sands of Llanrhidian do not daunt her nor the possibilities of "unexploded shells and bombs about which large notices warn her. Women wearing sieves on their heads and riding tiny donkeys and pony-carts make their living by searching for cockles left by the ebbing tide, Llanrhidian Sands, South Wales is Britain's biggest cockle centre, and the families who work the cockle beds have done so for generations. One of the cockle women of Penclawdd, Mrs. Annie Eynon. She collec's cockles on the Llaurhidrau Sands. October 23, 1947.