The Morecambe Bay trial has ended, but one local artist is creating a monument to make sure the memories of those who died are not forgotten.
Vicky Eden, a ceramic artist who lives close to the bay, is working on an installation to commemorate the 23 Chinese cockle pickers who died. The work, named February 5, 2004, features 23 ceramic forms, one for each of the victims.
Eden is using red clay and plaster impressions of the sandy, rippled, pebble-strewn bay to create the ceramic forms, which resemble tree stumps.
Each one will have the name of a victim printed in both English and Chinese on the side, and some will have screen prints of newspaper stories about the tragedy.
Together, they will form a line of stepping stones.
'The idea is of a link reaching out metaphorically to the community in China,' Eden, 55, said by phone from her home in Hale, Cumbria, 5km from Morecambe Bay.