Andrew Loveless sent in a photograph taken circa 1900 of Joseph Heckford, the grandfather of an aunt, on Bournemouth beach.

He was a boatman and also set out crab and lobster pots.

His boat has buoyancy aids on it, set out to dry.

In the background are two sections of large iron pipes which were installed to take the Bourne Stream out under the beach.

The outfall was under the pier as it was built then and Andrew remembers as a child clambering about on them at low tide. The gun was used to shoot seagulls for crab bait or as a bird-scarer at harvest time.