Hundreds of pairs of 19th-century shoes washed up on the shores of Wales (6 photos)

Hundreds of shoes washed up on a British beach 150 years after a shipwreck that claimed the lives of dozens. On December 18, volunteers from the Beach Academy, an organization dedicated to collecting marine debris and restoring natural ecosystems, found about 400 leather shoes on the coast of Ogmore-by-Sea. The shoes are believed to date back to the Victorian era.





Beach Academy founder Emma Lamport said: "The shoes could have washed up on the ship Frolic, which wrecked 150 years ago at Tasker Rock. The ship was carrying shoes and goods from Italy, and they were washed up by the currents of the River Ogmore."

Emma, ​​whose company has collected over 12,000 pieces of trash from beaches, admitted: "We strive to restore natural ecosystems by clearing them of marine debris."







Located just two miles southeast of Ogmore in the Bristol Channel, the Tasker Rocks are known as a "ship graveyard."

It has been suggested that the rocks were named after the Viking Tusk, who colonized the Vale of Glamorgan.





On March 17, 1831, the steamship Frolic was wrecked on the rocks. There were no survivors. The ship was en route from Haverfordwest, Wales, to Bristol. Records indicate that approximately 80 people perished.

Bodies of the dead are said to have washed ashore for months after the wreck.