This post is about my mudlarking experience with Thames Explorer Trust, under Millennium Bridge.Mudlarking, also known as beachcombing...
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A few years ago, a worldly friend who’s always in the know posted something to her Facebook wall that went something like this: Mudlarking on the Thames is the best way to spend a Sunday morning in London. She had me at "mudlarking"—I had no clue what it was. It seemed like something curiously obscu
As a whole the Thames Foreshore can vary considerably in terms of accessibility, safety, interest or ‘fruitfulness’ and even within one very small section of it there are potentially …
[caption id="attachment_83074" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lara Maiklem holds items found on the foreshore of the Thames in central London. Courtesy ...
Mudlarking is the practice of combing a riverbed at low tide looking for lost treasures. Mudlarking on the Thames has a long history...
Foreshore exploration is guided by our experienced staff who will help you find and identify artefacts located on the surface of the foreshore.
A mudlark who found a rare Roman lamp while walking on the Thames foreshore in his lunch break revealed that he almost threw it away because he thought it was a fake.
A few years ago, a worldly friend who’s always in the know posted something to her Facebook wall that went something like this: Mudlarking on the Thames is the best way to spend a Sunday morning in Lo
This post is about my mudlarking experience with Thames Explorer Trust, under Millennium Bridge.Mudlarking, also known as beachcombing...
[caption id="attachment_83074" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lara Maiklem holds items found on the foreshore of the Thames in central London. Courtesy ...
As a whole the Thames Foreshore can vary considerably in terms of accessibility, safety, interest or ‘fruitfulness’ and even within one very small section of it there are potentially …
When one of my dearest friends recognised that the cancer she'd lived with for several years was finally not going to be kept at bay, she sent me a text saying she'd like to take me somewhere special. We share a passionate love of London and even after all those years of growing up, working and living here, it still fills us both with delight and awe. When she was first diagnosed with terminal cancer, I was determined to whisk her off to see all those London places she loves. Her blue badge and the amazing access our museums offer disabled people, meant we could take journeys through the layers of London, Edwardian, Victorian, Georgian to its crowded heart, a delight in itself. We wandered through the roman and medieval galleries of the Museum of London and drove across the Serpentine to park just in front of those giant edifices of Victorian collectors and slipped into the V&A and around its circle of fashion. There were trips to bluebell woodlands in the spring and talk of car journeys through Epping Forest's tunnels of autumn beech trees. But in the end we returned to what we'd always done together - just sit and talk and drink tea and talk and eat cake and talk. It had been lovely going out and about together, but the real treasure is just being together in a simple way. So when I got the text, I replied with that. However, she plotted and the next time we met up she asked if I'd like to go for a trip in a helicopter along the Thames. Who could refuse that! Her daughter Suzanne booked the trip, to our amusement on Friday 13th. The first treat was our cab ride through London, passing old haunts, the winding back lanes of Hampstead, the grand Houses of St Johns Wood, the dense green of London's trees lining streets and spilling from parks, and its people - how good it is to see all those people. The heliport was right on the banks of the Thames in Battersea. All three of us had prepared ourselves for a slight disappointment, that it would be very hot, noisy, over in no time. But it started well - there were only three of us in a helicopter for six. As we rose up it felt like we ourselves were flying, just the best feeling. And then London appeared before us in all its magnificence and I mean the whole of London. That huge Crystal palace ridge which throughout my childhood had seemed such a physical barrier between the suburbs and 'London' was just a small wrinkle. The photos are not the best but I hope give some sense of the ride London with the Thames winding to the sea. Higher than the Shard The 02 and Thames Barrier as the Thames goes to meet the sea Looking over to North and East London Docklands with the Thames at each side Mudlarking Territory: Tower Bridge, and on right St Katharine Dock, Tower of London, the City, St Pauls.... The City with its new Skyscrapers, Walkie Talkie in foreground with cranes atop and diamond fronted Cheese Grater behind right. lt was better than any of us could have imagined. So - it's the cable car across the Thames next.
This post is about my mudlarking experience with Thames Explorer Trust, under Millennium Bridge.Mudlarking, also known as beachcombing...
There was a time when Mudlark-artist Nicola White was part of the high-pressure banking world in London, but she reached a point in her life when she wanted to do something she was really passionate about. Nicola had been casually 'mudlarking' on the River Thames for years, but around six years ago she decided to turn her hobby into a full time occupation. Nicola joins the show to discuss mudlarking, the art she makes from her finds, and some of the treasures and fascinating messages in bottles she's discovered over the years.
A mudlark is the name given to a person who scavenges in the foreshore of a river for objects that could be sold. This term applies specifically to those operating along the Thames River in London during the 18th and 19th centuries.
As a whole the Thames Foreshore can vary considerably in terms of accessibility, safety, interest or ‘fruitfulness’ and even within one very small section of it there are potentially …
An original small watercolour and pen artwork. The historical Prospect of Whitby London Pub located at Wapping alongside the River Thames. A popular watering hole for tourists, locals and Mudlarkers . You will receive the small original artwork on paper plus a quality card mount. The outer edges of the mount measure 5x7 inches. This may make a perfect gift for a mudlarker or a fan of old London pubs. Thank you for looking.
Madelyn and Dingo searching for things.
Try your hand at mudlarking on the River Thames and uncover historic treasures and trinkets washed up along the foreshore.
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A few years ago, a worldly friend who’s always in the know posted something to her Facebook wall that went something like this: Mudlarking on the Thames is the best way to spend a Sunday morning in London. She had me at "mudlarking"—I had no clue what it was. It seemed like something curiously obscu
Lara Maiklem has spent 20 years ‘mudlarking’ on the Thames foreshore – finding peace, solitude and fragments from 2,000 years of human history
Try your hand at mudlarking on the River Thames and uncover historic treasures and trinkets washed up along the foreshore.
A mudlark is the name given to a person who scavenges in the foreshore of a river for objects that could be sold. This term applies specifically to those operating along the Thames River in London during the 18th and 19th centuries.
At low tide, amateur archeologists can find objects preserved for centuries.
As a whole the Thames Foreshore can vary considerably in terms of accessibility, safety, interest or ‘fruitfulness’ and even within one very small section of it there are potentially …
Jason Sandy is a keen mudlark and author. Here, he shares one of his favourite discoveries and how Findmypast helped to unlock the story behind it.
