Searching a Drained Canal in London - Strange Objects Revealed (June 2021)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2021
- When the Hertford Union Canal was drained for maintenance work in March 2021 it provided a unique opportunity to discover the plethora of discarded and lost items scattered along the muddy canal bed. It was also perfect time to clean out as much waste as possible, creating a healthier environment for the wildlife which thrives in the canals in London.
Simon Bourne arranged for a group of us to volunteer with the River and Canal Trust canalrivertrust.org.uk/
and over the course of 2 days we searched for and removed as much rubbish and plastic pollution as possible. We inevitably found some very strange objects too. You wouldn't believe what could end up at the bottom of a canal!
If you are interested in volunteering with the Canal and River Trust, they would be delighted to hear from you. We had the greatest fun whilst doing something extremely useful and valuable for the community. There was a varied and eclectic load of objects to be found. Some older and some modern. It's shocking how much rubbish and plastic we removed from the canal and it is sad to see coots and moorhens actually building their nests from it.
Whilst on the Hertford Union Canal towpath I met Nick Crook and Bronte Phelps of Boardies who were collecting plastic. They had collected 3.5 bags in plastic in less than an hour. They talked about the range of swimwear that Boardies are making in collaboration with Raeburn, out of plastic bottles. You can find the info here:-
www.raeburndesign.co.uk/pages...
I hope you enjoy this video. Comments and feedback welcome and if you wish to treat me to a virtual cup of earl grey tea you can find my site here:-
ko-fi.com/nicolawhitetidelineart
All donations are very welcome!
Thank you for watching everyone.
Love Nicola
Nicola White
www.tidelineart.com
#nicolawhitemudlark #mudlarking #drainedcanal
Best friends and good friends doing volunteer community service that is important. We should all take note and lend a hand wherever we are in the world.
Great video, Nicola. Really hammers home just how thoughtless we are as a species. The amount of rubbish in that short stretch of canal was borderline criminal.
Not borderline criminal...criminal!! There should be steep fines for throwing rubbish and graffiti on the brick way. Don't include me in your observation of what garbage throwing criminals do because they don't care.
Please, do not include everyone in the blame. CERTAIN people (and their parents) are to blame. The rest of us know how to behave and to preserve the environment. Let us work against this culture that everybody is to blame! We are not!
Yeah oxford too right we need wiping out
We have made a right mess of the planet
People have been throwing filth, food scraps, and all other sorts of garbage in waterways since the dawn of man. Maybe way back when, we didn’t know better…but today we do, and most people wouldn’t do this. Sadly, there still are plenty who would.
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Poor ducks, swimming in what looks like an open sewer and pecking at plastic ...
Well done to everyone who clean the canal !!!
Unbelievable and upsetting
Eating small bugs
The brief Mallards? They are dabblers and are comfortable foraging on mudflats. I also saw Common Moorhens, Eurasian Coot, Yellow Wagtail, Mute Swan, Gray Heron, and a Great Cormorant.
@@fredbear72ify Far from unbelievable. The human race now is beyond disgusting and selfish
it IS an open sewer
Well done to all the helpers who cleaned out so much rubbish from the canal
I couldn't believe how much junk was in the canel
Where can I sign up
Red Rose Tea boxes used to come with small, ceramic animals in each box. The animals looked very much like what you found.
And those tiny themed ceramic figures are exactly the same: from Wade, a UK company. I have some in my fish tanks, and some tucked away in odd spots. Admittedly, I bought more Red Rose boxes of tea bags for the prize inside.
Yes I remember we drank red rose at home in montreal Canada
Do not know were the little things are now
That exactly what I thought. My grandmas best friend collected them since she drank that brand of tea. As a child I was fascinated and then started drinking that tea just to collect the figures.
The little Wade animal figurines bring back memories. They used to come in boxes of Red Rose Tea. They started in 1967 and I believe still put them in today.
It's good to be able to be able to give time to clean up the environment. Thanks for volunteering 👏.
Remember collecting them but it has been years since they had them
Also clothes powder in boxes you could collect plates in the box's in the 1960s in canada
Red Rose had the ceramic figures in Canada too, my grandmother was a heavy tea drinker and had a massive collection of them.
I miss my Red Rose tea animals. I had so many, then lost them in a move. Now Red Rose doesnt make them. They seem like they need little terrariums to live it
Crazy how the water hides the trash people throw in. The waterways are not a tip! Great to see all the volunteers helping to clean up the channel.
It’s great to get a group together to clean the canals. Not to mention the many treasures that you can find. So sad that people use them as garbage dumps. Loved the Florida Water bottle, ink bottle, and red tile. The kangaroo made me laugh. Polar bears, gorillas, and the saddest little crocodile, 😆. Good job to Nick and Bronte, too. Congratulations to the book winners.
can believe that canal isn't all cleared up - did i miss something ?
There is something satisfying to me when a river is drained: it's a rare opportunity to remove the trash as well as find some weird and unique history in all that mud.
Congrats to the lucky winners, and great work volunteers!
Nicola you find beauty everywhere. Thanks so much for sharing the canal clean up. It’s beautiful once again yet plastic is right back in the water again 😕. Beautiful finds! Beautiful people cleaning and caring for your waterways.
My Sunday is complete now that I can sit back and enjoy a nice mudlarking video! Oh! I hope Emma is feeling better!!
👍. Litterbugs are a scourge upon society. What’s so hard about proper disposal
Their only benefit is to the archeologists of the future.
I would literally move to England for a summer just to do this job. I love treasure hunting. What a shame people treat the canal like a trash bin when I know there are lots of bins around the city they could very easily dispose of things in. Seeing all that retro stuff makes me wonder. you can't help but wonder what the story is behind each object. I actually felt SAD seeing the dog toys, because i can picture sad little doggo's staring at the canal and then at their owner wanting their toy back and not able to understand it's gone for ever. Poor puppers.
Aww so true - but good puppers always get new ones x
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Poor puppers :(
I'd join you!
I actually saw the stem and I was hoping your eyes would catch it, and you did, hooray!
@عبدالسلام عبدالسلام 😂😂😂😂
I love watching each week your mudlarking adventures. Today I'm THRILLED I was one of the winners in the drawing!!! 😁🤩
Congratiolation. Ich freue mich für Dich, viel Spaß mit dem tollen Buch.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congratulations.
Thanks for taking me on your journey to the canal. I learnt a lot. I could relate to some of the problems that were pointed out during your interaction with those volunteers. In Jamaica there are many gullies and the people constantly inundate them with garbage of all sorts and sizes. Sadly, the impact is astronomical. When it rains the gullies overflow into the homes and the streets. People's lives are always disrupted because this overflow comes into the general traffic corridor and many people's homes, properties and crops get washed away because the water flow is blocked from going to the proper areas. This is economically debilitating for the country. Thanks again.
Hi Dorothy, your comments so good where are you from?
Nicola, I would like to say thank you one and all who helped to pick up that litter in the canal, on this side of the pond we have the same problem, and sad to say it is getting worse, why not just wait to find a bin and toss it in?, that could be a logo, find a bin and toss it in, cheers.
I have very fond memories of going to the canal (at Aylesbury) as a child with my Grandad. So beautiful when full of water, not so much when empty. So much waste…..we need to do better!
Great job done removing all the trash and plastics xx
Thanks to yourself and the other volunteers for helping keep the waterways clean.
Nicola: you guys had entirely too much fun cleaning trash from the mud of a drained canal.....and managed to brighten my day! Thanks for the messaging about plastic pollution and the need to be much more responsible in discarding waste. Hope Emma survived her root canal.
This is horrible. I thank all the volunteers that helps keep these water ways clean. From the USA.
I cannot believe how much you love lurking in the mud! It’s just impossible to believe that so many people just turf their rubbish into waterways! And at a huge expense and effort the council, and wonderful volunteers, have to clean up after them. It’s such a shame! And that couple doing the research, and cleaning as they do, and as for Raeburn, well, they deserve great acclaim. Well done everyone🥰
Great clip, showing cleanup and also spotting others cleaning up and also using the 'rubbish' to recycle. We don't need to throw waste out, it's about time humans evolved their thinking.
That was great! Love the ginger beer bottle 🍺 wow! You guys did an awesome job, thank you for removing the plastic! I think they should bring back the glass bottles instead of plastic bottles. They may need to create more glass bottle for it, but at lest there will be no harm to the environment.♻️ That’s so cool, recycled clothing!! See you next time!😀😀😀😀
Those little whimsies look just like the ones that come in a box of Red rose tea!
Every segment is a wonderful combination of history/relaxing music and beautiful fauna/ informative and knowledgeable 💜
Hi IIona, your comments so good where are you from?
What a great show… it’s so cool to see people cleaning up together for the good of Nature.
Ugh, first Nicola vid Ive been able to watch in months and I can smell that canal from Wisconsin. Its a good deed youre all doing, too bad so many people are in the habit of tossing things aside into nature.
Up here the Bear Hunters Association gets together with the Dept of Natural Resources (game warden state agency) each Spring and goes thru the county forests gathering all sorts of trash and recyclables, they typically pull out upwards of 2 or 3 TONS of crap every year just in the Northern areas. Never ceases to amaze me how many trashy people there are in our world, and the lengths they will go to in order to be a slob. Great vid Nic, keep it up!
Thank You for helping to keep our state clean 🌺🤗🥰🌸
@@Tabbatha. : Thanks, I no longer live up north so Im not participating but I do know the program is alive and well.
Wot! Toss the bin into the canal?
Nicola thank you for including the scenic places and local wildlife. It is so beautiful and calming. Keep searching for past treasures to brighten our future.
Hi 🙋♂️ Susan, your comments so good where are you from?
@@mattwaynehendrix7906 Hi Matt. I'm from the USA.
@@susantaylor4340 Hi 👋 Susan.
Am an honorable gentle from New Jersey. Am an independent contractor by profession working on a drilling contract here in the Gulf of Mexico United States, am working on my last contract, after this contract am getting my retirement been on this job for the past 28years, can't wait to be home, can't wait to set my eyes on my son it's been a while since I left him.
@@susantaylor4340 Hi Susan, can we please talk on Email hope you don't mind?
There is a place in Atlanta called the Dollshead Trail. The man who looks after the park where it is located, collects trash from a nearby river and turns it in to quirky “art” pieces. Some people find it creepy. I think it’s fun!
I think that’s brilliant I love quirky and interesting 🇬🇧
Now I have to check that out.
I always love seeing your wildlife videography! And love your ceramic finds like the polar bears and the gorilla. So glad to see the amount of rubbish removed from the canal - a great job done by all. And a big Congratulations to raffle winners Jo, Tamara and purple plump! Enjoy your wonderful book!
Really appreciate the way you show the item all cleaned up right at the moment. Big thanks!
Congratulations to the lucky winners!! I already have a copy but if my name had come up, would have let another have it.
I loved seeing the little birds and the new generation of babies exploring their strange new world.
See you next week, hugs and love from a sunny and hot day here in Canada.
You're videos always make Sunday mornings relaxing
Love the nature of the birds just beautiful 🐦🐦
Hi Catherine, how are you doing? 😊😊😊
Hello Nicola, happy Sunday here in the States. I get to watch your video. Congratulations to the book winners. Cool giveaway . Later, Joyce. ARROW *🎱. 🇺🇸. ❤️.
Hi 🙋♂️ Judy, your comments so good where are you from?
After watching this I signed up for my city’s ocean clean up event, thanks for the great content ❤️❤️ _ From NJ, USA
Just love your compassion
Hi Juliane, how are you doing? 😊😊😃😃
Only Nicola White can make a video about trash and pollution that people enjoy watching!!!! Thank you, kind lady!
Posh bit of canal that ?
Round my way if you drain it would be guns knives and Tesco trolleys 😎
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 Well poor people don't vote against their own interests.
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 Clearly not, that's just your inference.
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 You can do that yourself son.
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 I live in New Zealand and my yacht costs me over $20,000 a year.
Have fun on your shitty tub.
Lovely to see you all frolicking in the mud again, and coming back with your treasures. Cheers.
The jaw-bone from a Northern Pike.... Here in Michigan we call them fresh water sharks....nasty tempered buggers...
Would they bite humans?
They certainly would if they're big enough, nasty little shites, good fishing for though 🎣👍
@@Hissing-Syd Take an arm clean off!
That is good ...obviously fish once flowed there on your find ...200 hundred years old ..wow.. great episode ..enjoyed that..
your gorgeous eyes really can hume-in on those little treasures ... again i say, how amazing it is of all the pipes. I will watch your page until you stop (i hope that's awhile down the road)
It's such a pleasure to watch Nicolas videos they all most always open with the amazing interurban wild life that manages to survive in our chaotic watery world of concrete and steel. She sees beauty where most will turn their head away or simply ignore. She makes the overlooked and completely forgotten refuse we intentionally abandon or inadvertently loose a tapestry of history and mystery around each discovery. Keep larking dear Lady!
OMG....those baby birds. XOXOXO Neat finds, Nicola! Hope that family was wearing shoes to swim in the river.
Well done cleaning up the canal, and congratulations to the winners of the book
Good job with the clean up, Nic! Thank you for caring!😀
I am so glad volunteers and the Government are doing clean ups. People can be such polluters, but you volunteers are the counter balance. The birds and animals benefit as well as people! thank you
Congrats to winners, great book. Lovely video Nicola, it is a shame so many people don't care enough to dispose trash in the proper place. Thank you.
Fantastic video! Thank you all for cleaning up the canal. Congratulations to the winners!
Cheers, Paige C.
I love the birds! Stop pollution now!
You are so lucky having history literally at your fingertips. We don't have anything like that in Australia
I did not think I would enjoy this video of mud larking .but I did. thanks...
I loved the baby birds, it looks like you and friends had quite a blast cleaning, and yes we need to look after the environment a lot better. Thank you Nicola amazing. Enjoy your week. 🇨🇦🐘🍁👣🤗
Glad to see your wearing gloves. Always love your videos so relaxing
Awesome watching you and great friends coming together to clean up the canal.
That red, Art-Deco tile instantly made me think of the great Vincent Price "Dr. Phibes" movies!!!
That was the most beautiful tile. Shame it wasn't looked at closer.
NIcola,
Gallinules, coots and Wagtails, oh my!
Thank you for the retrospective look at the earlier adventure with Simon and others, it really makes a difference.
Now your good for another 200 years....right!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Great video and congratulations to the book winners! I so enjoy watching all my favorite mudlarks on Sunday! 😁
Hi 🙋♂️ Kitty, your comments so good where are you from?
Lovely! I am so enamored by both yours and Si's channels! Never heard of mudlarking until I found you both. A new passion! Your art is stunning Nicola! Thank you!🌹🌹
Wonderful Nicola thank you, Love and Light 💜
Congrats to all the winners and I really enjoyed this video and the awareness that it brings you truely are a wonderful person and the rest of the volunteers
I can't get over you spotting that pipe, from the tiny piece of white that was showing, what an eye 😁💛
Great friends, great video, great effort, hurrah to you all!
It's great that you and others volunteered to clean up these waterways -- these canals were the industrial highways of their day (before the railroads, and then in competition with them) -- that fed the industrial enclaves throughout London. Now they are a leisure attraction and haven for urban wildlife, but they can quickly fall into disrepair and then out of favor, and could end up paved over -- a loss of history and a loss of a small break from the hustle-and-bustle of urban living. Thank you all!!!
So nice to see everyone working together to clean up the canals. 😊
Hi Shelia, your comments so good where are you from?
@@mattwaynehendrix7906 South Florida😄
@@sheiladickerson5198 Hi 👋 Sheila.
Am an honorable gentle from New Jersey. Am an independent contractor by profession working on a drilling contract here in the Gulf of Mexico United States, am working on my last contract, after this contract am getting my retirement been on this job for the past 28years, can't wait to be home, can't wait to set my eyes on my son it's been a while since I left him.
@@sheiladickerson5198 Hi Sheila, how long have you lived in South Florida?
Thanks for the environmental cleanup, to you and Simon. Cheers! 😊🏴👍🇺🇸
Great job on your team getting all that junk out of the water. 🤩
What a wonderful job you and your friends did helping clean up the canal Nicola! .....Plus finding little treasures is an added bonus! Bravo!
Great to see all that plastic rubbish removed from the canal Nicola! Job well done! You found some interesting things as well. Congratulations to the competition winners! ♥️😊
Absolutely quality Nic!
A really enjoyable watch with also a powerful message.
Hugs!
Nicola makes the day special! Love your informative and historical find videos. Amazing number of species of wildlife there...the work you all do must be working for the birds to return!
Congrats to the winners, and thanks for the video Nic:)
Thank you guys
I am 2 years late, I love that you all help keep the canals clean. I collect the wimzys not easy here in the US. They are adorable though
I really enjoyed this cleanup this should be done everywhere. Thanks for the video.
So sorry about your friends tooth. I love what you bring to us. May both canals get a proper cleaning.
The old bridges and walls are beautiful Nicola. Thankyou for the video.Cheers.
Nice job on the clean-up. Thanks for using your time to benefit us all.
Wonderful video Nic! Thank you so much for continuing to help clean up the environment and alerting people to the colossal threat of plastic litter and rubbish in general. Personally, when I go out metal detecting and/or mudlarking I think of it as cleaning the planet, and then receiving a nice prize every now and then for doing so. I wish that more of our fellow hobbyists and citizens would do the same.
Sincerely,
Brian
I have about a hundred of the wades that I have gotten at yard sales, flea markets, thrift stores etc. and some that have come in boxes of Red Rose tea.
Gosh I won! THank you so much :D
What a good way to obtain a few good finds during your volunteer community service. Smart business...Thanks for sharing...
Fab vid as always nic. Sadly, after the experience with mam, I really struggle with Sundays now more than any other day but your vid is always the relief i look forward to in it, then I share it with my dad too. You keep us going on our most challenging day each week nic and I thank you for it.
Thanks Ash. lots of love xxx
I'm envious of all your finds on a regular basis. Now those Wade Whimsies are grand!!
As you can imagine finds of 1700s are few n far here in the states, 1600 and earlier may as well be gold
It's a dream to dig about Europe
After online church (still on lockdown here in Costa Rica) I always come to watch your videos. Today’s was beautiful, happy and sad. You always are able to show us the best of everywhere. Thank you Nic. And thank you for making a difference in that place and our lives. It’s so sad how dirty that canal was. It’s sad that there are people there and here that don’t respect, care and love nature. But it’s wonderful with people like us. I’m sure all those birds will live a healthier, safer, happier life. Good job!
Fascinating video. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 😁
I love your video's, very informative. I am surprised they don't dredge like they do here in the US.
Your narrative is very enjoyable!
Thank you for helping save the Earth and the plastic out of the water because yes the wildlife it's horrible for them it's like that for the fish at our beaches I always tried to throw away trash
Encore merci pour toutes tes très belles vidéos.......merci....
Excellent therapy. Just the calm I needed this morning.
Thanks Chris. Glad you enjoyed it
Always a pleasure to watch. Thank you : )
Absolutely fascinating and inspiring videos, thank you!!
An admirable endeavour, Nicola. Good to draw attention to the work that is being done to clean up and draw attention to the need to improve our own proper disposal of waste. Good to see such a wonderful turnout of volunteers. This was such a tease though -- I'm waiting for another 'Ladies Who Lark' video -- evidenced by photos seen on Instagram of a day out on the foreshore in July. Hope we'll be seeing it soon!! xx
Love your finds,your videos lift me up,👏👏
I'm so glad to hear that Rod!
Your camera work is nice and steady.And showing us the birds and their babies is a special treat.
Hello Nicola,
What a great video. Environmentally enlightened. We owe it to the earth to be more conscious of how we pollute the earth and what we can do to clean it up. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Poppet