Mudlarking the River Thames with Nicola White
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Join me as I search the River Thames and Thames Estuary mud for fragments of the past - then back to Tideline Studio to learn a little more about them.
On this video I search for objects in the mud of London and then head out to the Thames Estuary which is a favourite place of mine. I absolutely love the wilderness of the Estuary and the space. It is also extremely historically interesting.
You can find a link to one of my favourite walks on the Estuary here:-
www.estuaryfest...
You do need a permit to mudlark on the River Thames and you can find the details here on the website of the Port of London Authority:-
www.pla.co.uk/...
You never know what you will find in the mud of the River Thames. It really is Liquid History!
Thank you for watching. You can follow me on instagram and twitter @tidelineart
My website is www.tidelineart.com
And you can find my artwork on my etsy site
www.tidelineart...
See you soon.
Nicola
Nicola White
June 2019
www.tidelineart.com
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Anyone else hit the thumbs up before watching? Great video and history lessons!
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There's always 4 or so thumbs down as soon as Nicola posts, which is a bit bewildering
@@limmoblack Could be her jealous rivals?
Hello to Nicola, the Lady of the ancient Thames River, collector of lost and forgotten bits and pieces of history past and present. I am and will always be your most humble admirer, you have a way of lifting my spirits and making my brain matter earn its keep, blessings on you and yours. (and no rabbit hole is too deep as long as you can find your way out)
Thank you very much Scott. xx
thanks again Nicola, a moment of calm and pleasure. first 25 tears of my life was in Chicago USA, where I comed beaches whenever I could. however beach glass was the most prevalent. later in life I became what we call a snowbird. where as being a carpenter I out ran the snow season with St. petersburg,FL. with my boat . Any how what you love intrigues me so very much,and as you wonderfully put it once (forgive me if I don"t get this right) someday people in the future may find our cig. butts interesting. You are so fun. always look forward to your adventures, thank you. Richard in South Carolina, USA.
Thank you Richard x
@@nicolawhitemudlark : Have you ever thought about taking us to some your museums in London . Then showing us "monumental" beach finds they have in display? Your friend in SouthCarolina,USA.
What a wonderful repository of human history is the Thames River! Just imagine over the last 1000 years how many articles both mundane and fabulous have found their way into that mud.
I could watch and listen and learn all day long. Thank you. ❤️
Thank you Nancy x
I like all your videos. However, I particularly like the ones where you go down a rabbit hole! Everything you find has a story worth searching for.
Thank you Doug. I shall go down more rabbit holes I think!
Great news to my ears...thank you!
Thanks for another great day on the Thames. Mystery item looks like it would be used with the pipes you find, scraping out bowl, and ball for packing down tobacco.
Love your creative art, keep up the great work.
Marc
Your videos never fail to entertain, fascinate, enlighten, and relax. I look forward to every on of them!
Hi Nicole, we also find objects like that in Holland. These were put here for the cleaning of your pipe (flat side) and tobacco in the pipe with the convex side. We also have something similar to clean your ears with. Greetings Wilco.
Not only was today's video well done and thoroughly interesting and educational (in a fun way), but I must say I love reading the comments on your videos. You have the most interesting folks who watch you and comment on your work. It is so rare on TH-cam to find anything halfway interesting in the comments, yet you have managed to find some of the most creative folks and encouraged them to speak up. I really admire you, Nicola! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
Thank you very much Steve. x
I so appreciate the insight into part of Dickens' life...I can just see him wandering around the gravestones, eating his pie, creating young Pip's character. Altogether a lovely Sunday adventure, thank you. :-)
Lovely thoughts there x
im a personal history geek, love this sort of stuff! i could (and do) watch video after video of yours all evening! thank you
Thank you x
Thank you Nicola for the Dickens tour. I read Great Expectations annually. Your Tideline posts are always wonderful.
Thank you
Love your videos. As an American I am learning much about your country.
And your voice is so soothing.
Thank you Nicola
The long twisted piece with the small knob at one end and flat on the other looks like something one might stir their cocktail with.
Awesome finds Nicola! The Thames must be a great area to find old relics!👍😁 My personal favorite was the wig curler.☺️
Swizzle stick?
I've also seen a lot of hat pins that look like this as well while looking through old antique shops. They usually have pointed ends but a few have more of that blunt end
@@nolanbrown9200 How would one skewer one's hat with a blunt pin? Hat fabric is thick...
SlyDoll7, straw hat?
I love trips down the 'rabbit hole' as it were. The Dickens tale was lovely. Thank you so much! One of my favorite Charles Dickens' lines: Cheers Nicola 😉
It was one of those March days
when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
So true!
You have such nice responders. I must count myself among your California fans, jealous of the breadth & depth of history available in the old world. Your artist's eye is amazing.
Thank you x
I like how seemingly unconnected items actually do have a connection after all. Thank you for another good lark.
What I always find interesting is not the object, but the history behind the object. It was touched,held, used, by someone 200 years ago. When I find a button off a civil war uniform, I wonder about the soldier who wore that uniform. That’s the excitement for me. The real treasure. Greetings from across the pond.
Brad
Very interesting video. I never knew about curling wigs with those clay curlers. Your knowledge is quite refreshing. ❤❤❤
I love starting my Tuesdays with a blast from one of your videos Nicola before I head off to volunteer for the day. Very inspirational.
I am so thankful to be able to explore the Thames and Estuary with you Nicola. The Thames just keeps giving up its mysteries from its depths for you to discover and for us to admire. I loved the blue glass you found but didn’t see in the roundup. It will be a beautiful addition to your signature glass fish 🐠
Dear Nicola, what a remarkable video. I love how you made the transition to the estuary. The bit on Charles Dickens is genius. Thank you so much for creating a beautiful world and narrative.
Poppet
Thank you Poppet xx
The visit to the church associated with Dicken's Great Expectations was an excellent idea, and a very positive addition to your usual format. It may be worth expanding on this idea, with visits to other places of interest that have an association with your finds. Marvellous show as always!
Thank you Phil. Yes I'm going to try to do that more often
Just what I needed to watch tonight. I am now calm and ready for bed. You are my mud sister forever. Thank you for allowing crazy me to connect with you this way.. I really needed this tonight. Thanks!!!
I absolutely love watching your videos! Always a breath of fresh air!
Thank you x
Nicol what a find. The history of Charles Dickens quite exdorenary. The history makes your finds awesome. I couldn’t have found your finds.
You did a Great job thank you for bringing all of us to the estuary. God Bless.
Thank you x
I think the brass tool you found with a twist was and ear wax scraper. The ring is modern. It's cheap jade. I love your videos especially the coins. I collect them and find them facinating. I love the Georgian pennies.
Your intros and background music along the waves and sloshing about are a very nice touch. As for the little stick thing with the ball and the spade is a pipe cleaner for the bowl the ball was used in the packing of the leaf in the bowl and the spade to scrape away residue.
Thank you x
@@nicolawhitemudlark you are welcome dear heart
Really enjoyed your video Thumbs up.
Happy father's day Nicola you are a very good mother/father
Thankyou👍 It is great waking up here in California on an early Sunday morning to Your mudlark.
Good find that marble.👀
Great lark on the river banks today. Thanks for taking me.
Wow!! Great finds!! I love it when you give us a visual history of your finds. The Dickens connections in the 2 pieces and the church...awesome!!!! Thank you for the great video!!!
Looked like Barbie has had one hell of a night out! Loved the marble, how perfect the lines, they must have mounted it in a spinning device to paint those perfect lines. From sinning to spinning, hair thinning to 4 inch pinning, your video had me grinning. Thanks Nic.
Ha ha love that comment x
I find myself say out loud "oh oh oh whats that? oh wait whats that? Nic I love that I can be on the other side of the world and be on the Thames with you. All that metal scrap could be ART. I'm an artist and I see so much potential. Blessings to you everyday!
Love the history explained with each piece found.
You never disappoint. Can't imagine the fun you must have finding all that "treasure."
The lady ornament made me smile. She had lost her head but managed to keep her hat, Another good video and always worth looking forward to.
Nicola, really enjoyed this video...made we remember the 4 wonderful years my wife and I lived in Suffolk and Essex...keep up the good work...👍🐺❤️
Magical! You take us on a enthralling journey with the smallest of finds and the stories behind them.
It is said that Charles Dickens saw humour everywhere, even in church ! Thank you, Nicole, for that marvellous piece of information about him picnicking in the graveyard and using that imposing gravestone as a picnic table ! 🪦. As children, we were told never to even step on a grave !
Super vid Nic, that wig curler is unique, never seen one that big before!
Thank you Nicola for another great video.
Your interest with British history is contagious! I love all these random little facts about the history of our country that I previously never would have none. I feel we are so lucky to have such interesting artefacts from the past that can give us a small window to who and how people lived back then.
Without such things that type of information would have been lost.
Thank you!
Enjoyed the lark today thanks Nicola xx
Happy week to you too. The rainy, misty, overcast skies here on the shore of Lake Michigan look a lot like today's video journey, which I so it enjoyed, indoors!
Great scenic filming to enjoy far from the Thames in my Ottawa living room 🙂
Another brilliant and fascinating video. Thank you so much x ❤
I also think the mystery object is a swizzle stick for stirring drinks. But then again it could be used with a pipe. Really enjoyed your video. Nothing better than than finding lost objects that are treasures for your creativity. So much history one item can reveal. Thanks much for bringing me along and be safe.
I do indeed love following you down the rabbit hole! I also frequent the process quite often. I suppose we all endear ourselves to the possibilities, some more than others. I was taken back to the first introduction to Pip as you strolled through the cemetery in Kent. How we can occupy the same space of someone else only separated by time. To discover something dropped or lost by an unknown human centuries ago...mind boggling. I enjoy “spending time” with you though, we are on opposite banks of the pond!
Thank you Keith x
Thank you Nicola. Your find of the Primrose Medal meant something to me. 1906 was my father's birth year, and this led me to read up a little on the situation at that time. That election proved to be a Liberal landslide victory, something of which I was unaware. So thanks again for a little more history to add to what I know of my father's early years!
Thank you again Nicole that was cool
Bless you for blessing us!
Thank you
Nicola what great and interesting finds. I love how you always have loads of information and history to go along with the items you find.
Lovely video Nicola and do keep finding more "Rabbit Holes"! They are so very educational!
I always give her a thumbs up too. Never fails. I look forward to seeing her videos
Wonderful!!! And fascinating as usual. Reading a book right now set in the 1860s so your finds help make it come more alive! Love the Estuary finds and connection to Dickens. You’re amazing!!!
Awesome finds Nicola! In the future I would love to see a top ten video of your favorite finds.
Very good idea
Great video Nicola,and great to see you on channel 5 with my hero Tony Robinson, amazing, thanks 😀
Awesome hunt Nick your find at 6:00 is a roman/medieval earwax scoop beautiful find congratulations
Yes, that is exactly what it is! Great find
No it's not far too long, it's one of these www.amazon.com/Stainless-Stirrers-Cocktail-Swizzle-Beverage/dp/B0751JSDTJ
@@jtothew4201 I'm inclined to disagree
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I really enjoyed the little story of Charles Dickens. Thanks for telling
my pleasure. Thank you x
Since I stumbled on your channel I discovered another activity I would have loved to do if I hadn’t had my car crash and became handicapped. Your videos are mesmerizing and informative... a perfect mix, if you ask me.
I also love your “workshop” as it’s my kind of decorating my living space 😉
My very best wishes, for your new expeditions and in general 🖖
Oh I loved the piece about my favorite author, Dickens. ❤️
Thank you Nicola, love the Dickens History and seeing that grave yard. Great Expectations was one of the first novels I read in school, and knowing the history and seeing where they went as a family to have picnics was super cool. I also did not know about the wigs back in the day, very interesting. Thank you. I will be getting my Thames glass fish soon, I am so excited.
What a super fun journey Nicola! That stone ring looks like carnelian, a semi precious stone used for centuries and in ancient Egypt, so foe thousands of years. Of course there are many grades of this stone and some very beautiful and glass like with that orange red color. The long straight pin type brass object? I wonder if it was a doctors instrument or perhaps a tooth pick or marrow scope? That twist in the stem makes it look rather eligent. Thanks Kindly as always and the opening music fir so well with the rainy morning. I can certainly see why Dickens Love this area of beautiful Earth! Love,Light and Peace,,,,,,and fun mudding! DaveyJO in Pa.
Thank you
So much fascinating history in those river banks. Every time you show us a watch, I dream of getting it restored and running again. I know most are beyond help, but if some come from the right time period, there may be hope. What a journey for that watch if it ever came to pass. Thanks for letting us follow along.
Love your rabbit hole forays ! 🐇
Absolutely love all of your videos wish we had a river like that here in America, never ceases to amaze me at all the history that's around you... May I also say I could listen to your voice for hours upon end
Thank you x
Thanks, Nic. I look forward to Sunday mornings for you new mudlarking vlogs.
Love the history of Great Expectations!
A very enjoyable video, Nichola! I really enjoy the history around the items you find, and I appreciate the work you endeavor to enlighten your audience! The camphor glass pendant you wore in this video is very beautiful! I presented my grandmother's camphor glass pendant to our granddaughter, on her wedding day. It was a special moment I will always treasure!
Thank you Gloria xx
What more can you ask for,Top finds and the history behind them. 👍👍👍
I really look forward to your posts. Finds, history, with context .
Very nice video. Thank you for sharing.
Hello beautiful spoon with nice pattern 👍😁😁Thanks and good day end
This was an extraordinarily fine video. What made it special for me was the amount of time that you must have spent doing research and traveling to make this interesting story. Once again I appreciate the mudlarking followed by the explanations and history of your wonderful finds.
Thank you Bill x
Another wonderful video, I love the way you bring your finds to life, your adventures are a highlight of my week. Thank you.
Thank Sharon x
Read the book Great Expectations and have seen the old movie .....what great history ! I love the way you tie the treasures you find and always give us so much more.
REALLY THINK GOD SMILES ON YOU NICOLA, AND YOUR SECTION OF THE THAMES, AMAZING FINDS KEEP ON HAPPENING. CAMILLE OZ
Nicola, thanks so much for the history you provide for your finds, I learn something new with each video! Love the Dickens history and the view of a bit of Great Expectations! Wonderful finds, as always!
Thank you Cynthia x
Well done Nicola, I always learn something new when watching your videos, the comment on great expectations brought back the novel which was a favorite in my younger days. I will leave out the Yuri Geller spoon comment.
Really interesting video, Nicola. Thank you for all the great finds and accompanying information.
Always awesome to see a new video from Nicola Queen of mudlarking.
Thanks for the info about Dickens. I will not say I'm a fan of his books, but I recognize that he was a great influence on literature of the time and of today. I realize that he was kind of the J.K. Rowling of his time. People flocked to hear him read parts of his stories. I have done that with Mercedes Lackey back in the 1990s with a friend. I love your videos, even if I don't always see what you see. You have trained yourself to find these things.
I wish there were a way to pick up all the "junk" on the shore, metal bits and the like, but I am quite aware that you can't clean up the place. I like that you do pick up a good bit of glass and I think your glass, metal and ceramic fish and things are wonderful.
Great video as always... Thank you for bringing us along on your adventures, and thank you for the great history lesson......
Interesting video. .. thank you for being the best find on the Thames....
Thanks Jim!
@@nicolawhitemudlark I have a terrible affliction, I stupidly tell the truth and for the most part I have no mute button, you know? About a minute after I say something I think damn man... lol... I don't watch all your vids but the things you find, the obvious joy you take from it, your slightly eclecticness and the fact you like to get muddy without worry is very nice... thanks Nicola..
Wonderful video Nicola, thank you for taking us along.
Thank you x
Hi Nicola. I've just seen you on TV. WooHoo nice. You kept that one quiet.
Very fascinating what a great story you can find behind small pieces you find in the mud!
Your rabbit holes are so interesting :) Your journey had led me to reading Dickens again.
Thank you for another lovely video again, i do enjoy watching them. on the subject of the Thames estuary, i also enjoy watching a chap called Dylan Winter with a website called Keepturningleft who is slowly sailing around the UK in his small yacht. early on in his video he sails around the estuarys in that neck of the woods. i feel sure you will enjoy watching them
Hello from Morocco;
Great job and very interesting. It's full of historical hidden stories !! My favourite pieces, I would say, are the bended spoon and the pin-type object with curved and flat end. I saw the same findings on other videos !! Were the banks of Thames river knowen by those artists who used to perform "stage magic" showing their psychokinetic abilities to bend spoons and other metalic clutter by mental powers ?? Believe it or not, I imagine Charles Dikkens attending these ceremonies and smooking one of these clay pipes that you found.
Thank you with best regards. 🤗🤗
I thought for a moment that there wasn't going to be a pipe find but there it was! Love that pretty spoon. Great finds Nicola! ❤😊
ha ha, yes I wasn't going to put one in as there have been so many recently, but I couldn't resist sneaking one in there :) x
Enjoyed watching and learning the history of the discoveries. Very interesting facts about Dickens. Great video, very educational and fun.
Thank you for presenting history of your country. As always, great video.
and LOVE rabbit holes!!
Lovely, artful video, as always...thanks for taking us along.
Always fantastic finds with interesting stories behind them. Thank you
Enjoyed listening to you talk about the wigs. You do a great vlog, thank you.
Thank you for the information about Dickens and the Thames: most interesting.
Love you videos here in California. So fascinating all the history of England. The States are babies compared to England I can't imagine finding the treasures you find! A real history lesson.