Mudlarking the River Thames with Nicola White - A very large Anchor!
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- Join me as I go mudlarking along the River Thames in London - searching for pieces of London's past. Today I talk about perhaps one of my largest discoveries and lots of other bits and pieces that have been washed out by the tide.
If you want to try mudlarking you do need a permit and you can find all the details here on the Port of London Authority website
www.pla.co.uk/...
Thank you for watching. You can also follow me on twitter and instagram @tidelineart
Thames Mudlarking Searching for London's Lost Treasures is a great book that not only has fantastic photos of treasures, it is chronological so it really is a great read of the history, not just of England but the world. Nicola White has several contributions shown in the book. I think it would be a way to teach history in a way that young students would find as enjoyable just as did I at age 69. Thanks Nicola for the recommendation of this book.
Love that you found the Grossmith company family! The personal connections you find with history is the best touch!
Thank you for the history lessons of your wonderful finds. You always broaden my mind with all the information. I always look forward to the next adventure.
This video has been one of my favourites.The perfume stoppers remind me of Vivienne Westwood perfume tops.What I like is you putting in scenes between commentaries and finds.Gives the mind time to absorb what you have shown us.The cormorant of plastic was incredible..your the Banksy(pun intended)of art.So imaginative.You'll be the Clarice Cliff of Thames finds art and history.So wonderful.
Dear Nicola - I want you to know that I am so grateful for your videos. I am currently in the hospital and totally unhappy, so I was so, so, happy when your video showed up in my feed!! It is so generous that you take the time to make your videos; I watch them religiously!
Hi Toma! I hope you recover soon.im so pleased you enjoyed the video. Sending love and hugs to you 😘
Thanks for your wonderful videos, truly wake up my explorer dreams; greetings from Tijuana, B.C. México 💓
Greetings right back xx
I would love to follow that anchor chain and see where it leads. I've seen many similar stocked anchors in and around the waters of the great lakes. Thanks for sharing 👍. Hope you can find more about it.
don't pull on it! on the other end is the plug of the Thames....
Watching you with your calm voice and the things you find is very calming and relaxing but there was a few time that you missed a clear read smoothe glass stone and a picture of a little girl. I kept pointing to them to pick up and you didn't. I just have relax and get on with your hunt for pipes that I just love and buttons. Thank you for making that bird, it's beautiful. Susann
Woman, mother, artist, collector, recycler, historian and much more, I suspect. Thanks for sharing your amazing life with us. ❤️
Thank you Nancy! X
Nicola you are what make life so exciting to also learn history in unique way. The people who know you feel blessed that your in there life as well as me
Thanks Doyle. xx
Nicola I love watching your videos to see what treasures you dig up from the mud. The anchor is simply amazing. I appreciate the time you take in researching your finds and sharing with your followers. I know you make beautiful art with some of your finds but have you ever thought of having a museum for your treasures? I know if I lived there instead of Ohio I would love to look at your treasures to see for myself. Thanks for sharing and happy hunting! Tami
Wonderful video and interesting history. I loved it. Thank you. The crosses-eyed lemur was adorable though
Enjoyed so much you do a great job. I have learn so much history from you thank you so much
Thank you 💗
Nicola absolutely love your video's...there so calming to watch...thank you....xx
Thank you Patricia! xx
I love the historical follow-up info. Very interesting!
Nothing but kind remarks for your excellent presentations...
Your videography, narrative , and comfortable pace make for a great watch during a meal ..
Thanks ...
Thank you James x
Great show old Mucker! Easy to love!
Those perfume bottle stoppers are quite interesting, glad to see you were able to link them to the manufacturers still in business since 1835 which is really something.
You sure can make mud interesting. Inspires me to try this out in my harbour city Gothenburg, which where I've only collected pieces of driftwood before for their beauty and speculating about if you could make some art out of it. You certainly show how to make nice pieces of artworks. Cutest so far is deffinentally that fish behind a thick glass-sculpture. Supercute.
The oil in the sand that I see is really worrying to me. Those poor birds and other wildlife. Thank you for your efforts removing all those bits of plastic. ❤️
that timber with the chain would make a beautiful hanging light!
Yes thank you, your first person narrative makes me feel I am there "Mudlarking along". Best wishes Tom USA
Here I am on Sunday night, and disgusted with another shooting, Impeachments, he said/ they said, Russian, Ukraine, China, etc., and your bell sounded that there was a video. I could curl up with a glass of sweet Iced tea, and loose my self in the foreshore. Thank you so much! I know with Britexit, that you are unsettled, but just wanted you to know how much I enjoy the respite. And wishing I was there to lark with you.
Thank you
You have a very good eye on finding things in the mud. Love your artwork. It is just amazing to see how much plastic winds up on the shore. Good job.
Wonderful video! Really enjoy your channel. It is so great that you find out the history on your finds, very interesting! Thank you...take care
thank you
Your videos are so interesting and relaxing. I really like how you incorporate the natural environment into the videos.
Hello Nicola, There is truly something mystical in watching a Heron floating just over the water. Seems as if they levitate effortlessly along. The Great Blue Heron is one that I have carved but about half sized. It was for the front panel of a podium for our local library. On the mounting panel I painted a scene of our local Susquehanna River here in Pa. The river has a long history of many thousands of years by the Indigenous Peoples who carved many petroglyphs. So of course I had to include a petroglyphs on the panel in the scene. You are indeed the Pipe Queen of the Thames and Historian as well. The research is great fun and the fact these items lost by people of the past. How wonderful it is to imagine the lives they lead and how much of a loss that half penny had been for someone or a drunk sailor playing cards. Heads or tails, Opps! Your plastic bird is so well done and in your art stating the carelessness of those litterbugs who don't care. Hopefully it will make those types think about their next lighter or bottle before casting it into the Thames. I think there should be huge fines for littering or better yet, a few hundred hours of clean up then taking it to a recycling center. Think of all those pipes laying under all that plastic. Thank You Kindly for the Thames and it animals, the history and the great music. They have become part of my Sunday's. Luck, Love, Light and Peace! DaveyJO in Pa. ps. When are you coming out with your rock album, eh?
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. I'm sure your carved herons are beautiful. Album in the making 😆
So I'm sitting here on a Sunday morning watching political commentary videos feeling my blood pressure and anger rise when I see the notification of a new Nikki mudlark video. I immediately click on the video and feel my anger leaving and blood pressure returning to normal. So don't ever think you are not doing good in this world. Bless you dear and keep up the great work. You're videos never disappoint. Love the four leaf clover pipe. A lucky day indeed!
What in the world was that round, black disc with "Treasure" printed on it?
Tejas Rob , you are absolutely correct, I feel the same way about politics and the calmness of Nicola. Just a joy to watch. Cheers.
thank you x
randsterama ..”your” RUDE!
An a obvius vocabalary SNOB! 😡
Grow up grumpy person🙄
@@redarmysoja actually I don't know!
So glad I finally found a series that both my husband and I can equally enjoy. I love the bits of history here and there that you discover. Of course I had to ask where can we go mudlarking in the Boston area. Hello from the US!
Wonderful about your comorant sculpture! I think the pieces would be more liked than you realize.I would love to see more. Thanks for another wonderful video.
I’ve just seen that you are featured in The Thames Then and Now on Channel 5 at 8 o’clock on Tuesday 7th October! Nichola, you’re a tv star!
😁 oh my goodness I hope it's good!
nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art I’m sure you will be wonderful. Sorry I spelt you name incorrectly, by the way ♥️.
Always SO interesting!
So good to have you back down on the foreshore rooting about and recovering items that would otherwise be lost forever and their story never told. O
Thanks Hugh
Hi, nicola. I see it every time. You can see the history from what you picked up. I love it the most.
hello Nicola. I was telling you to STOP but I don't think you heard me. I thought the arrows are military I could be wrong. still another great video.👍👍
Crazy cool findings.... It's a groovy thing..
Amazing video love all your video th are beautiful thank u Ni
The plastic cormorant is gorgeous. Too bad it all came from the river. Keep up the amazing work.
Haha cool your on the tele. Well done, love your videos.
Thank you for another virtual mudlark outing. I am recovering from hip replacement surgery earlier this week, so this is as close to mud I can get for a while. I thought the anchor was particularly interesting. I was saying " it's an anchor! It's and anchor!" Even though you couldn't hear me. Lol
Sadly missed the Foreshore exhibition, but have seen Si Finds teaser video, it looked amazing! X Pip
Some of those big metal nails and metal spikes look really good nailed into a bit of drift wood and then you can use it as a coat hanger
yes, that would look great
Hello pretty Lady, nice outing , interesting facts!
Exhibition sounds really cool, love the plastic sculpture
Incredible outing, I lark on the Mersey foreshore and never find so many really historic finds in one go tho I have had a few stunners. What an anchor!! Saw a clip on TV with you on the mud, have set to record looking forward to watching it and more!
One more very interesting day mud larking on the Thames Nicola!
Love your cormorant sculpture, very exciting that Thames 21 has adopted it as a spokes-piece!
I absolutely enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing.
thank you
I've missed seeing you mudlarking videos! I like the crows chasing the rubber herring with the largest jet in the back ground at 21:17 later! 😎💨
the thick wedge like nails you find look very much like floor brads for nailing floor boards years ago
love the adventure...tiger tiger burning bright
George III coin is either 1806 or 1807 Halfpenny. Only year they were made with that head profile.
Was made in Birmingham at the Soho Manufactory of Mathew Boulton, minted on Steam powered presses, steam engine made by James Watt.
Good evening dear lady
What a wonderful adventure. I do so love walking ,looking at the waters edge for bits and pieces of history with you. Might I ask. Are the archeologist looking into raising the anchor for preservation? Possible a museum in its future for all to see. I would rather think it has historical value. Kindness to the wildlife around you is a sign of a loving heart. That kind lady is a virtue. Till next time.
Warmest regards Albus
Thank you x
It's too difficult logistically to retrieve the anchor. And just too expensive so it will stay there where it will be monitored, at least for the time being
Or at leastsee how much of the anchor itself can be uncovered with a fire hose from a launch? Are the flukes still there in the mud?
I cannot imagine WHAT you would find of you wore glasses !!! without them you find Glorious tiny things in similar coloured mud !! Did I notice that you still Don't have a coloured ribbon or Something on your trowel ???? xxx
Hi, The Arrows you are showing are from the "Minstry of Defense" "The War Office", it is still used today !!
Yes I know!!
❤ love your videos ❤
thank you
Hi Nicola x
How cool is your studio, waow♥️♥️😎♠️👍🏻
Absolutely awesome finds Nicola and love your videos on the Thames with all the mixed ages of finds from our history
ATB GL & HH
LittleJohn_MD 🇬🇧
Thank you John
Seen you on an advert for Thames history when is this on so I don’t miss it great video again Nicola
Thank you! Tuesday channel 5 at 8pm
Ok Nic thankyou
The timber you pointed out is an anchor.
That little animal reminds me of a character in the animated movie Madagascar. You know, only the rich could afford perfume, soap and toiletry products in the 19th century. Toothbrushes and tooth powder were expensive too! Awesome video!
Thanks Dustin! yes, it reminds me of one of those Madasgar movie animals too
Regarding the raven -- do you he might be one that was pensioned off by the Tower? :One hears how Boris is trying to cut back and save money...-) Also , was thinking about how many pipes (and pieces of pipes) you find along the Thames - makes you think really of how many hundreds of thousands of men who must have smoked them -because you know probably only 1 or 2 % dropped them overboard or lost them along the shore..!
That huge wooden piece with the chain attached "could" be the stock of the anchor.... some had lower parts that were iron and upper parts that were wood (generally varnished oak) bound to the anchor with heavy iron bands. Other than that it might be a numbered part of a mast step or brace. When you visited California with Chill Bill last year don't know if you got down to Dana Point harbor Marina ( a very nice shopping area with high end restaurants and a huge marina) There is a 3/4 size replica of the "Henry Dana", a brig that plied the trade there in the 18th century; the replica is built of similar materials and is frequently being restored or maintained by its staff which also run a historical group, some of whom help to maintain it. I was able for some time during the 1990's to be part for that team and learned more than a bit about such ships as it sailed up the coast as part of one of the Tall Ship Festivals we hold here in So California annually.
Thank you. You're right about the anchor, and for the pipes, people did just throw them away as they were disposable for the most part. Seems strange as they are so pretty!
I always look forward to your vids
@ about 00:11:55, just before you find a tag and a stopper; did you miss a small bell from a horse's tack? How taxing it must be to focus in on all the flotsam and jetsam. I would have such eyestrain.
Maybe I missed it!!
Another Tiny Nicola story.
“Nicola versus the Raven”
Nicola,once again mudlarking,is surrounded by a ‘murder’ of ravens.
She is casually amused by their cawwing,when she suddenly shrinks to 8 inches tall.
Deciding that she was small enough to escape their notice,she continued to mudlark.
Naturally,she spotted a pipe bowl.
Grasping it,and carefully wiggling the giant bowl,she deduced that it might,in fact be complete!
With much effort,tiny Nicola managed to extract the pipe.
It was nearly complete,and wit a Royal Antideluvian Order of the Buffaloes motif!
She let out a tiniest of cheers,which caught the attention of the Ravens!
They approached the tiny mudlarker.
Nicola quickly implored”Hold on,boys,don’t do anything that you will regret!”
The Ravens responded,”We regret nothing!”, and approached tiny Nicola,with obvious ill-intent!
As soon as the first Raven got near her,tiny Nicola swung the Clay pipe at it,like a mace,and struck it in the side of the head.
The Ravens cawwed at this surprising act of defense by the miniaturized woman.
They backed off.
Nicola began to return back to her regular size.
The Ravens scattered off,shocked at such a spectacle!
Nicola,still holding the now tiny pipe,formerly a huge weapon of defense,realized to herself,that Ravens May very well be a force that she would have to reckon with once again!
Thanks!
Thank you so much Lisa! This is so kind of you. Im so glad you enjoyed the video. love Nicola xx
The tiger toy is Hu from movie 'The Secret Life of Pets 2"
Great to see you back, I'm going to be one of those people that think they've got some underground information but doesn't really! Here goes, did you know
(you probably do)that the Romans used folded lead to keep money in, so they'd put their money on a piece of lead and fold it over to keep it safe ,if there was no bags or they couldn't sew. So now I can return from dinner party bore too normal insanity. Byes byes the nooo, ps luv the vids and looking forward to seeing the next episode.
Thank you great info!
The Romans inscribed curses on pieces of sheet lead, then folded them, before throwing into ponds, lakes and rivers, in order to activate the curse.
V cute and a lovely voice!
The crows foot on the anchor is Royal Navy (MOD)
I see so many things when you scan the camera that you don’t pick up... i find it so interesting, what you choose.
AOTHER GREAT ADVENTURE thank you
WONDER WHAT SHE WOULD GET WITH MAGNET. LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH METAL
Nicola,
Do you ever wade deeper into the water to possibly find more juicy stuff? Roman or gold coins?
you can start with a museum!
Greenwich Maritime Museum ma be interested in the large anchor ?
was that YOU? was it? it was YOU that was on channel 5. I didn't catch the program I just seen a clip of it. I hope you read this and tell me the shows name. it was very cool seeing you on t.v.👍👍
Yes it was me. Well spotted. It's "the River Thames then and now" channel 5
There are my pipes! Can’t have a Nicola video without my pipes
Just out of curiosity,how long do you think someone would live if they drank a cup of Thames water?
at 3:56 - you're going at it Tooth and Nail I see.
ericalbany Lol 😂 yes very clever
Damn! You got there before me! LOL :D
Do you ever see / discover something new (in the mud) when you edit your videos?
I believe the large timber with the chain is part of an anchor.
You're correct!
How appropriate -- to find some wildlife with white and black stripes -- your fashion sense is catching on!!! Question -- you have rescued, relaunched many messages in bottles -- have you ever sent your own message on a bottle out into the Thames?
I've rescued about 130 now and have sent about 20
@@nicolawhitemudlark -- well, when I was at the beach a few weeks back (Ocean City, Maryland), I looked and looked but could not find any messages in a bottle from you!!!! Keep trying! :-)
is that a jar to the right of the ancor
Hooray for pink "Wellies"
hooray!
How did you get that anchor home in the car? :-)
Also on another note "chilly willy" reminds me of Boris with the same coiffure.
I named my colostomy bags Boris.
In the USA with tRump as president (no, I won’t dignify his name with a capital T) life has been Hell. I send you folks best wishes. I know you’re going through your own difficulties. Good luck to us all - plants, animals, sea creatures, birds, reptiles, humans and the Earth herself. We all need it desperately these days. So nice to hear your soothing voice and focus on other days when we weren’t so frightened of the END TIMES (though the world wars were scary as well) I was born only a couple of years after the last one - yeah I’m truly old but have no interest in ending it all yet - a couple more decades might be good
Your new boots got a good work out today, eh? LOL
Time stamp 13:10 is an anchor.
I love it when Nicola says she needs glasses when she can spot a pin in the mud at 100 paces...... :P
xactly
Indeed
Certainly! I like playing spot the find. I rarely can!
@@joypowers563 I live playing find the item as she zooms Iver the spot! I am getting better with practice! Lol! At first I always saw nothing! ( :
Oh, you found the spirit animal of someone who spends time in the mud in a stripey top
😊 !
LOL
😂😍 a very rare breed !
Your new totem animal!
Might I make a suggestion regarding cleaning your buttons and some of the other items that you find? I have found this to be particularly effective in cleaning buttons and even coins that I find. Clean the item as much as you can with water and a soft brush. Heat hydrogen peroxide in your microwave for about 30 seconds (times may vary according the the amount of peroxide that you are heating, but just few seconds is enough). Drop the item into the heated peroxide and leave it alone. A few minutes is usually enough, but I usually leave the item in the peroxide until it has stopped or almost stopped fizzing. It is not going to damage the item any to leave it in. If necessary, reheat the peroxide and drop the item in again. I have found that in most cases one session is enough. It really does a nice job of bringing out the detail of the item. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. You do an EXCELLENT job!
thank you! I will try that
Oooo thank you! I will try this too:)
Wow! Excellent tip! Thanks!
@@jfseal38 Hope it works as well for you as it does for me John.
Your a bleeding gem thank you.
My Sunday, is late morning Tea with Nicola🇨🇦❤️
Me too! ☕🇨🇦
Judith Bisson me three🇨🇦
Me too 🇨🇦 !
8pm with me. 🇨🇦
Foreshore withdrawal? lol, me too.....missed your adventures!
What was the circular thing with "Treasure" stamped into it please?
i don't know.will try to find out
Yes, I'm keen to know too
@MrKingdig What kind of marker?
SlyDoll7 I am guessing it might have been a balance scale weight. This on one side, the product on the other. Only a guess, but it seems logical.
@MrKingdig you have revealed my secret!! 😂
The anchor story is fascinating ! Lovely vid as always x
wow your 'bird' is superb ... It really inspires me. I'm sitting bed bound in my hospital bed, once was training to be a classical dance, broke my back at 19 years of age, then an artist using a multiple pf mediums, now 60 but feel like a teenager. Now when I am up to it I crochet wire. I love hearing all your information you find out. A very large Anchor was intriguing ... perhaps the title for a storybook. I have recently purchased 4 mudlarking books. Nicola, thanks for being you. xx
Thank you ❤️
NIcola,
That George the Third coin made me smile.
There is a chap here in the states, Green Mountain Metal Detector,(Vermont) who find George the First, second and third coins in hollow stone surrounded remains of colonial and other early period homes in remote parts of the Green Mountains.
These areas are often tree and brush overgrown , but with a detector and a keen eye reveal a lot of our ancestors histories here in the states.
There are also many buttons, apparently they were lost quite often.
Your Thames detecting also requires a keen eye, but covers a vastly larger section of History, three cheers for Londinium!
It amazes me how you focus in on things I would probably ignore. There is so much to see.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Ferndale,WA USA
Thank you. Great to know that he finds those coins over there!
@BreatheScotland You have good taste.
He's such a gentle soul, well at least on you tube:)
His videos are so layered with natural as well as historical interest.
I think he's a teacher.
Thanks for your reply,
Cheers,
Rik Spector
I watch him too, he likes colonial buckles as well
I watch Brad as well. I think he is a really nice person. Like Nicola!
@BreatheScotland Of course, they make a great team, boyhood friend.
You're the only person that I know who claims to need glasses whilst spotting a sixteenth of an inch of pipe stem from 20 feet away!
Trinity House are responsible for all the lighthouses around the coast so it could be a Lighthouse Keeper's button.
I think the tigger is my favorite find today he seems like a nice little kitty and then the swans