@@kathyf3656 omg .. it took me the longest time to understand what an onion bottle was .. I was thinking to myself, why would they bottle onions, were they like pickled onions, or fried and then bottled? sigh .. yes, I am blonde and apparently, getting old too!
That's what I was thinking when he located it. Great for stone age style arrowheads and knives. Lots of flintknappers make them from old thick bottle bottoms.
Hello there Simon. You have got another follower here. I am an ex east Londoner born and bred. The Thames was my old stamping ground from the mid 50's to early 60's and foreshore was my favorite, but I was not aware then that all that history was beneath my feet. I am now in my 70's and still a great lover of London of my youth, so, anything to do with the Thames has my full attention!! I came across one of your videos and I was instantly hooked on the way you go about digging up history. I am in the process of watching all your videos...Please keep them coming! The episode with the grenade was brilliant though I nearly had a heart attack when your mate prodded the grenade with his trowel..lol. The museum with all the mud larker's finds was mind blowing and I hope that it becomes a permanent spot on London's skyline. Congrats on you videos, you've got this old codger hooked mate....Thank you.
Just found your channel what a brilliant way to spend your spare time and the history in the mud finding all the things people threw away all those years ago wonderful history of London .All of you mudlarks keeping London history alive keep safe .
There is lots of that slag glass around where I live (South Wales) and I've picked up peices and made little lighthouses to glue on. Pick a peice that fades down from light to dark so it's like the deep sea😁😁
It wouldn't be Sunday, without Si. Love the slag glass. Wouldn't it be beautiful in an aquarium? It would resemble sunken icebergs. Thank you, as usual.
Hello Chaps, please be careful exploring in all that broken glass. I find it amazing that you can find keys and beads, buttons and belt buckles, tiny bits and pieces and the really fabulous finds of complete bottles and ink wells etc that are hundreds of years old. So much history. I hang on every new clip just to see what new finds you get. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
Hi Si, I lived in Rainham until I was 21 and this part of the Thames was our playground as kids, one of the barges used to be covered in flotsam and jetsam and was reported to have an old guy living on it but we never saw him, this would have been in the 70s. We used to walk down Ferry Lane to the very end and then walk along the sea wall, we would find all sorts of stuff. During the summer school holidays we would be down there most days. Further along towards Dagenham there used to be a place called Frog Island ( owned by Ford motor Co ) there was an dump area that was full of old bits and pieces it was reported to be the belongings of the people who died from the plague but looking back there was a lot of stuff from the war time era. Watching your video brought back a lot of good memory’s, keep the videos coming. Thanks John
I’m very sad 😞 I’d LOVE to have that little milk glass bottle and the little brown one beside it. Maybe one day you’ll collect a few and do a giveaway . They are common to you but to your American bottle collecting subscribers they’d be an Amazing addition to our collections
We always called the glass lumps furnace slag. In southern Ohio, this area was saturated with iron furnaces, especially during the Civil War. Most are gone now, but the sites are covered with this obsidian-like slag in all shades of blue, green, and black. Nice drone footage, btw. Thanks 👍👍
OMG! Your turntable has my all-time favorite band, The Dave Clark Five! I saw them in concert in 1966 in a smallish town in California! I was all of 15 years old. They were so fantastic! Thanks for the flashback!!
Thanks for a wonderful explore along the foreshore. Fab fu da as usual! I love Sunday afternoon when I can put my feet up after cooking lunch and wallow in the mud with you and then Nicola...lol.
All of those bottles that's not broken would make beautiful lights, cut the bottom off that doesn't have any writing put the wire thru the bottom up the neck and hang from a piece of wood or table. Nice finds and cool idea on the sliders 😊
Oh imagine the bottles you'd be able to make with those shards and imagine the collections you could fill with those older (or for crafts, discarded modern) bottles.
Completed ingenious. Just shows you how people had to think outside the box during wartime. My grandparents still held a tiny grudge because all their iron balustrades were taken from the front of the house ( along with everyone else) and never compensated or returned. There was a rumour they were sold cheap as scrap after the war when unused. Most were replaced by hedges. It was my Grandads main gripe against Churchill - that, and he didn’t marry his elder sister who had a crush on him. They were both born in the 1880s . Interesting folk to a child born in the 1960s!
Good to see you out on the foreshore again Simon! One of the two rubbish incinerators on the south side of the water, -the glass slagg gets deposited from it as they cannot use it once it is burnt as it is mixed, the metals are extracted for recycling and they use the ash for making building breeze blocks. The incinerator was built to substitute the old Rainham Marsh Landfill site (now full) and to generate electricity for London and the surrounding area. The old landfill site has now been grassed over to form a wildlife reserve. The rubbish is topped with spoils of soil and clay from the crossrail project. Unfortunately, further down and with the lack of a seawall parts of it are now being exposed to the thames foreshore.
@@JS-wc4xs I wouldn't like to say that you could carve it as some of it would be more brittle than other bits but it would come up well if it was polished or small pieces were perhaps tumbled.
Thanks Si, for another really interesting history lesson and some nice upcycling project finds. I just love the upcycled 30s car battery. How unusual is that as a talking point as well as turning out to look so cool!
Dave Clark 5, made me smile- one of my pappy's favourites! Great video 😁 thank you. Loved learning about the barges, I never knew you could make stuff like that out of concrete- but then again theres a lot I dont know 😁😁 stay safe!
OH MY! I'm a flintknapper ( make arrowheads) and am always looking for flint and other knapping material. Most of the time i have to buy my material online and end up paying for junky bland rock! All of those AMAZING huge chunks of colorful glass slag would be a dream come true for me!!! I could make some awesome knives, spears and arrowheads out of that stuff! Plus there is so much of it, that it would keep me busy for years! One mans trash is another mans treasure! Such a true statement!!! You should have a go at flintknapping seeing as how you have an endless supply of amazing material!
Glass slag for manufacturing of marbles and beads? Congratulations on your discoveries. Enjoyed learning about the barges. Thanks for sharing your love of a good search and the history behind the items discovered.
That glass car battery looked like an Oldham type, Oldham made lots of electrical things, from safety Lamps and torches, basically as Terry said built to last including military stuff and i think they are still in business to this day. Great Finds Si, keep bringing that history back to life for our future generations hopefully up north here in Manchester i'll get some luck in the local rivers :D
Thank you for this video. Loved seeing some more Thames history. It brings back memories of my nanas and grannies stories of London during ww2. I visited London for the first time last year but it was just a flying visit. I want to go back and see more of the Thames. 💗
We get a lot of similar blue glass slag up here in Sweden from the Ironworks. Nice small pieces can be polished in a pebble tumbler and they make great jewellery.
Si-finds do you have pebble tumbler? They’re relatively inexpensive and would make a great addition to your workshop if you don’t. Polished “gems” for your upcycled finds!
@@Sifinds it's actually slag from a steel mill, the town I live in was home to many mills and has one still operating and we have identical glass slag used as paving and fill all over town. nothing in as large chunks as you found though
@@broadstken I don't recall any steel furnaces in Essex, there's no iron ore or coal mines in the area so makes no sense, brick making was very common due to the clay as was glass making due to the sands and limestone in Kent
Hay Si :) So nice to see you back in the mud. Just wanted to say that I stumbled across one of your videos early in the lockdown and have been watching them ever since. I often fall asleep to the sounds of the river these days. in the early days of the lockdown, it was a great comfort to me. I had never heard of mudlrking before but since I was a little girl I've picked up things (I have a peace of tile from Italy that I have had for 20 years lol ) My daughter asked for a metal detector for her birthday last week and we can't wait to get out of the garden and use it somewhere. So to you and NIc Thanks for keeping me company for all these weeks.. Much appreciated x Diolch yn fawr iawn. Cadw'n ddiogel a gobeithio am lwc yn y mwd x
Hey Frankie, what a lovely message! Keep me posted with what you find, if you are lucky you might get some permission round a castle if you are in Wales!
That onion joke brought tears to my eyes.
Groan, haha
Oh my goodness BAHAHAHAHAHA.
I was going to say that 😂😂 I could run onion rings round him (dad joke)😂😂
I thought you were going to make a joke about finding an "onion bottle" intact. After watching you and Nicole, that would be rare indeed.
@@kathyf3656 omg .. it took me the longest time to understand what an onion bottle was .. I was thinking to myself, why would they bottle onions, were they like pickled onions, or fried and then bottled? sigh .. yes, I am blonde and apparently, getting old too!
WWII concrete barges and a concrete bunker!? Fascinating!!
That slang glass flintknaps nicely!
That's what I was thinking when he located it. Great for stone age style arrowheads and knives. Lots of flintknappers make them from old thick bottle bottoms.
The red little ceramic figurine was my fav thing in this treasure hunt! He is Fab!!
Hello there Simon. You have got another follower here. I am an ex east Londoner born and bred. The Thames was my old stamping ground from the mid 50's to early 60's and foreshore was my favorite, but I was not aware then that all that history was beneath my feet. I am now in my 70's and still a great lover of London of my youth, so, anything to do with the Thames has my full attention!! I came across one of your videos and I was instantly hooked on the way you go about digging up history. I am in the process of watching all your videos...Please keep them coming! The episode with the grenade was brilliant though I nearly had a heart attack when your mate prodded the grenade with his trowel..lol. The museum with all the mud larker's finds was mind blowing and I hope that it becomes a permanent spot on London's skyline. Congrats on you videos, you've got this old codger hooked mate....Thank you.
Aw thanks John. Glad you like the vids! Please tell your mates!!
It is so good to see guys out about miss you guys ty for maki g mu night
I want to go mud larking so badly , oh my, how wonderful. I love mud , muck, rivers, wet places, marshes , bogs ! too fun
Enjoyed watching,
Great treasures
Love the guitar slide :-) , very cool .
Just found your channel what a brilliant way to spend your spare time and the history in the mud finding all the things people threw away all those years ago wonderful history of London .All of you mudlarks keeping London history alive keep safe .
Welcome David!
Love you guys take care Mud lovers are Awesome 😉😉😉
Thanks Mary!
Thanks si-finds I enjoyed that! Happy larking now your able to get back to it!
There is lots of that slag glass around where I live (South Wales) and I've picked up peices and made little lighthouses to glue on. Pick a peice that fades down from light to dark so it's like the deep sea😁😁
It wouldn't be Sunday, without Si. Love the slag glass. Wouldn't it be beautiful in an aquarium? It would resemble sunken icebergs. Thank you, as usual.
Yes what a great idea!
So interesting. Love watching Nicola and your videos. Thanks .
A racing yacht was being laid up when I was into boating in the 70's, it was called "Ferrocrete".
Oh man, what I wouldn't give to have some of that glass slag. It's beautiful!
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Hi Simon 👋 from America...love the videos thank you for making us knowledgeable of the past...good luck and happy mudding!!!!!
I've wanted to go and see those barges forever!
Hello Chaps, please be careful exploring in all that broken glass. I find it amazing that you can find keys and beads, buttons and belt buckles, tiny bits and pieces and the really fabulous finds of complete bottles and ink wells etc that are hundreds of years old. So much history. I hang on every new clip just to see what new finds you get. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks Jozie
In the seventies in the US, slag glass was used for garden edging
The vinegar bottle is gorgeous!
You want it? Message me on etsy
Hi si hope u well amazing find n u make th most beautiful things thank u my dear friend take care
Thanks buddy
Hi Si, I lived in Rainham until I was 21 and this part of the Thames was our playground as kids, one of the barges used to be covered in flotsam and jetsam and was reported to have an old guy living on it but we never saw him, this would have been in the 70s. We used to walk down Ferry Lane to the very end and then walk along the sea wall, we would find all sorts of stuff. During the summer school holidays we would be down there most days. Further along towards Dagenham there used to be a place called Frog Island ( owned by Ford motor Co ) there was an dump area that was full of old bits and pieces it was reported to be the belongings of the people who died from the plague but looking back there was a lot of stuff from the war time era. Watching your video brought back a lot of good memory’s, keep the videos coming. Thanks John
I’m very sad 😞 I’d LOVE to have that little milk glass bottle and the little brown one beside it. Maybe one day you’ll collect a few and do a giveaway . They are common to you but to your American bottle collecting subscribers they’d be an Amazing addition to our collections
Fascinating, thanks Si. Great music too btw 👍😊
Thanks Bob!
I love the music in your videos. Thank you for sharing your finds 🌸💕
We always called the glass lumps furnace slag. In southern Ohio, this area was saturated with iron furnaces, especially during the Civil War. Most are gone now, but the sites are covered with this obsidian-like slag in all shades of blue, green, and black. Nice drone footage, btw. Thanks 👍👍
Absolutely Facinating xxx so interesting thanks Si x brilliant as ever
Thanks Sue
Totally top banana finds ....and to top it off a si finds in shorts , couldn't for any better ....;-)
Oh boy that is an amazing place for bottles... heaven for a beginner like me. Amazing!
Awesome as always, love the tune.🇨🇦🐘😘
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That glass would look so pretty in a garden.. Would love it around my pond.
Yay so glad your back
Where did I go? 😉
I always learn something new from you So. Thanks 😁
My pleasure
That blue glass 😍😍 would love that In the garden, my favourite colour
OMG! Your turntable has my all-time favorite band, The Dave Clark Five! I saw them in concert in 1966 in a smallish town in California! I was all of 15 years old. They were so fantastic! Thanks for the flashback!!
Haha, love this track to!
With all that broken glass laying around I couldn’t stop thinking about recycling!
So many bottles !! I enjoy watching you re-purpose them. Thank you :)
My pleasure!
So glad to see you are back, I’ve missed the adventures of Si and Nik
We havent gone anywhere? 👍🏻😊
Very pretty glass I would put that in my Landscaping pretty
Screaming Hand, NICE
Watching your videos is a great way to forget about all the crazy in the world. Thanks. :)
My pleasure
Great day for some luck in the muck. Thanks so much for sharing what you do and your cool finds. Have a great day and stay healthy and safe.
Thanks Linda!
An ocean of glass - the slag was so varied and colorful, loved the piece that went from black to blue ! Nice bottles for up cycling as well.
Thanks linda! Yes some of it was beautiful
Great upcycling !
Thanks!
Thanks
Yeahhhh, let's have some fun in the mud! 😁😁😁🌸🌺🌸
Thanks for a wonderful explore along the foreshore. Fab fu da as usual! I love Sunday afternoon when I can put my feet up after cooking lunch and wallow in the mud with you and then Nicola...lol.
*fab finds
Thanks Debs!
Very nice adventure Si. Thank you from all us that want to mudlark with you but can not.
All of those bottles that's not broken would make beautiful lights, cut the bottom off that doesn't have any writing put the wire thru the bottom up the neck and hang from a piece of wood or table. Nice finds and cool idea on the sliders 😊
I loved that laughing man you found. Nice seeing you on again. Thank you
I haven’t gone anywhere 👍🏻😉
Oh imagine the bottles you'd be able to make with those shards and imagine the collections you could fill with those older (or for crafts, discarded modern) bottles.
Good to see you back on the Thames shore, interesting barges & area ♥
Found it very interesting about the barges who knew concrete barges could float. The slag glass would look fabulous in your gardens.
The glass refuge might be nice for a garden
The glass battery was interesting, I've never seen one before. Another school day, thanks Si!
Great video, so pleased that you’re out & about again...I’m so chuffed I spotted the green bead! 😊
Oh well done you! 👍🏻
That's such pretty slag. I love the bark blue..
That glass slag is great for putting into tropical fishtanks as a rockery as it's easy to clean and added colour to the tank.
Great idea
That motorcycle would make a good wall decoration
Just down the road from where my mother was born (Hornchurch) back in '43! :-)
Great video thanks for sharing!
Lordy you are giving me breakdown without your gloves!
Those big chunks of glass would look awesome in flower beds.
That milk glass hand cream jar was cute with the heart shield on it
Completed ingenious. Just shows you how people had to think outside the box during wartime. My grandparents still held a tiny grudge because all their iron balustrades were taken from the front of the house ( along with everyone else) and never compensated or returned. There was a rumour they were sold cheap as scrap after the war when unused. Most were replaced by hedges. It was my Grandads main gripe against Churchill - that, and he didn’t marry his elder sister who had a crush on him. They were both born in the 1880s . Interesting folk to a child born in the 1960s!
Great story! Thanks for sharing
Cheers and thank you Si-Finds☮️🇨🇦
my pleasure 😊
👍❤love that blessed and see you again stay with the lord
So many lovely bottles 😁
Thanks!
Good to see you out on the foreshore again Simon!
One of the two rubbish incinerators on the south side of the water, -the glass slagg gets deposited from it as they cannot use it once it is burnt as it is mixed, the metals are extracted for recycling and they use the ash for making building breeze blocks. The incinerator was built to substitute the old Rainham Marsh Landfill site (now full) and to generate electricity for London and the surrounding area. The old landfill site has now been grassed over to form a wildlife reserve. The rubbish is topped with spoils of soil and clay from the crossrail project.
Unfortunately, further down and with the lack of a seawall parts of it are now being exposed to the thames foreshore.
Ah, ok thanks for the info! Always a fountain of knowledge - thank you!
Very interesting thank you 👍
Can the glass Slag b used a carving medium?
@@JS-wc4xs I wouldn't like to say that you could carve it as some of it would be more brittle than other bits but it would come up well if it was polished or small pieces were perhaps tumbled.
Love the Faith No More T-shirt
It's not a proper Sunday w/o your videos. Good to see Terry again!
Thanks Eric!
Perfect record for display, "Bits and Pieces" Haha! ( plus I immediately sang the song...yep, I'm old...)
Great tune!
very enjoyable watch
Thanks
Thanks Si, for another really interesting history lesson and some nice upcycling project finds. I just love the upcycled 30s car battery. How unusual is that as a talking point as well as turning out to look so cool!
Thank you!
Brilliant video Si. Interesting war history. Stay safe. Cheers .
Very cool adventure !! Different--yet familiar !
Great thanks 👍🏻
Awesome
I would have totally took some of that slag for my garden. I have been thrifting colored glasses and places them upside down in the garden.
Dave Clark 5, made me smile- one of my pappy's favourites! Great video 😁 thank you. Loved learning about the barges, I never knew you could make stuff like that out of concrete- but then again theres a lot I dont know 😁😁 stay safe!
Yeah pretty amazing when you think about it!
That half of a green bead would make a great eye for one of Nicolas' glass fish!
It would!
OH MY! I'm a flintknapper ( make arrowheads) and am always looking for flint and other knapping material. Most of the time i have to buy my material online and end up paying for junky bland rock! All of those AMAZING huge chunks of colorful glass slag would be a dream come true for me!!! I could make some awesome knives, spears and arrowheads out of that stuff! Plus there is so much of it, that it would keep me busy for years! One mans trash is another mans treasure! Such a true statement!!! You should have a go at flintknapping seeing as how you have an endless supply of amazing material!
Glass slag for manufacturing of marbles and beads? Congratulations on your discoveries. Enjoyed learning about the barges. Thanks for sharing your love of a good search and the history behind the items discovered.
This was a really interesting video!
Thanks
That glass car battery looked like an Oldham type, Oldham made lots of electrical things, from safety Lamps and torches, basically as Terry said built to last including military stuff and i think they are still in business to this day. Great Finds Si, keep bringing that history back to life for our future generations hopefully up north here in Manchester i'll get some luck in the local rivers :D
Cheers Ernie!
Love your finds and clean up tfs xx
Thanks Carol 👍🏻
Slag is beautiful glass by product
Thank you for this video. Loved seeing some more Thames history. It brings back memories of my nanas and grannies stories of London during ww2. I visited London for the first time last year but it was just a flying visit. I want to go back and see more of the Thames.
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Cheers Jo!
Great video as usual Si - I think I enjoy seeing what you upcycle things into as much as i enjoy seeing you mudlark.
Aw thanks Jan! But can’t have one without the other, right?
@@Sifinds yup
We get a lot of similar blue glass slag up here in Sweden from the Ironworks. Nice small pieces can be polished in a pebble tumbler and they make great jewellery.
Really , that's v cool
Si-finds do you have pebble tumbler? They’re relatively inexpensive and would make a great addition to your workshop if you don’t. Polished “gems” for your upcycled finds!
The boats are so haunting
looks like the remnants from the bottom of a glass furnace. Called "cullett"
Great thanks 👍🏻
@@Sifinds it's actually slag from a steel mill, the town I live in was home to many mills and has one still operating and we have identical glass slag used as paving and fill all over town. nothing in as large chunks as you found though
@@broadstken I don't recall any steel furnaces in Essex, there's no iron ore or coal mines in the area so makes no sense, brick making was very common due to the clay as was glass making due to the sands and limestone in Kent
I really liked the slag glass thought it was pretty. Thanks so much.
Cheers Debbie! Me too!
I would love these big beautiful chunks of colorful glass in my garden 🌸
Great idea
Si, if you wanted to sell them, you would find a market.
Shipping for those heavy things though, 💰, especially to me in the USA
Wow, that is so weird seeing a ship made out of concrete..
Hay Si :) So nice to see you back in the mud. Just wanted to say that I stumbled across one of your videos early in the lockdown and have been watching them ever since. I often fall asleep to the sounds of the river these days. in the early days of the lockdown, it was a great comfort to me. I had never heard of mudlrking before but since I was a little girl I've picked up things (I have a peace of tile from Italy that I have had for 20 years lol ) My daughter asked for a metal detector for her birthday last week and we can't wait to get out of the garden and use it somewhere. So to you and NIc Thanks for keeping me company for all these weeks.. Much appreciated x Diolch yn fawr iawn. Cadw'n ddiogel a gobeithio am lwc yn y mwd x
Hey Frankie, what a lovely message! Keep me posted with what you find, if you are lucky you might get some permission round a castle if you are in Wales!
Those glass slabs would be pretty in a garden
I agree