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Mudlarking the River Thames London - A Mystery Object
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2018
- It's September 25th 2018. Join me on the Thames foreshore as I search for pieces of London's past.
There is a mystery find in this video that I need help identifying too. Take a look and see if you can work out what it is!
You do need a permit to mudlark the River Thames and you can find the details on the website of the Port of London Authority here:-
www.pla.co.uk/Environment/Tha...
Thank you for watching and if you are on twitter or instagram, you can follow me on @tidelineart
There is one date mistake in this video. a bit of a typo. Did you spot it?
The brass thing is the front part of cycle lamp from around 1910, and the used Carbide crystals and water to generate a flamable gas.
The gas was past to a small burner just behind the lens and ignighted. (If I remember correctly I believe it was Acetalene gas).
The small red and green lenses were so other road users could see what side they were approaching you from, I have got a good example of one.
Happy new year! Eric
That’s what I thought It was too
The slide on bit is a bit of a giveaway. I remember when just about all bikes came with a "male" piece on the front to accommodate a lamp.
The coin you thought was French, and when you cleaned it, you found it was Belgian, reminded me of a Poirot episode where he says, “I am not French I am from Belgium”. I had a good laugh on that.
Hi John
I'm glad that made you chuckle 😀
Nicole, hi. I once read that women + paticularly little girls spent hours making the straight pins. They put the tops on them + sharpened them in the grooves in a bone or log of wood. They would work through the night, then at day break, they would fasten the pins in bundles of a 100 + go out to self them for penny a bundle. Asa young woman it was a it of history thar almost broke my heart. The stories of the prison hulks do the Sam.
Thank you for being a careful historian, Nicola
The brass item with the cut glass jewels, is a carriage lamp. The vent that unscrews would be at the top, a large glass magnifying lens was in the front hole that has the hinge, and the hole at the bottom, was where a cylinder was to hold oil for the flame. A very nice find! Congrats!
I’ve now added “Go Mudlarking on the Thames” to my bucket list! I love this channel!
I wish they would have some small group Mudlarking adventures. I am in the USA and LOVE England, The Thames River and as it turns out my DNA heritage shows am ancestors are from this area!
sipos and young band me too!
I'm in too.
Added to my own bucket list!!!!
I live on the Rio Grande. It was, thousands of years ago, the second largest underground waterway on Earth. It was second only to the Amazon River.
(Remember. We're talking *underground* waterway.)
I’m ready to Nicola!
I used to be an archaeologist and that I Am Brett bit had me rolling on the floor. Good show!
Ha ha I'm very pleased to have provided a good dose of amusement 😄
Haha haha!(◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
I thought it may have been, instead, Lambrett's and a # of some sort. Name of an Establishment.
You're not supposed to go around showing everyone your climax button!
Nicola I just adore you and your videos! I am an old scavenger from way back. I’m 70 now and the only scavenging I can do now is watching you. Thru you I can go to all the places I have always enjoyed. Although I live in the states...Connecticut.... I visited your wonderful London in 1984. I so wish I could join you in your escapades. I love your pottery fish. I am an avid crafter all my life. Thank you for bringing joy to my life!
I have been a subscriber to a U.S. metal detectorist and was amazed at the objects found dating from our Civil War era, mostly. But the finds you share from the long, long history of England has me so in awe, especially how you easily find them in the Thames! I have learned so much about the Thames and Mudlarking though my own research and thank you for your channel! I am so excited I found your channel and now subscribe!
Linda Frasca - I agree! The history of these finds is astounding. If you watch the BBC’s Antiques Road Show (original British version), people bring in things from 1600’s and 1700’s and older. The fascinating part is how nonchalant everyone is about the sheer age of their items!!! I couldn’t even find arrow heads in upstate New York anywhere near that old.
Is it RELIC RECOVERIST? Jocelyn?
Aquachigger?
Not an expert. But it looks similar to an 1800s carriage lantern. The hole is where the holder was. The open part is the lens area. The latch lets you open the top to light a small lamp. The holes in the screw off cap has holes to allow heat and smoke to escape.
That's my guess.
Jonathan Sampey that’s pretty much what I was just going to type I think that’s what it is
Jonathan Sampey or similarly for traffic because red and green
At least in the olden times like the 1800s they use something like this at the train crossings , remember of course they didn’t have the electronica somebody had to actually stand there and do this all night
@@malfattio2894 Yes it's Lucas, which is British.....
That's such an interesting find! What a historical treasure!!
I suppose that I should be happy to live in a (somewhat) undisturbed piece of nature here in the Pacific Northwest (PDX), but the thought of just walking the river's edge among a thousand years worth of cultural goodies like that is just amazing to me. What a great way to spend a quiet, beautiful morning. Cheers!
Fair play to you for leaving the I am Brett part in.
"I ride a GS Scooter with my hair cut neat. I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet."
Moving away from London has stolen from me the joy of mudlarking along the Thames! I used to go with a group of friends and someone from the Museum of London who was always so fascinating to ask questions of... on my very first visit someone with me found a little face which turned out to be Byzntine and ended up being dated to around the first or second century AD... it was exciting! Pieces of Roman glass, pieces of Medieval pottery, and plenty of clay pipes! I have done some artistic things with my findings, but I love that you are doing this and sharing your adventures! Thank you so much!! x x
"Somebody knows how to press somebody's buttons." 🤣🤣🤣 Oh, Nicola.
Aha, 🤭
@@nicolawhitemudlark if she didnt say it i was
Dear Nicola,
I had a random 'youtube evening' last night and stumbled across your channel.
Ended up watching 4 episodes back to back and really enjoyed every minute!
You prompted me to look through my 'man drawer' for what I had always thought might be an old Roman coin that id found some years ago sitting on top of the soil in a freshly ploughed field in Leicestershire.
15mins later, after a little cleaning and 'googling' it turns out I have a solid bronze Egyptian coin dating back to 180 BC!!!!
It made my night! :)
Love your channel and your presenting style.
Look forward to watching more :)
Andy
Thanks Andy! So glad that you were prompted to check out your find, which turns out to be amazing!! Wow! I'd love to see a photo of it! If you wd like to send me a photo of it pls send to nicola.white@tidelineart.com.
Thanks for writing.
Nicola
Same here it's real fun watching.. easy watching.
No lie... Same lol!!!
nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art I love to see it as well.
Andy Gamble Wow. That’s amazing.
Even just the silvertown find would have gotten me excited lol
Stop watching these addictive videos Marc you have work in the morning 😂😂
But I get too. Hard to put the damn thing away. lol
@@nancywarren608 😂😂😂
The mystery object is a 1920s Lucas "King of the road" Acetylene Carbide Bicycle Lamp.
smartass
Badass
GreenmanXIV yes absolutely,
@greenman ...... Bossed it !
Its not a one penny its called a penny.
The button that read, "The Climax" was vintage from the 1800's typically used in men's clothing. :)
I love your videos. I just found them. I didn't even know what mudlarking was until your videos.
This is great! Soooo interesting!
Thx for sharing!
You really shouldn’t feel embarrassed about misreading the Lambretta emblem.... after all, you must have been very flustered having just located your climax button.
😅😂
lololol
Hahaha.
Joseph Lucas 318 brass carbide Cycle lamp ,Acetylene gas bicycle light - thats the mystery object :)
Thank you! wonderful. I'm so delighted that the mystery is solved now
@@nicolawhitemudlark your first find looks quite similar to the lid on the lamp, in the link above
Well done Joseph. Beautiful.
James Harmer , Joe Lucas, known to motoring as the prince of darkness
Thanks, I was thinking a carriage lamp. Well done
Lambretta 1501 was [is] a popular motor scooter similar to a Vespa. The piece you found is the name plate attached to either the left rear fender or the left front shield. Nice Italian style brass find! I enjoyed the video much....my first time.
“I wish I was still 32.” Me too!!! I’m a new subscriber; still catching up on your videos. I very much enjoy your channel.
These videos are totally engrossing. I cannot belive how many old trowels you find
I'm so glad you are using your pin cushion! It looks lovely with all of your pins and buttons! I am still amazed when you find the pins!
Interesting as always.
As for the "I am..." It's a motor scooter name-badge from a "Lambretta 150 ld" It had a 150 cc motor, and followed the lc model.
They were manufactured between 1951-1958....so that's fairly antiquated for a scooter.
Thank you
Here’s a picture of one; upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Lambretta_150_ld_(2).JPG
naww...I think Nicola was right.. Brett probably lost it..I know his friend Sue Zuki...I'll get her to pass on the message that it's been found. :D
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It was actually preliminary merchandising for a character in a sci-fi film. But they decided Brett was a silly name for a talking tree and threw it away...
This is a real meditation watching you collecting trinkets in the stones.
You are correct. The Silvertown was aa label on an underwater telegraph cable. If repairs are needed, the exact payout distance would have been visible to a diver. Underwater cable lay on the undersea surface.
Why so many bullets? An unfired rifle bullet? Who needs a rifle in central london? Was it lost by the home guard? Or what? Any ideas?
@@user-oo8xp2rf1k consider all the military units, ships etc that have been stationed on the Thames through 2 world wars, armed guards on military stores, very easy to lose the odd round into the river when making safe or just clumsy, fired ones probably from the air battles over London,
@@viking1236 Could be... Yes interesting
It's so nice you can save all those lovely pieces of glass and pottery and use them to make your beautiful fish.
"Antique Neverout Kerosene Brass Bicycle Lamp, with red & green jewels" saw this on eBay here in states. Had a link but it doesnt work. Looks like your mystery item is a partial lamp! Just found your channel, and am enjoying your adventures!
Sounds like you have ided it correctly.
I was thinking maybe some kind of little oil lamp with a stone missing.
Very cool... I want one for my bicycle! Think I'd get some funny looks? 😏
@linda cohen Yes you're right about hanging red and green lights on boats etc. But red and green mean left and right. When the lamp is lit other people will know by the colours which way it's moving. If you can see a lit lamp with a little red light then you're looking at the left side of the boat or vehicle, if it''s green then you're looking at the right side.
I enjoy a little kerosene with my bike ride.
Just imagine what's two feet down
Or out in the middle of the river.
@@suzeaa and Bang Big, I thought that too!
So true!!! 🙏
Nicola, Thank you for taking us along on your journey.
If I had to guess I'd say your mystery item Is part of a Jos Lucas bicycle carbide lamp . Great video once again . James
Thank you very much indeed! Im so glad this mystery is solved.
Brill thank you. Very grateful for this info. Nicola
You can see it in operation here th-cam.com/video/X2MTxg6zC9o/w-d-xo.html
@@ManOnTheMoon2 that is awesome! Thanks for the info. Cool find. I love antique things!
www.gilai.com/product_1247/Brass-Joseph-Lucas-Carbide-Bicycle-Lamp
That wonderfully calming voice!
Why are there so many negative comments , I enjoyed watching this ❤️
When I watch you, and the others due your archeology, you remind of the "book people" people in the movie "Fahrenheit 451"! You are part of a great movement,finding and defining, who and what your places are in the chain of of our great Celtic heritage! Keep up ypur great work!😄
"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The "I Am Brett" Society will now come to order!
The first item on our agenda: What the hell happened to our sign?
If anyone has any information please contact us immediately. Thank you."
Its like a side quest on RDR2 find a note then find the sign on the river. Mudlarking achievement achieved!
Lol
The best part of the video was "I wish I were still 32", this made me laugh non-stop for a few minutes!
I was wishing the very same thing as I heard her say it.
Me too.
I do love the old lamp you found AND everything else!! TU so much, Nicola, for sharing❤
Ahh, Nicola the Queen of the “Art of Mudlarking” and of the history of both the great and the small you reveal on your walks in the mud. Many thanks for so much enjoyment.
4:15 Lambretta 150ld is a 1950s era motor scooter.
AlbredaWelde 1957 to be exact on that actual badge 👍
Ooooh, I love what you did with the pearlware - it was perfect for your purposes! I've never mudlarked - it looks fun and interesting. Cheers!
Your videos have been a practical lesson in how different people's eyes track differently. When you found your mystery object, to the upper right of it was a small key. Not the key I saw on the picnic table which you didn't describe. I guess you have hundreds of fragments of blue & white china. I would be hard pressed not to pick up nearly every piece I saw!
It's really addictive to watch your treasure hunting expeditions! I would say that the Belgian coin you found is from 1905, not 1985...
Thank you!
I see the mystery object has been identified - I recognized it as a Lucas brass, bicycle light. We had a number of them in Tadley, Hants during WWII. They used carbide & water to generate acetylene gas - we also used the carbide to blow up screw cap beer bottles (glass hand-grenades!!!)
P.s wonderful finds and i absolutely love this channel. This is heaven for me. I would love to do this all day every day .,lol.🧡🧡🧡
Hello. I'm from West Virginia in America. Nice finds I always walk up and down my river looking for old thing mostly I find arrow heads
For some reason, this older episode popped up on my feed...glad it did!
As always, great vlog, Nic
love from Denmark 🇩🇰
I absolutely loved "I am Brett"! Wonderful video! Cheers from Northern Illinois in the states!
Excellent vid Nicola , must admit I've only just stopped laughing " I am Brett " , classic !
Glad I was able to give you a good laugh Mick! At least I caught it all on camera. I couldn't believe how dim I was there! :)
Love the Thames and love your channel...so happy I find you!
WOW -- what a great day you had.. love those old fishing sinkers. I have found some old American Civil War sinkers made by soldiers out of .50 caliber mini balls. Too cool.. Thanks for taking me along on your adventures.. They are fantastic!!
the difference between mudlarking in the north and south "oh i do say here is some sort of bottle lid how profound" in the north "oh another gun"
I actually am Brett LOL
There you are Brett!
@@nicolawhitemudlark
I am Spartacus !
"I AM SPARTACUS"
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Brilliant lol
Another good one Nicola, great finds and very relaxing and cathartic thank you x :)
I appreciate the research you do on the objects you find. The stories may sometimes just be plainly factual, but still interesting.
Just discovered your channel and absolutely loving it, specially the clay pipe one. I once found 3 medals (ww2) wrapped in a sand bag like material in a field, displayed nicely in my cabinet :) would love to start venturing out and looking for relics, maybe even buy a metal detector!
Do it!!
I just like to think of the people that lost these items were like. What they did, how they lived, what their lives were like, what they did with their lives. It kinda reminds us how short and fleeting our own life times are, how precious time is. Cs in the end one can argue that none of it even matters anyway.
Yes you're absolutely right!
I very much enjoy watching your videos I would love to go mudlarking someday but until then I enjoy going on adventures with you the awesome things you find are awesome please keep making awesome videos for all of us to enjoy thank you.
I learn so much history by watching different Mudlarks. Love your fish.
~Mystery object was really unusual, one of those things you couldn't guess what it is, enjoyed that video, apart from the shot of Canary wharf, had a quick shot of depression
Sorry! I'm with you there 😊
The very first find is a lid to an old metal weed smoking pipe. Circa 1970s and 80s
Love your enthusiasm. Great hobby which gets you out in the now greatly reduced polluted London air. Liked your bicycle lamp. A rare find! I look forward to your future videos. How from Cairo.
The LD at end of Lambretta pertains to the model. The LD model was first produced in 1951. Quite a valuble collectable i'd imagine.
This is brilliant!....your channel, what a fine discovery :o)
Thank you. I'm delighted you found it and are enjoying it. Thank you for watching. Nicola
This was inspiring. Makes me want to get a metal detector and go out in the woods looking for random things.
Actually MY brother in New Zealand is 'THE' Brett -that's quite clear to me and I have just advised him where 'his' sign is .... !! LOVED this and all your videos Nicola such a great combination of archaeology/history/'nature'/art/recycling and pollution reduction and serendipity of course !
Thank you Della! x
Always love your adventures and finds!! Looks like it could be a vintage brass carbide bicycle lantern!
I’m more than a bit too young to ascertain that it was an object from the 1920’s and I’m Canadian so I don’t know your products but I recognized the similarities of aviation port & starboard lights. It’s an interesting find.
Its lambreta 150 brand scooters
Its an italian company.its an old label.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, thank you Nicola.👌🏻
I have never seen this particular episode but the I am Brett made my day. I was screaming at the screen ,what's up with you ,it says Lambretta.really funny.😂😂😂
Re: Musket Ball, might be for a "Blunderbuss" sort of a flint lock shotgun, though Si-finds showed a ball that was shot from a cannon in a bag of lead balls to cause maximum damage to the ship/sails.
Lol! The rockhound in me kept focusing on the rocks and pebbles!
Because of the Green/Red Gems it must be off of a boat. You show the Green light on Starboard side and Red on the Port side.
You find things with your naked eyes that metal detectors hope to find ! Great job always.
Great discoveries as always. I do enjoy your videos.
Denmark also has coins with a hole for the blind to tell the different from a coin, same size but different value
That's totally bizarre! I had one of these hovering over me, the last time I was beamed aboard the mothership... It still brings tears to my eyes... Hand me the ointment, please...
I love this channel! So much fun.
Just found ur channel and it's awesome I love the videos ❤️👌😊 not my usual videos but keep up the good work
"the climax... guess somebody knows how to press someone's buttons" .... LOL i died
"I wish i was still 32" , you and me both Nicola :(
Im turning 32 on nov. I wish i was on my 20s hahaha
What a wonderful relaxing video ☺️ thank you my dear 🤗
1st time watching and finding mudlarking very interesting. Thank you
Mystery item is a car or bicycle carbide lamp, from about 1900. The pins are shroud pins used in burials.
keith norman iki
My first impression of the mystery item, was of a ship marker lamp. Green, red and white. Red indicates port. Green starboard. White can be seen for long distances at night. The missing crystal, most likely, white. It's in the center.
I think you are holding it upside down Nicola?? I think you have the top half there would have been a bottom half containing oil and a wick, looks like it has a hing to open it, the side piece is the exhaust for smoke. Sometimes it's hard to find that little Button LOL...Great videos thanks
www.gilai.com/product_1247/Brass-Joseph-Lucas-Carbide-Bicycle-Lamp
I think I may have found it! And the lid that she found I think goes to it as well if you look at the top of the lamp in the picture it is very similar.
Robert Finlay nice catch it definitely looks the same ,I hope Nicola has seen this link.
Robert Finlay Dinh ding ding
nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art have you seen the link by Robert Finlay above?
Never wanted to go to London till I started watching this channel...
LOLOLOL...the climax button...omg...priceless! Very Good Nicola!
maybe its the rear light off of an i am brett scooter
truly laughed out loud
what a hoot
🤣
The button definitely magical powers, Also the screw cap 1975 Mary Jane smoking pipe lid magically used in those days the light maybe a bicycle lamp use by police very old indeed thanks for Magical Mystery Tour!!!!
Richard Warnock that's what I thought or a stash lid. 🐙
First time watching your channel and I love it
Watching in Wooster, Ohio, USA
Since a video as not posted today April 23, 2023, I went back a watched and older one !! Good content ….
I remember selling Carrera Sunglasses back when I was an optician in high school and college, back in the early 90’s. Not cheap. Vintage? Not sure. 😄
Dani P porche drivers wore them because of the careers porche.
Love your fish, wish i lived in London, would spend every spare moment on the river banks
You have done soo many vids. Got loads to watch. Where is my wine 🍷.
Subscribing after a few seconds of hearing your pleasant narration!!
In archaeology when we categorize artifacts, we call that rainbow sheen on glass the patina, or patinated glass. Love your channel!
I call it "Opalisation" , that effect on acid damaged glass....
The screw on lid looks to be the cap to the fuel reservoir of a kerosene lantern.
Just passing by... And loved this vid! I subscribed! cannot wait to see more👍✌️☀️
I thoroughly enjoy your/our trips to the Thames! There seems to be all sorts of treasures to be found there! I love rocks; so I would be weighted down with all sorts of rounded and colored rocks!! Lol Not to mention bits of chain, bolts, shells, and who knows what! I could not help myself! So much like an Easter egg hunt looking for hidden treasures! Thanks for taking me with you and all the explanation that goes with your finds! Take care, wear gloves, stay safe! Until next time.....