Mudlarking For Treasure Along The River Thames in London

[@Joolzguides]

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[@timdaugherty5921]

Thanks for the update Jules!

[@aferret5]

I'm on Patreon :) I recently gave a couple ppl the boot bc they stopped making. I kept you and Diana Jennings :)

[@Joolzguides]

that's very kind of you. yes, I try to keep doing them but sometimes one needs a break for sure.

[@getin3949]

Do the licenses have a price? And why are some people more SPECIAL than others and have digging rights? Thanks, funny man

[@dancingwithmyhands4419]

My husband and I love love love your guided tours!!!! We are coming to England next year and hopefully will get to enjoy a private tour!!! Thank you for your interesting, informative, entertaining and incredibly fun videos!!! Again love love love your work! And you already are a star just hope one day you’ll get paid appropriately!!!

[@hanwenzhang3492]

Wow, Joolz that’s a surprise! You do put me in your new episode! Amazing! BTW, love your program, cheers!

[@NibblerFromFuturama]

Lol damn that’s like KZbin gold

[@robbieman23]

Great video but wrong about Henry Tate making money from slavery, (14.25) as the Guardian reports "Henry Tate was 14 years old when the act abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire became law in 1833. He made his money from a chain of grocery shops in Liverpool and in the 1870s from sugar refineries in Liverpool and London. He was never the owner of sugar plantations in the Caribbean or elsewhere. Throughout his life he also made many generous donations to charities, particularly those involved with health and education." Thanks to Henry for his great generosity....

[@Joolzguides]

Ah! Great...that's a relief! Yes, one should check facts before putting them in a film. I usually do but sometimes someone says something unscripted and it seemed to make sense at the time. Thanks for pointing that out. I did think it seemed a bit late for slavery but I just assumed he had inherited. Thanks for watching anyway!

[@mypointofview1111]

Henry Tate made his money from refining sugar for consumption by people in the UK as pointed out by your subscriber. He also donated libraries in Brixton & Streatham in South London and was well thought of for his philanthropy.

[@anthonytaylor836]

Neither Henry Tate nor Abram Lyle was born when the British slave-trade was abolished in 1807. Henry Tate was 14 years old when the Act for the abolition of slavery was passed in 1833; Abram Lyle was 12. By definition, neither was a slave-owner; nor have we found any evidence of their families or partners owning enslaved people. However, we believe the firms founded by the two men, which later combined as Tate & Lyle, do connect to slavery in less direct but fundamental ways. First, the sugar industry on which both the Tate and the Lyle firms (the two merged in 1921) were built in the 19th century was itself absolutely constructed on the foundation of slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries, both in supply and in demand. Without slavery, the British sugar industry and the wider Atlantic sugar industry would not have existed in the form and on the scale they did. Henry Tate’s career began as an apprentice to a dry goods merchant; Abram Lyle’s father was a cooper in Glasgow whose firm Abram Lyle joined. Both these precursor businesses were closely connected to slave-grown sugar, which formed the basis for developing the consumer market served by dry goods merchants and for fostering supporting industries such as cooperage that furnished the casks for transportation of sugar and rum. Throughout the period of slavery, sugar grown in the British colonies had been brought into Britain at lower tariffs than sugar from foreign producers, thus protecting British slave-owners from foreign competition in the domestic market. Secondly, after the end of Britain’s own slave-economy, Britain’s sugar, including sugar for the Tate and Lyle companies, continued to come mainly from the Caribbean and South America. We do not know whether either sourced raw sugar from the slave-states of Cuba and Brazil which, after the equalisation of sugar-duties beginning in 1846, had become competitive suppliers to the British market and which remained slave-economies. Raw sugar imported from the British Caribbean by the Tate or Lyle companies in the post-slavery era would have been from estates established under slavery but worked at that point by wage-labourers and, in the case of British Guiana and Trinidad, by indentured labour, a system which lasted into the early 20th century. The monoculture of sugar, and the land-ownership and labour practices implemented by British firms that dominated the industry in the British colonies in the second half of the 19th century and most of the 20th century, contributed to the progressive under-development and impoverishment of the Caribbean.

[@docastrov9013]

@@anthonytaylor836 But the money he made was from British people buying sugar. So if he was exploiting anyone it was Brits rotting their teeth.

[@stevencassidy6982]

What a great bunch of people mudlarking along theThames

[@Joolzguides]

They're nice people and very knowledgeable too.

[@vilstef6988]

There are lots of great mudlarking channels on KZbin.

[@larrysimon1]

Great Vid .............. Super Mudlarker Monica ...............Include her more she's a great personality and very knowledgeable.

[@velvetindigonight]

Spot on.

[@mikebailey9543]

Thank you Joolz for your video! Really interesting to see all the things you can find on the banks of the Thames. Monica was a great addition to your video with lots of fascinating artifacts. Love your quote from King Lear where Gloster says "Aleck, the night comes on, and the bleak winds do sorely ruffle; for many miles about there's scarce a bush." Really sets the tone for the scene you were in. Thank you for all your wonderful videos! Looking forward to watching more! Thumbs up!

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks. I do like King Lear...

[@geraldhannibal7654]

Another good one. Have a great 2019. I'm hoping it will be the best year yet for you. Rock on. You are valued far more than you think. We really appreciate you. Blessings Gx

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks Gerald. Yes, people are beginning to stop me in the street quite often now!

[@dknupp2]

Yes, he is!

[@mandyaromas476]

You never speak “bad English”, in fact your videos are always EDUCATIONAL.

[@bjmurray1842]

As well as entertaining

[@Joolzguides]

Ha ha! I edit out the bad English usually!

[@lowesonia8551]

The mudlark lady was fascinating. Jools Filming and telling us what the building is. Flashes by so rapidly barely have you said what it is, Woosh its gone!!!

[@卜创欢]

long time no see,I 'm look forward to seeing You video and understand London culture.I'm come from China

[@MochilerosOrg]

A Vlog full of charisma. Nice work. You releaved really interesting corners and hidden gems. Here a new subscriber. Cheers!

[@eileendoherty5317]

That one madlarker and Joolz have great chemistry!

[@michelehood8837]

Monica and Anna! You couldn’t have found better mudlarking guides ♥️

[@rzholland]

All your videos are good, but this one was particularly good

[@Joolzguides]

Yes, I like them when they have a good theme and a varied cast of characters.

[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

What an interesting topic! I've seen loads of people mud larking when I cross the bridges! 🌁 Great to see the Millennium Bridge too at the beginning! 😊

[@Joolzguides]

Cheers Anton. I still think we should do a film together!

[@StrokerStevens]

I live Pinellas County, Florida USA and I ‘m fascinated by London and in doing some research I found the most odd thing… Pinellas County, Florida 608 sq miles Population 975,280 London England 607 sq miles Population 8,908,081 Would you Guessed? London has 7,932,801 MORE people in just 1 less sq mile. Wow!

[@mjh5437]

I`m hoping to move from London to Pinellas Point soon!!

[@StrokerStevens]

@@mjh5437 Just remember we’re close to the tropics so hydrate yourself (H2O)!!! LOL

[@StrokerStevens]

@@mjh5437 Here in Florida our Governor has opened up the state, so it will be nothing like England... We also have some amazing beach’s here. Quite often Clearwater beach and Ft DeSoto beaches are in the top 10, sometimes the the top 2 beach’s in the world.

[@StrokerStevens]

@@mjh5437 If you have a day to kill, I also recommend that you catch the sunrise on the east coast then make the 2-3 hour drive back here to see the sunset on our coast. I’ve done it a few times on my Harley.

[@tammylockley8710]

I really enjoy your videos. I have dreamed of visiting London for as long as I can remember. Your videos make me want to visit even more! Hopefully, that dream will come true! And, I will definitely book a guided trip with you! Thank you for the great videos!

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks Tammy. It will be great to meet you.

[@vilstef6988]

Joolz-you must have a really interesting library!

[@johndouglas8425]

Hip Hip Hip Hurrah x 3 is the Navy way of Manning and Cheering Ship.

[@neilgoloy3582]

I must say, this video has subject matter that is quite interesting, and you're a rather lively chap for a channel host. By the way, that cheery mudlark you were with wouldn't happen to have a youtube channel of her own, would she? You're an awesome entertainer. Well done!

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks. Yes, I should be on TV really. Monika doesn't have her own channel but she has an instagram page. Perhaps I should persuade her to start one.

[@neilgoloy3582]

I think Monika would do well on youtube. She has an appealing personality suited for this sort of thing, just like you. Cheers!

[@k.f.5436]

I was recently laid-off from work two months ago, but I do plan on contributing soon as I become employed.

[@itsmewende]

I call mudlarking here in the states...beachcombing...I find indian arrowheads on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, as well as pottery shards an fragments of dinnerware, would love to find a pipe one day. You guys have Great stuff, that sugar busting tea stirrer is Fabulous.

[@Joolzguides]

There was a nice Liberty Dime or something too but I didn't include it.

[@finalrender1151]

Really cool insight into a unique hobby thanks very much for the video. Also i must give u a major thank you for recommending Tom Carradine to us, I went to his show a few days ago when on a quick city break, I adored the show along with everyone else there and he was a really nice chap:) keep up the great videos and I can't wait to see the next one.

[@Joolzguides]

Oh great! I nearly went myself. It's one of my favourite evenings.

[@KitGuardian]

Very cool! I love thus stuff. I find bits and bobs on the shores on Melbourne Australia but nothing this old! Thanks for making this.

[@gallaghim]

These videos make me miss London. But I like 'em :D

[@mrfester42]

Jools, can I obtain a mudlarking permit if I'm a visiting American?

[@dannymcmince]

Hi Joolz..my Friday nights are watching your brilliant videos and drinking a glass or two of vino..don't miss the pubs anymore..cheers to you joolz!

[@Thatsinteresting363]

You’re a dashing fella now aren’t you? Love your show!😉❤️

[@colinr8042]

I went in october and I miss it already, you helped me so much with the harry potter guide and I want to thank you for that. Im from the netherlands but I already want to go back!!! With your videos im sort of back in London! Thanks!

[@Joolzguides]

Cheers! That's lovely of you to say.

[@trancehi]

Thankfully, where I live in England I don't need a permit to keep fossils of dinosaurs or crystals off the Jurassic coastline.

[@TheJoecardiff]

I love your account! All the way from Hereford. Maybe you should come to some other places in England. The West has some wonderful places to offer, Ledbury, Malvern hills, bath, Wells etc. COME DOWN.

[@mleeriley3977]

Thank you soooo much for your vids. I have come across the pond a few times in my work in IT and loved London and England in general. Your videos bring to life so much that I wondered about! I spent a good amount of time in Harrow and Uxbridge as well in London proper and really enjoy the UK, Ireland and Australia. You are Brilliant! (as they say):) Hope to get back again soon. God Bless!

[@lordleonusa]

It's interesting that the mudlarks have to have a licence to mudlark, but I suppose it wouldn't be Britain if EVERYTHING wasn't regulated and controlled in some way! (How much do they have to pay for these licences?), also what makes the 52? special mudlarks on the other side of the River so special? How ridiculous that there has to be a pecking order, even in mudlarkery!

[@junkolibertines2146]

London.. that’s my soul. I fucking miss London..

[@Joolzguides]

you'll be back!

[@carolineharry6605]

Absolutely fascinating videos. Thank you.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Brilliantly informtive, and hilarious (as usual)

[@JeffinBville]

She's better than Tony Robinson.

[@Joolzguides]

She is very good. I might have to do another one with her.

[@JeffinBville]

You really want to score Lucy Worsley.

[@JeffinBville]

I know, it's odd that an American would know all these BBC TV personalities but I like to be educated, not advertised to.

[@lowesonia8551]

A MILLION TIMES .BETTER SHE SHOULD HAVE HER OWN HISTORY OF LONDON PROGRAM MORE POSED AND PROFESSIONAL. THAN JOOLS.

[@darioprime]

This is how you do music in a video properly.

[@Joolzguides]

Oh, did you like it? You must tell Roberta. She lets me use her music sometimes.

[@alexthegreatest2894]

"Oy, have you got a license for that shovel?"

[@Libertaro-i2u]

A loicense for that shovel?

[@iksarguards]

The idea of mudlarking invokes the mental image of Monty Python crap-caked peasants arguing about who elected the king The I have mixed feelings over the reality of it.

[@stephielulu9096]

Help, I'm being repressed...

[@GenaF]

The Mudlarking lady is an asset to this video.

[@tankracer6579]

you need a licence to play on the fucking beach now...

[@bills1779]

Why can't you keep what you find??

[@20greeneyes20]

Great video, Love the door knocker !!!!

[@Joolzguides]

Me too!

[@funkybaisoubenoscat718]

Hey just came from pitcairn island video, it was the best movie ever , "real life" movie , congratz!

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks. That was a while ago too, but still my best work.

[@tamaraspink4201]

It’s brilliant! Really loved it. You should do another one.

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Good video

[@johnbradbury1284]

I like the quirkiness of this short film.

[@KingCharles3]

Who dislikes these videos? 🧐

[@Joolzguides]

Ha ha...It's funny isn't it? There is always at lest one thumbs down. I'm convinced it must be from the same person every time!

[@pat8770]

Fun London Guides - Julian McDonnell Films Probably the BBC, because you outclass them ;)

[@mjh5437]

Perenially jealous people from Ireland,Scotland and Wales probably.

[@Bailaaaaaa]

You are the best! Kuddos to mudlarker Monica!

[@edwardgriffin8092]

Really nice seeing Anna and Monica in your video Joolz, but i am surprised you did not have the Queen of "The Thames Lady Mudlarks", the one and only "Nicola White" Mudlark - Tideline Art.

[@davidshields948]

In 1967, on the shore of Lough Red , I found a Viking longship. Perfect condition, brand new, used once and discarded by a film company.

[@BryonLape]

Is Monika goofy cute or is it the hat?

[@bjmurray1842]

Do you know why the "full Mudlarks" are "full", and what is it that makes them so?

[@MsPinkwolf]

I think it just means they are allowed to mudlark everywhere unlike the others who can't go in restricted areas.

[@bjmurray1842]

@@MsPinkwolf Thanks! That is made clear in the Video, but I was asking what one does to be allowed in restricted areas, and why they are special.

[@Joolzguides]

@@bjmurray1842 Gosh, I don't know. I'll try to find out. I expect they have been doing it for years and probably have a PHD or something.

[@DrBrazell]

This page may help: www.pla.co.uk/Environment/Thames-foreshore-access-including-metal-detecting-searching-and-digging

[@bjmurray1842]

@@DrBrazell Cheers!

[@PamelaProPeace]

Fun video - but one important correction. Tate (of Tate and Lyle fame and today the Tate Galleries) did NOT make his money out of slavery. Henry Tate was a mere boy, 14 years old, when in 1833 the act abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire became law. (FYI: Britain was the first country in the world to abolish slavery. Some countries haven't got there yet! For example Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Egypt, Myanmar, Iran, Turkey, and Sudan.) Tate made his money from a chain of grocery shops in Liverpool and in the 1870s from sugar refineries in Liverpool and London. He was never the owner of sugar plantations in the Caribbean or elsewhere.

[@telseddon]

Great video. Well done Monica and Anna too... 👍👌✌

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks. Yes, they're fab

[@tobys_transport_videos]

Thanks for another great video Jules! On the subject of "transported prisoners," and what we Aussies call you Englishmen, aside from the odd not-so-nice word, I thought it was "Pohm" as in "Prisoner of His Majesty" as opposed to what the Bartender said, as "Prisoner of Millbank." 😮

[@Joolzguides]

Gosh. I've now heard Prisoner of Mother England, Prisoner of Millbank and Prisoner of Her Majesty.. I've certainly heard worse though!

[@mborder8428]

@@Joolzguides I believe it comes from "pomegranate" which the British navy took on board to ward off survey, in the the same way Americans call the English "limeys". My two bob's worth.

[@lorenaarias1952]

I love all the information you give in your videos. Thank you!

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

A great, but different video from what you usually do, Joolz. Some really exciting finds on the Thames when the tide goes out, most certainly. Many thanks for this showing

[@westcountrymudlarks]

Great video loved it thanks for the journey as we are modern day mudlarks really enjoyed this video some lovely pipes I remember the first Eagle claw pipe I found nearly needed oxygen lol

[@howardwayne3974]

Always leave yourself a way out when searching the foreshore !!! You never can tell when the tide books have it wrong . Happened to me on the gulf coast if Florida in the states .was almost stuck over night but for the assistance of some fishermen .

[@tompaste387]

So you have to pay the princely sum of £90 for the privilege of mudlarking but you cannot keep your finds having to surrender them to Museums... they should be paying the mudlarkers

[@annother3350]

Me and my son went down to the riverside near Greenwich and what at first seemed like a pebbly 'beach' turned out that literally every other 'stone' was a piece of animal bone!! Mountains of animal bone!! We brought a few parts back to make our own chimera!

[@informationgiant7697]

Julez sometimes I copy the way you talk ...Amazing ...Also the video is nice and I mean it ☺

[@Joolzguides]

Oh dear. Poor you! I don't know if talking like me is a good thing!

[@jerzystruczak782]

i dont want 2 d a naysayer or spoilsport but true gents should be clean shaven or grow a beard or maybe me is oldfashioned ? otherwise love the clips !!

[@janebaker966]

That was SO enjoyable and SO interesting but is there a NOT interesting Joolz guide. I dont think so. That was as good as actually being in London.

[@Hidfors]

I don't know how i ended up here, but i like it. I suddenly feel like having a weekend in London ;)

[@Joolzguides]

Great! Glad it worked!

[@cannett8966]

What fascinating character you are. C from the little haunted cottage in Ireland 🍀🍀🍀👻👻👻

[@Joolzguides]

I just try to look interesting onscreen. I like watching TV in real life.

[@abigailgerlach5443]

In the east in the US, prisoners complained because they were being fed too many meals containing lobster. They wanted something different.

[@paulrowe9604]

Once again fascinating ! Loved the lovely female mud lark who as so enthusistic !

[@hermionegardener3796]

I'd love to do this for a day when I visit this year, but it's not allowed unless you have a permit, and they're not giving out any permits right now. You are allowed to look around, but not allowed to even pick up anything if you spot something while you stroll the shores!

[@Macho_Fantastico]

I recommend Nicola White on KZbin for more Mudlarking, a great channel.

[@loyalsmith4096]

Pip-pip,I've got anglosaxon blood in my veins,thanx jools!😊.

[@gloriastroedecke2717]

Wonderful vlog,Jules. Just discovered mud larking on Christmas Eve.

[@francinevanzanten8368]

Again a great video and I happened to be at the same spot a week ago (walking down from Borough Market towards the RB1 boat). More by accident it was low tide and there were quite a lot of people mudlarking. Had no idea that you need a licence.

[@Joolzguides]

Yeah, I don't know all the details. I'm sure people do it without one but I think you need to really dig around to find good stuff.

[@mjh5437]

@@Joolzguides I think you only need a permit if you want to start digging holes.

[@monikabuttling-smith5234]

@@mjh5437 you need a license to mudlark in any form, eyes only, scraping, or detecting.

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

Why would you turn that glass stirring/crushing thing around, get your fingers wet and sticky, when one can simply continue to stir with the crushy bit.?

[@ougawougajr.4983]

And? Found a pair of engagement rings? Because that's where I dumped the first attempt.

[@TheEasyrhino63]

You do find the most interesting thing to talk about Julian, another great clip. Oh and get well soon.

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks....I've been overdoing it lately. I need a rest I think.

[@perspectivex]

at 6:45 - back in kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWamYmd9epqEp8U you said it was a French canon captured at the Battle of Trafalgar. ? That does seem to check out www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/French-Cannons-as-Street-Bollards.

[@paddybrennan3644]

Thanks Mary didn’t need a license when I was a kid I used to go down to Vauxhall their Lambeth bridge it was all mud back then and rats

[@ColinPfc]

Wow joolz this video is one of your best ones, the two mudlark ladies were amazing

[@paddybrennan3644]

You need a license to take a fart in England anymore As a kid in early 60s used to go down there all the time all the way from lambeth bridge up to Battersea

[@elizabeth-gl8ki]

I bought Terry St Claire's CD. It's Fabulous!

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

A facinating video, i've seen people mudlarking.

[@wattebol]

What a cute girl, Monika! (and of course, the others are cute also...)

[@sharjeelkhan7437]

15:04 “how old is it!?!” Love it 😊. Best videos of London. 👍👍

[@eloisebrynlee]

Another great video, both narration and filming. I had never heard of mudlarking, it looks really interesting!

[@lori3978]

That was fun. If I was to ever cross the pond I would definitely enjoy a tour from you.

[@sharonhart3111]

Really interesting especially about the rococo style...

[@neogeo1670]

This looks really fun, shame I dont live in England

[@kaviavictorine6051]

So much information, very good, but most of all you are just handsome 😂

[@NigelFevyer]

Nice meeting you yesterday thanks for the book tally ho!

[@damo2172]

good video my grandfarther was a founder of the mudlarks :)

[@jamesmonoghan1281]

A bowl of snot! hahahahaha! her face, I'm not a fan of oysters either so I love that line, handy!!

[@butchknapman3939]

Do the mud larks find objects every day

[@csjames69]

Don’t mention the test results. Australia 3, Poms 0.

[@hoosierhiver]

How many swans does the queen eat in a year?

[@georgedonnellan36]

Joolz, you haven't had the chance to utilise your brolly yet

[@卜创欢]

伦敦泰晤士河非常美，在河边有很多宝贝，你说英语非常地道听起来很好

[@Joolzguides]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy the films.

[@seanluve]

👏🉑🉐🈵🈴🈺🈚㊙

[@AgnostosGnostos]

Another great video. I always wondered during my trips and walks in Thames what people were searching. The syphilis treatment at 8:45 is very interesting. Europeans brought smallpox to America which devastated the native population. However native Americans sent syphilis to Europe.

[@Joolzguides]

Never had a dose of it myself fortunately. I guess they'd try anything.

[@TheAraberpinto]

I actually have a crotal from the thames. We use it on the horses to warn hunters or also sometimes for reenactment