Mudlarking the River Thames with Nicola White - 3 fabulous & intriguing finds

[@sandrajinks2685]

Hi Nicola, just finished a book set in early Victorian period, thought I’d share a snippet... Set around Blackfriars.. It was past midnight,and London was as quiet as she ever was: the sound of carriages never stopped completely, nor the cries and calls of the dwellers in the city, or the lively chatter of the Mudlarks at the side of the river, picking through the detritus the Thames coughed up for any items of value .... 😊 Love your detritus!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Sandra! I love that. Thank you for sharing it

[@tracyriordan7011]

That is sooo cool! I live that passage! ( : Nicola doesn't do it for money, though, but for sharing the historical significance of each piece she finds and hopefully getting to share what she finds with the world! That's why I love watching her soooo much!

[@normplatt7549]

THE REAL TREASURE ON THE THAMES IS YOU MY DEAR!

[@stanwarner8700]

damn it Norm you stole my line...Nice suck up

[@normplatt7549]

@@stanwarner8700 I HOPE SO!

[@stanwarner8700]

@@normplatt7549 LMAO Have a great day

[@michaelcarley9866]

@@stanwarner8700 Ditto

[@stanwarner8700]

@@c.w.3750 WOW good for you.... have a great day...

[@alessia0064]

Belated happy birthday Nicola 🙂🎁🎀🍾🥂👍

[@TheFiown]

Darling Nicola, alway happy with the tiny things of life and the lady who make mud look chic. Take care and keep muddling, we ALL love you.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! ❤️

[@elizabeths4371]

I’m a new subscriber and I couldn’t agree with Mrs. Murray more! Your mudlarks are not only fun and and relaxing to watch but informative and educational too!

[@TheFiown]

@@elizabeths4371 Hello Miss, it's been a while ! I hope that you are well, I see that we have something else in common ! Hugs xxx

[@elizabeths4371]

@@TheFiown Hello Stephanie! Yes indeed "Muddling" (as you've put it), is VERY addictive❤ Big Hugs to you too!

[@lisaheisey6168]

Happy belated birthday, Nicola! 🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉

[@bathshuaspooner8553]

Every time you find a pipe, I’ve starting shouting “Une Pipe!” It alarms my cats but I have fun. Thank you for helping make Sunday afternoons a bit more lively ❤️

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

ha ha Thank you! may there be many more pipes! x

[@antlote]

Happy Birthday Nicola!! Thank you for bringing smiles to my Sundays.

[@barbaracollins3015]

You had such a good day for finding treasures. I gave a loud shout of happiness for you when the pipe and then the blue bottle were intact. My husband came running to see what the fuss was about,lol. I told him "I really live in the wrong part of the world. I'm a land-locked mudlarker here with no treasures to look for."

[@colleenfellowes3418]

Happy Birthday Nicola !!!! May you have a fabulous Birthday and a wonderful, healthy, happy and exciting year !!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@jerrydempsey3490]

I love how you get so tickled over each of your finds. So charming. Best wishes.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Jerry. It's hard not to get excited about such treasures! x

[@chetlockwood1491]

Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday Nicola White !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dawnbutterfield7214]

Thank you for bringing us on your mud larking adventures love from Maine USA

[@ShirleyWhite-rc6je]

Wonderful cat pipe you found and nice long stem on it. I like the blue fish you made the other are great. That little bue bottle is very cute .thank for sharing your video with us all. Your friend Shirley from new Bern, north Carolina USA. ❤❤❤🎉😮❤😅😊

[@leannclemons]

Such wonderful rescues!!! Happy belated birthday!!!

[@cherylolsen4420]

Happy Birthday Nicola with Best Wishes, thank you for sharing 😎🎂🎈🎉

[@jmariew9966]

Sharing your treasure hunting, I feel like I am walking along the shore withy you - for this my dear I am forever grateful.

[@lovelyskull3483]

Thank you Nicola. Happy Birthday☮️🇨🇦

[@thekenneth3486]

You said, "Place your bets," and I immediately thought, "It'll have a stem!" But what a stem! So lucky. Happiest birthday, Nicola! You're looking fantastic, by the way.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! You say all the right things :) x

[@ralphwood9865]

As a retired Master Mariner I should be excited by the Ship Wreck/Lord Nelson item .In reality I'm far more excited by seeing our lovely Nicola sans mud and pink wellies looking very glamourous and ready for a nice dinner celebration of her birthday in an intimate Thames side bistro. Alas too much ocean separates us so I'll have to satisfy myself with wishing her a very happy birthday from a distance and many more treasures in the coming year . Happy birthday Nicola XX Cheers from Canada

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Ah thank you so much Ralph! That's so kind of you. Hugs, Nicola xx

[@maneco64]

Happy belated birthday Nicola.

[@sandydekay2509]

I love the opening, with Tower Bridge, the music, the heron. Really beautiful, Nic, well done.

[@catlover6kitties138]

Happy birthday nicola, many more. You are a gift.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! x

[@Sophie-ei6zh]

I like how you always include scenes of the birds, nature, landscape, etc. It's so peaceful and relaxing to watch. Of course, I enjoy watching you find treasures, too, and hearing a bit about your research on a given item. Happy Birthday, Nicola!

[@foxtanker4055]

Happy Birthday Nicola. Nice finds again.

[@suetaylor5186]

Would have kept the golden ring bottle for the iridescence x

[@yvonnepagan9912]

Me too. I thought that as she left it “for someone else”. ME if I’d been there.

[@kasketchayne]

you'd probably have to seal it to keep the iridescence intact. if the mud inside dries out, it would disappear. it comes from the oils/chemicals in the mud.

[@ianlocker3351]

Golden ring bottle, Russian Vodka

[@jonlen100]

@@ianlocker3351 Or medicine bottle?

[@tracyriordan7011]

Me too! ( :

[@cindygehrke5249]

Happy Birthday to dear Nicola! Hope you had a wonderful day! 🎂

[@garyslogan]

Many Happy Returns on your Birthday, Nicola! You have a witty, generous, inquisitive, and resourceful spirit, and I hope your day hearing from family and your thousands of admirers was uplifting to you!! Thank you for your art and your videos! x

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Gary! And indeed it was. Im a very lucky person xx

[@irisflentroy3202]

Happy belated Birthday Nicola. God bless you🎂🍨🎈😊

[@marygarner5249]

Thank you so much for taking us along on your wonderful Adventures

[@frankknight3525]

Happy birthday Nicola, thank you for all of your great videos.

[@pillardelaney4726]

With any doubt, the blue bottle, and your reseach .Nicole what a treaty to hear you speak, after living in Australia for 50. years, your inglish is superb to my ears. Happy belatedly birthday .I hope we see more beautyful videos. Keep safe, be happy.💕💖💕

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Pillar! xox

[@dartacus.spartacus1988]

I love how excited you get when you found a pipe you have found hundreds, but you're still till this day chuffed every time you do, it shows how much you love what you do, it's what makes me watch these videos every week I'm chuffed for you.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you

[@cheryldurham3560]

My absolute favorite is the Masonic pipe. My heart was beating so fast as you extracted the stem to find it was whole. Like you I love the old pipes. I have a collection of old bottles here in Georgia USA both clear, brown and the deepest blue but my heart is with the pipes. 🥰 Thank you for this video, I was worried about you. ❤️

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Cheryl! thanks for missing me and so glad you enjoyed the video .Yes, clay pipes are great especially when you are not sure if they will be intact or not!! xx

[@stevegillies1134]

Happy Birthday Nicola!!

[@MKCarol-ms7lg]

Happy Birthday! I pray these lockdowns will soon be a thing of the past.

[@sandraleenerts6805]

I get lost, mesmerized, in and by your photography. All is done so well, but these vignettes are so lovely. Thank you for your time and effort!

[@lindan2836]

The first bottle that you left had such pretty colours...

[@mr.grumpy]

Happy birthday Nicola! Thanks for all the wonderful videos.

[@kathyaldrich1314]

Such a lovely Sunday now that I can sit and watch what treasures you have to show us! My favorite is the bottle, just facinating the amount of history that can be found about one object. Happy belated birthday dear Nicola, from snowy Ontario Canada.

[@christinegreywolf]

Happy Belated Birthday Nicola! Stay safe and wishing you many more birthdays.

[@susiebell8904]

I just love the history that washes up from the Thames. Love it!

[@corinnestevens4705]

A morning “ mudlark with beautiful Nicola! 🤗🥰🌻

[@markandrews302]

Well Happy Birthday Nicola all the best and Happy Hunting when the Lock Down is over!

[@marthaanderson2656]

If I have to pick a favorite find, I will have to take the bottle. As a member of the drug discovery community I greatly appreciate your information about the evolution of enteric coating. I will pop a donation in the coffee fund and hope you will treat Si and Gemander to a nice get togethe,r when you can. Bless you all for the joy and adventure and lovely spirit filled visits

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you so much Martha! That is so kind of you. Thank you for your lovely and generous donation. I will definitely treat Simon and Germander to a treat. And so glad you enjoyed the bottle find. Best wishes and with gratitude, Nicola x

[@fiorenzaattanasio4796]

Belated Happy Birthday Nicola .... many happy returns of this day.what a feast for my eyes ... from a quiet devoted fan from Calgary Canada 🎂🎂🎂🎂🇨🇦🇨🇦many Thanks

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! x

[@robinbradach928]

Happy birthday Nicola! I hope you had a great day! So pleased to see the Thames rewarded you with several beautiful and interesting finds!

[@mtherese13]

I LOVED the thickness and lettering in the Golden Ring bottle, & must confess to a bit of jealousy over having access to so many bottles that one could leave one behind. Your finds on this video are all amazing!!! As is the research & storytelling which is equally enjoyable. Thank you thank you!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you so much x

[@grapestheoriginal]

Happy Belated Birthday! What lovely finds!👍☺️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@evverrette1]

I like the music that began immediately after you said the words Royal Navy. It gave me the feeling of reverence.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you. I try to pick the right music for the right time. x

[@carolinapilar9]

Happy Birthday Mrs Nicola ....wonderfull finds Congratulations 💐🍰

[@MrKmoconne]

My hunch on the lead ball is that it was part of a canister or grape shot fired from a black powder cannon.

[@michmvp]

I thought the same when I saw it.

[@kellicooke8188]

Watching several days late, Happy belated Birthday! Thank you for sharing your lovely finds with the world.

[@Emma-si5bs]

James loved the pipe & token but the best bit was “spot the card” during the round up, especially at the very end, he was very excited to see it 😄🎂🎉 Thank you for sharing your adventure with us xx

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Emma! So glad James stayed till the very end and spotted his amazing card x

[@Emma-si5bs]

@@nicolawhitemudlark He always has to take in every second of your videos 😊 He's tucked up in bed now but before we said goodnight he said "Nicola is better than Santa!" Wow!!! 🤣🎅🥰 Xx

[@CanadianPennyQueen]

The happiest of birthdays, Nicola! I enjoy your shows immensely! Thank you for your historical insights about your finds.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you ❤️

[@nebbindog6126]

Darn that silt! From my American perspective of old, I'd have taken the first bottle! Pretty fish.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you. Yes, I regret not taking it now! x

[@robertlibengood]

@@nicolawhitemudlark We have a restaurant Here in Tampa Florida called " The Silver Ring" they would have paid you a few Like $25.00 American Dollars for it. LOL If found again Drag it home !

[@sdcoinshooter]

I agree Nebbin Dog, she finds a coin from the 17th century and says: “That’s quite nice” I find a 1958 Wheat Penny and do cartwheels.

[@casucasueq4479]

Bottle was nice... but seeing the mud birth that long pipe was great.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

ha ha yes! good description! x

[@marionbowler5440]

Happy birthday Nicola, awesome lark, enjoy your week. 🇨🇦🐘💜

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks again Marion. Yes, that was a particularly wonderful day! x

[@NatalieLebo]

Wonderful finds today. Love learning the history of the pieces. Can't wait until you post some of your art!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Natalie x

[@NatalieLebo]

@@nicolawhitemudlark Did I miss your fish being posted on Etsy? I kept going back to check but never saw them. If you did, I am sure they were added to carts quickly. Don't blink!

[@adebat13]

Brightened my day up no end Happy Birthday Nicola

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! x

[@justdustino1371]

Awesome! I would've kept that Gold Ring bottle too! Although I could tell from the cursive writing on it it was machine made, maybe 1910s-20s. The style makes me think it held peppers, like those yellow pickled pepper rings they put on sandwiches. I love those. Who knows?!? Happy Birthday! Mine was the second, 47 now. Yeah that was a .22 Long Rifle round, the first one was .455 Webley with jacketed bullet so 1899-WW1 period. Yeah pickled banana pepper rings, so "Golden Ring" would make perfect sense.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Dustin. As usual your info is impeccable and so very useful! Happy late birthday. xx

[@rach940]

Hope you enjoyed your birthday Nicola! I can’t believe I haven’t got to watch this video until today! It was worth the wait. Love the pipe and your New Cross bottle 😀 Beautiful glass fish 🐟 Wishing you blessings xx

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Rachel xx

[@rach940]

@@nicolawhitemudlark You’re welcome, I bought you a coffee! ☕️

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

@@rach940 thank you! I will really enjoy it! I hope you have a great weekend xx

[@rach940]

@@nicolawhitemudlark Thanks, you too! 😊xx

[@denisedemetroff2881]

Not many Larks would leave behind a golden ring !!

[@ClayDress]

Though they do leave behind calling birds, French hens, turtle doves, and partridges.

[@ColinHarperSummerson]

🎈🎉Belated Happy birthday Nicola, I hope you had a wonderful birthday, must say youre looking gorgeous 🎈 🥳, what wonderful finds you have, always amazed me how lucky you are finding complete pipes, think it wont be long before , you will be known as the pipe godess of the Thames , you find soo many 👍🙂xx

[@jeriannroberts1816]

Cards are adorable. While you were talking about the bottle I was screaming "but the fish art"! Thanks for sharing and Happy belated birthday. Stay safe. Blessings

[@adriennehewitt865]

Happy birthday Nicola!!! Good wishes From South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦💐💐💐

[@lizlunch7066]

Happy Birthday! My favorite find was the "injection bottle"! And, of course, the birds flying and floating!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Liz. Yes, my fave too x

[@maridanez]

Happy birthday, Nicola!!! 🥰

[@jan208]

OMG I can't believe it! As soon as you pulled that medal/coin out, I immediately saw Nelson and a ship - Nelson being my number one life - long hero! What a fantastic find, I would rather have that than any jewel!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Ah, yes, it's a beauty isn't it! and you recognised it before I did by the sounds of it x

[@euniceward9765]

The most beautiful thing to be found in the Thames mud is you Nicola!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Ah that is so kind!! xx

[@philup4947]

Not sure what I am more impressed with the finds or your research into the objects.

[@richardjones4080]

that bottle is an absolute gem wow

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

yes! it really is x

[@shishkebab5306]

Happy Birthday Nicola. I hope you have a lovely day.

[@juliet5114]

🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️Happiest of birthdays 🎂🍾🥂, sister-friend 🤗!!!! My 59th birthday was November 12th....well...there goes my 50's🤷🏼‍♀️. On to hopefully bigger and brighter years🤞🏻. Really hard for me to pick a true favorite...🤔...but I'm very drawn to the medal and the society that it stands for. So many families were probably impacted both emotionally and financially by these maritime catastrophic events. Absolutely love your outfit 😉🥰. You look like your going to high tea somewhere. 🤞🏻 Fingers crossed that the UK is only lockdown for a short time. Oregon in the USA is in what our governor calls a "temporary freeze" for 2weeks. But our numbers are still climbing, and I fear it will be longer than that 😏. Blessings to you and your precious family. 😉😊🤗🤭😘

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Lovely Juliet! We are as young as our spirit is! So very young in our cases. Yes, the medal is very special. Id love to know how it ended up in the River. Love to you from London xx

[@ramibu239]

Hello from Eugene!👋

[@kevinbrennan5113]

All that Themes mud, has clearly done wonders for your complexion Nicola. Happy Birthday Mate.. I think, like all your viewer's, you are the real treasure.

[@kpax2066]

We missed you! Welcome back and Happy belated Birthday!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you x

[@Kipple]

Happy Belated Birthday, Nicola! 🥳

[@williammetropulos1757]

It's a mudlark of the year medallion!!!! Congratulations. Love your beeeeautiful artwork

[@robertsimmons1264]

Happy Birthday Gem of the Thames!

[@lizshipman5620]

Love the introduction! Cool finds... OMG the Pipe! And the Injection Bottle-fascinating side notes (you are quite the historian). Great story about the token/coin. I so appreciate you and what you do. We in California are also on lockdown again. I have been pretty isolated so not in much danger here. I’m teaching online and doing loads of gardening. Happy and content in my little world. Sending warm BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!!! Happy happy holidays as well... ❤️

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Liz! xx

[@tazloon]

Hope you had the happiest of birthdays Nicola! 🎂🥂

[@vliegerik]

the seagull at the start can talk: Hello, Hello, Hello :-)

[@juliedavis3575]

Thank you Nic. I hope your birthday was everything you wanted it to be. As my 3 yr old grandson says Have your happy day!

[@UrbanDKaye]

Such intrigue behind a small bottle. Hope you had a spectacular birthday-and thanks for all you do!

[@giaatta9303]

Happy Birthday Nicola! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@willynthepoorboys2]

Just a random guess on the lead ball, it could have been a weight for a casting net for fishermen. Happy birthday and that was a beautiful jacket you were wearing during the reveal.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! Well it was my birthday so had to get my sparkles out x

[@ebergman3555]

@@nicolawhitemudlark Leadballs with2 or more threaded holes could be a joiner. A way of joining cast iron rods together, like for a cast iron bed railing. Just a thought. Stay healthy and thanks for your work and art.

[@ianwilkinson4602]

It could be a "plumb bob", they are mounted on a piece of chord and used for checking how perpendicular a wall is under construction ( or similar) or alternatively it could be used with a long knotted chord, the knots being at regular measured intervals for checking the depth of water under a ship, bit looks rather small for that task, maybe it's intended for a very small boat :-)

[@swarfscaledrossandflash1884]

I'm with the fishing net idea. They would be woven into the mesh at the bottom of the net so the net would stay spread.

[@ianwilkinson4602]

@@swarfscaledrossandflash1884 It doesn't look as though the hole is big enough and it doesn't appear to go all the way through.

[@higgybee6509]

Happy Birthday Nicola! I hope your special day was wonderful

[@ianbennett1491]

Great finds Nicola. Love those cards with pottery on. Would love one of those for my wall when it's decorated.Enjoy your videos so much on a Sunday.Iain Leeds Yorkshire.x

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Iain xx

[@joyceclark8476]

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Nicola, happy birthday to you! 🌹♥️🙏🎂. November 20, your a Scorpio, but, within three days of the sign changing into the next, November 22 is Sagittarius, you can have characteristics of the next sign. Such a lovely combination. Scorpio loves a mystery, very creative, loves research. Sagittarius wisdom, leader, very well spoken in teaching. Can be a warrior if need be. There that’s my gift to you. Your a very beautiful, talented and warm hearted person. Thank you for your videos. My favorite would be the pipe. Take care, Joyce from America 🇺🇸. ARROW *🎱. My signature sign off.

[@billwilson1320]

Ah yes, but which year ;)

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Joyce. How lovely of you to send me that info. Thank you!! xox

[@tomfisher2103]

Excellent finds provided by the Thames. That unique bottle and beautiful clay pipe were something special.

[@annettefournier9655]

Happy birthday Nicola. 💜

[@jerrydempsey3490]

The intact cartridge is a 22 caliber long rifle. They also come in 22 short and 22 long.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Jerry!

[@robchilders]

@@nicolawhitemudlark The large bullet appears to be an early .455 Webley Mark II pistol round. It was introduced in 1897 and had a pretty long run, finally being replaced by the Mark VI.

[@kendiholloway2378]

Happy belated birthday Nicola🎁

[@Paleoman52]

I just love seeing your pipe extractions! This one is so cool!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! yes, this one was a very exciting one!

[@stuartlockwood9645]

Hi Nicola, a belated happy birthday to you, I hope you had a nice one, thanks for taking us along during lockdown, much appreciated, thanks, and stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart.uk.

[@mrnobody2689]

I dreamt that my face was poking out of the mud and you found me. You called me the best find of your life.

[@mrnobody2689]

What a fabulous thing to say, even if I say so myself.

[@comfortbarenleute364]

@@mrnobody2689 lol good on you!

[@stevevicious6911]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NICOLA! 😃

[@sherryrector2275]

I can’t believe you saw that coin that far away. Eagle eye I guess when it comes to coins. 🥴

[@sandrahomeniuk4427]

Happy Birthday Nicola 🥳🎉🎊🥂

[@billdufour1630]

As a Mason, the pipe is my favorite of your finds...

[@monkeywentbananas]

Always amazes Me how those fragile clay pipes lasted all these years without being broken into shards!