Mudlarking the River Thames with Nicola White and Si-Finds - Fabulous Finds and Fun on the Foreshore

Join Simon Bourne @si-finds and myself on the Thames foreshore as we hunt for pieces of London's past and then research the history behind them.
You can find Simon's channel at @si-finds
And, you do need a permit from the Port of London Authority to search the Thames foreshore. You can find details here:-
www.pla.co.uk/...
Thank you for watching. You can follow me on twitter and instagram @tidelineart and you can follow Simon Bourne at @si-finds
Thank you!
Nicola

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

@si-finds and I use Olight headlamps when we nightlark. They are, I have to say, absolutely brilliant! No pun intended. They do lots of torches and headlights. Everything you need to see in the dark! Website here:- www.olightstore.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzbbizNzO5QIViKztCh3_7wXNEAAYASAAEgIzrPD_BwE

[@kathysmith6413]

so much fun watching all of you, sci-finds, chill bill digging up things that we where i live, can only dream of

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

@Odin Exploration And Paranormal I use a sony handycam

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

@Odin Exploration And Paranormal follow your dream!

[@sammijane1640]

I just love how Si reuses all his treasures! Going to attempt the pipe wind chime as the plough chops everything into pieces round here. Be so lucky to find a full bowl :)

[@georgieboy1958]

Thanks for another great video ,i always look forward to your new ones ,keep up the great work

[@dylswife8048]

I absolutely love this! I never knew this was a thing...I do this on the seashore. I've never found anything old like you do! I love it. I may have to widen my horizons!

[@salishseaquest7952]

My two favorite "mud-buddies", Nicola and Simon, out on two night larks. I must say, Good Show!!

[@cncrichard1]

Great Hunt Nicola.

[@gothmorph]

Very cool again ... Maybe I should spend a little time looking down as well ..one never knows what be under ones feets ..

[@electricwheels411]

Love the start of the video and I was more amazed with the shine coming off the Shard. Awesome Button to start you off Nicola and found a few small fragments of those old printing blocks in my fields so to see a large one is great. Ah the HSBC and CITI lighting up the London Skyline, always the first buildings we see when we come into London on the Train. So much History still hiding away in the Thames Foreshore it's just amazing to still see it all coming up for you all. Keep up the great work guys and gals. Stay Safe and catch you all on the next adventure ATB GL & HH LittleJohn_MD 🇬🇧

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you. We shall have to meet on the foreshore one of these days!

[@electricwheels411]

That would be absolutely amazing to meet you and the team Nicola

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

@@electricwheels411 we must do it!

[@johnnelson3220]

Nicola also note that, "Tally Ho," was the radio signal code for your brave RAF Spitfire and Hurricane pilots to break formation and engage the German bomber formations attacking London in 1940. Outstanding video. Capt. John on the Vineyard

[@aropals672]

Have to say that I really like the night lark! I know it would be hard to see but with the head light it does focus your sight on a single area to focus on. Beautiful finds as always. Thanks for taking us along.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you. Yes, at first I was cynical about night larking but it really works.

[@janerider3070]

I think that the RBC brick may be from the Redhill Brick Company.

[@suecordingley538]

Looked like fun! I’d love to do a nightlark 🙂

[@katrinagauld7340]

looked like a stone bead right above the blue bead in that frame it was at 18:46 A grey stone with a hole perfectly in the center. Showing right at the tip of his finger

[@hellofolks1762]

thanks for a good time old mother tyme as give more secrets up again i live in derbyshire old english coal lead copper and olde pubs xxx

[@aquatekt1402]

Wow never seen a spectacle buckle in such good condition, must be the anaerobic themes mud . Well done. Do you find the headlight focuses your search and enhances the contrast.

[@TheFiown]

Nicola my dear, you sound just like Jennifer Saunders doing a spoof on mudlarking ! Finding musket balls at midnight by lamplight ! I'm sure that you will find the stone that was in that ring next time !! maybe wear a blindfold to make it just that little harder !! In this video we get to see you from lamp to boot !! xoxoxo

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Stephanie. That's quite funny actually :) made me chuckle xx

[@mauriceb7067]

is that a chunk of quartz crystal on the opening shot as she was reaching for the button? On the bottom right.

[@johnsweeney6072]

✊

[@thurin84]

the rbc brick is probably "royal brick company", i mean, its british, duhh! on nics lid, the little loop is for a chain attaching it to whatever it was a lid for, probably a flask or canteen of some sort. put tallio into google translator and it said it was greek for "talisman". the bent nature of your buckle probably speaks as to how it ended up in the thames. probably someones strap got caught on a stationary projection as a boat was pulling away from a dock or something and SNAP, the strap breaks and in the thames it goes. my guess for your tiny bottle is maybe a traveling inkwell. my guess for your fist would be a punch and judy puppet or marionette. for obvious reasons lol.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Where are the pink boots? Oh -- that tall knife-like building -- was it actually designed to create that "glow"? Or is that some unexpected thing that it produces at just the right time and conditions?

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Hi, there. that was a little mix of outings. One of which at least was pre pink boots. Not sure about the shard. It does glow beautifully at times.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

@@nicolawhitemudlark -- those pink boots are awesome! I was reading up on "The Shard" -- there are light shows where the interior and exterior are purposefully lit up with various colored lights, but it looks like the awesome glow/refraction that you have captured on video was not planned for -- I'd take that "light show" over a bunch of colored floodlights any day! Again -- one more awesome and beautiful part of your videos, well, there's always you of course also!!!! Hopefully the weather holds out as we head into the winter months and you can still get out there and find more history to share with us all!

[@phyllisbowler182]

Think that might be a fox on the Tally Ho button

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

yes correct!

[@CB-xr1eg]

Without wishing to appear clever, I could see it was a fox as soon as Si picked it up ad said it looked like a dog. It says Tally Ho which is always associated with fox hunting. Therefore it was always going to be a fox.

[@MartinLegare]

@@nicolawhitemudlark you might want to check the guy Samson Boat on youtube, he's restoring a 109 year old sail boat from england that is called Tally ho. That just poped on my mind when i saw that button :)

[@Mercmad]

@@MartinLegare maybe a button from Tally Hos crew uniform.... ha ha. There is every chance that tally Ho had sailed up the Thames though. And one of you tubes epic projects too.

[@jan1babs]

Really enjoyed the video, great finds. I was shouting "its a Fox" at Si-Finds every time he said it was a dog, Sad reminder of how long the persecution of foxes has been going on.

[@shawnbawden3601]

I had a whippet named Talli partly after a picture of a hunt with the sight hounds on the run entitled Tally-Ho. She was also so named because we had to keep a tally of our shoes.

[@bettyclarke5150]

I love the instrumental openings, interludes and shots of the surrounding area throughout your videos, it really adds to the feeling of being there at the foreshore! ☺

[@mysticmike9778]

I so enjoy your hunts for history and the stories they tell. Your recap and research bring things full circle. Thank you so much for bringing the world a little closer together in time as well in distance

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Mike! x

[@nancycowan6109]

Wonderful fun! While my husband is plopped by the TV watching his Minnesota Vikings, I get to watch you! Win/win! ❤️

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Woo hoo! Thanks Nancy! x

[@RobertWorley]

the plate simon found at @6:00 is a magnesium printing plate from a newspaper.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

ah great thank you!

[@RobertWorley]

@@snowflakemelter1172 even better if mixed with KNO3 ;)

[@Sifinds]

Great video Nic. All I have to say is 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Si! Fist bump 🤩😄

[@denisefallin8042]

I love when the two of u lark together!

[@ksully6551]

Thank you for the moon and music over London interlude, then the slow blue blinking boat, lovely.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you for watching

[@carolineeveratt]

That “lid” looks like a plug to a Belfast sink. Or butlers sink. That hook was where a chain once attached.

[@Brian-1948]

Maybe not as it has a thread on the inside.

[@AmericanPatriot-1776]

This is such a sweet video. I love Si-Finds, he is so cute and is so in sync with you, lovely Nicola, I'm sitting here with my gin and coke and relaxing after helping a friend prepare for a garage sale, then feeding my goat "Little Girl", kiss and hugging and squishing my dove, Malcolm who "cooed" all the way back to his cage, then kissing my husband on the head until it hurt, and then back to my computer to watch your fun. I am still sober, however the edge is now off and I'm ready to dive into the Thames, and at 67 I know better then to dive in without clothes. Margaret :-)

[@vickipease6653]

You two complement each other, you both add a lot of something to make this world a better place! Well done!

[@daleparker4207]

You and so are two of my favourites to watch. Thank you from Calgary Alberta Canada.

[@evcotter08]

It’s unlikely, but RBC makes me think Royal Bank of Canada (mostly because I’m Canadian)

[@SundaysChild1966]

ahahaha .. we were thinking the same thing! Now, to scrape the snow off my car .. sigh ..

[@BigLisaFan]

Same thing, shame it wasn't a gold brick.

[@CB-xr1eg]

Yes of course, the Royal Bank Of Canada are fampous for producing house bricks aren't they?🤣 I suspect its something Brick company, so the R is probably the comany name. Maybe Redditch or Reading.

[@babawali3021]

@@CB-xr1eg-- Good guesses, Clive, but I think I've found it, within a mudlarking database. See Redheugh Brick Company, Teams, Dunston, Gateshead, as listed in sites.google.com/site/thamesandfield4/home/thames-bricks?overridemobile=true.

[@martinemjt]

i thought the same thing.

[@karynsmith1686]

What a gorgeous moon..I always enjoy your videos sometimes I find myself getting excited as if I'm the one pulling these treasures out of the mud..lol Thank you for sharing

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you for watching! x

[@TheFiown]

Tallyho would be a fox my dears ,,,

[@willemstreutgers1154]

It's a sailboat been restored ; by sampson boat co; kzbin.info/door/g-_lYeV8hBnDSay7nmphUA

[@Ariella-mx3xq4cw6n]

I understand Tallyho was used in horse racing as well "Tallyho there off"

[@jlouutube65]

Oooo the Midlands...that's where I'm from!😁

[@Alijax767]

I enjoyed the video esp. about the info on Tally Ho. Ironically, last week I posted "Tally Ho, Lets Go" on my facebook page when I was about to work a flight to LHR.

[@zw5509]

Clegg just found one of those Midland Railroad buttons digging a field while metal detecting! They do get around.

[@huub1989]

It always makes my day to see that you’ve posted a video Nicola, great to see Simon too. Merci de Montréal. 🇨🇦

[@Wreckdiver59]

First a new video from Si, then another from Nicola with Si as well. Can't think of a better way to spend a lazy Sunday morning. The added history is always appreciated! Thanks for sharing 👍.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@kitchenworker446]

what a lovely Sunday afternoon I have had watching my two absolute favourite Mudlarkers together, thank you for sharing.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks very much Jan x

[@manuhonkanen2111]

At 5:10 the "Tally ho!" seems to me to be a horse? Really enjoying your mudlarking! :)

[@HeyMJ.]

Your videography captures & creates such beautiful images. The triangular building’s glow, evening’s skyline, & river’s murmurs. Were any other bits of info received about the little ring? The side-design looks like fiddle-heads...

[@mikeandbrendasmith]

Hi Nicola my wife and I only found your apps a few months ago we go beach combing now and we find you fascinating.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you x

[@JamesWilliams-gp6ek]

It's always nice to see the treasures you both discover. And a relaxing way to spend part of my Sunday.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks James. Glad you're having a relaxing Sunday!

[@lisacairney140]

Can you do a follow up on the printing plate? I found a much smaller one but it has around 4 different stories on it and I've managed to date back to 1896 due to the stories it carries. One of which is about a new cyclists shed built just inside Hampton Court Lion's Gate! I'm assuming normally these plates would be melted down to make more plates making these reasonably rare?!?

[@debcattell7059]

Thanks for the latest video Nic ☺ Really loved your first find, that beautiful button ♥️ and I loved that cute little bottle😊♥️ so sweet. Cheer Deb

[@dr_steve]

It's always such a delight when I see another of your videos post, Nic! No exception today. I wanted to say how excellent the lighting of your headlamps is picked up by your camera. It is very easy for viewers to see the finds at night. You should continue to use these during your nighttime hunts. Love it when you and Simon go out together. You do complement (and compliment) each other well!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks very much Steve! yes, the headlamps are fab and the ambience at night down there is lovely

[@andermac1]

Tally To is also the name of an over 100 year old english sailing yacht being restored in Washington state by Sampson Boat Company. On you tube. A very patient English bloke.

[@smurf_mammma2401]

I can’t get enough of your videos it’s my dream to go mudlarking someday and be like you , thanks for the cool videos

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! Follow that dream :) x

[@janelovesy2399]

I love to watch you both down on the foreshore !

[@jakethedude100]

Nick, you always seem stressed when you have a metal detector in your hand!!

[@MartyRabbit]

Greetings Nicola. Just here to enjoy the scrapy diggy sounds :)

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Greetings Marvin. Hope you enjoyed the sounds. Si was doing a lot of scraping there!

[@MartyRabbit]

@@nicolawhitemudlark yes very satisfying!

[@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers]

I have always loved your videos and you strongly influenced us in starting our own channel (still only little but hey) It is really exciting though as we are awaiting our own Mudlarking permits which should be here any day now. We can`t wait to explore the foreshore and hopefully find some things as beautiful as the things you find :)

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you. And good luck with your channel! I'll watch some of your videos. That's great you're getting your permits. Let me know what you find! x

[@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers]

@@nicolawhitemudlark Thank you! We have them! Foreshore here we come (well on saturday haha) :)

[@marthaanderson2656]

love the drama of that square bottle Si found; the edges and the wear. will make a nice table candle holder in the Mudlarkers Pub.

[@mattspears789]

Keep the videos coming. Always one of my favorites.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Matt!

[@camillefulton7709]

SO ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO AGAIN, WHAT A WONDERFUL, EXCITING LIFE YOU HAVE, MAGIC FINDS. TALLY HO! CAMILLE AUSTRALIA

[@candywonka81]

Yay! Another nic & si adventure! Gotta love that mini fistbump, but now we know what scares the bejeezus out of si... a low-flying candy-shaped balloon!

[@ZeroDiscrimination]

What an awesome video Nic! I absolutely love that Railway button! Incredible find! The Tally Ho is most interesting and the history is fascinating. Incredible find with the buckle...I love that you found it with your detector! I may be coming to the UK for a detecting trip in February. Fingers crossed 🤞! Happy Larking! ~ Gypsy

[@UrbanDKaye]

Hi Nic. Wonderful finds as always. Thanks for the backstory on "Tally-ho!"

[@animalmagictraininguk62]

I'd have spent exactly. 0.62 seconds researching that button. #keeptheban

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Agreed. But I enjoy researching my finds regardless. It's not the button that's guilty

[@ferraridinoman]

Great as always, Young Nicola! x

[@tonicooper8202]

Love when you two search together. So informative. You are a beautiful lady Nicola !!!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you! ❤️

[@superbellabeau]

I was worried they'd be no pipe Nicola but there it was! Great finds as always! 😊

[@helenrichardson8550]

Hi nicola, it's great to have you back. I love your videos as you're very informative and descriptive. How's Angelo and his band. Has he come down to earth yet after supporting his heros Bon Jovi and seeing his mum singing with Jon Bon himself.

[@diq5386]

That's a cracking orange moon!!! Great video, keep them coming!!!

[@montydewitt547]

Always, thanks for another hunt!

[@stephensouthern6999]

I heard your sons band on Planet Rock tonight. Really good song. I bet you're a proud mom.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Yay! Yes I'm very proud 🙌 x

[@JudithBisson]

Lunch with Nicola is just as good as morning tea🇨🇦❤️

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Judith! x

[@babawali3021]

As well as medium or high tea! ⛾⛾⛾

[@billaverill7097]

Nicola, this was another well done video. I enjoyed your collaboration with Si-Finds. you have a good sense on how to keep your videos interesting and fresh. Please keep it going!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks very much Bill. x

[@hughbiggar5708]

Frequently when you golarking you seem to find an antique Si fi. messing about. Improves with age.

[@sunitasurendran2001]

"You know me I always wear gloves..."😊

[@juadonna]

Great video! And I loved the baby eel! Amazing how clean the Thames has become during my lifetime! Great Job, Britons!!! In the USA, our current goverernment is picking away at our hard won environmental advances and Public Lands and Parks. GRRR!!

[@juanitaconlin195]

Hope we can undo the damage in a few months.

[@juadonna]

@@juanitaconlin195 I certainly hope so!

[@ggsmith099]

I love that strange shaped building, is that sunshine and dog that makes it look that way? As always I'm so jealous of all the history you find in the mud, if I lived near you would see me all the time in the mud! From Tennessee I enjoy every video bye for now! 😎💨

[@connieward2042]

Thank goodness you found a pipe bowl, my day is complete!

[@domus29voyagesdecouvertes80]

Hello « Taïaut » TAILLE HAUTE means high size in old french for deers and high size hunted animals. I like very much buckle thank you for sharing 🙏🏻 Françoise from France 🇫🇷

[@normplatt7549]

You have pulled it from the mud again! Good show old bean!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Norm

[@Catmoore60]

One thing I love about your and Simon’s vids is that I always learn something, and especially love to learn about the origins of something I knew very little about. Great job to you both! Isn’t history fascinating?

[@carolyoung3793]

Love your finds , great and more interesting with the two of you , tfs xx

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Carol x

[@urbanmonkey48]

Can you answer how northern mudlarking a new recommended channel has 836 thousand subscribers and only 4 videos and a long time great channel like you has 20 thousands subscribers?. I enjoy her content but it doesn't add up. Do you have any thoughts on this?.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Hi! They have 836 not 836k. Actually they're a great channel too but it will be a while before they get 836k! I'm going to give them a plug later x

[@urbanmonkey48]

@@nicolawhitemudlark thanks for clarifying. I miss read the number and was really confused. That makes more sense.

[@YsabetJustYsabet]

Lovely video! It's a lazy Sunday for me out in the Arizona desert, so I'm spending it doing a few favorite things (of which watching mudlarking videos is one) while I do the laundry. That little spectacle buckle actually had me wondering if it was gold-plated, it came out of the mud so very shiny! Beautiful thing. So was the train button; that wyvern design was really finely done. The tiny Tally Ho! button made me laugh-- in the town where I grew up (Panama City, Florida) there's an old restaurant named the Tally-Ho that serves burgers, fried fish and so forth dating back to 1949, and it used to be that you could drive up to it and blow your horn and a waitress would come out and take your order.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Glad you've been having a relaxing day Ysabet! That restaurant sounds great

[@seanwatcham8308]

That was a weird effect off the Shard.. Love the camera work ;) Some great finds..! Not jealous at all..

[@JanMichael6969]

The Mudlark 1950 film...A good old movie Alec Guinness Irene Dunne www.imdb.com/title/tt0042757/

[@Diggerek]

Hi ✋😃👍

[@kaseytyler6262]

Love when you and Si treasure hunt together. Your photography is brilliant, of the sun beams off the building, and the moon shot at night.

[@bigkahuna6277]

Nicola, great adventure with you and Simon....cheers from Hopatong NJ...USA👍

[@Spitalhatch]

According to Wikipedia, the Midland Railway was established in 1844 - a lot earlier than the 1906 quoted. It was amalgamated with several other companies to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (the good old LMS!) in 1922.

[@nugnug63]

Hi Nicola and Si .....have a look at 18.46 onwards where SI HOLDS THE little bead just above his fingers at about 2 a clock there is a curious object .......thanks for your awesome videos I love watching them cheers from Australia ,Damon

[@spiccybaby]

ooh no, Midland Railway 1846-1922, long history. There were quite a few isolated coal and goods depots south of the Thames which belonged to railway companies based north of the Thames; they had access rights over the tracks of the LSWR, LB&SCR and SE&CR to reach them. In Croydon, the area NE of Fairfield Hall was a depot belonging to the Great Eastern Railway, for example. So the MR button could have pinged off the jacket of a goods train guard crossing the river.

[@jpdj2715]

Tally Ho is a "109-year old English sailing yacht called Tally Ho. Designed by Albert Strange in 1909, she is a well-known and important historic vessel - but after many adventures she was left in a remote port in Oregon to rot for decades, despite some valiant attempts to rescue her. I bought her and moved her to the Olympic Peninsular and am rebuilding her from the keel up. Eventually I hope to sail her back to the UK." From kzbin.info/door/g-_lYeV8hBnDSay7nmphUAabout . Behind this: Leo Sampson Goolden, a Boatbuilder, Sailor and Writer from Bristol, England. Leo is completely rebuilding Tally Ho and documents the process in KZbin.

[@earthangel6480]

EARTH ANGEL 💔. It looks to me that the stone that was set in the copper ring was actually forcefully taken from it’s mount !!!!!🤔. As you already know In long ago times, precious gems were not always set in gold!!! 💍👍🎃🌚🌇

[@andrewsheldon5331]

Always good to watch your stuff... A few years ago used to do a similar pursuit splapping about in mud, off of Canvey island.. There is an old roman site on the eastern tip, I believe they produced salt there.. When there was high easterly winds it used to strip the mud away revealing all its treasures.. Sadly I live in France now and am landlocked, but I get to watch your amazing prog instead... BTW another one of my favourite You Tube productions is Sampson boat co, a young chap rebuilding an awesome old boat... The boat is called Tally Ho the same as the button you found.....

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you

[@rontesh6244]

Love the time with you, great picture of the tower. You guys have all the fun.

[@ngneer999]

Thinking about the buckle, if I estimate the original owner lived in 1700 and a generation is 25 years and 3 children per generation, that person has about 21,500,000 descendants now. In 2019 there were 67,500,000 people in Great Britain so if your family is generally from England you have about a 1 in 3 chance of being a direct descendant of the buckle owner. (I haven't done the math, used an internet calculator)

[@stevebonds4698]

Loved the video Nicola. Hope your staying warm. Your friend. Steve Bonds from Bay City Michigan

[@miriamgreen3973]

Beautifully done as always. I'm very curious as to what the printing block says

[@mmme9671]

Beautiful scenic mudlarking... beautiful to watch... enjoy the music that accompanies too... love the history of the objects. Thank you for the travel through time, although fleeting, definitely worth it!

[@jorisput]

Hi Nicola great finds again. I was wondering if you have ever found a tin bubbels pipe.( to blow bubbles) It was a old toy. I Found one years ago. I lived in London when i was in my Twenties. If i only knew than ... that mud larking ( metal detecting was such a great hobby. I would have problably saved me 1000ths of pounds. Rather than going to the pups i would have been so much better to mudlark then. Regards Joris Put.