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Low Tide on the Thames

Pull the river back a few metres and London grows a beach. I caught this stretch of Thames foreshore at low tide, the water was a proper builder’s-tea brown, the City stacked up behind like someone had emptied a box of glass towers. I love springer spa...

https://inphotos.org/2026/06/17/low-tide-on-the-thames/

#CityOfLondon #England #foreshore #London #LowTide #MillenniumBridge #mudlarking #Photo #Photography #River #skyline #StreetPhotography #Thames #UnitedKingdom

Low Tide on the Thames

https://inphotos.org/2026/06/17/low-tide-on-the-thames/

London Museum on Instagram: "A rare and precious find – a medieval book cover buried in the Thames mud for 500 years…

But how to care for such a delicate object? Head behind the scenes as our conservation team explain all.
#SecretsoftheThames #Mudlarking" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSZpJy2gP83/

Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of Victorian hobnailed shoes which have washed ashore on a beach.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy84ezd4421o

#victorianhistory #shipwreck #mudlarking #beach #shoes #bbc

So after masterfully avoiding the glorious Spanish mud yesterday, today I didn't. This snap is from just before it got worse. At least I didn't drop and there was long wet grass to run through to "wash" our legs afterwards.

I only thought of you @Wen after I had washed down the mutt ;)

Today's RAAAD was the brilliant Danish band Gasolin there was some bad singing and a lot of air guitar ;)

#RunningWithDogs #TrailRunning #MudLarking #Running #RAAAD #RunningWithMusic #Gasolin

A new exhibition has opened at London Museum Docklands which looks great - "Secrets of the Thames
Mudlarking London’s lost treasures" https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/secrets-thames/

#thames #london #exhibitions #docklands #mudlarking

Lovely article on mudlarking on the banks of the Thames and speculating on the origin of the garnet gemstones that wash up there.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thames-garnets-mudlark

#mudlarking

#Thames #mudlarking permits to be issued again but capped to protect site - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/02/thames-mudlarking-permits-to-be-issued-again-but-capped-to-protect-site "everything found by mudlarkers remains the property either of the PLA or the crown estate as landowners, and legally must be reported" #london

I love finding fossils on the Thames. here’s a chunk of Stigmaria, a plant root belonging to one of the colossal Carboniferous club mosses (which are not mosses at all: they are closer to true trees, but their leaves are attached directly to the stem, with no branches in between). this fossil would have been brought into the Thames with a shipment of coal from the north of England.
#mudlarking #fossil #fossilhunting #stigmaria #riverthames #london

lovely bit of medieval floor tile up from the thames foreshore. a bit too battered to identify the pattern. the second image shows a Penn tile, made in Birmingham – the must-have floor covering of the 14th century. #mudlarking

Here's my daughter & son-in-law modelling my newest product - my #OldFatherThames #teaTowels.

My #painting of the #RiverThames depicts BIRDS not TURDS. FISH not FILTH.

Fancy one? Go here: https://janetomlinson.com/products/old-father-thames-tea-towel

#thames #rivers #river #healthyrivers #actionforrivers #wildSwimming #sewagescandal #mudlarking #thamespath #piperatthegatesofdawn #windinthewillows

Here's my finished #painting of "#OldFatherThames".

It's about the nature, history, culture, folklore, magic and bounty of the #riverThames; a reminder of what it could and should be... a place of life, joy and wonder.

BIRDS NOT TURDS, FISH NOT FILTH.

More info here: https://janetomlinson.com/products/old-father-thamestoo!

#thames #coarsefishing #rivers #actionforrivers #folkart #birding #wildswimming #narrowboat #sewagescandal #mudlarking #kelmscott #thamespath #piperatthegatesofdawn #windinthewillows

checking tide times for fossil hunting related reasons and there’s an add for bad knees, which is hilarious if you’ve ever put in long hours fossil hunting or #mudlarking

Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807
#ycombinator #doves_type #typography #typeface #mudlark #mudlarking #excavation #river #archeology #thames #london #hammersmith #arts_and_crafts #william_morris #artnet_news

Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued from the River Thames
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807
#ycombinator #doves_type #typography #typeface #mudlark #mudlarking #excavation #river #archeology #thames #london #hammersmith #arts_and_crafts #william_morris #artnet_news

photos by my friend Tom Chivers, who crawled along the Thames foreshore with me a few days ago, interviewing me for his phd research. a deeply engaging and wide-ranging conversation. about looking slant, finding patterns, seeing systems, and imperialism.
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in the box: a 400 year old lead token. some of the pins may be older. no idea how old the garnets are. a fossil that’s around 89 million years old. so that’s how much time fits in one tiny polypropylene pill case from muji #mudlarking

I rarely pick up ceramic but this tiny asterisk on a tiny piece of porcelain so perfectly echoes the internal structure of this single crinoid ossicle fossilised in cretaceous chalk. also pictured: hematite, malachite, garnets, lead shot, pins, and beads. #mudlarking

fresh up from the foreshore this morning — a Rosie! aka a Charles I Rose Farthing, copper, 1636-1644. #mudlarking

Roman roof tile with a partial Roman dog paw print — one toe pad and one toenail. made when the clay was still drying. at least 1800 years ago. found on the Thames foreshore this morning. #mudlarking

New Trash Museum exhibit just dropped (beach finds from the archives). I know nothing about shoes. #mudlarking