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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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

#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 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

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 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

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

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

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

Fudo City

My spiritual materialism is showing.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2024/01/fudo-city.html

#beach, #Buddhism, #EightWorldlyDharmas, #England, #FourNobleTruths, #fudo, #makers, #mudlarking, #Zen

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

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

top #mudlarking finds this year: Roman roof tile with cat paw print, Roman bone die, a myriad of echinoid-related fossils including this spine fragment in Cretaceous chalk, Mesolithic flint blade, mysterious shaped crystal with wear indicating it may have been set in jewellery (possibly medieval), Roman bone gaming counter, Henry VIII silver halfpenny first coinage, first scrap of Thames gold (possibly a Tudor spangle), Elizabethan money-pot finial, and a whole lot of fun.

Tudor money box finial! small glazed earthenware containers were used by Elizabethan theatres to collect ticket earnings. full money boxes were taken to the box office to be broken open, destroying the pot in the process. this is where the term box office comes from. #mudlarking

the earliest known button, found in the Indus Valley, was made of shell about 5000 years ago. bone buttons were often made at home in the 17-18th centuries. this humble example, found on the Thames foreshore a few days ago, may have popped off a coat 200 years ago or more #mudlarking

pretty sure I found my first piece of Thames gold today. the gleam of it, like nothing else. possibly a spangle, a Tudor sequin. a seen dangling from Catherine Parr’s hat feathers in this late 16th-century painting in the National Portrait gallery. #mudlarking

@Piratito
Some favorite hyperfocuses:
#HistoricalFashion
#upcycling
#repurposing
#refashion
#victorian everything
#cemeteries
#bats
#mushrooms
#snails
#BeachCombing
#MudLarking
#ZeroWaste
#SecondHand
#oddities
#curiosities
#foraging
#Handmade

My personality traits:
#ADHD explains a lot
#GenX
#AntiRacist
#environmentalist
#VintageStyleNotVintageValues
#DeathPositive

The beach (mercurial) is mostly tiny stones right now, so, I did a tiny beach hunt.

See: yellow-ware, flow-blue, mid-1800’s transferprint earthenware, quartzite and chert debitage (scraps from tool making)

#mudlarking #beachcombing #flintknapping

New beach trash feat. A FACE (and some weird brick)

#flatlay #mudlarking #beachcombing