My mom who grew up in Traquair in Scotland. Told me she remembers her father smoking from those pipes when she was very young, she was born in 1921 so she just had her hundredth birthday last year. She also told me that they would as children blow bubbles from those pipes.

You are about the lovliest lady on KZfaq ! I appreciate your adventures, intelligence and sweetness so much Nicola 💖

Nicola... your videos showcase you as part explorer, part reporter, part story teller, part investigator, part historian.... ALWAYS kind, educational & thoroughly entertaining!

I love skulls! As a forester, I have been known to haul found bones and skulls out of the woods. I once carried a pair of moose antlers (not light at all!) all day while working, since it wasn't convenient to take them back to my pick up truck. Fun fact: I've been vegetarian for over 30 years but I find skulls and bones fascinating. Must be my love of biology and ecology, along with my creative side. :)

After possibly one of my worst weeks in a long time.... I get to spend time with you and the Mighty Thames...... Nicola thanks for all your videos

Your ship halfpenny reminded me of my treasure cache itwas in a Fry's cocoa tin buried in a hole covered by a slate in the garden of our house in Modbury we moved from there to Plymouth when Dad came home from the RAF in 1945.In 1967 we moved to Canada and in 74 went home for Christmas .Talking in the local pub I mentioned my long lost treasure ,a man said I live in that house now come tomorrow and see if you can find your treasure and low and behold I did the. tin was almost rusted through but the contents all in pennies hapenies and a "thrift" threpenny bit in total two shillings and fourpence and it still survives intact to this day in my desk. Lovely vlog Nicola I did spot the masts of the Cutty Sark, thanks Nicola take care Ralph X

This has become my favorite channel. Thanks so much for sharing the excitement of the treasure hunt, and the interesting narratives of your finds, but above all...for rescuing these obscure bits of history from the Lethe of oblivion, so that they may live to tell their stories.

"Rejected goose" would make for a wonderful late 80's inspired electronic punk-rock bandname - how lovely inspiring, as always 😊

Awesome! I like that 1601 coin, alot! Rat Terrier, best dog ever! They hunt rats on farms too I am out of the hospital, again! The worst is over.👍😃

I'm 2 years late to watch your morning in May 2022. Always so good to watch xxx

I believe the national battery piece is part of a lead acid battery case and the wording at the top would be accumulator, an early word for stationary battery, used for instance for powering early radios. The local radio shop would charge them up every week, pre mains electricity, cheers

Oh and I loved how you re-headed the “headless” dancers…I’m sure they appreciated your understanding of being able to look at one another once again. Imagine all those years of headless helplessness, now feeling justifiable jubilation ! 💕

Thats awesome finding a masonic clay pipe.a treasure with value.the little dog skull you have could be a jack russel breed they were used on ships and in old london food shops and fish markets near to the thames to catch rats.they were also used to catch rats in the trenches during the first world war.

Firstly,and most importantly,because friends are important,Carol is a sweetheart,so soft spoken and gentle❤️ That pipe find,that is bonkers,you have laser beam eyes! That mudlark book by Jason and Nick,it is superb. I refer to it constantly,and thrill at your contribution to that! And finally,and I adressed this in Simon’s recent video,regarding my mom,who couldn’t understand mudlarking. But it was the mortarium that you gave me,it convinced her that this isn’t rubbish,it is history,to be cherished and appreciated! You did that,Nicola. I thank you for that🥰

I LOVED the Tudor dress hook! I’d never heard of them, so I absolutely love that you are interested enough to share the history with us! The best part is looking stuff up and finding out about them. Btw…on that piece of pottery, the children seem to be flying a kite, don’t you think? Thank you once again for a wonderful show. You’re the best!

Fantabulous dress hook Tudor find! Also love the coin from 1601! What treasures you have rescued from The Thames, Nicola! Love from New York.

I will be arriving in London Monday morning! I’m excited to get back to the foreshore!

Nicola - I'm sure you've already done this, but we'd love to see a room tour of your finds over the years. You've got such amazing things in your studio!

A number of dog breeds were used on ships to fight rats. Many of the smaller breeds were used for 'small game' hunting, which included rats. Yorkshire Terrier, Jack Russel Terriers, Dachshund, Lakeland Terrier, Rat Terrier, Min-Pinscher, Brussels Griffon and the Schipperke to name a few... These have all been used on ships to control rats. There are many others, typically smaller breeds.

We met a woman from the U.S. a number of years ago,and she raised Dachshunds. These dogs would compete in "Ratting " competitions and they were renowned for catching rats. I had not known about this so maybe ships would use dogs like this to control rats. Lovely video again Nicola. 😊👍

I love your approach to creating a video and the music. You include nature which is very important.

Always so pleased to see a new video. I know I will have a half hour of curiosity, surprise and relaxation ahead in the midst a such a difficult time in the world. Thank you.

I am absolutely blown away that pipes are still found intact after so many years. Such an Awesome find. Thanks for the weekly happy videos! They truly lift my mental well-being! ❤️

I love your photography of the surroundings and time changes. Thank you for our trip along the foreshore, a great way to start the day. =-)

Your spilled purse creation is very lovely!

Excellent find with the Tudor dress hook Nicola. I think the little lead animal is a bull; you could call him John, before he goes to join Baa-bara and all the other little lead creatures on the farm. I’m so glad you pick these up, I always worry a swan will swallow them.

Considering that a Tudor unskilled workman only earned £5-£10 per annum, and a skilled man 6d a day, that half a crown was a small fortune at the time. How thrilling to have found it, and as you say to try to guess how it came to be in the mud. I always imagine somebody being punished for losing such a considerable amount. Thank you for taking us along with you on this lovely jaunt.

Looks like you found a piece of a large battery casing . Love your channel ! Very relaxing ! Bless You

As I watch this I think of how much my mom and I loved to beach comb decades ago. We only found pretty rocks, not nearly the selection of things you found. We were always looking for an arrowhead but never found any. Memories, though are precious.

Just listening to you talk about your finds and all those mudlarking excursions you undertake just lift one’s mental state in these current times. Thank you so much! Held our breath watching that pipe extraction, what a beauty. Loved that Tudor dress clasp, delicate but practical. Sue and Ian, Australia

Nicola I absolutely adore your birds made from pipe bowls!!! You truly have an artist’s eye!! Cannot wait to see the finished Lost Purse creation. I also think you did a fabulous job recreating the heads for your figurine. Take good care my friend I’ve yet to meet! Love from DeeAnn 🇺🇸

Your video's are a real treat for me. I was born in West Ham in 65, but I grew up in Canada. Always wanted to come back and see the country I was born in and take a look at artefacts from its amazing past. Never going to happen, so looking over your shoulder while you discover these things is better than fine. Thank you.

That is such a lovely piece of artwork...The Lost Purse is just darling❤

Sunday is now complete.. Thank you Nicola..

Ooh, I love the pseudo Downton Abbey intro music this week! 🤣👍🏻

Hi Nicola loved this. I think the National Battery item could be a broken case from a car battery! Thanks again till next time.

Carol and you are so sweet and soft spoken. I'm a loud Southern obnoxious lady but I try so hard to be a delicate English Rose type😅😅😅😅😅😅

Wow Nicola such fabulous tudor finds, I always especially enjoy when you are in historic Greenwich and I see the Maritime Museum and the Greenwich Clipper. Just a footnote about connecting with the past, I had the chance to tour the Ukraine before the 1st takeover by Russia in the 2000's , I visited the summerhouse that Czar Nicholas and his family went to, running my hand down the stair bannister really gave me a sense of connecting.Thanks for your videos, the opening music had the first few notes of Downtown Abbey lol , take care xxx

Another great pair of outings, Nic! Enjoyed meeting Carol and celebrating your joy with that Tudor dress hook. Your art is so special! Thanks, too, for another brief visit with Mr Squirrel.

Hi Nicola, I think the little clothing hook you found is from the Tudor times, 15 to 17th century, I found one similar, I it took to a friend who is very up on his antiques and that’s what he told me about it. Nice find xxxx

The smaller dog scull look like King Charles Spaniel popular with ladies in Stewart times. Dead dogs were often dealt with by throwing them in the River Thames. Can even remember looking over the side thirty years or so ago and seeing just such a dog floating on the tide.

The funny thing about rats on 18th century ship was that they were not so nearly despised as you think. The sailors called the rats Millers because they were often covered in flour from the ship's biscuit which they ate. The sailors themselves ate quite a bit of hardtack biscuit. They were usually given a pound a day but the biscuit itself was often much diminished from being gnawed on by rats and weevils. Sailors however were young men and were often very hungry. So what was the answer to this well they would eat the Millers. One of their recipes that is often talked about is Miller's fried with onions. All of the midshipmen in lieutenants I read about would talk about this dish with fondness and even Admiral Mitchell in his later years talked about smelling it being cooked on his ship after he was already a flag officer and beginning to salivate. So that's something about ships and rats and sailors and hunger. Yes yes I will try not to be a pretentious Pratt in the future.

I love "the lost purse" very much! AND the pipe birds!

Just a quick note to say I've been subscribed for a couple of weeks now and been going through your older videos. I really enjoy your outings and adventures and appreciate your knowledge and enthusiasm. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU 👏🏻💕

I just recently discovered your site here. And I’m totally hooked on watching what you find. But most of all you make the most wonderful videos. They are so versatile, love your bird watching, your journeys in so many interesting places, you’re so articulate in so many wonderful ways, your artistic mind, and sweet and respectful personality. What a refreshing experience to watch your journey. And not to mention also how educational you are on your finds and how you share the experience and knowledge of everything new to explore of the old world. Thank you so much. From Buckeye, AZ USA

Nicola... you have a sweet and inclusive way about you! You are sweet and kind with everyone you spend time with on mudllarks adevemtures! It is a comfort and si le joy to watch your channel🥰

Love the drawer with the pipe birds. Very imaginative.

In the great days of sailing ships, dogs were sometimes kept aboard as company for the captains and their families. When we lived on a cruising sailboat some thirty years ago we kept retrievers and they loved life aboard. Other people had cats.

I absolutely love the pipe birds! yes, the dress hook is absolutely amazing as well!

Hmmm, pondering the lovely pottery piece you found with the couple (time stamp 36.42). It seems to me that they are Maypole dancers dressed in country outfits, possibly 18th century? The male dancer is wearing wonderful buckled shoes, and a matching buckle on his pantaloons...and the woman's corset style seems to date from the late 1700s into the 1800s hundreds. Loved your finds today, the Tudor hook is quite impressive. There's nothing like messing around in mud, mud, glorious mud 😁

Sculpted heads are fabulous!👌

Carol seems like such a lovely soul. So nice to meet her!

I don’t want to think how the little dog ended up in the water😔. Loved the long stemmed pipe, but some very interesting finds from you both. Love pottery pieces when they have a complete scene on

Hello once again Nicola. Your creations are amazing. The lost 👜 purse is marvelous. The little birds just as lovely. Love you and your videos. Hello to Your Squirrel friend.🐿 ♥️. Take care, Joyce ❤️🇺🇸🙏

Like your found object art pcs. I did laugh a little when I saw the dancers heads. the heads did flash a image into my brain- the one were the local decided to repaint the jesus fresco in spain. I think it would have been fun to glue a found glass marble or a thimble on as the head. really loved the pc of pottery showing the canoe/boat.

Oh! I meant to comment on the reconstructed heads of the dancing couple. That is a great achievement,I can relate to it,in regards to a chalk ware Virgin Mary that I worked on. But those little heads,sooo cute,they marry their torsos so perfectly,I commend you,in your effort of completism! It’s like they are singing together,a new story has been built upon the old!😊

Great vid nicola. A great Bank Holiday treat xx

Love your artwork The Lost Purse. Thanks so much for all your work. Omg just saw the pipe birds. Kewl!!

Awesome research work on the alloy cloth hook. Your presentation of the video surpasses the latest National Geographic channel. Lovely upcycle of the figurine with the lovely head ( highly influence by Simon 😉). Awesome editing and voice modulation. Like the way you took up the video along with Carol ( sweet lady , May her wishlist be fulfilled soon ). The pipe - queen never disappoint her subscribers.....always there is a beautiful pipe. ENJOY With Love from SAM Guwahati Assam INDIA ❤🙏🌷

Congrats on finding that tudor dress hook! I really appreciate your assemblage art pieces. The use of pipe bowls as birds is very clever indeed! Cheers from Florida!

I so enjoy your videos. I’m London born and left age 22, now 78. I get so nostalgic. Thank you so much.

Thank you Nicola. It's so relaxing to visit the foreshore with you. Poor dog looks to have had a terrible blow to the head. 😪 we don't deserve dogs and I'm so grateful mine is snuggling warm and safe with me right now.💜

Beautiful Nicola you make me smile 😃 😊

Really enjoyed your lark and friend to, really good finds . The History is very pleasing to know also. the creations you do with finds is very nice. loved going with you on the trip ! Peace and good health .

Love the lost purse! Not to mention the Tudor dress hook❤️

Enjoyed this video as always, every time my dog hears birds he goes nuts, barking and running through the house trying to find them. Two other things about dogs, the "bare bum" pottery looks to me like a girls arm holding a dog and that is his tail, and my nutty dog is a Yorkshire Terrier that was bred for mouse hunting in textile factories in the 19th century, got an idea where the breed was developed ? 😁 I love your Tudor artifact as well as the beautiful pipe. I also adore your PURSE artwork as well as your pipe bowl birds. Sorry so long winded, have an awesome day!

Congratulations on the Tudor dress hook! Nice find! Thanks for another interesting video. I'm off for my own history hunt now.

Loved today's vid, and I actually laughed out loud!! You had it going on with your comments about spooning and bums. :) I really really like your format, where you go back the the studio and give history. The little heads def gave the figurine more personality.

very good! Queen of the mudlarks delivers again with a entertaining VLOG!

Another lovely edition of your adventures. And finds….. thank you.

Brilliant as always

Good hunting

Once again, thank you so much for sharing the history of your finds.

Love the Tudor Dress Hook, I find these in a lot of fields I have detected, I have also found the Female part that the Hook (the Male part) would have attached to.

Knitting, Nic, rainy day, totally awesome, I do love your new sea birds. The new heads brilliantly done a bit of cheek. Till next time, enjoy your week. 🤗💜🍁🇨🇦🐘👣x

Congrats on the complete pipe and the 1600s coin . Your artwork is so neat I just love the birds and the purse is amazing .you're quite talented. Your video made for a wonderful Sunday evening. Thanks Nicola

Great video as always Nicola!! Thanks!!

That Tudor hook was a great find as was the pipe .

Wonderful job on the figurine, Nicola. It looks so whimsical now.

Your lost purse framed up with smaller artifacts is so beautiful, and what an honour it was to find that Tudor artifact, and meeting Carol, a fellow mudlarker. Your video gave us such pleasure, and we enjoy watching you in your wonderful workshop that contains so many fascinating items. We love your foreshore filming of the wildlife. Happy days, Nicola! Much love from Wendi, Annabelle, Molly, Charlie and Genevieve. Xx

Really looking forward to seeing more of your art. Lovely.

The purse! Epic Nicola❤

Love your creativity with your finds and I love your videos, so fun...

Fantastic video, thank you.

Thank you for another lovely video.

The piece of pottery looks like the couple may be tying hops in a hop garden. I worked at the hops the whole of the 1990’s in Kent. The building in the background is similar to an oast house that they dry hops in, too. With the conical pointed roof. Just reminded me of tying the strings up for the hop vines to grow onto. 👍in case you don’t know- the hop tyer uses a pole and a string to tie the string up to a line above. If those two are not tying hop lines up then I’ve no idea. This is from someone who done the hops for a decade!👍

Thank you again ❣️😊

Yet another great watch nicola love it 👍👍😁😁

So creative! Can't wait to see more of your creations.

I love Carol's piece of pottery with the finger marks and your Tudor dress hook! Really enjoyed this lark. 😻

Love your Thames art work!

Wonderful

Very interesting recap. Tudor finds very nice history as well. Like your art projects. Enjoy your videos.

Wonderful ! Thank you !

Thanks for having Carol with. Nice finds and thanks for sharing.

How Amazing and Creative you are. Thanks have a Good One.

Really enjoy your adventures,Thanks so much for sharing,,

Great Nicola . Thanks👍

Love the figurine. Pottery lovely too. Best is the Tudor dress hook what a great find. Your craft is so imaginative beautiful all round. The music so appropriate so enjoy your channel. Thanks very much.