Mudlarking the Royal Dockyard for Historic Finds - Tide & Time Travelling Mudlark in London EP2

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Mudlarking the Royal Dockyard for Historic Finds - Tide & Time Travelling Mudlark in London EP2

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2 жыл бұрын

Come mudlarking and history hunting with London Mudlark Old Father Thames on the tidal River Thames.
Join me down on the foreshore as we search for historical treasure that unlocks London's rich history. From Prehistoric to medieval and modern, you never know what's going to turn up.
In this episode we are exploring the first Royal Dockyard, once known as The King's Dockyard.
Explore time and place in London's sunken corridor, seven metres below street level. We uncover secrets of the river, objects that have lain hidden for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
Be the first to find artefacts that remain untouched since they were first dropped or discarded!
So, without further ado, come Tide Travelling with me!

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@Sifinds 2 жыл бұрын

Great finds! Well done!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Si! Thank you, so pleased you think so. High praise coming from you. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓ xx

@lovelyskull3483 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I love the history you share. Fascinating video..

@carlabythelake8162 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely relaxing video again with some fabulous finds!

@larkdavis6041 2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful lark!!!! Loved it!❤

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hurrah! Thank you, Lark! 🌊 ⚓

@christhompson4270 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the pinners bone and the cauldron pieces. Take care and thank you for sharing 👍👏❤️

@lindagomez3114 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to see you out mudlarking and smiling!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hurrah! Thank you Linda! Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@lisascenic 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully filmed!

@annegoodwin4620 2 жыл бұрын

That cauldron!!! The pinner’s bone!! 🔥🔥🔥

@mudlarkingmarionette 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Pinners bone a great one for your established collection . Love the history too .

@jettelisec6350 2 жыл бұрын

Wunderbar wieder dabei zu sein. DANKESCHÖN

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Danke, dass Sie mitgefahren sind! 🌊 ⚓

@ChristopherCirillo 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely stunning production. The history and your account of the area is abundantly rich with such fascinating history. ♥️ You’re such a talented host and I can hardly wait to see which area and history you’ll showcase for us next! Thank you for putting so much knowledge, research and quality into these top-notch productions.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Christopher! Thank you! So very kind and I really do try my best. There's lots more coming up! Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@NaMatwo2 2 жыл бұрын

I’m in America and this so interesting to me .Finding history in the mud. Mud anthropologist because at times it’s in intact. And you’re finds ,lead to some beautiful historic stories.Congratulations on another dig .

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hey NaMa! Good to hear from you and thanks for your kind comments. Really glad you enjoyed being down on the foreshore with me. 🌊 ⚓

@Theoobovril 2 жыл бұрын

I very much appreciate the instructional pitch to your videos, some really good finds, this time, too.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Theo, really appreciate it. Yeah the finds are sometimes a lot better than others, but always know something good will turn up after a dry spell! 🌊 ⚓

@salishseaquest7952 2 жыл бұрын

So excited for you finding a 'dream find' with the pinner's bone. I am really enjoying this series -- you've found your niche telling history in the way you do. Great camera work and editing, too. Love your trips to the foreshore!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks as ever for your lovely, lovely comments. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@sisD 2 жыл бұрын

Love the History !!! Great finds with the pinners bone and cauldron. Wish your videos were longer. Thanks for sharing. 🦋

@nigelkavanagh2048 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant vid! Nice to have you back and well I hope👌👏

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

All well and good, thank you! 🌊 ⚓

@guadalupeknippen528 2 жыл бұрын

As always, another very informative video. 🥰🌻🐕🇺🇸

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, as ever, Knippen! 🌊 ⚓

@alistairprice904 2 жыл бұрын

Another wonderful video, many thanks!

@marygarner5249 2 жыл бұрын

Can hardly wait 😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Cool Mary, thank you! it's a special one - I find something I've looked for, for years! 🌊 ⚓

@maarinabudd 2 жыл бұрын

Fabulous finds Marie! Well done! 👏👏

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Maarina! Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@maarinabudd 2 жыл бұрын

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES Aww, bless you my dear, no need to apologise 😘

@profmactheknife 2 жыл бұрын

We enjoyed the new format. Most excellent !

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jon! Going forward I'm keeping both formats, me on the foreshore filming, and me being filmed. 🌊 ⚓

@bonnerdebbie 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry I missed premier, took to long mowing the lawn. Awesome pinner's bone!

@islandgal7159 2 жыл бұрын

Well done!!! Love your format. Looking forward to more!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Island Gal! Glad you enjoyed it. More to come. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@oges74 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the starting of your pinners bone collection and I quite like the couldron pieces you found too

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brett! Wishing I had annunciated 'pinner's' a little more clearly. I have lots of people out there thinking I've got a baculum collection. 🌊 ⚓

@richardserridge2767 2 жыл бұрын

At 3:40 you found a little bobbin insulator, often used for low voltage lighting cables. Most likely, this will have been screwed through the hole on to a pier or wooden batten. They usually have "Made in England" on them.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard! Love finding out about insulator stuff. I have a few GPO pieces at home. Nerding out over them. Hehe. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@elizabethchevalier7740 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing cauldron! Wow! And a pinners bone too!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Was a bumper day! 🌊 ⚓

@viridiangreen8259 Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable - loved learning the history about your finds and the area

@OLDFATHERTHAMES Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@suebt8794 2 жыл бұрын

We are never long enough in your presence x

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Aw Sorry Sue! I have some longer vids coming up! Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@zbigniew.8261 2 жыл бұрын

👍 dzięki za wyprawę. Pozdrawiam serdecznie 🇵🇱

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Dzięki za dołączenie do mnie! 🌊 ⚓

@rachelleandrichard 2 жыл бұрын

This is beautifully filmed. Moody and dark. A real visual pleasure. I love the little cauldron and there's something about those bones that speak to me. Overall a wonderful exploration and treasure hunting, historically loaded post. Thank you from Australia. Rachelle 🦘

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Rachelle and hello Oz! Thanks for your kind comments, I really appreciated it. I love making these videos with my videographer, he has such a moody aesthetic. Just what I love! 🌊 ⚓

@rachelleandrichard 2 жыл бұрын

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES He's doing an amazing job!

@barbaracatalano6299 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Love the pinner’s bone!!! Things like that get me excited. The every day.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Me too! Social history is what gets me going. 🌊 ⚓

@woolaminajunkjournals 2 жыл бұрын

Such amazing history and finds!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Woolamina! 🌊 ⚓

@joannhempen8210 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

What a lovely reaction, thank you! 🌊 ⚓

@Julianne955 2 жыл бұрын

I was so hoping you would find the whole cauldron. Very interesting video, thank you!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, me too! 🌊 ⚓

@pamelapolk6254 2 жыл бұрын

What a great day larking!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

It really was, Pamela. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@lisacassells3828 2 жыл бұрын

How awesome. Good for you.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lisa! 🌊 ⚓

@rach940 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video Marie! So good you found a pinner’s bone! You are very skilled at presenting 👍

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

That's such a lovely thing to say Rachel, thank you. I appreciate it. 🌊 ⚓

@dean828 2 жыл бұрын

My maternal family has been in North Carolina since the mid 1700's (North Carolina, though due south of Virginia, was not heavily populated as a English colony until that time...) - they were Tobacco farmers until up to 20 years ago, when the crop market changed... now it's cattle & soybeans... (My paternal family originated in Virginia in the late 1600's, then into Kentucky... all tobacco farmers until my father). I wonder sometimes if any of the tobacco grown by my great great gdad's made it into one of those bowls...

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Dean! How fascinating, thank you for the history! That's fascinating, and I'm sure some of their tobacco almost certainly made its way to our shores and a pipe bowl? Perhaps even one that I've found! Thanks for watching, and for the info. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@thortheviking4666 2 жыл бұрын

Very good 🎞 filming with balance of the different stuff ✅ I like your style 👌🏻 Kindly Greetings from Thor 🇸🇪

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Thor my buddy. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🌊 ⚓

@thortheviking4666 2 жыл бұрын

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES Yes very much 👍🏻😊😃🤗❤️

@carrie_on_larkin Жыл бұрын

I am already following you!! How strange as I didn't know you had a KZfaq account. I must of followed you a few years ago when I first got in to the hobby and followed every mudlark on here. I've only just started to watch KZfaq again. I'm going to binge watch you this evening as I have a free night. Thanks so much for your brilliant videos. Hope you're doing well xx

@OLDFATHERTHAMES Жыл бұрын

Haha, how funny. Thanks for following and really appreciate the binge watch! Hope you’re having a lovely weekend. 🌊⚓️

@LancashireLarks 2 жыл бұрын

Cracking video. Love the story telling too. New subscriber 👌🙌

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Lancashire Larks, thank you! 🌊 ⚓

@LancashireLarks 2 жыл бұрын

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES most welcome 🤗🙌

@eba44 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoying this series-- thank you so much for sharing this information (and adding a sneaky wink now and then)!! That 'pinner's bone...(!)

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah definitely a pinner's bone...not a baculum. 🌊 ⚓

@jimmymalone3494 2 жыл бұрын

Good finds I enjoy your videos very much and good Luck to you. Have a great Week.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jimmy and sorry for the slow replies! I am just catching up! 🌊 ⚓

@jimmymalone3494 2 жыл бұрын

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES It's ok

@seashoremudlark3916 2 жыл бұрын

Yay luv your new video thnx for the history

@StrawBerry-ve8gy Жыл бұрын

so interesting 😊

@OLDFATHERTHAMES Жыл бұрын

Thank you dear Straw Berry! 🌊 ⚓

@davidcox2264 2 жыл бұрын

Cool finds.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David! Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@martinmarsola6477 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you again. It’s been a while, I think. An interesting video and chat. Thank you for the video. See you on the next!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Martin! Thank you for joining me again. Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓

@TermaMary Жыл бұрын

Those insulators are so great to display your marbles. Now I need to look up a more used pinners stone

@OLDFATHERTHAMES Жыл бұрын

They are, aren't they!

@karenpelletier5707 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Marie Louise! Yes those are ceramic electrical insulators. They were used over here on electric fences until fairly recently untill they were replaced by plastic. Wouldn't it be awesome to find the rest of the cauldron! Here's hoping that you do in the future!

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Karen! I have some insulators here too, the large bits that go on the top of telegraph poles. They are collectable GPO ones. Ahh I think I have to go back to find more cauldron! 🌊 ⚓

@baronedipiemonte3990 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm over from Mark's channel. In the States with an interest in history and the London area. I'm going to venture a presumption that these items you discover washed up, out of the Thames where they were originally discarded. I also take it that some official permit is needed for your hobby ? Obviously you have been doing this for a while, but 30 years in the police and close protection compels me to say please be careful so you don't end up a victim of the Thames or some miscreant loitering about down there. And I hope you never find anything you don't want to have found.... Cheers !

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Barone! Great to see you over here. Was super fun taking Mark out. Items in the Thames are preserved in the anaerobic mud. The water erodes the surface and items are revealed. Yes, a permit is needed to search the foreshore in any way whatsoever. I have a three year permit, Mark used a one day permit - such a good thing that allows people to try out mudlarking to see what it's like. I take a lot of care while out on the foreshore, but you are right to suggest that it might not all be plain sailing! We have to keep our wits about us. Very best wishes, Old Father Thames. 🌊 ⚓

@barbaracatalano6299 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry missed live chat. Didn’t get notifications. Dammit..would have dumped Si. Don’t tell him though!! 🤪

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! I never would! 🌊 ⚓

@GeoRick 2 жыл бұрын

Some great finds. Would love to pick up a piece of English deftware. Thanks.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you can one day! 🌊 ⚓

@GeoRick 2 жыл бұрын

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES hope I can. Going mudlarking early September.

@christinesbetterknitting4533 2 жыл бұрын

What tools would be used to sharpen the pins? I would love to know what the process was, whether the pins needed to be clamped into the notches, etc.

@OLDFATHERTHAMES 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Christine, check out this article by Scott Perkins aka the Renaissance Artisan: renaissanceartisan.com/2018/07/27/the-pinners-bone-pinmakers-guild-redux/ Sorry for the slow reply, I'm just catching up. 🌊 ⚓