Emmylou is a lovely girl, thinking of the environment and how we damage it with our rubbish. I hope she continues trying to make a positive impact for the rest of her life - we need more people like her.
At her age I only cared about riding my bike and my favorite shows on Tv. So happy young people are getting more and more involved and aware at a such a formative time in their lives!
Even though it was a year ago I am still intrigued with all your finds. Also seeing Emmielou cleaning up the foreshore at a young age is so wholesome to the soul. The younger generation will make a great worth in what they are doing keeping things clean.
Was nice to see that young lady, getting involved in the plastic collection. Thanks for your encouragement in that process. Enjoy the week ahead, Nicola. See you on the next. Cheers NICOLA!!!
Lovely Tom, you don’t need to have historical knowledge. Just go for it, start mud larking and the you’ll learn the history of the items that catch your eye. It’s the Journey Tom, and not necessarily the destination. Beautiful photos Tom, great job and thanks for sharing them - they are your treasures. 🙂🐿❤️🌈
Thank you for another great video. I love Sundays because that's the day some of my favorite mudlarkers post videos. I love to end my night by turning off all the lights and just enjoy the sights and sounds of the lovely foreshore. 🥰🐕🇺🇸
Half globe lenses were commonly used on a brass stand and were used for example to concentrate light onto the mirror of a microscope, they were termed bullseyes. They were I think used to concentrate light for doing some fine hand work they were also used in lamps on the railways and elsewhere. I had a battery powered torch back in the 1950's with a bullseye lens.
I think Tom's observation about mudlarks ability to see whatever each is looking for is apt. So often I hear your cheerful "oh. Look over there. Do you see what I see." Of course the honest answer is "No. I see what eye see", the ochre firebrick, that interesting textured slab, the earthenware handle broken off a pot, Roman or modern etc. My guesses are the metal bit that looks like a tiny sword is the tang of a small broken knife such as a butter knife with part of the blade broken off. The glass domes with their brass bezels had me thinking of some sort of indicator light or boat running light. The half dome shape so that a small wattage lamp behind it would be magnified and can be seen through 180°.
I think the glass domes are from old flashlights. Tom Harrison's photos are brilliant. Thank you for Emmylou and her friends for taking care of the Thames Foreshore, well done.
Well done, Emmylou! I love that you have been working to clean up the plastic in the Thames. I'm in Colorado in the US, and I also care a lot about eliminating plastic pollution. Sometime if you want a challenge, try shopping with your parents and see how many things that you need you can buy without plastic packaging or tags. I tried recently and was very sad about how many times I couldn't avoid buying plastic. ☹️ But with help from people like you, maybe sometime in the future we'll be able to buy things without all that plastic that gets thrown away or becomes litter! Keep up the good work!! 😀 Thanks Nicola for featuring Emmylou's efforts. ❤️
Loved the children mudlarks and plastic clearing. The lead skirt weight reminded me of a conversation recorded with my dad some 45 years ago. He was born in1902 and remembered his mother sewing them into the bottom of her Merry Widow dresses. But my young dad thought they were pennies.
I love seeing kids encouraged to keep the earth clean! Emmylou is darling as is Edgar. I was a wee kid when the ecology movement began here in the US. I have been an advocate since. The ring may have been painted.
Love all the wildlife you feature. So cute watching you and your squirrel buddy outside your window. I had a chipmunk who would climb up my body and take a peanut out of my shirt pocket!!! He would follow me all over the garden. Enjoy watching and am so jealous of all the old artifacts in the UK, wish America had a river like the Thames!
Thanks for another very interesting video. The ARP reminded me of my dad who was an ARP warden. He and my mum were woollen weavers, which was a protected occupation. As such he wasn’t allowed to join up till 1941.
I'm back after some time off chasing other rabbits down other rabbit holes. I reckon if I lived near the Thames, I'd become quite obsessed with mudlarking to the exclusion of anything else. 9:25 That looks like a back to something that's been snapped off. Those holes could have been points to run a thread through to affix it to a jacket. 10:20 Saw that and instantly started humming the "Dad's Army" theme. Who do you think you are kidding, Mister Hitler? That buckle is probably from a leather or cloth watchband. 17:30 I'm thinking the glass dome might be the top of a man's walking stick. Thanks to Mister Gurgle, Strike Cola is now called Barr's Cola and is made by the people that make Irn Bru- which outsells Coca Cola in Scotland! Those ship halfpennies look like an interesting story. The design on them changed quite regularly, especially the ones featuring QEII. We had a Courage Brewery in Australia in the early 1970s. One of their ads ran "He's a man among men. Courage Draught is his beer". Hopefully, the UK is on the downslide from the omicron VoC. Take care and love from Australia. Garry.
U inspire everyone to see the hisrbehind every object. Thar ring u found meant a great deal to someone once. Just imagine what memories it holds. You inspired Emmylou and her brother in the same way u do all of us! Good on you mate!
Dear Nicola, I thoroughly enjoyed this video like I do the rest of your videos. I love that kids are trying to clean our rivers, beaches and oceans. The future is not lost. Continue your great work. Poppet
Thanks for another Thames outing. My aunt was Edward R Murrow, the famous American news correspondent’s private secretary, and lived many years in London before returning to the States. I’ve been to London several times. Enjoy revisiting now through you.
Great finds Nicola! I especially love the ring and it's great that it fits you. It was so interesting seeing the old war footage about the wardens. It's good to see junior mudlarkers like Emmylou out looking after the environment! ❤😊
Hello Nicola Looked like a lovely sunny day to do some Mudlarking. It was sunny but very cold here today, but winter really hits us tonight possible 35cm of snow in the next 12 hours. Wishing we where there in your sunshine. Take care Chris and Sandra of Canada.
Years ago I was looking for a special gift for a friend and went into an antique jewellery store in Paris. I asked him what he found the most special and he took out a medieval ring ( maybe 15th C ) , worn down and slightly mis shapen with a worn stone. He said that it had been found in the Seine River near the Louvre. I remember it was 1300 euros, quite unwearable and not within my budget unfortunately. A few weeks later in the Flea Market I found almost the identical ring in a box for 50 centimes ! It is slightly mis shapen had slightly raised shoulders like the Seine one and has a worn cabochon amethyst in it still. I decided to keep it in the end as I had found something else for my friend and today it site in a lovely antique ring box in my bedroom. No intrinsic value just a nice little piece of history.
I’m sure it’s all the sweeter to you for having wanted its twin and then finding it at a price within your reach. Life’s second chances are always treasured, no matter how serious or how inconsequential they may be. I’d keep it in a special box, too!
Just think, some poor soul could be ripped off E1300 for that old ring. What hide some dealers have! Congrats on your 50c find. Don’t ya just love a bargain!!!
The glass globes remind me of the glass used on old metal signs to make them stand out when headlights would flash unto them. I think these are too large for that, but they brought back a nice memory of my father's sign shop in the 1940s. Wonderful video, and for those of us who are still in isolation, even more so.
Wonderful video Nicola. The photos of the mudlarks are amazing! Tom really seemed to capture the essence of all of you! What a talented young man. It was heartwarming to see Emmylou and her friends caring for the environment and the Thames. I am so enthralled with all the different metal pieces you find and cannot wait to see how you use them in your art!!! You are so very talented!!! You definitely have the gift of creativity my friend I’ve yet to meet!! Take good care!! Love from DeeAnn 🇺🇸
Can you imagine how many lives those Air Wardens saved? People confused by the sound, smell, lost landmarks...can you just imagine? And then you say they were Volunteers! Amazing men and women! Nicola, when the ring was wet I thought the stone was an intaglio. Have you put a light to the back or side of it? It definitely seemed like it had something under the stone.
Sooo nice to see you with the very young Mud Larkers 😁 Mud Larkers unite i might say 😉👍Who knows, maybe one day a new generation of Mud Larkers will search the Mud for treasures, and share their finds with everyone looking at the web 👑💍🗝
At 17:20 while washing the magnifier glass there appears to be some copper coinage in the bottom right corner of the shot. The magnifier domes look like maybe some sort of light lens...maybe maritime in nature. I always enjoy your videos Nicola. It is crazy how people can just throw trash onto the ground or into a body of water. It truly is horrible anti-social behavior. Examples need to be made. Emmylou is setting a grand example of caring for our environment. She deserves public recognition from the local media that may lead to some contributions as well as volunteers. Wonderful photos of mudlarks and yours particularly are really nice. Happy 2022.
I love the ring. Jewelry. Every finger needs a bauble !! Such history and great interview with such sweet and knowledgeable little people!! Loved the blouse. Blue is your color. And just a joy a listen and learn about all the history. Thank You so much. Be well n safe.
Tom took some brilliant portraits of you and many of your friends, Nicola, whom we have gotten to meet through your videos. That is definitely you he captured! Some nice finds and fantastic back stories, too. Very nice video, Nicola.
Always enjoyable to watch your adventures! It rather struck me today how I had a true sense of happiness at seeing you had a video up. I saved it like a chocolate for a time I could solely just enjoy it. So a thought for you: You are truly reaching around the world and giving people a sense of joy and happiness with your content and creativity. All the very best to you.. and the Squirrel. ☺🐿
My Grandmother was a seamstress and she used hem weights in drapes / curtains. It was rare she put them in dresses because you would have to put a lot of them in the hem to make it hang correctly. the rounded glass incased in the metal looks to me like a cane topper.
De très beaux objets de trouvés sur ces berges👏👍👍👏 et surtout quelle belle solidarité pour nettoyer tout ces déchets qui polluent la faune et la flore 🙏🙏🙏 .Une superbe vidéo et un grand bonjour à vous tous les prospecteurs anglais ✌✌✌
A wonderful video, Nic’. For some reason I was tearful! I love to see people who are interested in ridding the foreshore of plastic! At the same time enjoying the mudlarking side of it.😀The parts about the ARP triggered a memory of what my Mum used to do in the ATS . She was a spotter. She had some very interesting stories to tell about the air raids and going into the underground Bakerloo line, for shelter! Horrible times, yet my Mum found romance. 😀
When I was a small child a great-aunt gave me a torch with an almost identical lens and mount to your find. I think it was quite old when she presented to me. It's still in working order with its sliding switch and takes C size cells (I think). Such metal torches often had a bright nickel coating. Lovely video, made more so with the well spoken Emmy-Lou and her helpers. PS: Just retrieved it from a desk drawer! No maker's name. Max. diam. of lens 30mm (1.2") Overall length 116mm (4.5"). Barrel diam. 24mm (0.97"). :-)
Always a good day when I get to start it with a video from you, Nicola! ( : Thank you sooo much for sharing Tom Harrison's amazing photos, they are amazing. And also EmmyLou, her brother Edgar and all her friends! Her friends and EmmyLou remind me if you and your friends "ladies you lark" in mini form! Sooo cute! ( : Would be great to have a collage of the pic of you and your lady larking friends pic and EmmyLou and her friends overlapping each other a bit and surrounded by Thames larking finds!! So awesome these young girls, and gentleman, are embarking on such an amazing quest at such a young age! I live it! ( : Great finds! I am going to try to listen to the strike American Cola song by the poets! Curious how it sounds! ( : Thank you again for another fantastic video! Live them all and can't wait to hear more/see the German project you are working on! ( : Love you and your phenomenal work, Tracy ( : 🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤗
Them children did a good job piching up trash that washed up on shore. Thank for sharing your video i enjoyed it a lot. Your friend Shirley from new Bern, north Carolina USA ❤❤❤😅😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😅😊😅😊🎉
What an amazing little person Emmylou is, and I loved your “interview” with her brother Edgar, just gorgeous. A brilliant project indeed. If I was in the UK, I would have been there in a heartbeat. Thanks so much for sharing this video. Much appreciated. 🙂🐿❤️🌈 As for the brass and glass objects you’ve found, they remind me of some old ships compasses and/or the top of a smart wooden walking stick or cane. Some had rock crystal tops. Another idea is an old magnifying device, although the brass collet seems too wide for that. Anyway, just a few ideas to run with. I’d love to solve this one. I’m looking online, but I’m sure as you may have discovered, I’m getting a lot of brass and glass domed light fittings. I saw an antique table compass that looked promising. Good luck.
Wow that’s some awesome finds and i love how you give the history of the item. If everyone took a rubbish bag with them and collected one bag of rubbish each there would be heaps less rubbish in the environment. Take care and stay safe and well 👍👍👏👏🥰🥰💖💖
When I lived in rural Wales we used to trek up the local river to its source from my village which was near the Preseli Mountains . It’s a happy memory of my childhood as I can remember actually walking through the river as it was so clear & spotting things, grabbing them & taking them home. Would love to wander the Thames, but obviously you need a licence. Loved that ring you found, it looked exquisite! 😘
What a darling child I should say children but that little girl Emmylou is so well spoken and such an inspiration to other children. I so enjoy your videos Nicola I am here in upstate New York and just love to watch you I wish I were able to walk well and do all the things like mud larking in rivers and streams so interesting yours is the very first video I ever watched. I look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work and have a happy new year
Such a,grrat lark!! So enjoyed Emmy Lou and Edgar!! A bright future ahead for them and their friends!! BTW...I so enjoy your footage of the different birds aling the Thames! Great editing! Best to you!
Fascinating history with your finds this week, I so love those random little gems you spot, even the 50 year ones have a story. Thank you as always Nicola xx Teresa ❤🇦🇺
Hello Nicola, a lovely warm mix of larking, stories and people. Sorry not to have commented in a while been busy messing around in the mud! Had a lovely lark the other day under blue skies so couldn't agree more with you about hopeful signs of spring around the corner. Cheers, Josie and Andy x
Another entertaining and informative video, thank you. I worked for Courage's Brewery in Alton when I first left school in the 1950s, so the cockerel was familiar! Thank you too, for pronouncing 'ha'penny' correctly. You must be the only person on RUclips who does! It's hard to imagine that people have such short memories. All the best from New Zealand.
Emmylou is a Charmer, and so focussed, there's hope for us yet. Sorry I can't help out, (being old and in Aust.), we need many Emmylous down here, keep 'em coming Nicola.
When I saw your little glass magnifier pieces, I thought they would be great on the top of an old piece of wood from the Thames, made into a cane for someone . Loved all you finds today. And what lovely photos your friend took of all of my favorite Mud Lovers ! All are very becoming of each of you !
Its fantastic to see the younger generation getting involved with clear up and getting into mudlarking absolutely brilliant i will go over to emmylous blog and telling her and her young friends and families fantabulus 😊😊😊😊😊
I've been watching your channel forever and never comment as I have nothing to add. But as a Ripperologist every time you find an old key I think what if that's Mary Kelly's lost key lol. It makes it a little more fun watching.
I had to take a break from your videos over the Christmas period due to family being here with us for a month, so it was lovely to make this my first mudlark video of 2022. Thoroughly enjoyed it too. I got two Mudlarking books for Christmas so am enjoying those too :) Big hugs from Spain xx
I think Tom should add photos of Emmylou and Edgar to his project as beginner larks and for the Mission COD. The more young people interested in keeping our planet clean the better. I have never understood how people that are out to enjoy nature can leave such a mess. It's bad enough when a tsunami washes a cities worth of garbage out into the sea, people don't need to add to it. I like how the cockerel meant courage and honesty, about the opposite of chicken. Thank you for another great trip to the Thames!
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Nicolas astonishes me AGAIN ! a one centimetre brown buckle on brown mud and I spend an hour looking for my glasses that are on my head !
Every time you ask “can you see it?” I’m thinking “is it that?”. It’s never that
Emmylou is a lovely girl, thinking of the environment and how we damage it with our rubbish. I hope she continues trying to make a positive impact for the rest of her life - we need more people like her.
At her age I only cared about riding my bike and my favorite shows on Tv. So happy young people are getting more and more involved and aware at a such a formative time in their lives!
Don't forget tiny Edgar.
Bravo, Emmylou. You sound like a bright and charming young lady. I’m proud of you and your family’s effort. Take care.
OMG If Emmy Lou were any more adorable I’d have to stop watching! Cute, sweet, and inspirational. What a great kid.
It's encouraging and entertaining to see kids on the foreshore, not larking but taking care of the environment.
I totally agree.
@@bn7451 I meant to say not just larking. :-)
this young lady has my highest respect for collecting trash along rivers especially plastik . she will save alot of birds and turtels out in the seas
Even though it was a year ago I am still intrigued with all your finds. Also seeing Emmielou cleaning up the foreshore at a young age is so wholesome to the soul. The younger generation will make a great worth in what they are doing keeping things clean.
Was nice to see that young lady, getting involved in the plastic collection. Thanks for your encouragement in that process. Enjoy the week ahead, Nicola. See you on the next. Cheers NICOLA!!!
Emmylou what an Amazing young lady, she is also doing great things cleaning up the plastic ❤❤❤
Very sweet girl doing a clean up project!! Love it ❤❤
Lovely Tom, you don’t need to have historical knowledge. Just go for it, start mud larking and the you’ll learn the history of the items that catch your eye.
It’s the Journey Tom, and not necessarily the destination.
Beautiful photos Tom, great job and thanks for sharing them - they are your treasures.
🙂🐿❤️🌈
Thank you for another great video. I love Sundays because that's the day some of my favorite mudlarkers post videos. I love to end my night by turning off all the lights and just enjoy the sights and sounds of the lovely foreshore. 🥰🐕🇺🇸
Half globe lenses were commonly used on a brass stand and were used for example to concentrate light onto the mirror of a microscope, they were termed bullseyes. They were I think used to concentrate light for doing some fine hand work they were also used in lamps on the railways and elsewhere. I had a battery powered torch back in the 1950's with a bullseye lens.
Thank you Jaycee
I was about to put the same thing - side-lights or torches, to create a larger light area from a small bulb, not for throwing a beam.
The globe lens was also used for electrical indicator lights on power controllers etc. Red for off or stop, Green for on or run.
@@hamshackleton back then I don't believe they had bulbs. Generally, some type of flame. Carbide, acetylene, maybe even whale oil??
@@Valcour - depends on how far back you are going! The bicycle and car are fairly modern devices!
I think Tom's observation about mudlarks ability to see whatever each is looking for is apt. So often I hear your cheerful "oh. Look over there. Do you see what I see." Of course the honest answer is "No. I see what eye see", the ochre firebrick, that interesting textured slab, the earthenware handle broken off a pot, Roman or modern etc.
My guesses are the metal bit that looks like a tiny sword is the tang of a small broken knife such as a butter knife with part of the blade broken off.
The glass domes with their brass bezels had me thinking of some sort of indicator light or boat running light. The half dome shape so that a small wattage lamp behind it would be magnified and can be seen through 180°.
Thanks Nicola. I shall "Take Courage" at the first opportunity!
I think the glass domes are from old flashlights. Tom Harrison's photos are brilliant. Thank you for Emmylou and her friends for taking care of the Thames Foreshore, well done.
Bravo Emmylou and everyone there! I wish more people cared about the environment as much as you!
Well done, Emmylou! I love that you have been working to clean up the plastic in the Thames. I'm in Colorado in the US, and I also care a lot about eliminating plastic pollution. Sometime if you want a challenge, try shopping with your parents and see how many things that you need you can buy without plastic packaging or tags. I tried recently and was very sad about how many times I couldn't avoid buying plastic. ☹️ But with help from people like you, maybe sometime in the future we'll be able to buy things without all that plastic that gets thrown away or becomes litter! Keep up the good work!! 😀
Thanks Nicola for featuring Emmylou's efforts. ❤️
We do love to see the youth care about the future cleanliness of our planet, thank you as well!
The future is bright with these young #CommunityHeroes🌟 Give a hoot, don't pollute! ☮️💚
That was a pretty epic day. The rooster was pretty fabulous, but I do love the reflector lenses. Plastic cleanup too, yes, an epic day :)
Loved the children mudlarks and plastic clearing. The lead skirt weight reminded me of a conversation recorded with my dad some 45 years ago. He was born in1902 and remembered his mother sewing them into the bottom of her Merry Widow dresses. But my young dad thought they were pennies.
Awesome finds. Love the interview with Emmylou! She has a wonderful insight regarding the River Thames. She is doing amazing job cleaning it up.
I love seeing kids encouraged to keep the earth clean! Emmylou is darling as is Edgar. I was a wee kid when the ecology movement began here in the US. I have been an advocate since. The ring may have been painted.
Love all the wildlife you feature. So cute watching you and your squirrel buddy outside your window. I had a chipmunk who would climb up my body and take a peanut out of my shirt pocket!!! He would follow me all over the garden. Enjoy watching and am so jealous of all the old artifacts in the UK, wish America had a river like the Thames!
Thanks for another very interesting video. The ARP reminded me of my dad who was an ARP warden. He and my mum were woollen weavers, which was a protected occupation. As such he wasn’t allowed to join up till 1941.
If you see a screw path in the back of the glass knob,Its a door knob.I saw many when I was younger.Thanks Nicola for your documentary.
I'm back after some time off chasing other rabbits down other rabbit holes. I reckon if I lived near the Thames, I'd become quite obsessed with mudlarking to the exclusion of anything else.
9:25 That looks like a back to something that's been snapped off. Those holes could have been points to run a thread through to affix it to a jacket.
10:20 Saw that and instantly started humming the "Dad's Army" theme. Who do you think you are kidding, Mister Hitler?
That buckle is probably from a leather or cloth watchband.
17:30 I'm thinking the glass dome might be the top of a man's walking stick.
Thanks to Mister Gurgle, Strike Cola is now called Barr's Cola and is made by the people that make Irn Bru- which outsells Coca Cola in Scotland!
Those ship halfpennies look like an interesting story. The design on them changed quite regularly, especially the ones featuring QEII.
We had a Courage Brewery in Australia in the early 1970s. One of their ads ran "He's a man among men. Courage Draught is his beer".
Hopefully, the UK is on the downslide from the omicron VoC.
Take care and love from Australia.
Garry.
So cute and inspiring that young people are out marketing for change! Lovely video!
Emmy Lou is a inspiration 😀 oh yes I can’t wait till it gets dark later so we have double low tides ha ha. Fantastic video Nicola
U inspire everyone to see the hisrbehind every object. Thar ring u found meant a great deal to someone once. Just imagine what memories it holds. You inspired Emmylou and her brother in the same way u do all of us! Good on you mate!
Dear Nicola,
I thoroughly enjoyed this video like I do the rest of your videos. I love that kids are trying to clean our rivers, beaches and oceans. The future is not lost. Continue your great work.
Poppet
Thanks for another Thames outing. My aunt was Edward R Murrow, the famous American news correspondent’s private secretary, and lived many years in London before returning to the States. I’ve been to London several times. Enjoy revisiting now through you.
Ooh how interesting Warren. I bet your Aunt would have some amazing tales to tell!
Wonderful finds on the Thames as usual. But it seems your most precious find is Emmy Lou!
Also I think your beautiful glass dome may be from an early flashlight or perhaps bicycle lamp.
"It's a something that used to be something"!!! Laughed so hard when you said that!!🤣
Can't wait for the Channel Island film! That sounds amazing! Have a beautiful week lovely Lady!
Thanks again Nicola🤍🕊♥️❤️🥰👍🏼✌🏽🌺🌸🌼🎈
Wonderful video Nicola. Emmy Lou is so cute and poised. Wishing you all the best in this new year.
Thanks Jerry
Great finds Nicola! I especially love the ring and it's great that it fits you. It was so interesting seeing the old war footage about the wardens. It's good to see junior mudlarkers like Emmylou out looking after the environment! ❤😊
Hello Nicola
Looked like a lovely sunny day to do some Mudlarking. It was sunny but very cold here today, but winter really hits us tonight possible 35cm of snow in the next 12 hours. Wishing we where there in your sunshine. Take care Chris and Sandra of Canada.
No spring here minus 32, Monday's 25cm of snow, I loved the 2 very large fish eyes you found lol. Excellent as always Nicola xx.🇨🇦🍁🐘💙
So nice to see the whole family out mudlarking
Years ago I was looking for a special gift for a friend and went into an antique jewellery store in Paris. I asked him what he found the most special and he took out a medieval ring ( maybe 15th C ) , worn down and slightly mis shapen with a worn stone. He said that it had been found in the Seine River near the Louvre. I remember it was 1300 euros, quite unwearable and not within my budget unfortunately. A few weeks later in the Flea Market I found almost the identical ring in a box for 50 centimes ! It is slightly mis shapen had slightly raised shoulders like the Seine one and has a worn cabochon amethyst in it still. I decided to keep it in the end as I had found something else for my friend and today it site in a lovely antique ring box in my bedroom. No intrinsic value just a nice little piece of history.
Lovely story x
I’m sure it’s all the sweeter to you for having wanted its twin and then finding it at a price within your reach. Life’s second chances are always treasured, no matter how serious or how inconsequential they may be. I’d keep it in a special box, too!
Just think, some poor soul could be ripped off E1300 for that old ring. What hide some dealers have! Congrats on your 50c find. Don’t ya just love a bargain!!!
@@yvonnepagan9912 well the store had to make a living like us all. Whoever bought it at that price was willing to pay.
The glass globes remind me of the glass used on old metal signs to make them stand out when headlights would flash unto them. I think these are too large for that, but they brought back a nice memory of my father's sign shop in the 1940s. Wonderful video, and for those of us who are still in isolation, even more so.
We have a foot of snow on this North Carolina mountain top. Thanks, Nicola for the great show to pass the time at home.
Wonderful video Nicola. The photos of the mudlarks are amazing! Tom really seemed to capture the essence of all of you! What a talented young man. It was heartwarming to see Emmylou and her friends caring for the environment and the Thames.
I am so enthralled with all the different metal pieces you find and cannot wait to see how you use them in your art!!! You are so very talented!!! You definitely have the gift of creativity my friend I’ve yet to meet!! Take good care!! Love from DeeAnn 🇺🇸
In an absolutely mad and sometimes horrible world your videos are incredibly heart warming Nicola, You'll never be aware the good you do thank you x
Thank you ❤️
Can you imagine how many lives those Air Wardens saved? People confused by the sound, smell, lost landmarks...can you just imagine? And then you say they were Volunteers! Amazing men and women! Nicola, when the ring was wet I thought the stone was an intaglio. Have you put a light to the back or side of it? It definitely seemed like it had something under the stone.
I'm going to check!
Nice pin for a rooster lover. That ring was precious to someone. I’ve never heard os Strike Cola.
Lots of small delicate objects in todays video. I love the glass. That aqua stopper is so beautiful. Also the ring 💍. Was it gold? Very lovely!
Sooo nice to see you with the very young Mud Larkers 😁 Mud Larkers unite i might say 😉👍Who knows, maybe one day a new generation of Mud Larkers will search the Mud for treasures, and share their finds with everyone looking at the web 👑💍🗝
At 17:20 while washing the magnifier glass there appears to be some copper coinage in the bottom right corner of the shot. The magnifier domes look like maybe some sort of light lens...maybe maritime in nature. I always enjoy your videos Nicola. It is crazy how people can just throw trash onto the ground or into a body of water. It truly is horrible anti-social behavior. Examples need to be made. Emmylou is setting a grand example of caring for our environment. She deserves public recognition from the local media that may lead to some contributions as well as volunteers. Wonderful photos of mudlarks and yours particularly are really nice. Happy 2022.
Agreed! And thank you
Emmylou and her friends give me hope! Keep up the good work, ladies.
I love the ring. Jewelry. Every finger needs a bauble !! Such history and great interview with such sweet and knowledgeable little people!! Loved the blouse. Blue is your color. And just a joy a listen and learn about all the history. Thank You so much. Be well n safe.
Tom took some brilliant portraits of you and many of your friends, Nicola, whom we have gotten to meet through your videos. That is definitely you he captured! Some nice finds and fantastic back stories, too. Very nice video, Nicola.
Always enjoyable to watch your adventures! It rather struck me today how I had a true sense of happiness at seeing you had a video up. I saved it like a chocolate for a time I could solely just enjoy it. So a thought for you: You are truly reaching around the world and giving people a sense of joy and happiness with your content and creativity. All the very best to you.. and the Squirrel. ☺🐿
I too have found the mudlarking community a wonderful group, Nicola has inspired other mudlarks as well to get out and enjoy themselves.
Thank you that's such a lovely thing to say. I feel so fortunate to be able to share what I love with so many like minded people, such as yourself ❤️
Wonderful video this weekend ! The glass dome would look great as the top of a walking stick !
My Grandmother was a seamstress and she used hem weights in drapes / curtains. It was rare she put them in dresses because you would have to put a lot of them in the hem to make it hang correctly. the rounded glass incased in the metal looks to me like a cane topper.
Hem weights,I thought it looked much too heavy for a dress hem.
Yay! I've been waiting for this! I kept checking RUclips and here it is! Hi, Nicola!
I know! Late in the day here too. So looking forward to Nicola's finds.☕
Sorry I'm late!
" Turn that light out." Hodges in Dad's Army.😂😂
De très beaux objets de trouvés sur ces berges👏👍👍👏 et surtout quelle belle solidarité pour nettoyer tout ces déchets qui polluent la faune et la flore 🙏🙏🙏 .Une superbe vidéo et un grand bonjour à vous tous les prospecteurs anglais ✌✌✌
Merci Loic ❤️
Wow Nicola what a lovely video. Love as always & thank you. x
Thanks John x
So many curious finds, I know I'd love to spend hours roaming up and down the shore, just looking
A wonderful video, Nic’. For some reason I was tearful! I love to see people who are interested in ridding the foreshore of plastic! At the same time enjoying the mudlarking side of it.😀The parts about the ARP triggered a memory of what my Mum used to do in the ATS . She was a spotter. She had some very interesting stories to tell about the air raids and going into the underground Bakerloo line, for shelter! Horrible times, yet my Mum found romance. 😀
How interesting Lynne! I bet she had some wonderful stories
When I was a small child a great-aunt gave me a torch with an almost identical lens and mount to your find. I think it was quite old when she presented to me. It's still in working order with its sliding switch and takes C size cells (I think). Such metal torches often had a bright nickel coating.
Lovely video, made more so with the well spoken Emmy-Lou and her helpers.
PS: Just retrieved it from a desk drawer! No maker's name. Max. diam. of lens 30mm (1.2")
Overall length 116mm (4.5"). Barrel diam. 24mm (0.97"). :-)
Always a good day when I get to start it with a video from you, Nicola! ( : Thank you sooo much for sharing Tom Harrison's amazing photos, they are amazing. And also EmmyLou, her brother Edgar and all her friends! Her friends and EmmyLou remind me if you and your friends "ladies you lark" in mini form! Sooo cute! ( : Would be great to have a collage of the pic of you and your lady larking friends pic and EmmyLou and her friends overlapping each other a bit and surrounded by Thames larking finds!! So awesome these young girls, and gentleman, are embarking on such an amazing quest at such a young age! I live it! ( :
Great finds! I am going to try to listen to the strike American Cola song by the poets! Curious how it sounds! ( :
Thank you again for another fantastic video! Live them all and can't wait to hear more/see the German project you are working on! ( : Love you and your phenomenal work, Tracy ( : 🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤗
The kids are so precious.
That glass is a huge fish eye. Nice photos. So much more finds revealed again. Blessings Nic
Them children did a good job piching up trash that washed up on shore. Thank for sharing your video i enjoyed it a lot. Your friend Shirley from new Bern, north Carolina USA ❤❤❤😅😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😅😊😅😊🎉
What an amazing little person Emmylou is, and I loved your “interview” with her brother Edgar, just gorgeous. A brilliant project indeed.
If I was in the UK, I would have been there in a heartbeat. Thanks so much for sharing this video. Much appreciated.
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As for the brass and glass objects you’ve found, they remind me of some old ships compasses and/or the top of a smart wooden walking stick or cane. Some had rock crystal tops. Another idea is an old magnifying device, although the brass collet seems too wide for that.
Anyway, just a few ideas to run with. I’d love to solve this one. I’m looking online, but I’m sure as you may have discovered, I’m getting a lot of brass and glass domed light fittings. I saw an antique table compass that looked promising. Good luck.
Cheers to Emmy Lou and her friends. Another excellent episode.
Do love those glass stoppers.. Emmy Lou what a great girl doing fab for the environment
I love all the history you find. Congratulations to the children and their family’s cleaning up the beach. So sad to see for a beautiful place.
Wow that’s some awesome finds and i love how you give the history of the item. If everyone took a rubbish bag with them and collected one bag of rubbish each there would be heaps less rubbish in the environment. Take care and stay safe and well 👍👍👏👏🥰🥰💖💖
Hi Nicola! Happy Sunday! Thank you so much for all you do to make a difference Xx
Thanks Paula x
Loved the photos of you with the little girls, everyone looks so happy! Great photos of you and Si by Tom Harrison too.
G'Day Nicola. We miss you out here, Sunday's just arent the same. Wishing you well, and send us some Thames adventures!
Thank you Nicola, such a wonderful video. I enjoyed every second. Take Care and cheers.
Thank you ❤️
When I lived in rural Wales we used to trek up the local river to its source from my village which was near the Preseli Mountains . It’s a happy memory of my childhood as I can remember actually walking through the river as it was so clear & spotting things, grabbing them & taking them home. Would love to wander the Thames, but obviously you need a licence. Loved that ring you found, it looked exquisite! 😘
What a darling child I should say children but that little girl Emmylou is so well spoken and such an inspiration to other children. I so enjoy your videos Nicola I am here in upstate New York and just love to watch you I wish I were able to walk well and do all the things like mud larking in rivers and streams so interesting yours is the very first video I ever watched. I look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work and have a happy new year
Such a,grrat lark!! So enjoyed Emmy Lou and Edgar!! A bright future ahead for them and their friends!!
BTW...I so enjoy your footage of the different birds aling the Thames! Great editing!
Best to you!
Thank you
Hello! American fan here, and I truly enjoy watching your videos. I have to say I've never heard of Strike Cola!!!
Hi Nicola, thanks for another great video! Great pic of you and all the other mud larks! Yeah to Emmylou! Hope you also have a great week.
Great video once again. The glass stopper and the chunky glass/metal object would look nice as a large fish's eye 😀 Have a phenomenal week 😘
Or as an addition to a nice stained glass piece.
Fascinating history with your finds this week, I so love those random little gems you spot, even the 50 year ones have a story. Thank you as always Nicola xx Teresa ❤🇦🇺
I really liked the background info and video clip re the ARP button finds.
Thank you!
Hello Nicola, a lovely warm mix of larking, stories and people. Sorry not to have commented in a while been busy messing around in the mud! Had a lovely lark the other day under blue skies so couldn't agree more with you about hopeful signs of spring around the corner. Cheers, Josie and Andy x
Thank you Josie and Andy. Blue skies and mud. A perfect combination!! Hopefully lots of that to come in the coming months xx
Another entertaining and informative video, thank you. I worked for Courage's Brewery in Alton when I first left school in the 1950s, so the cockerel was familiar! Thank you too, for pronouncing 'ha'penny' correctly. You must be the only person on RUclips who does! It's hard to imagine that people have such short memories. All the best from New Zealand.
Emmylou is a Charmer, and so focussed, there's hope for us yet. Sorry I can't help out, (being old and in Aust.), we need many Emmylous down here, keep 'em coming Nicola.
When I saw your little glass magnifier pieces, I thought they would be great on the top of an old piece of wood from the Thames, made into a cane for someone . Loved all you finds today. And what lovely photos your friend took of all of my favorite Mud Lovers ! All are very becoming of each of you !
Its fantastic to see the younger generation getting involved with clear up and getting into mudlarking absolutely brilliant i will go over to emmylous blog and telling her and her young friends and families fantabulus 😊😊😊😊😊
Awesome as usual Nic. Can’t wait to meet you and Si… 🧡🧡🧡💜💜💜💗💗💗
I have to say, that poor Swan at 0:22 had a very hard landing on the water :)
Yes it was a windy day!
I've been watching your channel forever and never comment as I have nothing to add.
But as a Ripperologist every time you find an old key I think what if that's Mary Kelly's lost key lol. It makes it a little more fun watching.
I had to take a break from your videos over the Christmas period due to family being here with us for a month, so it was lovely to make this my first mudlark video of 2022. Thoroughly enjoyed it too. I got two Mudlarking books for Christmas so am enjoying those too :) Big hugs from Spain xx
That glass object is the lens to a flashlight.
Brilliant! Thank you Cheryl 😎🇦🇺👍
I think Tom should add photos of Emmylou and Edgar to his project as beginner larks and for the Mission COD. The more young people interested in keeping our planet clean the better. I have never understood how people that are out to enjoy nature can leave such a mess. It's bad enough when a tsunami washes a cities worth of garbage out into the sea, people don't need to add to it. I like how the cockerel meant courage and honesty, about the opposite of chicken.
Thank you for another great trip to the Thames!
You never fail to make me smile. It’s nice to escape reality for a little while and share your journey . Thank you x
Love the section with Emmy Lou and her mission of picking up the plastic trash. Inspiring.