@@OLDFATHERTHAMES I was pretty sure they where curtain what nots but now I know they are actual neckless do dads. I personally feel better about the whole thing. Honestly I bet it makes a much better neckless than curtain what not!
These brass curtain rails and rollers made a great noise. But marketing made that noise a bad thing to sell plastic ones. Hope the fall of plastic see them return on mas
Hello from Canada. More specifically, the 2 rollers go at the top, the loop at the bottom, and the 'rod' they go on is shaped like a miniature "I" beam. The rollers are placed on the end of the beam with one wheel on each side of the vertical web, of the beam. That type of hardware is often used for sheers under curtains.
nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art Thank you Nic! Can’t wait to catch up with you soon. The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then. You would love it up there on the estuary. Xx
I ran into a violin player on a hiking trail in the middle of the woods one day. He was a music major and had compassion for his roommates who didn’t want to listen to him play his violin for as many hours a day as he had to play it, so he took it out for hikes where he wouldn’t bother any trees, and passing hikers would appreciate the fleeting melodies.
K Sully Hah! What a lovely story. And what a considerate violinist. I hadn’t considered the flautist needed a bit of space to belt out his tunes. Silly really as I used to play saxophone, and when I gave it a blast recently, I realised how very loud it is. It’s back in its case. For good, I think.
The fellow with the flute probably went home and said, “I saw a very odd thing today - a chap walking around in the rain with a bottle on a stick. I felt bad for him, so I played him a little tune.” 😂 I love your videos and am a bit jealous of your adventures. My many greats Quaker ancestors (17th Century) were from Gambleside, near Dunnockshaw, Lancashire. Gambleside is now a "lost" village (ruins only now), but it was near the main highway to Dunnockshaw, and above the Clowbridge reservoir. I hope to travel to England to see the area one day.
I thought the same thing. He went home and told his friends "there they were, walking around picking up bricks and bottles in the pouring rain, in the middle of nowhere!"
OLD FATHER THAMES There is also a town nearby called Haworth - and my people are Haworths. If you do any adventuring around that area, please let me know what you find. There is a family website with a lot of the history of that area - www.haworthassociation.org. On the Table of Contents page, click on “George Haworth - England.” 😊
What a great day out with your dad! I miss the days when my dad and I did things together, cherish every moment you have together! The sandstone is absolutely amazing and I can’t wait to hear what else you have found out about it. Keep up the larking and the videos! They are so amazing to watch!!!!!
Tammy Moore-Franke Thank you! I certainly do love adventures with dad. Got another special vid coming up in May. Stay tuned! The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
OLD FATHER THAMES - I have to say this is getting exciting about the stone!! The history there is absolutely amazing and thanks to Simon and Nicola I found you!! I adore all of you and many of the others and I also envy everyone as well because I’d love to be over there in the mud scraping with you all. Anyhow, do keep the videos coming, even if they are little short ones 😁😁 See you in the next video and much love from East Tennessee USA 🥰
Lovely Skull Really appreciate that comment so much, I’m learning as I go, and trying to hone my skills with content! The feedback I get in the comments is so helpful, even the criticism is constructive. Cheers Canada 🇨🇦👍🏻
So glad you get a chance to enjoy father /daughter quality time. Your mud-larking smile when you find those little treasures priceless. Luv your adventures. Hi 🙋🏽♀️ from Southern California
Oh wow, how fascinating! I hope you can find out more about the stone, it would be quite the coincidence were it to be completely unrelated! The tile was absolutely stunning. Enjoyed the dad-joke too! Always enjoy your videos, for the history as well as the finds.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme and MOLA CitiZan scheme are assisting, they are very enthusiastic and generous with their time, so, fingers crossed! Glad you liked the dad joke. Thanks, as ever, for watching! 🖤
I really loved this - I love memorials of all kinds, perhaps this is not a grave marker (it seems too humble for the residents of Speke Hall) but rather a stone used in some building from the Salt Works which references the people you mention but after their deaths? I realise I live about an hour from there, so I might have to make a trip and have my own adventure!! I love finding bits of pottery with writing on them, and really anything is interesting if you can find out about it's history!! Thank you for bringing us on your adventure - and if you're ever up this way again and would like company or an extra camera person, I'd love to volunteer!
Meredith Small - The Bygone Belle Hi Meredith. You are on exactly the same page as me - that is what I think, and have offered up the suggestion to Mola and PAS. I don’t think I remembered to explicitly state that in the video. Oh you should absolutely go and have a look. You might also want to check out the petition by local residents to have some money injected into the area, for conservation. I shall let you know if I’m up your way again. I’m sure I will be. 👍🏻
Lovely video of you and your dad. You obviously have a special relationship 😊 I lost mine two and a half years ago and miss him everyday. Treasure every moment.... Funny about the man playing the flute, I reckon he was really happy and present doing that in beautiful surroundings. Good on him! Very interesting about the grave too. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Rachel! Sorry to hear about your dad. I certainly do treasure every moment. Yes, I think the flautist was feeling very liberated amongst his surroundings. Was lovely. 👍🏼
That slab is very cool.....hope you can figure it it out further! Love the little heart rock as I am partial to hearts in nature I find everywhere! ♡♡♡
Jenny Walborn The heart rock went home to my better half. I will be more vigilant about nature hearts from now on. I have a lovely heart shaped Echinoid somewhere. Regarding the slab, it is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
How interesting the history lesson. Your dad seems interesting, bet he has good tales. Enjoyed the scenic drive. 👍 Wished you'd share your first name, old father thames gal.. too long and impersonal😕like your pink tennies🤩keep well you and dad👍🧡
What a special trip! To do something like that with your father is a priceless memory. I miss mine so much, your trip today brought a tear. Thank you so much for sharing.
I loved this, thank you. My late mum in law was born in Liverpool. She was one of the young children evacuated to Wales before the bombing began. She told us lovely stories about her early life and how they used to catch a ferry on the Mersey river. This tugged at my heartstrings. Another destination on my bucket list. Best regards again from South Africa 🇿🇦 p.s. I’m sure you are no fool but remain safe when larking on your own
Hi Georgie! Thank you for sharing that memory with me. How lovely. I hope you get to see the Mersey soon! Liverpool is a brilliant place. Thank you for your sage advice, I will be sure to take care! All the best ⚓
What a great adventure😃 sister-friend!! And with your dad...so lucky!!! My pops died right after I turned 21yrs old(37yrs ago, my how time flies!). I feel I was robbed of so many cool father/daughter outings like the one you shared with your pops. Steal those moments when you can, and hold them precious in your heart😊🤗. Thanks for all the history you include with your larkings, never gets old or boring. Fascinating insight and finds. 🙏's for safety and good health. Be seeing ya soon 🙋😺.
Thank you, Juliet! Can't deny spending time with Dad is one of my favourite things, sorry to hear of your premature loss. Will indeed take your advice. 🖤
Fantastic post and so well researched. Let's hope all will be revealed shortly? Stone too heavy to lift? Keep posting. Enjoying very much. Cheers from Hampshire.
Too heavy to lift without help, but help may come. Stay tuned. The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
Oh how i loved this video! I was born in Sale and soent many happy summers playing on and in the River Mersey! Getting told off by mum for losing yet another ribbon from my hair, and having Teasels stuck in my hair, usually put there by my brother, ouch!!! Thank you for bringing back so many wonderful memories! Lord! I sound ancient, though 61 to some IS ancient 🤣. Much love to you and your family. Chez in Lliria, valencia Spain xx
Thank you Chez! I think I annoyed a few people by saying I'm in Lancashire but not saying "I'm now in Merseyside" - whoops! Started off from Ormskirk you see. So glad I brought back some happy memories to you. Much love! 👍🏼
Haha! Dad's joke seems to be going down well. I'll tell him. Yeah, I have a bit of a brick fetish! My friend Nick, who is Rock the Mudlark on IG, has a wall made up of fascinating bricks, older than these. Check out his page on the Thames & Field site: sites.google.com/site/thamesandfield4/home/thames-bricks
I like the way you scrolled the info across the bottom rather than blocking the whole screenshot like some of your older posts. I almost asked if you could change that. I think this is much better.
Thank you! Listening to my subscribers, for sure. Took on board that too much info on the screen is confusing etc. Glad the ticker tape scrolling thing is better. 👍🏼
Lol, reminded me of myself aiming to get to a location, slips, trips and plenty of laughs on the way down a slope. Great finds again, absolutely love the tile, good to see your dad joining in. 😉
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES most definitely agree with you on that, the thrill alone is priceless. Never a dull moment being stuck in mud and having to get your foot out of the wellie as its super stuck,, my socks were never the same 😂. Thanks for sharing your adventures, oh and the wink is catching on the 😉.
Another great segment of history. The stone looks really interesting. Up here in Scotland the skull and crossbones indicate a covenanters grave. Keep wearing your curtain glide with pride.
Colin Maceachern thank you! I also run an IG page, @favouritegraves, in which I share my favourite graves...does what it says on the tin. I have visited lots of kirkyards and cemeteries in Scotland, and love the Covenanters section at Grayfriars. Fascinating. By the way, I am doing a West to East coast beachcombing/mudlarking video, out in May...look out for it.
I'm not sure if you have ever visited Kilmartin . There are 700-800 monuments in a small area. It's a fantastic place to visit x I'm from largs in north Ayrshire.
Aw Tom, thanks so much. So good that you speak every day to your daughter. Dad and I are doing a VERY long walk soon, and we'll for sure be sharing that on here. 👍🏼
Stumbled on this channel, and I love the history that is all around your beaches and lands. Over here in the States the oldest things I can find are only several hundred years old. I would love to live there! Keep hunting and good luck! I will keep watching and keep drooling over your treasures! PIP PIP!
Interesting initialed limestone. Enjoyed seeing your dad. Thinking the person playing flute was saying to himself: "how strange, people picking around in the rumble." 😀😄😁
Hi again,excellent find and research on the marker stone ,,now if only you could get it Home and put it in the garden. Like you I mudlark the Thames mainly as I live very close, but about once a month I go to Widnes and check out Spike Island, close to where you were.. Happy Hunting , Terry.
Reminds me of the Cast Iron shore or “Cazzy “as us Scousers called it ,we used to go down there as kids when we lived in the Dingle Liverpool ,lve been to visit Speke Hall a couple of times such a fabulous place,
Loved that big stone .some very nice finds . Next time your up there let us no and we will meet up with you. We was just up the rd from there some weeks ago doing a hale light house vid . Great video loved it
Me thinks it was repurposed and was in the sandstone walk. But as your research stated, it may have come from the hall, put at the salt works as a memorial and then incorporated in the walk and now dislodged. Where you found it. It would be special if it could be replaced as a memorial or as an garden piece at your home.
New subscriber here , brilliant video this and well researched. That Norris family connection is fascinating, also only about a ten minute drive from my house that part of the Mersey .
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES very underrated part of Liverpool that’s crammed with history . If you look at the old maps it’s dotted with old country houses etc .
Thank you! I should hear something about it next week. The PAS finds liaison office and CitiZan archaeologist are going down there to get it recorded. Will update! 👍🏻
Nice job Marie researching the Skull & Crossbone stone. I think you may well have found the answer...looking forward to more Father Thames and her father videos, lol.
enjoyed, very interesting, also be on guard for men standing on stumps playing a flute out in the middle of the woods, would have a hard time passing up all those bricks with names on them, I'd be taking a load of them home each trip, would make a great wall or fence or patio flooring, and quite a site to start conversations with guest's, take care young lady, looking forward till next time
Unless you have played flute, you're not going to understand the challenge of playing out of doors, or the amazing acoustics that happen in different settings. Having played flute for 57 years, I find it not strange at all. It's relaxing to play when you're not in front of an audience.
Great point that, thank you! I didn't really find him that weird, I just can't help but add a bit of English raised eyebrow. I did very much enjoy his flute playing. 👍🏼
The Minton tile is beautiful - I can imagine it coming from the hallway of a bomb damaged Victorian villa. The marker is extremely interesting. A wealthy and prominent family like the Norris one in the 17th century would probably have had memorials that were huge and elaborate, usually in a local church, although the Norrises were Catholic at a time when it was dangerous to be so (hence the priest hole at Speke), so who knows? What a fascinating find.
Gillian Stapleton Thank you, yes, the tile is a winner. It’s the second one I have found, although this one is an encaustic tile and much larger. Very true about a the grave - I wondered more if it is a marker, or perhaps a salt mill worker creation. I did indeed read about the Norrises being Catholic. There’s quite a good (albeit deeply religious) blog out there, American I think, detailing their place in Catholicism.
Gillian Stapleton Thank you, yes, the tile is a winner. It’s the second one I have found, although this one is an encaustic tile and much larger. Very true about a the grave - I wondered more if it is a marker, or perhaps a salt mill worker creation. I did indeed read about the Norrises being Catholic. There’s quite a good (albeit deeply religious) blog out there, American I think, detailing their place in Catholicism.
Very interesting. We have a Creek where I live with very little rubbish would it be worth a look for my first Mudlark ? Will have to train my eye though.
Aha! I see. I found some spots by searching online tbh. There are a couple of places that locals are keen to encourage people to visit, as they are trying to raise interest in what was once a beloved beach area. ps. I've got a video premiere at 7pm GMT this eve, and will be live chatting, if you're around. 🌊 ⚓
Cracking up hahaha. Have you heard of the god named Pan? It’s this old Greek Mythology thing, and the pan flute got its name from the Greek mythological character Pan, the patron of Shepard’s. He was born with horns, a beard, a pug nose, tail, and had goat legs. This scared the people so he lived his days in the woods. He fell in love with a nymph named Syrinx but she did not return this love, so turned her into reeds and smashed them up. As he was gathering these reeds, his breath made a beautiful sound into them, so he tied them together, kneeled on a tree stump at a ponds edge watching his reflection, and played sad tunes into this flute of reeds (hence the pan flute which is supposedly where that got its name), and he spent eternity hoping these songs would bring his love back to him. (Laughing because you said he was standing on a tree stump playing a flute! Who knows you may have just encountered the long lost Greek mythological Pan! (There are so many versions to this story, all equally interesting. I actually have a small garden statue passed down to me of Pan playing the flute. Love your video and I love how you brought your dad along! So sweet!
Thank you for your lovely comments. I am indeed familiar with Pan! That's exactly why I say "like a faun", haha, well spotted. Love that you took the time to write out the legend, that's so cool. 👍🏼
I love all the Mudlarkers. I was just going to ask you if all that brick and tile was due to WWII bombing and such clearing of the debris. It had do go somewhere didn’t it.
If I'm not too late to comment, I think the widget you found with the tiny wheel might be a curtain rail fitting that ran on an old-fashioned metal curtain rail. The loop is where the curtain hook would slip into.
I was in a school play based on the Norris family back in 1980, i was the buffoon (village idiot) and had to jump around in green tights trying to entertain the lords and ladies at a banquet! We had speke hall for the day mostly unsupervised, wandering about the rooms alone, dressed as a serf! the place has a strong atmosphere, i can feel it now thinking bout it.
Widget was a curtain track roller that the curtain attached to. One of 20 or so and one wheel went either side of the track. The track was like a H shape on its side and the rollers could only be placed on the track from the end
What a nice tile! A pity! the wind stole most of your charming voice (and the music stole the rest)... Fortunately, the wind played also with your hair. A great lovely mess it did once you returned into the car 😀 Two month ago, you showed what I think was your first metal detecting attempt. Now, you said you have your own machine ? Will you share some discoveries soon ? Tschuss.
I have always had my own machine, but I don't use it. I've never used it on the Thames, but did use it very briefly on the field in that vid you mention. Terry very kindly let me use his machine on that field trip. I'm back on the foreshore this week, so will have a new video up next Sunday! Tschuss! 👍🏻
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES you need a very small coil on the Thames foreshore to avoid the metallic pollution like the machines used by Simon and Tobias. Nicola struggles a lot with her large XP Deus.
Well hello back at you beautiful cold windblown lady. I actually thought you may have picked up those different bricks from various companies you could possibly build a garden wall. Well by for now and ill keep following your site Stuart Palmer Adelaide Sth Australia
Aloha O.F.T.! This may sound weirder than finding the flute player standing on a log, playing Amazing Grace....,but, it is believed that Bigfoot/ Sasquatch/ or as they were called in the middle ages in Europe; Wild Men still live in isolated parts of the U.K. In the Bigfoot research community, some people believe that sitting alone in an isolated area, playing the flute attracts the Sasquatch people.🤔😳 So, keep your eye out for giant, bare footprints in the mud! That stone was a great find!
Aloha, Erin! Thank you. Love that little fact, and I most certainly will keep my eye out for any Sasquatch activity! That would be a find and a half. ⚓
Not yet! I have to take at least one train to get down to the river so will have to wait til lockdown is over and Covid is behaving itself. Hopefully soon! ⚓️🖤
Hi Annette! Thanks for getting in touch. The sandstone slab was recorded on the CitiZan intertidal zone map. It was looked at by various learned fellows at MOLA and in the end we all but entirely ruled out the crude grave marker option. Basically, we don't know exactly what it is, or who made it, but it remains an interesting feature and has been written about here: citizan.org.uk/blog/2020/Apr/23/intrigue-dungeon-lane/ 🌊 ⚓
What a Lark! Really enjoyed the whole thing including the history. Amazing what you find on any foreshore. As for the flute player, I think it was wonderful that you were able to capture his dulcet tones as it was Amazing Grace that allowed you to discover all the treasures that you did. Thanks for sharing.
Hello there, Michigan! Once the stone has been properly recorded and looked at by the coastal team, if they are happy for me to take it and keep it safe, then I will. 👍🏼
An interesting idea, could be! Incidentally, you’re quite right about it not being Lancashire - that’s my dizziness coming through. 😂 I was staying with my father who is just up the road in Lancashire, and we were driving down to Merseyside. Apologies.
Hi Pat! I don't think I'm breaking any secret Scouse larking code by telling you that I was on the estuary between Speke and Hale, behind JL airport. I don't know of any other places along the estuary, just gotta get out there and see what you can find. If you're on the Wirral, I think Ellesmere Port would be about opposite to where I was, on the other side. If you can, get down and have a drive about, or search online a bit. Good luck! ⚓
The first thing you found are for curtains the wheels go on the rod
And there's me, wearing one on a necklace. Haha.
Yep curtains hanger!
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES I was pretty sure they where curtain what nots but now I know they are actual neckless do dads. I personally feel better about the whole thing. Honestly I bet it makes a much better neckless than curtain what not!
These brass curtain rails and rollers made a great noise. But marketing made that noise a bad thing to sell plastic ones. Hope the fall of plastic see them return on mas
Hello from Canada. More specifically, the 2 rollers go at the top, the loop at the bottom, and the 'rod' they go on is shaped like a miniature "I" beam. The rollers are placed on the end of the beam with one wheel on each side of the vertical web, of the beam. That type of hardware is often used for sheers under curtains.
Great video Marie Louise! I just love that gravestone. How intriguing. What stories it could tell if it could speak xx
nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art Thank you Nic! Can’t wait to catch up with you soon. The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then. You would love it up there on the estuary. Xx
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES Exciting. So cool. You were meant to find it
I ran into a violin player on a hiking trail in the middle of the woods one day. He was a music major and had compassion for his roommates who didn’t want to listen to him play his violin for as many hours a day as he had to play it, so he took it out for hikes where he wouldn’t bother any trees, and passing hikers would appreciate the fleeting melodies.
K Sully Hah! What a lovely story. And what a considerate violinist. I hadn’t considered the flautist needed a bit of space to belt out his tunes. Silly really as I used to play saxophone, and when I gave it a blast recently, I realised how very loud it is. It’s back in its case. For good, I think.
The fellow with the flute probably went home and said, “I saw a very odd thing today - a chap walking around in the rain with a bottle on a stick. I felt bad for him, so I played him a little tune.” 😂
I love your videos and am a bit jealous of your adventures. My many greats Quaker ancestors (17th Century) were from Gambleside, near Dunnockshaw, Lancashire. Gambleside is now a "lost" village (ruins only now), but it was near the main highway to Dunnockshaw, and above the Clowbridge reservoir. I hope to travel to England to see the area one day.
I thought the same thing. He went home and told his friends "there they were, walking around picking up bricks and bottles in the pouring rain, in the middle of nowhere!"
Thank you for the giggle! :D
😂😂😂
kellydiver Really interesting to hear, thanks for sharing. I hope you get over here too! Would be fascinating. I may go and check it out myself.
OLD FATHER THAMES There is also a town nearby called Haworth - and my people are Haworths. If you do any adventuring around that area, please let me know what you find. There is a family website with a lot of the history of that area - www.haworthassociation.org. On the Table of Contents page, click on “George Haworth - England.” 😊
What a great day out with your dad! I miss the days when my dad and I did things together, cherish every moment you have together!
The sandstone is absolutely amazing and I can’t wait to hear what else you have found out about it.
Keep up the larking and the videos! They are so amazing to watch!!!!!
Tammy Moore-Franke Thank you! I certainly do love adventures with dad. Got another special vid coming up in May. Stay tuned! The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
OLD FATHER THAMES - I have to say this is getting exciting about the stone!! The history there is absolutely amazing and thanks to Simon and Nicola I found you!! I adore all of you and many of the others and I also envy everyone as well because I’d love to be over there in the mud scraping with you all.
Anyhow, do keep the videos coming, even if they are little short ones 😁😁
See you in the next video and much love from East Tennessee USA 🥰
Very nice adventure and interesting find on the initialed stone! Good to see your Dad, he did great! Thanks for taking us along!
Montana horseman Thanks as ever, Horseman! 👍🏻
So happy to see you, you have a fantastic channel, thank you so much for sharing. Your film work and music is exceptional. Love from Canada🍁🇨🇦
Lovely Skull Really appreciate that comment so much, I’m learning as I go, and trying to hone my skills with content! The feedback I get in the comments is so helpful, even the criticism is constructive. Cheers Canada 🇨🇦👍🏻
So glad you get a chance to enjoy father /daughter quality time. Your mud-larking smile when you find those little treasures priceless. Luv your adventures. Hi 🙋🏽♀️ from Southern California
namamygun Hi Southern California! Pleased to make your acquaintance, and thank you for the lovely comments.
Oh wow, how fascinating! I hope you can find out more about the stone, it would be quite the coincidence were it to be completely unrelated! The tile was absolutely stunning. Enjoyed the dad-joke too! Always enjoy your videos, for the history as well as the finds.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme and MOLA CitiZan scheme are assisting, they are very enthusiastic and generous with their time, so, fingers crossed!
Glad you liked the dad joke. Thanks, as ever, for watching! 🖤
I really loved this - I love memorials of all kinds, perhaps this is not a grave marker (it seems too humble for the residents of Speke Hall) but rather a stone used in some building from the Salt Works which references the people you mention but after their deaths? I realise I live about an hour from there, so I might have to make a trip and have my own adventure!! I love finding bits of pottery with writing on them, and really anything is interesting if you can find out about it's history!! Thank you for bringing us on your adventure - and if you're ever up this way again and would like company or an extra camera person, I'd love to volunteer!
Meredith Small - The Bygone Belle Hi Meredith. You are on exactly the same page as me - that is what I think, and have offered up the suggestion to Mola and PAS. I don’t think I remembered to explicitly state that in the video. Oh you should absolutely go and have a look. You might also want to check out the petition by local residents to have some money injected into the area, for conservation. I shall let you know if I’m up your way again. I’m sure I will be. 👍🏻
Lovely video of you and your dad. You obviously have a special relationship 😊 I lost mine two and a half years ago and miss him everyday. Treasure every moment.... Funny about the man playing the flute, I reckon he was really happy and present doing that in beautiful surroundings. Good on him! Very interesting about the grave too. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Rachel! Sorry to hear about your dad. I certainly do treasure every moment. Yes, I think the flautist was feeling very liberated amongst his surroundings. Was lovely. 👍🏼
That slab is very cool.....hope you can figure it it out further! Love the little heart rock as I am partial to hearts in nature I find everywhere! ♡♡♡
Jenny Walborn The heart rock went home to my better half. I will be more vigilant about nature hearts from now on. I have a lovely heart shaped Echinoid somewhere. Regarding the slab, it is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
How interesting the history lesson. Your dad seems interesting, bet he has good tales. Enjoyed the scenic drive. 👍 Wished you'd share your first name, old father thames gal.. too long and impersonal😕like your pink tennies🤩keep well you and dad👍🧡
Thanks for sharing your video ☺👍 I really enjoyed it.
And I loved ❤ the gorgeous tile and the cool bricks and initials marker👍☺
Cheers Deb
Thanks Deb! Lovely comments. 👍🏻
What a special trip! To do something like that with your father is a priceless memory. I miss mine so much, your trip today brought a tear. Thank you so much for sharing.
Aw thanks Lynn. Yeah, I love doing stuff with Dad. He's cool.
I loved this, thank you. My late mum in law was born in Liverpool. She was one of the young children evacuated to Wales before the bombing began. She told us lovely stories about her early life and how they used to catch a ferry on the Mersey river. This tugged at my heartstrings. Another destination on my bucket list. Best regards again from South Africa 🇿🇦 p.s. I’m sure you are no fool but remain safe when larking on your own
Hi Georgie! Thank you for sharing that memory with me. How lovely. I hope you get to see the Mersey soon! Liverpool is a brilliant place. Thank you for your sage advice, I will be sure to take care! All the best ⚓
What a great adventure😃 sister-friend!! And with your dad...so lucky!!! My pops died right after I turned 21yrs old(37yrs ago, my how time flies!). I feel I was robbed of so many cool father/daughter outings like the one you shared with your pops. Steal those moments when you can, and hold them precious in your heart😊🤗.
Thanks for all the history you include with your larkings, never gets old or boring. Fascinating insight and finds.
🙏's for safety and good health. Be seeing ya soon 🙋😺.
Thank you, Juliet! Can't deny spending time with Dad is one of my favourite things, sorry to hear of your premature loss. Will indeed take your advice. 🖤
I lost my dad at 15 and could not agree more
You always have perfect hair and makeup wherever you go!!! Love you and your dad!!!
LISA DAUBENMERKL 🙏🏻💋☺️ what a lovely comment, thank you!
OMG, that Minton tile is gorgeous and some beautiful bricks too!
Minton is 🖤
Great relationship with your dad. Love the laughter!
Haha, he's the best. Thank you! ⚓
Thanks for going to trouble of researching that stone memorial.very interesting.x
Hey Julie, thank you, very kind of you to say so. ⚓
The hearthstone is super important,definitely my favorite find.
You are honored to own such a thing.
Today's was good enjoyed your dad.
He's a legend 🌊 ⚓
Fantastic post and so well researched. Let's hope all will be revealed shortly? Stone too heavy to lift? Keep posting. Enjoying very much. Cheers from Hampshire.
Too heavy to lift without help, but help may come. Stay tuned. The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
Oh how i loved this video! I was born in Sale and soent many happy summers playing on and in the River Mersey! Getting told off by mum for losing yet another ribbon from my hair, and having Teasels stuck in my hair, usually put there by my brother, ouch!!! Thank you for bringing back so many wonderful memories! Lord! I sound ancient, though 61 to some IS ancient 🤣.
Much love to you and your family. Chez in Lliria, valencia Spain xx
Thank you Chez! I think I annoyed a few people by saying I'm in Lancashire but not saying "I'm now in Merseyside" - whoops! Started off from Ormskirk you see. So glad I brought back some happy memories to you. Much love! 👍🏼
Great to see your father Larking with you.
prinz albert It was brilliant with Dad!
Fantastic video. Wonderful history lesson.
Thank you Rebecca! 🌊 ⚓
searover love it , also love all the bricks with names, how fun it would be to lay a terrace floor in different name bricks ☺ ♥ .
Haha! Dad's joke seems to be going down well. I'll tell him. Yeah, I have a bit of a brick fetish! My friend Nick, who is Rock the Mudlark on IG, has a wall made up of fascinating bricks, older than these. Check out his page on the Thames & Field site: sites.google.com/site/thamesandfield4/home/thames-bricks
I also think a terrace would be cool. You'd have to be very dedicated and strong though to get the bricks home. I'm a little to lazy for that. Lol
I like the way you scrolled the info across the bottom rather than blocking the whole screenshot like some of your older posts. I almost asked if you could change that. I think this is much better.
Thank you! Listening to my subscribers, for sure. Took on board that too much info on the screen is confusing etc. Glad the ticker tape scrolling thing is better. 👍🏼
Funny thing as you'll probably know by now is from a curtain track! Love your humour and your videos.🙂🐻
Ted Pyman haha, only been told by a thousand or so people. 😂 Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Lol, reminded me of myself aiming to get to a location, slips, trips and plenty of laughs on the way down a slope. Great finds again, absolutely love the tile, good to see your dad joining in. 😉
The endorphins released due to anticipation of finding access to a location is definitely a thing! Such a buzz. Thank you for the lovely comments! 😊
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES most definitely agree with you on that, the thrill alone is priceless. Never a dull moment being stuck in mud and having to get your foot out of the wellie as its super stuck,, my socks were never the same 😂. Thanks for sharing your adventures, oh and the wink is catching on the 😉.
Wow what an amazing piece of history to find on a foreshore, such a evocative stone and story. Great video :)
Mudlarking With Kit & Caboodlers Thank you! The stone is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
Another great segment of history. The stone looks really interesting. Up here in Scotland the skull and crossbones indicate a covenanters grave.
Keep wearing your curtain glide with pride.
Colin Maceachern thank you! I also run an IG page, @favouritegraves, in which I share my favourite graves...does what it says on the tin. I have visited lots of kirkyards and cemeteries in Scotland, and love the Covenanters section at Grayfriars. Fascinating. By the way, I am doing a West to East coast beachcombing/mudlarking video, out in May...look out for it.
I'm not sure if you have ever visited Kilmartin .
There are 700-800 monuments in a small area. It's a fantastic place to visit x
I'm from largs in north Ayrshire.
I love all the history you include and it was great to see you spending time with your dad
Thank you Dan, it's the most important part, for me. Finds open doors to new realms!
It's nice to see you with your dad. My daughter is over 3000 miles away but we do speak every week. Thanks for sharing your walk. Tom USA
Aw Tom, thanks so much. So good that you speak every day to your daughter. Dad and I are doing a VERY long walk soon, and we'll for sure be sharing that on here. 👍🏼
Stumbled on this channel, and I love the history that is all around your beaches and lands. Over here in the States the oldest things I can find are only several hundred years old. I would love to live there! Keep hunting and good luck! I will keep watching and keep drooling over your treasures! PIP PIP!
Pip pip! Thank you for watching, a good stumble to have you here. I'm back out on the foreshore now so more videos will be coming! All the best ⚓
Interesting initialed limestone. Enjoyed seeing your dad. Thinking the person playing flute was saying to himself: "how strange, people picking around in the rumble." 😀😄😁
Hi again,excellent find and research on the marker stone ,,now if only you could get it Home and put it in the garden. Like you I mudlark the Thames mainly as I live very close, but about once a month I go to Widnes and check out Spike Island, close to where you were.. Happy Hunting , Terry.
It may end up in a safe place, once it's been recorded! Widnes and Spike Island are both on my list! Thanks Terry 👍🏻
Love Love LOVE your vids. Really interesting. HELLO to your Dad! Hello DAD! hahaha....
Haha! Thank you so much Lee, too kind.
Reminds me of the Cast Iron shore or “Cazzy “as us Scousers called it ,we used to go down there as kids when we lived in the Dingle Liverpool ,lve been to visit Speke Hall a couple of times such a fabulous place,
Ah, nice! Cazzy - can so imagine that. All my step-relatives are Scotty Road Scousers. Speke Hall, still yet to go but it does look incredible. 🌊 ⚓
Interesting information about the Norris family and the slab.
Thank you Angie!
Loved that big stone .some very nice finds . Next time your up there let us no and we will meet up with you. We was just up the rd from there some weeks ago doing a hale light house vid . Great video loved it
No way! How cool. That area is fascinating. Will indeed let you know when Dad and I hit the foreshore again. Glad you like the video. 👍🏻
Me thinks it was repurposed and was in the sandstone walk. But as your research stated, it may have come from the hall, put at the salt works as a memorial and then incorporated in the walk and now dislodged. Where you found it. It would be special if it could be replaced as a memorial or as an garden piece at your home.
Mary Degenkolb Should know more next week! The Mola CitiZan archaeologist and a PAS finds liaison officer are going down to record it. 👍🏻
Chock-full of fantastic finds and information 👏. Excellent vid
Woo thank you!
New subscriber here , brilliant video this and well researched. That Norris family connection is fascinating, also only about a ten minute drive from my house that part of the Mersey .
Thanks Ste! Love the Norris history and the landscape up there!
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES very underrated part of Liverpool that’s crammed with history . If you look at the old maps it’s dotted with old country houses etc .
Who'd have thunk it! Great research AND a weirdo playing a flute 😂 great video!
Love that weirdo. He was probably the least weird of the three of us!
Love your content and your dad is such a cutie ....and full of wisdom 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I'm a Stick he’ll defo appreciate your comment. 😉
I'm a Stick and thank you 😊
Well done!
Amazing research on that slab! Looking forward to the rest of the story.
Thank you! I should hear something about it next week. The PAS finds liaison office and CitiZan archaeologist are going down there to get it recorded. Will update! 👍🏻
Love your trips out...going through your back catalogue we want more!!! PS love Dad
I'm back! I'm back! ⚓
Dad is Most Excellent. Thanks for watching!
Hope that stone is still there when you get back. Really enjoyed this one because of the unusual odd finds.
Sherry Rector I hope so too - it is being looked at and recorded by PAS and Mola CitiZan next week, hope to know more then.
Haha I know what you mean about people getting bored quickly - my other half manages about an hour and I need at least 5, so I go on my own now 😏
I usually go alone, it’s rather a solitary pastime!
Automatically click like when I see you've posted xx
There's ma girl! Haha, thank you, Sue! 🖤
So interesting love the huge stone with the initials on tfs
Me too! One of my favourite finds ever! Thanks for subbing!
Nice job Marie researching the Skull & Crossbone stone. I think you may well have found the answer...looking forward to more Father Thames and her father videos, lol.
Thank you Douglas. I hope to hear something about it this week! 👍🏼
Well, that was really good! Thanks for sharing! 💀
Thanks Theresa. Love the appropriate emoji use.
I've never hit play so fast. 😊😍😎
Woo hoo! Thank you! 👍🏼
enjoyed, very interesting, also be on guard for men standing on stumps playing a flute out in the middle of the woods, would have a hard time passing up all those bricks with names on them, I'd be taking a load of them home each trip, would make a great wall or fence or patio flooring, and quite a site to start conversations with guest's, take care young lady, looking forward till next time
Rick Sheetz Haha, thank you Rick. Yes, the bricks would make a fabulous feature, and indeed, a great talking point.
Unless you have played flute, you're not going to understand the challenge of playing out of doors, or the amazing acoustics that happen in different settings. Having played flute for 57 years, I find it not strange at all. It's relaxing to play when you're not in front of an audience.
Great point that, thank you! I didn't really find him that weird, I just can't help but add a bit of English raised eyebrow. I did very much enjoy his flute playing. 👍🏼
The Minton tile is beautiful - I can imagine it coming from the hallway of a bomb damaged Victorian villa. The marker is extremely interesting. A wealthy and prominent family like the Norris one in the 17th century would probably have had memorials that were huge and elaborate, usually in a local church, although the Norrises were Catholic at a time when it was dangerous to be so (hence the priest hole at Speke), so who knows? What a fascinating find.
Gillian Stapleton Thank you, yes, the tile is a winner. It’s the second one I have found, although this one is an encaustic tile and much larger. Very true about a the grave - I wondered more if it is a marker, or perhaps a salt mill worker creation. I did indeed read about the Norrises being Catholic. There’s quite a good (albeit deeply religious) blog out there, American I think, detailing their place in Catholicism.
Gillian Stapleton Thank you, yes, the tile is a winner. It’s the second one I have found, although this one is an encaustic tile and much larger. Very true about a the grave - I wondered more if it is a marker, or perhaps a salt mill worker creation. I did indeed read about the Norrises being Catholic. There’s quite a good (albeit deeply religious) blog out there, American I think, detailing their place in Catholicism.
Great video as usual.so interesting on a freezing wet Sunday.thanks.sue.
Thank you Susan! 👍🏻
good finds enjoyed watching keep
It up
Very interesting. We have a Creek where I live with very little rubbish would it be worth a look for my first Mudlark ? Will have to train my eye though.
Always worth a try! Check out some of Tom Burleigh's adventures... ruclips.net/video/_sqdnAAWgzs/видео.html
Gorgeous piece of tile 👍👍
Stunner, isn't it? 🖤
I live in Wirral, so I'm trying to find Merseyside mudlarking spots myself 😂
Aha! I see. I found some spots by searching online tbh. There are a couple of places that locals are keen to encourage people to visit, as they are trying to raise interest in what was once a beloved beach area.
ps. I've got a video premiere at 7pm GMT this eve, and will be live chatting, if you're around. 🌊 ⚓
I hope you do make it back, a lot of history there.
Oh, I definitely will, Lee. It's fascinating.
Cracking up hahaha. Have you heard of the god named Pan? It’s this old Greek Mythology thing, and the pan flute got its name from the Greek mythological character Pan, the patron of Shepard’s. He was born with horns, a beard, a pug nose, tail, and had goat legs. This scared the people so he lived his days in the woods. He fell in love with a nymph named Syrinx but she did not return this love, so turned her into reeds and smashed them up. As he was gathering these reeds, his breath made a beautiful sound into them, so he tied them together, kneeled on a tree stump at a ponds edge watching his reflection, and played sad tunes into this flute of reeds (hence the pan flute which is supposedly where that got its name), and he spent eternity hoping these songs would bring his love back to him. (Laughing because you said he was standing on a tree stump playing a flute! Who knows you may have just encountered the long lost Greek mythological Pan! (There are so many versions to this story, all equally interesting. I actually have a small garden statue passed down to me of Pan playing the flute. Love your video and I love how you brought your dad along! So sweet!
Thank you for your lovely comments. I am indeed familiar with Pan! That's exactly why I say "like a faun", haha, well spotted. Love that you took the time to write out the legend, that's so cool. 👍🏼
OLD FATHER THAMES Hahaha I love it. Makes life interesting, never know what you’ll run into out there 😆
The little brass item you first picked up is a hanger for curtains which ran on a brass curtain rail.
Ahhhh...thank you.
I love all the Mudlarkers. I was just going to ask you if all that brick and tile was due to WWII bombing and such clearing of the debris. It had do go somewhere didn’t it.
Connie Ward Thank you Connie! Yep, it’s always gotta go somewhere!
What a interesting place a great video
Thank you for watching, Susan! 🤗🖤⚓️
Hi, what area did you go looking in Liverpool for that estuary where you found the tile please xx
Hi Mike, send me an email mail@marielouiseplum.com. Sorry for slow reply btw. 🌊 ⚓
When I first saw it I automatically thought of a cornerstone. People, now, have engraved placards, when dedicating a building, but back then...
Yes, Rhonda! I think you could be right. Another theory is that it is to commemorate sailors lost at sea, as it's right on the Mersey Estuary. ⚓
If I'm not too late to comment, I think the widget you found with the tiny wheel might be a curtain rail fitting that ran on an old-fashioned metal curtain rail. The loop is where the curtain hook would slip into.
It's not too late, it's never too late! You're quite right about the widget, that's exactly what it is (I have since found out)! All the best, OFT.
I was in a school play based on the Norris family back in 1980, i was the buffoon (village idiot) and had to jump around in green tights trying to entertain the lords and ladies at a banquet! We had speke hall for the day mostly unsupervised, wandering about the rooms alone, dressed as a serf! the place has a strong atmosphere, i can feel it now thinking bout it.
THIS IS AMAZING 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
And true! Teacher said i could be the buffoon. When i asked him what was a buffoon? he looked at me and said "village idiot" haha 10yr old!
I have a question. Have you ever tried to slice (dremel tool) the pipe stems into discs...to make beads out of them ?
No, however I know a few people who do! Lots of mudlark jewellery makers out there. 👍🏼
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The little thing with the roller is part of the Curtain rod and the hook that went into the curtain was attached to the ring
Interesting find!
Thank you! 👍🏻
Widget was a curtain track roller that the curtain attached to. One of 20 or so and one wheel went either side of the track. The track was like a H shape on its side and the rollers could only be placed on the track from the end
Thanks for the info, Peter! That's very helpful!
What a nice tile!
A pity! the wind stole most of your charming voice (and the music stole the rest)... Fortunately, the wind played also with your hair. A great lovely mess it did once you returned into the car 😀
Two month ago, you showed what I think was your first metal detecting attempt. Now, you said you have your own machine ? Will you share some discoveries soon ?
Tschuss.
I have always had my own machine, but I don't use it. I've never used it on the Thames, but did use it very briefly on the field in that vid you mention. Terry very kindly let me use his machine on that field trip. I'm back on the foreshore this week, so will have a new video up next Sunday! Tschuss! 👍🏻
@@OLDFATHERTHAMES you need a very small coil on the Thames foreshore to avoid the metallic pollution like the machines used by Simon and Tobias. Nicola struggles a lot with her large XP Deus.
The widget looks like a thing from a curtain.
Well hello back at you beautiful cold windblown lady. I actually thought you may have picked up those different bricks from various companies you could possibly build a garden wall. Well by for now and ill keep following your site Stuart Palmer Adelaide Sth Australia
I do put my Thames bricks in the garden, not quite enough for a wall just yet! 👍🏼
The little thing after the plough shear is a curtain ring slider.
Thanks Nigel 👍🏻
Aloha O.F.T.! This may sound weirder than finding the flute player standing on a log, playing Amazing Grace....,but, it is believed that Bigfoot/ Sasquatch/ or as they were called in the middle ages in Europe; Wild Men still live in isolated parts of the U.K. In the Bigfoot research community, some people believe that sitting alone in an isolated area, playing the flute attracts the Sasquatch people.🤔😳 So, keep your eye out for giant, bare footprints in the mud! That stone was a great find!
Aloha, Erin! Thank you. Love that little fact, and I most certainly will keep my eye out for any Sasquatch activity! That would be a find and a half. ⚓
widget is from curtain rail
Thanks John! Mystery solved. 👍
Very cool I would have put that stone in my backyard
It may yet make its way back to a safe spot...
The little widget thing is a curtain rail piece, it's the roller to which the hook was attached.
Thanks Shirley!
Love your posts!!
Thank you Alison! Big Love! 👍🏻
did you manage to get back yet, we have been a couple of times as we only live about 15 mins away, its gone extremely muddy along the shoreline xx
Not yet! I have to take at least one train to get down to the river so will have to wait til lockdown is over and Covid is behaving itself. Hopefully soon! ⚓️🖤
The little widget thing is for a metal curtain rail
Thanks Roger!
Whatever happened with the sandstone slab? It's a year later. Very curious. I'm a recent subscriber and am watching past larks.🤔👍
Hi Annette! Thanks for getting in touch. The sandstone slab was recorded on the CitiZan intertidal zone map. It was looked at by various learned fellows at MOLA and in the end we all but entirely ruled out the crude grave marker option. Basically, we don't know exactly what it is, or who made it, but it remains an interesting feature and has been written about here: citizan.org.uk/blog/2020/Apr/23/intrigue-dungeon-lane/ 🌊 ⚓
What a Lark! Really enjoyed the whole thing including the history. Amazing what you find on any foreshore. As for the flute player, I think it was wonderful that you were able to capture his dulcet tones as it was Amazing Grace that allowed you to discover all the treasures that you did. Thanks for sharing.
Salish Sea Quest Haha! Maybe he was our spirit guide! So glad you are watching, and enjoying the history too.
Too cool for school 🤣
I have to say, I’d sooo want to drag that skull and crossbones ☠️ stone home with me.
I’d forever regret it if I didn’t 🙂
I thought about it...
Hi from Michigan 👋 Are you going to bring the stone home?
Hello there, Michigan! Once the stone has been properly recorded and looked at by the coastal team, if they are happy for me to take it and keep it safe, then I will. 👍🏼
The little grimly is a runner for a shower curtain!!
A 'grimly'! What a brilliant name. 🌊 ⚓
My grandparents lost that tea lid back in the 30's
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Hallo,
In Deutschland ist das kleine Metalding ein Vorhanghalter für die Vorhangschiene.
Lg
Vielen Dank! 👍🏻
Homestead.. is the farm at speke hall.. could that pottery piece be from there
An interesting idea, could be! Incidentally, you’re quite right about it not being Lancashire - that’s my dizziness coming through. 😂 I was staying with my father who is just up the road in Lancashire, and we were driving down to Merseyside. Apologies.
Hi I live on the Wirral were the best place to go to many thanks
Hi Pat! I don't think I'm breaking any secret Scouse larking code by telling you that I was on the estuary between Speke and Hale, behind JL airport. I don't know of any other places along the estuary, just gotta get out there and see what you can find. If you're on the Wirral, I think Ellesmere Port would be about opposite to where I was, on the other side. If you can, get down and have a drive about, or search online a bit. Good luck! ⚓
First! Haha x
There you are! Congrats First Bud. X