Searching a Drained Canal in London - Strange Objects Revealed (June 2021)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2021
- When the Hertford Union Canal was drained for maintenance work in March 2021 it provided a unique opportunity to discover the plethora of discarded and lost items scattered along the muddy canal bed. It was also perfect time to clean out as much waste as possible, creating a healthier environment for the wildlife which thrives in the canals in London.
Simon Bourne arranged for a group of us to volunteer with the River and Canal Trust canalrivertrust.org.uk/
and over the course of 2 days we searched for and removed as much rubbish and plastic pollution as possible. We inevitably found some very strange objects too. You wouldn't believe what could end up at the bottom of a canal!
If you are interested in volunteering with the Canal and River Trust, they would be delighted to hear from you. We had the greatest fun whilst doing something extremely useful and valuable for the community. There was a varied and eclectic load of objects to be found. Some older and some modern. It's shocking how much rubbish and plastic we removed from the canal and it is sad to see coots and moorhens actually building their nests from it.
Whilst on the Hertford Union Canal towpath I met Nick Crook and Bronte Phelps of Boardies who were collecting plastic. They had collected 3.5 bags in plastic in less than an hour. They talked about the range of swimwear that Boardies are making in collaboration with Raeburn, out of plastic bottles. You can find the info here:-
www.raeburndesign.co.uk/pages...
I hope you enjoy this video. Comments and feedback welcome and if you wish to treat me to a virtual cup of earl grey tea you can find my site here:-
ko-fi.com/nicolawhitetidelineart
All donations are very welcome!
Thank you for watching everyone.
Love Nicola
Nicola White
www.tidelineart.com
#nicolawhitemudlark #mudlarking #drainedcanal
Great video, Nicola. Really hammers home just how thoughtless we are as a species. The amount of rubbish in that short stretch of canal was borderline criminal.
Not borderline criminal...criminal!! There should be steep fines for throwing rubbish and graffiti on the brick way. Don't include me in your observation of what garbage throwing criminals do because they don't care.
Please, do not include everyone in the blame. CERTAIN people (and their parents) are to blame. The rest of us know how to behave and to preserve the environment. Let us work against this culture that everybody is to blame! We are not!
Yeah oxford too right we need wiping out
We have made a right mess of the planet
People have been throwing filth, food scraps, and all other sorts of garbage in waterways since the dawn of man. Maybe way back when, we didn’t know better…but today we do, and most people wouldn’t do this. Sadly, there still are plenty who would.
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Best friends and good friends doing volunteer community service that is important. We should all take note and lend a hand wherever we are in the world.
Poor ducks, swimming in what looks like an open sewer and pecking at plastic ...
Well done to everyone who clean the canal !!!
Unbelievable and upsetting
Eating small bugs
The brief Mallards? They are dabblers and are comfortable foraging on mudflats. I also saw Common Moorhens, Eurasian Coot, Yellow Wagtail, Mute Swan, Gray Heron, and a Great Cormorant.
@@fredbear72ify Far from unbelievable. The human race now is beyond disgusting and selfish
it IS an open sewer
The little Wade animal figurines bring back memories. They used to come in boxes of Red Rose Tea. They started in 1967 and I believe still put them in today.
It's good to be able to be able to give time to clean up the environment. Thanks for volunteering 👏.
Remember collecting them but it has been years since they had them
Also clothes powder in boxes you could collect plates in the box's in the 1960s in canada
Red Rose had the ceramic figures in Canada too, my grandmother was a heavy tea drinker and had a massive collection of them.
I miss my Red Rose tea animals. I had so many, then lost them in a move. Now Red Rose doesnt make them. They seem like they need little terrariums to live it
Crazy how the water hides the trash people throw in. The waterways are not a tip! Great to see all the volunteers helping to clean up the channel.
Well done to all the helpers who cleaned out so much rubbish from the canal
I couldn't believe how much junk was in the canel
Where can I sign up
Red Rose Tea boxes used to come with small, ceramic animals in each box. The animals looked very much like what you found.
And those tiny themed ceramic figures are exactly the same: from Wade, a UK company. I have some in my fish tanks, and some tucked away in odd spots. Admittedly, I bought more Red Rose boxes of tea bags for the prize inside.
Yes I remember we drank red rose at home in montreal Canada
Do not know were the little things are now
That exactly what I thought. My grandmas best friend collected them since she drank that brand of tea. As a child I was fascinated and then started drinking that tea just to collect the figures.
There is something satisfying to me when a river is drained: it's a rare opportunity to remove the trash as well as find some weird and unique history in all that mud.
I would literally move to England for a summer just to do this job. I love treasure hunting. What a shame people treat the canal like a trash bin when I know there are lots of bins around the city they could very easily dispose of things in. Seeing all that retro stuff makes me wonder. you can't help but wonder what the story is behind each object. I actually felt SAD seeing the dog toys, because i can picture sad little doggo's staring at the canal and then at their owner wanting their toy back and not able to understand it's gone for ever. Poor puppers.
Aww so true - but good puppers always get new ones x
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Poor puppers :(
I'd join you!
Nicola you find beauty everywhere. Thanks so much for sharing the canal clean up. It’s beautiful once again yet plastic is right back in the water again 😕. Beautiful finds! Beautiful people cleaning and caring for your waterways.
It’s great to get a group together to clean the canals. Not to mention the many treasures that you can find. So sad that people use them as garbage dumps. Loved the Florida Water bottle, ink bottle, and red tile. The kangaroo made me laugh. Polar bears, gorillas, and the saddest little crocodile, 😆. Good job to Nick and Bronte, too. Congratulations to the book winners.
can believe that canal isn't all cleared up - did i miss something ?
My Sunday is complete now that I can sit back and enjoy a nice mudlarking video! Oh! I hope Emma is feeling better!!
Congrats to the lucky winners, and great work volunteers!
Thanks for taking me on your journey to the canal. I learnt a lot. I could relate to some of the problems that were pointed out during your interaction with those volunteers. In Jamaica there are many gullies and the people constantly inundate them with garbage of all sorts and sizes. Sadly, the impact is astronomical. When it rains the gullies overflow into the homes and the streets. People's lives are always disrupted because this overflow comes into the general traffic corridor and many people's homes, properties and crops get washed away because the water flow is blocked from going to the proper areas. This is economically debilitating for the country. Thanks again.
Hi Dorothy, your comments so good where are you from?
Nicola, I would like to say thank you one and all who helped to pick up that litter in the canal, on this side of the pond we have the same problem, and sad to say it is getting worse, why not just wait to find a bin and toss it in?, that could be a logo, find a bin and toss it in, cheers.
I love watching each week your mudlarking adventures. Today I'm THRILLED I was one of the winners in the drawing!!! 😁🤩
Congratiolation. Ich freue mich für Dich, viel Spaß mit dem tollen Buch.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congratulations.
I actually saw the stem and I was hoping your eyes would catch it, and you did, hooray!
@عبدالسلام عبدالسلام 😂😂😂😂
Nicola: you guys had entirely too much fun cleaning trash from the mud of a drained canal.....and managed to brighten my day! Thanks for the messaging about plastic pollution and the need to be much more responsible in discarding waste. Hope Emma survived her root canal.
I always love seeing your wildlife videography! And love your ceramic finds like the polar bears and the gorilla. So glad to see the amount of rubbish removed from the canal - a great job done by all. And a big Congratulations to raffle winners Jo, Tamara and purple plump! Enjoy your wonderful book!
Really appreciate the way you show the item all cleaned up right at the moment. Big thanks!
What a great show… it’s so cool to see people cleaning up together for the good of Nature.
I have very fond memories of going to the canal (at Aylesbury) as a child with my Grandad. So beautiful when full of water, not so much when empty. So much waste…..we need to do better!
Nicola thank you for including the scenic places and local wildlife. It is so beautiful and calming. Keep searching for past treasures to brighten our future.
Hi 🙋♂️ Susan, your comments so good where are you from?
@@mattwaynehendrix7906 Hi Matt. I'm from the USA.
@@susantaylor4340 Hi 👋 Susan.
Am an honorable gentle from New Jersey. Am an independent contractor by profession working on a drilling contract here in the Gulf of Mexico United States, am working on my last contract, after this contract am getting my retirement been on this job for the past 28years, can't wait to be home, can't wait to set my eyes on my son it's been a while since I left him.
@@susantaylor4340 Hi Susan, can we please talk on Email hope you don't mind?
It's such a pleasure to watch Nicolas videos they all most always open with the amazing interurban wild life that manages to survive in our chaotic watery world of concrete and steel. She sees beauty where most will turn their head away or simply ignore. She makes the overlooked and completely forgotten refuse we intentionally abandon or inadvertently loose a tapestry of history and mystery around each discovery. Keep larking dear Lady!
Wonderful video Nic! Thank you so much for continuing to help clean up the environment and alerting people to the colossal threat of plastic litter and rubbish in general. Personally, when I go out metal detecting and/or mudlarking I think of it as cleaning the planet, and then receiving a nice prize every now and then for doing so. I wish that more of our fellow hobbyists and citizens would do the same.
Sincerely,
Brian
Every segment is a wonderful combination of history/relaxing music and beautiful fauna/ informative and knowledgeable 💜
Hi IIona, your comments so good where are you from?
Lovely! I am so enamored by both yours and Si's channels! Never heard of mudlarking until I found you both. A new passion! Your art is stunning Nicola! Thank you!🌹🌹
Thanks to yourself and the other volunteers for helping keep the waterways clean.
Lovely to see you all frolicking in the mud again, and coming back with your treasures. Cheers.
That was great! Love the ginger beer bottle 🍺 wow! You guys did an awesome job, thank you for removing the plastic! I think they should bring back the glass bottles instead of plastic bottles. They may need to create more glass bottle for it, but at lest there will be no harm to the environment.♻️ That’s so cool, recycled clothing!! See you next time!😀😀😀😀
I cannot believe how much you love lurking in the mud! It’s just impossible to believe that so many people just turf their rubbish into waterways! And at a huge expense and effort the council, and wonderful volunteers, have to clean up after them. It’s such a shame! And that couple doing the research, and cleaning as they do, and as for Raeburn, well, they deserve great acclaim. Well done everyone🥰
Nicola makes the day special! Love your informative and historical find videos. Amazing number of species of wildlife there...the work you all do must be working for the birds to return!
I loved the baby birds, it looks like you and friends had quite a blast cleaning, and yes we need to look after the environment a lot better. Thank you Nicola amazing. Enjoy your week. 🇨🇦🐘🍁👣🤗
I am so glad volunteers and the Government are doing clean ups. People can be such polluters, but you volunteers are the counter balance. The birds and animals benefit as well as people! thank you
Great job done removing all the trash and plastics xx
What a wonderful job you and your friends did helping clean up the canal Nicola! .....Plus finding little treasures is an added bonus! Bravo!
An admirable endeavour, Nicola. Good to draw attention to the work that is being done to clean up and draw attention to the need to improve our own proper disposal of waste. Good to see such a wonderful turnout of volunteers. This was such a tease though -- I'm waiting for another 'Ladies Who Lark' video -- evidenced by photos seen on Instagram of a day out on the foreshore in July. Hope we'll be seeing it soon!! xx
Absolutely quality Nic!
A really enjoyable watch with also a powerful message.
Hugs!
Ugh, first Nicola vid Ive been able to watch in months and I can smell that canal from Wisconsin. Its a good deed youre all doing, too bad so many people are in the habit of tossing things aside into nature.
Up here the Bear Hunters Association gets together with the Dept of Natural Resources (game warden state agency) each Spring and goes thru the county forests gathering all sorts of trash and recyclables, they typically pull out upwards of 2 or 3 TONS of crap every year just in the Northern areas. Never ceases to amaze me how many trashy people there are in our world, and the lengths they will go to in order to be a slob. Great vid Nic, keep it up!
Thank You for helping to keep our state clean 🌺🤗🥰🌸
@@Tabbatha. : Thanks, I no longer live up north so Im not participating but I do know the program is alive and well.
Wot! Toss the bin into the canal?
There is a place in Atlanta called the Dollshead Trail. The man who looks after the park where it is located, collects trash from a nearby river and turns it in to quirky “art” pieces. Some people find it creepy. I think it’s fun!
I think that’s brilliant I love quirky and interesting 🇬🇧
Now I have to check that out.
Great to see all that plastic rubbish removed from the canal Nicola! Job well done! You found some interesting things as well. Congratulations to the competition winners! ♥️😊
Great video and as always thank you for allowing me to tag along! Plastic is really a problem and it never ceases to amaze me how people can be so careless and ... well selfish ... by throwing their trash anywhere but the trash can. It takes no effort at all to be responsible! We can do better!
Great clip, showing cleanup and also spotting others cleaning up and also using the 'rubbish' to recycle. We don't need to throw waste out, it's about time humans evolved their thinking.
👍. Litterbugs are a scourge upon society. What’s so hard about proper disposal
Their only benefit is to the archeologists of the future.
Good job with the clean up, Nic! Thank you for caring!😀
Those little whimsies look just like the ones that come in a box of Red rose tea!
This is horrible. I thank all the volunteers that helps keep these water ways clean. From the USA.
Always a pleasure Miss White x, we love the way you present things, the deconstructed crocodile was fab
Love the before and after aspect of your video Nicola, some weird and wonderful finds in the canal bed and very well done and thank you for all your hard work in helping with the clean up! I was down on the thames foreshore for both the early tides today and yesterday and managed to collect nearly a carrier bag full of plastics and litter on each mudlark before the Thames could sweep it away.
A lovely fossil echinoid you found on your short mudlark, absolutely lovely! xx
Congratulations to the lucky winners!! I already have a copy but if my name had come up, would have let another have it.
I loved seeing the little birds and the new generation of babies exploring their strange new world.
See you next week, hugs and love from a sunny and hot day here in Canada.
The old bridges and walls are beautiful Nicola. Thankyou for the video.Cheers.
Congrats to winners, great book. Lovely video Nicola, it is a shame so many people don't care enough to dispose trash in the proper place. Thank you.
So sorry about your friends tooth. I love what you bring to us. May both canals get a proper cleaning.
After online church (still on lockdown here in Costa Rica) I always come to watch your videos. Today’s was beautiful, happy and sad. You always are able to show us the best of everywhere. Thank you Nic. And thank you for making a difference in that place and our lives. It’s so sad how dirty that canal was. It’s sad that there are people there and here that don’t respect, care and love nature. But it’s wonderful with people like us. I’m sure all those birds will live a healthier, safer, happier life. Good job!
I love your videos, Nicola, the finds are always interesting and your quiet interludes are wonderful!
Fab vid as always nic. Sadly, after the experience with mam, I really struggle with Sundays now more than any other day but your vid is always the relief i look forward to in it, then I share it with my dad too. You keep us going on our most challenging day each week nic and I thank you for it.
Thanks Ash. lots of love xxx
You're videos always make Sunday mornings relaxing
What a good way to obtain a few good finds during your volunteer community service. Smart business...Thanks for sharing...
Congrats to all the winners and I really enjoyed this video and the awareness that it brings you truely are a wonderful person and the rest of the volunteers
I really enjoyed this cleanup this should be done everywhere. Thanks for the video.
Awesome watching you and great friends coming together to clean up the canal.
Great friends, great video, great effort, hurrah to you all!
Your camera work is nice and steady.And showing us the birds and their babies is a special treat.
NIcola,
Gallinules, coots and Wagtails, oh my!
Thank you for the retrospective look at the earlier adventure with Simon and others, it really makes a difference.
Now your good for another 200 years....right!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Nice job on the clean-up. Thanks for using your time to benefit us all.
Nicola, you have such beautiful music on your videos. So it’s such a delight to watch your videos, great contact, phenomenal host, and awesome music. It’s a win all the way around. You are absolutely a fabulous mudlarker. I just love your videos
Thank you Sherri! That's so kind of you to say xx
Fantastic video! Thank you all for cleaning up the canal. Congratulations to the winners!
Cheers, Paige C.
Great video. I enjoyed watching it! ❤️
Made me giggle. When you were talking to Sifinds and showed the plastic creature you had found at the same time - I thought it was someone dressed up having a laugh - Doh! 🤣🤣
Always a pleasure to watch. Thank you : )
Your videos are so artistic! The music, the scenes; I love them.
Always something different and interesting to watch in your videos.Thank you, keep up the good work.
Fantastic video Nicola, not to dissimilar to the river Thames hay.very nice to see you out and about again. Kind regards Mike. Norfolk. 👍
Love the wildlife clips. So lovely. So enjoyed this video. Thanks Nicola!
Hello Nic. What a change from your usual Thames explorations. Amazing what gets thrown away into water courses. Loved seeing this and another little bit on London. Hope you are well. Lots of hugs from S A 🇿🇦💫 yay! And a bit of the Thames too ⭐️ and good on you for that great job in clearing out so much rubbish Nic
I love your videography , it’s so sweet!
Awesome video !!!
Thank you so much for all that you and all if the other mudlarks do !!!
Congrats and Kudos to the winners !!!!
I wasn't drawn , but maybe next time !!!
Thank you for this lovely video.
This was so much fun to see, loved it 🙏
Live by a canal and I've seen so many people throw crap into the canals. Thankfully the Canal Trust are pretty good at clearing the bigger stuff that could cause harm to birds etc. Bless them and the volunteers who help.
Thanks for the environmental cleanup, to you and Simon. Cheers! 😊🏴👍🇺🇸
Thank❤You Nicola, for doing a companion video on the Hertford Union Canal cleanup💙. As you wished, I found myself focused on the discarded trash/waste. To me, your video became a call to action/a public service announcement. Our trash/waste is much bigger than anyone person, it is *a human problem.* If *we* wish to turn this tide of harmful waste in our planet's waters we must all be better stewards!! 💚🌍Dudley
After watching this I signed up for my city’s ocean clean up event, thanks for the great content ❤️❤️ _ From NJ, USA
Great video and congratulations to the book winners! I so enjoy watching all my favorite mudlarks on Sunday! 😁
Hi 🙋♂️ Kitty, your comments so good where are you from?
Such an informative video Nicola! I was amazed to see the amount of rubbish beneath the water. It’s heartbreaking to see what this is doing to the wildlife!! Thank you for bringing this problem to the forefront. Maybe more people will think before they toss!!! Love from DeeAnn in GA 🇺🇸
Great watching Nicola. Always love your vlogs.
Fascinating video. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 😁
Hello Nicola,
What a great video. Environmentally enlightened. We owe it to the earth to be more conscious of how we pollute the earth and what we can do to clean it up. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Poppet
Another very enjoyable video. Thank you!
That was fun - I saw my name in the quickpicker! Nicola, the birds were superb today, and what great bottles! I hope your friend’s root canal resolves x
Well done cleaning up the canal, and congratulations to the winners of the book
Amazing work Nicola. How precious all life is worth saving and a few awesome treasures too. 😉
Excellent therapy. Just the calm I needed this morning.
Thanks Chris. Glad you enjoyed it
Great to see all that rubbish cleaned out, well done to all involved. I loved watching you find those Wade animals,i have some from when i was a child, unfortunately some are quite badly chipped.
Posh bit of canal that ?
Round my way if you drain it would be guns knives and Tesco trolleys 😎
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 Well poor people don't vote against their own interests.
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 Clearly not, that's just your inference.
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 You can do that yourself son.
@@pigfarmerindorset9240 I live in New Zealand and my yacht costs me over $20,000 a year.
Have fun on your shitty tub.
I can't get over you spotting that pipe, from the tiny piece of white that was showing, what an eye 😁💛
Encore merci pour toutes tes très belles vidéos.......merci....
Hi Nicola , your videos evoke a lot of memories for me....... my mother lived in sheltered housing right on the canal at Little Venice, sadly she died 2015 aged 99 . As you know Blackheath and Greenwich are very special to me too , I really enjoy also the wildlife that you include, some interesting finds xx
Thank you Nicola for another interesting, informative and artistic video! Hard work to help clean the canal but looks like everyone had fun too! God bless all of yall!
Hi Linda, your comments so good where are you from?
@@mattwaynehendrix7906 Virginia USA
@@lindabuchanan4620 Hi Linda, am an honorable gentleman from New Jersey. How long have you lived in Virginia?
Great finds Nicola. Xxx