Mark's tile collection
Mark's tile collection
Mark's tile collection

Mark's Finds

Mark's tile collection
Mark's tile collection
Mark's tile collection
Andy Joannesen and Ian Smith | Photo: Hannah Smiles

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Alan Murphy | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Alan Murphy

I was born in Bermondsey. Growing up, I had the joy of playing on the River Thames foreshore, smelling the old Sarson’s Vinegar factory and playing in…

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Andy Joannesen and Ian Smith | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Andy Johannesen & Ian Smith

The chairman and treasurer of The Society of Thames Mudlarks.

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Anna Borzello | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Anna Borzello

I have always been drawn to the Thames. I have photos of myself dancing on the foreshore at sixteen and the memory of an exhilarating police boat ride…

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Ed Bucknall & Malcolm Russell | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Ed J Bucknall & Malcolm Russell

I started mudlarking in 2011 when I first moved to London as a great way to revive my childhood passion for archaeology and art.

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Fiona Haughey | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Fiona Haughey

I am an inter-tidal archaeologist and have worked on the Thames since 1993. One stretch that I have concentrated on is Bankside, a popular part of the…

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Florence Evans & Cecilia Evans Chatfield with Rainbow Kennedy | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Florence Evans & Cecilia Evans Chatfield with Rainbow Kennedy

I always remember the river. Mummy brought me here since I was a baby in her tummy. I used to like playing in the sand, now I write in it with a stick.…

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Fran Sibthorpe | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Fran Sibthorpe

Since my childhood years I have had a fascination for beach-combing, especially on my annual summer holidays during which I spent hours wandering the…

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Jason Sandy | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Jason Sandy

Since I was a child, I have always been interested in history. I was born in North Carolina, USA and studied in Raleigh, the capital city named after…

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Judy & Phill Hazell | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Judy & Phill Hazell

We first started mudlarking by chance; we were visiting some museums and then had a wander around and came upon Trig Lane stairs leading to the foreshore.…

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Lara Maiklem

I have been a mudlark for over 15 years. For me the foreshore is a place of peace and solitude where I can re-charge from the demands of life and the…

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Lucie Commans | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Lucie Commans

I am a French expat and adopted Londoner with a passion for inter-tidal and maritime archaeology. In 2010, while doing a short course on daily life in…

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Monika Buttling-Smith | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Monika Buttling-Smith

I love Mother Nature and Old Father Thames. I find joy in mud-squelching, river splashing, crow-wrangling, ladder-climbing, stone-skimming, elver-rescuing,…

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Nick Stevens | Photo: Graham Anderson

Nick Stevens

I have been a keen hunter of all things old for as long as I can remember. My earliest memory is of finding a small fossilised shell near my childhood…

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Nicola White

Nicola White

Our 2019 mudlark in residence.

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Simon Bourne & Terry Seddon | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Simon Bourne & Terry Seddon

I first discovered mudlarking some years back when I visited Rainham Marshes in Essex, which is part of the Thames Estuary.

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Ted Sandling | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Ted Sandling

When I stoop to pick up a fragment that has lain hidden for centuries in the Thames, I feel my fingertips grazing those of the person who last held it.…

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