Thames Festival Trust | Foragers of the Foreshore

Child's Skull from 1730

Prehistoric Megladon Tooth

Mesolithic Hand Axe from 11000 BC

1701 Mourning Ring with Inscription

1650's Onion Bottle

Nick's Finds

Child's Skull from 1730

Prehistoric Megladon Tooth

Mesolithic Hand Axe from 11000 BC

1701 Mourning Ring with Inscription

1650's Onion Bottle

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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 Johannesen & Ian Smith

The chairman and treasurer of The Society of Thames Mudlarks.

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Mark Paros

I have lived in Edgware in north London all my life, in the house where I was born. As a child, I began searching for fossils (which I had a passion for),…

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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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Nicola White

Our 2019 mudlark in residence.

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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

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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