27.05.26 - South Bank
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mudlarkingDate: Wednesday 27th May 2026
Area searched: South Bank
The sun shone on the day I returned to mudlarking. The waves, created by the boats, crashed onto the shore, and I stepped back, smiling, so glad that I’d got another chance to look for treasure.
This time I have a creative permit, so I'm looking at the foreshore differently - what can I make from this? Is this piece of china going to be a sail on a boat? Is this pretty coloured glass bottle going to be repaired with words? It's a fun thing to think about and my mind is buzzing with ideas.
Items found: Pottery sherds, pieces of glass, a glass bottle stopper, lipstick, an eraser, a button and a piece of a brush.
I like the glass bottle stopper, which is varying shades of green, that almost looks like it has been covered in algae, but I think it’s just where the glass has got damaged.
I wonder what words the eraser rubbed out.
One of the pieces of glass looks like it once said “ointment” on it, so would have been from a chemist.
Another has Western written on the base. I thought perhaps this was Western & Wolland as they sometimes used just “Western” on bottle stoppers, for example, but there are bottles that have Western written on the side, but R White’s on the bottom and R White’s bottlestoppers. So that doesn’t quite make sense, as R White’s was a rival to Western & Wolland. I have yet to find more details of Western than this.
The lipstick is pink and there is still some left in there, kind of soggy.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
Area searched: South Bank
The sun shone on the day I returned to mudlarking. The waves, created by the boats, crashed onto the shore, and I stepped back, smiling, so glad that I’d got another chance to look for treasure.
This time I have a creative permit, so I'm looking at the foreshore differently - what can I make from this? Is this piece of china going to be a sail on a boat? Is this pretty coloured glass bottle going to be repaired with words? It's a fun thing to think about and my mind is buzzing with ideas.
Items found: Pottery sherds, pieces of glass, a glass bottle stopper, lipstick, an eraser, a button and a piece of a brush.
I like the glass bottle stopper, which is varying shades of green, that almost looks like it has been covered in algae, but I think it’s just where the glass has got damaged.
I wonder what words the eraser rubbed out.
One of the pieces of glass looks like it once said “ointment” on it, so would have been from a chemist.
Another has Western written on the base. I thought perhaps this was Western & Wolland as they sometimes used just “Western” on bottle stoppers, for example, but there are bottles that have Western written on the side, but R White’s on the bottom and R White’s bottlestoppers. So that doesn’t quite make sense, as R White’s was a rival to Western & Wolland. I have yet to find more details of Western than this.
The lipstick is pink and there is still some left in there, kind of soggy.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
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Date: 2026-05-31 10:37 pm (UTC)