I mudlarked a secret beach and it was a dream come true for me! (Only some of you will know why!)
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2023
- I recently visited a secret location abroad and what I found there was really a dream come true for me. I could hardly believe it actually. Those of you that know me and my videos well may know why! These pieces are very hard to come by! April 2023 my mud buddy @Sifinds went to visit mudlark Aad from the channel @MudBagger406406406 . Aad took us to a wonderful place absolutely chock full of history. We spent several happy hours there searching the shoreline and it was a particularly low tide. I found some wonderful fragments of history and left feeling very inspired!
Thank you very much to Aad for sharing this special place with us. I can't wait to go back.
Do check out Aad's channel. You will love it!
Thank you for watching. And, do comment below to let me know what you think!
See you soon
Nicola
Looks like a drawer pull for a piece of furniture, it’s beautiful ❤
Your fish Is stunning Nicola. The colours are gorgeous.
Thank you so much for talking about mental health and "normalizing" it. As a psychiatric nurse I realize stigma is just as harmful as the diseases themselves. I love your videos and your positivity!
Thanks Monica xx
As a person who does have Mental Health worries I am grateful to those who talk about it and bring it to the forefront. Thank you ❤❤❤
Mud bagger
You’re AWESOME Nicola.
My first thought about your ash tray was that it was a small drawer pull off of a desk. So instead of the hole facing up like a cup it would be facing down.
You are an ARTIST 👩🎨 YOUR BEAUTIFUL GLASS FISH IS SO BEAUTIFUL ! Amazing how beautiful objects can be created from discarded items ,broken glass and pottery ❤🙀👵🏻😱🖖🏼👽🐲🌵ARIZONA,USA🇺🇸
Another enjoyable and worthwhile outing with you, Nicola, Simon, and Aad. Ruby the Fish is certainly lovely. Thanks, too, for your recognition and support of mental health issues, including anxiety. You provide untold help for folks!
Thx Steve ❤
Ditto to all of that!
Lovely to see Avocets making their comeback. Such elegant birds.
They're American Avocet. Must be footage from an American trip!
Very observant! :)
And a curlew !
It always reduces my anxiety to watch your videos. Thank you!
The internet is so full of turmoil that your vids are helping me stay sane.
I’m fed up to my ears with drama vision, UA-cam only for me!❤
Having done some time as a production engineer, it does my heart good to see "Thames" fish going back into production!
The amber glass insulator may have a radio application: not just from the material but also because the diameter of the rings changes. I won't comment on the precise location where this might have been made, but there is a story involving secrets and a factory where it might or might not have come from:
Ashe Lincoln, a barrister and also a commander in the RNVR, spent most of WWII variously defusing German and Japanese secret weapons in order to study them and devise counter-measures, or picking up enough widely-scattered bits of secret weapons for the same purpose. He got through the whole war without being widely-scattered himself.
His memoir "Secret Naval Investigator" describes his efforts to reverse engineer what turned out to be an acoustic homing torpedo. This had electronic rather than electro-mechancial parts including amplifiers and filters made using "valves" (Vacuum-tubes if you are American.) He eventually collected enough bits to make a whole one, but he needed the right make and model of (intact and working!) valves to make his replica guidance system work well enough to know how to jam it. Obviously, they weren't British or American valves -and they weren't German, either! They were made by a factory in the Low Countries, forced to produce high-tech parts for the occupiers. Commander Lincoln sent MI6 a messages saying that he'd done all he could, without the specific valves. A few nights later, two RAF officers knocked on his door, put him in their car and drove him to a hotel room somewhere in North London, without telling him where he was and who he was to meet. A pleasant, older man with a "low countries" accent entered the room and shook his hand. This was the managing director of the factory making high-tech electronic components for German secret weapons, who made a list of the valves that Commander Lincoln needed. Then the RAF officers hustled the Managing Director away so they could return him to his factory in occupied Europe before anyone knew he had gone anywhere. A week later a courier delivered a small suitcase, containing all the valves and other components that Commander Lincoln wanted, allowing him to work out what part of a ship's complex noise signature the torpedoes homed on. A "screamer" box was mass produced and fitted to many ships, not all of which were sensibly used but when they were, they substantially reduced the risk of being sunk.
Wow, what an incredible account! Thank you for sharing the information - I certainly intend to follow it up!
Thanks I’ll be reading this
This was incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing. I love history.
Great story! I’ll find that book.
Thankyou & Cheers!
Thank you Matthew! xx
Hi Nicola, one of the coins you found is an old Belgian 5 Francs coin. As a kid I loved these coins cause you could get a big bubble gum out of a gum-turning-machine. The smaller bubble gums only costed 1 Franc.
You can buy non-safety matches here ( USA) but you have to look for ,” strike anywhere” matches. Hardware stores have them.
The little “ashtray” item reminds me of some drawer pulls I have seen. The open part faces down. So nice to meet Aad. You have the best friends. I’m still hoping Merril and Adele can make it. Thanks!
Yes I thought Drawer pull for sure.
The little 'ashtray' looks very much like a draw pull to me also. I have also seen them on double hung sash windows as a means of lifting the lower sash.
Oh I love love love it when you and Si are together!! Brings me so much happiness❤❤❤❤❤
Super duper trip! Can't wait to go back soon! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Me too!!
Glass fish looks great Nicola , I’d serve it with glazed vegetables 😬🍻
Haha 😂 fish 🐟
I love watching Aud the Mudbagger! I helped him grow his followers when he had less than 1,000 subscribers.......and he's great fun. Because of his luck at finding marbles, he and I use "marbelous!" as a real word!!!!
fantastic!
Nicola 💥💥💥💥 love all ur MudLarking🔥🔥🔥 great to have Sci along toooooo!!!!!! Cheers from Mississippi ✌️✌️🇬🇧🇺🇸
That fish is gorgeous, well done, the eye with the round piece of glass is perfect. Thank you for highlighting mental health, as a mother with two sons who suffer with anxiety and OCD, I know how hard it can be. 😊
Take care of yourself Debbie - I know that it can be a challenging issue, but the more that we talk about it, the more awareness there will be.
@@chrisberry9017 thank you Chris, oh boy is it challenging for sure! Especially when they're now young adults themselves and I am limited to the help I can give them when they don't want intervention, but I do what I can and will always be there for them. I hope anyone else reading this who also has someone in their lives who suffer mental health issues but are older and refuse help, Please remember that if all you can do is be there for them, and that that is all you can do, then you are doing your best, even if it doesn't seem like enough. 🙂
@@debbiedonnellan6571 Hello Again my friend. Please don’t see this as telling you what to do, I can only speak from my own experience, but what I have found, and it’s taken a long time to realise it, is that you need to look after yourself first. It’s counterintuitive, and sounds selfish, but it’s not. Be kind to yourself, and you’ll be in a stronger position to give help to others. I’ve found all sorts of material on UA-cam that has helped considerably, especially when trying to relax and sleep. The answer really is within. I do wish you well. X
@@chrisberry9017 thank you Chris and I can't agree with you more, you are totally right and I live by that rule and yes I do have to tell myself every day that I am not being selfish and that I must live my life for myself. I have done everything I could to help my son's while they were children but now that they are adults I can only be there for them if and when they want me too. I think you and me realize this Chris and it's not selfish to live your own life for yourself when you've done all you can while they grew up. I hope more people read this and that it helps them to know that it's ok to put themselves first.🙂
I would love one of your fish to put on my wall in my PLAICE Nicola. 🏴. Iain , Yorkshire.Thanks for your brilliant videos. I suffer with mental health issues ,I have done since a young boy. Your videos always help.x
How kind of Ard to show you his special beach - you found so many unusual and interesting things, especially the red fish face, that made the most stunning fish. Really loved this video and all its treasures ❤️
I have a lady bug like yours, Mr Si-- pass this along please Ms Nicola.. it's adhered to a small piece of paper.. it was in a box of a hodge podge of craft supplies i bought at a yard sale. 😃 thanks for taking us along- i live vicariously through you and others!!
here's a 👍 for all the other comments!! 💝
WOW, that Ruby fish is absolutely Beautiful Gorgeous !!! You are very talented Nicola !!! I love your videos & watching you find treasure at the water's edge !!! ❤️🙂
The half round dome thing seems to be a drawer pull and the pinkish glass thing looks like an insulator.
Hello from the USA.
I am continually amazed at the shear volume of items laying about on the river Thames as well as various other shores. The value of some of them take my breath away.
The unbelievable length of history these places have seen and collected is astounding as is the realization that even if all the items laying on the surface were collected the very next tide or storm surge would bring even more to light!
I don’t think you could ever run out of things to find.
It’s a wonderful travel investment to purchase a permit from the Port Authority there and fly over to mudlark the Thames. I was giddy as a schoolgirl at the layers of history.
The sheer volume of things lying around on the foreshore? I agree there are so many treasures.
@@Michelle-tk9jq what a wonderful way to bring back memories of a trip to London. Imagine finding a coin that is hundreds of years old… of even a piece of old pottery. 🥰💕❤️👍👍
Hello from Pennsylvania USA, I enjoy your videos and have been viewing for years now. I absolutely love that you see the beauty in the imperfect and incomplete! It touches my soul. I think the metal shell like item could be a drawer pull turned upside down. I have seen something similar on a youtuber channel that refinishes furniture, (Transcend Furniture). Either way it's cool. I would love one of your fish, you are so talented to see what's hidden in lost objects! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Thank you Again for everything you have shared. It’s such a precious time to see all of the great finds and people who share their time with us. Stay safe and go “ fishing”. Love Ruby. 🌹🌹🌹
It’s so good to see you! When you found your “ashtray,” I thought it might be a small drawer pull. Is it too small for it to be a pull? It’s beautiful, regardless. Wonderful finds and wonderful to see you! Blessings Nicola!❤
Thank you Danella! ❤!
Thought the same thing, perhaps for doll furniture.
I think it’s a drawer pull too. It seems it would be too small for an ashtray.
I am Methodist, we frown upon the veneration of "saints" like Mary, other than just recognizing their place in God's will and the story of Christ. Albeit my mother collects little Greek alabaster statuettes and I got her one of Jesus for Mother's Day. I asked her to keep it in a different spot on the shelf away from Pan the Satyr and the Greek goddesses I'd gotten her before. I may get her a Mary for Christmas. 😆
That first piece of red glass looks like fish fins. Lovely! Enjoy your week! 🙂👍
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Thx Dustin!
Thank you so very much ❤
“A Fish Called Ruby”!
My favorite Michael Palin movie!
Oh,no,that was Wanda.
Nevertheless,I am glad that you are making the time to create more fish.
Be careful,as it seems demand has far outweighed supply!!
I,for one,am determined one day,to catch one of the Mesmerizing clear glass fish.
Like a proper fisherman,patience is the virtue.
Continued Bewellingtoned wellness,Nicola😊
Thanks Charles! ❤ ps it's Wanda isn't it 😅 xx
Ha,no it is in this particular case,Ruby,such a lovely creation,I don’t know how you do it.
Regarding your ‘Dream come true’, pleeeease tell us what that dream is?
Please?😌
Oh, boy, there were so many things that fascinated me this week!
First, the lovely orange glass you found at about 5:58, as you said, is industrial: it is an insulator for electric power lines, and they are collectable over here in the USA. We don't have Roman coins and pottery, but we do have old glass insulators that were used on lines across thousands of miles of prairie, forest, farmland, and desert. When old lines were abandoned, they were typically just left to fall into ruin. You can still find lone poles with cross beams rotting alone in the middle of nowhere.
Second, when you showed us the silver bit that you thought might be a cigarette holder, my first thought was that it may have been the handle to a razor. I recall my father having something similar, which he got in the 1940s or 50s.
There's more, but I'll finish by saying that, truly, one of the things that helps with MY anxiety is watching you and Si. I have several UA-cam creators that I follow, but you two are the ones I most look forward to seeing each time I get a notification. You are good, curious, caring people, who share such fascinating stories, with empathy and considerate connection across centuries, but also between living people. I find that your videos do two seemingly opposed things for me: you provide an escape from the world while simultaneously connecting me to it.
Thanks so much!
Perfectly said! Nicola’s empathy with her finds and the folk they connect to is palpable, and her genuine care for her viewers certainly comes across. A lady who goes the extra mile!
Hi there Nicola, from Bombay, INDIA 🇮🇳👋🏼😃! I love your videos, love watching to see what goodies you chance upon each mudlark. That fish is absolutely gorgeous, wow! Terrific artistic creation 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥰👍🏼 Keep doing more! Thanks for showing us the process… informative and interesting. I’m dying to get down to doing one meself 😉 Cheers n happy mudlarking Nicola🙏🏼❤️
Hi Nicola, where do I start? So I’ll just say everything about this video was marvelous. Wonderful people, wonderful finds, wonderful you. Thank you, Joyce from Connecticut, USA 🇺🇸🙏❤️
Thank you Joyce! ❤
A red fish! He is so handsome and it's fantastic that he's in an unusual color. I adore red.❤
Nic, I love everything about this video,.... but girl..... that FISH!! It is AMAZING! So very beautiful. Thank you for inspiring everyone. xoxo
Thank you! ❤️
That crushed dolls had was creepy as it gets 😂 With that suspected silver piece, I think you're right that it is in fact silver (it's got the familiar look of old silver)!! You have such a keen eye, as I've noticed so many of you Mudlarkers possess!! Another Excellent hunt and video 😃
The background to the little Lourdes medal was utterly fascinating! I very dear friend of my Mum’s was taken out to Lourdes by ‘jumbulance’ when she was very I’ll. she actually died & was buried there - I like to think that it was a very peaceful passing.
Greetings from Oregon dear Nicola . What a stunning red fish. The pieces are so cool- looks like they were made for your artistic touch.
I LOVE the fish! Beautiful! I think your "ashtray " may be a drawer pull. Looking forward to seeing more fish from you. I need another one to keep mine company!
Hi from 🇦🇺 . I'm 66 yrs of age and when I was a child we used to put a ladybug on the palm of our hand and sing ' Ladybug Ladybug fly away, please come back another day ' and it would fly away. Cheers 🦘🐨
I really enjoy watching you after coming home from work. Many UA-cam videos I listen to in the background. Not yours! I put on your videos while lying on the couch with some comfy pillows, put my feet up and focus on what you find all set to the backdrop of the lovely music you provide. Thanks so much for these glimpses and adventures into English history. ❤
Wonderful! ❤
I love Ard too!! Such a gentleman❤
Love the red fish!
I love your fish, Nicola! It's so fun to see all of your finds, and I love the history, but there's something special about your fish. So I'm glad you showed one. It came out beautifully.
Thank you!!
I also think what you thought was an ashtray is probably a drawer pull. Love your videos!
‘Ruby’ your glass fish is absolutely gorgeous. Such a talented lady Nicola 🐟❤
Congratulations on your Marvelous finds, enjoyed this so much the red fish was lovely your so talented . A great time well spent , always love your content . 💛💚🧡🐟
I really enjoy watching your show as it is so interesting and awesome. I watch from Daytona Beach Florida. You have a wonderful new week.
Thx Betty! ❤
I think it could be a holy water container that would be installed on a door frame.
I think your mystery item could definitely be a cinema ashtray or possibly a drawer handle
As soon as I saw it like you, it screamed ashtray in a picture house..
You're right! I forgot about that. Ashtrays in movie theaters and on buses !!! I remember.
I paint stones to look like bugs and then leave them in flower pots wherever I go. Maybe it’s one of mine❤
Hi from the US. I think that silver object may be a ferrule of an artist's paint brush. Love watching your videos. Thanks for taking us along on your adventures.
Enjoyed the video as usual. The ashtray reminded me of a drawer pull- flip it so the open part is facing down. The long silverfish piece reminds me of the metal you see on the end of cording on ceremonial outfits.
Le 2eme objet est, peut être, un bénitier de crucifix ;)
Merci pour les vidéos vraiment superbes 👍🏻
Merci!
Congrats to Michal on winning the beautiful necklace1 Your red fish is delightful, Nicola!
I love the introduction of this video as you show the little lady-bird and right after a pair of stilts and what looks look avocets-wildlife rocks! At 6:05 it looks like a transposition insulator made of carnival glass.
It's great you kept this beech secret, some things in life need to be found and not just given to be truely appreciated 👍
Thank you Nicola and friends for this lovely video awaiting next Sunday for another pleasant moment 🐠🐟🐡🌊
Oh, I just love the little crown and Ruby, the fish. The silver tube looks like the tip of an umbrella to me.☂️
Nicola, Watching you and @Sifinds during 2019 was what helped me through a stress related breakdown. It was a horrible time in my life and for a while I couldn't leave the house. I didn't recognise this shell of a person I had become. By watching the calmness of your videos from the safety of my home I was able to get my head and anxiety in a better place ..I thank you both form the bottom of my heart for being there for me (not that either of you knew it ). much love xx
Hi! I am so glad that the videos helped your anxiety and I hope you are reenergised now. Sending you lots of love
@@nicolawhitemudlark Yes thank you , its a long journey but i think it also taught me a valuable lesson. You cant pour from an empty cup ! Much love back and again my heartfelt thanks xx
I think a lot of those objects hide, hoping you will come along and breathe new life into them….they are all little treasures with story’s to tell and you bring them back to life, thanks for taking me along!🙂
Thank you ❤️
"Tide and time wait for no man". But there are treasures waiting just for you whenever you come their way, imagine, JUST FOR YOU!
The little crown could have been a shoulder-badge. The loop went through a 'button-hole', then a slotted metal disc placed over it, behind, and a form of split-pin went through, to hold it all together - easy to remove for cleaning the clothing, and polishing the crown.
you sure do find gems in a patch that looked like a mess. Good eyes. The red fish is gorgeous. You should hold onto it for yourself. You & Si do make a great working pair. Its a shame Aad got there so late.
It's lovely to see you and Si visiting places outside London. Your red fish is gorgeous Nicola! Sunny greetings from Germany!
Thank you Pirjo! ❤
Drawer shell handle but with à single integrated fixing. Your 2th find
@25:44 Could be the part of a paintbrush that attaches the bristles to the shaft.
My anxiety levels plummet when I watch your channel, I was in awe of the twinkling 6 point stars dancing on the water when you held the amber bottle up to the sun, so beautiful, thank you for sharing
I’m always happy when I see another of your videos pop up on my feed. Love Ruby - she’s very pretty and inventive.
my guess for the "drawer pull" would be a small font from a home offertory catholics have them in their houses usually just inside the door it reminds me very much of my grannies one
Could it be an air release valve from a large tire?
Thank you Nicola. A wonderful lark as always. Take care, you are important.
Thank you ❤️ you take care too.
Beautiful Redfish❤
I referred my granddaughter to your site, hopefully she will watch some of your videos. She suffers from longterm anxiety, ADHD, and has trauma in her life. Thank you for your entertaining and historical videos. I love them.//Oregon USA
Great day out with some special friends and finds. Congratulations to the winner of necklace 🥳🥳 love the red fish the light shining through is amazing. Take care and thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️
You are a historians historian...You get to delve into the emotional aspects of finds and add so much to what normally is not emotional. You make a wonder professor...You make folks want to learn 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it Steve
I LOVE RUBY! THANK YOU FOR TRYING TO HELP OTHERS.
Instead of an ash tray, the little silver vessel could have held holy water for a personal shrine in a private home. Catholic homes often had these in times past.
Wow such a beautiful fish you made out of the glass absolutely gorgeous ❤️👍🗝️ Thanks for sharing 👍❤️♥️👍🗝️
Love all those finds!! Great beach!! I loved that amber bottle you found right in the beginning!!
Lourdes was a huge destination for the Irish especially in the fifties, sixties and seventies. Lots of people looking to be healed. Lots of stories about healings.
This show is so therape❤️utic❤️❤️❤️!
15: 55 - You are, Aad. I am a subscriber from way back. Thank you for the video, Nicola. Nice collaboration.
I think the item that Si thinks is an ashtray is actually wrong way up, and it’s a drawer pull.
I saw a bloke in a wheelchair at Lourdes. He wheeled himself in....and....miracle! He came out with two new dunlop tyres!!!
And thats a true story, coz I made it up myself. X
I think that cup thing is a drawer pull. Love the video as always!
The crown with the loop is a hat badge. The silver item with wood inside is the top of a parasol. LOVE the red fish!
What a tantalizing secret location! Great finds! Every good wish!
The little crown might be a charm for a charm bracelet.
Oohh i can't believe you visited the Netherlands! I hope you enjoyed your time here! ❤ my 5yr old son and I try to find some stuff sometimes cuz we live close to the westerschelde but we still have to find a beach like that! Thanks for your channel! ❤
I still have my Thames red fish that I bought from you a few years ago. It still hangs on my wall and looks fantastic. Thanks!
Oh excellent! 🐟 ❤️
I love watching you discover treasures! I see all the ‘river glass’ you pass up & I want so badly to reach in & grab it! I’ve been collecting sea glass since I moved to Myrtle Beach & would gladly pay for shipping if you’d grab me some! My mom was born & raised in Liverpool & some British river glass would round out my collection!
Keep hunting…love your videos!
I was fascinated to read that you Mum was born and raised in Liverpool - so was I! Born in the maternity hospital in 1956. I moved away forty five years ago, but it’s very much a part of me!
Awesome finds really liked the pocket knife, and religious finds. Beautiful day, glad you let me tag along with you two. Cheers.😊
Your second item Nicola looks like a drawer pull. I can see why Aad wants to keep this location a secret it's a treasure trove from the past
Ruby is beautiful, I am happy that you will be making more glass fish. Wonderful video, I did lousy on spot the finds today but so enjoy that you do them. Lovely of Aad to share his special beach. Congrats to necklace winner.
Nice to know I'm not the only one who is apparently mud blind. 🤣🤣 I always see lots of other things that I want her to look at. 😁😉
@@noraleestone2859 😀 Me too!
WELL ...clear to me you're are in my country. Seeing the Delfs blauw 😂blue. It fun seeing you to at what i call Pancake country. 😊
Love love love Ruby Fisher!!
She is superb Nicola!
Clever girl you are! 🦘🦘xx
The item that may be an ashtray also looks like it could be a drawer pull for a dresser or cabinet
How interesting. Today is my birthday, I was born in 1958, and when my sister first laid eyes on me, she acted like she had seen an apparition. Small world.
happy birthday for Sunday Will! xx
The Lady Bug is A TALISMAN OF LUCK NIK & Si’.. The “ lil decorative maybe brass piece,Looks like a antique ornate dresser drawer or kitchen cupboard PULL /HANDLE..
Awesome video Nik..✨☀️KEEP ON SHINING BRIGHT SISTER! And Si’BROTHER!.Sending positive energy ,blessings and prayers to yinz..As well as all my Brother’s and Sister’s ready this..
“ CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NECKLACE WINNER of the Beautiful CROW NECKLACE!” 🥳🎉
☯️LOVE & LIGHT from Pittsburgh PA.USA ..Blessed be..
(TheGoOdGreEnWiTcH🌎🌊🔥💨)