Treasures in a Bottle Dump - Searching for history with Nicola White
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Last year in between lockdowns I met up with Si-Finds and some other mudlarking friends to go to a large bottle dump. The place is very large, and I ended up wandering off on my own - as did everyone else really! When I found my way back to the group, it had just started to rain and so I didn't get a chance to find out what everyone else found - so this video is really just me, bimbling around in a dump, searching for treasure. When I say treasure, I really mean old bottles and broken fragments that I can attach some history too. So, you can see what I found here and find out a little more about what I found! Thank you for watching.
If you'd like to see what everyone else found then go and check out Simon's video which he made a few months ago of the same outing!
• RARE OLD RELICS found ...
If you would like to treat me to a virtual cup of early grey tea then my kofi site where you can do just that is here:-
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Thanks for watching! Comments and feedback always welcome.
See you soon, Nicola xx
Thank you, Nicola, we really enjoyed watching that. Oh to be in a rubbish dump again, lol. Love the arms - they are so elegant - would love to cast them! The photos at the end was a lovely touch too. Take care, Gail & Alex xx
Thank you Gail and Alex! I can send you the arms if you would like them xx
@@nicolawhitemudlark That would be wonderful! Will message you xx
I remember my mom using Rinso!!! Yep! I'm 76!!!
Wow! :) such a great name for a washing powder! x
I grew up in an old fashioned grocery and provisions shop. Remember we sold Rinso.
Also me. Hahaha
Just stopping by to let you know how much I enjoyed Treasures In Lockdown and watching you bimbling about the bottle dump. To the young mudlarks, seeing you takes me back to my childhood rockhunting, and finding fossils on a fishing trip. I took a few to a rock shop and the shop owners were ecstatic. Unfortunately the fossils are long gone because my parents moved; they'd been stored in our basement.
It was delightful to see your excitement and sweetness as you showed off your finds!
Thank you Nicola for coming up with the idea and giving them the opportunity to share their moments of history hunting with us!
Take care- love and respect from Montana!
P.S.- I love the postcards and old adverts too. Thinking about the people in the photos chokes me up.. thank you for sharing those moments with us too.
Thank you 💓
A very old neighbour once said to me that you know your old when the youngsters collect what you once threw away....
That's a lovely find, the doll head. She's more valuable with eyes and a place for a wig. She could be fixed up quite nice💗💖🌺💓🐝
Nicola, it is so nice to see all of your wonderful finds. We're binge watching today, as both my hubby and I are ill and tested positive for covid. So, it is best to just chill in front of UA-cam and watch our favorite people. Wishing you all of the very best. Stay well!
Hi Karen, so sorry to hear you're not well! I hope you recover very soon. Sending love from here in London
My mother used to say she taught me to read using letters she cut from her Rinso boxes. Love your videos Nicola.
Yes i remember rinso.i can just see my mum in our back yard using the old dolly tub and mangle gosh they worked so hard then and she did a full time job in a factory.thanks mum.i loved the old gin bottle when you found it i was partaking of a small !!!gordens and tonic how apt.but with these days of recycling i doubt my bottle will find its way into someones collection in the future. Thanks for all the information you give us on your finds its fascinating.
Thank you! ❤️
Hi Nicola love your videos mostly the way you find something from history and bring it alive with the way you research a item, well keep it up what s great place you live near the Thames, can not wait to see next video all the best Dave
Thank you Dave
My heart is always touched when I see old photos! I find myself wondering who they were and how they spent their lives. It’s so heartbreaking to know they are missing pieces to a family history. I recently was given a copy of a portrait of my great grandfather who had built a little chest I’ve had handed down to me. It’s like finding a missing puzzle piece. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! I only wish there were some names on these photos that I could find the relatives! x
@@nicolawhitemudlark Oh me too, I absolutely LOVE THE PHOTOS and imagining their stories, wanting to know more ❤ Thank you for sharing them ❤ Much love from Oz
Great outing!! The pottery piece at 15:09 reminds me of the Northern Mudlarks two "shmoose" birds!!!
I learned a new word! Bimble -- to walk or travel at a leisurely pace.
Bimble,I like it.
Hope you and the mud larkers near you are keeping safe and well.A Eucylptus tree blew over last night on our street.Thankfully,neatly into the neigbours garden along the fence line.Our area had been a brick works and dump so it may pull up some treasure.Stay safe and thank-you to all of you.
It's 2023 now and I enjoyed your videos of Mudlarking in England. I used Rinso laundry soap when I was young and a newlywed. In each box of soap you got a bath towel, hand towel or wash cloth. Can't wait to see more videos 😍.
the photos, whoever they are of, are very nice. thanks for including them.
Thanks. Yes, theyre lovely aren't they!
It’s a cold, snowy Sunday morning here in Canada so I as so happy to see a new blog from you while I “hibernate”. Some people on Curiosity Inc’s UA-cam page were just discussing how much we love your page.
Hi Cyndi. Thank you - and I think that hibernating right now is a very good idea! Ooh thanks for letting me know about curiosity inc. Im going to go and have a look at their channel! xx
I watch Curiosity Inc. too...lovely family....exciting Estate finds for his eclectic shop...
I went to his shop but it wasn’t opened and then covid happened so we haven’t travelled out of province in over a year.
Hiya! Me too - I’ve been watching their auction . What a great result - I’m so pleased for them after so much hard work. Love Hans too!
I like Curiosity Incorporated too, especially when they are doing horder house clean outs! They always uncover cool stuff. I like the Bargain Barons as well!
What a Beautiful Gorgeous Purple Flower with the butterfly 🦋 on it !!! You found some nice little bottles, the skinny arm & hand, pipe bowls & doll's face !!! I really liked the black & white pictures at the end of your video !!! I have some black & white pictures of my mom's when she was growing up. Take care Nicola !!! ❤️🙂
As always I enjoy spending part of my Sunday afternoon with you. Thanks Nicola.
Thanks for coming along James x
Greetings from rainy Oregon! Glad you kept the pot with the man on it. That was my favorite find. I was thinking it might be the bottom half of a humidor for loose pipe tobacco. Take care and stay well! ❤️
Yes! She didn’t mention it in roundup, I was waiting 😍🤗
Thanks Karen. x
Me too what is it??
I loved Galloway cough mixture when I was a kid.it had a lovely taste and warmed your throat.I used to keep taking a swig when my dad wasn’t looking 😀I loved it
Really!? ha ha. Well it's true then! Children loved it! x
@@nicolawhitemudlark I certainly did I used to drink it a my sister and brother got the blame 😂😂😂
Did it have alcohol in it could be why you liked it. Lol
@@shelleyharris4176 Galloway s cough mixture a slippery slope,I was ok I didn’t need rehab though 😂😂🤣
i love the sheer randomness of the things you can find in these bottle dumps: coins, dolls heads, hunting cups. it's a great 'watch' ! thanks Nic & Anna. from snowy Canada
Really Nicola are you kidding, we could spot a pipe a mile away by now, I loved the the little sad face on the porcelain doll, so mysterious. Thanks Nic, awesome as always. 🇨🇦🐘🍁🤗
Thanks Marion. Yes, you're right actually it is a rather sad little face. And well, the pipe - Im glad you're getting your eye in! x
Re-watching your older vids and really enjoying them. You have a way of doing them so well, and I ESPECIALLY LOVED those beautiful old photos... Memories of days gone by, so special, filled with love. And now immortalized by you. Thank you Nicola. A blessed Christmas and peaceful, fun 2024. Off to watch more! Much love Teresa xx ❤🇦🇺
Goodness me, it's hard to imagine that that entire area is rubbish dump! Imagine all the treasures in there!!! Very lovely to see you care about the poor hornet, hope it went back to sleep. The box of photos is a fab gift and like you say gives a deeper insight into what some of the people looked like, who drank things essence of cinnamon and mixed up fruit salts :) Stay safe Nicola
I noticed a burnt log & no rotting shoes, or clothes, im assuming they piled the trash on the ground then, set it on fire, for many yrs
Oh yes, and I should add the Somerset equivalent of 'bimbling' is 'fertling', as in 'I had a couple of hours to spare, so I went fertling around the bottle dump'. What a wonderful thing our language and its dialects is.
Oh I love that. Fertling! I will use that next time x
@@nicolawhitemudlark In West Sussex Fergling...I've heard Bimbling used in East Sussex (Brighton) too!
"Ferking" is what my grandmother called it. Don't know if it's used in Britain or just Newfoundland!
So glad you kept the dalton jug!! All of the treasures are beautiful!! Thank You. Stay safe n well
Thanks Helen x
Perfect timing -- we've been getting snow all day today -- and expected through tomorrow -- so *GREEN* and *BUTTERFLIES* are very welcome!!! Great to see your finds and fun times with Bottle Buddies. I do miss the days (before my time -- for the most part!) of product names that sound silly today, but had some relation to the purpose or use of the product -- like "Rinso." Stay safe and healthy!!!
Well Nicola I’ve gone and done it!!! Tested positive for Covid on Friday so I am in quarantine trying to take care so these symptoms don’t get any worse!! I’ve been SO careful and especially so since my surgery in Dec. so I have no idea how I managed to pick it up. Thankful to have another superb video from my friend I haven’t met yet to entertain me. Loved seeing the photos after the finds. I could almost imagine who might have used the perfume bottle and who might have smoked one of those pipes.
Continue to stay safe my friend!! Love, DeeAnn 🇺🇸
DeeAnn, Oh sorry to read of your positive Covid test. Please know others are sending healing thoughts your way & be well soon!
The abounding treasures of other's junk! Pure bliss. Thank you! I love going along with you on these outings
Thanks Helen x
I love your intros always show beautiful wildlife and scenery that butterfly on the gorgeous flower was amazing and love when you and friends visit bottle dumps so amazes me the treasures you find very enjoyable again
Thank you! ❤️
Great wildlife and music and finds and clean up and research, Lovely Nicole! I remember when I was a wee one, there was Rinso Blue, wash blue. The same company and I think these products last longer in rural areas as opposed to cities. These old items and old photos I've always Loved. My Grandfather sold $10 worth of Larkins soap and received a camera, tripod and all the things needed to develop your own photos. He was 12 at the time so this would have been 1904. I have the camera and many of his photos. When we find these old things, old photos, news papers, pottery and bottles, it reminds us that life should be taken in, every minuet. All those lives gone before us and we wonder how they lived, what they thought and their joys and worries. In actually, I believe they were the same as ours are today. Perhaps they didn't worry about fixing their auto or TVs but nevertheless the same as we are today. As long as I can remember, I be in the midst of a wonderful time with friends or family or exploring Nature and realizing how golden this moment is. I look back on times with Grandparents and Family, Friends, Pets and those passed and feel blessed and privileged to have had these experiences. Seize the day, the hour the moment, because they go so quickly. Just when you talked about 100 years from now and what will the Larkers find,it was my thought just before you mentioned it. Plastics and more. But I suppose people will be wondering just as we do today about how we lived and our feelings and families. I think of all those many lives that that dump represents,all the many years and stories buried there. All their lives as important and as significant as ours seem to be now. So love each second with the Joy of Spirits that we are. Love, Light, Peace, Joy and Kind Thanks Nicole! DaveyJO in Pa.
You truly ARE the clay pipe whisperer!!
I have often thought of what explorers in the future would think of all our plastic and what they would interpret is our rubbish story.
A bit vintage, but I would love to see us use more glass again. Love the history!
Thank you fir the video. Always enjoy the nature scenes and music.
Zubes! I remember they used to make throat lozenges and they were on sale in the 1960's. They were even advertised on TV and the ad went something like 'Zubes Good For The Tubes'
Hi NICOL Another great video. I must be getting old. I can remember Rinso and Tide and I have taken Galloways cough linctus. It did work. So nice to see Anna about again. Keep up your great vids.They help to keep me sane in these difficult times. Much love to you and yours. Stay safe.
That was great Nicola, thank you! A bimble about with you and the rest of the bottle dump gang is the perfect start to the week! I love seeing the old photographs! It reminded me of the tv drama ‘Shooting The Past’ by Stephen Poliakoff. Beautiful photos that tell amazing stories. Well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it! Please enjoy an Earl Grey on me, it will be served in an exquisite Victorian tea cup ! ☕️🫖 Have a great week xx
Thank you Rachel xx
Just at the moment you mentioned about finding our current trash compared to what you were digging up, I was thinking that exact thing. While I’ll never find your glorious bottles, coins or clay pipes, I do think about the plastics that will be our history. Thank you, dear heart, for sharing your lovely life’s hobby/job/art with those of us who just wish we could. Take care. ❤️
Hi Nicola,
I remember "Rinso when I was at school in the fifties, in the Uk there was also another soap powder called "OMO"" which I remember as we had a kitten delivered to us in an Omo carton so it was of course called Omo .At that time Persil was by far the most popular .Washing product We emigrated to Canada in 1967 then about 2 years ago Persil in liquid form emerged on to the Canadian Market much to my wife's Joy Somethings we still get from England and my wife thinks they are far better than anything Canadian or god for bid American. Consequently our shelves carry Bird's custard,.Rose's lime marmalade Carrs water biscuits, Marmite ,Oxo cubes ,Bovril Cadbury's chocolate bars Twinings tea and we are just finishing up a tin of Quality Street but the Terry's cholate oranges are long gone but I'm seeing a lot of genuine English' Cheses and I do have some Stilton left and a part jar of Haywards pickled onions .My life would be complete if I could buy a genuine Cornish Pasty.Anothergerat vlog Nicola ,thanks so much. .Stay safe stay warm Cheers from Canada XOXO
You are so lucky that you have so many places to go treasure hunting. I used to go to flea markets and sales for my treasures but haven’t been able to go for over a year now, at least I can enjoy your finds.
Rinso was still being used in NZ in the late 50s. I remember it well as a child. Thanks for another interesting vid. Keep safe.
Your video was just what we needed, a moment of peace and escape, thank you Nicola ! Take care, Josie and Andy 😃
Hi Josie and Andy! So glad you enjoyed it ❤️
Flutterbys! What a lovely surprise start to the video, So beautiful and colourful. Nature is so inspiring and uplifting 💖 Pretty bead too! I'd love to see all the beads you have found.
A history of London, from "The Stone Age" to "The Plastic Age".
Planting Cress in the dolls head (green hair), what a great idea :-)
The quote is probably from King Gamma's song in "Princess Ida" "Oh don't the days seem limp and long / when everything's right and nothing goes wrong / and aren't the days extremely flat / when I've nothing whatever to grumble at!"
Wow! Great job!
@ericalbany yes! A Gilbert & Sullivan operetta which makes fun of people who are too fond of everything "aesthetic" as in Aestheticism, the artistic movement which became popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Everyone needs to bimble!
Wow Nicola! You had some great finds on this trip to the dump! Excellent video. Thank you!
Thanks Julianne x
I stumbled on your channel (and Si-find’s) quite by accident and absolutely adore your channel. Thank you for sharing all of you adventures.
Thank you Vicki. Welcome. I'm glad you found us ❤️
I'm pleased to see you use the word 'bimbling' too! I use it all the time and everyone always gives me funny looks!
Hunting jug and hotel bottle are great Nicola 👍🍻
I really love that you show us the wildlife about ! The gray necked young trumpeter swans were absolutely beautifu l! And the very first butterfly was breath taking, oh spring cannot get here soon enough !!! Thank you that your videos have made lockdown easier. Anna's tiny treasure dolls were crazy cute. Pockadot pipe, the delicate hand, -THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING ! - celebrated cough syrup, even the sad face doll piece you found brought me back to being small and falling in love w a doll with a pecular face, remenbered the feeling, like this doll needs me. wow thanks Nic, you made my day ! lol !
27,000 followers.... that’s big time.. so happy for you.... love the pipes and bits...so happy for you truly... jam
Wow never knew that about the soap powders but I sure remember rinso being used in the 60z in New Zealand so it continued to be used there. Thank you great finds and video xx
Rinso was still being used up to the 70s, in NZ, I believe. I remember my mum using it in our twin tub washing machine when I was little!
Hi Nicola. What fun today! You take my stress away. If I lived closer I would be out there with you! ☺️😎💕
Great vid Nic! Can’t wait to go back to the wonderful dump! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Me too!! It must be almost empty by now :) We need a new one x
Beautiful images, Nic!
so de-stressing to watch.
Thank you so much for the exciting video
- love from Denmark 🌸💕
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it x
I really enjoyed this Nicola. I liked the old photographs at the end of the video. Really nice thank you!
Thank you Adam! So glad you enjoyed it. Im looking forward to seeing your next vid
@@nicolawhitemudlark Thanks Nicola
Adam, you are certainly correct. Nicola's photograph montage (with music) was a superb way to close & a great way to honor/display/use photographs! An excellent observation Adam🙂
Nicola, I don’t know how you do it but at least for me your digging around in the mud for your wonderful finds are so relaxing and peaceful for me 😌 the videos of the wildlife and scenery you include are beautiful along with your music. Thank you for the tranquil journey ❤️
Thank you Lisa Im so glad you enjoy the experience. xx
Thanks Nicola. I so look forward to the Sunday Larking. Take care. 💜
Thanks Annette x
the more I watch , I am convinced you are part womble.
"Making good use of the things that we find , things that the everyday folks leave behind"
Nicola you will laugh...went bottle digging with a pal....socially distant until I got stuck and she had to shove my bum from behind to assist me lol! Never go alone....you never know when you need help xxx much love
Love the stories behind the finds keep em coming always live Sunday evening with your treasures love from Cape Town
Thank you Margi x
Oh my it has been years since I’ve heard the word bimble. Looks like a great place to explore.
I really enjoyed watching this video, the old photos were fantastic ❤ Thanks for sharing them with us 😊
Totally enjoyed watching you lark around, digging in the dirt. Your coming up on 100k subs really soon!
This video is literally the stuff of my dreams! The jugs are fabulous!
Thanks Jane! so glad you enjoyed. It was a lot of fun x
‘Rinso the dirt dispeller’ sounds like a Victorian superhero!
ha ha you're right there! That's funny :) x
😂😂😂😂love it.Haven't heard it described like that in advertising
We once had Rinso in the USA also, I believe 50s 60s era. Me being 73, I can remember. It could have been used even earlier. Loved the finds, it never gets boring. Thank you, and all the gang for the video.
Another uplifting video. Cheers from California.... sending Good Vibes to my friends across the pond .
Thank you Richard! x
Ditto from Canada 🍁
Very nice vedio thks fr nova scotia
love the old bottle dumps .some great history under the soil
Well, that takes me back
A few decades...
Kind of like when Kyle mentioned ponitles
A day or to ago...
But what, no Lea & Perrins
We found cases of those with the little glass Stoppers only outnumbered by 3 in 1 oils.
Another relaxing Sunday thanks Nikola.
Awesome video and finds and I love the history lessons. I got all hooafteed all over again Nicola 👍❤️
ha ha, getting hooafteed is very good Mr Chipps. x
Nice finds. I love all those bottles and shards of pottery and PIPES!!!
It's a dream of my to get over there and dig in a bottle dump some day lol. I love all of the old history and such. I also really want to go mudlarking.
Galloways cough mixture was always my first choice, the children loved the taste, but sadly no longer made, would love to have found this as a reminder of
times gone by. Keep up the great work, in this time many peoples only access to the out doors is by you and people like you, sharing. thanks again
That bit of video where you captured the swans swimming and the blue sky reflected on the surface of the water was breathtaking.
What fun!! All my favorite Brits and a bunch of old stuff to hunt thru❤❤
So many things to find in the huge bottle dump Nicola! I would have been disappointed if there was no pipe find. I remember my Mum using Rinso washing powder. We had Rinso in Australia until the 70's. I love the word bimbling. 😁❤
Great video as usual, so love your nature shots and music montages, and I still haven't been able to find the clay pipe when asked, some day, lol.
Enjoyed this very much. Hope you’re doing good in lockdown once again. I luv the history of your finds and found the Rinso and Tide informative. I’m a soap maker so hearing some interesting facts on the subject of soap is always of interest. Plus my mother was an avid soap opera watcher, which of course had me watching along with her. Brings you back to Madge and Palmolive 😀 luv from Canada 🇨🇦
The jug with the Gilbert verse on it was made in the Devon (Torquay) potteries, probably around c1900, and I would guess from the colour of the glaze, possibly from the Aller Vale factory. The mottoes are often misquotes (I suspect they were inscribed from memory), and sometimes featured bucolic phrases and puns - they were the sort of thing you bought at the seaside for a few pence and took home as a present for your nan, usually bearing phrases such as 'A present from Minehead' or the like.. I love this stuff, and have quite a large collection of pieces, dating from about 1880-1954.
Thanks Vince! If you'd like this broken piece let me know!!
Vince R., Thank you for sharing your expertise on the "Gilbert" vase. I must admit, I never was a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan but for some reason that base intrigued me.... Now I have a better understanding why; thank you again for sharing your knowledge. I imagine your collection of pottery is quite colorful, beautiful & interesting! Well wishes from the US.
"Torquay Ware"
That butterfly is absolutely breathtaking
Aren't they beautiful xx
Another great adventure added to the playlist.
One on frog, especially in this corona period.
It is wild to me what people threw out long ago that we look at differently today. Great video.
So happy to watch you on this cold winter’s day here in up state New York! Your almost at 100,000 subscribers! Your UA-cam award is going to look great in your studio! Thanks for sharing your wonderful adventures with us during these strange times. Watching your vlog during lock down has really made it a bit easier for me to stay somewhat sane! Stay safe wear a mask and Lark On!!!
Thank you! That will be so amazing reaching 100k. I never ever would have imagined that happening at all!! So glad you enjoy the videos. x
Great finds Nicola! Thanks for sharing another adventure 🙆
This video put a smile on my face, as usual!
Oh good Verna. Im so pleased! x
I love when all you guys are together.
Hi Nicola, that was fun to watch. Never knowing what would turn up next in the bottle dump. I love the ladies arms. So cool now you have two. Thanks for all the amazing history stories. The soap opera one , I never heard about before. Rinse is today Tide. The old photos were a nice touch at the end. Take care, Joyce. ARROW *🎱. ❤️. 🇺🇸. 🙋♀️
Oh how I’d love to go to that dump (River). It looks like it’s filled with treasure! Loved the old photographs. Stay safe. 🦋
I remember the Rinso. My mom used it!
18:21 I have a friend that owns a pipe shop and he told me that the type of clay pipe you found was used in the pubs back in the day. It started off with a long stem (nearly a foot) and the bartender would give it to the person who smoked a bowl, then after each smoke they would break off a small length of the stem, once it got down to the size you found they would toss it out.
Thank you Randall!
Was the tip re-dipped in red wax as well, to stop the pipestem sticking to their lips? Most pipes clogged up after only one use, so it must have been quite wide. Fascinating history.
@@nicolawhitemudlark I shared your video that has the link to the clay pipe research society with him. He is very interested. Thanks for sharing your videos. They are a genuinely uplifting side of UA-cam.
I'm obviously not sure what your background is Nicola, but you would be an outstanding TV presenter, doing Time Team/Historical type programmes. You are so interesting and your voice is beautiful. x
Thank you! x
lovely day larking in the dump! i would love to go there thank you for taking us with you!!
I really wish you loved stoneware more, I love it. Thank you for the interesting larks.
Great adventure and treasure hunt Nicola, thank you for sharing with us. The follow-up is always a treat as well.
Gosh! I remember my mother using Rinso! I must be old.😉 I think that you must be an old soul, Nicola, to appreciate these items from the past. That’s a good thing.
Anna spoke of her bottle garden. I'd love to see how bottles and finds are used to decorate gardens.
I shall have to ask Anna if she can share some photos of her bottle garden!
Another great video Nicola. So relaxing and calming during this lockdown (and isolation) period. Looking forward to getting out and exploring London soon.
Thank you x
Lovely opening
Thank you Rachel! X
Wow, very cool place to explore and uncover treasures. Loved the photos as well!!
Thank you. Yes, I love those photos. In fact I love hard copy photos full stop. It's a shame all our pics are mostly on computers now. x
Brilliant as usual Nicola. So interesting. Nearing the 100K mark, Whoo Hoo!!! x
A fun video Nicola. Thank you. Consider having the two hands made into earrings. They would certainly be unique.
Hello All, loved it! Watching from Douglas, Arizona!
Such great finds. I would have snagged that clay bottle you put up on the log....that was nice. Wonderful to hear some history behind the bottles and such. The Rinso board must be the end of a box....I think it is fine. There must be tons of some awesome finds buried in the mother earth time capsule.