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Extraordinary tales from the riverbank

Uxbridge Gazette

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April 23, 2025

A NEW mudlarking exhibition featuring historical objects found in the River Thames is opening in London.

- By LYNN RUSK

Extraordinary tales from the riverbank

London Museum Docklands will showcase Secrets Of The Thames: Mudlarking London's Lost Treasures, featuring rare items such as a Tudor headdress and a Viking era dagger.

The exhibition which opened on Friday, April 4, explores finds from the Thames foreshore and the role of mudlarks in uncovering thousands of years of human history.

Mudlarking, which was historically a trade of the Victorian poor, has in recent years become a popular hobby among history lovers.

Marie-Louise Plum, a mudlarking enthusiast, told the PA news agency: "The Thames is a really liminal zone where the past and the present meet, you get this convergence of different periods of time and place.

"The exhibition draws together over 50 years of mudlarking.

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