Mudlarking 44
Sep. 15th, 2025 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaI had not intended to go mudlarking, as it was Open House weekend. So many places to see! A packed itinerary with boats, sea shanties, kinetic sculptures and Internet infrastructure. But I popped down to the foreshore briefly twice, at Alderman Stairs and New Crane Stairs, as they were near to the Hermitage Community Moorings, which I visited.
I liked the small silver plaques at the moorings which talked about the waves and the river, and how Wapping was like an island.
Alderman Stairs gave me one piece of Metropolitan Slipware. I was slightly disappointed I hadn’t found any last time I went mudlarking, but this piece was sat right next to the stairs, waiting for me.
At New Crane Stairs in Wapping, the tide was coming in, and as I stepped down from the boulder onto the beach, a woman told me that she wasn’t going for a swim today. I laughed.
I picked up just two sherds this time. I liked the green bubbly pattern.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
I liked the small silver plaques at the moorings which talked about the waves and the river, and how Wapping was like an island.
Alderman Stairs gave me one piece of Metropolitan Slipware. I was slightly disappointed I hadn’t found any last time I went mudlarking, but this piece was sat right next to the stairs, waiting for me.
At New Crane Stairs in Wapping, the tide was coming in, and as I stepped down from the boulder onto the beach, a woman told me that she wasn’t going for a swim today. I laughed.
I picked up just two sherds this time. I liked the green bubbly pattern.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
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Date: 2025-09-15 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-15 07:56 pm (UTC)I am slacking at Open House this year as I have a big Ingress event next weekend, and nowhere seemed quite exciting enough to miss it, although I was considering doing so.