I found your Si-finds videos through watching Nicola White’s Tideline Art vids, and I’m fascinated with the history of the items you find on the shore of the Thames!! Thank you for sharing all the historical details of things like cloth seals and Roman pottery. You and Nicola are part of my weekly info-tainment fun. Cheers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U. S.
So glad to hear that you do remove trash from the shores! That's not stuff you'll find 100 yrs from now! Good day for you today too! Thank you for taking us along!
i recently discovered a group of people in Namibia who chase down fur seals with large nets, wrestle and then sit on them and remove plastic strapping, fishing line, illegal gill netting, etc which has usually become deeply embedded in the flesh around their necks, always a deep open wound, sometimes cutting all the way to the bone. also very large shark fish hooks piercing tongues, cheeks, etc. the seals have a good chance of recovery without infection in the salt water. Ocean Conservation Namibia. their videos are amazing, they are making a difference and they need our help,
Simon - I just watched you in the feature done by CBS Morning TV here in America! How awesome that you are now an International SUPER STAR. I also so enjoyed you out magnet fishing recently with the OutKast Crew of Peaky Dippers, Rusty Nuts, Dudley Dippers, Sonik and Northants. Congratulations!!!!
I was wondering how much of a loss losing one penny would be in 1915. Did a bit of research and around that time it would buy you a loaf of bread, a pint of milk or a postage stamp. So it's the equivalent of losing around £1 in today's money in case anyone is interested.
Si It's Cathy from Seattle, I have a question for you, I told you I'm almost 75 years old now and I was wondering how much do a pack of cigarettes cost in London ????. They are over $9.00 here in Washington state USA !!!! Love your videos, can hardly wait for your new ones you're the best !!! God bless, love to all. Love it when your buddy Nicola mudlarks with you, you two always make me smile !!!, Cathy from Seattle ...
Hey Si, it's so amazing to see the fabric tags. It really surprises me that they have held up after so many years. They bring history alive. I like the toy dish the best.
A story for you,Si. My first moment,mudlarking,I made my way down the slimiest,greenest steps,so exited to embark on my adventure. I was at the bottom 3 steps,and I slipped and fell on my ass,along with my right shoulder!! I was proudly wearing your Bethlehem 5 spark t shirt,which,to this day,has a mud stain on the right side shoulder blade!! Minutes later,I found my first find,a tiny clay pipe,circa early 1600’s. What a day,I shall never forget it.
Ooh! I know the location of where you made those finds! I won’t tell. It’s right by where I fell on my ass,and subsequently found the 17th century pipe bowl! It still has the precious mud packed in the bowl,I cannot bring myself to extract it.
When I was a wee pup on the farm we still had some old machinery that was driven with canvas belts off of the flywheel of older tractors. That is definitely the metal "lacing" used to join the ends together to make a loop, but I've never seen a belt that wide. Perhaps a belt used to load or off load cargo on ships?
I came here comment the same thing. They are still used in industrial conveyor belts. I have installed many. The way it works is you have the metal loops come in a strip. kind of like long staple. You cut the belt material to length. Slide the "staple" loop in the crimper. Manually crank it and forces the metal loops into the ends of the belt. Install the belt to were the metal loops interlock. Run a metal rod through the continuous hole created by the interlocking loops. Tension the belt and you have a new conveyor belt. I hope that makes sense.
Even though it happens often with Mudlarks on The Thames...I am always thrown over by finding things from the 1600s and older sometimes- it really is remarkable.
That was a bag seal bonanza. Always blows me away with the depth of historical artifacts you find. Thanks for the live this morning. Have a great week!
Hi Si, I went for the first time briefly yesterday as was doing a Wapping old pubs crawl 🍻 Could’ve stayed on the foreshore for ages! Can’t wait to go back. Thanks for your videos 🙏🏻
Congratulations to the winner!! Great finds Simon!! It’s amazing what you keep finding on the Thames. Sure would like to know how they got there though. Fires? Floods? The wars? Possibly a combination of all? Incredible. Stay safe Si !! ❤️❤️
The Thames was used as a dump for trash and sewage for at least 600 years. Raw sewage stopped being piped straight into the Thames around 1878 or so but even last year they had a failure that dumped sewage into the Thames for a couple of days. They are still using a lot of the old Victorain sewage system still to this day which accounts for the problems they are addressing now. As for trash the Thames is subject to tidal flows so items are also moved around.
At 22:15 in the video, the thing with all of the wire loops is one side of a conveyor belt splice. The other side would look the same and to finish the splice you would interlock the loops and slide in the spline that is partially there to finish the connection. Still used today.
Absolutely definitely...after nearly 30 years of fitting these connecting fasteners to rubber / leather conveyor belts I've seen them all and this is definitely correct
I also found your videos through accidentally coming across Nicola's videos. My 9 year old son and I are completely hooked on both now! We live in North Wales and have found a few bits of pottery etc in various places near us. But we're going on our first proper trip to a local river this week to see what we can find. There's an old steelworks by us that opened in the 1700s and closed in the early 1990s, lots of associated buildings and groundwork in surrounding area, a fossil forest too, lots of history so hoping we'll find something interesting.🙂
Such a treat to watch this on my TV today. Im always impressed with the absolute quality content and superb editing of your vidros Si. And.... Congratulations 🎊 on reaching 110,000 subscribers!
I was wondering if it might be a good idea, when you first step foot on the shore, to walk a distance then start searching on your way back. This way, you will always be heading towards your entry point. Just a thought 🤗
I adore all the historical facts connected to your finds, Si..regardless of size, shape or condition 💙 You found a serious site for tokens/seals, this time! 😲 hello from Denmark 🌸 🌱
As always a terrific adventure vicariously through you. The things I have learned from watching your channel are fascinating. Sincere thanks from Ontario Canada. 🇨🇦😊
@@Sifinds I always wonder. Nicola has commented about the speed as well. But for those of us, that do not live there, and miss the enjoyment of what you do.. I wonder is it really dangerous, or is a situation of get the hell out or you are going to get wet, or get the hell out or you might be swimming for the tower bridge!
The zipper thing is where a wide conveyor belt connects to its other end to close the loop. There was a wire that goes through the zipper looking thing to attach it to another zipper looking thing.
Well, you found the mower but there’s no grass nearby. I do like those Tudor bricks, I think they’re great. Oh, that wave and spray were lovely. (Even better because I wasn’t there to get wet). Today is a “seal” day for you, Si. You’re going to have a wonderful collection.
That zipper thing was how a large flat belt was secured. Think a 2-3’ wide belt, that would run on a massive steam engine pulley, to power a warehouse.
Hi Si, That long piece has been cut off a old Conveyor belt, it is the joint which you put a long piece of bar through two pieces pushed together to join it! normally steel staples but that one is brass! few pound of scrap brass there lad! save it up! 2-3 grand a ton in London, wish I lived down that area lol
Hi Si-Finds, That length of leather with all those brass staples looks awfully like a conveyor belt join cut off to fit a new join in a conveyor belt, where it may have come apart due to wear. The reason I say it's a conveyor belt joiner is because one of my jobs in machinery maintenance was repairing or replacing conveyor belts, the sample you found is an earlier version of the same or similar thing perhaps in one of your local mills/factories. Cheers Mate 👍👍👍😎💨🏴☠☕☮
Hello 👋 from New York USA you Found Some Amazing Finds that Big zipper Looking thing is actually a piece of a strap wheel off of a machine or a Army tank there called Idler wheels that's what it looks like Thank you for Bringing me Along with you I can't wait to see What you Find Next 👋 😊
That long zip thing is half of a conveyor belt splice. Whenever you put together a belt type of a conveyor belt. you put one of those on each end of the belt and they are connected with a long pin so that it will hinge when it goes around the drum rollers on the end. Often times when they replace those connections they just cut the belt just behind that connection. That is the discarded piece that found its way in to the river. Probably a conveyor belt used at a loading dock for coal or grains or something of that nature on the up- river area above you.
I believe the mystery 'belt' with metal stitching along it is the join in a conveyor belt. More likely made of canvas and then stitched with metal loops to make a continuous length of material for the conveyor. It appears to have separated at both sides of the join (or been cut off for repair) and so you are left with only a few inches of what may have been meters long canvas that was maybe a meter wide. Really like your searches!!! FarmerMJ
