Come with me and see what I found under an ancient Thames Pier! 

Happy Birthday Nicola 🎉🎂 The badge MSC is a Metropolitan Special Constable lapel badge from WW2. Have a lovely evening with your friends 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy birthday Nicola, Darling! I turn 43 tomorrow. I love this for you! It’s so different looking back on my 23rd birthday when I thought I needed a party and/or to go out and be a rockstar in the club. Or from being a mother with a young child at 33 when everything was hectic. Now, I’ve discovered the best thing is to spend it doing something I love, just for myself, and a lovely evening with family for dinner, reflecting and enjoying life. Like you have. Cheers! 🥂

Happy birthday Nicola! Kiwi white was indeed a shoe polish. Not the 'waxy' type, but a white chalky liquid with which we used to 'polish' up our childhood canvas tennis shoes, using a little sponge on the end of the bottle. The plastic bottle allowed you to squeeze out the liquid. Prior to the bottle, the thick pasty liquid used to come in a tube - like toothpaste only bigger - also with a sponge on the end.

Happy birthday Nicole. Your videos and your family warmth is precious, a real treasure.

The MSC item is a WWII Metropolitan Special Constable enamel lapel badge

Loved accompanying you on this trip to the foreshore and seeing those carved faces under the pier. Details of old London are always fascinating. Pleased the river offered you a beautiful gem for your birthday. Hope it was happy and thank you for your videos that always bring such joy.

Nicola giving us a gift on her birthday! What an unexpected treat! Happy birthday 🎉

Happy Belated! May the River Thames continue to give you precious gifts. Love ALL of your content & education that I’ve gotten from them. I hope you continue to make videos for yours to come for all of us to enjoy..

My mom used Kiwi white shoe polish. She was a nurse and used a squeeze bottle to freshen up her white shoes. There would have been a sponge tip and a clear plastic cap to contain the liquid polish. You had to shake it before use. 50 years ago is my best guess on seeing her use it. And yes, Kiwi is still in business. Her bottle was all white, I think you've found an older version.

Happy Birthday, Nicola. You brighten up every week for so many people. :) 💐💐💐

Happy Birthday Nicola 🥳🎉 The 'national mixture' image is from National Benzole Co which was a petroleum brand used in the UK from 1919 - 1990's. It was wholly owned in 1957 by Shell-mex & BP.and was rebranded as 'National' in the 1960's but was eventually phased out by BP in the 1990's.

I share your birthday and your passion for unearthing the shadows cast by those gone before, and the gifts that the tide leaves resound still. Happy Birthday, may the coming year lay treasures at your feet 😊

Happy birthday Mum, thank you for sharing your life with us. God bless!

Hi Nicola. Yes, that enamel badge is a Metropolitan Special Constabulary. I was a Met Special for ten years at Hackney nick in the 1970s. I have a silver plated tea spoon which I won for playing team billiards against other met stations. It has exactly the same designed badge as the one you found. Keep 'em coming Nicola.

Happy Birthday!! The 'safety pin' is a kilt pin I think. When kilts were in fashion for little girls like me in the early 60's I had a pin on the bottom 'flap' bit just like that, to stop the skirt/kilt from blowing open.

Happy Birthday Nicola. I could watch your videos for hours. Have a lovely meal.xx

Happy birthday! Our birthdays are a week apart. I’m glad you had a nice mudlark on your special day, and we enjoyed going along with you.

Happy Birthday🎂🍾🥳!And thanks for taking US with you to treasures hunts👍🏽😍

Happy Slightly Belated Birthday Nicola!! thanks for taking us along - hope you had a blissfilled evening.

🎂🥂 Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Nicola! Thanks for sharing your joy. Nothing better than a Birthday spent doing what you love. Hope your now enjoying a Fantastic Birthday Dinner! Cheers 🎉 and much love from 🇦🇺

Happiest of birthdays, Nicola! So glad you had a chance to muck about on the foreshore.

Happy Birthday to you! I am celebrating it with you virtually. 🥰 I remember polishing the white part of my saddle shoes with Kiwi polish when I was a little girl. Lovely video

I do hope your birthday week will bring you much love a d joy... Just like the love and joy you bring to our visit to the Thames with your help.. You make our heart smile. Happy 🎉 Birthday 😊

Wishing you the best of birthdays Nicola, may the year ahead be healthy and joyful. My birthday is tomorrow, the 21st, and I'm recovering from a heart attack and stroke, so I'll be happy with just waking up in the morning. Thank you for the many hours of joy you have shared with your mudlarking videos, I greatly appreciate them, and you. ❤ Pamela

Happiest of birthdays ❤️🎉 Thank you for sharing your day with us. Much love to you🙏🏻🇺🇸❤️

I love following you on your Mudlarking adventures, you brighten my days. Have a blessed birthday Nicola! 🎉❤

Belated birthday Nicola - 2 days ago ! You are always seeing fascinating items in the mud. You are looking good for another year older. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your birthday. Xxxx

Happiest of birthdays Nicola from a fellow Scorpio , Its us who should thank you for sharing your journeys with us. Without you we wouldn't know so much or be able to enjoy history as we do. Much love xx

Happy Birthday Nicola!! So nice you were able to get out on the Thames on your birthday!

Happy Birthday Nicola! 🎉🥳🎂🍷 It was lovely to see you out on the foreshore yesterday xx

Happy Happy Birthday dear Nicola! Glad you got that beautiful faceted tear drop- and can’t wait to see what you make and wear out of it!!! Sacramento California!

Thankyou for all you've brought to us, may you have a Splendid Birthday Nicola!👏🎉🌺

Happiest of Birthdays Nicola. I wish you much luck and happiness. Always be safe in all of your wandering Thank you for all do and your history lessons and wonderful information.

Happy Birthday, Nic!!! The little bead is a beautiful gift from the Thames!!!❤

Happy Happy Birthday! I hope your day was wonderful. Thank you for all of your videos. I love the search and the history!

I hope you have a wonderful Birthday, Nicola! Thank you for sharing so many amazing finds with us. Your videos are so interesting and informative. Bless you!

A very happy birthday Nic and thanks for the enjoyment you bring into my life. Enjoy your day and Giod Bless you.

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, Nicola! You bring so much joy through your craft to many people.

WW2 Metropolitan Special Constable police lapel badge A good original Second World War period 'Metropolitan Special Constable lapel badge', Crowned circular chromium plated example, the centre bearing 'MSC' on blue enamel ground, the reverse impressed with maker's details 'Firmin London'. Very good condition, complete with original buttonhole fitting, no damage to the enamel.

Thank you for sharing your birthday outing with us. We hope you had a lovely day and a lovely meal with your friends. You'll find being now in your 40's will be quite rewarding.

Happy birthday Nicola! My mother was a nurse for 30 years, and she used Kiwi white polish for her nursing uniform shoes. Love from Kentucky! ❤️

Many happy returns Nicola, may you have many more! Thank you for all your hard work ov

Happy Birthday Nic! Have fun with your friends. Thanks for sharing another great year of larks, learning, and laughs with us.

Happy birthday! It was very generous of you to give us a gift of one of your videos on your birthday. I hope you had a wonderful day 🥳

Happy Birthday 🎂. I love watching your videos, especially learning the history about the items you discover.

Happy Birthday Nicola! May the year ahead bring you lots of treasures especially pipes! We still have kiwi shoe polish here in Australia. ❤🎉

Happy birthday Nicola,i hope you had a lovely day. The Kiwi white takes me back to my primary school days. The bead is beautiful and would make a really lovely necklace. x x

Happy birthday! What a beautiful day for treasure hunting.

Happy Birthday Nicola! Congrats on on another trip around the Sun! And, what a bonus, You got a lovely gem from the Thames! All the best, Barbara

Happy Birthday and I enjoyed your video but the scene of your daughter laying there on the foreshore just really tickled me! Good memories often come from some aggravating ones when you think back on them and find the laughter in it! Hope your day was blessed beyond measure!

Hi Nicola, HAPPY BIRTHDAY hope you had a great meal and evening. You had some nice finds but I have to agree the faceted bead you found was the best birthday find. Thank you for the video looking forward to the next one.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Happy Birthday, Nicola! Thank you for sharing these wonderful videos. I've been watching you mudlark for years, and your videos definitely helped keep me entertained during COVID lock down. May your year ahead be filled with clay pipe extractions, bellamine jugs, onion bottles and historical treasures! (as well as good health, good friends and much happiness)

Happy Birthday to you, Nicola. Good to see the surprise video, thank you. 🙂

Hey Nic! I thought we were supposed to give you the gift! What a lovely surprise for all of us! Happy birthday and be well from washington state USA ❤️

All the best for you Nicola, and lots of nice new finds in the times to come. Be happy and well 😊

Happy Belated Birthday Nicola! What a wonderful lark you had for your birthday celebration. Do you ever look back at your footage and see things that you missed? Just curious, it's funny that when mudlarks ask if we can see what they are looking at, I sometimes see something different than what was intended. Oh I would love to mudlark in London! Thanks for sharing your passion for history and finds with us.

Happy Birthday beautiful Nicola - we love your fascinating channel! 🙏🌸

This was such a great "Oh, My Goodness What's That!?" episode for me. I did a whole lot of pausing to look around your shots of the ground, wondering what different things I could spot and what they might be (things you weren't looking at). Thank you so much for sharing your adventures so we can live the excitement vicariously through you! Sending the warmest of Happy Birthday wishes to you all the way from Cairns in Australia! 🥳❤🎂

Happy Birthday Nicola. We love you. Have a beautiful day

I wish you the happiest of all birthdays sweet Nicola! Sending you big hugs and much love from Tennessee!

The glass may be been part of a glass topped gas pump. The faceted glass I think is a crystal drop from a chandelier.

Happy birthday Nicola. Keep up the lovely videos! Your little "bead" looks like possibly a piece of chandelier.

What fun it is to come-a-Mudlarking with you Nicola. Who would ever have seen the carvings under the pier, if not for you?!

What a perfect way to spend you birthday, doing something you love doing. Hope it was fantastic!

Happy birthday, Nicola! I hope you've had a wonderful day, and that your year ahead is brilliant and wonderful!

Happy birthday Your Majesty, Queen of the Thames! I hope you had a wonderful day Nicola. :)

Happy Birthday Nicola hope you had a great day🥳, The Badge you found is a Special Constable Kings Crown Blue Enamel Badge👍🏼and as you were saying “I cant see what it is” on the ground just by your hand laying on a large round piece of metal was a very large key🗝️and I was saying to myself come on Nicola pick it up🤔🤣then when you said I detect a button and bent down to pick it up just on the right there was a thick stick pointing at what looked like a large circle maybe a coin🤔but I do get abit carried away and my eyes are searching every nook and cranny👀as I always think I can see something interesting, I can imagine everyone all at home watching all doing the same thing, love the vlogs and keep up the good work❤👍🏼

Wishing you a Happy Birthday Nicola, from Australia.

Happy Birthday lovely lady. I hope your special day went wonderfully. ❤

Happy Birthday Nicola. Thanks for the videos. Please keep them coming.

Happy birthday Nicola! Glad you got to mudkark on your special day & thank you for taking us with you x

Happy Birthday, my friend!!! My favorite thing is to stop the video when you are in your studio and look around and am thrilled to see some of the treasures, I was along with you on, that you found on your mudlarking expeditions! So, from my computer across the pond, in Michigan, I hope you had the happiest of birthdays and I wish you nothing but happiness always! Thank you for so many wonderful trips that you have taken me on, along with you, you are a treasure to all of us! xoxo

Happiest of birthdays!! 🎉 so enjoyed your birthday lark!! Enjoy your dinner with friends!! ❤

Happy Belated Birthday Nicola! I hope you had a wonderful night out with your friends! I love watching you mud larking on the Thames foreshore and your adventures with Sci Finds. Your videos make my day. I also love the fact that you take the time to give us history behind the objects that you find. Happy hunting! Best wished from across the pond. 🙏❤

You make things so interesting, I am glued to my screen when watching you mooch about,

I like to see your technique of looking for and finding things YOU want to find, and ignoring old bits of metal staring at you on the mud surface that have no interest for you. Happy Birthday Nicola, how nice to find something "White" on your birthday!

so much cool stuff i want to pick up! You sure have a good eye to find that darling horse head! What a sweet birthday present! Happy day every day to you too. There are so many washers out there, would make a cool wind chime thing maybe. love mudding with you, hugs!

Happy Birthday. The carved faces were really cool. I love that kind of mystery art. Thanks!

Happy Birthday Nicola. I use to have to kiwi my Sunday shoes. Thank you for sharing your birthday lark with us. Have a great time.

Happy Birthday, Nicole! Many happy returns!

Happy Birthday Nicola. I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning, with your tried and true trademark shirt. Time does fly, wow. Always enjoy your videos, my life has been blessed to come along and laugh and inquire. So fun to see you with your mudlarking pals. Who could ask for a better life than yours? Well in my opinion anyways. Time really flies to film Roman and Tudor artifacts with a modern cell phone, and jet bouts, and you on a hover craft screaming down the Themes river, over the top of ancient Indian artifacts , that are probably still down there. Puts a whole lot into perspective about the purpose of our lives. Live, love, laugh, as much as we can, and enjoy the sacrifices of those that fought for it. Thank you

Happy birthday Nicola🎉🎉...lovely to see you..lots of love from Mauritius🇲🇺

Belated happy birthday from Australia Nicola, I enjoy your mud larking videos, a nice change so see what the Thames washes up from a bygone age. With all that is going on in the world at the moment it’s very nice to watch and listen to something not relating to the various disastrous things going on around the world.

Happy Birthday Nicola! Have a wonderful day! 🎉🎊🎂

Congrats on your 39th birthday and may your evening out give you as much joy as your videos give me.

The sixpence was from my birth year, I used to have a kilt pin just like that in the 1960s and Kiwi shoe whitener was 'the' stuff Mum used for cleaning my school plimmies... so this haul made my eyes leak a little bit 😢. Happy birthday Nicola and thank you for this video.

In the 60’s sometimes I would polish my mom’s nurse shoes. Back then they still had those white caps too. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Nicola, lots of cool finds today on your special day, so, have a great time at supper and we won't ask how old you are, a lady never tells her age. Have a steller evening, Neil from Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Happy Birthday dear Nicola, may all your dreams come true in the upcoming year, wish you the best👍

Happy Birthday Dear Nicola! I hope you had a nice time with your friends.

Happy Birthday Nicola. Thanks for the entertainment.

Happy birthday to you….and another nice video! See you this weekend, and enjoy the week ahead and of course your birthday. Cheers Nicola! ❤😊

Happy Birthday Nicola~!!! From me, my wife, and 4 y/o who love watching you here in Wisconsin (US) 🖖🙂 💖

Happy Birthday to you Nicola! Thanks for your videos!

Happy Birthday Nicola, have a awesome day, Find lots of stuff and artifacts.

Kiwi White, My older sisters used it to polish their saddle oxfords toes and heels back in the day, it was also the polish for the baby shoes I wore in 1962, and I polished baby shoes of my 3 older children with it in the late 1980's! Still available today in the US it is a liquid, kind of chalky and you put it on the shoe to make them look cleaner , when it was dry we buffed them to a soft shine with a flannel cloth! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, wishing you many more years of mudlarking in all your favourite spots.

Happy Birthday Nic! Always enjoy your posts very much.

Wishing you a VERY Happy Birthday, Nicola! Both you and my grandson Max, who turned six, share a birthday today! Happy Birthday to you, both!!

Happy Belated Birthday. I'm glad you had fun. Thank you and have a great day.