GROSS Finds Mudlarking The Thames - London 

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Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Greetings from Michigan, U.S.A. Thank you for the wonderful way you incorporate the historical presentation amongst the mudlarking. Education and enjoyment in one video. I'm 🪝 hooked!

Very enjoyable all 'round, Si, the Muddy Adventures of Simon and His Friends . I never would have had the patience to keep on with that ring - but it's the process that makes the piece. Here's to Sweet Suzanne !

The way you spot those coins is amazing. I’m sure your eyes get used to seeing certain shapes that stand out in the muck. Great luck in the muck.

US half dollars are still made and in circulation, but not used as much because vending machines don't take them and they are large and heavy.

I love how, in this week's video's, both you and Nic (Hi, Nic!) found squashed rings. You did a great job making yours whole again, and I'd love to hear them both tell their stories!

Sooooo many finds!! I lol-ed so hard at the suppository part 🤭🤭🤭 love your videos, Si, I'm addicted.

I'm amazed by what you did with the ring and key. You managed to match the rust on the key perfectly - incredible!

OMGoodness!!!! Your comment about making a Museum moist made me laugh loudly. Too funny!! Thanks for the video and the chuckle!

Learning to sign would be a massive achievement for you & a great help in communicating, keep trying Si 👍 😀

Such interesting finds and always good to see Nelly.

LOVE the kitty sound effects - chomplickchompchomp .. lol .. they do enjoy the gravy, don't they?

This lark and upcycle was so enjoyable to watch!! Watching your videos are always on my Sunday 'to do' list!

You are correct about the half dollar coins. That's a good find. The 1964 half dollar coins are 90% silver.

Ohhhyy that Old Key turned out just as if it was born like that 👏🛎

Happy belated birthday Simon! Ya’ muddy ol’ chap. Your shows are always the kickstart to my Sunday mornings. Cheers to you brother. Thank you for the good time adventures, history, art and laughs.

So glad you found my choppers , can you pop them in the post please lol 😂

Impressive work on that key!

I could watch you up cycling all day. Loved the ring and key.

The suppository joke was a Good made me laugh.

Hello Si, the pointy thing on the knife is called a 'fid' we used them for splicing rope, it opened up the lay of the rope (small stuff). Enjoyed the video. Cheers from NZ 😀😀

Just for such a narrow piece of foreshore what a lot of interesting finds, the end result of the key was really good and love all the upcycling ideas, nice to see poppy and the guys

You have found all the keys to my heart! Thanks for the little Sunday adventure Si💜

Poppy has an American cousin named Holly! On the gardening RU-vid channel, Horttube with Jim Putnam. I love seeing all the sweet pets!

Love your key art Simon xx

Dear Si ; To make a ring round again, clamp a used tapered ring mandrel in a vice...put the bent ring onto the ring mandrel, then add a tube of metal, perhaps thick copper, or something harder like soft steel...tap the ring down the mandrel slowly, carefully turning the bent ring upside down and then tapping some more...can turn a bent ring round again. It's a skill worth having/knowing. Cheers.

What a great day! Loved seeing Poppy having fun poking around and chasing sticks. And I need to thank you for the lovely footage of Nelly - he’s such a beauty, though maybe not at his best while wolfing his food! 😂 Lots of good stuff this day for you and your friends. I don’t remember Michal from before, so perhaps he’s not been on camera or I just missed him. He’s certainly got the eye - he found some really fantastic pieces! Including your misplaced tripod! I think my favorite of his finds was the sweet little mouse on the pipe stem. It’s seems impossible that something so delicate could survive the rough and tumble of the tides and all the rocks. Always like seeing the coins - so plentiful, yet such a variety. And I like the stone marbles. I’m also a fan of the type and I’m guessing you have some fun arranging it into words. That phrase was a fantastic find - I’ve never seen one before this! I hope someone comes up with what it might have been used for, book, sheet music, pamphlet... You found a couple of my other fave - keys! And your upcycle project was inspired! It looks perfect and displays beautifully. I never would have thought of attempting it and certainly wouldn’t have been able to carry it off. And good work on the ring! It didn’t work out exactly as planned, but you got to practice a new skill and, in the end, it’s lovely. Looking forward to your next adventure! Have a lovely week! 🪙🗝💍

I have found false teeth while beach combing lol. I have a pic somewhere with a crab claw sticking out of them. The key turned out so beautiful!!! Really great Si! Thanks for another epic video!

It’s so interesting seeing your accidents as well as successes

Poppy says all those hands and nobody's throwing a stick!

Hola Simón y Jules ,que alegría verlos ,también en mi ciudad Santiago de Chile,estamos gozando de un día casi primaveral ,buena jornada amigos .Bendiciones😍🙏🏻🥰🥰🥰🥰

Well done with the ring Si, love the addition of the stones too. Really great job with the key. Poppy is beautiful too

I love the blue Alley gob. 💙

Love watching your videos. This one brightened up a cloudy day here in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦. I’m a Sweet Suzanne!!! Cool type.

Nice finds ! Love your patience with the upcycling , you have so many skills .

I luv watching you guys finding old treasures. I wish I could join you. I'm in Ontario. Have fun treasure hunting . ❤️🇨🇦

I only recently subscribed to your channel, maybe about 2 months now. I can’t get enough of you or your videos!

Hope you had a good birthday mate...your channel rocks...keep up the good work 👍😁

I enjoy how you make garbage look like better garbage! LOL

Your new friend had all the luck in the muck! 🙂

Fab day on the Thames, with friends! Love the up-cycle! The key turned out really great! Well done, Si! hello from Denmark 🌸🌱

You're a genius love you're program

Sunday completely done, Si and Nic and pancakes, awesome. Excellent as always Si, and happy belated birthday 🎂 till the next mudventure. Later Si.🍁🇨🇦🐘🌞

Very good finds today. I really enjoy your videos. Also like how you explain your finds and where they are from. Good History lessons.

good video Si ... the end lock part of your old key is called the Bit. The gap or cut outs in the Bit are called Wards ..

Nicely done! Great video.

I love watching you fix old things ❤️ You’re so clever (plus you have the patience of a saint!) I hope you have pockets full of gold by the time you read this x

Simon my dream vacation would be a guided mudlark getting stuck in the muck. Have you ever done anything like that? You could get stuck in the muck and make a buck!

A Nelly cameo - thanks Si. Loved seeing Jules & Poppy. What a great type days. I love those bits. Always amazes me how you find those tiny types. Love the upcycles! Great finds on a dreary day. Hope you had an awesome bday last week!

Always love to see what you and Jules find, never fails finding something interesting. I always enjoy the upcycling too. Loved the key xx

I like that Key transformation, 'Lovejoy' would be proud!!😉👍🤟🪡🎨

Your key looked great!

Love watching mudlarking, makes me want to have ago myself, will have to add it to my bucket list!

I miss mudlarking ! Hi Jules! I love how you are so good at explaining everything and showing examples! Thank you

So nice to see the three of you and Poppy enjoying the day. Super clean up and repair on the ring and I really loved the key up cycle. Nelson certainly liked his meal, you are both lucky to have each other. Have a great week and please keep safe! ❤️🇨🇦

Dolly Blue was just that, ‘blue’. It didn’t dye the fabric. It was swished in the rinse water when washing whites to enhance the colour.

You have a good eye for recreating tossed relics. Good job!

Great to see Jules again. Michal is so lovely, it's so great to see you two banter. Poppy is beautiful, come on boys, I want some action!!

Brilliant Si

I have a gold & sliver straw back from the roaring 20's. But that’s a straw he pulled up. For ice tea or cold drinks. Mine has a 18 karat gold tip and an all sterling sliver straw. Very pretty!

Great job on that key Si 👍

Outstanding!!! I love the mudlarking, and I really love watching the upcycling! I've learned a lot from you about working with ceramics and metals. Thanks so much for the excellent adventure and upcycle. 👋🏼🙋🏽‍♀️✌🏽 PS. What happened to Michel (sp?). He was there with you all, and then he just disappeared...

Some lovely finds there Si, I'm an avid mudlarking collector of things too -mainly blue and white china for crafting but I do love finding Roman Tesserae, Staffordshire Slipware and Thames Type! The enlarged old rusty new key handle that you have upcycled is fab and was originally from an old scaffolding clamp, it would've had a square plate attached which slotted in to a 'U' shaped bracket that would wrap around the scaffold pole and then the bolt with the square plate would be slotted into the bracket and tightened up keeping the scaffold pole in place in the 'U' bracket, sometimes the discarded/lost old 'U' brackets can be seen out on the foreshore 🤗

Great job on the upc;ycling! Maybe your jeweler friend can make a cast of the ring and create a likeness in silver for sale.

I find your videos very interesting and all the things u find

Hey Si , if th knife is military, the punch is used for punching holes in plastic explosives or blocks of TNT in order to insert the blasting cap.

Thanks.

Oh wow we have matching black cats Si ! Mine is named Salem. He's jet black with one white whisker. Still watching. Excellent up cycle Si. 27 more days till I arrive in London

This was a great time for all three of you, everyone found such interesting relics. I empathize with Jules as both of my wrists are painful. I noticed Poppy eating something I hope if it was on the shore it was safe or that Poppy has a strong stomach Thanks for such an interesting time I look forward to your videos each week they are my special Sunday night program to watch once I’ve settled into bed

Great job on the key Si !

Poppy needs a little coat for mudlarking she looked a little cold, bless her ♥

I love poppy. She’s the star every time ❤ 🙂🐿🌈❤️ P.s “unfortunately”?? 😮

They also make a Jeweler's loupe that you wear on your head that's what I used to do my beating with they come with different powered lenses so if you wear glasses or whatever you can still wear this over top of them. I find them quite helpful myself. I actually have an extra one of those kind of lamps but I can't imagine how much it would cost to send it to England LOL

Hi Simon Love the video. Always enjoy seeing Poppy. I think the business end of keys are called wards. I think. Thanks a million. Always look forward to Sundays with Si.

Excellent.....

Please get hold of a mandrill, it would make reshaping rings, etc, much easier.

Great treasures once again. Absolutely LOVE old keys, and the restoration was great! Nice to see your fur baby too🐈‍⬛🐾xx Teresa 🇦🇺❤

I cannot take a drink of anything while watching your videos! Had I had a mouthful when you said museum & moist in the same sentence, it probably would've been spit out all over me!😅🤣😂

😂 beading LOL😂

River adventures with lovely people, Nelson, Poppy, keys, letters! and your upcycles… such a joy. Dinero means money, so there you are, you open the abundance portals! haha. Oh... dragons and serpents 💛, the serpent from the caduceus... yes is related to health, because it represents the life force that runs through our spine, the kundalini, thus the vitality, creativity, etc. Saludos! 😘

Great video!!! The ring turned out awesome. I LOVE the key though! That is brilliant!!

Joolz is so dry with his humour x love him and his dog. Si you and your cat aren't too bad either 😉

I enjoyed watching you tart up the key - really good result ! It's funny how things happen, but I learned how to say thank you in BSL through watching Rose on Strictly last year !

Nice goin Si, falsies used to be mad outa actual teeth all those years ago. Now they are plastic, another good use for recycled plastic. Niccola donate 33 pound to the thames charity recently. Keep up the good work m8, stay vertical.

The key & ring look great... you're so talented!

Oh god,the dentures are my nightmare find. Please,Thames,don’t wash up that!!! Nice key restoration/rebuild! I have a Roman key,uncut,it’s amazing. I know that you will be super busy with the rally in September,but maybe afterwards,we can muckluck! I’ll be in town until the 28th,although that’s my day of departure,so27th at latest. At any rate,I enjoy your videos,and I appreciate your talent,art is everything.

I did a quick Google search. The only thing that came up for your typeface was Sweet Susannah, a song by Kris Kristofferson, and Sweet Susan, a type of Magnolia (a flowering tree.) Anything more is beyond me. I doubt it's the song, but the flower is possible. (Especially if they had a run on American flora when they used the type.)

It helps to use some oil or 'tapping fluid' to preserve drill bits when drilling steel. Also makes the job a bit easier.

Thank Si! Hope you’re well mate x

Well done recovery of the ring and keys, good video…. Thanks

I would love to go mudlarking with you one day lol

Wow!! Great job on the key!! Got to love a black cat!!💕😺😺😺🐈‍⬛

Silver Half Dollars In the Kennedy Half Dollar series, the 1964 of course is 90% silver. Halves dated 1965 through 1970 contain 40% silver. Halves dated 1971 or later are copper-nickel clad coins with the exception again of the special Bicentennial halves sold in the Mint Sets and Proof Sets with the “S” mint mark, which are 40% silver.

We still use can use the half dollar but many don't use change much anymore. I cashed my hoard but not the silver ones. 😉

Keys have a bowl(handle) and a blade(end that goes in the door). Learned that off Outlander! 🤣🤣🤣

Excellent job on the key!

What a fun adventure!!! Great job on the key!! Thanks for letting us tag along!

I would love to find old ink bottles I find them to be very fascinating.

That locket your friend found might have contained hair from a deceased loved one , rather than a picture. A lovely find 👍

Morning SI and friends love the video and the finds have a good rest of your day