So many on this wall commemorating #selfsacrifice in #postmanspark , lost their lives to the river #Thames . 'THE MATERIAL PROSPERITY OF A NATION IS NOT AN ABIDING POSSESSION; THE DEEDS OF ITS PEOPLE ARE,' G.F. Watts who set up the wall in 1900.

Some #Thames found #beads in spring sunlight! #mudlarking

Victorian (the inkwell on left is late, 1890-1900) - gifts from my New York privy digging pals #bottledump #digging #inks #bottles

Filthy hand on the #Thames at night holding a just found 19th century regimental #button from the uniform of a soldier of the 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot. Wonder if he got in trouble coming back to barracks without it... #mudlarking

It's Much harder than you'd think to get everyone in one picture. #Thames and dump found #figurines and playthings #mudlarking #bottledump

#Mudlarking today thwarted when an old chair collapsed beneath me... now hobbling around rearranging #Thames and dump found partial #figurines to pass the time Germander Speedwell

A tattered quarter of a 1300-1315 Edward I #silver hammered #coin found #mudlarking yesterday on the #thames #foreshore and identified by the brilliant Gregory Edmund

Spot the absolutely stupid small #green #glass #bead (prob 18th/19th century trade bead) found #mudlarking on the #thames this morning

Stage one of my garden #shrine of #Hindu and #Buddhist rescued #river and #canal offerings ... the cabinet has glass in the back which means it's hard to see the tiny objects inside... big offerings out of sight on right) #mudlarking #thames

Satisfying sort just now of this mornings micro- #finds on the river #Thames . Nothing spectacular but still satisfying. #mudlark #mudlark ing #beads

Fossils from yesterday's #NorthSea walk #ammonites , #belemnites ) and two lumps of crystal ( #gypsum ) which my friend found (I thought they were lumps of old bottle dump #glass !). Plus the obligatory (red) glass #bead .

#Found 'Eiffel Tower' Lemonade #bottles . The Company was established in 1891 in #Maidstone #Kent And so- named for no other reason than the Eiffel Tower was a talking point...

Totally grim.
And to think I've been swimming downstream from here...

I put this tiny #silver sliver of a hammered #coin on instagram ( #found #mudlarking on the #thames ) and Gregory Edmund amazingly ID'd it as 'a Cut Quarter
#Penny of a Class XIV of Henry I, known as a Quadrilateral in Cross Fleury Type, made around 1123/1124!' Extremely impressed!

I was walking with my daughter along the #Thames at midnight and happened upon this lady on the #foreshore #fire

The sun only comes into my kitchen for half an hour each day

If you're in Sussex do come along in May 11th when there will be an invasion of #London #Mudlarks - including me - showing our #finds !

Midnight on the #thames #foreshore #london

Secret life of the #riverthames #london

Look.
A lot of you have been asking: 'Anna. How many of your #Thames #found yellow 18th century #glass seed #beads can you #balance on a 5p when you're not wearing your glasses and you're meant to be doing really late admin?'. #Mudlarking