Discoveries can be made as far east as the Thames Estuary, up to 40 miles from central London, although mudlarks tend to use their own boats in this broad island-strewn reach of the river.
In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.
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What I do is go out in the middle of the night with a headtorch and kneepads at low tide onto the Thames; I’m a mudlark. It’s total solitude and I love it. It’s brilliant therapy.
She decides to leave, but falls into the hands of the riverside-dwelling mudlarks, a gang of kids who are set to work collecting all the things the filthy River Thames washes up. Charley is sent on a ...
"My daughter, she's a 'mudlark' and she's got her whole house filled with things that she's got from the (River) Thames," he said, referring to people who search for treasures on the shores of rivers.
I’m an introvert and I don’t have much hair. What I do is go out in the middle of the night with a headtorch and kneepads at low tide onto the Thames; I’m a mudlark. It’s total solitude and I love it.