Mudlarking was historically a trade of the Victorian poor, but has become a popular hobby in recent years with licensed ...

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.

But what the city’s residents may not know is that the tide is always revealing little hints of London’s previous inhabitants. Individuals called ’mudlarks’ have special permission to ...

London has long been defined by the river that runs through it. In Victorian times, human figures were commonly spotted at low tide, bent over and wading in the wet mud. These “mudlarks”— a ...

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 ...