Swan Upping is a popular spectator sport as, all along the route, local people turn out to line the banks. In these river communities of the upper Thames, it has been witnessed for generations, ...

A recently opened alley next to the Thames offers views across the river to the Bankside, but if you turn around, you can see ...

Join Si and friends as they search the Thames foreshore for various antiquities lost over millennia. To mudlark the Thames ...

Watch the transformation of a Victorian clay pipe from an oily black stain to bright white, just as it was over 100 years ago ...

Navigate your way to the London Museum Docklands to enjoy these remarkable treasures once lost to the Thames but restored to us by modern-day mudlarks Without the River Thames, we would not have ...

A further small room shows a video of mudlarking on the Thames, allowing visitors to immerse themselves into the sight and sounds of the river.

But it is what lies beneath the river’s waves that is most fascinating, as I discovered at the London Museum Docklands’s exhibition, Secrets of the Thames.

MUDLARKING on London’s river has been around in one way or another for centuries, first as a form of income-gathering among the poor and needy, and now as a hobby for those seeking fascinating bits of ...

But in spite of this, the Thames remains shrouded in mystery. Burdened with sediment, along with centuries of sewage and industrial waste stirred by powerful tides, many of its treasures lie concealed ...

A new mudlarking exhibition featuring historical objects found in the River Thames is opening in London.

The exhibition features finds from the Thames foreshore and explores the role of mudlarks in uncovering history.