Time can never be your trusted friend or your
sworn ally no it's the harshest mistress of all and life is just a chain of moments spent a thousand hellos and goodbyes maybe a love like ours can live out its calls i have just found something
that's just made my day even with my poor eyesight i can tell what
that is can you see it can you see oh my god now that is a brilliant find that has
definitely made my day a doll's head i'm so excited you know what i'm so
excited because i found it before nicola a beautiful little doll's head
yeah a keeper and a star find absolutely hi everyone well today i'm doing something a
little bit different i'm very excited to be here in manchester with sarah and mick from Docking
bay 51 you may have seen some of their videos and i've been wanting to do this for so long
but obviously haven't been able to travel so here i am today we're at a bottle dump there's
evidence of bottles and all sorts of exciting things littered everywhere and i've got a really
good feeling about this so what are you hoping to find? for me i'm hoping little bits because my
house is full of massive things so i need little finds yeah and Mick? about the same for me i
think yeah whatever we get, whatever we get. exactly And sarah has told me that if i find
anything good she's going to take it yeah! Of course! yeah and you're going home or you're going in
a hole either way yeah well it's really really exciting and thank you for inviting
me so let's go see what we're gonna find something's caught my eye over here what's this d d for dog and d for
digger that's appropriate isn't it's always tempting to go down
a little hole isn't it? yeah off you go Nicola. In the hole!
Yes i think i'll go down this hole I'll get in this little hole and get all dirty in the hole
Let's see if there's anything hiding down here for me look there's a little hand
reaching out from the mud a little arm what's this down here Ye old farm pickles it's a new one ye old farm pickles look at this it's always nice to find
something with some lettering on it i like that look you see you've got part of
manchester on it it's very appropriate oh what's this oh i think this might be a
keeper this is another nice local bottle and it's got manchester on it again and guess what
look it's still got the vulcanite bottle stopper in it now that's definitely a keeper a really
fantastic souvenir from my visit oh nicola''s found something nice she knows i'm going to be
livid if it's really really nice it's a good job she's already down a hole! right i've got to try to get over there safely now i think she's laid a trap for me you're gonna have all your viewers going
"oh my gosh the national treasure's been threatened to be shoved down a
hole" get your film face on! yeah now i found something which will be really
nice a great souvenir of my visit right okay it's a beautiful old bottle look at you with
your toothbrush you're such a professional. Oh yes! but what's lovely is it's got manchester
on it oh great what what is it it's um it looks like snow snow drop snow drop oh
Snowdrop! that is a brilliant find right Nicola you're gonna
have to get your bags and go do i have to give it to you? we'll say
no but really yes that great that is fabulous yeah that is a great little find i'm so happy
with that yes complete with manchester on it i wonder what color the liquid is it might even still have some snow drop in it. It might do. Oh, it's
creosote. i've had a few bottles that have had that in actually
and it makes your kitchen sink smell yeah it's a fresh hole but look she's found a snow drop
manchester bottle manchester it's still got the vulcanite bottle stopper in it 1937 so we are looking at stuff
here yeah from the early 1900s 1930s i do love these old newspapers you get
some excellent adverts in them sometimes this is an interesting one again it's broken but
i've not seen this before it's Who de Kuypers nightly takes soundly sleeps and fit awakes who De Kuyper nightly takes soundly sleeps
and fit awakes make of that what you will look at this tiny little bottle here a teeny weeny i've just seen something really cute down here it's here look it's a little button with
a bunny on it a little bunny rabbit button oh isn't that adorable oh you know what i just looked down and i saw
a tiny little pair of legs poking out of here i wonder if there's anything on the end of
these legs right next to these roots here let's reveal the body oh look it's just a it's just legs and a bum and one little hand i heard the word pipe being uttered from over
there what have you got oh look look at that oh that's beautiful yeah that's gorgeous look at that well
thank you so much! nice funny come on chaser her chase her i love the pipes. as it
says on your sweatshirt yeah that's going in the bag that's absolutely
gorgeous look at that pipe isn't it beautiful i nearly stood on it i was going for a candlestick
oh stunning well done well done ta-da thank you i'm so glad i went to this corner before
you! well i'm not! always go to the corners nicola always go to the corners that's where
it all sweeps around - so you'll be on that corner now oh sarah's on fire over there look can
you stop taking all my pipes please. Yeah I've got all your powers Nicola. While you were sleeping I drained it out of you. yeah that's why i was
feeling so tired this morning oh that's a nice one lovely fluted bowl there well well done yes
i think i'm going to follow you now yeah i'm very lucky oh look what i can say i don't usually
spot them im just feeling the pressure well done i'll see you in a minute with another
pipe okay just just call me over anytime now my old favorite vulcanite oh what's that what's this
oh wow it's like a lead swan really heavy oh that's so curious isn't it isn't
that's a lovely and very heavy lead swan oh i can see a little torso over here see her there oh that's so cute that's really
lovely let's give her a little wash you can come and join the rows of
little torsos in the tideline art studio there's another tiny lead figure
down here a really curious one a very very skinny a little soldier let's see if we can see any more there's another lovely big marble here that's a pretty one isn't it! i'm sorry nicola i
don't do it on purpose I never find these ever ever ever oh my god it's dinked
oh gosh that is absolutely beautiful wow that's incredible it was just sat
there on the mud on this on the sand well done and i'm saying i didn't dare tell you i
told you earlier you're on the way down there to find your pipe and you did it you know i've never
seen anything like it before you probably have but that's beautiful that's really that's really
stunning yeah i feel dead pleased with myself well so so you should so you should
that's wonderful yep brilliant find but i have seen a little something down here see that
little face staring up at me a little tiny face look oh no I just passed here three times well it
probably just got uncovered oh you're too kind oh that's beautiful yeah but that is
really nice that's my consolation prize i'd be happy with that if you
didn't have all the pipes what was your favorite find
well obviously i'd say my full complete first ever pipe that's an absolute
beauty i wonder if it's a odd fellow's pipe or something with the hands it's some kind of
it looks like some kind of masonic type organisation. It's got Auld Lang Syne on it and yeah the other pipe bowl the
one with the face on that's another that is an absolute stunner yeah
these aren't things that we really ever find we don't normally find these at all, and then the third one
which hopefully is still in one piece is this one probably a bit more the usual
type it's so incredible isn't it what washes out of the riverbanks
yes it is, that once someone thought was rubbish and here we are so I'm just following "mrs pipe bowl
for the day" that's me um it's hard to know where to start really isn't it where are you going to go
first sarah I dont know, i think i'm gonna... there's only one way out mick where are you going first i haven't
got a clue i was gonna wander around like you do doing i know that's the thing isn't it everybody
wanders off in their own little world yeah hoping that you've gone in the right direction
yeah and you're the one finding the goodies yeah there's so many different directions to go
yeah we'll hook up later and see what we've all found all right good luck everybody good
luck good luck i can see a corpse down there oh and a nice little bottle what's this oh that's
a cute little bottle look hp sauce but it's tiny that's a teeny weeny little hp sauce
i'm gonna have to take that look a little corpse oh that's quite a uh quite
detailed little corpse as well isn't it that's interesting i wonder what what that was i believe you've got body parts nicola i have
and you know what it's very very um detailed body part Mick told me and I said "she's got what?!" I'm so jealous i can't stand it see you went in the
right direction i went in the wrong direction yeah so i just spotted this little
face down here or a little hat rather turns out it's a little
little chap with a hat on i thought it was a soldier at first but that
looks more like a child doesn't it maybe a postman what a gorgeous find its so peaceful here okay well it had to happen didn't it
i've just seen a clay pipe can you see it there it is it's just here and what a beautiful clay pipe it is oh
and it's got a lovely maker's mark on it O'Brien 61. i think i found one of these before
actually isn't that a beauty excellent oh i'm in my element here i could spend hours just wandering
around this place and get totally lost in it it's so pretty and peaceful too hello sarah i couldn't
couldn't walk past anything i know! There's jam pots and i can't resist jam
pots i've just walked past a few full ones now so i'm gonna have to get them on the way back i can't
stand it it's really amazing there's some really fantastic treasures here isn't there i found a
doll's head a little miniature doll's head lovely and um a doll's face sort of lips cheeks so nice
i'm happy with anything like that brilliant oh my goodness you wouldn't
believe it i was just scraping away the soil here and guess what just came
into view this beautiful pipe bowl it's absolutely stunning look i've
got one like it that i found in the thames a little bit smaller but it's another hoof that is a beautiful hoof pipe bowl
just look at that oh wonderful i found a lovely hoof pipe bowl yeah i've got a lovely hoof here Nicola's found a
a pipe bowl with a hoof on it oh i haven't got one of those oh no i'm gonna have to give it to
sarah oh honestly how did she do it how does she do it really right let's go and investigate
let's go and see if we can snaffle it off her oh that's great well done well done right Nicola just pack your bags and go though all right what is that there what is that oh it's a little head little head with a blue hat
on is it oh that's a super little find yeah super find look at this when you're doing something
like this it's so easy to just wander off and get completely lost you get so absorbed in
what you're doing just looking and searching and it's so peaceful what's that fenning's cure i've not heard of that one either so many different cures now something's caught my
eye down here it's actually the embossing on this bottle now it might be
nothing at all but you see it's just there i want to see what it is it looks like it could
be an interesting bottle oh alfred bird and sons yeah i found a few of these before that's
lovely that's bird's lemonade bird's lemonade alfred bird and sons birmingham that's lovely oh what is that over there what is that
some kind of little creature i think oh mick look what i've got here it's a little
bonneted face of a little dog by the looks of it very unique i bet sarah will like that i'm definitely lost now i'll see if i can find mick and sarah
oh i think i can see somebody down there hello you absolutely can't beat
being down a hole it's true except when you get out of the hole now a moment ago we met some bottle diggers and
they gave me a couple of bottles and they're lovely really nice embossed bottles this one is
fletcher and holt collyhurst manchester and i love this picture here which i'll be able to see a
little bit better when i've cleaned the bottle off so that's a delight and this
one here which is beautiful green sills mona bouquet so thanks
very much guys for the amazing pressies very happy so sarah did you have a good day i've had
a fabulous day can you show us some of your finds um right so we'll start up here with some body
parts we've got an ear a lip and a chin i'll keep these because i make things with them so and then
that one oh yeah that's a nice beautiful but yeah i do i do make things with these and then that is
uh the end of a hat pin lovely i don't know how i see these things because my eyesight's terrible - a
pipe bowl a little games piece nice, an alley gob
and that little doll's head oh that's lovely that's a beautiful find hp sample bottle i love those yeah i found one of those i've never found one of those before
all right okay yeah i like those it's little and it's a nice tiny little sheer top and
then this is just one of many that i've collected because you like those i can't i can't resist i
absolutely cannot resist um jam pots and small ones even better because they're not heavy but
yeah that is one of two bags full i've got so yeah and you forgot something i did i forgot the star
find oh my goodness whole cod bottle and a mini one that is a super find it is a super find it's
a keeper and it's going in my bag and it's great brilliant well done thank you great afternoon
then yeah great morning and afternoon yeah oh all day you've broken me nicola i'm broken oh
i can't do another step yeah wonderful we've had a great time haven't we and so everyone
do go over and take a look at docking bay 51 youtube channel they've got a fantastic youtube
channel they put a video out every week and it's full of muddy fun and muddy finds and sarah also
does a lot of crafting so um i think that it will really enrich your life to go and take a look
to their channel or tip you over the edge hi everyone welcome to my studio thank you very
much for watching and i hope that you enjoyed that video as much as i enjoyed being there
in person it was my first visit to manchester and there couldn't have been a better couple of
people to show me around for my first time mick and mrs pipe bowl - a.k.a. sarah they really are
such lovely lovely people they catered to my every whim um they looked after me
they bought me empress gray tea to have they also took the clock out of the room that
i was sleeping in i don't know if you've ever had this happen to you but basically clocks for me
they can tick as much as they like during the day i don't have a problem with that they can tick
as loudly and as long as they want but when i'm lying in bed and you're just about to go to sleep
and then you're suddenly aware that there's a tick tick tick tick in the background and so
i had to jump out of bed and go find mick and sarah and ask them if we could take the
battery out and they came and took the whole great big clock off the wall and put it in the
hallway and so it's now a bit of a joke between us my diva-like demands or let's say a little bit
of a princess and the pea but anyway that's as an aside they really looked after me so well and
i'm very very grateful to them for taking me to so many wonderful places and i loved being in
manchester and i'll definitely come back again and i'm surrounded here with some of my beautiful
finds i've got lots of bottles and bits and pieces and lots and lots of memories and not only that
mick and sarah sarah rather sent me away with some beautiful presents that she made herself for
my empress grey tea she's made me a beautiful mug here a tidelin art mug and also sarah gave
me a beautiful picture made out of some of her fines there's a picture up here on the screen
now so it's really special and of course it is a bee in there which is the symbol of manchester
mancunians are known for being busy bees and in particular in the 19th century it was a hive
of activity and the bee is indeed the symbol of manchester so that's going to go pride of place
up on my wall so huge thanks again to you mick and sarah they do a video every week and they also
do a live video every week and so there's always something to see and it really puts a smile on
your face so i thoroughly recommend their channel i'd also like to give a big shout out to nigel
if you are out there nigel when we came out of one of the bottle dumps that we visited nigel was
parked by the side of the road and at first of all i thought he was going to tell us off for being in
this bottle dump but he looked at me in a little bit of a non-plussed way and realized that it was
nicola white of the mudlarking youtube channel and i think he couldn't quite figure out what
i was doing in manchester and why i wasn't in london so it was quite a funny moment so nigel
i just want to say how nice it was to meet you big big hello and i hope you're doing really well
great to meet you the next thing i wanted to tell you about is the totally thames festival is coming
to town now last year of course we couldn't have one although there was one and there was some
online activities but this year there's a lot more going on it's all covid safe of course
there's a lot more activities going on it's from the 1st to the 30th of september and it's
celebrating everything to do with the wonderful river thames now there are loads and loads of
events and i'll put the link in the description to this video and for those of you abroad there
are lots and lots of online events but those of you that are here there's many events that you can
attend so many that i can't even remember how many they are but i am going to mention two events
to you so on the 3rd to the 5th of september in saint paul's cathedral lots and lots of my mudlarking friends are showing off their amazing finds there will be different mudlarks there
every day at St Paul's cathedral from the 3rd to the 5th of september so that's one to look out for i'll
put the link here and for myself on sunday the 19th of september i'm going to be giving a talk
it was going to be last year but it was cancelled so i'm going to do it this year and
it's a mudlarks feast and it's a talk all about my finds associated with food and drink
and and lovely smells and tobacco it's going to be a really nice immersive experience at woods quay in
london and there will be some little bits of food to taste as well that the chef is going to prepare
to match up with some of my thames mudlarking finds so it should be a really good afternoon and
you can buy tickets to that through the link again which i'll put in the description to this video
so i hope that you can come i'm hoping that we're going to record that event so i'll be able to
share it with you at a later date if you can't actually see it but in any case totally thames
festival is coming to town it's going to be great and it's going to celebrate this brilliant
river that gives us so many wonderful gifts the next thing i wanted to say is that very soon
i'm going to be doing a really exciting giveaway of a beautiful handmade trowel by my friend graham
now i don't know how many trowels i've lost in my mud larking lifetime but there are quite a few
which is kind of ironic because i spent so much time looking and finding things but i do manage
to find trowels but not sorry not find them if only i do manage to lose trowels particularly if
they're not attached to me and on many occasions graham who is incredibly gifted in the art of
making trowels has come to my rescue and provided with me with some now he's kindly offered a trowel
for a giveaway on my channel so i have of course accepted and so within a month or two i'm going
to be doing a giveaway so do look out for that i think that that is everything i wanted to say
to you so it's been really nice to hang out here with you for a little while after this video
i'm gonna check my notes to make sure i haven't forgotten anything let me see um no i haven't i
remembered everything so that's great so again have a a great week ahead and i also wanted to say
something about the the bottle dumps that we visit you know every time i visit these places and i
see these old broken bits of rubbish old shoes or these things lying there or bits of newspaper
that used to be pieces of lives from the past like faded memories in a way lying there for us
to to find it sort of really makes me want to live every day to the full you know really live for the
moment and to make as many memories as possible and i really hope that you can do that too so have
a great week and take care and i'm sending you lots of love from london and i'm really looking
forward to seeing you again very very soon bye id recognize that face anywhere my new friend. Yes, this is like a modern dump. nice though isn't he! You can't adopt him he's a bit too big. Actually maybe I could say that I found this chap here but I can't take him home to put in the Thames Toy Orphanage. Yeah he'd take it over. It's a shame really. I just found this young chap here but unfortunately he's just
a little bit too big to fit in the tideline art toy orphanage so i'm afraid you're gonna
have to stay here in your natural habitat
