Beachcombing - Charms of a Scottish port! And making silver beachcombing charms with our finds!

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] and we thought we'd have a look in the harbour here see what we can find yeah there's lots of shells and seems to be lots of glass so far as well so let's hope we can find some interesting treasures yeah let's go there's one of those beautiful yellow winkle shells look at the color of that a bit of blue glass oh that's pretty look at that there's another piece of blue that's lovely as well there are loads of shells and glass but a lot of it is green beer glass a lot of green modern modern green beer glass down here but yeah there is some um there are some older pieces as well look at that aqua piece that is an older piece of glass that's a really pretty color isn't it [Music] some potteries peaceful drain amber random plastic thing here but i don't think it is so random i think it's a woman a white blonde woman with yeah long blonde hair random yes it is random can see oh the sun's come out how wonderful i can see pottery quite a few pieces of pottery actually but so far nothing worth picking up isn't this just a sign of the times oh look a motherboard random very random i don't know what that was off now interesting observation but there's a stream coming down here burn out to the sea and just where i've stepped out into this burn suddenly i can see loads of fragments of pottery so i'm wondering if the burn is where we should be looking instead of the beach hmm let's see if any of these pottery bits are of any interest okay well i'm gonna put my hand in that is plastic unfortunately that looks like pottery at least plain a brick racer shell oh oh a piece of clay pipe stem a mouthpiece in fact there's another bit of pipes there oh and look has words on it look great what does it say please don't be tenants no it doesn't say tenants it says bots dead and then something on the other side but it's quite warm oh cool oh is that like glasgow maybe glasgow possibly oh good that's good looking up stuff here's a really old um wine bottle neck it's been applied i like it oh look at this it's got a little bird on it it looks like a schwa oh i like that oh my goodness look what i found can you see it it's a marble oh my goodness oh look at this look at the swirls in it i haven't seen one like that look at that oh it looks like a german marble wow i love it great oh yeah oh my gosh it's beautiful i know it's got what like red and greens like swirly bits got swirls inside that needs cleaning up yeah red and green seem to be blank most of them anyway so i wonder if someone else beach combs or harbor combs because we're not on a river we're not really on a traditional sea beach so i'm going to call it harbour combing harbour locking [Music] so [Music] [Music] this is very old glass kind of has a strange blue tinge but when you hold it up it's green that's really old glass and there's some more of it here part of the base of an old bottle oh part of a bird a bird's wing and ah a piece of ceramic electrical insulator off the puff off the top of a telegraph pole oh let's put something down here there it's stopple bopper a swing top bottle aerated water or ginger beer i think oh what's that say words i'm not sure what that's how to say that g t o l s c h just look at all the shells wow and more this is beautiful beautiful winkle shells look at the colors wow they are gorgeous there's a tiniest one here i love them beautiful a really orange one wow i love them i gotta make something with those i'm going to call this winkle shell bay there's lots of brown ones as well but they don't stand out as much it's these ones it's lots and lots and lots of brown ones [Music] look at them i like this piece of wood look at the grain in there and the uneven saw marks and it looks like it looks like mountains bricks lots and lots of bricks demolition rubbish that was just dumped in the sea i suppose can't tell what that says i think this size heathfield oh a button oh wait no i can't get it up nope like in concrete now i'm afraid that's got to be the the fine that got away so i've realized most of the fines down here are just cemented in this i don't know what it is it kind of looks like tarmac so i don't think there's much point looking on this stretch so i'm gonna go over to that little beach mummy's on she's been on there for quite a while so i imagine there's things to be found just look at all these [Music] and i've already put some into my bag aren't they gorgeous i love them [Music] wow they're so yellow i know they're beautiful [Music] it's beautiful pottery down here lms that might be interesting some kind of teacup i think wonder what lms stands for are you something to do with a ship perhaps it's the top of the ink bottle in there it's strange because there's lots of pottery but most of it is blank has nothing on it which makes me think someone's been here before us a spoon ha ha might just take that home and use it [Music] kitchen wipes [Music] oh do [Music] these tiny shells are amazing i love them there's too many too many little beautiful winkle shells now this is an unusual find for the beach it's a sheep's horn now there's almost zero there's almost zero man-made objects on this beach i can't find glass or pottery however i have just found a piece of chalcedony here because i think just a little further up the coast is a good pic is a good place to look for agate then i found this beautiful but tiny piece of banded agate with what looks like amethyst inside so i wonder if there's any more [Music] [Music] we've just found this abandoned building [Music] i wonder what it was it looks like it was a hotel or something but it just looks so creepy [Music] so [Music] hello okay so that was our day at stran ra yeah we had a lovely time here and we found some beautiful shells we did we did mostly showers today but yeah and we're going to be making some things we are stick around for that we'll see you at the roundup bye we try the front i'll try the front door that's thirsty [Music] i'd get a big shock of someone answered [Music] [Music] so [Music] hello okay so here are all the finds we made on our trip to stran ra and we've got a wonderful collection of both man-made and natural treasures yeah so this is actually our third round up because we've had some problems with corrupt footage so you might do it again yeah you might notice and again um when we said we were going to make some um things from our finds you might notice some of those things are already made because we've had to bring everything back and do it again because yeah we lost that footage but anyway um we'll start down here with some of these potteries and we've got the this is all transfer wear including the potter you've already made into a charm i think that's either a bird or a griffin yeah it might be a griffin because it's got a bird someone suggested it could be a flying squirrel a flying squirrel and we've got um black transfer wear and this is like got an embossed butterfly on there can you see that and this is cornish wear they've got a bit of a wing from a willow pattern plate and then we've got this yeah piece of cup i think or mug yeah lms on it and i've got a little bit of information about that and lms was the london midland and scottish railway and it was formed on the 1st of january 1923 under the railways act of 1921 which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four the railways that formed the lms included london and northwest railway midlands railway the lancashire and yorkshire railway and several scottish railways including the caledonian as a result the lms became the world's largest transport organization and the largest commercial enterprise in what was the british empire the lms was britain's largest employer after the post office it also acquired many docks and harbours one of which was stran ra well then that makes a lot of sense isn't it to why we found that there if they had a dock there yeah and strangereal lies on the west coast of dumfries and galloway in south of scotland and it was formerly a ferry port connecting scotland with belfast and lawn in northern ireland until the service moved to nearby ken ryan in 2011 so that does make sense that the train would have gone to the port and perhaps this was smashed and they just i don't know eated it into the rubbish or something and it's found its way into the sea or it was actually dropped i don't know who knows how it could have got there but um at least we have some part of the story because they had the dock there but um anyway moving on we have this um clay swing top bottle stop and it's gross and i couldn't read it at the time but it's it could have been made yesterday really because they gross um i think it's beer i think they're still making swing top bottles with stoppers just like this so it's modern but yeah oh well still it's all part of history yeah it is um moving on to some beautiful rocks now we're a sucker for a pretty rock and this is just a quartz pebble with algae on it um that's just a ordinary quartz pebble but we have two beautiful yeah this is um calcium yeah and this one is a beautiful banded agate it's gorgeous it's got like it's like pinkish whitish bands and in the middle there's amethyst yeah so it's really amazing really yeah look at that side gorgeous it would come up lovely polished that yeah so um further up the coast into ayrshire is um quite well known for agates but obviously they are lower down in dumfries and galloway as well it's got a lovely waxy texture yeah anyway moving on again we've got our sea glass there's some pretty colors this gorgeous aqua colors and greens and things i love the aquas the aqua blues and the aqua greens yeah and that's quite an old applied lip yeah i i love bottle tops lips i wonder if there's something we can do with them because i think we have we've collected quite a few but this is interesting because it's an applied lip which later would have been tooled to even it out a bit but you can see where the bottle is there and then the lip that's been applied it's interesting isn't it yeah um and this piece of glass which can see it's really pitted and it's really dark and chunky so that could be 18th century or early 19th century or something yeah so that's quite old then we've got the beautiful blue pieces um of which uh yeah yeah don't look at that um yeah don't look at that it doesn't exist yeah it doesn't exist yet um oh we got plastic so we've got a squashed um plastic doll and a hat and look that's barbie's doll squashed mud locking doll and now she's got a hat it looks a bit like a pith helmet and she's hold oh she was she was holding this copper nail in her hand whoops um moving on from there what have we got next oh this gorgeous coral yeah how beautiful to find a piece of coral like that i know i've never found a piece of coral like this before such a big piece and it's it's so beautiful it's really tactile to hold yeah i love it of course it's bleached and dead and yeah but it's really beautiful gorgeous details on there as well and then we have our amazing i call them sunshine gel well they are in fact periwinkles and this variety is called the flat periwinkle because this side of it here the top of the swell is quite flat yeah whereas a regular periwinkle there it's pointed so we've got the flat periwinkle and the regular powder and they're just the most beautiful yeah our best finds of the day i think i love them okay that takes us on to our clay pipes and just ignore that uh clay pipe that one hasn't got any silver no it doesn't know okay so this this piece of pipe here is a later um piece of clay pipe stem and you can tell from this shape here and it's a mouthpiece because you can see where it terminates there it's kind of a bit of a blob on the end um but this piece is either mid or late victorian and i think mom's got some information about this yes because it has the name bowstead on one side and glasgow on the other and i've been able to find out something from the post office general directory of glasgow 1859 to 1860 we find william bowstead tobacco pipe and plumbago crucible manufacturer 61 duke street and his house is at 17 armour street in another directory it's called saint mungo tobacco pipe manufacturing and st mungo plumbago crucible works at 61 duke street plumbago was the name given to graphite which was used in a clay mix to produce crucibles that melted metal faster and lasted longer than anything else available in europe at the time now there's a bit of a mystery here because in 1851 the morgan brothers after seeing an american made crucible at the great exhibition became the sole agents for crucibles from joseph dixon and co a new jersey manufacturer and in 1856 obtained the manufacturing rights from them and then they opened a factory in battersea in london called the patent plumbago crucible company so they were sole agents for this plumbeago christmas yeah and then they painted it themselves so how was this yeah how were they allowed to make them it was this man in glasgow allowed to produce them at around about the same yeah that's really weird so is there a mystery there is there some sort of we looked it up briefly but we couldn't find any court case or anything against him but yeah he was breaking the law against another man in in glasgow who was producing these crucibles um and breaking the patent law but his name was mcadam so i'm not sure what's going on though perhaps it was um quite widespread the copying of this um plumbago crucible and um some some just got away with it maybe you just got away with it um i found out something else about um william valstead in the newspaper the glasgow herald of saturday the 3rd of december 1859 brass founders rifle corps now this was part of the second administrative battalion of the laniqua rifle volunteers and the the newspaper article says last night a meeting of the members of the call was held in the leicester city hall for the purpose of electing two commissioned officers when william bowstead esquire of 17 armour street was unanimously elected captain so there you are he is um obviously a well-respected man yeah um we've got a picture haven't we of the rifle core uniform yeah so i imagine him to be someone like captain mannering yeah he's got his finger in a lot of pies obviously yeah obviously and he was being a bit cheeky copying this painting to crucible yeah so all that history and this is what fascinates me about mud locking yeah beach combing fines all this history from one tiny fragment of pipe and it's got what like 10 letters on it it's like from 10 letters you can find all this information out a whole person's life and their career and yeah it's just amazing scandals and yeah the scandals now you may have noticed there are three models on the table yeah um there's a bit of a story here because the beautiful marble that mum found on the video is missing because about three weeks ago i took it and i cleaned it and i made a nice job cleaning it up and it looked great but since then it has disappeared and we've searched high and low but you put it somewhere safe i put it somewhere safe and i've forgotten exactly where i put it but um yeah it'll turn up but for now here are three german marbles in its place um and yeah they were they're made in the same way and they're very similar in design so yeah so um the one i found was similar to these two but it was um green yellow and blue and actually we've got some or was it green no green green and blue green red and blue yeah it's very similar to someone to like that one i think and we've actually got some um clay clay marbles german marbles up here that we found that's from the collection we found but i think mum's got some information about um german marbles yes and it's not clear when and where marbles were first made in germany but in the in nuremberg in 1503 the town council limited the playing of marbles to a meadow outside the town i don't know whether they were getting a bit rowdy with their marble game but i'd love to find that meadow i know but the marbles they used then would have been clay and marble and alabaster and stone in 1846 a german glassblower invented marble scissors for making marbles but it wasn't until the 1860s that production there really took off almost all antique glass marbles were produced in germany between 1860 and 1920 so after this the german handmade marble industry went into decline because of machines that were invented in america well that's a shame but i mean you can't beat a han anything something handmade can you and you can see um they really perfected the art of marvel making here absolutely beautiful and i have to say machine made marbles you can really tell the difference in quality they just haven't got the detail of these handmade marbles but they're absolutely beautiful individual works of art they are absolute works of art and um i think this is an onion skin marble and oh i've forgotten again i looked it up um i'll put it on the screen what these are called um yeah what which kind of marble these are they've all got different names anyway they would have been they would have pulled a rod of glass and on the end of the rod of glass they would have tooled it with hand tools into a marble shape probably those scissors yeah probably those scissors actually um and you can see on the ends of these marbles we have a look you see the poncho marks where they've been taken off the end of the glass cane and held with a glass rod as well yeah and yeah they had been held on the glass but uh yeah that's where they've been taken off that's where they would have been attached to the glass cane fantastic and you can see how they're not perfectly round at all some of them have got a bit of a wonk on but they are absolutely beautiful love them we love finding them as well anyway that's our clay marbles and um our original one let's hope it shows up at some point okay so we're going to show you us making some little charms out of the fines that we have here on the table um when we did our first roundup of course we'd or we didn't know what we were about to make but um obviously we do know obviously some of them yeah you've seen some of them but yeah now you're gonna see us making them so we hope you enjoy that and we'll see you later for the roundup of our jewelry yeah [Music] so [Music] [Music] files here [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] ah [Music] uh [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] oh do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] ugh [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] so [Music] okay [Music] all right so here are the beach combing charms that we've been making from our finds from stran ra and also some that we've made previously from beach combing and mud locking fines yeah so they've even either been cast from fines or they are the fines um but the ones in the middle are the ones that we made on video so you saw us making the pipe and this and that oh my on that and of course the little shells as well shells yeah but other ones are like pebbles and alex has coated the hole here um in what do you use to do that it's an electro form electrophoresis in sterling silver in fact not starting so fine silver so i've got a few more here little tiny hagstone charms and here is a tiny crab claw that alex cast and gold plated yeah we've got the little tiny boots they're doll's legs um that i cast from a real porcelain doll's leg and then i have um enameled it with a little wellie they're wearing little wellington boots they're so cute and then we have one of the grote buckies that we found that alex cast yeah and um the we cheated and made a button that um well the grote bucky we didn't find at stran ra and the button we didn't find at stran raw but i did find a button it was just stuck yeah so it counts yeah it still counts i just did find a button yeah and this beautiful tiny little birdie and this is a pebble that i found and put silver bezel on oh i've got a silver button here as well that's actually that button you can see it cast in silver and i've put a little um bronze thread through it as well that's cute and this here is a bit of lovely blue sea glass which i've put on a wire and that one there and that's a piece of sea glass from strana it was a bit tricky to say i have to say this one is a piece of white sea glass which um i put a piece of foil behind to make it purple yeah that's a fun technique yeah that we thought up and a little shard that's just had a hole drilled in it yeah that's another way you can make these charms you don't have to be a jewelry smith you can just simply drill a hole like we did with the shelves or the pottery put a little jump ring through it and then you could make your own necklaces just use a diamond drill yeah and it's best to drill underwater especially with glass yeah but yeah that oh and this is a shell that's electriform so it's a real shell it's just coated in a layer of silver fine silver so i think that's all that's everything all right so all that leaves is to say a huge thank you once again to all the people that helped us support our channel in all the different ways so thank you to all of our subscribers all the people that take the time and trouble to comment and all of our patrons who are all very important to us making continuing making these videos and sharing them with you all and people who have contributed in other ways um and the people that have been buying us things from our amazon wishlist which we were actually using weren't we in this video some of the tools that you bought for us so thank you so much and we'll say goodbye bye all right we've got to get someone's approval [Music] i'm going to get that pegasus what do you think what do you think what do you think [Music] it's a yes our charm's got the pekka [Music] shrub [Music] hmm

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Length: 56min 50sec (3410 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 01 2021