Beachcombing for sea glass treasures on Seaham beach and making jewellery from our finds!

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] see guy glass and we haven't been here for a while we used to come along yeah basically it's famous for and they dumped the end of day and waste glass over the cliff so it's all sorts of shapes sizes big pizzas and yeah juicy pieces some of the best eat off the world partly the best deal in the world coming home very yeah fingers crossed we'll find something so we'll see on the bed one Wow ooh what's that CES cm is known for these beautifully shaped pieces of glass because this glass I think the glass works um was over there someone and they used to dump the glass the old glass the end of day waste glass down onto the beach and into the sea there's another little bit of white and and it's over 100 years old so the factory ran from I think the the 19th century right through to the 1920s I'm hoping to find some gorgeous multicolored glass as we agree but we're here for the multicolored pieces or multi zarcero honest mum's got a hug stone so thank you hug says yeah we found quite a lot of packs into the past oh no I just got just crouch down look it's our first multicolored piece look at that look at that there look we'll zoom in zoom in there it is that's what we're looking for so can we see how it's bicolored it's oh look at that see beautiful treasure look at that that's amazing lovely that's not bad for like the first PCC glass I was expecting that that's another one oh yeah the sea the Seas oh oh just okay so that we've just hit us but look a beautiful blue piece it kind of marks you cut it so look look at what we've got so far that's amazing we need to just wow okay this is great Wow the sea the sea is extremely M sneaky so mums just found this beautiful rock here and I think that is agate or chalcedony chalcedony Charles Sidney Swain like that look how beautiful it is gorgeous stone there are actually knows Oh beautiful pebbles down here as well it's not just the sea glass so I bought a new tool and it is an 18th century garden rake of course an 18th century hand rake how cool is that look at a big ring on the end so I'm gonna use it chief it'll help me find treasure oh wait what's this Oh lovely piece of green beautiful well carry on see what I can find oh I was just filming some nice little shots of the sea and like I just look down and this piece of giant bass well really thick piece of sea glass down here can you see it this is called and bubble a sea glass bubble look how beautiful it is Wow it's like treasure [Music] I love that so much it's so beautiful mom has got another lovely drinky bubble glass it might be a bit too small for you guys to see but I found a really pretty piece of agate I'll zoom in on a zoomin it's got like little bands and everything can you see that don't think you're gonna be able to see it but it's very pretty yeah look at this look at this so mom just found this amazing piece honey look look look look you see it oh my god it kind of look the waves are coming out I'm wet look at my shoes I'm soaking but look this is what we came here for it's crazy okay this I'll zoom in I'll zoom in right okay there that's beautiful piece Wow you found the best pieces today we haven't been here very long no we're back I'm actually surprised at the pieces we found guys I'm soaking my feet asked squelchy so okay you call graceless eat that's one thing I've learned so let's see if we can spot anything together it does take quite a lot of searching to find a decent fit and a lot of people that I suppose assume you just come here and they're kind of lying all over the place but it really got something you do have to hunt you do have to really really search for them and a moment I have been doing this for years so we've kind of got I tuned and to see glass now are we [Music] oh my god you just found that this second look we've got a big chunk just down I just turned the camera off and then you were like Alex look at that that's a big it's not very well smooth but it is a big old churn sucker piece of ice it does it does look like solid ice [Music] we haven't been here very long having a great day already I've got another really pretty Rock here as well look at that look at the patterns on it it's that beautiful actually found some really beautiful of shale apostles here as well it's not all about the sea glass guys there are lots of little bit tiny bits like that most of what's left is just tiny pieces but if you're lucky you might find a bubble [Music] chunky bits of round glass so beautiful he go so I do have mold pieces here some lovely beautiful rounded pieces but they're just tiny and they're not multicolored there's another one down here as well oh wow look at that can you see the big bubble spot the seaglass what goes down there that's what we're after my hands on it ah and this is on the dry piece of a beach so quite a few people must have missed that knocked over it so it just goes to show a piece that a piece of beach that someone you think has been searched over and walked over many times you can still find things can you see it down there just poking out it's a little malty it's just only just peeping out an Adobe that lack look can you see it look how pretty that is [Music] [Music] [Music] so many people around today look everyone's collecting cyclist seaglass mania I'm sitting down here collecting these tiny pieces these are perfect for jewelry as well so I'm just gonna sit down here for a bit and look for the tiny zamok they're small shingle there's quite a few little mini Maltese down here as well look at this one it's a little red and clear multi just there actually I think I might be a pink colour so cute got some lovely lime and green greeny colors and things as well it's a really beautiful thing to do just looking for sea glass mums actually lost her kneeling pad and we think it's probably been washed away by the sea I wonder if she's found it yet I don't think she has uh-oh like what oh you dropped it it's a headstone a lucky guy sit down it's like Flint texture like a little chair AG stone that copied all it is some few odd and now odd small bits of got a few odd small bits of sea glass there as well and this is what my bags looking like so far got some really nice pieces in there few really nice pieces okay look at this gorgeous stone I found look it it's got like the striking red Center I think it's a shirt kind of like Flynn and look at it it's absolutely beautiful they're actually so many beautiful rocks down here I think a lot of people actually overlook them for the seaglass but really are some beautiful beautiful pebbles [Music] you all find it the best people it's kind of like it's like green with darker vet Sabrina and a really interesting piece of slug glass just down here and it's kind of white and it's got green like light green glass in side of it as well three cool I've also got a bit down here we really interesting slag glass I spoil a beautiful piece of Jasper down here look at that so beautiful the stress our route loads of lovely lovely stones down here as well as glass oh just found one of my favorite types of sea glass down here it's a bubble oak look how beautiful the tides coming to get it look coming I love bubbles there's a mini mini blue a tiny tiny electric motors there here is a smallest little blue multi that you've ever seen in your life it kind of looks like ol eyeball I've just found this absolutely beautiful puzzle I think it's like a little coral fossil it's really beautiful mum is heading back now we're going back to the car and because we want to try out another Beach a different Beach and I am starving so I'm gonna head back Beach combers I go and get my lunch because I'm so hungry so I've got more gorgeous rocks and some beautiful kind of aluminium shavings I think that's what it is some kind of shaving of something or like where something's drilled into a bit of aluminium and it's made that kind of swirly thing by got a hag stone a bubbly piece of sea glass and this rock which is like red piece of chair which is really red inside look how cool that is oh wow look at this piece it's beautiful it's a little green bubble we've stopped have a lunch and then we're going to continue seaglass something but I think we're gonna go to another meet chat we yeah we're going to go to the harbour yeah the beach especially we're helping them to find the best class our thing what's your turn though yeah it's my turn to found the best piece on big a giant red bubble anyway we'll see you in a minute okay so we're going back up the stairs a lot steps we're heading to Beach number two it's quite a climb back up so we'll see you there [Music] so we just came down the steps and spotted these pebbles here and people ever written their messages on them the first one I saw says you can't change the past but you can change the future and I love sea glass which is very true only this moment is life kailia gnarly nothing changes if nothing changes yeah Oh punch someone and Billy oh how sweet our first finds our textures but there's millions of there are thousands of them down here I used to make jewelry out of all these well these kind of rocks how many there are look holy rocks everywhere holy rocks for days [Applause] okay so mine's a better look on this smaller shingle I think mom is too because I keep seeing him bending over picking things up and look down here this tiny little bit of glue okay it's like electric blue and it looks like a tiny little multicolored bit oh look how cute perfect for a ring or something look how tiny these pieces are I think it's some kind of slug it's crazy how tiny some of the pieces are down here and there are loads of tiny little hag stone like minutes to awesome tiny I'll zoom in the tiniest little axe donut there's one here as well tiny cute down here I've spotted one of my favoritest bits of glass my favorite types of glass looks and easier I love I love bubbles it's treasure it's just a big black grape I love it got lots of tiny ones but they're all really well worn it's so beautiful mom's just found this gorgeous little fossil and it's it's a hag stone as well but what is it a see spending challenge I think well sea sponge fossil looks like a volcano I've got some beautiful tiny bits of glass they're so pretty in well-worn I am just in love with these tiny little perfectly worn white pieces or clear pieces or whatever you want to call that's quite a lot of them this there's not many of any other color but there's lots of those little white pieces those little bean shaped piece I just found my first bit of red down there it's tiny well actually it's my second bit of red today look how tiny it is I've got some look how beautiful these whites are though absolutely just perfect and I love them so much treasure and there's some other colors look that's green and an amber color there zoom out a little bit because there's another lovely beautifully perfect green piece there as well such gorgeous glass down here guys it's another Buble so many good pieces just tiny but perfect the yellowy piece mom's found treasures coins they're modern that one's been bending down to pick up sea glass and the coins have dropped out that pocket woopy yay we can buy it off an ice cream oh I just found these'll let me zoom in to settle ah look at that face hello sessile nice to see you kind of looks like a dog or a cat or a turtle oh yeah Turtles head it's my first pink multi of the day look it's just sitting there minding its own business let me zoom in look how beautiful it is it's pink and clear if you wanted to find it really no I did [Music] you did I just found another one another multi just down here look oh this one is brown boom yeah it's like amber and white look that's pretty on look a blue one oh that's nice it's kind of an awkward like good okay like we're all that was cool too little Maltese right next to each other I was expecting that wow that was a surprise this is a good little spot down here look got a little tiny one they're not will do about oh yeah a little teeny one there there I think I saw Eric a little yellow one and a green one this is a good spot oh that mom she's found one there's all they're so pretty little seed jewels look at this I can't wait to see what we've got when we get home my into my pocket and I can't get the bag out of my pocket anymore it's like it's stuck so much sea glass in there now look down here you can't see it very well actually but I think this is gonna be a blue bubble at least there look Oh that's precious that's a good one girls with my neck we need to read now [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] No [Music] this whole ground is just made of hot stones this hot stones everywhere that one looks like a face mom's over here with some long selected are these for our fire our fire woods we're gonna have to carry this back to the car I found another sea sponge fossil it's quite a big one so we've had a great day on the beaches at CMA amazing sea glass and we can't wait to get home yeah I'd have a look pour over though and take pictures of them and show you guys what is that and I think we've got loads of great glass for jewelry as well so maybe mom will make something a little bit later has inspired me to make yeah so stay tuned for anyway from sea and beach from Durham Kingdom oh my god we just probably just hotels right just campus we're just carried all these word all these word I can't even talk all the way I'm sorry I breath right now oh that would like how much all the way up I'm down there okay enough beachcombing for today I think yeah mom's gonna go get the car I'll put these on [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello so here they are although wonderful amazing Isis of Glau yeah actually got lower than we look like how much we got they're so beautiful these pieces and then look they're so beautifully shaved you around it and at least my favorite legacy they're my favorites just these little tiny we're like sure and then our best bits which I've already shown you lots of nice shots oh so yeah and the bubbles love girls and of course we've got a lot of really nice rocks we've got quite a few hang stone fossils and we've got some hag stone sea sponge fossils some nice bits of chat and that's a coral fossil and mom's got a really cool little rock it's a bit of chat but it has all these other rocks little rocks jammed in there which is really cool and this one it's so yeah I know it's got like red right in the middle right in the middle anyway yeah that's all of our glass all of our beautiful glass and we had such a lucky day and we've also got lots of sea metal mum thousand coins and we always seem to find lots of bits of CMS let's see em no way especially aluminium they load it onto the ships and the harbours and I think some of it escapes and gets washed that says 8:45 yeah yeah Nick Oh anyway hello I'd like to tell you a little bit about how all this glass got to be here on the beach at CM and what makes it so unusual so there was a bottle works just above the beach just above the harbor really and it was called the Londonderry bottle works he opened the works in 1853 manufacturing what they call black bottles but these were actually very dark green bottles and the bits of black glass are quite difficult to find because they just look like pebbles so in 1856 they absorbed a smaller bottle works called fanox and the business thrived and by his death in 1874 there were seven bottle houses at seeum and they were beat and their cm bottles were being exported all over the world and john Candler she had a really strong relationship with his workforce and when the district bank in Sunderland failed he had and he had no money to pay his employees he they offered to work for a month without wages and candala SH was so touched and that he accepted their offer as a loan to be paid paid back with interest and this man only worked only earned about 10 shillings a week and so it was a huge sacrifice for them to do this and the bishop Westcott of durham considered this the finest episode of industrial relations of which he had ever heard at that time so he seemed like a really nice man and he went on to open a school and a library within the works and when his daughter married he actually held a tea and a concert and a ball for all of his workers inviting 600 men apprentices wives and sweethearts and so that was a really nice thing to do after his death his brother Robert took over the business and ran it for another 13 years and he also did a lot of good work for the employees he expanded and improved the bottle works and they started to make other glass the new pale glass of every shape color and size and the bottle works was taken over by Robertson Robert's son Joseph and it ran until 1921 when the company transferred its works to London and unfortunately after that the bottle works was closed and eventually demolished and the lovely community that they had there disappeared so that's a real shame and a big blow to the community yeah then they go on strike I didn't know they refused to go on strike when other industries at the time had gone on strike they refused to and they kept working this is just a real testament to their you know it goes to show if you have that good working relationship yeah your employees if only other Victorian employees by here today you know track their workers so well yeah you know the world would have been a better place would be now yeah would be now so so just takes a little bit of kindness kindness and consideration it really is actually really touching it is and it and to think that all this these bits of glass came from that yeah you know a lot of the workers actually took waste glass home and had little side businesses in their backyards where they'd make beautiful glass things are very skilled and these today are worth a lot of money well actually some of the some of the sea glass the multicolored sea glass is actually worth a lot of money for sea glass collectors now as well people come from all over the world to see them to find this unique glass and the bottle works might be gone and the community may be gone but this is their legacy all these years and the future people loving and appreciating well this this glass yeah some people still making a living in cm from glass that they find yeah so here are some of the things that well I say some literally just some because we have like chest full of CMC glass mostly but these are our best bits yeah so we've got some amazing colors the I mean these have been years in the collecting I can stop just like looking at this sea glass for a second I want to show you the amazing ring mum made it has a beautiful hammered band and the seagulls kind of just glows it's absolutely amazing and she stamped the back with northern Medlock's nm it's just stunning beautiful okay so that is some of our amazing collection of CMC glass and we will be back we will definitely be returning back to see him for more videos it's a shame and we couldn't have shown you finding every single one of these bits but we didn't make videos no we didn't this is this is this is years and years of sort of collecting as well yeah on and off so anyway thank you very much everyone for watching and thank you to all of our subscribers and everyone who takes time to comment we really appreciate it yeah we love reading your comments really do as we say every week but big thank you to our patrons as well for their support and we'll see you next time on another adventure see you next Sunday bye you have cast you now to stop filming Alex it's all right it's all right yeah but look how gorgeous it is sit down and we'll have a nice cup of tea [Laughter]

Channel: Northern Mudlarks

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Keywords: sea glass, sea treasures, sea glass hunting, rare sea glass, seaham, seaham sea glass, beachcombing, treasure hunters, mudlarking, jewellery making, silversmithing, sea glass collecting, sea glass jewellery, mudlark, English sea glass, ASMR, UK adventure

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Length: 49min 7sec (2947 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 08 2020