Broken bits of our social history – mudlarking in the Thames! (Talk)

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Red bus crosses bridge above Thames beneath bright blue London sky.
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Cost: FREE but donations welcome, booking essential. Refreshments will be available from 6.15m Neighbourhood: Brixton Category:
  • Lambeth Heritage Festival

What did people do with their rubbish before the local Council did the bin collections? They threw it into the nearest river such as the Effra and the Walbrook and of course into the Thames. So what we find today when we are mud larking is the most extraordinary cross section of items from bits off boats, to coins, pottery, animal bones and teeth, beads, bullets and a whole lot more dating from the prehistoric to the modern day.
Join Pauline Crowe to hear more about mud larking and to see some of the items she has found.

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Brixton Oval
London
SW2 1JQ
United Kingdom

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Contact details

Contact name: Vacant
Contact job title: Library Manager
Contact phone: 020 7926 1056
Enquiries email: BrixtonLendingLibrary@lambeth.gov.uk