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Liz Anderson

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Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority. Instagram: @lizanderson2 Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 3h

This is when the train presumably morphs into a Lear Jet #FatChance

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 6h

A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6h

Ours is correcting a confusing announcement telling half-asleep passengers we’re arriving at a station we’ve just left #TwilightZone

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6h

This weekend sees the final Hands on History mudlarking exhibition of the autumn’s Totally Thames Festival 2025. Come and meet the Mudlarks within the historic walls of stunning St Paul’s Cathedral, Sat 11th/Sun 12th October, 10-5pm, free entry. Do come! #mudlarks #mudlarking #HandsOnHistory

Flyer for our last Hands on History exhibition of this autumn’s Totally Thames Festival showing St Paul’s Cathedral visible above the Northbank skyline & Thames Foreshore. The Cathedral will be hosting a mudlarking exhibition this weekend Sat 11th & Sun 12th Oct, 10-5pm, free entry.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 1d

He really is.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 2d

You sound nice.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 3d

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d

#MosaicMonday: colourful #Roman glass tesserae found in Geneva/Switzerland, dating 3rd/4th c. AD.

Mosaic cubes were made of stone, pottery, tile, or glass. Glass tesserae were rather fragile. They were used rather rarely in floor mosaics to provide colours that...🧵1/2

#archaeology 🏺

A pile of small glass mosaic cubes in shades of blue, green, and yellow, on a white surface.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 3d

I’d add that the theatres are also very much to blame, people literally being allowed/encouraged to sit in the auditorium eating food and bringing in drink. Bad enough in the cinema, though that is at least ‘sort of’ more common, but eating & drinking through a shortish lecture/play is abominable 😤

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Hahahahaha…
#AnEveningWithMaryBeard

At ‘An Evening With Mary Beard’ tonight. Comparisons being explored between certain cruel, stupid, autocratic Ancient Roman Emperors and a certain American President.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 3d

At Richmond Theatre this evening for an evening with Professor Mary Beard. Judging by the number of people brandishing buckets of popcorn as they take their seats, we are in for a lot of chomping tonight. Are folk really unable to sit through an hour and twenty minutes lecture without eating?

Blue lit stage in a theatre surrounded by pillars, in the middle two chairs with a more comfortable seat in the middle. Above on the screen the legend that is Professor Mary Beard.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13d

'Mudlarking' (2021) by Tim Southall
timsouthall.net

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t myself but I know other Mudlarks have found artefacts with a ship’s name or a barge builder’s name on.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 4d

- post medieval glazed redware with the potter’s thumb prints decorating the rim. Literally, hands on history. NB you must have a valid PLA permit to mudlark on the Thames Foreshore.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 4d

To the Thames Foreshore at Rotherhithe yesterday on a grey, showery afternoon. Home of ship/barge building & breaking, nails and iron scrap are visible everywhere here. A few small finds - tiny cowrie shell brought back from the Indian/Pacific Oceans as ballast on vessels. And a pottery sherd - 1/

The Thames Foreshore at Rotherhithe on a gloomy breezy grey day. The home of shipbuilding and ship breaking, ancient timbers and wooden revetments peek out from the mud, sand & gravel. The Shard is visible further upstream.

Tiny cowrie shell visible in the sand and gravel of the Thames Foreshore.

Tiny cowrie shell visible in my black gloved hand, in the distance the Thames Foreshore, rocks, stones & boulders, view across the river to Wapping, downstream to Shadwell and Limehouse.

Smak sherd of brown-glazed p post medieval pottery, the rim of a pot, the potter’s thumb prints visible in the decorative edge. Seen posed in my black gloved hand on the Thames Foreshore.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Late to this news, so sorry to hear of Gillian Tindall’s passing.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6d

I’m seeing a crumble… (with custard.)

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6d

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 6d

35 years ago, Germany was reunified.

German reunification celebrations in front of the Reichstag on 3 October 1990

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Thames find from earlier this week. Someone thought this heavy crystal glass was precious enough to have their initials HP beautifully etched into the base. I’ve seen tavern tankards with similar engravings but not in glass. Ownership of items has always mattered. Probably late 18thC or early 19thC.

On the Thames Foreshore near the embankment wall, my shadow seen on a sunny day. In my left gloved hand I’m holding the base of a heavy crystal glass with the initials HP engraved in the base. The glass is probably late Georgian/early Victorian era.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6d

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you x

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7d

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7d

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday to the absolute unit that is Didier the Doodle, aka The Floofen Prince. Made short work of opening his new toy before burying it in the garden a few moment later & digging up a newly planted rosemary shrub. Barked at a squirrel and the postman. Happy days.

Didier the Doodle (ginger & white) opening a toy - his birthday gift, in the kitchen.

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