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A Mudlark's Treasures: London in Fragments
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Ted Sandling
Narrated by:
Ted Sandling
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May 2021
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5 hours 28 minutes
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Mudlarking enthusiast Ted Sandling takes us on a riveting journey along the Thames foreshore and back into the past.
'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail
'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard
'Gripping.' Spectator
'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively
'Indefatigably researched.' Country Life
'Wonderful, quirky.' Tracy Chevalier
Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in London. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling shares his passion for unearthing relics of the past from the banks of the Thames and describes his fifty most evocative finds. From Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery, these objects create a mosaic of everyday London life through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices and industries of a world city. This book celebrates the beauty of small things, and the intangible connection that found objects give us to the past.
The Thames presents treasures with a delightful serendipity: it gives up a hundred random objects, and it is up to the finder to discover their stories. That is the joy of mudlarking: that after every trip to the river you know more than you did before. Chance connections with something that was once treasured, that was once lost and has now been found again. Even the meanest broken fragments tells a story of this great city.
'The significance of these fragments lies in the stories they tell us about the everyday lives of the people to whom there are no monuments or blue plaques.' TLS
A fully illustrated edition of this book is also available under the title LONDON IN FRAGMENTS: A Mudlark's Treasures.
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