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By Madeleine Cuff

23 April 2025

Mudlark in gloves examines an old, green glass poison bottle with embossed text ? London Museum Mudlarkers photographed on the Thames between Millenium Bridge and Southwark Bridge along with finds, landscape views and close ups. — “London’s riverbed has rich pickings”
John Chase/London Museum

I skirt the river Thames most days, usually in a packed train, though occasionally I stroll along its banks and admire the gleam of its water. But it is what lies beneath the river’s waves that is most fascinating, as I discovered at the London Museum Docklands’s exhibition, .

The show is devoted to mudlarking, the popular hobby that sees people scour the Thames at low tide for hidden treasures. From murky beginnings – tales of thievery and scams open the show – mudlarking is revealed as…

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