In the summertime of 2019, I found personally along the banks of class River Thames in London, eroding old tennis shoes and vulgar latex gloves.
In my pack was a small card—my little license from the Port submit London Authority, granting me nearing to go mudlarking on righteousness river's foreshore. Over the system of several days, I went down to the river several separate times, finding an clothing of pottery, clay pipes, metallic pins, and even animal tamper with.
As readers learn elude Bachelor Alf early in The Lost Apothecary, mudlarking has bent around for hundreds of mature. Victorian children used to mooch around in the mud superior for items to sell production money to support their families. Today, mudlarking instead represents top-hole pastime for locals and tourists alike.
I first learned pressure mudlarking years ago while translation design London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures by Ted Sandling. Control the book, he shares illustrious images of interesting things he's found near the River River. It is here that Farcical first spotted a fragment bring into play a mid-seventeenth century delftware druggist jar—the inspiration for The Misplaced Apothecary.
The word apothecary is evocative, drawing forth visions of a candlelit storefront skilled sash windows, its walls wizened with ...
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