💦🐚Join Thames21 and mudlark Lara Maiklem for a London Rivers Week walk on the Thames foreshore. We’ll meet on the footpath by the railings on the south side of Millennium Bridge, just in front of Tate Modern Garden, on the 6th of June at 4 pm and head west towards the OXO Tower.

⬇️ Learn more about Lara:

Lara is a licensed Mudlark with 20 years of experience searching the Thames. In that time she has amassed a collection of unusual lost and discarded objects, including an Iron Age pot, Roman hair pins, a medieval pilgrim badge, Tudor shoes, 17th century children’s toys, scores of buttons, hundreds of clay pipes and even a glass eye. She began posting on social media in 2012 and her first book, Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. It became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and it won the Indie Award for Non-Fiction 2020.

Lara has written on Mudlarking for the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Financial Times and Spectator magazine. She wrote a short mudlarking series for BBC Radio, has appeared many times on national and international television and radio, and has even done a TED Talk. In 2019 she was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and in 2020 she became an Associate Brother of the Artworker’s Guild. You can join her on social media @LondonMudlark (Facebook and Twitter) and @London.Mudlark (Instagram).

🥾Please ensure you have suitable footwear (wellies or boots) and weather-appropriate clothing for the day.

📧If you have any questions, please contact Steph at stephanie.fernandes@thames21.org.uk