In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.

W andering the embankments above the River Thames it is not unusual to see people down on the foreshore at low tide. Kneeling or hunched over, with eyes scanning the gravel and mud, they are ...

in mud or low tide—routinely scavenged the foreshore of the Thames, making a living by selling items that they found. Animal bones, human teeth, relics of war, religious curios, children’s ...

Thames Water is embroiled in a court battle as junior creditors challenge a £3 billion debt lifeline, suggesting it gives ...

consult a tide chart and plan your trip to take place near low tide. The brackish water of the Thames River generally does not freeze completely and thus provides an open-water refuge for Hooded ...

On a fine September day last year, Simon Hunt took his boat down to the River Thames at Brentford ... the pebbles and rocks of the riverbed at low tide was a human femur, or upper leg bone ...