Some Rose Farthing Business

Excuse the farmer-cheek pink fingers, I’d like to present to you a pretty little Charles I rose farthing. Dating from … More

Quirks, curios, collecting: The G.P.O.

Last year I started to collect mysterious little lead squares as they began to surface on foreshore trip after foreshore trip. … More

Popped in to visit Ed J Bucknall’s stunning exhibition at the Brunel Museum last week. Do catch it while it’s on … More

Dear Friends in Mud, apologies for not having written for the past few days, but I also do this, and … More

There are many items that my long-suffering, non-larking partner finds it hard to get his head around. Some I can … More

❄️Mudlark’s Advent, Day 7❄️ Jacks, Snobs, Knucklebones, Chuckstones… what do you know it as? Dating back to before the Greeks, … More

❄️ Mudlark’s Advent, Day 5❄️ Fly button by Parfitt, Roberts & Parfitt, sword makers and military tailors of Jermyn St. … More