Mudlarking with Nicola White & The Tragic Story of the Princess Alice Disaster 142 yrs ago this week

Join me as I go mudlarking along the River Thames to see what the tide has left out. Today's video is made up of several different outings and a few different places, and I enjoy wandering along the foreshore making the most of the last of the light evenings as summer draws to a close. Then come back to the studio for a quick round up before I visit the place where the Princess Alice collision took place exactly 142 years ago - on 3rd September 1878. This is such a sad story about hundreds of people, many of them women and children, who were returning from a day out at the seaside and who drowned when the Princess Alice was struck by a collier called the Bywell Castle. I visit the place it happened and then pay a visit to the Old Woolwich Cemetery where there is a monument in memory of the those who drowned.

I am very grateful to Rob Mitchell and Dave Rickard of String Whistle, who allowed me to use their folk song, the Loss of the Princess Alice, on this video. Also Hayley Lazell for sending me her uni project about the Princss Alice.

You do need a permit to mudlark along the River Thames. You can find all the relevant information at https://www.pla.co.uk/Environment/Thames-foreshore-permits

You can follow me at @tidelineart on twitter and instagram.

If you're interested in joining a facebook group to find out more about mudlarking, I suggest :
The River Thames Mudlarking Finds
or
Thames Foreshore finds

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Nicola White
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