Saturday, 20 July 2024
20 July Australian History
Friday, 7 June 2024
Magnet fishers Peaky Dippers UK and Sash window weights
Yep, I've become addicted to these dedicated History Hunters.
Today's video features some of my fav mudlarks, Nicola White and Si Finds, as well as sash window weights.
Now, what the effing heck are people tossing sash weights into the Thames for?
It's not like we're talking one or 3, it's a regular thing they find.
Hefty sash weights.
Boat anchors? Fishing weights? How big are the pike?!
Is there a secret society of frustrated window hangers collecting their weights each week and merrily tossing them into the Thames under cover of darkness?
And flat irons are another that are often found in the river.
Now I CAN picture London Suffragettes lining the waterway and, with gay abandon, happily shot-putting their 4-letter word into the drink.
Twenty Third day of the month of October throughout the not-so-many eons of Oz history
1786 - Barron Field, who claimed to be the first poet of Australia *ahem* and was for a number of years an actual judge in New South Wales...
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1817 HMSC Mermaid was commissioned on this day ; the Mermaid was the infamous boat in which Phillip Parker King surveyed and chartered the c...
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1800 - Napoleon issued instructions to Baudin and Hamelin, who sailed in the Geographe and the Naturaliste, to explore the east and south ...
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1790 – HMS Supply returned from Batavia with more supplies for the colony. 1847 The forced exile of Tasmanian Aboriginal People to Wybalenn...