It was also a connection to the outside world at a time I was home alone most of the time with babies. It was the first online mudlarking page, lots of people are doing it now, but back then it was somewhere to share the objects I’d been finding on the foreshore and the research I was doing. We had twins in 2012 and that’s when I started the London Mudlark Facebook page. I did a lot of travelling and in 2008 I got married – well civil partnered, we’re married now. I went freelance, which was honestly the best thing I’ve ever done.
In 2000 I decided I’d had enough of office politics and stepped off the career ladder. I’d go straight from the clubs to work on Monday morning, it’s amazing what you can do into your 20s! Eventually I calmed down, focussed on my career and worked my way up in the publishing world as an editor for illustrated books. It was the early 90s and I threw myself onto the club scene. I blagged my way into a badly paid job at a publishing house in Covent Garden and moved into a flat share in Muswell Hill with my best mate from school. I went to university in Newcastle and by the time I’d finished I was desperate to get to London. So I grew up with a foot in both camps, a child of two very different worlds. My father’s family are farmers, and always have been, my mother’s family came from London and she made sure I knew the city as well as the countryside. The London to Brighton railway skirted the edge of the farm and Gatwick planes roared overhead, but it was a rural oasis, a green valley at the end of a concrete road. I was born in Surrey, on a dairy farm, just 30 miles as the crow flies from Westminster. Welcome Lara – the London Mudlark Hi Lara, please tell us a bit about yourself
How often do you go onto treasure hunts nowadays?.What do you like most about being on the foreshore?.When did you develop an interest into mudlarking?.Hi Lara, please tell us a bit about yourself.
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