Hidden treasure: Hertford Union Canal gives up its secrets

In January, the Hartford Union Canal in east London was closed for a long time for fundamental reforms without precedent, and is expected to be looted in April. The Canal and River Trust called on volunteers to remove rubbish from the 191-year-old waterway. Anna Borzello formed a group of colleagues who usually screen the shores of the Teams to find out what archaeological curiosity (known as Middlerking) is underwater. ۔ When I went to the stool and the exposed bed of the Hartford Union Channel, the thing I trusted was a Victorian jug, I went straight under my knees and drowned, and I grabbed myself with a shovel. The following five minutes passed in an attempt to uncover. The canal mud is misleading, misleadingly visible on a surface that is now offering to reach the bottom mud. Landing water stands at the center of 3/4 of a mile (1.2 km) long channel, however, it begins to rotate with each advance, making it difficult to see anything. The ground was covered with rubbish. The tires were out. Mud-stained metal stains; A draw on a handle bar opened the motorcycle. The side of the amusement park seat and what it looked like with a light post is half submerged. Most of the garbage was taken down by bee hives. At the lock connecting the Regents and the Hartford Union Canal, we swam through the water loaded with cell phones, with lots of innovative innovations and car number plates, including something that tasted delicious. It was rescued in Samejan and wrapped tightly in a plastic bag. There is no single clear evidence of wrongdoing. There were safes, separate from the soil. Volunteers similarly discovered a BB weapon and a blade, age and provenance vaguely. A colleague who lives on a flatboat revealed to me that a number of things got ridiculously lost - hoodlums like to throw herbs into plant pots from high places, while cutlery is sometimes tossed with dish water. He suggested that several tires lying on the mud initially clung to the rough sides of the forest from the sides of the boats as they pulled out for protection. Found amazing. Mike Walker kicked a round object in shallow water and found a WW2 cap. Some things, like traffic cones, may have been thrown in by tired teenagers. Others were thrown into the water out of anger. While we were fighting in the mud, a woman walked by and asked if we had seen her companion's bike: he was in a gridlock question during a rush from the driver of the vehicle at a time when he had extended his bicycle and Lost in the aisle. I caught two men wondering if the place of the motorcycle under them was "Andrew", he was pushed off the sidewalk. The Hartford Union Canal has never been a commercial success, yet it has been bustling in Victoria Park and operating for nearly 200 years, watching the wartime and entertainment movement, as well as the industry along its shores. One volunteer found a horseshoe, probably dating to the time of the pony-dug trench-carrying ships, while Nicola White was on an ideal nineteenth-century stone ginger staircase, like a bottle of water ink, berries and The felt tip had run out of time before the pen. Some of the more experienced articles may have been extracted by digging. Adjacent little things like these coins and rings have sunk into the deep mud. The fortunes may have been worked out by people fishing with magnets, a mainstream genius. Is interested Inherited items, such as hats and swords, will be retrieved by the CRT and will be searched on the locator if they do not match the channel's experience. Underwater articles may not be your common good fortune, however, they are an indication of the feelings of those who are present on a regular basis and those who are at the level of individuals.