Earthenware with words.

Brown glass with letters BR. Found near Putney Bridge.

Bottom of earthenware jar featuring the word 'Liverpool'.

The letter L. From a clothes hanger, and denoting ‘large’. Found on the Thames shore at Thorpe Bay.

Corks. Found at Queens Quay near Southwark Bridge.

Coal, possibly left over from barges, or power stations. Found at Queens Quay near Southwark Bridge.

Pottery shards.  Found at Queens Quay near Southwark Bridge.

Fragment of clay tile stamped with number 7155.

Flat metal plate, about 10 inches long. Found on Hurlingham shore.

Mystery wording on a piece of Terracotta. Found on the Enderby House beach in Greenwich.

Piece of metal featuring the word ‘Powell’ - possibly from the old Powell Brothers Cambrian Iron Works, Wrexham, which opened in 1876 and closed in 1927.

Rag doll.

Polystyrene S.

Old bottle stopper.

Rhinoceros. Cut out from stone, about two inches long.

... is a brick.

A Stephenson brick. These were first made in 1849 by Mr W Stephenson, who set up a brick kiln in Throckley, near Newcastle upon Tyne. The Throckley Brickworks still exists, and is now owned by a Leicestershire-based company, Ibstock.