This work comes about by the combining of two objects found on the River Thames Foreshore. I am a London mudlarker – a person who searches for artefacts on the beach. Over centuries numerous objects have been lost or thrown into the river. Thus it has become a remarkable repository of objects that tell us stories that connect us with the world. These derelict playgrounds are constructed from shoe leather and pins. The shoe leather may have been lost by a child in Tudor times or a ship worker in the 19thC. These pins were hand-made before industrialisation; Such remnants once held us together, protected our feet or pinned us into diaper, shroud and most clothing in between. An Elizabethan collar might have 60 pins to hold it together. Adam Smith referred to the pin trade in his ‘Wealth of Nations’ illustrating the benefits of division of labour and specialization.