0:00:02 > 0:00:04It's the nation's favourite antiques experts...
0:00:04 > 0:00:05I don't know what to do!
0:00:07 > 0:00:10..with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal
0:00:10 > 0:00:12to scour Britain for antiques.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13What an old diamond!
0:00:13 > 0:00:17The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Back in the game! Charlie!
0:00:20 > 0:00:24There'll be worthy winners, and valiant losers.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28So, will it be the high road to glory, or the slow road to disaster?
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Oh!
0:00:29 > 0:00:31This is the Antiques Road Trip.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Yeah!
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Today our experts shop in Shropshire.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43See if you can tell which one lives here.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Ah, John Deere. Got to love a John Deere.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Yep, tractor spotter Christina Trevanion's a country lass,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52as well as an auctioneer.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54She even learned to drive in a Land Rover.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57This is the life, driving round my home county, in this car,
0:00:57 > 0:01:01being a tour guide, boring you senseless.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Sorry, what were you saying again? Were you talking there?
0:01:06 > 0:01:09I just caught Shropshire, Wrekin... Severn, yeah.
0:01:09 > 0:01:15Wrekin, eh? That big hill, almost as prominent as her co-driver's wallet.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17You've got so much money to spend.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19I'm walking lopsided!
0:01:19 > 0:01:24I'm not surprised, because Cumbrian auctioneer and dapper Dan,
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Paul Laidlaw, has been fairly raking it in on this trip,
0:01:28 > 0:01:29thanks very much.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31300!
0:01:31 > 0:01:34His latest coup, some Georgian glass, that he bought for £1
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and sold for £360!
0:01:37 > 0:01:45- Bravo! Well done. - Christina has so far increased her £200 stake to a modest £224.54.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50While Paul, who began with the same sum,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54has already managed to almost quadruple it
0:01:54 > 0:01:57with £780.34 now at his disposal.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Our trip begins in Clare, Suffolk, before careering around the heart of
0:02:03 > 0:02:05England, and heading north, to end
0:02:05 > 0:02:08up at a Cheshire climax in Northwich.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12But today, their HMC Mark IV starts out in Shrewsbury,
0:02:12 > 0:02:14in Shropshire, and makes its way towards an auction
0:02:14 > 0:02:16in the Potteries at Stoke-on-Trent.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24But first, to the Salopian county town, where,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27until a few years ago, Shrewsbury Football Club
0:02:27 > 0:02:29played their matches beside the Severn
0:02:29 > 0:02:32at the picturesque Gay Meadow.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Ah, there's a little reminder.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36- Hello. Hi, Christina. - Nice to meet you.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- Hi. What's your name?- Jim.- Jim.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40- Lovely to meet you, Jim. - Handsome Jim.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Handsome Jim. That's the name, is it?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Especially if you want a bargain, Christina.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- Has she found something already? - Oh, hello.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Now, that's a bit of magic.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Ah, a pair of Alexander Blaikley paintings, by the look of it.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- Very nice, aren't they? - Aren't they just, yeah.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57So, they're a pair? Is that £195 for the pair?
0:02:57 > 0:03:01- No.- So you've got them individually priced, but you won't split them?
0:03:01 > 0:03:02I won't split them, yeah.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- OK.- All right, I can do a deal on the pair, then. £250.
0:03:06 > 0:03:12- That's a good price.- They are very beautiful, but I don't have £250!
0:03:12 > 0:03:15- Then you can't have them, can you! - Exactly.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Have they got any provenance? Where have become from?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20I don't do the history, it costs extra(!)
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Fair enough, Jim. Scottish born Blaikley was a 19th-century portrait
0:03:24 > 0:03:27painter, these two are very typical of his work.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28They look a bit faded to me.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31I would be looking to pay probably 150...
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Good Lord! I'll do you the pair for 200.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38- Now, that's a good deal. - Split the difference with me at 180.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43- Split the difference and go 190. - No, not going to go more than 180.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46- 185?- Nope.- Oh, good Lord. There's a dog to be fed.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Blimey, Jim. What on earth are you giving him?
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Let me have a really good look at them, and we'll talk again.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- OK.- All right.- Yes.- They are quite interesting, these pictures.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01I've sold one of these in my auction and it sold incredibly well.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03The only reservation is, unfortunately,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06the auction that we're going to I don't think has internet bidding
0:04:06 > 0:04:09and therefore doesn't have an international audience.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13These pictures, to do them justice, need an international audience,
0:04:13 > 0:04:14and they could bomb.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Yet, they could very well do that.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I said I was going to buy five things for £1, I can't
0:04:18 > 0:04:21go and spend all my money on the first item!
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Argh!
0:04:27 > 0:04:32Ignorant of that agony, Paul's on the way to his first shop
0:04:32 > 0:04:34just outside Shrewsbury, at Atcham.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39Hello. Hello! How are you?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- Gerard, is it?- Yes. Welcome to Mytton Antiques.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Thank you, very much. What a property,
0:04:45 > 0:04:48it's like something out of Hansel and Gretel, this.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53But only in a nice way, because this cottage is full of fine things.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Not cheap, but then our Paul does have a few bob.
0:04:56 > 0:05:04A nice little George III Sheraton, satinwood-veneered, crossbanded,
0:05:04 > 0:05:09burr walnut-inlaid caddie, circa 1780.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10Nah, it's a biscuit tin(!)
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Empty too, by the sound of it.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16But it's great, isn't it? I don't think this is expensive.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21£58. It's a little joy, it's fun, and you can use it.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24You can still put your teabags in it, or whatever.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Is it for me? Not at the moment.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28But I like it.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Not enough, though. Keep looking.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32Jim, can we have another chat?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34While back in Shrewsbury, it looks like things
0:05:34 > 0:05:37may be about to get interesting.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Where did we get to?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40185 for the pair.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Stupid price.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Well, I did say maybe. Gird your loins.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48My issue is, obviously, there's a lot of damage to the frames and they
0:05:48 > 0:05:50have been re-lined. They've had new backs on,
0:05:50 > 0:05:51so somebody has taken them out.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Somebody took them out to put money inside, covered it over and left it.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- Gold sovereigns? - Well, could be.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01- I'm still thinking 150, 160.- No, you didn't, you went up to 170.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- Yeah, well, I changed my mind. - You went up to 170.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- I've changed my mind.- You can't go back down!
0:06:05 > 0:06:06It's a woman's prerogative.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10- She's right, Jim. - I think 160 would be a fair price on the two.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Good Lord, no! Can I go and make myself a cup of tea?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- A man'll die of thirst here!- No!
0:06:14 > 0:06:16I leave you to it. That's it.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- He's off again?- Jim? - That's robbery. Daylight robbery!
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- Jim? Jim?- Yes, darling.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25It's like some sort of courtship ritual, isn't it?
0:06:25 > 0:06:26- 160.- Nope.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27- 165?- No!
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Come on, a fiver.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33175. I'll start going up if you keep coming down.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Do you feel insulted?
0:06:34 > 0:06:35I do. Highly.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37165, you've got a deal.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41And I'll get out of your hair for the rest of the day. Go on.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- OK, go on.- 165.- You bring tears to a glass eye, you know that?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49So, that's one deal happily arrived at.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Bye, Murphy, bye.
0:06:51 > 0:06:52Bye. Bye.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54He'll bite you!
0:06:54 > 0:06:56But, Paul, it seems, has drawn a blank
0:06:56 > 0:07:00so he's now heading back towards Shrewsbury, and Christina's shop
0:07:00 > 0:07:01and the dog.
0:07:01 > 0:07:07Four floors of antiques and vintage. It may be big enough for both of us.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Junk 'n' Disorderly. That's got my name on it!
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- Hello!- Is your work here done? - What are you doing here?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Remember me?- You're like a bad penny. What are you doing here?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Oh, don't say it like that! - What's going on?
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Well, I bought so well in that first shop that I'm on a roll.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- Yeah, out! Out!- You're offski, yeah?- Yeah, I'm done.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Seriously, you've done here?- Yeah.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29- Aw!- See later, have fun.- It's a plan. See you later.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Paul's turn, then.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36And apart from the missing paintings, there's still plenty to
0:07:36 > 0:07:38choose from, including a little militaria.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42- Here we go. - Well, quite a lot, actually.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44A rack of uniforms.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46And that's my bag.
0:07:46 > 0:07:52However, that's post-war German, Bundeswehr.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55That's post-war dress, who cares!
0:07:55 > 0:07:59It's all well buying fancy dress, history is what we are looking for.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03This, however, is Second World War Royal Navy.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Right, OK. Watch this. Switch, geek mode! Anorak mode!
0:08:08 > 0:08:10This is called a jumper.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Yes, you think a jumper is a woolly pully,
0:08:12 > 0:08:14but in admiralty language this is a jumper.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16And it would indeed be worn with bell-bottomed trousers,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19with seven folds that represent the seven seas.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25These five stripes, here, are war service chevrons.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28These were given in the Second World War for each year of service,
0:08:28 > 0:08:32that guy served for the duration of the war, and he was still
0:08:32 > 0:08:37wearing this in 1944, because in 1944 he had earned four stripes,
0:08:37 > 0:08:39see this one is a bolt on.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Isn't that a great wee bit of detective work?
0:08:41 > 0:08:45We can pin this thing down to a period without a label or a date.
0:08:45 > 0:08:51I can tell you more about the guy, he is, by my reckoning, a signaller,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53is he not? Because they are semaphore flags.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56It all starts to reveal itself.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Clever stuff.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Jim, though, wishes to put a more eccentric item forward.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- It's a good 'un.- It's all about the story, isn't it?
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Well, I can give you any story you like!
0:09:07 > 0:09:12It's a mounted horse's hoof, complete with shoe,
0:09:12 > 0:09:17fitted with a brass collar and a hinged mahogany lid.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22It would serve as a baccy pot or a match pot, or whatever you want.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26I'm giving you 95. I'm open to a bit of hardball. Look, I've removed the
0:09:26 > 0:09:28price, what does that tell you? I'm ready for a sale.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I need some money, I've a dog to feed, look at him.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Didn't he say the same thing to Christina?
0:09:32 > 0:09:36Just how much dog food does that dog want? He's so small.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42For my money, the best of these are hooves of mounts that charged
0:09:42 > 0:09:45with the Light Brigade, or whatever.
0:09:45 > 0:09:50Then you've got me going, cos frankly, that's disgusting!
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Show me some history, and then you've got me attention.
0:09:53 > 0:10:01Now, if that ST is Sergeant Lamb, of the 17th Lancers, I'm interested.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Quite. Now let the horse trading recommence without the dog.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07- Give me 45.- No.- I can't...
0:10:07 > 0:10:11I reckon that's going to make 30-40 quid under the hammer.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13You're joking me! Give me 40 and I'll take it
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- and that's the end of it now. - Have you not listened to me?
0:10:16 > 0:10:20We've got an old uniform and a green helmet there.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23What would be the price if on the three pieces?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24And I don't rate them, by the way,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27I'm just trying to take the pain out of that.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Give me 75 for the lot.- No! - That's dirt cheap!
0:10:30 > 0:10:33- Because the blue uniform... - 50 quid, there you go.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- ..is neither here nor there. - That's what you wanted. 50 quid.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- Do you want to shake on it, yes or no?- Yeah.- Done.- No problem.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Well, Jim, yet again it's been emotional.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Well, I tell you what, you'll do well to get a tenner for it.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48This is no joking matter.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- Look after yourself, my friend. - You too, man.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- All the best to you. - And I hope I don't see you again.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56I'll wash out my mouth, big man.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Now, still in Shrewsbury, where's our local lass got to?
0:11:05 > 0:11:09- Bill, how are you?- Christina, how are you?- Nice to see you. Very well, thank you.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13- Oh, what a surprise. Nice of you to drop in.- Yeah, I'm sorry about this gate-crashing.- You're always welcome.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Now, I don't know about you but I reckon those two have met before.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Could local knowledge help? It's certainly a very nice shop.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- Bill, I love... This is a printing block tray, isn't it?- It is.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26It's a printing block tray that you've put on the wall
0:11:26 > 0:11:29and it just makes a really lovely display cabinet.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31It takes all those lovely little items that you've got that
0:11:31 > 0:11:34you just don't know what to do with but they're beautiful to look at.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Yeah, that my husband curses. - Does he?
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Yeah, I bet they're all over the place.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Christina could certainly do with pointing in the right direction.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Oh, Bill, I need to find something I'm going to make
0:11:43 > 0:11:49- about £500 profit on.- Are you? I'm not sure that's the object.- I know.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54- Anything else, Billy?- Oh, I tell you what I do like.- Oh, the tin-plate?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57- That's pretty cool, isn't it? - That's fabulous.- I like that.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- OK, missing its front. - Yeah. There's bits wrong with it.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05- Oh, but look at him driving his train!- It is '50s. It is Japanese.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09It needs a little bit of care and attention.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11It does, doesn't it? But that's great. Does it work?
0:12:11 > 0:12:16Well, no, it doesn't. Well, I don't know if it's bad off working.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20- The bits are there.- Oh, yeah. What have we got on it? £20.- Yep.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23- It looks great but... - It's a decorative object.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Like me, it has issues. HE LAUGHS
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- Don't we all?- Speak for yourselves.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- 12 quid, it's yours.- Yeah? - You'll make a profit.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34- Will I?- What do you think? - Can we make it a tenner?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Oh, sure.- Tenner?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39What have you got there? Is that a handshake or what?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42- It's a handshake.- All right. - Thank you very much.- You're welcome.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43You're an angel.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Deal sealed and, issues or not, she should be chuffed
0:12:46 > 0:12:48about that little buy.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53But whilst Christina's been bargaining, Paul's back
0:12:53 > 0:12:57behind the wheel heading east towards the Birmingham suburb
0:12:57 > 0:13:02of Erdington, where inside this mysterious warehouse
0:13:02 > 0:13:05there's a wealth of incredible history.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08- RADIO: Good afternoon. Reception, can I help you?- Paul Laidlaw.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12I've arranged to pop in and see you.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17Oh, look at that! Holy Moses, here it goes.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Paul's about to get a close look
0:13:19 > 0:13:21at where the government keeps our wills.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- Hello there, Phil. - Paul, good to see you.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28- Good to see you.- Welcome to Iron Mountain.- Thanks very much. What a place this is!
0:13:28 > 0:13:33It certainly is because since 1858, when our wills were made public,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36they have been archived and there's an awful lot of them here.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40We store the wills, 80 million of them,
0:13:40 > 0:13:43on behalf of Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service
0:13:43 > 0:13:46and we've got some really, really strict controls in place
0:13:46 > 0:13:49around the temperature, humidity and, as you've seen, security,
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- when you came through.- Indeed.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Nowadays, they're hard at work digitising all this
0:13:55 > 0:13:56and putting it online for everyone,
0:13:56 > 0:13:58from those studying their family history
0:13:58 > 0:14:01to biographers of great Britons.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05- Oh, it is, it's amazing. This is Indiana Jones.- Oh, absolutely.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08But there's nothing quite like taking a close-up look
0:14:08 > 0:14:09at the originals.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12These are hundreds of thousands of people we're looking at.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Each one of these pages, each one of these documents
0:14:15 > 0:14:17can tell you a story, and then you've got
0:14:17 > 0:14:20the more interesting people such as Edward William Elgar.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23- Right, the composer. Right. - Absolutely.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26"I regret that owing to the sudden collapse of everything artistic
0:14:26 > 0:14:29"and commercial, I have found it necessary to revoke the will,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32"which I previously made and to make this present will."
0:14:32 > 0:14:35So even in the wills of famous people, of people that we know,
0:14:35 > 0:14:40there are still stories to be told about how fortunes were made
0:14:40 > 0:14:43and sometimes were lost or fortunes changed.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45So why has he rewritten the will?
0:14:45 > 0:14:49At this time in his life, you can see here that he's struggling with everything around him
0:14:49 > 0:14:51and that was caused by the death of his wife, Alice.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- So tragic circumstances led to this. - It reads like a book.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58- It does.- Not how I expected. - Absolutely, yeah.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Who else have you got?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Straight away here is a name you may recognise.
0:15:02 > 0:15:07- Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp?- It is, absolutely.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11- You could just keep doing this, blow my mind.- Followed by...
0:15:11 > 0:15:12HE GASPS
0:15:12 > 0:15:17Whoa! Winston Churchill. Just beyond belief.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19I know who that is - Beatrix Heelis
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- That's the married name of Beatrix Potter.- It absolutely is.
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Well, there you go.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26The lady that left all of her estate to the National Trust.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Yup, they're all in here,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30everyone from your great-granny, to the Kray twins.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34Take a look online at the YouGov website.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36After you.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39There's also a touch of the James Bond about this, is there not?
0:15:39 > 0:15:40There is.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Especially poignant on the centenary of the Great War,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47is a collection of almost 300,000 soldiers' wills.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50"In the event of my death I give the whole of my property
0:15:50 > 0:15:54"and effects to Mrs Catherine McCarthy."
0:15:54 > 0:15:58Signed 6184 Private McCarthy. Deary me.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Such different circumstances than some of the other wills that we saw.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Who died in their bed, the great and the good.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07This guy in the mud of France and Flanders,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10an officer saying, "You'd better fill that in."
0:16:10 > 0:16:13And it could be tomorrow that it's applicable.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15And nothing brings it home more than the pocketbook
0:16:15 > 0:16:18that we've got in front of us. It's actually got a bullet hole in it.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20The soldiers carried their pocketbooks around with them
0:16:20 > 0:16:24when they were on the front line and probably one of the last things
0:16:24 > 0:16:27that was ever written in here was the will.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31- So that's the reason...- That's why it's here?- That's why it's here. Absolutely, yeah.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33And quite interesting with the will that we've got here,
0:16:33 > 0:16:38a request from the soldier, Horace Henry Cook, saying,
0:16:38 > 0:16:41"Had not the hand of the Almighty intervened,"
0:16:41 > 0:16:44the lady in question would have been his wife,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47so he's asking in this for his girlfriend
0:16:47 > 0:16:50to be treated as though she would have been his wife
0:16:50 > 0:16:53had he not gone to war and had he not died.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56I would never have guessed walking in here that I'd be so moved.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Acres and acres of paper but it's much more than that, isn't it?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01It absolutely is, yeah.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09Now, they have a saying hereabouts, "All around the Wrekin."
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- Driving off into the sunset. - This is it.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14It means, "Taking the scenic route."
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Thelma and Louise. - Night-night, you two.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Next day, we're back on the hot topic.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24So, how are you doing with your sovereigns?
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Have you managed to walk very far or are your pockets weighing you down?
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Well, he didn't part with too many of them yesterday,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32that's for sure, shelling out just £50
0:17:32 > 0:17:36for a sailor's uniform, a helmet and a horse's hoof.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38- Do you want to shake on it, yes or no?- Yeah.- Done.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42So he still has well over £700 left,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46while Christina took her modest hoard and gambled,
0:17:46 > 0:17:52splashing out £175 on a tin-plate train and two Victorian portraits.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Aah!
0:17:54 > 0:17:56So, she now has less than 50 left
0:17:56 > 0:18:01although what they do have in common is a bruising encounter with Jim.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04I'm spending a chunk of my profit on some therapy.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06SHE LAUGHS
0:18:06 > 0:18:11Two Celts going at it. It was like 13 rounds with Barry McGuigan.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13SHE LAUGHS
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Later, they'll be making for a Staffordshire auction
0:18:15 > 0:18:18at Stoke-on-Trent but their next stop
0:18:18 > 0:18:20is back in Shropshire at Shifnal.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25It was around these parts that PG Wodehouse
0:18:25 > 0:18:30set his famous Blandings Castle saga and Shifnal is rumoured to be
0:18:30 > 0:18:34the inspiration for the fictional town of Market Blandings.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Nothing quite like a shared shop to up the ante.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Hello! Hi. Hello. Hi. Christina. Nice to meet you.- Hello.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- What was your name?- I'm Jackie. - Jackie. Lovely to meet you, Jackie.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- How are you doing, Jackie? I'm Paul. - Hello, Paul.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50You don't need to know him.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53What did I say? Deep breaths all round.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Should we risk upsetting the kilter of the universe
0:18:56 > 0:18:58and my feng shui?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00- I'm going to deviate from clockwise from the door.- No!
0:19:00 > 0:19:04- Your OCD won't cope with that. - You heard it. No, I cannae.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10- "I can't do it." OK. I'm going this way.- Plenty to choose from, you two.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17- So, how much is on that?- 995. - Ooh!- Yeah.- Wow!
0:19:17 > 0:19:22Yeah, that's about £990 more than I've got.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Close enough, Christina. Now, what Paul's game?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- Jackie?- Hm?- You've got a sense of humour, haven't you?- Why?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Do you want to play a wee joke?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32So, that's celebrating the centenary of the Great Exhibition.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36The Great Exhibition obviously was put on by Victoria and Albert.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38- Aye, aye. - It is effectively a tourist piece
0:19:38 > 0:19:40so there would have been a lot of them produced
0:19:40 > 0:19:44so if we're looking for scarcity factor, it's not going to be there.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46It's a very generous discount.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50- 350 to 60, are you quite sure about that?- Yes.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53HE LAUGHS
0:19:53 > 0:19:57The icy look! We were kidding, by the way.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59You're a blighter!
0:19:59 > 0:20:02I'm looking at £2 items.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Yes, you should be ashamed of yourself, Paul.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06That looks affordable at least.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09This is quite fun, what's this? Is that for sale?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12This is a display cabinet for cigars and it's something that we've had
0:20:12 > 0:20:18that we use to display cigarettes, lighters and cigarette cases in.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22- Is it for sale?- Well, if you'd like it, yeah.- I quite like that.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25So what would you price that at?
0:20:25 > 0:20:31- I would probably put something like £45 on it.- Oh, would you?
0:20:31 > 0:20:35- I wouldn't be looking to pay that for it?- But I am open to offers.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Would you be very, very insulted if I said a fiver?
0:20:39 > 0:20:44- Not really.- Really?- Mm. - Could I have it for a fiver?
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- Yeah, you can have it for £5. - Are you sure?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48- Yes, I'm positive. - Are you happy at that?- Yep.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Deal. Brilliant. Jackie, you're a star.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I didn't think I wanted to buy a Henri Wintermans display cabinet
0:20:56 > 0:21:00- but life is a journey, isn't it? - That's right.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03It sure is and Paul seems to be taking a brief detour
0:21:03 > 0:21:06getting to know the trading estate.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Bureau - £10. It's for sale, this stuff.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- Vintage bike... - Who's behind all of this treasure?
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- Hello.- Hello there.- It looks like you're selling, yeah?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Yes, I'm selling a few things to try and get rid of them.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Sounding cheap.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25- Is your clock running, or no? - No, it's not.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28I don't know whether it's worth me bothering or not.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30I've been told what it's worth.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32He says he wants about 20 quid for it.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Now, there's nothing Paul likes more than a wonky clock.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38These are commonly referred to as anniversary clocks.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40This is a torsion clock.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45So, instead of a swinging pendulum you have got
0:21:45 > 0:21:49an oscillating, rotating weight here.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Now, your average domestic clock will run for eight days,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55which means you've got to wind it once a week
0:21:55 > 0:21:58and if you forget, you've got a day to remember.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02Your torsion clock is a fantastic piece of engineering.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04It's so sophisticated.
0:22:04 > 0:22:10We wind our torsion clock typically once every 400 days.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13What do you think of that for horological sophistication?
0:22:13 > 0:22:17You've got to wind it once a year and what day might you wind it on?
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Why don't you wind it on your anniversary? Anniversary clock.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24And if it slips your mind, you've still got 35 days to remember.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28I suspect there's not much missing there.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Would you take a wee cheeky offer on your clock as a project?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Well, yes, I would. - I'm no interested in 20 quid.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40It's... There's too much uncertainty in it.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42If a fiver would buy it, I'll shake your hand.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- I wouldn't do it at a fiver. - There was no harm in asking.
0:22:45 > 0:22:50- It would have to be a tenner. - A tenner? Take a punt...
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Nah. A fiver if it will buy it but that's it.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- Yes. Oh, go on. I'll take a fiver. - I'll take a punt, then.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00How badly wrong can it go for a fiver?
0:23:00 > 0:23:05- Well, I thank you very much.- Thank you very much. Cheers.- Cheers.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08He just couldn't resist, could he?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Christina meanwhile is likewise exploring
0:23:10 > 0:23:12her inner rag-and-bone woman.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15It's a mangle. That's fab, isn't it?
0:23:15 > 0:23:20- What have you got on your mangle? - I've got... I think it's £60.- Is it?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23- Would you be open to a deal on that? - Yeah, I think so.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Squeeze out a profit maybe?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27For our younger viewers, a mangle was once how we dried
0:23:27 > 0:23:30our newly washed clothes, as Christina demonstrates.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33What can the price be squeezed down to?
0:23:33 > 0:23:37- Would you take very little for it? - How little is very little?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40I don't need a wee, I'm just very nervous.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44- Would £20 be too much?- Oh...
0:23:44 > 0:23:46What would be the very, very least you could do it for?
0:23:46 > 0:23:4910? It's a deal.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Thank you very much. The sun shines on the righteous, Jackie.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- Yes, definitely. - Oh, my God, I just bought a mangle!
0:23:56 > 0:24:02Yes, and spent a mere £15 in total for that and the display cabinet.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04- You're an angel.- There you go. - Thank you very much. What a star.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07- Thank you.- So, with Christina out of the picture,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Paul now has the shop to himself.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12- Right.- Oh, I feel liberated.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Right, well, I managed to have a look around the bulk of the shop
0:24:15 > 0:24:17but I couldn't get near your cabinets.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21They're sweet, aren't they? Those wee coffee spoons, there.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- Cute little terminals with the little bird feeding the chicks.- Mm.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27I think they've got novelty and jam by the bucket-load.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31- Can I just make you an offer? - Yeah.- 25 quid for those.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33I think I can accept that.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Have you played this game before?
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- You're supposed to go, "No, I couldn't possibly!"- No.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43And given that you're clearly a joy to do business with,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- I'll just shake your hand and give you some money.- OK.- That was easy.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49To the victor! The spoons.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Meanwhile, elsewhere in Shropshire, Christina's taking
0:24:55 > 0:24:59a bit of a break in the little town of Much Wenlock,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02where she's come to find out about the local GP,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05who inspired Olympic history.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09- Hello, hi. I'm Christina.- Welcome to Much Wenlock Museum.- Thank you.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Curator Emma can tell her about the progressive influence
0:25:13 > 0:25:17of Much Wenlock's most famous son, Dr William Penny Brookes.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19One of the things that he saw both as being a doctor
0:25:19 > 0:25:23and a magistrate was that young people needed something
0:25:23 > 0:25:27to focus their attentions, to keep them out of the local pubs
0:25:27 > 0:25:29and to get them out in the fields and get them fit.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34And by 1850 he had set up the first Wenlock Olympian Games.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Local people were invited to come and take part.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Local families gave prizes for the games
0:25:40 > 0:25:44and really it all took off and then became an annual event.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47So, what, you might ask,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50was so incredible about organising the town sports day?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Well, the good doctor was ahead of his time
0:25:52 > 0:25:54in just about everything from understanding the need
0:25:54 > 0:25:58for physical fitness, to encouraging social inclusion.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Did you have to be a certain somebody or could anybody take part?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04No, that's what was really unique about the Wenlock Games,
0:26:04 > 0:26:07was it was not only just open to people of all ages,
0:26:07 > 0:26:11it would also open to people of all classes and at this time
0:26:11 > 0:26:13a lot of sporting events were very much
0:26:13 > 0:26:15for gentlemen of the gentleman class.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Of course, rowing... It's all quite public-school, isn't it?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- Indeed.- But this was open to everybody and anybody?- Yes.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- Gosh, he was obviously a man of vision.- He really was.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27It seems to be anything that was new and exciting and radical that
0:26:27 > 0:26:31happened in Wenlock, William Penny Brookes was involved in.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35I mean, he brought gas to the town and set up the local gasworks.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37He brought the railway here,
0:26:37 > 0:26:40which was partly about getting people in to visit the Games
0:26:40 > 0:26:42and to take part but also about making sure
0:26:42 > 0:26:44that Wenlock prospered as a town.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Just like Charles Darwin, born the same year
0:26:46 > 0:26:51in nearby Shrewsbury, Dr Brookes was shaking things up.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55So Shropshire was a real hotbed of scientific thinkers, wasn't it?
0:26:55 > 0:26:58That's really exciting! I'm feeling quite proud.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01It was a place where lots of new ideas developed.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Within a few years, the Much Wenlock Games had become established
0:27:05 > 0:27:08in the sporting calendar, with contests for both sexes
0:27:08 > 0:27:10and all results scrupulously recorded
0:27:10 > 0:27:13in the doctor's book of victors.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16And you've got a really interesting mix of traditional sports,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20like running the high leap, which was to become the high jump.
0:27:20 > 0:27:25- Yeah.- You've got the hurdle race, one mile, which is quite impressive.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- A wheelbarrow race?- Indeed.- Really?
0:27:27 > 0:27:32There was always a novelty game and this year the novelty game
0:27:32 > 0:27:36was the wheelbarrow race where everyone was blindfolded.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Oh, my goodness!
0:27:38 > 0:27:42I think my favourite one is where the old ladies of the town
0:27:42 > 0:27:46- raced for a pound of tea, which is an awful lot of tea.- Right, OK.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49It was never repeated, though, because everyone was outraged
0:27:49 > 0:27:52that the ladies lifted their skirts and revealed their ankles.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56- Oh, really?- Too many men were shocked and flustered.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Competitions included a version of jousting called tilting at the ring
0:27:59 > 0:28:03and keenly fought arts and crafts events
0:28:03 > 0:28:05like knitting and even recitation.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07There was nothing amateur about the event though,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10with big prize money available.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12It was really worth coming and taking part in the Games,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15especially for the working class people.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19This was a really significant sum of money for them.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Also awarded were medals and soon Brookes
0:28:21 > 0:28:25was behind the formation of the National Olympian Association.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Then, many years later, his Wenlock Games influenced
0:28:29 > 0:28:33the young French baron who would create the modern Olympic movement.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37In 1890, de Coubertin came to Wenlock.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39He spent every night sitting up
0:28:39 > 0:28:42until very late at the Raven Hotel talking to Brookes
0:28:42 > 0:28:46about their ideas, and they worked very closely together after that
0:28:46 > 0:28:48- on setting up the games. - Oh, brilliant.
0:28:48 > 0:28:54In fact, here in 1891, the following year, he sends a French medal...
0:28:54 > 0:28:55Wow! Goodness me.
0:28:55 > 0:29:00And it was won by a local boy, Edward Marsden Farmer,
0:29:00 > 0:29:01and in fact his descendants
0:29:01 > 0:29:05presented to the Wenlock Olympian Society in the 1980s the very medal.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Oh, wow!
0:29:07 > 0:29:11This is the only sporting medal that de Coubertin ever presented.
0:29:11 > 0:29:12That's incredible!
0:29:12 > 0:29:15- This is the precursor to our modern-day Olympic medals.- Indeed.
0:29:15 > 0:29:20- That's phenomenal! You're holding it in your hands!- Yes.- Wow.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24- At this point in time I am an incredibly proud Salopian.- Excellent.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26Thank you so much for showing me through it.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28It's been an absolute joy, it really has.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Yeah. In 2012, the torch relay came to Much Wenlock
0:29:32 > 0:29:35and they named one of the mascots after the town.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40But were the synchronised rummage ever to make it
0:29:40 > 0:29:45to the Olympic Games, you would have one sure-fire medallist
0:29:45 > 0:29:46and here he is en route
0:29:46 > 0:29:49to the Worcestershire town of Kidderminster.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55- Hello. Are you the man?- Ian Warner. - Good to see you, I'm Paul.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57Hi, nice to meet you.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59Ian has quite an assortment on display here.
0:29:59 > 0:30:04- Good things.- Plus there's the stuff out the back.- Have a look at this.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Feast your eyes on this lot.
0:30:06 > 0:30:09A box to make one particular customer very interested.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12- That was him. - What a lovely portrait.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15A major in the Royal Tank Regiment.
0:30:15 > 0:30:20- "An expression of our gratitude to our liberators."- Yeah.- Fantastic.
0:30:20 > 0:30:24So, these are all items from the life of one soldier.
0:30:24 > 0:30:28So, he was East Riding yeomanry into Royal Tank Regiment.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30You've got somebody's life there, haven't you?
0:30:30 > 0:30:32Birth certificate? Yeah.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34That's his war identity.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38I've never seen one of those in that format. There he is.
0:30:38 > 0:30:43Temporary Major Scott. E J Scott, Royal Armoured Corps, born 1908.
0:30:43 > 0:30:50We've even got... These are all his buttons off his tunics and his pips
0:30:50 > 0:30:53and everything else in there. These are his badges...
0:30:53 > 0:30:57- That's the collar and badges... - These are some of his pips.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59There's a good photo. What's he in there?
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Armoured scout cars. Fantastic stuff.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05He's got his miniatures. I haven't sadly got his full set of medals.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08Oh, and there's a named medal in there as well, isn't there?
0:31:08 > 0:31:10There's a territorial medal. Those, what's he got there?
0:31:10 > 0:31:13About 30 quid's worth of medals there
0:31:13 > 0:31:15but if you had that one named medal, you'd have the lot!
0:31:15 > 0:31:17Yeah, the lady who brought them in...
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Obviously I did actually ask her where the medals were and...
0:31:20 > 0:31:24- You never saw them? - I never saw them.- Is it dear?
0:31:24 > 0:31:28- 65 quid for the lot. - There's no point in clowning about.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31- Take my paw. I don't want to clown about.- Thank you very much.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Accepted with enthusiasm and no wonder.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36You had me from hello, as she said in the film.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41- That's a very moving collection. - Take care. Thank you.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46But back on the banks of the River Severn,
0:31:46 > 0:31:50Christina's made her way to beautiful Bewdley
0:31:50 > 0:31:54- for just one more shop. - Hello.- Hi.- Hello, hi.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57- You must be Christina. - I am, yes, for my sins.- Matt.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Matt. Lovely to meet you, Matt. How are you?
0:31:59 > 0:32:01I've been better but not too bad now I've seen you.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04- Oh, why, what's wrong?- Just had a bit of a heavy night last night.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08Oh, really? Brilliant, so I've got you on a weak day?
0:32:08 > 0:32:10A very weak day, yes. I'll roll over now.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12WHISPERS: Do you want me to whisper? Are you all right?
0:32:12 > 0:32:15- HE WHISPERS:- I'll be all right. - Are you sure?- Yeah.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17- OK, I'll give you a shout if I see anything.- OK.- OK.
0:32:17 > 0:32:22Only £34 left now, Christina, so choose wisely.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Ooh, this is very Laidlaw.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27- Ooh, shall I buy some militaria? - Why not? Everybody else does.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30- I don't know anything about militaria.- Nor does anybody else.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33World War II astrocompass.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37It looks very complicated, very scientific.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39SHE GASPS Shall I phone Paul and ask him?
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Wouldn't Matt be a better choice?
0:32:43 > 0:32:46- Could I have a look in one of your cabinets?- Of course you can.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48And I know nothing about it. I'm guessing.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52All bearings white... Declination...
0:32:52 > 0:32:55I'm guessing it's some form of aircraft, isn't it?
0:32:55 > 0:33:00- Possibly a Lancaster but it's actually Ian's, this is.- Who's Ian?
0:33:00 > 0:33:04- He's the chap that's stood outside. - Oh, why's he stood outside?
0:33:04 > 0:33:07Cos it's sunny, isn't it?
0:33:07 > 0:33:10Well, let's hope someone can throw some light on it.
0:33:10 > 0:33:15- They were used by the RAF during the war.- What sort of plane? Lancaster?
0:33:15 > 0:33:17Lancasters and Wellingtons... Halifax, yeah.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19- I was right, how about that? - Well done, Matt, well done.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22- Even hungover, you're good. - Unbelievable.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25Would I make a profit on it at auction? That's the key.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28Paul is beating me hands down and I'd love to buy a bit of militaria
0:33:28 > 0:33:31- cos you know he loves his militaria. - I tell you what,
0:33:31 > 0:33:34he's putty in your hands if you look at him with a sort of...
0:33:34 > 0:33:36- I think we may be close. - What could that be, Ian?
0:33:36 > 0:33:40- In money?- Yeah. Well...in sweets?
0:33:40 > 0:33:42- What's it down for? 30?- 30, yeah.
0:33:42 > 0:33:47- 15.- 10 or £15? - Where did she get 10 from?
0:33:47 > 0:33:51- No, I quite like that. £10? - Mm-hm.- With the instructions?
0:33:51 > 0:33:54- Yeah, with the instructions. - You can't go wrong with that.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57No, exactly. Thank you, Ian. Thank you, Matt.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01- WHISPERING: Sorry. Thank you, Matt. - And also it will be useful for finding your way back from the pub.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04I don't spend time in the pub, unlike some of us.
0:34:04 > 0:34:09Well, despite her sketchy grasp, it's not a lot of money.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12Now, let's take a look at what they've bought.
0:34:12 > 0:34:18Paul parted with just over £145 for a helmet, a naval uniform,
0:34:18 > 0:34:24some silver spoons, a torsion clock, a horse's hoof's box
0:34:24 > 0:34:27and a box containing some mementos of a soldier.
0:34:27 > 0:34:33Whilst Christina spent £200 on a toy train, a cigar display case,
0:34:33 > 0:34:37a mangle, an astrocompass and two Victorian portraits.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43A mangle? A mangled mangle, it has to be said, but it cost a tenner.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46It might be worth 50, 60, 70, £80, for all I know.
0:34:46 > 0:34:50He spent no money whatsoever, which frankly,
0:34:50 > 0:34:54when you've got SO much money to spend, is rude.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Pictures... That's the one to watch. Who knows?
0:34:57 > 0:35:01It could be bad news for me but it could be what saves my bacon.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04At least I've taken a risk.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07- You've got to take a few risks in life, haven't you?- Yeah.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09After setting off from Shrewsbury in Shropshire,
0:35:09 > 0:35:11our experts are now heading north
0:35:11 > 0:35:13for an auction in Staffordshire
0:35:13 > 0:35:14at Stoke-on-Trent.
0:35:14 > 0:35:18The last Blaikley that sold, was admittedly in a London saleroom,
0:35:18 > 0:35:22sold for £900 and I bought two for £160.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26- HE LAUGHS - Well, wait and see.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29Well, it might have been wise to have bought a pot or two, I suppose.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32Quite well-known for that sort of thing round here.
0:35:32 > 0:35:37This chap too, Sir Stanley Matthews, "The Wizard of the Dribble".
0:35:37 > 0:35:42- Ta-da!- Fantastic. Well done, pilot. - The auction awaits, milady.
0:35:42 > 0:35:47ASH Auctions takes its name from the initials of the founders
0:35:47 > 0:35:50so let's hear from one of them, auctioneer Lee Sherratt.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54That military stuff I believe is of one person.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Some nice interesting and quirky little bits there,
0:35:56 > 0:36:00the photograph and the rest of the items that go with it.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03The portraits, interesting again. I like these.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07The estimate on them is between 80 and 120-something, I would imagine.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10Blimey. Christina won't want to hear that.
0:36:10 > 0:36:14But let's begin with one of her cannier buys, the tin-plate train.
0:36:14 > 0:36:15I think I bought it for £10.
0:36:15 > 0:36:19You bought everything for £10, didn't you? Everything was a tenner.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22Well, apart from my pictures, which I accidentally spent a fortune on.
0:36:22 > 0:36:26- I've got £18 bid straight on. - Oh, it's my train! Here we go!
0:36:26 > 0:36:30I'm going to sell. £20. Where's 2? At £20 it's in the room. Where's 2?
0:36:30 > 0:36:34At £20, have we gone?
0:36:34 > 0:36:35GAVEL BANGS Come on!
0:36:35 > 0:36:39Great start but it will take a bit more than that to catch Paul up.
0:36:39 > 0:36:44- It's the fightback. - £10 profit. The fightback?
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Yeah, if I could just get something with about £600 profit.
0:36:47 > 0:36:52- Next, it's Paul's little chick spoons.- Tweet, tweet.- Is that a bid?
0:36:52 > 0:36:54Higher up than that. Show me that high up.
0:36:54 > 0:36:56A nice little set there in the original box.
0:36:56 > 0:37:0025. 25, somebody. Come on. Where are you £20? Go on, 15?
0:37:00 > 0:37:0515, I'm bid at 15. 16 anywhere quickly? At 15. All over the place.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07- You've got bidders all over it now. - ..18, 20,
0:37:07 > 0:37:1022, 24, 26.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14- Your turn, 28...- Oh, look at the leg, look at the leg!
0:37:14 > 0:37:18- It's gone, hasn't it? - Hey, well caught, knee camera.- ..32!
0:37:18 > 0:37:19Selling at £30 only...
0:37:19 > 0:37:21GAVEL BANGS You come across so confident
0:37:21 > 0:37:23and then the leg starts going. I can feel it!
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Good. But no cigar.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29And look what's next! Christina's case.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33- I love this. - Was this part of that woman's shop?
0:37:33 > 0:37:36- Did you buy part of her shop? - I did.- I thought you did!
0:37:36 > 0:37:37£5. 5 there.
0:37:37 > 0:37:41At 6, 8, 10, 12, 14?
0:37:41 > 0:37:4412 on my right. £12. 14, surely?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47- 14 now...- A man with style.- 16, 18? - A man with style.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49At £16, right-hand side.
0:37:49 > 0:37:5218, 20? 20, 22?
0:37:52 > 0:37:5522, 24? 24, 26?
0:37:55 > 0:37:58At £24 it's being sold...
0:37:58 > 0:38:00GAVEL BANGS We've spent the last three days,
0:38:00 > 0:38:02just messing about.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Catching up VERY slowly.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Not bad. Are you scared yet?
0:38:09 > 0:38:12Time for Paul's navy jumper and green hat.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16Did you ever go out as a teenager?
0:38:16 > 0:38:20- No?- We have our resident modeller modelling this.
0:38:20 > 0:38:26- She's tried it on, it won't fit.- Aw! - But the hat does. The hat fits.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28- Fantastic. - Well, I think it suits her.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31She wears all sorts of stuff in this saleroom.
0:38:34 > 0:38:3725 for it, somebody. 25. 20 bid me.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41A tenner? 10 I'm bid. 12 anywhere?
0:38:41 > 0:38:43He's going to sell it for a tenner? Never mind that...
0:38:43 > 0:38:46Come on, it's only money. £10. It's got to be 10. All done?
0:38:46 > 0:38:48- GAVEL BANGS - I've lost money on military.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52- Oh! You've made a loss!- I'm going. I've had enough of this.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56Paul makes a loss on militaria. Hold the front page.
0:38:56 > 0:39:01I would laugh so much if my militaria made more than your militaria.
0:39:01 > 0:39:02No, let's not.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05- Go, Christina.- What is it?
0:39:05 > 0:39:07An astrocompass. A navigator's tool.
0:39:07 > 0:39:11- An air navigator's tool. - Oh.- Yeah.- Is that good?
0:39:11 > 0:39:1425 for it. Come on, where are we? £20...
0:39:14 > 0:39:18- I thought you'd get 20 or 30 quid for it.- 15 then, somebody 15.
0:39:18 > 0:39:1915, I'm bid there at 15.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21Where's 16 now? At £15...
0:39:21 > 0:39:2416, 18, 20,
0:39:24 > 0:39:2622, 24...
0:39:26 > 0:39:29- What did I pay for this? - £10! A tenner.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32..I'm going to sell it at £22. The hammer's up. All finished?
0:39:32 > 0:39:35- GAVEL BANGS - Yours then at £22. Number 107.
0:39:35 > 0:39:36Amazing.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Well done. A bit of a militaria coup.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Never talk to me again.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44My militaria made more than your militaria.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48Time for Paul's prize lot, a soldier's life.
0:39:48 > 0:39:52- I've got a commission of £31.- A long way off.- We should have a riot here.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55- 32, 33... - We should have a riot here.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58..34, 36, 38, 40.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01At £38. I'm going to sell then at £38.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04Last call at £38. Are we done?
0:40:04 > 0:40:06- GAVEL BANGS - That's yours.- Crying on the inside.
0:40:09 > 0:40:13Call that a riot? Seems a modest sum for all those memories.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16- Now, from the sublime... - Guess how much I paid for my mangle.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19Oh, let me think. Just pulling figures out of the air...
0:40:19 > 0:40:22I don't know... 80? 100? A tenner?
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Yeah, surprisingly enough.
0:40:24 > 0:40:29£20, can I see 20? 15 for him, somebody? 15 for the mangle there.
0:40:29 > 0:40:3110 to go, somebody.
0:40:31 > 0:40:35£10. 10 I'm bid on my right. At £10, where's 12 now?
0:40:35 > 0:40:38- 12...- Tell them it's the folding version.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41- A rare folding version! - ..I'm selling it.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43- GAVEL BANGS - Don't these fools know?
0:40:43 > 0:40:45It's all profits for Christina today.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47Small ones anyway.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50Time for Paul's equally attractive hoof.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52- What shall we say? 50? 40? 30? - BIDDER: 34.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56- 34 is bid on commission...- £80. If it doesn't make £80...
0:40:56 > 0:40:59I'm going to sell. No, I'm not. 36 standing.
0:40:59 > 0:41:0238? 38, 40? We've got a riot now. 38...
0:41:02 > 0:41:05- He's got a riot. - He's got another riot.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08- Call the police!- ..at £38, the hammer's up.
0:41:08 > 0:41:10- GAVEL BANGS - £38, there it is.
0:41:10 > 0:41:13Well, it's a profit at least. A bit lame though.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15Now for his bargain clock.
0:41:15 > 0:41:19I've got £25 commission. It's on sale, I'm looking for 30 now.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21- At £25... - Nobody's yelling about 25 quid
0:41:21 > 0:41:23but it's my first piece of profit of the day.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25..at £25...
0:41:25 > 0:41:28- GAVEL BANGS - That's why I bought it.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30His little stroll off-piste paid off.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33- I can see you bought that with soul. - I'm not proud of that.
0:41:33 > 0:41:39But Christina is very proud of these Alexander Blaikley portraits.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42- Are they in the right auction though?- The moment of truth.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44- Don't look, don't look.- No, I can't watch. I can't hear anything.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47We won't sell from the word go, ladies and gents,
0:41:47 > 0:41:49- £40, I don't believe it. - SHE GASPS
0:41:49 > 0:41:54- Now we can see 50...- 60.- ..60, 70?
0:41:54 > 0:41:57- 70...- That's all mine out. - It's in the room at £70.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00- They've got to be worth more then this, surely?- Yes!- At £70.
0:42:00 > 0:42:04I'm going to sell them at £70. 80, surely?
0:42:04 > 0:42:06At £70. This is for nothing.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08- GAVEL BANGS - I thought they'd have gone for
0:42:08 > 0:42:10a lot more than that. £70.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12She needs a hug after that.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Had the auction been online, I think they'd have done a lot better.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17My heart is actually broken.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20Do you think there's a cake big enough in the world
0:42:20 > 0:42:24- to fix your heart?- No.- Let's try and find it anyway.- Let's, yeah.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27- Yeah. We could try.- A big cake. - Yeah.- Come on.
0:42:27 > 0:42:32Christina started out with £224.54 and made,
0:42:32 > 0:42:36after paying auction costs, a loss of £78.64,
0:42:36 > 0:42:41leaving her with £145.90 to spend next time.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43Bad luck.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47While Paul began with £780.34
0:42:47 > 0:42:51and, after paying auction costs, made a loss of £29.38.
0:42:51 > 0:42:57So, he's the winner today and still leaves with £750.96.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Give me the keys and don't talk to me!
0:42:59 > 0:43:02HE LAUGHS
0:43:02 > 0:43:04This is just all going very wrong!
0:43:04 > 0:43:07- Oh, wait a minute!- Sorry.- Wait a minute!- Bye!
0:43:07 > 0:43:10- Bye!- Christina!
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Next on Antiques Road Trip, an alarm...
0:43:12 > 0:43:15- ALARM RINGS - Oh, no, what have I done?
0:43:15 > 0:43:17IT CONTINUES TO RING
0:43:17 > 0:43:20- ..and several surprises.- Yes!
0:43:20 > 0:43:23- I'm winning.- I'm not.- I'm winning!
0:43:23 > 0:43:25Is this what it feels like?