0:00:30 > 0:00:32The Roadshow has arrived at a city,
0:00:32 > 0:00:36which to be fair is just a babe compared with London or Edinburgh.
0:00:36 > 0:00:43It's just 50 years since Cardiff became Wales's capital and only 100 years since it became a city.
0:00:43 > 0:00:49Back in 1913 this port was the world's biggest exporter of coal.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Steamships delivered it to the Americas,
0:00:52 > 0:00:57Africa, India, the Middle and Far East.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Nowadays, ironically, the traffic's in the other direction -
0:01:00 > 0:01:04coal comes into Wales from South America and Australia.
0:01:04 > 0:01:10When the mining industry collapsed, the port had to reinvent itself.
0:01:10 > 0:01:16Now it's all go, a place for yachting, new housing, shops and restaurants
0:01:16 > 0:01:22and a barrage embankment which provides the bay with a freshwater lake and water front.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27Coal may no longer be king here, but the name of the man who reigned over the industry is everywhere.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Not much of a Welsh ring to those.
0:01:31 > 0:01:38No, it was a Scottish laird who cast his gaze over the mineral-rich lands of South Wales in 1814,
0:01:38 > 0:01:43the 2nd Marquis of Bute became known as the "maker of modern Cardiff".
0:01:43 > 0:01:49As coal production increased, he built a canal and a dock. The Taff railway provided rapid connections
0:01:49 > 0:01:54between the coalfields in the Welsh valleys and Bute Dock.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00In 1848, an infant called John Patrick Crichton-Stuart woke up to realise that
0:02:00 > 0:02:05he was the 3rd Marquis of Bute and the richest baby in Britain.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07This is him, some years later.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11This rich man's hobby was architecture and it led to
0:02:11 > 0:02:17the extravagant restoration of Cardiff Castle and the nearby Castell Coch.
0:02:17 > 0:02:22The 3rd Marquis became a figurehead for Cardiff, for a time he even served as mayor.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26Later on, he sold Cathays Park, a former Bute home, to Cardiff Corporation,
0:02:26 > 0:02:33stipulating that the avenue of trees be retained and that only public buildings be built here.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37And on that site now the National Museum and Art Gallery,
0:02:37 > 0:02:43the Law Courts, the University of Wales and the location for our Antiques Roadshow today,
0:02:43 > 0:02:44the handsome City Hall.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I love this little calling card up the top here.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54It says, "Made from sycamore wood cut down by the Right Honourable WE Gladstone
0:02:54 > 0:02:58"on the Hawarden Estate." Where did you get it from?
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Well, we went to a boot sale. I've seen it there
0:03:02 > 0:03:08and I asked how much it was. The gentleman said £50, I said, "A lovely dress screen."
0:03:08 > 0:03:11I unwrapped it and then I'd seen all these signatures.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15What is it? A country house collection, do you think, of people's signatures?
0:03:15 > 0:03:20Yeah. The owners, instead of getting them to sign visitors books or something like that,
0:03:20 > 0:03:25had got them to sign little pieces of paper or give their signed calling cards
0:03:25 > 0:03:29and mounted them in this screen. You've got some wonderful ones -
0:03:29 > 0:03:32there's Thomas Edison here... Right.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34..the American, and down here
0:03:34 > 0:03:39you've got another lovely little grouping, you've got Hall Caine, the author,
0:03:39 > 0:03:45and Henry James the author as well. You've got all sorts of people. It is quite extraordinary,
0:03:45 > 0:03:49All the great and the good, and probably the not-so-good as well.
0:03:49 > 0:03:54We've got another one, a great Cardiff item here. Bute, the Marquis of Bute. Oh, right.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56He was Mayor of Cardiff. Right.
0:03:56 > 0:04:02And obviously did quite a lot for Cardiff. Are you going to do this trick with it?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Let's close it up.
0:04:06 > 0:04:13The horror is that we'll open it up and find we've got the same side. This side is even more spectacular.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Wilkie Collins, who wrote The Moonstone and The Woman In White,
0:04:18 > 0:04:24and was credited with the first detective fiction, Lillie Langtry, Edward VII's mistress.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28It's all quite extraordinary and it's wonderful to speculate
0:04:28 > 0:04:32what sort of parties these people had - the king's mistress.
0:04:32 > 0:04:38I don't see the king having signed this, Edward VII having signed it at all. I mean you've got how many?
0:04:38 > 0:04:41529 signatures. You've counted every one? Yes.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Have you catalogued every one? No.
0:04:43 > 0:04:48Written them all down? Not at the moment. You've got everybody here.
0:04:48 > 0:04:55As a screen, I'm sure, a late 19th-century screen, certainly worth the £50 you paid for it.
0:04:55 > 0:05:01But I have to say it's the signatures that really interest me, they're fantastic,
0:05:01 > 0:05:05everybody who you could want, really, from the late 19th century,
0:05:05 > 0:05:12so I value this between £2,000 and £3,000. Really? Nice thing to dress behind, isn't it? Yes.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Thank you for bringing it in. My pleasure, thank you. Lovely.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21Now, do you live in a very Victorian house?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24No, we don't, we live in a 1970s house.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28So how do you accommodate such a Victorian object in your house?
0:05:28 > 0:05:33We have a large lounge and it sits on a gate-leg table quite happily.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Technically speaking, these things are called dioramas
0:05:36 > 0:05:41and the diorama description is of a fixed group of objects that are
0:05:41 > 0:05:46viewed from a particular aspect, normally through an aperture, which is exactly what this is.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Yes. But it's a diorama with a difference, isn't it?
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Yes. Because here we've got this family of red squirrels,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56all gentlemen, I think. Yes, yes.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00Disporting themselves in an incredibly Victorian interior
0:06:00 > 0:06:05and frankly, this is Victorian England in one little space.
0:06:05 > 0:06:11Yes, it is. I love the arrangement of pictures, entirely children, to sum up the fun of the thing.
0:06:11 > 0:06:17And the old enemy for the squirrel is Reynard the Fox doing his stuff in the middle of it.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18Absolutely. And that's a big joke.
0:06:18 > 0:06:26Yes. They're enjoying a glass of port wine on something called a loo table, a very Victorian table. Right.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30They're playing the game of cards, loo, which is brilliant. Yes.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34But what I really love is the fact that that squirrel there is... Yes.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37..giving a message to his partner on the other side of the table
0:06:37 > 0:06:40by showing the cards in the mirror behind, which is really naughty.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Yes, absolutely.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44How did it come into your house?
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Well, we've owned it since 1987 when my father-in-law died.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52My husband remembers it coming to his parents' house in 1951
0:06:52 > 0:06:58via his grandfather, who accepted it as payment in lieu of a debt. And what did the grandfather do?
0:06:58 > 0:07:05Well, he was in a bakery business and general stores in London, so I mean that's quite feasible.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Well, it must have been quite a debt, mustn't it?
0:07:07 > 0:07:11I think so, yes. To take this, to take this in lieu. Yes, absolutely.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Well, it's a curious thing and some of these things were set up to sit
0:07:16 > 0:07:23in a Victorian parlour and sometimes they were taken around and shown on displays by travellers
0:07:23 > 0:07:30and they charged children a shilling to have a look at the squirrels' card party, or whatever. Right, yes.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34And those children would come in and they'd ooh and ah about it. It is a fantastic object.
0:07:34 > 0:07:40It is, yes, it's great fun. If you wanted an entire Victorian house within your house
0:07:40 > 0:07:44without having to move house, then this is for you, isn't it? Mm, yes.
0:07:44 > 0:07:50And I would have thought that you'd probably get between £5,000 and £8,000 for it. Would we?
0:07:50 > 0:07:53On a good day, who knows? £10,000.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58I don't know how endangered these red squirrels are. This is the trouble. They are today. Absolutely.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02I think they've been smoking and drinking, that's the trouble with it.
0:08:02 > 0:08:08This, I bought in a jumble sale when I was nine years of age
0:08:08 > 0:08:11and I paid the princely sum of two and sixpence for it.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Half a crown? Yes, half a crown. Wow.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18I believe it's a George III tea caddy but obviously you're going to tell me all about it.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Well, right, yes, it is a George III period tea caddy.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25This was the type of presentation box that you took...
0:08:25 > 0:08:30Instead of taking a box of chocolates or a bottle of wine, you took a little caddy of tea.
0:08:30 > 0:08:36Ah. And this would have been taken to a rather important lady for a very important tea table.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41That's what they called the occasion, the tea table, it was the big event for gossiping in the afternoon.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46Nothing to eat with it, just the presentation and serving of tea.
0:08:46 > 0:08:52It is decorated with a veneer of yew wood, burr yew, which gives this wonderful sort of ripply effect,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54and a typical shell on the top.
0:08:54 > 0:09:00When it was new, this was bright green background and then these were various shades of gold. Oh.
0:09:00 > 0:09:05And that shading is done by dipping each of those little bits into hot sand.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Now, the important thing about it to us,
0:09:07 > 0:09:10particularly here, is the Prince of Wales feathers.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Well, I wondered if there was a Welsh connection.
0:09:12 > 0:09:19Well, there's no telling. There's much more likely to be a connection between the person
0:09:19 > 0:09:26who gave it, or the recipient as an allegiance to the Prince of Wales rather than to the King. I see.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28So we know that it was given to,
0:09:28 > 0:09:30or belonged to, someone who was a Whig.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Ah. Parliamentarian, right. Wow.
0:09:33 > 0:09:38So that, I think it starts to get interesting because now you're at the period when he was Prince of Wales,
0:09:38 > 0:09:43leader of high style fashion and a strict coterie of close friends
0:09:43 > 0:09:49and that showed a strict allegiance to him rather than the King.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54And that takes us into an academic piece of furniture. Oh, excellent.
0:09:54 > 0:09:59So it's worth more than half a crown? Oh, yes, just a little.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Probably five bob now, 100% profit.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Wonderful. I should think it's worth between £2,500 and £3,000.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Never! Oh. Oh, yes, yes, wonderful. I don't believe it!
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Good gracious alive. I never dreamt it would be anything like that.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17I've not seen one with the Prince of Wales feathers on it in 40 years.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21Oh, you've made my day. I've seen hundreds of tea caddies, but not one like that.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Wonderful. You've made my day too. Thank you.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29'What sort of date do you think it might be?'
0:10:29 > 0:10:34There is a little piece of paper inside that has 11th April 1905 written on it.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39Well, that's a start, but I think you're a little bit out with the date because...
0:10:39 > 0:10:42have you ever looked inside here? No. Well, a glance.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46There's the usual nib to open the thing at the bottom. Right.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52And there we are, we've got a full set of London hallmarks for 1822.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Good heavens. So rather earlier than you thought.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Yes. And I notice here
0:10:57 > 0:11:03that the watch is signed by George Stephenson and Warminster.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Now, what are we doing with a Warminster watch in Cardiff?
0:11:07 > 0:11:12My father was, as I am, Bristolian and his father was Bristolian.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15So we are a Bristolian family. So pretty close to Warminster.
0:11:15 > 0:11:20Nothing to do with Cardiff, I've lived here for the last 30 years.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25It all ties up and you might have noticed this extra hand.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30Yes. It's a calendar hand. You've got one through to 31 there.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35A nice little touch. The hands are original, it's a very pretty thing.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Lovely. So you've never actually looked at this piece of paper before?
0:11:38 > 0:11:41I've seen it but I've never removed it,
0:11:41 > 0:11:45just in case it disintegrated and it would have been a shame.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50All these sort of papers are what we call watch papers, advertising for the specific jeweller.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55Right. And on the back, it's not a presentation but it would have been the date of a repair.
0:11:55 > 0:12:02We'll just take it out gently without damaging the silk that's inside and oh, isn't that lovely?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06We have a little picture here of a shop front and in the windows
0:12:06 > 0:12:13are clocks hanging up, and up here, we have advertisements to say, "Gold and silver."
0:12:13 > 0:12:16And then it says "18/6d". Oh, that's lovely.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20So this would have been an advertisement for his shop. Yes.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25And having done the repair, he put that back in the watch case and then you'd know when it was last done.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Oh, that's amazing. And you've never seen that before?
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Never ever seen that before, I'm not even sure whether my father had done. I love that.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Sometimes, you'll get five or six,
0:12:35 > 0:12:40even ten of these in a watch and you can build up a history of when it was cleaned and repaired over many years.
0:12:40 > 0:12:45So that's when it was last in the repair shop. Isn't that fun?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49That's absolutely lovely. Oh, I'm so glad I brought that in now.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53So a silver pair case English verge watch.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56The sort of thing at auction - £220, £250.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Yes, lovely. Thank you so much. That's lovely.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Today, we're in a Sandon-free zone.
0:13:04 > 0:13:10Right. Which means that me and the chaps get an opportunity to talk about Royal Worcester.
0:13:10 > 0:13:15Do you like this? I do. It's my favourite piece. And my husband's favourite piece.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19It is? It's not ours, though, it's my father's, so...
0:13:19 > 0:13:23OK, but it's got your name written all over it in later years, has it?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26It has. Well, it's one of those pieces that the minute you see it,
0:13:26 > 0:13:31it shouts but one name, and that one name is George Owen.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35It's not signed, and to be frank it's one of those objects that
0:13:35 > 0:13:39it doesn't really need a signature, because the signature is the piece itself,
0:13:39 > 0:13:44and you've just got to marvel at this man. He's working in the early part of the 20th century.
0:13:44 > 0:13:50I think he actually locked himself in a room to do all this piercing.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52I did wonder how they actually do this.
0:13:52 > 0:13:58Well, he was very careful to keep the secret to himself. I mean, obviously he was big on patience -
0:13:58 > 0:14:03I mean, lots of patience - because it just beggars belief, doesn't it? It's fabulous.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07It is fabulous. Let's give it a bit of a twirl because you've got...
0:14:07 > 0:14:12You've got that lovely pierced ovoid body, and then look at that handle and look at the beading...
0:14:12 > 0:14:16You've got the beading on that top and then the actual lips themselves -
0:14:16 > 0:14:20you'll notice they're actually pierced as well with a pretty design.
0:14:20 > 0:14:27The gilding... Wow! It just sparkles like, you know... This should be with the crown jewels, it's so sparkly.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31This is quality with a capital Q, isn't it? It really is. Yeah.
0:14:31 > 0:14:36If I could go out and buy a single ewer to match that,
0:14:36 > 0:14:43I would probably have to pay... Well, probably more than £10,000.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46But it's only money. Yes.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49And aren't you pleased that you've made it clear that
0:14:49 > 0:14:54that was the piece that you wanted before I told you what it was worth?
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Thank you.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03We're in Wales, and the passion of this week's collector is mining memorabilia,
0:15:03 > 0:15:06but for Bill Richards it's not just a collection -
0:15:06 > 0:15:11it's a celebration of a way of life and a family history, because, Bill, you were a miner. Yes, I was, yes.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13How long were you down there?
0:15:13 > 0:15:1515 years. Man and boy.
0:15:15 > 0:15:21Man and boy, yes. And you're not the first miner in your family. No, all the family, on both sides,
0:15:21 > 0:15:25going back to 1840 - my grandfather,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28my great-grandfather...
0:15:28 > 0:15:30That's one from Bristol.
0:15:30 > 0:15:36That's your great-grandfather? That's my great-grandfather. A miner, as well. Miner, born in 1841.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38And were the women involved as well?
0:15:38 > 0:15:45My grandmother worked on the surface of a colliery in the Rhondda and she lost an arm, severed about there,
0:15:45 > 0:15:49making bricks when she was 16 in 1893.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52So, you've really earned your name as a mining family.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57Did your collection start from your own experience? Did you bring your own equipment?
0:15:57 > 0:16:03Well, I kept a lot of stuff when I left the colliery, and I was in business in Tonypandy,
0:16:03 > 0:16:09and a lot of my customers gave me stuff to display in the window, you know, and it's grown from there.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13It's interesting, this is all stuff that has a purpose and a useful working life,
0:16:13 > 0:16:18and yet it's quite lovely, as well. Now, what are these sort of tokens over here?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20When you sign on at a colliery,
0:16:20 > 0:16:27you were given a check, and on your first day when you go to the lamp room you'd take a lamp out...
0:16:29 > 0:16:34..off the shelf, take that away, and you hang the check in place,
0:16:34 > 0:16:41so that if at the end of the shift - say, two hours after the end of the shift - that check is still there...
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Proof that a man is missing.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Proof he's still underground or he's missing. That's quite dramatic.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51I don't want to be morbid, but did you see any bad things when you were below?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Well, yes, I think every miner saw that.
0:16:53 > 0:17:00The biggest thing that will remain with me for ever is the explosion of 1965 in Cambrian,
0:17:00 > 0:17:06when 31 of our colleagues died. They were shocking days, shocking. Yes.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10Now, what are these boxes? I mean, they look like something
0:17:10 > 0:17:13one of our experts would be pleased to see snuff in. What are they?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Well, that's a tobacco box.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23And that is actually what we call a chew of tobacco,
0:17:23 > 0:17:24and you chew that...
0:17:24 > 0:17:30break it off and chew it, to keep your mouth moist and stop the penetration of the dust.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34And was that sort of something that they all had to do?
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Suppose you hated the taste. Well... Could you sell it to another miner?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Oh, no, it was all given away, because someone would say, "Give us a chew,"
0:17:42 > 0:17:49and if you look at that box there, you see, what he did then, he'd put it like that... Yeah.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54..and that's why... That is worn away there. It's worn away there. Yes, fabulous.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59What's the star of your collection? Would I be right in guessing it's those watches?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Because they are magnificent. Well, yes...
0:18:02 > 0:18:09That was one that I used, that was my father's, and that was his father's.
0:18:09 > 0:18:17He was killed in 1915. A tram run over his body, but I've been told that the watch was still going.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21The watch was working, I know, at one time, but it's not working any more.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25This is really concentrated family history, three generations. Yes.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30What do you want to happen to your collection? Are you interested in its actual value?
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Not particularly, because I just hope...
0:18:33 > 0:18:36I've got two grandsons and I've got a granddaughter coming,
0:18:36 > 0:18:41and I just hope that it'll be kept and passed on for them.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44It's a great story, Bill. Thank you.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Do you come from a gambling family? Yes.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54You do? We have a local bookmaker's shop in Grangetown in Cardiff, yes.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Ah, right, OK. And a social club.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02Where was the club? Oh, it's in Grangetown in Cardiff. Right. Still running at the moment.
0:19:02 > 0:19:08Where was this from? This is from the social club. Right, OK, and I take it no longer used, obviously.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11It's been in the front room for about 20 years. Right.
0:19:11 > 0:19:17I like Jennings machines a great deal. There's quite a history behind them. They were an American company
0:19:17 > 0:19:24I believe, based in Chicago, in fact, and some of their early machines from the 1930s are extremely stylish.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Now, I believe that this model,
0:19:25 > 0:19:30which became a lot more sort of boxy and less complicated in its design,
0:19:30 > 0:19:36came in after about 1938, so hopefully that ties in with the history of the club.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Um, it's called "The Governor" here, but obviously these are plates
0:19:40 > 0:19:45that were made for use in Britain, and a lovely piece of design.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Now, unfortunately, it seems to be jammed.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Yeah, I think my son jammed it.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Ah, right, OK. A few years ago.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59I suspect if we could get into the back and have a look, it may be possible to unjam it.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04What's interesting, as well, is it's got its original stand, so it's a whole package, in fact.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10I think whether it's working or not, people like them for decoration - they're good-looking things.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15This obviously isn't one of the earliest examples, which can make a fair amount of money.
0:20:15 > 0:20:21As a later example, and as an auctioneer, I'd tend to put £400 to £600 on these for auction.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Right, lovely. Thank you for bringing it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Yeah, thank you very much. Happy gambling. Yeah.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Did you know it was 18th century? No.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Do you know how to tell whether it's 18th or 19th century? No.
0:20:32 > 0:20:39Well, there are an awful lot of copies around and you have to be very careful and one way to tell
0:20:39 > 0:20:42is to take a pen and a piece of paper.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Smaller on the top than the base.
0:21:00 > 0:21:05The fakes are almost invariably the other way round. Right.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09They never make the base big enough.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Pretty sure-fire way of telling.
0:21:11 > 0:21:16This one dates from about 1755,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20with this lovely cotton-twist stem...
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Do you know how they made the cotton twist? No. Absolutely amazing...
0:21:23 > 0:21:26You get an iron collar
0:21:26 > 0:21:32and you put a pattern of white glass rods and clear glass rods
0:21:32 > 0:21:38in the pattern you want. You heat the collar up until the glass has melted,
0:21:38 > 0:21:43and you put an iron rod on one end and an iron rod on the other end
0:21:43 > 0:21:48and two men walk the length of this hall,
0:21:48 > 0:21:53and what started out that big, ends up that big,
0:21:53 > 0:21:56and they break it up into sections and make it into a glass stem.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00Then they put the foot on it, then they put the bowl on it.
0:22:00 > 0:22:05Now the nice thing about this one is that we've got an inscription on here
0:22:05 > 0:22:10in diamond point. This was actually engraved with, possibly a diamond ring,
0:22:10 > 0:22:17but more likely a diamond fixed in bitumen on the end of a pencil,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20and they've engraved it with this message. I can't see it -
0:22:20 > 0:22:23I haven't my glasses - what does it say?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25"A keepsake from..." Yeah.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27"..Sarah Smith
0:22:27 > 0:22:30"to Sarah Louise Ford."
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Sarah Louise Ford would have been my great-grandmother.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I think it goes back further than that.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39There might have been another one. Do you know the other person?
0:22:39 > 0:22:44No, Ford was my grandmother's maiden name. They were from Bristol.
0:22:44 > 0:22:50Well, it might be a later engraving, but I would have put that engraving to the beginning of the 19th century,
0:22:50 > 0:22:55and that would take it back way beyond your great-grandmother,
0:22:55 > 0:23:02but who knows? Um, very unusual, very sensitive message for this date,
0:23:02 > 0:23:07a woman to a woman, very uncommon, and clearly done not a professional engraving,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10but possibly even by Sarah herself.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Oh, right. Lovely thing.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Chip on the bottom - it will affect the price,
0:23:17 > 0:23:22but it's boosted by the fact that you've got this unusual message on it.
0:23:22 > 0:23:29You could easily see it making £400 to £600.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Very good. Nice thing. Thank you very much. Yes, thank you.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36My grandfather bought her, and then she came down through the family
0:23:36 > 0:23:39and after my mother died, she became mine.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43Right, was that difficult? I mean, have you got brothers and sisters?
0:23:43 > 0:23:48Yeah, five brothers and sisters but we have a rule that you're not allowed to argue, so we cut cards.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52Anyway, your lucky card turned up and you finished up with her.
0:23:52 > 0:23:57Yes. I mean she is an extremely smart society girl, isn't she?
0:23:57 > 0:24:02Beautifully wrapped up in her musquash fur coat
0:24:02 > 0:24:07with this delightful fur collar and her hair tied up in this exquisite way.
0:24:07 > 0:24:13A sort of turbany thing. Turbany thing. It's made of bronze, it's made of cold-painted bronze,
0:24:13 > 0:24:19which is a particular type of treatment for the surface of the bronze where you paint on cold,
0:24:19 > 0:24:26after it's cooled, a colouring scheme, but it's discoloured over the years a bit with this.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30That's why she's got different shades of colour. That's right.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34So, the musquash coat itself is that sort of chocolaty brown,
0:24:34 > 0:24:38and the fur collar is a slightly different and darker brown, as is her muff,
0:24:38 > 0:24:41and then the head-dress is almost greenish.
0:24:41 > 0:24:46I've been over her quite carefully and I can find no marks at all.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49No, I know. That's why we don't know anything about her.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52But, fortunately, I've seen one or two of these before. OK.
0:24:52 > 0:24:58It's actually made in Austria. It's made by the Bergman family, and sometimes you get a "B",
0:24:58 > 0:25:02a "B" in a vase-shaped ornament, stamped somewhere,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05and that's an indication of the Bergman family.
0:25:05 > 0:25:12Sometimes they're stamped "Namgreb" and Namgreb is Bergman backwards,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16so those are two things to look out for, for this type of bronze. Right.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21She's very special. Around about 1910-1915.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Bit earlier than we thought, then.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27Bit earlier than you thought, but she has a special feature, doesn't she?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30And if we get hold of the edge of her coat...
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Da-da!
0:25:32 > 0:25:39She does literally reveal all. She always makes you laugh when you do that. She makes you laugh?!
0:25:39 > 0:25:43But what I think is so extraordinary is that her silk stockings finish here...
0:25:43 > 0:25:50I've never seen a bronze finished with silk stockings. It's a bit naughty, really, isn't it?
0:25:50 > 0:25:54And, of course, she's wearing boots. I know. Really wonderful.
0:25:54 > 0:26:00Wonderful. The whole business of wearing no knickers but wearing a fur coat has a new connotation
0:26:00 > 0:26:04when you're looking at an old work of art, like this.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07She's just gorgeous, and her boots are so chunky and she's so elegant.
0:26:07 > 0:26:12I know. Very, very schoolboyish, I have to say, but delightful
0:26:12 > 0:26:17and incredibly commercial. This sort of thing is popular on the market,
0:26:17 > 0:26:21it's popular worldwide. I can't imagine why, but anyway it is,
0:26:21 > 0:26:28and if I was valuing it, I'd put an estimate, a cheeky estimate, of probably £1,800 to £2,500,
0:26:28 > 0:26:30because of its type, it's a very good one. Yes.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Thanks for bringing it in. Thank you.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37This is a really interesting picture and I actually know straightaway who this is by.
0:26:37 > 0:26:44If you look very carefully on the right-hand side here, we see Fred Yates incised in the paint.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49Now, Fred Yates was an artist who was born in Manchester in the 1920s,
0:26:49 > 0:26:54but from the '70s, he was living in Cornwall. This is very much a Cornish street scene, like Helford,
0:26:54 > 0:26:58and it's beautifully painted and spontaneously painted.
0:26:58 > 0:27:03When you look at the style of the painting, it reminds you of Helen Bradley, and before that, Lowry.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06And is this something that you've had for a while?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Well, I bought it about
0:27:09 > 0:27:13four or five months ago in a car-boot sale. Car-boot sale?
0:27:13 > 0:27:17Yeah. And I asked the woman how much she wanted for it,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19and she said, "Ten pence."
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Ten pence?! Yeah. I don't believe it.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Yeah, ten pence, so... Well, that's fantastic!
0:27:24 > 0:27:29Well, Fred Yates, over the last 12 months, has become very, very popular,
0:27:29 > 0:27:34and your ten pence has turned into £700 to £1,000.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40Crikey. And, I mean, that is amazing - ten pence.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45What can you tell me about its history?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Well, it was left to me by my great-grandmother.
0:27:48 > 0:27:54Right. So that would put it back - what? - into the 19th century, do you think? Yes, I should think so.
0:27:54 > 0:28:00Yes, right. The features that I think make it such a lovely object
0:28:00 > 0:28:05are the way the potter has been able to recreate the tabby markings on the cat so effectively
0:28:05 > 0:28:07with these wonderful stripes.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11And also to give it this really strange feel which...
0:28:11 > 0:28:15You know, it's rough but it's smooth - it's what we call "salt glaze".
0:28:15 > 0:28:19Oh, right. And it involves putting the pieces into a kiln,
0:28:19 > 0:28:24and at a certain key point in the firing process, you put salt
0:28:24 > 0:28:29in the top of the kiln, it falls down onto the pieces inside the kiln,
0:28:29 > 0:28:34reacts and creates this wonderful effect. Almost grainy.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38Yes, this is a Staffordshire cat. Oh.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41It was made in two pieces. Yes.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43And flat clay was pressed into a mould,
0:28:43 > 0:28:48but when you look underneath it, the tabby markings on the outside...
0:28:48 > 0:28:53Go right inside. ..are also on the inside, which seems rather strange.
0:28:53 > 0:28:58The reason for that is that the body of the cat is what we call agate -
0:28:58 > 0:29:03it's made of a mixture of different clays all swirled together.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06It's quite a skilled technique to do it,
0:29:06 > 0:29:11but when the clay is then rolled out and pressed into the mould, you get this wonderful effect.
0:29:11 > 0:29:17In the 1920s, some excavations were carried out in Staffordshire
0:29:17 > 0:29:22and the broken pieces of similar cats to this were found
0:29:22 > 0:29:26buried in the ground on the site of a pottery there,
0:29:26 > 0:29:30so this is a cat that dates from about 1745.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Gosh. They're really quite rare,
0:29:32 > 0:29:38um, and I think we'd really be looking at a figure in the region of £2,000 to £3,000.
0:29:38 > 0:29:39Never! Yeah.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Oh, my gosh!
0:29:42 > 0:29:46It's a wonderful little cat. Oh, yes.
0:29:49 > 0:29:53And it was your great-grandfather who established David Morgan,
0:29:53 > 0:29:55which became the largest department store in Wales.
0:29:55 > 0:29:59That's right - David Morgan on the picture there.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01A great landmark in Cardiff, certainly.
0:30:01 > 0:30:06And it sadly, after 125 years, will soon be closed.
0:30:06 > 0:30:10Will be closing at the end of January, next January,
0:30:10 > 0:30:15but in the meantime we celebrate our 125th anniversary this October.
0:30:15 > 0:30:21I don't know if you realise it, but I do have a personal connection with this place.
0:30:21 > 0:30:28I had received a hint, and by sheer coincidence, I have the documentary evidence here.
0:30:28 > 0:30:33Oh. Your record card when you were with us 50 years ago.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35I can't deny that, of course.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38The evidence is there - your signature. Yes. Good references, though.
0:30:38 > 0:30:45And I worked for your family store for quite some time as a sort of salesman,
0:30:45 > 0:30:50but I was getting into broadcasting at the same time here in Cardiff in the early '50s. Yes.
0:30:50 > 0:30:55And I was allowed to have time off by Mr Gerald, who was your...?
0:30:55 > 0:31:00My uncle. I was doing Children's Hour Serial Play, and he let me off for four of the episodes,
0:31:00 > 0:31:04but he wouldn't let me off for the fifth. I said "I get killed in that episode - I must go,"
0:31:04 > 0:31:10and he said, "Choose between the BBC and David Morgan," so I went to the BBC and I did the thing,
0:31:10 > 0:31:15and when I came back, he said, "I told you you had to choose," and I said, "I have chosen the BBC,"
0:31:15 > 0:31:21and he said, "I do not accept your resignation - you are dismissed," and here it is. There it is.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24"Reason for leaving - absent without permission."
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Yes. Oh, have you forgiven me?
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Oh, I think after 50 years we can forgive you.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35Well, you are obviously very keen on jewellery, aren't you?
0:31:35 > 0:31:39My husband always bought me nice jewellery. Did he? Did he buy you this?
0:31:39 > 0:31:44No, I was left it by a great-aunt about 30 years ago,
0:31:44 > 0:31:50and, apparently... I think it's like a Polish origin, because this lady,
0:31:50 > 0:31:54it was an engagement present instead of a ring,
0:31:54 > 0:31:56and then some Polish connections.
0:31:56 > 0:32:01But I'd love to know the value, and I'm afraid to wear it because it's valuable.
0:32:01 > 0:32:06What did you feel when you opened that box, when you were first left it? Was that an exciting moment?
0:32:06 > 0:32:13It was, yes, because I hadn't seen such a lovely piece, and I didn't know that she had this thing.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16Well, lovely it certainly is, and, my goodness, it's decorated.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19And I'd love to know what the stones are and...
0:32:19 > 0:32:23Right, shall we run through those quickly? All right, then.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26That's a chrysoberyl there. Yes.
0:32:26 > 0:32:34And that's a hessonite garnet called a "jacinth", and there's an amethyst and a pink topaz and a turquoise.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38Pink topaz? That's my lucky stone, because I'm a Halloween birthday.
0:32:38 > 0:32:39You're a Halloween birthday?
0:32:39 > 0:32:45Yes, and my name's Mrs Wookey, so I'm Wookey the witch. Wookey the witch? Well, that's fantastic.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47The turquoise, and there's a peridot at the end,
0:32:47 > 0:32:51but it's spattered with turquoises and rubies and it's...
0:32:51 > 0:32:52Rubies?
0:32:52 > 0:32:56Oh, I see a ruby there. Oh, yes, I hadn't noticed those.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59It's an amazingly rich-looking object, isn't it?
0:32:59 > 0:33:02Have you tried to understand what these funny girls are all over it?
0:33:02 > 0:33:05What are they all about? I've no idea at all.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09Well, they're in national costume. Oh, I see. Of what country?
0:33:09 > 0:33:12It's not Poland - it's actually Switzerland.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Switzerland? I'm surprised at that. These are the...
0:33:15 > 0:33:19And each little portrait of a girl in national costume
0:33:19 > 0:33:25is actually paralleled with a shield emblematic of a Swiss canton.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27Oh, Swiss canton? Swiss canton, yeah.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31And these little panels are painted enamel, so truly astonishing
0:33:31 > 0:33:35and it's rather older than you think. How old do you think? Older than me?
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Well, it's certainly older than me!
0:33:37 > 0:33:43And it's made in about 1840. 1840?
0:33:43 > 0:33:48Yeah. And it's a souvenir. What do you think of that? Souvenir.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Well, it was bought as an engagement present.
0:33:51 > 0:33:56I mean, I think, you know, what we can be certain of is if it was given in an engagement present,
0:33:56 > 0:34:00that wasn't the first owner - it was already an old thing by that time.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Switzerland, particularly Geneva, is a centre for enamelling and watch making,
0:34:04 > 0:34:10and when you went to Switzerland, which was an accessible place to go to on a grand tour of the continent
0:34:10 > 0:34:15in the 19th century, you wanted to bring back a little flavour of what you'd seen,
0:34:15 > 0:34:20and you'd probably be taken round enamelling factories and watch-making factories...
0:34:20 > 0:34:23It's a souvenir of the grandest possible type.
0:34:23 > 0:34:27It would have cost an absolute bomb in its own time. Oh. Lucky girl who received it. Yes.
0:34:27 > 0:34:33It's in fantastic order. There's some damage to the enamel there, which I don't think is too serious.
0:34:33 > 0:34:39It's a miraculous piece of craftsmanship to work up this wonderfully malleable gold...
0:34:39 > 0:34:45It's almost a sort of museum quality thing, terribly exciting, and if you found it in an antique shop
0:34:45 > 0:34:51specialising in jewellery, you'd be asked something in the region of...£8,000.
0:34:51 > 0:34:57£8,000?! Oh, that's a nice lot. Another few cruises.
0:34:57 > 0:35:02Very, very good. Absolutely brilliant. Fantastic. Thank you very much.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05And the locomotive itself, because it's in such nice condition
0:35:05 > 0:35:09is worth probably around about £120 to £180.
0:35:09 > 0:35:15I like this because it's in GWR livery, God's Wonderful Railway, of course. Everyone loves GWR.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18It's an engineering tour de force underneath here,
0:35:18 > 0:35:24where we've got a ribbon of brass and then these solid steel supports,
0:35:24 > 0:35:28each of which go to bits of bamboo
0:35:28 > 0:35:36and finish up with the ivory terminals. That is an extremely rare and very beautiful example.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40I'd give you more for this one than I would for all those brollies on that heap -
0:35:40 > 0:35:42between £400 and £600.
0:35:42 > 0:35:43Never. Yeah. Wow...
0:35:45 > 0:35:48John Lennon bought it about 1967.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Bought this very figure? Yeah. Wow.
0:35:51 > 0:35:55And gave it as a gift to Yoko Ono...
0:35:55 > 0:36:02Fantastic. ..when they lived together in Kenwood in Weybridge, between '67 and 1970 I think.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04That's amazing.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07Are you a bit of a Beatles fan yourself? Oh, yeah, I love the Beatles,
0:36:07 > 0:36:12but I also collect Royal Doulton and I do have several other figures, so the connection...
0:36:12 > 0:36:16And it so happens that this is Royal Doulton. Yes, that's correct.
0:36:16 > 0:36:22The great thing is that you don't have to be a rocket scientist to spot Royal Doulton,
0:36:22 > 0:36:26because it's so beautifully stamped. The backstamp's always very clear on the underside,
0:36:26 > 0:36:34and what we've got on the underside here, we've got the Geisha and also the backstamp of Royal Doulton,
0:36:34 > 0:36:38and this particular figure was produced between 1927 and 1938 by Charles Noke
0:36:38 > 0:36:44who was actually one of most influential figures throughout the whole history of Royal Doulton.
0:36:44 > 0:36:49Yes, yes. It has collectability just because it's Royal Doulton. Yes, yes.
0:36:49 > 0:36:53But the amazing fact that it was purchased by John Lennon...
0:36:53 > 0:36:57Now have you got any sort of proof? At the end of the day, it's all very well having hearsay.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59It just so happens I have some...
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Sorry. Here it is.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04What have we got here? Well, this...
0:37:04 > 0:37:06I'll just give you that, shall I?
0:37:06 > 0:37:10That's a signed letter from
0:37:10 > 0:37:17Ken and Margaret Brunt who were the haulage contractors of the Beatles between 1967 and 1970. Yeah.
0:37:17 > 0:37:24And, in fact, when the Beatles broke up in 1970, John Lennon gave it as a gift to Ken and Margaret Brunt.
0:37:24 > 0:37:31So here we have concrete proof that John Lennon actually gave this to the hauliers. Absolutely, yes.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34As a gift. What a fantastic thing to do.
0:37:34 > 0:37:39And a number of other documents, such as an Apple headed letter to Mr Brunt,
0:37:39 > 0:37:44organising some car tax, I think, and... But it just guarantees the authenticity of the letter.
0:37:44 > 0:37:51Yes, yeah. I've just spotted at the top here, a bit of restoration. What's the story behind that?
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Yes, when I bought it,
0:37:54 > 0:37:56the tip of the mandolin...
0:37:56 > 0:37:59Yeah. ..was broken and it had been glued back on.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02I had it professionally repaired, as you can see.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04Yeah. It's a beautiful piece of...
0:38:04 > 0:38:09She's quite revealing for a 1920s figure, don't you think? That's right, yes.
0:38:09 > 0:38:10Because of the damage,
0:38:10 > 0:38:17I could see a figure like this at a general auction sale being valued at between £150 and £250.
0:38:17 > 0:38:22Because it's quite a rare figure in good condition, you're looking at more £300 to £400
0:38:22 > 0:38:23for a figurine. Maybe more,
0:38:23 > 0:38:27but that's at auction. Now, what did you pay for it?
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Um, a lot more than that actually.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32Yeah, yeah, well, that's fine. How much?
0:38:32 > 0:38:35About £700, £800.
0:38:35 > 0:38:41Well, that's fine, because anything connected with John Lennon, you know, turns to gold.
0:38:41 > 0:38:43That's why I bought it, really,
0:38:43 > 0:38:45that connection. Thank you very much.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51Let me ask you why it is so dirty - do you not look after it?
0:38:51 > 0:38:55No, it lives in a box in the attic because it's so ugly.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Really? Who banished it up there?
0:38:58 > 0:39:02My wife. And how long ago did she put it up there, dare I ask?
0:39:02 > 0:39:07Well, it was given to me about five years ago and it was put straight into the attic.
0:39:07 > 0:39:13But who would give you a clock that you didn't like that much? A friend or family or...? My uncle.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17Do you remember it working in his house when you were a youngster?
0:39:17 > 0:39:21No, it worked in my grandfather's house when I was about 11 years old.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23That would be during the war.
0:39:23 > 0:39:29Right, well, it would be silly for me to say to you, "Do you know where it came from?" Because the "Paris"
0:39:29 > 0:39:33on the dial is a bit of a give-away, so we clearly know it's French.
0:39:33 > 0:39:39Underneath all this filth and mess, we have the most wonderful bronze bull,
0:39:39 > 0:39:47and he is standing on a magnificent ormolu stand, and then we have this lady on the top.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49Now, do you know who she is? Europa.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51Europa. Absolutely right.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54And this of course signifies the Rape of Europa,
0:39:54 > 0:39:59when Zeus turned himself into the bull and theoretically raped her.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03The casting of her is absolutely sensational.
0:40:03 > 0:40:10I'm just looking at things like the detail on her sandal. She is absolutely beautifully cast,
0:40:10 > 0:40:14and all these very, very fine Louis XVI clocks
0:40:14 > 0:40:19are signed on the back plate, and we've got the most magnificent signature along there.
0:40:19 > 0:40:24Sennellier, I don't know really particularly well.
0:40:24 > 0:40:30You're lucky - look. The original pendulum is still there,
0:40:30 > 0:40:36and that hangs on the little silk, and the actual pendulum swings within the tummy of the bull.
0:40:36 > 0:40:42The bell's missing, but bar that, that movement would clean up a treat,
0:40:42 > 0:40:45and it's a lovely top-quality French movement. Would it still work?
0:40:45 > 0:40:50Oh, it would still work. That could be very easily done.
0:40:53 > 0:41:00You're probably gathering I'm rather excited about this. Yes, yes. And you still hate it, don't you?
0:41:00 > 0:41:05Well, I think my wife might still, but I'm getting to be quite...
0:41:05 > 0:41:12Getting keener. Yes. Getting keener. What sort of sum do you think would tempt it to come out of the cupboard?
0:41:12 > 0:41:14I really don't know.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18I did take photographs of it to an auction house,
0:41:18 > 0:41:22and they told me something like £300, £400.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25How long ago was that?
0:41:25 > 0:41:27Oh, ten years.
0:41:27 > 0:41:32Right, OK, that's still a bit mean in those days,
0:41:32 > 0:41:37so if I said to you it's worth £4,500,
0:41:37 > 0:41:40would that tempt you to bring it out and make sure she enjoyed it?
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Yes, I think she would enjoy it.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46Well, that's what you'd have to pay for a 19th-century copy.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48This is the real thing.
0:41:48 > 0:41:54Even in this state I think your initial offer would be in the region of £20,000.
0:41:54 > 0:41:59Twenty? £20,000 in the rough, like this. Good heavens!
0:41:59 > 0:42:06And by the time it's been lovingly cleaned, restored, everything done beautifully,
0:42:06 > 0:42:09you're not going to replace this retail,
0:42:09 > 0:42:12anything under £30,000 to £35,000.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Would you mind telling me again, how much?
0:42:15 > 0:42:18In the rough, like this,
0:42:18 > 0:42:21I think in the region of £20,000.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23Good heavens above!
0:42:23 > 0:42:26My wife will never believe it. Absolutely marvellous.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Great.
0:42:28 > 0:42:33There are some very early birds in Cardiff. The first visitor arrived here this morning at five o'clock,
0:42:33 > 0:42:35and we don't open the doors till nine.
0:42:35 > 0:42:40All day, the City Hall has been humming with the discreet sounds of the Antiques Roadshow,
0:42:40 > 0:42:44but I remember when it echoed to the more raucous noises of the jitterbug and the quickstep,
0:42:44 > 0:42:50because we came here, in the '50s when I lived in Cardiff, every Saturday night for the weekly hop.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52Happy memories. And we're coming back.
0:42:52 > 0:42:59Next time, we shall be having a look at the castle and other treasures. Until then, from all of us, goodbye.
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