0:00:30 > 0:00:37This week, the Antiques Roadshow is in red rose country, we've come to the city of Lancaster.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Many events and many people contributed to the making of Lancaster.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48One name that pops up more often than others is Gillow, a family of
0:00:48 > 0:00:53craftsmen who did their first work from these premises back in 1720.
0:00:55 > 0:01:02Gillow's work is characterised by its originality and inventiveness - look no further than Lancaster's
0:01:02 > 0:01:08Town Hall, opened in 1909, when every child was given a box of chocolates to celebrate.
0:01:10 > 0:01:15Picture the scene - a dinner party in the Mayor's parlour with just the
0:01:15 > 0:01:19right amount of guests to fill this table, which is two metres across.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Then the Mayor decides to bring a few extra chums.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26No problem, this table is centrifugal.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Allow me.
0:01:36 > 0:01:41As it revolves, this mahogany marvel opens up and the gaps are filled by special leaves.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59The result? 50% more space.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04The only person not impressed would be the cook, who has to provide the extra food.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09And, if you're wanting to spread out after dinner, you may need a bit more space.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Mr Gillow had thought of that already.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14This wall weighs two tons, but with the combination of
0:02:14 > 0:02:19a brilliant system of counterweights plus my own incredible strength...
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Voila! Let the party commence.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56The next day it's back to work.
0:02:56 > 0:03:02The Council Chamber is impressive with panelled walls and a throne fit for a...mayor.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05And, if the meeting goes on too long, the councillors can
0:03:05 > 0:03:10always take a crafty nap, courtesy of the Gillow patent recliner.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Ah, the ayes have it.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23This is really a place for Lancaster's Harry Potter fans.
0:03:23 > 0:03:30As well as expanding tables and moving walls, there are portraits that behave very strangely.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42These hidden passages are handy for our film crew to sneak their equipment through.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47The floor of the Ashton Hall, where we're holding the show,
0:03:47 > 0:03:51is sprung for dancing, so experts, take your partners, please.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57GRAMOPHONE PLAYS
0:03:57 > 0:04:00# Little Betty Bouncer is kind to her people
0:04:00 > 0:04:02# And a nice girl, more or less
0:04:02 > 0:04:04# But at present, no joke
0:04:04 > 0:04:08# She's causing her folks No end of deep distress
0:04:08 > 0:04:14# Little Miss Bouncer loves an announcer down at the BBC... #
0:04:15 > 0:04:20- That's great.- That was Flotsam and Jetsam in 1927.- Wonderful!
0:04:20 > 0:04:23And it could be said about any of Michael Aspel's fans, of course.
0:04:23 > 0:04:32Now, this is a wonderful sort of time warp, a mid-1920s Columbia Grafonola
0:04:32 > 0:04:39cabinet gramophone in wonderful condition with a period record. Are you a bit of an enthusiast?
0:04:39 > 0:04:48I am really, I have about 10,000 gramophone records, mainly between the two wars, mainly.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50So, when did you get hooked?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52During my school days.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55In 1969 I bought just a few...
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- From this period?- Yes.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03Is this the only machine you have to play? Or have you also collected some other gramophones?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06No, I have eight other gramophones, but this is one of my favourites.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11This is terrific, and I tell you one thing that is great about this.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15It's a great piece of furniture.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20- We've got the very... I like the hi tech volume control. - Yes, the volume control.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23So this is very quiet and that's very loud, and anything in between.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- Underneath you've got storage for...- Space for records.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29- Space for records, but not space for 10,000.- No, no.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- It's a great piece of furniture.- Yes.
0:05:31 > 0:05:39And, over the years, I have seen so many of these lovely cabinets changed into cocktail cabinets.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43The fact that this is in its original condition, and very good original
0:05:43 > 0:05:48condition, and it hasn't suffered the fate of so many others, is terrific.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53I'm seeing also other pieces of ephemera relating to records and that whole period.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57- That's right, period sheet music. - Yeah.- There's Amy Johnson.- Yes.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02- And this is to commemorate her flight to Australia in 1930. George Formby...- George Formby.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Jack Payne...
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- Jack's the boy.- And Jack Holbert.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- Particularly, I like the Chinese Laundry Blues there.- Yes.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13- With that great photographic portrait of George Formby.- Lovely picture.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17That really brings him to life, and of course, Formby, Wigan man,
0:06:17 > 0:06:23but I suppose if you're interested in dance music, it has to be Jack Payne.
0:06:23 > 0:06:28I mean, he was the master of that period, on the Columbia record label,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32it's called either "Do Something" or "I'll always be in love with you".
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Now, as far as value's concerned,
0:06:36 > 0:06:41I'm constantly surprised at how little these fetch.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45I would have thought we're talking about £300 to £400 on a good day.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Of course, I only have them for the enjoyment.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Yes, you're not interested in selling.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53- So, let's just hear Jack Payne "Doing Something".- Yes.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58OLD STYLE DANCE MUSIC
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Do you know, if we'd have been chatting about, 60 years ago,
0:07:17 > 0:07:24- the chances are that most people outside this Town Hall would have been wearing clogs.- Yes, they would.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Clogs are synonymous with Lancashire.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31All the old folk I used to know told me, "There's nowt so comfortable as clogs."
0:07:31 > 0:07:36So I bought a pair and I actually used to go out dancing in them, and then my wife - I nearly crippled her.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40So, I do have an affinity with clogs.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43I've also got an affinity with this pair of clogs.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47- They could never be described as Lancashire, could they? - No.- No.- They've no irons on.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51No irons, that's important, but they do have, underneath, a mark.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53- Yes.- It's all in a name, isn't it?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- Yes, it is. - Bizarre by Clarice Cliff.- Yes.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Because, in all fairness, this is a pair of clogs that,
0:07:59 > 0:08:04- stylistically, they'd look more at home on a Dutchman than they would on a Lancastrian.- Yes.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08The interesting thing is they are decorated with this geometric design.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13- It's called Sunburst.- Yes. - If you look at it, it's almost like a chevron design.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- I mean, they are colourful, aren't they?- Mm.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Do you know if you've got a left or a right?- No, it's puzzled me, that.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23- Well, the truth is, there is no left and there is no right.- Oh.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- It's the same clog, OK?- Oh.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30I actually do know somebody who collects clogs of this size, and it's me mother.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33She hasn't got a pair like this, but if she wanted a pair like this,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36what do you think she'd have to pay for them?
0:08:36 > 0:08:42- About £75.- £75... I think she'd be very lucky to get them for 75.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46I think that you could put a nought on the end of that, because these are
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- worth somewhere in the region of between £600 and £800.- Are they?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- Quite easily.- Oh.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56- Oh, they're expensive clogs, aren't they?- They are expensive clogs!
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Well, it doesn't look like much like this, does it? But look at this.
0:09:00 > 0:09:06Isn't this splendid? I think I could probably play for hours with this, but let's just start here.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Just feast our eyes on that, while you tell me how you got hold of this.
0:09:10 > 0:09:15My father's had it for 50 years and it was passed to him by a Gillow's man.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- Right.- Presumably that man got it from another Gillow's man.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23- So it actually has been making Gillow's furniture?- I suspect so.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27- Yes.- That's perfect, so we're in Lancaster, so that's wonderful, right.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30There's such a tradition in the this area of furniture making.
0:09:30 > 0:09:35Obviously Gillow's is a big firm, later Waring and Gillow, but what I think is fantastic,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38when you see this, you imagine someone's tool box,
0:09:38 > 0:09:41like a modern plastic tool box you carry around from job to job,
0:09:41 > 0:09:44here was something handmade by the original craftsman.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48He'd make it himself for his own tools and he's put all of this love
0:09:48 > 0:09:51and care and attention into it, showing how wonderful his box was.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55You're not actually a cabinet maker yourself?
0:09:55 > 0:10:01I'm not, no, but there are tools in there from my father, my grandfather and my great grandfather.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06How wonderful. This is a maker's stamp for marking tools by the look of it.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07That's my father's.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10- And that's his stamp.- Yes.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15Isn't that wonderful? And that's what they actually used for stamping the tools.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Yes.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I've seen something here which... Explain this to me, is it what I think it is?
0:10:21 > 0:10:26Well, we used to play conkers as children and one evening my father
0:10:26 > 0:10:30disappeared for several hours and came back with that.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33- He hadn't been climbing a conker tree.- No, no, no.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- He turned that himself. - He made that.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- So you've been cheating with that, have you?- He was.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41- What, he really used it for conkers? - Yes.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45It's almost like lignum vitae or something, it's very, very hard wood.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Yes, yes.- Very, very dense.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51That for conkers would be absolutely lethal!
0:10:51 > 0:10:53It's so real, how glorious.
0:10:53 > 0:10:59But this is what's so wonderful, I mean, I've had a few minutes just to flick through this book -
0:10:59 > 0:11:01all the things he did.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05- I think this is at the end of his apprenticeship.- Right.
0:11:05 > 0:11:11"April 15th, 1932", so we're talking about the '30s of the last century.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Yes.- But, you know, sashing windows, making a coffin.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16- Yes.- 14 or 15 hours.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21Well, he was an undertaker as well, so coffin making was
0:11:21 > 0:11:24a prime part of his work.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28That's fascinating because that's not just in the 20th century.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Thomas Chippendale and all his contemporaries worked around St Martin-in-the-Fields
0:11:32 > 0:11:36in the centre of London, and they worked around the church, why?
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Because there was a good business making coffins - when there wasn't
0:11:38 > 0:11:42an order for grand furniture, they made simple coffins and boxes.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46That's one reason why they had these big and wonderful, wonderful boxes
0:11:46 > 0:11:49because they could carry it from one job to another with a mate's help.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53You could put this on a train, you could go up to Glasgow for the sea.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56You know, working on the ships.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59This type of decoration would be early 19th century -
0:11:59 > 0:12:01mahogany with chequered stringing,
0:12:01 > 0:12:06this star device, you see on clock cases and furniture. 1800-1820,
0:12:06 > 0:12:10up to 1840 or 1850, so without any more precise family history,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14I would say it is about 1850.
0:12:14 > 0:12:19"The Lancaster Agricultural Society Challenge Cup
0:12:19 > 0:12:22"presented by Lady Ashton
0:12:22 > 0:12:25"for the best collection
0:12:25 > 0:12:28"consisting of one horse, two cattle".
0:12:28 > 0:12:32I love this! "Male or female,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- "and three sheep".- That's right.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38So, how do you come to have this?
0:12:38 > 0:12:43- I'm a committee member of the Lancaster and Morton Agricultural Society.- Right.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48It was given so many years ago to the Society from Lady Ashton.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Oh, right. I notice the inscription fizzles out in about 1999.
0:12:52 > 0:12:57Now that says something to me, and says foot-and-mouth.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02We did struggle after the foot-and-mouth event, yes, we did.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- Right, so that's had quite a bad effect on the Society.- It has, yes.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- That's sad.- Very sad because it's been going over 100 years.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14It's a large, it's an impressive cup, but it's very light.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19- Right.- It's always been referred to, sometimes rather cruelly, as "flash for cash".- Right.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Somebody wanted a lot for their money. Nonetheless it's still got a value.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26It does need a bit of attention.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30In an auction I would expect it to perhaps to reach maybe £500.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Right.
0:13:32 > 0:13:39But if you had to go out and buy a new one of similar size, it's going to be quite a lot more.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43Oh, it is, look, that's what I wanted to see, Norris.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46That's one of the Rolls-Royce plane makers.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50Now, that's worth some money in itself, that's a wonderful plane.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53It's in such nice condition, just needs a bit of a clean up.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56So, you've got three Norris planes in there.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01What else? What's this?
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Are there any moulding planes and things?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Moulding planes are at the back of this compartment.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09- Right, how many of those have you got?- Well, it's full.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- Full of them, what 20 or 30 of them? - Yeah, maybe, maybe 20.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18This is a wonderful machine with a rosewood handle on a veneer scraper.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23Really pulling, you know, taking the saw marks out...
0:14:23 > 0:14:28The old horizontal saw, and just pulling them... Oh, my gosh, what hard work that must have been.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32I haven't seen one of those before actually, it's interesting, and certainly not of that scale.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Thank heavens you rescued it, because it's obviously quite a valuable item.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40- Right.- Those Norris planes, at least £200 or £300 each.- Mmm.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43You've got 30 or 40 moulding planes, well they were
0:14:43 > 0:14:47£30 each, they've gone down a bit now - probably worth about £10 each.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Must be, must be 60 chisels, I would think.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- So what are we going to put on it for value?- Don't know.
0:14:52 > 0:14:57- I mean the box is worth £1,000 and you've probably got £2,000 worth of tools.- Right.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02So a good £3,000, but more important than that, family and local history.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04- Yes.- What a wonderful thing.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06A working man's livelihood.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- Well, you open the lid and it speaks volumes, doesn't it?- That's great, I could have that in my front room.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Yes, yes, quite.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17It's considered rude to look at other people's letters,
0:15:17 > 0:15:22but I have to say that it's a thing that I do pretty regularly when I see something as interesting
0:15:22 > 0:15:26as this collection of letters from the Crimean War.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Are they from a relative or from your family?
0:15:29 > 0:15:34Yes, they belonged to my grandfather and he got them from his cousin,
0:15:34 > 0:15:39Uncle Ken, who was a Bronskill and he lived in Brampton near Penrith.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44This letter interests me because it's headed "Camp behind Sebastopol,
0:15:44 > 0:15:45"December 20th 1854".
0:15:45 > 0:15:50The Army had the Russians under siege and they were bombing the city
0:15:50 > 0:15:54and trying to make it surrender. And you've transcribed this?
0:15:54 > 0:15:58- Yes.- That must have taken you a long time to do - very spidery writing!
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Very difficult, yes.
0:15:59 > 0:16:05They were freezing cold in tents and he'd be sitting there with a candle,
0:16:05 > 0:16:09with a tiny travelling ink bottle and it probably took him a long time to write.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13It starts with his service in September,
0:16:13 > 0:16:17and the first battle was at the Alma and it said,
0:16:17 > 0:16:21"And warm work it was with large shots came whizzing around our ears like snowballs,
0:16:21 > 0:16:26"but did a great deal more execution, but thank God, I came clear of wounds
0:16:26 > 0:16:29"except having my regimental hat shattered to pieces by grapeshot,
0:16:29 > 0:16:35"and if I am spared, I will bring home a glazed cover which was over it, to show how my head escaped".
0:16:35 > 0:16:41If it had been a foot lower, you and I wouldn't have been speaking today!
0:16:41 > 0:16:46We then move on to Inkerman, which is another great battle, and that was appropriately on 5th November.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50He said, "Now we commenced our gunpowder plot as early as six o'clock in the morning,
0:16:50 > 0:16:54"and such destructive fireworks... was never seen in England".
0:16:54 > 0:16:57And then you get the real horror of warfare
0:16:57 > 0:17:02that his sort of jokey start really sort of tries to disguise.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05The casualties of his battery were 20%
0:17:05 > 0:17:09and over 30% of the horses put out of action,
0:17:09 > 0:17:13which effectively made it useless as a unit any more.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16By the time you get a quarter to a third of casualties, a unit
0:17:16 > 0:17:22really ceases to have its cohesion, and here he says, "After this day,
0:17:22 > 0:17:27"for the longest day I live, I shall always have occasion to remember the 5th November". I should think so.
0:17:27 > 0:17:32It's interesting as you get to the end of it, there's a slight hint about what's going to happen.
0:17:32 > 0:17:38"But now...my health is not in any way good at present and it is very cold weather to live in tents",
0:17:38 > 0:17:44and I think it must have been absolutely desperate, you know, because freezing cold,
0:17:44 > 0:17:50complete ineptitude in the supplies system, poor clothing, no winter clothes and desperate.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55- And then there's this rather sad little letter to...his mother?- Yes.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00From her sister, who'd heard second-hand that he'd died.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- That's right.- And it said that he died at the hospital
0:18:03 > 0:18:07- and I think that was Scutari where Florence Nightingale was.- Really?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10- So, you've rescued these letters. - Yes.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13I'm delighted that you did. What do you think you want to do with them?
0:18:13 > 0:18:19Well, rather than sit in my home in this book, I'd like to give them to a museum
0:18:19 > 0:18:23and let other people enjoy them, they're charming.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25I think that's a very worthy aim. They have a commercial value.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28They're worth between sort of £300 to £500.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32- Yes.- There's lots of interest in the Crimea, and I think
0:18:32 > 0:18:35that you should edit them and you should publish them.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39You could put them on the internet and that would be a really good resource for somebody.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43And if you then wanted to give them to a museum they'd be preserved.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Right.- But what you've done, you've given this man a voice.- Yes.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Otherwise he would just be a statistic,
0:18:49 > 0:18:54- and that's an absolutely priceless gift. Thanks for bringing them. - Yes, thank you, thank you.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Now here's an artist who really understood animals
0:19:01 > 0:19:03and the English countryside.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07I love the way he's got these sheep and the cattle, and also just here
0:19:07 > 0:19:11you can see a goat coming up the hill, all together, and a farmer
0:19:11 > 0:19:14will probably tell me that didn't happen,
0:19:14 > 0:19:17but I feel that he understands his animals -
0:19:17 > 0:19:22the sheep lying down like that, it's so perfectly convincing.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26- Do you like this picture?- It reminds me of where I live so it's...
0:19:26 > 0:19:30- Where do you live?- Up on the fells, so we overlook all the hills.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- Big open roaming countryside. - Yes, it's lovely.- Rather like this?
0:19:33 > 0:19:39- Yes.- The artist was Thomas Sydney Cooper and he's signed it, luckily for us, just here,
0:19:39 > 0:19:42and inscribed it, "a sketch by"
0:19:42 > 0:19:45and he's dated it - 1855.
0:19:45 > 0:19:50We once had a painting by Thomas Sydney Cooper in my gallery, during Smithfield week.
0:19:50 > 0:19:56A farmer walked in and said, "That's the best bloody picture of sheep I've ever seen",
0:19:56 > 0:20:03and bought it on the spot, because he said that the artist had really understood it.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Although this is just a sketch, I think he has - he's understood
0:20:07 > 0:20:11the countryside and the animals working in it, very well.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14If I saw this picture in an auction, I'd be very tempted to pay
0:20:14 > 0:20:18a premium, if you like, over what it might be worth, because it's so lovely.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21It's a picture that ought to get quite a few people chasing it.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Could drive it up as far as £6,000 I feel.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Very, very pretty picture.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28That's a nice surprise.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33There's a touch of serendipity about this week's featured
0:20:33 > 0:20:36collector because Brenda Lever was out looking to add to her
0:20:36 > 0:20:42collection of powder compacts when something else caught her fancy, and that was, Brenda, scarves.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- Scarves, yes.- How long ago was that?
0:20:44 > 0:20:48- About seven years ago, yeah. - And what started you off then?
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Mainly, I like the graphics and I just thought
0:20:52 > 0:20:56it was a very interesting subject and they were there, they weren't very expensive and I thought, why not?
0:20:56 > 0:20:58It's capturing the 20th century.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02If I don't do it, maybe nobody else will do it,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05and it just sort of mushroomed from there.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08I just had friends, they started collecting and it's mushroomed.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11- And how many do you have? - Approximately 1,200.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13And are they all posh silk scarves?
0:21:13 > 0:21:19No, no. A large proportion are silk, but quite a few are crepe because
0:21:19 > 0:21:23during World War Two you couldn't get the silk, so they had to use rayon.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27Just after the war they used rayon-crepe quite a lot, and then in
0:21:27 > 0:21:32the '50s the silk sort of came back in again because it was, you know,
0:21:32 > 0:21:37like, during the war they had to use it for parachutes so obviously it was in short supply.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40And you've got some top designers as well, haven't you?
0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Oh, yeah. - Who are the top scarf people?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Well, Hermes, Paris, Ferragamo...
0:21:45 > 0:21:46This one here?
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Pucci, Pucci.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50That's a good weight, isn't it?
0:21:50 > 0:21:54- That is good. That is a good quality scarf.- And how much would that cost?
0:21:54 > 0:21:59- Now, today, you'd be lucky to find one of these under a couple of hundred pounds.- Right.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03You may be lucky if you traipse around, but to buy new you're talking a heck of a lot of money.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05So what's the oldest one you've got?
0:22:05 > 0:22:09This one from the First World War.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13It has the words, "It's a long way to Tipperary" printed on it.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15As you can see, it's cotton.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- It's more a neckerchief. - That's weathered very well.
0:22:17 > 0:22:23Oh, it's weathered well and God knows where it's been, your guess is as good as mine.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28- Perhaps it's always been wrapped up nicely.- Yeah, possibly.- What other historical ones have you got?
0:22:28 > 0:22:32This was a freebie, given away with the newspapers in America,
0:22:32 > 0:22:37celebrating the Japanese surrender in 1945. Silk.
0:22:37 > 0:22:44Flimsy, you know, not particularly expensive, but very historical nevertheless.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47What about the scarves of famous people? Do you have any of those?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Yeah. I have one with Grace Kelly.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Where are you, Grace?
0:22:54 > 0:22:58This one was actually given to me by a lady
0:22:58 > 0:23:03who had worked in Monaco alongside Grace Kelly.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08Grace Kelly actually had a boutique, I believe, in Monaco and this lady rang me and she said, "I would like
0:23:08 > 0:23:12"you to have the scarf because I'm getting old and I don't want it to be
0:23:12 > 0:23:15"thrown out and I'd rather it went to a genuine collector".
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Grace Kelly.- Yeah, has her initials.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Ah, lovely, you haven't got Isadora Duncan's, have you?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23No, no, she was strangled by a scarf!
0:23:23 > 0:23:25I'm afraid so! I tell you who really should
0:23:25 > 0:23:31- be conducting this conversation, because he's a collector as well, and that's Paul Atterbury.- Really?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Paul, look at this selection. Are you overwhelmed?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35I'm completely green with envy.
0:23:35 > 0:23:41- A fellow scarf collector.- You've got all the ones I haven't got and I've wanted to have for years.- Really?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44It's a great, great thing to collect because
0:23:44 > 0:23:49scarves are wonderfully decorative, they're period - you can say '50s, '60s whatever, straight away.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Most important, they're one of the few collecting areas that are still available.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57You know, you go to a charity shop, rummage through that great bundle
0:23:57 > 0:24:00of scarves and, who knows, what you're going to find for 50p or £1?
0:24:00 > 0:24:04What people think when they see me rummaging through ladies' scarves, I hate to think.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06This is amazing, you've done wonders.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08- Thank you very much. - Brenda, thank you very much.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Thank you, Michael.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17Well, this caught my eye. How did you happen to get hold of it?
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Well, I found it in a charity shop, Barnardo's Charity shop.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25- Right, and how much did you pay for it?- About £14 or £15.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Right, well, it caught my eye because I think that,
0:24:27 > 0:24:30with a little bit of magic wanding, we can actually transform this.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35So I propose that we get some silver cleaner and we have a little go at
0:24:35 > 0:24:40- this and see what we can transform it into. Are you game?- Yes.- Great.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Well, bewitching this object certainly is.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47Fantastic, with this diminutive bra
0:24:47 > 0:24:51and girdle with suspenders on the bottom here.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55It's a good job we haven't got one of the older experts here
0:24:55 > 0:24:59because I think those chaps would be getting all hot under the collar!
0:24:59 > 0:25:02It's a great object. What made you buy it?
0:25:02 > 0:25:06I just fell in love with her, and I went back to the shop about four
0:25:06 > 0:25:09times to try and barter with the man for the price and he wouldn't shift
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- on the price, he said, "No, I love her as well".- Oh, no.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14So that was that, so I ended up with her in the end, so that's good.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17OK, hit me with it, what did you have to pay?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- £100.- Ten years ago.- Yes.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23You were buying retail, which is at the top of the market,
0:25:23 > 0:25:26but I have to say if there's one area in the antiques business
0:25:26 > 0:25:29which is doing OK at the moment,
0:25:29 > 0:25:34it is 1950s, 1960s, and this sort of fits right in the middle there.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37It's not a great piece of design.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39What it is is a great bit of kitsch.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43If I saw it in a shop, I'd pay £200 for it, no problem.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45I think you got a good buy.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50So, here we go.
0:25:55 > 0:26:01This is just a basic silver cleaner you get from any shop and it's a question of elbow grease and just
0:26:01 > 0:26:05work at it, and look at the filth that's dripping off it already.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10This is oxidised silver - this is silver we're cleaning and you can
0:26:10 > 0:26:12already see how it's coming up,
0:26:12 > 0:26:16so with a great deal more elbow grease, I think we're onto a...
0:26:16 > 0:26:18You'll see a pretty radical transformation.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24This bronze rat has a bit of a waggle on its tail, why is that?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28My wife's grandparents used to use it as a doorstop.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Really? What a use for it!
0:26:30 > 0:26:33And I see also it's got a mark on the bottom, have you had that read?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Well, I've actually asked a Chinese friend of mine if she could read it
0:26:36 > 0:26:38and she said it didn't make any sense to her at all.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42- Well, you asked a Chinese and these are Japanese.- Ah!
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Made around 1900.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48In Japan, the rat is a sign of good luck
0:26:48 > 0:26:55and it's often associated with the god of good fortune, Hotei.
0:26:55 > 0:27:01He often has a sack of good things and rats are often seen breaking into it.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05So they're a completely different concept - in Europe we don't like
0:27:05 > 0:27:11them so much, but in Japan they are a great object of reverence, almost.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Now, from doorstop to what sort of value do you think they've got?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Well, I wouldn't have thought an awful lot to be honest.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Hence the doorstop mentality!
0:27:20 > 0:27:27- But perhaps when I tell you they're worth between £600 and £800 the pair...- No.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29You'll stop using them as a doorstop.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- Definitely! - Thank you for bringing them.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Wow, thank you!
0:27:35 > 0:27:40Well, with about five minutes of elbow grease, this is what we've arrived at.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44This is a Renaissance revival bon-bon dish.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46It's English,
0:27:46 > 0:27:52dating about 1865, silver plated with a frosted glass insert.
0:27:52 > 0:27:57- They're not really at the height of fashion these, but you paid...fifteen quid for it?- Yeah.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Well, I reckon we've added at least two quid to the value by cleaning it.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03That's lovely!
0:28:03 > 0:28:07So there we go, a little bit of spit of polish and I think you know, I mean you can see the difference.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09- Yes.- Great.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Now it seems to me that you must be an actress or a theatrical person.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16No, nothing of the sort.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Oh, why have you got all these extraordinary pictures then?
0:28:18 > 0:28:22- Well, they actually belonged to my late husband's family.- Right.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24They belonged to his great-grandma,
0:28:24 > 0:28:30who was an English lady but moved to Glasgow with her husband.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- So they lived in Glasgow?- Yes, they did.- And when are we talking about?
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- Probably 1908.- So, before the First World War.- Oh, definitely, yes.
0:28:36 > 0:28:41- So they were based in Glasgow, and what did she do? - I know she had a boarding house.
0:28:41 > 0:28:46Ah, so are we saying that these are all people who came to stay at her boarding house?
0:28:46 > 0:28:51Yes, what she used to do is, people used to stay and obviously she must have made them so welcome, they used
0:28:51 > 0:28:57to get back in touch, but obviously they didn't have the phone then,
0:28:57 > 0:29:00so they used to send postcards ahead to book a room.
0:29:00 > 0:29:05This troupe are coming round dressed as Girl Guides,
0:29:05 > 0:29:10"Mrs Ferguson, we're working at Burns' Palace, Armadale this week.
0:29:10 > 0:29:15"We'll be pleased to see you and Mr Ferguson on Saturday, if you can come".
0:29:15 > 0:29:20- So they're not staying with her, they're just saying "here we are again".- That's right.
0:29:20 > 0:29:26- It's great. We're straight into the sort of the last days of the Victorian-Edwardian music hall.- Yes.
0:29:26 > 0:29:32These are all musical performers, singers, dancers, novelty acts.
0:29:32 > 0:29:39What I like about this, is it brings to life that extraordinary period of popular theatre.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42You know, the music hall was a great thing, everybody went to it.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45We can't imagine the scale of the music hall and the popularity,
0:29:45 > 0:29:49and every night there was a different act, a different turn.
0:29:49 > 0:29:55- That's right.- And all these people had their own postcards, trade cards, to promote their acts.
0:29:55 > 0:30:01- That's right.- And, as you say, they probably used these to say, "We're on our way, give us a room".- Yes.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05- Part of the novelty thing was also, I think, the dressing up.- Yes.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08So, whether these were actually Scottish people, or were people
0:30:08 > 0:30:13- acting out Scottish roles, - who knows. Yes.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16Now, they certainly aren't Japanese, but they're doing a Japanese turn.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19- Yes.- Sometimes the comments are just great.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21I love this one -
0:30:21 > 0:30:25"In Ragtime Impressions of a Rapid Review of Modern Dance".
0:30:25 > 0:30:28This is dated 1910.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32- Very early.- And look at her skirt. - She's showing her knees.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Exactly.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37- Yes.- And that's what she did on the stage, so half the people
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- were going there to be sort of titillated by pretty girls.- Yes.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43- Knees, you know, bits of things they never normally saw.- Yes.
0:30:43 > 0:30:48"Clarke and Davis in their clever Hebrew act".
0:30:48 > 0:30:51I mean, you couldn't say that now.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55- No.- But again it's part of the sort of comedy process at that time.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57I long to know what "educational tit-bits" are,
0:30:57 > 0:31:00- and also "legitimate dancing". - Yes, that's right!
0:31:00 > 0:31:03I'd rather see the illegitimate dancing!
0:31:03 > 0:31:06It's great, I mean obviously you never knew her.
0:31:06 > 0:31:11I didn't, no. I have a picture in my bedroom of her. We call her "Ma".
0:31:11 > 0:31:13- What does she look like? - She's beautiful, she really is.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17When we look at a collection like this, it's about bringing to life a period.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20It's about bringing to life your late husband's history, isn't it?
0:31:20 > 0:31:22- Yes.- He must have been very excited by all this.
0:31:22 > 0:31:27- He treasured them.- If you were simply a buyer or a collector, none of these are worth much.
0:31:27 > 0:31:32- No.- The signed ones are interesting, they're personal, they're to Mrs Ferguson.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35But I have to admit, there's no-one here who actually would have changed
0:31:35 > 0:31:39the world, so the value is not there, but the history is.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42A Britain that's completely vanished.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46It once used to sit on Morecambe Promenade, which is very close
0:31:46 > 0:31:51to Lancaster, and it's part of the Morecambe and Lancaster history.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Well, you've got the evidence to prove it, haven't you?
0:31:53 > 0:31:56- Because you've brought along a couple of photographs.- Yes.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58This one... This clock tower is still there...
0:31:58 > 0:32:02It's still situated on Morecambe promenade.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06And there we see not just one, but we've actually got a pair of these pots, haven't we?
0:32:06 > 0:32:10- To be frank with you, it probably needed a visa to get here.- Right.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13Because this has come from over the border, as we say in this part of the world.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15This has come from Yorkshire, I think.
0:32:15 > 0:32:20- Right.- I can't help but think that this started off life at the Leeds Fireclay Company.- Right.
0:32:20 > 0:32:25Sometime in the sort of 1880s, 1890s so...
0:32:25 > 0:32:30I reckon this weighs probably around about 500lbs or thereabouts, and I would reckon
0:32:30 > 0:32:34a pound for pound, so if you wanted to go out and buy another one of
0:32:34 > 0:32:39these today, if you could find one, I reckon you'd probably have to pay somewhere in the region of £500.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42- Do you fancy the idea of owning a pair?- Definitely.
0:32:42 > 0:32:47Once you've got a pair, you've got to go out and get that clock tower, haven't you, to put between the two.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50- I'm sure Morecambe's got one to spare somewhere.- I'm sure it has.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54It's a beautiful hand.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58Gorgeous handwriting, very simple, very elegant.
0:32:58 > 0:33:05It's a table of all the receipts contained in this book, so it's a recipe book.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09Yes, and it also has remedies for illnesses.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13- Oh, really?- Which, of course, were homemade - you didn't
0:33:13 > 0:33:18rush to the chemist, or buy something over the counter - you had to make your own.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22- You boiled them up in the kitchen. - You made them in the kitchen,
0:33:22 > 0:33:29so I think a lot of cookery books of this time did combine recipes and remedies.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31Indeed. When do you think this was made?
0:33:31 > 0:33:37Well, it came from a farmhouse in Westmoreland, which belonged to my
0:33:37 > 0:33:43husband's family, and it was passed on to us, I don't know who Mrs Buck,
0:33:43 > 0:33:46the authoress of the book, is...
0:33:46 > 0:33:50From the look at the handwriting, the manuscript was made either at
0:33:50 > 0:33:54the very end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century.
0:33:54 > 0:33:59It must have taken her a long time, no rushing for a word processor.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02Absolutely, so she's telling us to preserve walnuts,
0:34:02 > 0:34:06to make good cheese, to preserve lemons or sweet ones.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08- Isn't that lovely?- That's lovely.
0:34:08 > 0:34:15Quince cream, Spanish cream, these all sound absolutely delicious.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18What's surprising is the sheer variety of diet.
0:34:18 > 0:34:22I think we sometimes think that people just lived on bread and water at this time but they didn't.
0:34:22 > 0:34:27- Not a bit of it.- Pickling cucumbers, marinating trouts.
0:34:27 > 0:34:32I'm fascinated by the medical side of this.
0:34:32 > 0:34:35As you say, it's a time before the family doctor,
0:34:35 > 0:34:40everything had to be done in the house, but there are some really quite extraordinary recipes here.
0:34:40 > 0:34:44This is one that caught my eye - the snail water.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46What's snail water?
0:34:46 > 0:34:49"You take a peck of snails,
0:34:49 > 0:34:53"newly gathered, we put them in a large pipkin
0:34:53 > 0:34:58"and let them stand for 12 hours with three handfuls of red sage".
0:34:58 > 0:35:02Quite what we do with snail water I don't know.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05And does it say what it cures?
0:35:05 > 0:35:10If it does, it's a little bit difficult to read, you're putting me on the spot here.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12I hope it's a medicine and not a starter, don't you?
0:35:12 > 0:35:17I hope so, yes, I hope so, might be quite delicious! One just doesn't know.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21My hunch is that some of these recipes were passed around.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25I think one woman would pass them to another woman,
0:35:25 > 0:35:27that woman would copy them up in her book
0:35:27 > 0:35:30and that's the way in which recipes were transmitted, if you like.
0:35:30 > 0:35:34This is before printing, before recipe books were printed -
0:35:34 > 0:35:37you're transmitting everything in manuscript.
0:35:38 > 0:35:43So it's a wonderful insight into the way in which people shared information about food.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47You know, there's no Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith, to tell us how to do
0:35:47 > 0:35:50it, but they were getting on and making the most wonderful things.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53When these things have come up at auction in the past, I guess they
0:35:53 > 0:35:59fetched somewhere between £600 and £800, sometimes a little bit more.
0:35:59 > 0:36:03I find this one very attractive, I must say, and it's lovely to know
0:36:03 > 0:36:06- who it's by, it's lovely to know that it's Mrs Buck's.- Yes.
0:36:06 > 0:36:11- So perhaps we're talking a little bit more than that. Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:36:11 > 0:36:18It was bought by my husband's father and since he died we've had it in our house since then, yes.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21- And did you take it willingly, with open arms, or was it thrust upon you?- Yes, we did. Yes, we did.
0:36:21 > 0:36:25Oh good, because it is just glorious isn't it?
0:36:25 > 0:36:29Every time you look at a corner, you see something else.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31Domestic embroidery like this
0:36:31 > 0:36:36really was the culmination of the training of a young girl.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39She'd start off with plain sewing, then she might do
0:36:39 > 0:36:46- something a little bit more complicated, but this really was the sort of scholarship piece.- Yes.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48And it was very, very popular,
0:36:48 > 0:36:54this type of embroidered picture, in the 17th century.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57It's got a lot of different stitches on it
0:36:57 > 0:37:02and there's lovely chenille work here with the moss.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05It has satin stitch,
0:37:05 > 0:37:08there's couched work, which was actually very clever.
0:37:08 > 0:37:14Here we've got couch work, which is where you laid a thread on the top
0:37:14 > 0:37:17and just did a little catching thread every now and again, so
0:37:17 > 0:37:23of course all the expensive thread was on the top, none of it was behind where it wouldn't be seen.
0:37:23 > 0:37:28In the centre we've got spangles - metal discs with a hole in it,
0:37:28 > 0:37:30with a little bead on the top,
0:37:30 > 0:37:34and of course everywhere catching the light as I tilt it.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38We have gold thread, we have bits of mica
0:37:38 > 0:37:40and all in all it has...
0:37:40 > 0:37:44If you had a tick list of all the things that you wanted
0:37:44 > 0:37:49to see in a 17th century embroidery, this has it actually with knobs on.
0:37:49 > 0:37:50Oh, gosh!
0:37:50 > 0:37:54It really does, because of all this raised work.
0:37:54 > 0:38:00Now if I put my finger in here, we can actually see the depth
0:38:00 > 0:38:04of the raised work. Some people call it stump work.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07- Yes.- But actually the correct term is raised work.- I see.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09And you have a wadding inside,
0:38:09 > 0:38:15probably wool, over which these stitches are created, so we have
0:38:15 > 0:38:20this wonderful frog and then we have slimy snakes and in fact,
0:38:20 > 0:38:23right over on my side, we have
0:38:23 > 0:38:28a tangle of snakes. I can almost feel that they're writhing there.
0:38:30 > 0:38:38She would not have designed the picture herself - there were lots of woodcuts and engravings
0:38:38 > 0:38:44which then were copied by pattern makers, and those patterns then were available for the girls to use.
0:38:44 > 0:38:49And this one, I think, it's almost certain to be a figure of Ceres,
0:38:49 > 0:38:52- the Roman Goddess of plenty.- Yes.
0:38:52 > 0:38:57And of the harvest and so on, and Latin being the language of scholarship, it would mean
0:38:57 > 0:39:01that the girl was trying to show that she was educated,
0:39:01 > 0:39:03as well as proficient in her stitches.
0:39:03 > 0:39:08The colours are incredibly bright still
0:39:08 > 0:39:14and I think altogether it makes into an incredibly desirable object.
0:39:14 > 0:39:20As far as value is concerned, I would be absolutely confident
0:39:20 > 0:39:24it would fetch between £8,000 and £10,000 in auction.
0:39:24 > 0:39:29I wouldn't be surprised if in a very smart shop in the middle of London,
0:39:29 > 0:39:33- you didn't see it at a much higher price when it came to resale.- Yes.
0:39:33 > 0:39:37But for auction, I would have said between £8,000 and £10,000.
0:39:37 > 0:39:41I'm so pleased that I've been able to explore this enchanted garden.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Thank you very much indeed, thank you.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48A friend was moving from a big house with a garage to a small house,
0:39:48 > 0:39:51so he had half a garage full of stuff he couldn't take with him,
0:39:51 > 0:39:55so I bought it all off him and this was some of the things.
0:39:55 > 0:40:00He was happy, I was happy, especially when I saw the stuff.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02We've done a bit of jiggery-pokery.
0:40:02 > 0:40:06Originally it would have been a lime light in there with gas.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08- Oh, yes.- Or an oil lamp in there,
0:40:08 > 0:40:11a bit dangerous for health and safety today, so we've put our own
0:40:11 > 0:40:16lamp in it, and hopefully if we switch it on it's going to work.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20So, why is it called a magic lantern?
0:40:20 > 0:40:25Back in the 19th century, no TV, very little to do in the evenings.
0:40:25 > 0:40:30The only way you could project and show images was by magic lantern.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34Your collection is interesting - it's not just views
0:40:34 > 0:40:38from the Holy Land or nursery rhymes. These are slightly special.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42They're all hand painted on glass and they're only about that size,
0:40:42 > 0:40:46so by the time you've blown them up into the village hall and they're
0:40:46 > 0:40:50a metre across, you can imagine the quality of the paint, so...
0:40:50 > 0:40:55If we make this work, you can see why it's called a magic lantern.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58LAUGHTER
0:41:00 > 0:41:05So she's transformed, it's a transformation mechanical slide.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Makes people laugh today, it did 100 years ago.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09It's the first time I've seen it work.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13Well, let me show you a couple of others.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18Here we have the young Queen Victoria,
0:41:18 > 0:41:21again all hand painted.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23You turn the handle...
0:41:23 > 0:41:25She doesn't look very happy!
0:41:25 > 0:41:29It's as though she was looking around the room
0:41:29 > 0:41:34and to all of her subjects. But my favourite slide is this last one.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40And again, when you consider that these were all hand painted,
0:41:40 > 0:41:44normally by 12-14 year-old girls, they could only do it
0:41:44 > 0:41:48for a very short time because after a while they lost their
0:41:48 > 0:41:52eyesight, you can see what it is...
0:41:52 > 0:41:54Can you see the sea moving?
0:41:56 > 0:41:57I feel seasick!
0:41:59 > 0:42:04- Now, this is 150 years old and it still entertains people today.- Yes!
0:42:04 > 0:42:07People still give magic lantern shows.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10- It's got a good colour still. - Very good. Very bright colours.
0:42:10 > 0:42:16- So how many slides have you got in total?- About 200 in all.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18About 100 that work like that with the arm mechanism, and about
0:42:18 > 0:42:22100 that you just put in and you move the glass.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26The most desirable ones are the ones that work on the winding ones,
0:42:26 > 0:42:29- the slipping glass ones are not worth so much.- No.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33But even if we average them out at, say, £30 each,
0:42:33 > 0:42:39- 30 times 100 you're talking about £3,000, could be more.- Wow!
0:42:39 > 0:42:42So, can you remember what you paid for the garage contents?
0:42:42 > 0:42:45I paid £150 to £200 for the whole lot, not so bad.
0:42:45 > 0:42:50Well, let's hope he's not watching this show, he's not going to be your friend any more.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52No, well, thank you very much,
0:42:52 > 0:42:56- that's great. - It's fun, thank you.- Thank you.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02Looming over us all day here at the Ashton Hall has been the mighty
0:43:02 > 0:43:07organ, which has been here since 1909 and is in need of a little TLC.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10It should be in perfect condition for the centenary.
0:43:10 > 0:43:13It has over 3,000 pipes and I'm told the work
0:43:13 > 0:43:17is mostly being done by one man with a toothbrush and some vinegar.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19Not to be tried at home.
0:43:19 > 0:43:22Meanwhile, until the next time, from Lancaster, goodbye.