0:00:33 > 0:00:36WHISTLE BLOWS
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Tonight on the Antiques Roadshow we are doing something rather special.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48We're about to board a great icon of the age of steam.
0:00:48 > 0:00:54It evokes strong passions, reducing sensible people to quivering jelly.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58There's been huge excitement up and down the country,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02grown men have been seen weeping openly in fields,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05whole families have camped out in the hope of a quick glimpse,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07and I can't wait.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Because any minute, she's going to be coming round that corner.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14She's back on the rails. It's Britain's - perhaps even the world's -
0:01:14 > 0:01:16most famous steam locomotive.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Yes, it's been a year of Flying Scotsman frenzy,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and we're about to get our own very special ride.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Here she comes. Look at that!
0:01:28 > 0:01:32The sound, the smell - there's nothing like it.
0:01:36 > 0:01:41Welcome to the golden age of travel on the Flying Scotsman.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49It's an ambitious first for the Antiques Roadshow -
0:01:49 > 0:01:52never before have we held a show on anything like a moving train.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58The Flying Scotsman's been undergoing restoration since 2006,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00costing £4 million.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05And its first outings in 2016 caused world headlines.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08No-one could've imagined the public passion
0:02:08 > 0:02:11for this romantic relic of the steam age.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18Its launch attracted the kind of attention normally reserved for A-list celebrities.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24People flocked to see the Flying Scotsman as it sped through towns and the countryside.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Now we've our own opportunity to take some lucky Roadshow viewers on board
0:02:30 > 0:02:32with their vintage travel treasures.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Earlier this year we put the word out
0:02:36 > 0:02:39that we'd be celebrating the golden age of travel in a special programme.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Well, a few lucky Antiques Roadshow viewers, complete with their precious mementos,
0:02:43 > 0:02:48are now boarding the Flying Scotsman in our own exclusive carriage.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53Later, we'll be meeting an obsessive vintage airline uniform collector.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55How many of these have you got at home?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57At the last count, 133.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00The pilot who barrel-rolled Concorde.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02They were aghast.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05And the Flying Scotsman memorabilia
0:03:05 > 0:03:08that gets expert Paul Atterbury all of a quiver.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12It's like holding the relic of a true saint.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16We've chosen experts Hilary Kay, John Foster and Paul Atterbury
0:03:16 > 0:03:21to join us, each passionate about bygone eras of travel.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24This is your idea of a dream come true, isn't it, Paul Atterbury,
0:03:24 > 0:03:27you mad train enthusiast, you?
0:03:27 > 0:03:31I'm a very lucky boy. I mean, to be...a day with the Flying Scotsman,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Britain's most famous locomotive, a day on the train,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36- what more could one want? - I don't know.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38John, what about you, are you enjoying it?
0:03:38 > 0:03:41I've never been on it before and it is just every boyhood dream.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- It's amazing. - What about you, Hilary?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Well, anything to do with steam.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48You know, the smell of it, the excitement.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52The sound. All those smuts blowing in your face.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57And, I suppose, anything that can turn the key on the golden age of travel.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Our journey will take us 140 miles,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04speeding through some of Britain's most breathtaking scenery, to York.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17And what better way to start than with a story about the Flying Scotsman itself?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Wonderful looking out the window and seeing all this steam.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26In 1923, in Doncaster, the Flying Scotsman was built.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29It was the first nonstop locomotive
0:04:29 > 0:04:32to travel between London and Edinburgh.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Its journey made history,
0:04:33 > 0:04:37travelling nearly 400 miles in seven and a half hours.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42And at the time, that was the longest uninterrupted rail service
0:04:42 > 0:04:43anywhere in the world.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Among the Roadshow viewers who contacted us were Graham and Simon,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52the great-grandsons of one of the drivers on that record-breaking run.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58This was their chance to be reunited with their great-grandfather's loco,
0:04:58 > 0:04:59and to tell us their story.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Now, one of the things that has always excited me
0:05:03 > 0:05:07was the idea of running nonstop between London and Scotland.
0:05:07 > 0:05:12Now, Thomas Blades was one of the drivers on that historic run.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14And he was your great-grandfather.
0:05:14 > 0:05:20Yes, yeah. And it's such an honour today to be on that very same train.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22This is a lifelong dream for me, really,
0:05:22 > 0:05:24so for the last two or three years
0:05:24 > 0:05:28I've been doing research into my great-grandfather and found lots of information about him.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Found this picture at a local railway museum.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37My mother told me about the record-breaking run that he was involved in in 1928,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39the run from King's Cross to Edinburgh.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44And Thomas Blades was the relief driver who took over at Tollerton,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- just near York.- Yes.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48And took the train all the way to Edinburgh.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49And by the relief driver, of course,
0:05:49 > 0:05:52he travelled the first part of the journey in the carriage.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53In the carriage, absolutely.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55He then went through the tender in the special corridor,
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- swapped over with driver Pibworth, who then went back.- Absolutely.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01And the train never slowed.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04- Yeah, yeah.- They swapped their hands off the regulator.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- You can see it happening, can't you?- Absolutely that, yeah.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Now, I've got this book here,
0:06:08 > 0:06:13which is a standard LNER locomotiveman's pocket book.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16But of course this is his, isn't it?
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Yes, it is, yes, we found it clearing out my mother's house after she died,
0:06:20 > 0:06:22and noticed that it had his name in,
0:06:22 > 0:06:26and the various notes in the back about the record-breaking run.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28There it is, that he did that run.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29Yes.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32And do you think he had this with him at the time?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I think so, yeah, because it tells you how to set fires in the boiler
0:06:35 > 0:06:38and all the maintenance of the engine, et cetera.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40I'm sure by then he didn't need to be told those things.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44But nonetheless, you would always carry your pocket book in case something went wrong.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Yeah. To tell you if you need to fix something.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Not only have you got the locomotive, you've got the book.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50That he carried with him.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53He's almost with us, isn't he?
0:06:53 > 0:06:54I think it's a wonderful story.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59And it's a real insight to me into how skilful those men were.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02They were a great race of drivers.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Celebrities of the day as well.
0:07:04 > 0:07:05- They were the stars.- Absolutely.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Yeah, they were superstars of the day and there was lots written about them.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12I found a number of articles in newspapers and various magazines,
0:07:12 > 0:07:16and the real passion that the whole of the country had
0:07:16 > 0:07:19in terms of that speed and beating records.
0:07:19 > 0:07:25Now, actually, I've got a piece of film that relates very much to this.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27This is the Scotsman
0:07:27 > 0:07:29on another high-speed run.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Sadly, it's not Thomas Blades, but it could have been.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36It shows how popular the locomotive was.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38It's been popular all its life.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40There are always crowds watching the departure.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Fantastic, isn't it?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- Absolutely.- Have you seen it before? - Haven't seen this one before, no. - No.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Now, we're supposed to do values.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53A tatty old book - what's it worth?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56I mean, you'd be lucky to get £5 for it.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59That's not the point. Just think of what it tells us about your
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- great-grandfather.- Absolutely, but it would never be sold.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04It'll always stay in the family.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06And carry on the research, heaven knows what you might find next.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08- Thank you.- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17'Overhearing Paul's conversation has prompted me to change into regulation railway gear.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21'I'm going to find out what it was like to crawl through the narrow
0:08:21 > 0:08:25'corridor that allowed Thomas Blades to take over as relief driver
0:08:25 > 0:08:28'on the record-breaking nonstop run to Scotland.'
0:08:34 > 0:08:36NOISE OF ENGINE ALMOST DROWNS OUT HER WORDS
0:08:51 > 0:08:53WHISTLE BLOWS
0:09:23 > 0:09:25'While we stoke the furnace,'
0:09:25 > 0:09:27let's recall some classic moments
0:09:27 > 0:09:32that visitors to the Roadshow have shared with us from the age of steam travel.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44Let's begin by remembering a great find that excited Hilary Kay.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48One of the earliest toy trains in the programme's history.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51There are lots of treats involved
0:09:51 > 0:09:53with working on the Antiques Roadshow,
0:09:53 > 0:09:58and I have to say, one of them is very occasionally to come across
0:09:58 > 0:10:02something that is THE best of its kind.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05And this is one of those moments.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09It is exquisite metalworking at its very best.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12This is all handmade out of tin
0:10:12 > 0:10:17with occasional little pieces of brass, around 1845, 1850.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22And the more you look at it, the more fabulous it is.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24The boiler here is faceted,
0:10:24 > 0:10:29then coming back you've got the three classes of coach.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32First class, closed in.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Second class, just with a roof.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36And third class, well...
0:10:36 > 0:10:38you take your risks.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40You hope it's a day like this.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42As it always is in Scotland!
0:10:42 > 0:10:45But look, I'm sure you've done this, Jane, but I'm going to do it, too...
0:10:46 > 0:10:51In there, all those fabulous little people.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54It looks like a sort of outing from Jane Austen.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58There they all are off on their picnic or whatever.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02I would be confident in saying this would fetch something
0:11:02 > 0:11:05between £25,000 and £35,000 at auction.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08And for insurance, certainly £50,000.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12When we visited Swindon Steam Railway Museum,
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Paul Atterbury was in his element.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Not only was he surrounded by the smell and smuts of locos galore,
0:11:18 > 0:11:24but he also discovered a rare and early railway sign found in a garden.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27You know, it's really exciting for me to see this map sign.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Because for a start, it's about the Great Western Railway, which I -
0:11:30 > 0:11:31and everybody - loves.
0:11:31 > 0:11:36It's also a wonderful vision of how that company saw itself,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and how it developed early in its history.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Now, let's look at the story briefly it tells.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44This is the map of the Great Western network, and its connections.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- That's right.- But it's really about going to Ireland, isn't it?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48By the new Fishguard route.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- That's right.- Which is from there to Rosslare.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55And this was about the Great Western competing with its main rivals.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59The main route, of course, was Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01but that was the London and North Western.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Can we date it, do you think, from that?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Yeah. Almost exactly.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10The route opened in August 1906.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12So it has to be after that date?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15It has to be 1906, because they would probably advertise it prior to...
0:12:15 > 0:12:19But they're still calling it new, so this is 1906-1908.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21It's also in quite good condition.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23It's an extraordinary survival.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Enamel signs rust.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28If I saw that for sale, I'd expect quite a lot for it.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31But you got it in your garden. 30 years sat in the garden.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- In the garden, yeah. - It's amazing it survived.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37I would say £1,500-£2,000.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38- Honest?- Honest.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Our final favourite classic moment for now
0:12:43 > 0:12:45is from Walthamstow Town Hall.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49The value of a rare railway ticket turned out to be a huge surprise
0:12:49 > 0:12:51for one of our visitors.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54What we've got here is a ticket for the Midland Counties Railway,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56and this is a ticket for the opening of the railway.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Dated on the bottom 30th of May 1839.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02The Midland Counties Railway, which opened then,
0:13:02 > 0:13:03came about effectively
0:13:03 > 0:13:07for the sort of drive and the keenness to supply coal to Leicester.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09So you effectively paid nothing for this, did you?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- You inherited it. - Yeah, yeah, I did, yeah.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16So if I were to say to you £1,000, what would you say?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18What, for that? LAUGHTER
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Rare, rare, rare.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Railway memorabilia is really hotly collected.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- MAN:- Incredible.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29You are... You're having a mumble, in't ya?
0:13:29 > 0:13:31You're winding me up, in't ya?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33I don't think he is, mate!
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Not a shadow of a doubt, my friend.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Oh, what?
0:13:39 > 0:13:43Later, we'll return to more stories from the steam era.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45As we return to our guests on board the Flying Scotsman,
0:13:45 > 0:13:50we move from one golden age of travel to another, to flight.
0:13:50 > 0:13:55In the 1940s, the era of luxury passenger flight really took off,
0:13:55 > 0:13:57with magnificent flying boats
0:13:57 > 0:13:59travelling between London and Australia.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Hilary Kay is meeting a visitor
0:14:01 > 0:14:03whose father once flew these exotic trips.
0:14:05 > 0:14:10I'm looking at a tableful of items that relate
0:14:10 > 0:14:12to the very early, the golden days,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15if you like, of commercial air travel.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Now, what's your relationship with this group of objects?
0:14:19 > 0:14:24Well, it all stems from my father's involvement in aeroplanes
0:14:24 > 0:14:26at that time.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30My father actually developed a passion for flying in his teens,
0:14:30 > 0:14:34and that stayed with him all his life, until he died in his 80s.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38And looking at this, it looks as though he went
0:14:38 > 0:14:42almost immediately into working for Imperial Airways,
0:14:42 > 0:14:46best known for its use of the Empire flying boats.
0:14:46 > 0:14:53- Yes.- He started with the BOAC in 1946, and he start flying via France
0:14:53 > 0:14:56into Cairo, Bahrain, Calcutta,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58and then over to Singapore,
0:14:58 > 0:15:02and then a little later, Australia and into New Zealand as well.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Exactly. And it was a glamorous time.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Yes, because in the evenings,
0:15:07 > 0:15:13everybody dressed for dinner, and he was part of the social side of the life.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18Unless there was something he detected that had gone wrong with the aeroplane during the day,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20in which case, usually in full evening dress,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23he might be found on the wing of the plane,
0:15:23 > 0:15:25mending a propeller or something.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- A bit like this, in fact. - Exactly.- Exactly.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33So he had to do that and then he would put on his white silk gloves
0:15:33 > 0:15:35- to go to dinner.- To cover...
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Because his hands were still covered in oil from doing the mending, so...
0:15:38 > 0:15:41How amazing. That's the point, actually,
0:15:41 > 0:15:42that it was a stopping service.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46You would land, you would probably go to a very smart hotel,
0:15:46 > 0:15:48you would have your dinner, you would sleep,
0:15:48 > 0:15:52then you would board the flying boat the next day and off you'd go.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Well, this is the flying boat in action.
0:15:56 > 0:16:03And let's just watch what your father would have had to have done as the captain.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06It's a vast craft. It comes down very smoothly.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09I suppose there must have been some choppy landings.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14But on an estuary like this, out comes the co-pilot, grabs the buoy...
0:16:14 > 0:16:18One forgets, of course, you had to tie up to something.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22Here comes the tender to take all the glamorous folks to the shore.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24And, gosh, where are we?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26This looks very grand.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Looked like it could have been the Taj, it could have been...
0:16:28 > 0:16:30It looked like the gateway to India, didn't it?
0:16:30 > 0:16:33- Yes.- And this is the sort of hotel, of course,
0:16:33 > 0:16:35they would have gone into overnight.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- Absolutely.- There couldn't be anything that more exemplifies
0:16:38 > 0:16:41the golden age of travel.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44So when one's looking at a collection like this,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46the material that you have here,
0:16:46 > 0:16:51the flying boots, the gloves, the helmet,
0:16:51 > 0:16:55the oxygen mask, I mean, those have a tangible value.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59I'd put those cumulatively at about £1,500.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01The rest has a priceless value
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- to you and your family. - It does, it does.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Well, thank you very much indeed.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Don't we all wish we could still do that journey?
0:17:08 > 0:17:10- Absolutely, we do.- We do indeed!
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Thank you very much indeed.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Our next story takes us to a different form of early flight -
0:17:16 > 0:17:18the airship.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22The British R101 hoped to herald a new age of luxury travel.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25But it crashed on its maiden flight in 1930,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27tragically killing most passengers on board.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32As the Flying Scotsman pauses to take on water,
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Paul Atterbury is meeting the first officer's granddaughter,
0:17:35 > 0:17:37to hear her poignant tale.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Here we are, stationary, unusually on this voyage.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43This is one means of transport.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Something that has always intrigued me, though,
0:17:45 > 0:17:47is a completely different means of transport.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51The British R101, which were a vision of travel for the future.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Comfortable, quiet, elegant.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58But, of course, we know that this great dream of the future
0:17:58 > 0:18:01came to nothing, because of a series of disasters.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04And the R101, of course, had, famously,
0:18:04 > 0:18:08that great disaster on its maiden voyage.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11But I know you have a very particular connection to it.
0:18:11 > 0:18:16Yes, my grandfather was the first officer on the R101,
0:18:16 > 0:18:21Lieutenant Commander Noel Grabowsky-Atherstone, known as Grabby.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23What was his particular role?
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Well, as first officer, he kept a detailed diary,
0:18:26 > 0:18:30he was meticulous in observing the performance of the airship.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32And noted everything down.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34So, he was a key figure.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- Yes.- And therefore this journal is dynamite.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40- TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS - It's the story of the development of the R101.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42- Yes.- Oh. We're off again.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47And this sense of luxury, do you know what it was like?
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Well, it's been described as an ocean liner in the sky,
0:18:51 > 0:18:53a sort of flying Titanic.
0:18:53 > 0:18:58She was 777 feet long, twice the length of a football pitch.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00And she was vast.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01And she had two decks.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03- Yes.- 50 cabins.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06It was an extraordinary luxury of a scale that we can't imagine, really.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10- Exactly. Yeah.- So in October 1930,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13the R101 sets off for India.
0:19:13 > 0:19:19- So what happens?- Well, she ran into stormy and very windy weather.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22In fact, my grandfather had been on watch until 2am.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Nine minutes later, she crashed.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28The reason for the fire was calcium flares.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31And they ignite against water.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36Otherwise, she could perhaps have been salvaged.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39So we've got some footage here, which I gather you found.
0:19:39 > 0:19:44Yes, I found it in a rusty old biscuit tin hidden in a trunk.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Well, let's see what it tells us.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Look, there it is.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50I think what we see first of all is how big she was.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53People look like ants on the ground.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55I mean, she was vast, enormous.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57So this is a sort of brief story of the ship, isn't it?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Yes, it is.- Because there is the crash.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04And what might have been the most wonderful vision of the future
0:20:04 > 0:20:07died away in the fields of northern France.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10It certainly did - very sad, very sudden.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11- Particularly for you.- Yes.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13What was the impact on your family?
0:20:13 > 0:20:18My gran, I don't really know how she coped, and there was a state funeral.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22She always said to me that she knew the minute the airship had crashed
0:20:22 > 0:20:25because my father had a devoted dog called Timmy
0:20:25 > 0:20:31and at 2.09am he let out an unearthly howl.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33How, why, we don't know,
0:20:33 > 0:20:36but she knew then something terrible had happened.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41So, of course, the diary stops at a crucial point.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44And it's very interesting, I'll read the last entry.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47"Everybody is rather keyed up now,
0:20:47 > 0:20:49"as we all feel that the future of airships
0:20:49 > 0:20:54"very largely depends on what sort of show we put up.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56"There are very many unknown factors
0:20:56 > 0:20:59"and I feel that that thing called luck
0:20:59 > 0:21:03"will figure rather conspicuously in our flight.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06"Let's hope for good luck and do our best!"
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Curious that he left it behind.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12And did he leave this behind, then, for his evidence?
0:21:12 > 0:21:16It's quite possible, because every single thing is documented.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19It never made it to the public inquiry,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22but it really changes the whole story of the R101.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25This is a very valuable document.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28That family story and the information contained in this
0:21:28 > 0:21:30gives it huge value.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Essentially, we are looking at something that to an airship collector,
0:21:34 > 0:21:38they would pay thousands of pounds to own this.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42But I think the preservation of this information for the future
0:21:42 > 0:21:45is crucial, and actually goes beyond a family.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49You know, this is information of national significance.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Well, we'll perhaps have to look at getting it published, then.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55- Good idea.- Thank you.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00You can't look at the golden age of flight
0:22:00 > 0:22:03without including that iconic jet Concorde.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06When Antiques Roadshow viewer Richard
0:22:06 > 0:22:09wrote to us about his vast collection of memorabilia at home
0:22:09 > 0:22:12in Gloucestershire, we had to see for ourselves.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17From toys to ties, from scale models to seats,
0:22:17 > 0:22:21from trolleys to teacups, it takes up the whole of his conservatory.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27We invited him on board to tell his story to John Foster.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31I can see you're a bit of a sort of collecting Concorde nut.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32What's going on?
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Well, it's been part of our lives for nearly 50 years.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40- 1969, my wife and I were nearly killed in a car crash.- Really?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43We were in Gloucester Hospital for a long time.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45And we were married in hospital.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47And the night before we were married,
0:22:47 > 0:22:49we were sitting outside Ward Eight,
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Concorde 001 and 002 circled the hospital,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54and things after an accident like that, you're pretty rough,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56and Lesley had been very badly hurt,
0:22:56 > 0:22:59and it was a bit of a sign.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01It was something that was very special.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04It's always been a little bit of our emblem for the rest of our...
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Well, we've been married 47 years in a fortnight's time.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11And still going strong. And Concorde is just something very special.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15It touches the heart, I think, of everybody that flies in it and knows it.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17And when you say... So, 1969,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20it hadn't actually had a commercial flight then.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Not at all. They were purely in trials at that time.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27That really WAS a sign, because it wasn't until '76,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30I think, was the first commercial flight.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34- Absolutely.- And you've obviously been on it a few times.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39I flew around the bay in 1987 and Lesley and I flew to America
0:23:39 > 0:23:41on the 29th of September 2003,
0:23:41 > 0:23:45just three weeks before she finally finished commercial flying.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48People would say, what was it like to fly?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50It was like nothing else in this world.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53It was narrower than this train, you were cramped,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55but you had wonderful service.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59Amazing drinks, food and everything else.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03You were on the edge of space, 60,000 feet up,
0:24:03 > 0:24:06travelling as fast as a bullet from a gun.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08You can't do it now.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11All that life experience that you had, it started this...
0:24:11 > 0:24:13you could say an obsession, is that fair to say?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Yes, it is an obsession, to be perfectly honest, yes.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Is your wife as obsessed as you?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20No, she puts up with it.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22I see where you're coming from.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26When I went on it, you got... my souvenir was a silver photograph frame.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28And you've got some amazing things.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Basically, everything you would see in front of you
0:24:31 > 0:24:32when you sat on the plane.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35You've got all the chocolates, the knives and forks,
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Royal Doulton, Conran.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40They went to town on what they provided.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Definitely.- There are some things which are most sought after.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- The Machmeter.- Yeah. - The nose cone.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48The pilot's seat.
0:24:48 > 0:24:53And it goes down. Where a food container like you've got here comes in at £200, £300, £400.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Whether these, £30, £40, £50, sort of per bit.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- Because people still love Concorde. - Oh, yes.- Thank you.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Thank you very much indeed. Cheers.
0:25:01 > 0:25:07'I'm delighted to say, joining us on board the Flying Scotsman is a former Concorde pilot.'
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Well, we're on an icon of the golden age of steam, but you were,
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Captain Walpole, one of the first pilots of Concorde.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17- Indeed.- With British Airways.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Indeed, I was. Yes.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20It must have been an extraordinary time
0:25:20 > 0:25:23to be at the forefront of supersonic travel.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25It was fantastic, it really was.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30It took civil aviation from a pedestrian 600 miles an hour
0:25:30 > 0:25:34to 1,350 miles an hour, twice the speed of sound,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36in one single giant stride.
0:25:36 > 0:25:3921st of Jan 1976.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43There are some extraordinary statistics associated with Concorde.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47I mean, not least that you yourself have flown four million miles.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Yeah, four million miles, 200 times round the Earth effectively, yes.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Yes. 804 crossings of the North Atlantic.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56What was it like to fly at that speed?
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Flying Concorde was exciting,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03because you were flying up at 60,000 feet.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07You could control the aircraft with the fingertips of one hand.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10You could see the curvature of the Earth,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12the darker blue of outer space,
0:26:12 > 0:26:16you had a horizon of 250,000 square miles.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17It was demanding, however.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22Beautiful, beautiful Concorde, as she looks so beautiful in the sky,
0:26:22 > 0:26:24was a highly complex aeroplane.
0:26:24 > 0:26:29There's something rather surreal talking about it with all the steam going past, you know, the contrast.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Between what we're talking and what we're on.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- You barrel-rolled Concorde? - Yes, I did indeed.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36Tell me about that.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Well, we had to carry out some tests
0:26:39 > 0:26:42on a modification to the Concorde undercarriage,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45so I flew with a man called Jean Franchi,
0:26:45 > 0:26:48one of the first test pilots on Concorde French 1.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51He said, Brian, how about doing a barrel roll in the Concorde?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54And I said, "Good grief, Jean,
0:26:54 > 0:26:58"are you serious?" We climbed 15,000 feet, 300 knots,
0:26:58 > 0:27:01and he just barrel-rolled it beautifully over and round
0:27:01 > 0:27:03and straight and level again.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06He said, "Brian, I've wound it up, you can unwind it for me."
0:27:06 > 0:27:09So I did exactly the same thing the other way round,
0:27:09 > 0:27:11barrel-rolled Concorde.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15When I got back to London and told people, they were aghast.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Because, firstly, they didn't know it could be done.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Secondly, there were no passengers on board,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23so it was perfectly safe and adequate.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28Would you say that was the golden era of travel for you?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Concorde?- Very much so.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Not for me but for aviation, the world.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35And...
0:27:35 > 0:27:38It was so different, it became an icon in its own right.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41It's been a pleasure to talk to you about it.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Thank you very much, Captain Walpole.- My pleasure. Thank you.
0:27:44 > 0:27:49The Antiques Roadshow archive contains many tales from bygone eras of air travel.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00At our show in Farnborough, a former aeronautical research centre,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03expert Graham Lay discovered how the story of flight in Britain
0:28:03 > 0:28:06began in the early 20th century.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Well, looking down at us today
0:28:08 > 0:28:12is one of the pioneers of British aviation,
0:28:12 > 0:28:13Samuel Cody.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16So, you're direct descendants of this great man?
0:28:16 > 0:28:19- That's right.- Tell us about him, because he was a bit of a showman,
0:28:19 > 0:28:23- wasn't he?- He was a cowboy showman that came over from America
0:28:23 > 0:28:28and he was an American citizen when he actually flew British Army Aeroplane No 1.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30He designed, built it, with his own money,
0:28:30 > 0:28:33£50 was given from the War Office.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36And he achieved the first flight in this country.
0:28:36 > 0:28:41He did hops and leaps in April and May of 1908, and then
0:28:41 > 0:28:44officially recorded on the 16th of October 1908
0:28:44 > 0:28:47for the first powered flight in Great Britain.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50And you've brought along today this wonderful
0:28:50 > 0:28:52silver model of an aircraft.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54This was commissioned by the Shell Oil Company
0:28:54 > 0:28:58and it was presented to Cody at the Royal Aero Club in 1912.
0:28:58 > 0:28:59It's one of his late aeroplanes,
0:28:59 > 0:29:01and probably the plane that killed him in the end.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05They gave him a full military funeral from his house in Ash Vale,
0:29:05 > 0:29:07and 50,000 people lined the funeral procession.
0:29:07 > 0:29:1050,000? That's how important he was.
0:29:10 > 0:29:11He was a very important person.
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Well, now, let's think about value.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16That, I think, would be worth today...
0:29:17 > 0:29:19..20,000-£30,000.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21How do you feel about the fact
0:29:21 > 0:29:24that your great-grandfather was a pioneer of aviation?
0:29:24 > 0:29:26- It gives us a lot of pride. - Gives us a big buzz.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30Here at Farnborough, they used wind tunnels
0:29:30 > 0:29:33to test the aerodynamics of planes, including Concorde.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35And as a former long-haul pilot,
0:29:35 > 0:29:38our expert Richard Price was intrigued to meet a collector
0:29:38 > 0:29:41with rare design prototypes of the supersonic jet.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45The good thing about Concorde was when it started,
0:29:45 > 0:29:47only 46 years after Cody's first flight,
0:29:47 > 0:29:50there was a completely new idea of supersonic transport
0:29:50 > 0:29:53and they had to have a wing that was very efficient at high speed
0:29:53 > 0:29:57but was also very handleable at low speed for landing,
0:29:57 > 0:29:59so the scientists and aerodynamicists looked
0:29:59 > 0:30:01at a large number of wings,
0:30:01 > 0:30:06from a triangle to a Gothic shape to an ogee.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08I know research and development
0:30:08 > 0:30:11is astronomical and we know that the Concorde took a lot of time
0:30:11 > 0:30:13to actually achieve its maiden flight,
0:30:13 > 0:30:18but to see all of this right through from the first thoughts...
0:30:18 > 0:30:20- That's right.- Magnificent.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22We think there were about 100 made over the years,
0:30:22 > 0:30:25and all different wing shapes.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28What sort of age are we talking about, early '60s for something like that?
0:30:28 > 0:30:30Yes. These were just in the early '60s.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34It's a wonderful English and French engineering effort, fantastic.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36Nothing has been bettered yet.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39- No, what a shame it's no longer with us.- Absolutely. Yes.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42How on earth can you put a value on these things?
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Terribly rare, wonderful things.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47I can't begin to value them.
0:30:47 > 0:30:48You just can't put a value on.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55Finally, in our look at air-travel stories from the archives,
0:30:55 > 0:30:57we found this madcap invention
0:30:57 > 0:30:59that looks straight out of a Boy's Own story.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04In fact, it was a real design from the 1920s
0:31:04 > 0:31:07for a fast rail service powered by a propeller.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11As a dedicated railway enthusiast, of course,
0:31:11 > 0:31:14I've come across references to the George Bennie railplane.
0:31:14 > 0:31:19What he was proposing was a system of railway transport
0:31:19 > 0:31:24whereby passengers travel in a sort of dynamic streamlined car
0:31:24 > 0:31:28- suspended from an overhead track.- Correct.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30It was a cross between an aeroplane and a train.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33Yes, it could be powered either by an internal combustion engine
0:31:33 > 0:31:35or by electric motors.
0:31:35 > 0:31:37Yes. We're talking 1929, I think.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39That's when the test track was built.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41There's the interior,
0:31:41 > 0:31:46which looks like a deluxe passenger car of any transport system.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48There were obviously different interior designs -
0:31:48 > 0:31:51there would be a more utilitarian design, but that, being a test car,
0:31:51 > 0:31:55was kitted out in Pullman style to create a maximum effect.
0:31:55 > 0:32:00This was really the peak of exploring new ideas.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04So he's offering us, or offering the world,
0:32:04 > 0:32:06- high-speed travel in 1929.- He was.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09- What happened?- Unfortunately it hit the Depression.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Money wasn't available,
0:32:12 > 0:32:15he failed to get backers and could not get it built.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Had he succeeded, it could have been the answer to the future.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22We could have now had wonderful high-speed elevated railways
0:32:22 > 0:32:26over all the mainline tracks. How the world would have been different.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29The country would have looked very different.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31We'd have been travelling at 200 or 300 miles an hour
0:32:31 > 0:32:34as a matter of course. These are obviously very collectable.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37- We're looking at £5,000 per document.- I'm not interested in...
0:32:37 > 0:32:39- But that's neither here nor there. - It's family history.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43- The most important thing is how it would have changed our lives. - Exactly.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48Back on our journey with the Flying Scotsman,
0:32:48 > 0:32:50we've pulled into Carlisle station,
0:32:50 > 0:32:52just in time to meet Roadshow guests
0:32:52 > 0:32:56whose large collections make perfect platform displays.
0:32:58 > 0:33:02Mark is perhaps one of the most enthusiastic collectors
0:33:02 > 0:33:03Hilary Kay has ever met.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06He's amassed so many early airline uniforms,
0:33:06 > 0:33:08he's left 125 of them at home.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13I'm surrounded by what I can only describe as style in the aisle.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15It's a fabulous collection
0:33:15 > 0:33:19of air-stewardess costumes, accessories,
0:33:19 > 0:33:25and here is a great advertisement from the time,
0:33:25 > 0:33:30showing a TWA stewardess wearing exactly what Georgia's wearing.
0:33:30 > 0:33:36So, tell me, why have you got four or five uniforms?
0:33:36 > 0:33:41I've always had an interest in aviation and that sort of developed
0:33:41 > 0:33:45into an interest in early commercial aviation and in particular TWA,
0:33:45 > 0:33:51which was really a very pioneering airline in the very early days,
0:33:51 > 0:33:56with a slogan which was "run by flyers, not by businessmen".
0:33:56 > 0:33:59So how many of these have you got at home?
0:33:59 > 0:34:04The last count, 133 uniforms from various airlines.
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Obviously you're passionate about this.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09- Really passionate.- I'm passionate about the early commercial aviation,
0:34:09 > 0:34:11so I collect anything I can find.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14Even the images. The advertisements, the photographs.
0:34:14 > 0:34:18And this, I think, sort of epitomises that early artwork.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21This is, what, from 1949?
0:34:21 > 0:34:26And you can see it was absolutely the golden age of commercial travel.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30It was an adventure and a journey and a holiday almost on its own,
0:34:30 > 0:34:33- wasn't it?- That's right - the flying bit was the adventure.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Yeah. This I love.
0:34:35 > 0:34:41This is Basic Travel Wardrobes, a TWA travel advisor,
0:34:41 > 0:34:45and in it, it says, "Make the most of every thrilling travel moment,"
0:34:45 > 0:34:50which, of course, involves, "How to pack a man's suitcase."
0:34:50 > 0:34:53- Exactly.- What every woman should know.
0:34:53 > 0:34:54When I was growing up,
0:34:54 > 0:34:58it was about the most glamorous thing you could imagine doing.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00Hence these uniforms.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02It was the ultimate aim in life.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05But what we're looking at is not just style in the aisle,
0:35:05 > 0:35:10it's about the commercialisation of air travel, and it's popular,
0:35:10 > 0:35:12- isn't it?- It is, yes.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16- Getting more popular. - Which brings me onto the next point.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20I'm going to ask you what's the most expensive one that you have here.
0:35:20 > 0:35:26The most expensive here has got to be the 1944 cutout uniform.
0:35:26 > 0:35:32To find one complete is pretty rare and probably about £1,000.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34This is your daughter, Georgia, I should say.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36And, Georgia, you do look fantastic in it.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38Does Georgia share your passion?
0:35:38 > 0:35:41She shares a passion for fashion.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43- Well...- She puts up with modelling for me.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Very good. Yes, I mean,
0:35:45 > 0:35:49£1,000 is absolutely what I've been seeing them go for.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52And, of course if you're speaking about designer ones,
0:35:52 > 0:35:56Mary Quant or the Pucci designs for Braniff or whatever,
0:35:56 > 0:36:00then you're up in that price range.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03Because it's a passion shared by so many.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07And which absolutely epitomises the golden age of travel in the '50s
0:36:07 > 0:36:09and '60s. Thanks very much.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10Thank you.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16You might ask, why is viewer Graham showing Paul Ashbury an iron bar
0:36:16 > 0:36:18with a number on it? It doesn't look much,
0:36:18 > 0:36:20but could it be the rarest find of the day?
0:36:22 > 0:36:25This is the original smokebox numberplate.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28- The one you can see up there is a copy.- It is indeed.
0:36:28 > 0:36:29This is the real thing.
0:36:29 > 0:36:34- It is the real thing.- It's like holding the relic of a true saint.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36Yes, I would agree with you.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39So, how have you got it?
0:36:39 > 0:36:41I got it in an auction
0:36:41 > 0:36:43about 20 years ago now.
0:36:43 > 0:36:47And the auction that I got it from,
0:36:47 > 0:36:51the previous owner put it into that auction
0:36:51 > 0:36:53and he got it from the original owner.
0:36:53 > 0:36:58Right, there's no doubt it's come off that locomotive?
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Its provenance is complete.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02100% guaranteed?
0:37:02 > 0:37:05100% guaranteed.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08This dates from the beginning of the British Railways era
0:37:08 > 0:37:12in the late 1940s when all the locomotives they took over
0:37:12 > 0:37:14had a new numbering system.
0:37:14 > 0:37:19- Correct.- And 4472, as she was, became 60103.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- Correct.- And the plate went on the front.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24- It was.- And at some point it came off again.
0:37:24 > 0:37:30It did. When it was withdrawn from British Railways in 1963.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32- You're a very lucky man. - I'm very proud to have it.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35To me, it's off the most special locomotive
0:37:35 > 0:37:37and the most famous locomotive in the world.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40And there can't be many people who can say, "I've got a bit of that."
0:37:40 > 0:37:42I've got a bit of Flying Scotsman.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44And a very important bit.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46- And a very important bit. - What do you think it's worth?
0:37:47 > 0:37:50I mean, I can put a value on it.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54A smokebox numberplate from a famous locomotive
0:37:54 > 0:37:58- is going to be £2,000, £3,000, £4,000.- Correct.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01- But this is the Flying Scotsman. - This is the Flying Scotsman.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04Probably between £10,000 and £25,000.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06I think that would be a safe bet.
0:38:06 > 0:38:11So we're holding a piece of scrap iron which could be worth £20,000.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13- I think so.- You're a very lucky man.
0:38:13 > 0:38:17Perhaps I should just get up and put it back?
0:38:17 > 0:38:19- No.- I'll give it to you.
0:38:19 > 0:38:21- Thank you.- Don't drop it.
0:38:21 > 0:38:22No, I won't. Thank you.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27What better place to display travel posters
0:38:27 > 0:38:30than the busy platform at Carlisle station?
0:38:31 > 0:38:33John Foster is looking at just a fraction
0:38:33 > 0:38:37of Colin's collection of popular masterpieces.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42Do you know, nothing sums up a period in our travel history
0:38:42 > 0:38:45like a railway poster from the '20s and '30s.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50- What do they mean to you?- It's just the colour, the image, the style.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52The value is not so important
0:38:52 > 0:38:55as the pleasure one gets from looking at them.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58The people that painted these in commission,
0:38:58 > 0:39:02they were trying to draw you into a lifestyle of wealth and excitement,
0:39:02 > 0:39:04of exotic travel.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07- What started you going?- Rail bridge.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10Iconic structure, known all around the world.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13And just the colours just caught my attention.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16It's interesting you say that, because the way we placed these,
0:39:16 > 0:39:18I've deliberately placed this one in the middle,
0:39:18 > 0:39:20because that is by far my favourite.
0:39:20 > 0:39:25One, I love the Forth Bridge, two, it's done by Frank Mason.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28As a Scottish colourist, the fact he's done it in blue
0:39:28 > 0:39:32with the blue water, so stylistically brilliant.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34It could have been designed in the last ten, 20 years,
0:39:34 > 0:39:36not from the '20s and '30s.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Now, he was known mostly for doing buildings,
0:39:39 > 0:39:43which is why he's so successful at transferring that to rail.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Ronald Gray, another great artist.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48But sort of a more typical scene.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53This one behind me, again, a lovely scene of Edinburgh, but not quite...
0:39:53 > 0:39:56certainly not as architecturally brilliant as this one.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58But all the same, just unbelievably pleasing.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01So, where would you buy them?
0:40:01 > 0:40:06This one, the Ready For The 12th, and the Princes Street of Edinburgh,
0:40:06 > 0:40:09I bought these at auction in New York.
0:40:09 > 0:40:14The Forth Bridge came from a Dundee auction house and there was a series
0:40:14 > 0:40:17of posters which had been found in a gentleman's attic and his family
0:40:17 > 0:40:19didn't even know he had them.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21So, when it comes to valuing these things,
0:40:21 > 0:40:24I suppose, this one behind me of Edinburgh,
0:40:24 > 0:40:27I would say sort of £1,000 to £1,500, that sort of money.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31The Ready For The 12th, it's a great image.
0:40:31 > 0:40:36It's big, so I would put that one at sort of £4,000 to £6,000.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40And...do you mind me asking what you paid for this one?
0:40:40 > 0:40:42I paid £1,100 for that.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46That's the one I would love, and I think that's close to £2,000.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48And it's just great to see, so thank you.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04It's full steam ahead with the Flying Scotsman
0:41:04 > 0:41:06in this Antiques Roadshow special.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10We're racing along in our own exclusive carriage
0:41:10 > 0:41:12with invited guests who've brought along mementos
0:41:12 > 0:41:16relating to different eras from the golden age of travel.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20Hilary Kay is about to talk luxury liners with Ken, who spent
0:41:20 > 0:41:24five decades working on board ships like the QE2 and Queen Mary.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30Sounds glamorous? He tells us it was anything but.
0:41:32 > 0:41:35I'm looking at a seaman's record book,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38and good-looking chap in here, can't think who he is.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40And postcards from New York,
0:41:40 > 0:41:43some badges from the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth,
0:41:43 > 0:41:48and this really relates in the golden age of travel to a time
0:41:48 > 0:41:53when ships were going backwards and forwards from the UK to America
0:41:53 > 0:41:56almost like a bus running on a timetable.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59And what's your relationship with all this?
0:41:59 > 0:42:02After leaving the Merchant Navy sea school,
0:42:02 > 0:42:06after 16 weeks training on deck, we joined the Queen Elizabeth.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10When we were lined up to be given our berths,
0:42:10 > 0:42:13we were asked then that they needed volunteers.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16We were always told never to volunteer.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18We asked what it was. Firemen.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21Well, we all thought a fireman was a fireman like with a hose.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24Did we get a shock when we ended up in the engine room!
0:42:24 > 0:42:27Going down in the engine room in them days was unbelievable,
0:42:27 > 0:42:30with 12 boilers. The terminology was different,
0:42:30 > 0:42:33it wasn't what we were trained for, but as they were short,
0:42:33 > 0:42:34everyone had to muck in.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36I can't imagine what it was like,
0:42:36 > 0:42:38but it must have been incredibly noisy,
0:42:38 > 0:42:40incredibly hot.
0:42:40 > 0:42:44- Was it all of that?- Yes, the heat, noise, was really unreal.
0:42:44 > 0:42:48You do four hours down there and the sweat...you sweat like mad,
0:42:48 > 0:42:49it runs out of you.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53Each time you went up for a break you had to take salt tablets.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55We were taking eight salt tablets
0:42:55 > 0:42:58- every four hours while we were down there.- Unbelievable.
0:42:58 > 0:43:03And when you came out, the sweat through your gear would turn white.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06- It was just caked on? - Caked on, like, yeah.
0:43:06 > 0:43:10At this point, I've got something you might find interesting.
0:43:10 > 0:43:11Does this take you back?
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Yes, that would be the... Queen Mary, is it?
0:43:15 > 0:43:16That's the Mary.
0:43:18 > 0:43:20Now, she's going at a heck of a lick.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22How fast would she be going?
0:43:22 > 0:43:24She'd be going at 27 knots.
0:43:24 > 0:43:28You and your fellow firemen were responsible for that.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32That's a great shot, I can remember that coming in, like.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36Amazing. Did you get to meet the passengers at all?
0:43:36 > 0:43:38We never got to meet passengers.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40We weren't allowed to meet the passengers unless they spoke to us.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42If they spoke to us, that was OK.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45But we weren't allowed to speak to them, they called it broaching cargo.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48Say that again. "Broaching cargo"?
0:43:48 > 0:43:52Yep. It's the same as going into a hatch and taking something out,
0:43:52 > 0:43:54was talking to a passenger, unless they spoke to you.
0:43:54 > 0:43:57- What was the penalty? - It could be a day's pay, like.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59- Logged.- My goodness.
0:43:59 > 0:44:04- Yeah.- Looking through here, I can see you started out as a DHU,
0:44:04 > 0:44:06- a sort of general deckhand. - That's right.
0:44:06 > 0:44:10But then you progressed on and you became an EDH,
0:44:10 > 0:44:13- what was that? - That's efficient deckhand,
0:44:13 > 0:44:16or known as... Senior rates used to call us electrical deckhands.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19You get a shock if you see them work.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22That's funny! So how long was your career?
0:44:22 > 0:44:24- 50 years.- And when did you retire?
0:44:24 > 0:44:25I finished last July.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29Look, it's been very interesting to have, if you like,
0:44:29 > 0:44:33a different view of the golden age of travel.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36I mean, obviously the seaman's record book is yours,
0:44:36 > 0:44:39that's not going to have any commercial value,
0:44:39 > 0:44:40but actually these badges,
0:44:40 > 0:44:43particularly those from the QM and the QE,
0:44:43 > 0:44:46they are sought-after by collectors.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48I'm not going to put a fortune on them.
0:44:48 > 0:44:52I would have said perhaps the three together, perhaps £150.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55But they do have a market, because everybody wants to feel
0:44:55 > 0:44:58that they've got something from those wonderful cruising days.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Yes, that's exactly right.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03- They're a great piece of memorabilia for you.- Definitely.
0:45:03 > 0:45:06- Thanks very much indeed. - Smashing. Nice talking to you.
0:45:08 > 0:45:11Our next story is the poignant tale of the Lusitania -
0:45:11 > 0:45:14a remarkable British liner that held the Blue Riband
0:45:14 > 0:45:18for the fastest transatlantic crossing in 1907.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22She was the world's largest passenger liner,
0:45:22 > 0:45:24making 202 journeys to the US,
0:45:24 > 0:45:28before tragedy struck during World War I
0:45:28 > 0:45:30when she was sunk by a German submarine in 1915.
0:45:32 > 0:45:33John Foster meets Aidan,
0:45:33 > 0:45:36who's brought a rare relic from the Lusitania.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Whenever I see something that's obviously been
0:45:40 > 0:45:43at the bottom of the sea for a while, I get really excited.
0:45:43 > 0:45:49I spent a lot of time in Florida as a kid diving on ships like this.
0:45:49 > 0:45:51Tell me about your connection with it.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53I've always had a lifelong fascination
0:45:53 > 0:45:56with ocean liners, really from a young child.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59I think one Sunday afternoon, watching a Titanic movie,
0:45:59 > 0:46:01and I got the bug ever since then.
0:46:01 > 0:46:02I was in Southampton
0:46:02 > 0:46:05and this happened to be in an antique-shop window.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08And I just looked and thought, "I've got to have that."
0:46:08 > 0:46:12Now, when you say in an antique-shop window, what was it being sold as?
0:46:12 > 0:46:15It was sold as a porthole from RMS Lusitania.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18And it came from the mailroom.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21So specifically located on the port side of the ship.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24And it was recovered back in 1982.
0:46:24 > 0:46:27OK, that's all interesting, because 1982 was when
0:46:27 > 0:46:30they started removing bits from the Lusitania.
0:46:30 > 0:46:32- Sure.- Just explain to me what it makes you feel
0:46:32 > 0:46:34when you have this in front of you?
0:46:34 > 0:46:37I'm just amazed. I'm amazed. It's a living part of history,
0:46:37 > 0:46:40something so reminiscent
0:46:40 > 0:46:43of the grand era of luxury and liner travel.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46When you think of the Lusitania, it has got a fascinating history.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48Started off as a Blue Riband, er...
0:46:48 > 0:46:53transatlantic speed machine, and the German press had warned America
0:46:53 > 0:46:58that if they sailed on the Lusitania, it would be a target.
0:46:58 > 0:47:01- Absolutely.- No-one believed it, cos they didn't want to drag the US into the war.
0:47:01 > 0:47:05- Sure.- They didn't think that would be a sensible thing to do.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08When it got to UK waters in 1915, it was torpedoed and sunk,
0:47:08 > 0:47:10and a huge loss of American life.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14Yeah, a lot of children, innocent children, were on board as well.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17Babes in arms, so, yeah, a tragedy that affected everybody.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20I look at the porthole and I just think, "I wonder who
0:47:20 > 0:47:22- "the last person was to actually look through that on the day."- Yes.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25And actually, you can still...
0:47:25 > 0:47:27I mean, that is great.
0:47:27 > 0:47:31And I found a bit of archive footage which actually, I think,
0:47:31 > 0:47:34makes the whole thing come to life.
0:47:35 > 0:47:39- Oh, wow.- It really brings home the sort of sadness, like you say,
0:47:39 > 0:47:43the people that were killed on board - women, children.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45Yeah, it really...it's living, isn't it?
0:47:45 > 0:47:48It's a beautiful ship.
0:47:48 > 0:47:50It was a floating palace.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53- What a way to travel.- Pure luxury.
0:47:53 > 0:47:58That's when you could argue that the journey was the destination.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00- Yes.- Whereas a lot of people now,
0:48:00 > 0:48:03we're just desperate to get from one place to another,
0:48:03 > 0:48:05then it was about the whole thing of enjoying that process.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07Yes, very much so.
0:48:07 > 0:48:11And so, presumably you don't have this bolted to the wall or anything?
0:48:11 > 0:48:14I think the wall would give way. It's pretty hefty.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17No, it just sits in my dining room.
0:48:17 > 0:48:18It's a conversation piece.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20It definitely could not be wall-mounted.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23OK, so, you bought it in an antique shop.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25- How many years ago?- Probably about eight, nine years ago now.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27OK. I think at auction, easily...
0:48:29 > 0:48:33..£400, £500, maybe £600, something along those lines.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35Yep, sure. No, I'm pleased with that.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37As for me, it's just the wow factor.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39- Me too.- Thank you.- I'm pleased.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45We've featured a few classic tales of maritime history
0:48:45 > 0:48:47on previous Roadshows. Here are some of our favourites.
0:48:53 > 0:48:55At Haltwhistle in Northumberland,
0:48:55 > 0:48:57Paul was treated to a very rare sight.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00The interior fittings of a White Star liner
0:49:00 > 0:49:04that had been stripped out to refurbish office interiors.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07Now, of course, everybody knows the story of the Titanic.
0:49:07 > 0:49:08They can't not know it.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11The Olympic, a much more successful ship commercially,
0:49:11 > 0:49:13is still perhaps not so well known.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15They were sisters, weren't they?
0:49:15 > 0:49:18Yes, there were three sisters.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19The Olympic, then the Titanic...
0:49:19 > 0:49:21- And then the Britannic. - Then the Britannic, yes.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23So, what have we got?
0:49:23 > 0:49:25Well, this, first off,
0:49:25 > 0:49:28is a smoke vent from the second-class smoke room.
0:49:28 > 0:49:31Now, this is exactly the same as the Titanic one, isn't it?
0:49:31 > 0:49:33All the fittings for the ships, the three ships,
0:49:33 > 0:49:37were bought at the same time so could have went into either ship.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39Light fittings. They're fantastic, aren't they?
0:49:39 > 0:49:42You've got to imagine it the other way up,
0:49:42 > 0:49:45hanging in some grand saloon, twinkling through the cut glass.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47How many of these have you got?
0:49:47 > 0:49:49- There's 28 of those.- 28 of those.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52Right, so, these show your offices, in effect, do they?
0:49:52 > 0:49:54This is the conference room, yes.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56So, you've got here a wonderful image
0:49:56 > 0:50:00of a sort of wooden surround, carved surround.
0:50:00 > 0:50:01Yes, that was first class.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03That was what was in your first-class suites.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06All these panels, the doors, the architrave,
0:50:06 > 0:50:08all of this is out of the ship.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10So they bought, in a sense, a complete room?
0:50:10 > 0:50:12- Yes.- Does that show the lights?
0:50:12 > 0:50:16Those are the lights and this is all wood panelling
0:50:16 > 0:50:19and that's out of the second-class smoking area.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21So, you bought up an old factory
0:50:21 > 0:50:25which happened to be fitted out with the Olympic. Can I ask how much?
0:50:25 > 0:50:28Yes, they valued the total fittings at £40,000.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30You've got 28 of those?
0:50:30 > 0:50:32A light guaranteed off the Olympic
0:50:32 > 0:50:35- I would think is going to be £300, £400.- Oh, really?
0:50:35 > 0:50:38So, multiply that by 28.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40You're getting on towards your money back.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47It took a trip halfway round the world to Melbourne, Australia,
0:50:47 > 0:50:51for Hilary Kay to come face-to-face with a Titanic teddy bear...
0:50:52 > 0:50:55..one of the most moving pieces we've seen at the Roadshow.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00Picture yourself in 1912.
0:51:00 > 0:51:05There's been this terrible disaster, the Titanic has sunk,
0:51:05 > 0:51:07hit by an iceberg,
0:51:07 > 0:51:14and the Steiff factory produced a whole series of bears in black,
0:51:14 > 0:51:18mourning bears, they said, to mourn the loss of life on the Titanic.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20And this is what you're holding.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24There's one particular aspect of this bear
0:51:24 > 0:51:27which I think is very sweet, very touching,
0:51:27 > 0:51:32and that's that around these lovely black eyes here
0:51:32 > 0:51:35we have red,
0:51:35 > 0:51:39a red background which shows the eye up very clearly,
0:51:39 > 0:51:42but also it's what your eyes do when they cry.
0:51:42 > 0:51:46- You know, this bear has got red eyes from crying.- I wondered about that.
0:51:46 > 0:51:52I have to say that a Titanic bear just like this, five years ago,
0:51:52 > 0:51:57at auction, fetched just over 200,000.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59200,000?
0:51:59 > 0:52:02Which is about £90,000.
0:52:02 > 0:52:06He is a bear that is so rare that we've never seen a Titanic bear
0:52:06 > 0:52:09on all the British Antiques Roadshows.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11- Really?- And to find him down here in Melbourne...
0:52:13 > 0:52:16..well, it's a real eye-opener, and thanks so much for bringing him.
0:52:16 > 0:52:17Thank you. Thank you.
0:52:19 > 0:52:21An eye-watering valuation from Australia
0:52:21 > 0:52:24brings our archive selection to a close.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29We're racing through the Yorkshire countryside,
0:52:29 > 0:52:30approaching the end of our journey.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Just time for one last story.
0:52:34 > 0:52:35Paul Atterbury began the day
0:52:35 > 0:52:39with the Flying Scotsman's nonstop record run from London to Edinburgh.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44He's now with a family whose mementos record
0:52:44 > 0:52:47every detail of train driver Walt Parkinson's life...
0:52:49 > 0:52:51..including the end of the age of steam.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56I suppose I'm a very typical grown-up small boy.
0:52:56 > 0:52:59I like trains, I wanted to be an engine driver,
0:52:59 > 0:53:01and I can see here...somebody was.
0:53:01 > 0:53:05You know, this is the story in diaries and documents
0:53:05 > 0:53:08and pieces of equipment of a driver, a driver's life.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11Now, is that your family?
0:53:11 > 0:53:13Yes, it was my grandad.
0:53:13 > 0:53:17He started after he left the Army in the early '50s.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20He worked his way up to become a fireman then an engineman
0:53:20 > 0:53:22on steam and then through to diesel.
0:53:22 > 0:53:24And as a result, it's a very interesting record.
0:53:24 > 0:53:29It's a full catalogue of everything he did for about 40, 50 years.
0:53:29 > 0:53:32In the diaries, there's a couple of things that I quite like.
0:53:32 > 0:53:40And it says here, 11th of April 1967, he drove 90233,
0:53:40 > 0:53:42that's a steam locomotive.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45And looking through the diaries, that's the end, isn't it?
0:53:45 > 0:53:47- Yes, that's the last one. - Yeah, that's the last one.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49So, suddenly, that world is gone.
0:53:49 > 0:53:53And he's then sick for a while and when he comes back from being sick,
0:53:53 > 0:53:55- it says straightaway into...- Diesel training.
0:53:55 > 0:53:59.."Started work diesel training York."
0:53:59 > 0:54:02- So, the world has changed.- Yeah.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04I think it was a very interesting period, because...
0:54:05 > 0:54:09..you know, for us as enthusiasts, everybody likes steam trains,
0:54:09 > 0:54:13but the British Rail Modernisation Plan, which was launched in 1955,
0:54:13 > 0:54:18was dedicated to removing steam out of the British network.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21We had to be modern, we had to be diesel, we had to be electric,
0:54:21 > 0:54:23we had to build an up-to-date network.
0:54:23 > 0:54:26I've got some footage here which actually is about that moment
0:54:26 > 0:54:29when diesels were new and exciting and modern.
0:54:29 > 0:54:33Let's have a look. This is a new one being launched.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35It's pulling out of Paddington.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37And...the view from the cab.
0:54:37 > 0:54:41There's the past going past, very literally.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43And look how comfortable that is.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46He must have sat there and thought, "This is great."
0:54:46 > 0:54:49And, of course, his life was radically improved.
0:54:49 > 0:54:52I mean, there he was in a locomotive cab.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55We're very romantic about it but actually it was a filthy, hard,
0:54:55 > 0:54:59demanding job and, suddenly, you're sitting in comfort
0:54:59 > 0:55:03in a diesel locomotive, operating controls.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06It must have been wonderful for people making the transition.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08What was it like in the family?
0:55:08 > 0:55:10What changed?
0:55:10 > 0:55:11Mainly smell.
0:55:11 > 0:55:17- Smell?- Yeah, because he smelt different when he went on diesels
0:55:17 > 0:55:19to what he did when he were on steam trains.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24One of the mythologies of being a railway enthusiast
0:55:24 > 0:55:27- is this thing about cooking food in the cab.- Yeah.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29Did you have that experience?
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Yes, when I were little,
0:55:31 > 0:55:34my grandad took me to work quite a few times and...
0:55:35 > 0:55:37..in the diesel trains,
0:55:37 > 0:55:40they had an electric hob and he used to do toast on the electric hob
0:55:40 > 0:55:43and then put a tin of beans on top - you could have beans on toast.
0:55:43 > 0:55:44- In the cab?- In the cab.
0:55:44 > 0:55:48But if you go back to steam, you cooked on the shovel, didn't you?
0:55:48 > 0:55:49- Yeah.- And did you do that?
0:55:49 > 0:55:52Yeah, me dad took me to work, we did that.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54What do you think was the high point of his life?
0:55:54 > 0:55:58- The Royal train.- Probably when he drove the Royal train.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01- Tell me about that.- When he came to see me at home,
0:56:01 > 0:56:03he were so giddy when he came in.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06- And he gave...- He gave him the hat. - He gave me the hat he were given.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08That were his new hat for the Royal train.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10- So this is the Royal-train hat? - Yes.- Yeah.
0:56:10 > 0:56:15- Fantastic.- It were towards the end of his career, so about 1986, '87,
0:56:15 > 0:56:18and he always told us that he got picked
0:56:18 > 0:56:21because he were a goods-train driver
0:56:21 > 0:56:25and used to driving chemicals and nuclear fuel
0:56:25 > 0:56:26and things like that.
0:56:26 > 0:56:30They chose the goods-train drivers to drive the Royal train
0:56:30 > 0:56:32cos they'd got a special cargo.
0:56:32 > 0:56:34And because they were careful?
0:56:34 > 0:56:36And they were careful, yeah.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39So when he gave me that hat, that were the proudest moment.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43Right, what's it all worth?
0:56:43 > 0:56:45Well, we're looking at a collection
0:56:45 > 0:56:48probably worth a couple of hundred pounds.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52But the memories it releases, to me, are absolutely beyond price.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55- Yeah.- Yeah, wonderful.- Priceless.
0:56:59 > 0:57:02That story tells of the end of the age of steam,
0:57:02 > 0:57:05so we're very thankful that after ten years of restoration,
0:57:05 > 0:57:08the Flying Scotsman has given us a unique opportunity
0:57:08 > 0:57:10to relive that golden age.
0:57:12 > 0:57:15Our guests and experts have loved it.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17WHISTLE BLOWS
0:57:18 > 0:57:21And I'll never forget my moment on the footplate
0:57:21 > 0:57:23of this world-famous locomotive.
0:57:24 > 0:57:28Thanks to our visitors for bringing along their precious mementos.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30Soon, we'll be arriving in York
0:57:30 > 0:57:33and the Flying Scotsman will get a well-deserved rest.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35From the whole team here on board, goodbye.