0:00:03 > 0:00:08- What we're going to do is, we'll get the living room stuff out first.- OK.
0:00:08 > 0:00:09- A bit of weight in this jobbie. - Yeah.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Are you struggling, son?
0:00:13 > 0:00:16Go on, Chris! Get a bit of muscle on it!
0:00:16 > 0:00:19The name of the business is Used Unique Boutique.
0:00:19 > 0:00:20HE LAUGHS
0:00:20 > 0:00:23We buy house contents, garage contents
0:00:23 > 0:00:25and general house clearances.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27That box is too heavy for me to carry, is it?
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Yeah, I'll give you a hand with them.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32With the house clearances, we would come,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35make them a bid on the contents and clear it out.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Always find something at the back.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41A lot of families wouldn't know who to phone.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44There's a lot of wonderful furniture that would get disposed of
0:00:44 > 0:00:48and what we're trying to prevent is stuff going in to
0:00:48 > 0:00:51landfill that we can upcycle.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54It's great when you book somebody that you can talk to and work round.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56There. I'll get this big frame out.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03And we get a lot of customers coming up, coming in for a hoke and a haggle,
0:01:03 > 0:01:04seeing what we've got.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07I don't want to go to the high-street shops
0:01:07 > 0:01:10and see something that everybody has.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12I would prefer to have something with a bit of soul,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14a bit of story to it.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17- It's a good shop, it's a good hoke to have. - SHE LAUGHS
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Well, it's a curious thing that everybody likes, having a hoke.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37It's a wee whatnot.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Going into a house
0:01:39 > 0:01:41and seeing how the person lived
0:01:41 > 0:01:47and also the style of furniture that they'd maybe bought.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Horrible, isn't it?
0:01:51 > 0:01:55The experience of Used Unique Boutique would be a hoke and a haggle.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Basically, you come in and have a good hoke about the place and then
0:01:58 > 0:02:02if you see something you like, and there's maybe a price on it
0:02:02 > 0:02:05and you want to get it for a bit cheaper,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09we'll do a haggle. That's no bother whatsoever.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I think because we get on...
0:02:11 > 0:02:14sometimes more like friends
0:02:14 > 0:02:17instead of, you know, husband and wife at times,
0:02:17 > 0:02:21we would know more or less how each other's feeling.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24So we're lucky to have that sort of relationship, I think,
0:02:24 > 0:02:25so we are.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Do you ever fall out over anything?
0:02:28 > 0:02:32- Chairs, yes! - SHE LAUGHS
0:02:32 > 0:02:34He's got this thing with chairs.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Chairs, chairs, chairs.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Karen says I've actually got a chair fetish.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40SHE LAUGHS
0:02:40 > 0:02:44He has to buy all the chairs that he sees and I'm going, "No!"
0:02:44 > 0:02:49cos I think at the last count, there was something like 200 and something chairs in here.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52And I keep saying to him, "No more chairs! No more chairs!"
0:02:52 > 0:02:54- But, doesn't work. - SHE LAUGHS
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Chair fetish time!
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Every house clearance that we do is different.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01You never get two the same.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03And you enjoy it, because they are different.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Especially whenever...
0:03:07 > 0:03:09The one in Ballyhoe?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Which I would say would be my favourite one.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17It was really interesting with all the stuff that she had in it.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Cos you get all of their lives just in that one clearance that we do.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Her husband had passed away many years before.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34And we found this cheque, it's the 11th of March, 1972.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38The chap in question has signed it, "Any shopkeeper,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41"something nice for Margaret, unlimited."
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Northern Bank cheque, lovely wee story,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48shows you how much he was in love.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50It's bits like that we would hold on to.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52And will find priceless.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57They can be rightly emotional, so they can, at times. Yeah.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00You know, we found her wedding dress
0:04:00 > 0:04:02and it was only a wee tiny thing.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06You'd have to be a wee stick to get into it, so you would've!
0:04:06 > 0:04:11It's just wee silly cards you would find, too, that they have sent
0:04:11 > 0:04:15to each other, her and her husband and some of them,
0:04:15 > 0:04:19they have written really nice love letter type things in them.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22You can really feel it at times.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Especially knowing that that person has passed on.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37My mum passed away five years ago.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Dad's gone two years in February.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44The house, it's just too big for me.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47There's only me and my son left in Northern Ireland now.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49All the rest of the family have moved away.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54There's too many memories attached to it.
0:04:55 > 0:05:01I have selected some bits and pieces which are of particular
0:05:01 > 0:05:06emotion or relevance to me and the rest just has to go.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09It's very difficult,
0:05:09 > 0:05:14absolutely everything has some kind of emotion or memory attached to it.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19It's something that I think 99% of people have to go through
0:05:19 > 0:05:21with the passing of their parents at some point.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23You just have to get on with this.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Do you want to mark that off your list?
0:05:30 > 0:05:35This wee chest of drawers here, mum did a lot of sewing.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38She made all her own curtains, dressmaking,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42so I do have a lot of memories of poking around in this as a child.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45It would have been boxes full of buttons and all kinds of different
0:05:45 > 0:05:50scraps of lace for dressing up your dollies and all that kind of thing.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- INTERVIEWER:- When you look at it, do you see her at it?
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Yes, very much so.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03- So you were interested in some of the tools?- Yeah.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06This is Dad's tool box.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Dad never threw anything out.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15There would have been many interesting jobs around the house
0:06:15 > 0:06:17done with these things.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I would say so. I would say so.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24He was very good with his hands so there would have been all
0:06:24 > 0:06:29kinds of amazing things produced from the old tool box.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Craig, you lift that.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36There's only the one tool box, Regan?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39I'm very emotionally attached to the house, of course,
0:06:39 > 0:06:44as I was born here and it was the family home for so many years.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47But it's not practical for me to stay here.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53The ceiling here was hand-painted by my mum.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56She just put up embossed wallpaper
0:06:56 > 0:06:59and then she had two step ladders with a plank across
0:06:59 > 0:07:05and she lay on her back, carefully touching up all the embossed paper.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08That's one of my earliest memories of this house,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11my mother being up this stepladder, lying on her back, painting,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13for about three solid weeks.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18It's a lovely old piece and this hung above the fireplace
0:07:18 > 0:07:22in the living room and it keeps perfect time.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26One of my favourite memories of my Dad is, he would always be
0:07:26 > 0:07:30standing up, winding the clock and checking it with his watch.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34I wouldn't say that it stopped whenever he passed away but I
0:07:34 > 0:07:37certainly stopped winding it,
0:07:37 > 0:07:42so it is set at the last time it was wound.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46I'm not sure about selling this on because it is something which
0:07:46 > 0:07:48brings back so many memories of Dad
0:07:48 > 0:07:51and just an image that I have of him in my mind.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56I think I'm dealing with it OK emotionally
0:07:56 > 0:08:00but I know there is going to come a day when it is my last day here
0:08:00 > 0:08:03and I have to shut the door for the last time.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05That will be very hard.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12The plant here is actually something which I'm more
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- attached to than anything else. - Is it a cactus?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18It's a Christmas cactus so it comes out with these beautiful
0:08:18 > 0:08:20blooms just in time for Christmas every year.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- So I'm definitely keeping the plant. - Right.
0:08:28 > 0:08:33No, that's us. We'll come back next week and there you go.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38- Listen, it's been great. A wee hug?- Yes.- OK.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Thanks very much for all your help.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Listen, if there's anything else we can do to help, sure,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44give us a wee bell.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Yes, any time, no problem. I'll be in touch.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51What we actually try to do is obviously
0:08:51 > 0:08:53we would sell second-hand furniture
0:08:53 > 0:08:57but at least they are coming with a story to somebody else that
0:08:57 > 0:09:01will maybe appreciate the story of where it came from
0:09:01 > 0:09:03and where it's going in their own home.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08We're here to see Jonathan.
0:09:08 > 0:09:09He has now become a friend
0:09:09 > 0:09:13and he would buy a lot of the up cycled items that we've made.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18From Craig would be the electric chair, so it would.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I was in a dark place then.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24No, no, it was actually done for a gimmick
0:09:24 > 0:09:29- for coming up to Halloween. - Halloween?- Yeah.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Yeah, where you could have optics on it
0:09:31 > 0:09:36and it was known as the electric shot chair so you were actually
0:09:36 > 0:09:40getting a shot of alcohol rather than an electric shock.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42And the Indian sign.
0:09:43 > 0:09:49- We've got the rocking horse, what was it?- A child's rocking horse.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53- Also a barometer.- This is the new addition of the outbuildings.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I still have two other outbuildings where there's
0:09:56 > 0:09:57a lot more upcycling from Craig.
0:09:57 > 0:10:03At one stage, we were all IKEA and new stuff and then it just flipped.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05One day, our furniture, we sold it all
0:10:05 > 0:10:07and it was like switching a light off.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09It just changed.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13We have collected chairs off you we've got the wardrobe, the units,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17the suitcases. It's all him, nothing to do with us.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18He picks and we buy.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- INTERVIEWER:- What got you interested in this sort of...
0:10:21 > 0:10:23It was in Euro Disney, Paris.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27There was a ride called Tower of Terror and it was all Art Deco
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and I really liked the inside of the ride.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31I have been in some of my friends' houses
0:10:31 > 0:10:33and none of their bedrooms are like this.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- Do you love that? - Yeah, I love it in here, yeah.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40You've got one-off pieces, that's the unique thing about it.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45I would go to auctions if stock is running low.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48The thing about the auctions is, they are fantastic to go
0:10:48 > 0:10:51and get your bargains and stuff like that but you're not getting
0:10:51 > 0:10:54the story I would get in a house clearance.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Whenever you're bidding, you can get very frustrated at times.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Whenever you're wanting something
0:11:08 > 0:11:11and you going to get it at a really good price.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16Then, somebody wakes up and goes, yeah, I'll be having that.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Then the bidding frenzy starts.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31I've just got here to Laganside Auctions
0:11:31 > 0:11:35and just got the catalogue here. Number 48, I am.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36We're going in to have a wee look
0:11:36 > 0:11:39and see if there's anything of interest to myself
0:11:39 > 0:11:42and see if there's any ideas pop into the head there
0:11:42 > 0:11:44that we can maybe upcycle.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Definitely worthwhile coming up for a wee nosy.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52- How's them sausage rolls? - Lovely.- You enjoying them?- Yeah.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Laganside Auctions.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Right, that's me organised.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02INDISTINCT SPEECH FROM AUCTIONEER
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Three pounds. I got a few old pulleys here, so I did.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10And a couple of jerry cans.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13The plan with the jerry cans, we're going to turn them into speakers.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Selling at 12.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21Another bargain. There's a wee mahogany sideboard coming up, 50.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Georgian style sideboard.
0:12:24 > 0:12:3136. 36 with me, 38, 40, 42, 44.
0:12:33 > 0:12:3656, 58.
0:12:36 > 0:12:3860.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42- At £60, all done. - GAVEL FALLS
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Hi, Judith!
0:12:44 > 0:12:49There you go, that's £132.75 please, Craig.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53One, two, three, four, five.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55140.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57- 140. Thank you.- That's me empty now.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- That's you. - SHE CHUCKLES
0:13:00 > 0:13:01All done.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15There are certain items that we would actually find that you
0:13:15 > 0:13:18wouldn't find on the internet or history books,
0:13:18 > 0:13:20that have been forgotten.
0:13:22 > 0:13:27It's the photographs that get me, that nobody wants the photographs.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32A photograph here that I actually found flicking through a book and on
0:13:32 > 0:13:37the back, it actually says, Shorts and Harland, 27 November 1944.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42This is Howard Hughes, there he is in black and white,
0:13:42 > 0:13:47bold as you like, he had purchased the company two years after.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49An eccentric guy.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52You will notice that there's nobody else
0:13:52 > 0:13:55within shoulder distance of him
0:13:55 > 0:13:57so he's actually standing by himself.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Everybody else is shoulder to shoulder.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04A great wee collectable.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07It's a photograph you're not going to get again.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Well, Judith? How's you? Not so bad.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21That's what we had got.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24I'm sure it will come up nicely with a wee bit of polish.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25That's beautiful.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34You've got to sniff the old drawers.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38There's somebody has upcycled this here.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43Painted this here and added this. A wee 1960s...
0:14:43 > 0:14:44That's gorgeous.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49- Speakers.- Speakers? - No, no.- Oh, right!
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Wait until you see these here jobbies.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02What we're going to do is,
0:15:02 > 0:15:04I'll rub them down till they're a wee bit more rust
0:15:04 > 0:15:08then we're going to cut the holes in and put speakers in them.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10- That's a good idea. - That's actually pretty cool.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13- A bit of sand on the bottom. - Bit of weight.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15For a bit of weight and to control the bass.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18You're a man full of ideas.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Full of everything else as well! THEY LAUGH
0:15:26 > 0:15:27CAR HORN
0:15:29 > 0:15:33Liz, how you doing? It's Craig here. I just missed a wee call.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34'How are you?'
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Och, hanging together like a busted sofa.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38'I have...
0:15:38 > 0:15:43- 'It's like a vintage cocktail cabinet.'- Yeah?
0:15:43 > 0:15:47'I've put it on Gumtree, I'm not getting any joy.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51'I mean, I put it on a higher band at first, because it's worth it.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53'And then I lowered it.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57'So I wondered if you might be interested in buying it from me?'
0:15:57 > 0:16:00- Right. - 'Or offering me something for it?
0:16:00 > 0:16:04'The other thing was, I'm interested in
0:16:04 > 0:16:05'a hat and coat stand.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09'I just wondered if you had anything like that at the minute?'
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Liz, not at the moment. We have...
0:16:12 > 0:16:15They're like hen's teeth at the moment.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Doing this job, it's a fantastic job.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21Meeting fantastic people and listening to their stories.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Especially whenever some customers come down here,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26and they're going away happy, so they are.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29We were just out having a wee eye on the next project coming up.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31And what are yous doing, yourselves?
0:16:31 > 0:16:33I'm just keeping a wee eye to see if there's something that needs
0:16:33 > 0:16:35a wee bit of life put back into it.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Absolutely, isn't that what it's all about?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- I'll go have a wee rummage.- OK. - See you in a bit.- All right.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49There's a wee table sitting down there that might suit you.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55It's about that, by that depth, by that height.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Erm...
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- Or there's another one. - Ooh, let me see.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Maybe?
0:17:06 > 0:17:07The floor's wonky.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11It is. LAUGHTER
0:17:11 > 0:17:14HE PLAYS CHORDS
0:17:19 > 0:17:20(Needs tuned!)
0:17:22 > 0:17:24A few times we'll maybe go do a house clearance
0:17:24 > 0:17:27we'd find some lovely, old, vintage clothes.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29And it's just great that it meant
0:17:29 > 0:17:33so much to someone that they've actually kept it for all them years.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39These two wedding dresses, I found in an old suitcase.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I just happened to open the suitcase up,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47and these two wedding dresses were in it.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Do you still have your own wedding dress? Would you like to
0:17:50 > 0:17:53think that someday someone will find it in a suitcase?
0:17:53 > 0:17:57I think it would actually be quite strange...
0:17:57 > 0:18:02to see someone else in my wedding dress.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05I look around here and I think to myself,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07this all used to be in someone's house.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09It is people's history.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Do you ever think to yourself,
0:18:12 > 0:18:1550 years' time, who'll be clearing out my house?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18I don't want them to clear my house out!
0:18:18 > 0:18:21The kids are always fighting over what they're going to get, anyway.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25So I don't think there'll be much left for anybody else to take!
0:18:32 > 0:18:33CAR HORN
0:18:41 > 0:18:45It can be quite busy at times. It can be quite slow at times.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51But with this business, you're not guaranteed an income.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53So it's the rough and smooth together.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57We find there's a story in every job.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01No matter how small, people make what I do worthwhile.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05We're heading over to Karin's house.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09She's needing a fair bit of stuff moved.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13And we've just bartered a wee deal to pick up a large wardrobe.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20You might want to take the doors off to move her downstairs,
0:19:20 > 0:19:22because she's really heavy.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25She's just curious.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- I love it, it holds everything. - Yeah?
0:19:28 > 0:19:31But there was issues, apparently, with the previous owners of this house,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33and Mum worries about the strength of this floor.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36And since Dad died and I moved...
0:19:36 > 0:19:38I live up here, she lives down there.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40And she's slightly frightened it's going to
0:19:40 > 0:19:42land on her in the middle of the night!
0:19:42 > 0:19:46I came back into here about six years ago, when Dad died.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Dad never thought he'd really get to enjoy his retirement.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53And he got to just before his 77th birthday.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- And he had a pacemaker... - That was, of course,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59the fact that he'd been clinically dead about four times before then.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00That's right, a pacemaker.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04He collapsed on a flight going out to play golf on the way to Spain.
0:20:04 > 0:20:09They dropped the plane down a bit, and the air hostess was very
0:20:09 > 0:20:12good with him, he eventually came around again, as he'd done before.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15And when he walked back into the club again, somebody said,
0:20:15 > 0:20:16"Oh, here comes Lazarus!"
0:20:16 > 0:20:18SHE LAUGHS
0:20:18 > 0:20:20This is actually feng shui.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Cos since there was a mirror facing the door, I covered it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27I didn't want all my chi bouncing straight back out of the room.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31The phone rang, and we have this family thing, "Guess where I am?"
0:20:31 > 0:20:34The answer is "casualty".
0:20:34 > 0:20:36And Dad used to get rushed off occasionally,
0:20:36 > 0:20:39and Mum said, "Guess where I am? Casualty."
0:20:39 > 0:20:42And then she said, "Actually, not really, I'm still
0:20:42 > 0:20:45"standing in the garage, your dad is in the ambulance." And I thought...
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Yeah, the ambulance didn't move off, so I knew that that wasn't good.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52But, the Sunday, I'd phoned Mum and said,
0:20:52 > 0:20:55"Have you ever washed your mohair throw?"
0:20:55 > 0:20:57She said, "Oh, yes, I've washed mine."
0:20:57 > 0:20:58So I just bunged it in the wash,
0:20:58 > 0:21:02- not realising you'd ever so carefully washed it alone. - I washed it carefully.
0:21:02 > 0:21:03And it came out felted.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05MOCK SOBBING
0:21:05 > 0:21:08And she said, "bring it up, we'll see what we can do."
0:21:08 > 0:21:11And Dad came up, and he would do the thing where he would do this.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13And he went, "I think it's pucked, love."
0:21:13 > 0:21:15THEY LAUGH
0:21:15 > 0:21:18And that was the last conversation I had with my dad.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Yeah.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Little bit dusty on top of that one!
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- INTERVIEWER:- Is there another generation?
0:21:31 > 0:21:34No. Sadly, there isn't. It stops here.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- That's it.- For various reasons. - Two pussycats.- Yeah, yeah.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40But, yes, that's it.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42The next generation has fur.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47- See you later.- Yep, will do.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Thanking you. Enjoy your wine.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52- Thank you very much.- OK?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54That was wonderful!
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Take care, bye!- Thanks, bye.- Bye.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Thank you, bye.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04SHE CALLS AND WHISTLES TO DOG
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Come on.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Like to get out fishing,
0:22:19 > 0:22:25relax a lot and sort of de-stress from all the hard, emotional
0:22:25 > 0:22:29things that you would go through, seeing other folk's emotions.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Quentin's a very stern man.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39He doesn't take any nonsense at all.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41There's a bit of banter from him, he's a great guy.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52I just switch off whenever we're out. No phone calls, no nothing.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Just a nice feeling.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00I was a chef for 26 years.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Got to head chef, sort of, status.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Then, I was actually taking the daughter to school
0:23:09 > 0:23:12and I seen a van in a driveway.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15It was a refrigerated Mercedes.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Cos I was wanting to start a wheaten bread business.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22I never even haggled with the fella. I got its MOT, got it taxed.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Then a friend said, "Oh, you've got a van,
0:23:25 > 0:23:27"any chance you could maybe come out and do a wee clearance for me?"
0:23:27 > 0:23:30It just started snowballing from there.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35I don't miss the chefing. At all.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Oh, ar-r-r, me hearty!
0:23:37 > 0:23:39It's 80 years old, this year.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43She was just built for this sort of work, for commercial fishing
0:23:43 > 0:23:46and trips in the summertime. That's all she's ever done.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49The family's had her since 1947.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54And I restored it in the '80s. And it's been running ever since.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57This is not going to be her last day, is it?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00I think we're going to retire the boat, yeah, I think so.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03It'll need to be something really, really good to encourage me
0:24:03 > 0:24:06back next year, I think. But I can't see it.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11- INTERVIEWER:- How would you know if you had a fish, Craig?
0:24:11 > 0:24:13You'll feel the line going, so you will.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16You'll feel a wee bit of tension in the line.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19You'll know whenever you've got a fish on.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22He's actually better asking me that question.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24THEY LAUGH
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Gordon, tell me...
0:24:32 > 0:24:36Here we go, here we go.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Oh, it's off.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48It's off.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51HE TUTS Bugger.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53I had a big one that got away.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56HE LAUGHS A big bit of seaweed.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Caught.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Well done, Gordon.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02You've caught supper instead of mackerel.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14That's us.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17We got the last ever fishing trip on the brothers' boat.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20I think it's a bit sad, because it was tradition.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Again, if you haven't got the customers.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25It's sad.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27It is, isn't it?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Quinton, thank you.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37Cheers. Talk to you later.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46I suppose everything comes to an end,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49but I think what the important thing is
0:25:49 > 0:25:51is what we leave behind.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Another great wee find.
0:25:53 > 0:25:59This is an old-fashioned iPod. Wind it up, who needs a lithium battery?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01A bit squeaky.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08ORCHESTRAL DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Now, does that take you back, or what?
0:26:11 > 0:26:14In various house clearances we get 8mm film.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Maybe shoved up in the loft and forgotten about.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21It's good to actually see what's on them.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Oh, look, there's a wee...
0:26:26 > 0:26:28That's them playing croquet.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34It's quite good, actually.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38It's really interesting, looking back at them having a good time.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45It's just knowing that they're not here any more.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48You know, but you can still enjoy their lives by watching
0:26:48 > 0:26:50what you're seeing.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53They really look as if they're having a good time.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01That's our thought behind the whole thing.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06If we didn't do this clearance, the stuff would have been disposed of.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11It's a shame that things end up getting disposed, like that.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15Us having pieces like this, we can share it with other folk.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19MUSIC FROM GRAMOPHONE: # ..the show is over. #
0:27:27 > 0:27:30People hold on to the, sort of, sentimental attachment to
0:27:30 > 0:27:32certain items.
0:27:32 > 0:27:37It does, it actually brings me pleasure and thoughts of what was.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Grandmother's stuff.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42I've kept quite a few wee ornaments from her.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46It reminds me, every time I look at them,
0:27:46 > 0:27:50of the good times that we spent in my grandmother's house.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53A Spitfire that my grandfather had
0:27:53 > 0:27:57made in the Second World War is up on the mantelpiece.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01So, every time I look at that, it's always there to remind me.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Well, I don't want to be remembered as somebody
0:28:09 > 0:28:11that just collects furniture.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I'd just like to be remembered as somebody that collects
0:28:14 > 0:28:17history and memories,
0:28:17 > 0:28:20that goes along with what we do.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31SONG: Tonight Will Be Fine by Leonard Cohen
0:28:31 > 0:28:35# Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past
0:28:35 > 0:28:40# We swore to each other then our love would surely last
0:28:40 > 0:28:42# You kept right on loving
0:28:42 > 0:28:45# I went on a fast
0:28:45 > 0:28:50# Now I am too thin and your love is too vast
0:28:50 > 0:28:57# But I know from your eyes and I know from your smile... #