NARRATOR: It's the nation's favorite antiques experts-- Yeah!

Super cool.

How about that?

NARRATOR: --behind the wheel of a classic car-- [LAUGHTER] --and a goal to scour Britain for antiques.

The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners-- Yes!

NARRATOR: --and valiant losers.

Blast it.

NARRATOR: Will it be the high road to glory-- [LAUGHTER] --or the slow road to disaster?

Oh, there's something wrong with the car!

Oh, my god!

NARRATOR: This is the "Antiques Road Trip."

Beep-beep.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Hello, pop pickers.

Join us as our AA side, antiques dealer David Harper and new recruit auctioneer Angus Ashworth, channel the '70s in our VW Karmann Ghia.

DAVID: Something else I'm wearing today, Angus-- going with an early 1970s-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] You got your driving gloves on.

No, but the-- You got your '70s jacket on.

That's it.

That's it.

You got the scarf on.

You got the hat on.

Look at me, I'm just-- what?

I know.

You're much hardier, aren't you?

You sure you're a northerner?

DAVID: My blood needs warming up.

[LAUGHTER] You say you're cold blooded?

Well, it has been said before.

NARRATOR: But not by us.

[LAUGHS] Our Yorkshireman have set out from Sterling, and after careering around Scotland have crossed the border to Lancashire en route to the final auction in Alnwick.

And the weather has not been plain.

DAVID: Looks moody, doesn't it?

ANGUS: It does.

And it's sort of atmospheric.

This is like home to me.

That's, it is like home.

I, you know, I'm feeling very happy.

Good, good.

It could be my company, Angus.

Uh, yeah.

- Probably not.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Or it could be pistols at dawn by tomorrow.

[SWING MUSIC] Angus bravely spent all his pennies again last time, but made another small loss.

So his budget has slipped to 152 pounds and 52p.

David however, bought some very profitable bargains, and a nice return at auction means his piggy has filled up with 273 pounds and 6 pence.

Well done.

ANGUS: Down 50 now, so it's 170 overall, isn't it?

Is it?

No.

I've got 120 more.

Yeah, you got 120 more.

Yeah, yeah.

Maths is probably not our strong suit.

Did you know auctioneers can't count?

It's a well known problem.

Is that right?

Is that why you got the fives and tens?

- Yeah.

- Can't do ones.

Yes.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Tell that to our auction house in Bedale later.

But first, to Helmshore in Lancashire's Rosindell Valley, which boomed in the 19th century with workers flocking to the textile mills.

Angus and David are going antiques hunting in a restored building which once housed 85 moons.

Albert Mill Antiques.

DAVID: A wet miserable day, Angus.

ANGUS: Yeah, but this looks good, doesn't it?

- Should be warm and happy.

- I'm going to-- I'll getting in before you.

Are you?

Yeah yeah yeah, definitely.

I don't think so, somehow.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Are unaccompanied children allowed in here?

DAVID: Oh this looks great.

Damn it, get out of the way.

ANGUS: Come on, let me in.

DAVID: I don't think so.

ANGUS: I'm going this way.

NARRATOR: Time out then.

There's a huge array of things here to keep you out of mischief.

Each is looking for trouble, isn't he?

[SWING MUSIC] Ah, a grown up, dealer Oliver.

Oliver found a lot.

I really likes it.

It's a bit different.

It's not something you see every day.

These nicely cased up set of council test weights.

So these, really interesting.

I love these, because I'm trying to find something different.

All nicely stumped up there.

What these would have been, would have been the council's official set.

They would have gone around the markets, tested to make sure nobody was counterfeiting and under weighing things.

Lovely thing.

Don't see them very often.

75 pounds.

I haven't got an awful lot of money left, and I've still got a few more items to buy.

So I was wondering what we could do on the price.

What are we thinking?

Could we do 50 pounds?

I think we could do 50 pounds.

50 pounds?

Thank you very much.

That's brilliant.

I'll take those at 50, because they're just different.

I like them, and we want to find different things.

Let me get you some money.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile, other dealer Paul is getting something for David to have a look at.

DAVID: OK you think this might be a bit of me?

PAUL: I do, yeah.

OK so gentleman's case.

Man about town, yeah.

Man about town.

Do you think I travel around with a case like that?

I think you would.

Yes I do, exactly.

And I certainly would.

Gentleman's travel case?

PAUL: Yeah.

DAVID: It was certainly art deco.

Let's have a look at the fitting.

So what have we got?

Well, you'll have something for shaving, I suppose.

Yeah, there's your brush.

I think all the pieces are still there.

So yeah, yeah.

My god, smell that.

That's remarkable, actually isn't it?

It is super.

What is the best price?

To me, how much is it?

30 30, Paul I'll have it.

Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure.

Good pleasure.

Lovely.

NARRATOR: Suits you sir.

Oh, another interesting looking case.

DAVID: It's obviously an accordion.

It's a piano accordion.

Show me it.

It's probably going to be 1940, something like that.

Wow!

It's absolutely beautiful.

So what's that, mother of pearl?

Yeah.

It can't be.

Yeah.

Italian.

Is it really mother of pearl or is it like a Bakelite?

Can you play it?

No I can't.

- Does it work?

- It does work.

Yeah, yeah.

It does work.

How do you know if these things work?

By, you know, open it up and squeeze it.

Go on, give it a go then.

Now, when I say I don't know anything about them, I don't-- I mean, I have seen them before, and I've sold a few for clients.

[ACCORDION MUSIC] So it does, it still-- [ACCORDION MUSIC] OK.

The tone actually is very, very good.

OK.

But I can't play a tune on it, no.

Well how much is it to me?

40.

(ASTONISHED) 40 quid, it seems absolutely-- I mean genuinely, it seems like bonkers, doesn't it?

Bonkers money.

I mean It is, yeah.

Yeah.

Not nearly enough.

I mean, I'm not trying to make you sell it to me for more, obviously.

But I mean, the case itself is absolutely gorgeous.

[ACCORDION MUSIC] NARRATOR: Time for some background research, David?

It was made by Cooperativa L'armonica, who produced high quality instruments in Stradella, Italy from 1912 to 1975.

Sounds good.

Well, it sounded awful, but you know what I mean.

Hey there Paul.

PAUL: Yeah, I see you.

OK.

Unusually for me, I'm going to buy an instrument.

35?

- 35.

Good man.

Thank you very much.

Another deal done.

Leave that there, I shall continue.

Fantastic.

Great, I'll give you a shout.

Thanks Dave.

NARRATOR: Very good.

Now, how's Angus' quest for something weird and wonderful coming along?

Looks a little bit interesting there.

Early ceramic sort of clay based pipe.

All these painted details, got a cockerel on it.

Probably continental in date.

Sort of Flemish, or cockerel might denote France.

But it's quite interesting.

NARRATOR: From the 1780s to the 1920s, Maison Gambier manufactured millions and millions of clay pipes in the Ardennes, with pipe bowls featuring animals, mythical figures, and well-known faces from Napoleon to Abraham Lincoln.

1 6 4 9 is the mold number on this model, made in 1905.

Interesting.

Well, I think so.

25 pounds on it.

You know, that's more my budget with the money I've got left, so I think I'm going to take that.

Hi there Oliver.

I found this little early clay pipe that appreciates.

Not a lot on it, 25.

A little bit of leeway on that?

I think we can do a bit on that.

Yeah.

Ask 15.

Well great, great.

Fair funds, I'm more than happy with that.

Brilliant, thank you very much.

- 20 for you.

- Thank you NARRATOR: 15?

Of course, it's bargain central.

Well, you've earned a cup of tea boy.

[LIVELY MUSIC] But it seems David just can't stop this morning.

He must be a coffee drinker.

You know, you think of a great big fire opening, you put a fender there to protect the rug in front of the hearth.

They're normally in brass.

This is rarer because it's in steel, and much more on trend.

The brass ones are not that fashionable.

It's very flowing, very organic in its shape.

Possibly blacksmith made, or workshop made.

Anyway, so not a mass produced thing.

I give you an idea of what I mean.

Often the back of anything will tell you very much more than the front, so look at the rivets.

Handmade, hand forged, hand clouded.

Its shape is a little art nouveau, so I'm going to date this to the late 19th century.

1890, maybe 1900.

So it's a really good one.

It's a definite antique one.

It's fantastically constructed.

It's very, very heavy, and the front decoration is absolutely delicious.

And on top of that, it's not brass.

That makes it much, much rarer.

I need all of that.

I need a price.

And if it's well sub 100, I'm loving it.

Oliver, come and tempt me.

What do you think of that?

- I think it's lovely.

- It's a good thing, isn't it?

Yeah, lovely thing.

Yeah, good quality.

Good quality.

Lovely weight to it.

Is it well, well, well sub 100?

I mean well sub 100.

She was asking 75.

Can it be 40?

Got to be a little more than that I think How much?

I think we could do 50 on it.

I'll have it at 50, Oliver.

Thank you very much indeed.

Marvelous.

NARRATOR: I should think you should be biting his hand off, never mind shaking it.

So David needs to cough up 35 for the accordion, 30 for the suitcase, and 50 for that fender, totaling 115 smackaroos.

They both made out like bandits in there.

Best be off before the sheriff shows up.

So back on the road, Angus.

Yeah.

Happy with your buys?

Look at you all.

Yes, very happy.

- All right.

I like that shop.

Got something good.

Well I've certainly got something different.

NARRATOR: Time for David to carry on his spending spree, after dropping off Angus a few miles north in Burnley, where he's taking a break from antiques.

But Queen Street Mill, the world's only surviving operational steam driven weaving shed, now a textile museum.

Working life was hard on these Lancashire mills spawned by the Industrial Revolution.

And Angus will be getting in step with how the noise and clatter of the looms inspired the tradition of dancing, that people like Melanie Bala are still keeping alive today in their clogs.

These cheap wooden shoes with a steel toe cap, boots of their day, protecting feet in dangerous workplaces.

They were practical because they had the irons on the bottom, so that made them long lasting.

And they kept your feet warm.

So how did clog dancing start?

Various reasons, really.

Partly, keeping your feet warm while you were working.

Listening to the sounds of the weaving looms and imitating those.

But also to alleviate boredom because it was quite a monotonous job.

When you hear the cotton mill, you can hear where the rhythms of the clog dancing came from.

And then they just built on that basic rhythm and added extra bits in to make them more interesting.

So started off very much on the factory floor and grew into something else.

Yes.

Started as an industrial thing.

And then once people got interested in it, putting it to music, making routines up, and some even went on to become professional clog dancers in musicals and things like that.

NARRATOR: The Eight Lancashire Lads were a famous clog dancing troupe that 10-year-old Charlie Chaplin once toured with.

And Melanie's off!

Wow, very noisy.

You can see where the tapping comes in along to it.

Yeah It's yeah.

Well you kind of warm it up to it, don't you?

Yeah.

I can't really, I'm not very good at dancing.

It's quite hard.

Give it one more go.

I can do that one.

I can do that one.

[LAUGHS] Mainly the women in the weaving looms, but the men dance as well.

So the clog dancing was unisex really.

Both, yes.

NARRATOR: In 1900, there were more than 6,000 clog makers in England and Wales, and Melanie's brought some antique clogs along to show Angus.

These are miniatures of the original clogs.

So you can see the wooden sole, and the irons on the base, and the clasp at the top.

Then you move on to more of the competition style clog, which was a lace up clog, and it fitted your feet better.

Different clog makers had their different patterns.

So this is another pattern.

And then you had Morris dancing as well.

Rubbers on the Morris dance ones, and you can see they have flaps on.

Some of them put bells on.

ANGUS: So they started getting a lot more elaborate as time went on.

The style of clog changed with the development of the dance as well.

So it went from a more industrial clog to a sort of a fancy looking one.

Yes.

The style in the industry was very much flattish style.

And that developed into an off the toe style, where we'd dance off the balls of the feet.

And a lot more skilled steps coming into it with the competition.

And then into the music hall, developing that into a full entertainment.

So I would have been quite good at the industrial style of dancing, but maybe not so more the fancy competition level.

Yes, I think you just stuck with industrial.

NARRATOR: Industrial it is.

So with clogs on his two left feet, and after a quick drill with Melanie and her dancers, it's time to give this traditional folk dance the performance treatment.

[FOLK MUSIC] Well done ladies.

I thought you kept up with me quite well.

[LAUGHTER] So it's quite hard work isn't it?

It is.

NARRATOR: Bravo!

And long my Lancashire keep tapping.

Now, while Angus has been clod hopping.

Sorry, clog hopping.

David's en route to the either ominously or charmingly named village of Water, where he has Forest Mill Antiques in his sights.

It's another former Lancashire mill, and the top floor houses antiques, furniture, and collectibles belonging to 15 dealers.

Now this I've got to say is very worrying, because when I was a young boy at home, my mother had exactly that same vacuum cleaner.

Now I walk into an antique shop, and it's an antique object.

That is a real worrying sign.

NARRATOR: I think we had that Hoover in the 70s.

Uh-huh.

Oh, David's gone to get Josh.

DAVID: What do you think?

19th century, I suppose?

Yeah.

Look great in gardens.

Actually that's really good looking, and there's two of them.

That would be the business.

We did have three last week, but-- Yeah, I'm not interested in what you had last week.

- [LAUGHS] - Yeah that one-- So look at this.

--sold last week.

OK, so then we've got this one.

Similar sort of idea.

19th century.

Lovely bit of treacle glaze run here.

Chipped that side.

Good color, a kind of light brown.

I'm going to show you a little potters mark.

That's quite sweet, a mark from the man who made it.

That's quite interesting, isn't it?

It's probably just gone up, now isn't it?

It's got to be, at least a pound.

OK, so what have we got here?

So we've got it again, glazed terracotta.

Darker, good color.

Nice shape, taller.

Decent condition again.

19th century.

If there's a pair of those, they'll be fantastic either side of a door.

But either way, they are brilliant planters.

NARRATOR: The pots are not priced.

Johnson bought, I thought I'd just-- I love them both.

35.

Uh.

Would that work?

It was fixe on the outside.

38.

38.

38.

NARRATOR: I'd buy them for 38 each.

Josh, I'll have them.

Thanks very much.

Appreciate it.

38, happy with that.

NARRATOR: It's a done deal then at 38, and that leaves 120 pounds and six pence in the pocket of his vintage leather jacket.

And with four purchases in the bag, it's time to collect a rather excited Angus.

Guess what, David.

What?

We're staying in Yorkshire tonight.

Oh, Angus.

You're very happy.

Shall we go and have a nice big strong pot of Yorkshire tea?

Yes, I think that's a great idea.

What a good plan.

Hey Angus, living the dream or what?

I know.

It doesn't get much better than this, doesn't it?

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Ah, Antiques Road Trip.

Rock and roll!

Nighty-night, you two.

ANGUS: We're in Yorkshire!

DAVID: Yorkshire, this is a Yorkshire road.

This is a typical Yorkshire road.

NARRATOR: Is it?

Good Lord.

DAVID: There's been a river running down this road.

Oh, look.

There's top going onto Yorkshire road.

This is a proper road.

DAVID: Reminds me very much of-- well, if the sun was shining, we could be in Africa.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Well, it's Bradford, not Bulawayo this morning.

[LAUGHS] And hopefully, they'll be treating that vintage suspension rather better shortly.

Yesterday, David saw beautiful music and a beautiful vintage accordion.

Also a suitcase, a fender, and some charming chimney pots, as you do.

So his budget today is 120 pounds and 6p.

While Angus flirted with a fancy French clay pipe.

That's more my budget with the money I've got left.

And a set of test weights, leaving him a new total of 87 pounds and 52p.

Remember we have no ABS braking.

Yeah, I know it's a bit narrow.

I mean seriously, try the brakes hard now.

Yeah.

Oh my-- see what I mean?

Yeah.

We nip through three country roads, and it saves loads of time.

It's not doing my hernia any favors.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Ouch.

I'm feeling your pain.

The Yorkshire Appreciation Society is careering eastwards this morning to the village of Thornton, and it's time to go thy ways and multiply.

David drops off.

Good job he's got his trousers on today in this foggy weather.

NARRATOR: Quite right.

Thornton is the birthplace of those other lovers of the Yorkshire Moors, the Brontes.

And this misty moody morning is certainly whispering Wuthering Heights to me.

Fieldhouse Antiques is where Angus' story begins today.

Hello.

Who are you?

How you doing, you all right?

- Why yes.

- How's it going?

Nice to meet you.

You're great.

What a great little shop.

NARRATOR: Small, but perfectly formed.

This building dates from the 1820s, and is packed with interesting things.

Hey Angus, manage to find anything up there?

You know, I've seen a few bits I like, actually.

One of the things I want to speak to you about is this chair.

Oh it's fantastic, isn't it?

Yeah, lovely.

I mean, just classic antique, lovely country piece furniture, sort of 19th century.

And what's nice about it, with the Windsor chairs, is it's a new wood.

Real sign of quality.

And unlike a lot of Windsor chairs that have a H shaped on the structure, this got the crinoline on the structure on it.

Really, really nice, but there's quite a few issues on it.

You know, we've got a break here, a break there, repair there.

I mean, you've got 85 pounds on it ticket price.

I mean, is-- can it be cheap cheap?

I'll be happy if we can get somewhere around 40 pounds.

That'd be great.

40 pounds?

NARRATOR: Better than half price.

Oh, yeah, dude.

You've done it now.

- Tempting.

- Oh, god.

- I bite myself?

Do I blow all my money?

NARRATOR: Yes, snap it up.

I can't say no to 40 pounds for it.

Thank you very much.

I'll get you some money.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: Good buy.

Time for goodbye?

That's brilliant.

Thank you.

Thanks Angus.

I'm going to carry on looking around, because there might be something else.

So you never know.

Really?

NARRATOR: Remember, you've only got 47 pounds and 52p left.

[LIVELY GUITAR MUSIC] Oh, nice gavel.

Hello cheeky.

This looks interesting.

We got here a Victorian templates petroleum stove, it says.

Lovely makers label on it there.

Wright and Butler, Birmingham.

Pre-electric days.

You'd had your paraffin stove in this.

You've got this lovely ribbed glass, and these white panels to reflect the heat and the light into the room.

Your ventilation there for the fumes to come off from the stove.

A touch to the sort of regency style, the handles there, but later in dates.

That's quite nice.

Ticket price on there, 30 pounds.

Worth having a word with Chris on that, and see if I can get that down a little bit.

That could be a winner.

Oh Chris, I told you I'd find something else.

Ah.

This.

Very interesting item, isn't it?

It's got an air.

I like it.

I said I wanted something different.

It's nice.

It's very different from the usual lights and stoves that would have found.

The lovely ribbed glass, that makes it, doesn't it?

Really does.

And the maker's plaque on it.

I like it.

It's very decorative.

Got 30 pounds on it.

Did it come in cheap?

Yeah it did, actually, so.

Oh you kind of cheap.

OK, that sounds good.

I can maybe do it for 20, is that any good?

20 pounds.

I think that's fair.

I can't say no to that.

20 pounds would be great.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Let me get you some money.

NARRATOR: He did rather well here, did he not?

Bye-bye, Thornton.

Meanwhile, David has detoured a few miles south in the direction of Halifax.

Where he's off to pay a call at historic Shibden Hall, to uncover the secret and very revealing diaries of a singular Georgian lady.

DAVID: "We drew close together.

Made love and had one of the most delightfully long tender kisses we've ever had.

Said she in the midst of it, oh don't leave me yet.

This renewed and redoubled my feelings, and we slept in each other's arms."

NARRATOR: Curator Angela Claire can reveal the racy private life of intimate diarist Anne Lister, an unconventional woman who came to be known as Gentleman Jack.

She was born in 1791, and eventually inherited the hall and the estate.

So these are some facsimiles of the diary pages.

There's about 7 and 1/2 thousand pages in total.

About four million words, 27 volumes, detailing everything.

About a third of it was written in code, and those were the more inner thoughts.

So that was about her relationships, her sexual exploits, and her sort of thoughts and feelings about other people that you might not want somebody to read.

So you say in code, but have you been able to decipher it?

Well the code was deciphered by a descendant of Anne Lister's, a journalist.

He was the last person to live here at Shibden Hall.

And he deciphered the code, but at the time, he realized the content was a little bit explicit.

So you can see here, this is her handwriting.

So once you get your eye and you can read it reasonably well, this is where it turns-- Right, oh it's just like Greek, isn't it?

Yeah.

- Yes.

Greek symbols, well spotted.

So it was a code of her own devising.

So it was a mixture of Greek symbols.

There was brackets, stars.

I'm intrigued.

What was she actually writing about in code?

Well, she wasn't interested in men, at all, and she knew this from a very young age.

So what we would call today a lesbian.

She was definitely a homosexual.

At the time there was no terminology for that, and no real lesbian identity that she could associate with.

So she was quite the pioneer really.

She is often termed as the first modern lesbian.

So in the coded sections, that's actually where she's talking about her relationships with women, and having sex with lots of women as well.

So it's all in there.

It's all in the juicy details.

She actually puts a cross in the margin when she has an orgasm, and that's quite regular.

NARRATOR: Anne Lister was flamboyant, flouting convention and claiming the same privileges as men of her class.

She ran her estate, sank two coal mines, attended medical lectures, and mountaineered in the Pyrenees.

She was quite lucky.

A lot of women you had to marry.

You had a lot of obligation to conform, and find a husband basically.

And obviously when you married them, everything you had belonged to them.

Anne was never going to marry a man, and she didn't want to be dependent on anybody else.

Also by 1832, she'd met Ann Walker.

And what kind of relationship were they having?

Oh they were very much together.

Anne courted her, and she won her over.

And they eventually moved in here together at Shibden Hall, and they lived here together as kind of husband and wife.

They had a ceremony at a church in York.

So they were lovers, and they lived here, yeah, very much together over the years.

NARRATOR: In Anne's lifetime, male homosexual acts were punishable by death.

And until 1967, by imprisonment.

Lesbianism simply didn't exist legally, but gay women could not expect broadmindedness.

So the nickname, Gentleman Jack.

I mean, did she know of that name?

It was quite an unkind nickname.

She was very manly in appearance, I guess.

And she wore black, and she sort of strode around.

So she had this quite male appearance.

But again, it was a way to undermine her, because she was very popular.

She was very clever, a very successful businesswoman.

So the only thing they could do was have a bit of a dig at her.

NARRATOR: Anne carried on regardless of intimidation or censure, and recorded it all.

This was her bedroom, just to our right, and this was her corridor where she kept all of her books.

Chances are, this room was some kind of dressing room, and a work room where she probably wrote her diaries.

And this is where we think the diaries were rediscovered by John Lister.

NARRATOR: She died in 1840, with her wife at her side, while traveling in Georgia.

What's the most interesting thing in your mind, do you think discovered in the diaries?

Well, it's a great historical resource about the period.

But actually, what kind of piques the interest really is her relationships with other women, and how she was as we term now the first modern lesbian.

And Ann Walker, the partner that moved to Shibden Hall with her, they had a wedding ceremony in York, in a church, blessed by a priest.

So, it's as close as you can get to a modern gay marriage.

We didn't even have the terminology then.

Again, the term lesbian didn't come til much later.

And even homosexuality, it was very hidden, and not talked about, and seen as something very other.

And it's taken 200 years to get to the point where we can have talk openly about relationships that people have.

NARRATOR: And two centuries for Anne Lister's voice to be heard loud and clear.

Time marches on though, and Angus is on the move again through the murky weather.

He's headed northeast to Horsforth, near Leeds, to his last shop, Posh Tat.

And with only 20 odd pounds in his pocket, tat is likely to be the part he'll be concentrating on.

In the spirit of where there's muck there's brass, this business is a shrine to salvage and reclamation, and its high priestess is Claire.

- How are you doing?

- Nice.

Lovely to meet you.

What a spot.

I mean you've got everything.

There's dinosaurs, elephants.

Yeah.

All sorts.

There's a slight problem, though.

What's that?

I've only got 27 pounds, wait for it, and 52 pence left.

52p.

Do you think we're going to be able to find something?

I'm sure you'll be able to find something.

I want to spend every penny, because my thing is to spend every penny.

So I even want to give you the two pence.

Do you think we'll be able to find anything?

Yeah I'm sure.

NARRATOR: On your marks then, get set, rake.

[JAZZY MUSIC] I think he needs reinforcements.

Where's Philip Surrell?

It's a bit tricky, isn't it, when you've got no money?

Yes.

You've got lots of great stuff, but-- Thanks.

I see I quite like that brass sign.

What sort of money is on that?

60 pounds on that.

OK nice, but we'll keep walking.

I've only got 27 pounds, 52 pence.

I've spied a ship's wheel there.

Oh yeah.

The price, I know it's going to be overpriced.

But I'm going to have to ask, because they're are good decorative salable thing.

Yeah, it's 95, the ship's wheel.

95.

Yep.

OK. We'll find something.

- Slightly over budget.

- Yeah no, slightly over budget.

It's my fault, isn't it?

Spending too much money.

NARRATOR: Or for not making enough, actually.

Meanwhile, David is gone west to Saltaire.

A Victorian model mill village, built on philanthropy and a belief that a well treated workforce will work profitably.

With his budget of 120 pounds and 6 P, David's looking for a profit at Carlton Antiques presided over by Alan.

You can certainly squeeze a lot of antiques into these huge mills.

Oh, nice.

You've got this almost rocket shaped vase.

Probably, 1890, 1900 with that brass frame.

Shaped very organically.

Handmade, hand put together.

And of course, the frame made exactly to accept the slender vase.

It just oozes style.

It oozes quality.

There you go.

So slender vase, ornate frame, art nouveau, 485 pounds.

So the chances of stealing something like that in a place like this, it's very, very rare.

NARRATOR: Stealing?

And I'd pay 120 pounds all day long for that.

NARRATOR: He'll be wanting a Faberge egg for a fiver next.

Hah!

Back in Horsforth, has Angus managed to secure anything for pennies?

Galvanized planters.

Yeah.

Can't go wrong, obviously didn't start as planters.

Sort of wash tubs, baths, that sort of thing.

But you know, people absolutely love these for the garden, don't they?

Planting up.

Because you know, they're rust proof.

Make great ice buckets.

You're a party girl, aren't you?

[LAUGHS] That's quite a traditional one, isn't it.

I mean do you see those quite often.

That's a big impressive, wasn't it.

Quite a nice shape to it that one.

Try not to get bitten here by the crocodile.

[BOTH LAUGHING] Do you know what?

I really like that.

It's a little bit deeper, twin handle.

Nice lip to it.

Yeah, it has.

It's got a nice lip to it.

You know, I think that is nice out of all of them.

That's the one I really like.

OK. Oh, 55 pounds.

[LAUGHING] Hi.

Hi.

Yeah.

So yeah, I've got 27 52.

Aren't you from Yorkshire?

Go on then.

Oh, you're an absolute star.

There's the all important 25.

Great.

6 7 50, and the two pence.

Thank you very much.

It's been lovely to meet you, and see you again.

Bye.

- Bye.

NARRATOR: That's Angus cleared out again.

What about David?

Little sugar tongs.

Quite heavy actually.

Novelty things are always good news.

Maybe it's a conversational piece, it's certainly a show off piece.

If you invite people around to your home for tea, and if you introduce a silver sugar tong, it just shows that you are sophisticated.

You have a little bit of class, and you have a bit of money.

It's keeping up with the Joneses.

Nothing ever really changes.

So you can't date him perfectly.

I think it's more 1870, something around there.

Right.

No price.

I need a price.

Alan?

Right.

- How can I help?

I need all the help I can get, to be honest with you.

Right.

OK, so I think they're Chester.

- Correct - Are they?

Yes.

OK. Can you pass me the eyeglass please?

- We certainly can.

- Thank you very much.

Anything to help Yeah thank you.

No date mark.

No, we couldn't find a date mark, I know.

It's been rubbed off, hasn't it?

Would 50 quid buy him?

50 pound will buy them, yes.

OK. Would you use these at home Alan?

Not necessarily, no.

I'm sweet enough, so I don't need them.

[BOTH LAUGHING] Are we going to do a deal, 50 quid?

50 quid.

Good man.

Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

Let me give you some money.

NARRATOR: Job done.

Thank you very much.

NARRATOR: Time to pick up Angus, and hit the trail.

We could work our way to Bedale easy enough, couldn't we?

Oh yeah, no exactly, we just head slightly northeast.

DAVID: All right.

Easy.

Do you want to get out of first gear, or do you like it a lot?

Well it's just, that what has got the most power up the hills, and there we go.

That's it.

Thanks for that driving tip, there.

I'm here to help.

Because a lot of it dies.

NARRATOR: Hey, it's a bumpy ride to this auction.

They'll need their shut eye.

It's the north riding for the chaps this morning, in the market town of Bedale on the lovely bank of the same name.

ANGUS: Just beautiful, isn't it?

I mean, there's just nothing better than Yorkshire.

DAVID: North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire?

Oh no.

You can smell it, but you can also sense it, that you're in this part of the world.

Very special.

You're in the most important part in the world.

Well we both think that, don't we?

Does anybody else think that?

NARRATOR: Not if they're from Devon, like me.

DAVID: I hope you're going to perform for them.

Oh, I am.

I am.

I'm going to play back tonight.

NARRATOR: Yeah that's the spirit.

And there's plenty to sniff out at M.W.

Darwin and Sons, who have been auctioneering here for 50 years.

David gathered up five lots and parted with the princely sum of 203 pounds in the process.

David has really surprised me this road trip.

I mean, this isn't him at all, an accordion.

Well it's a nice decorative enough piece.

A little bit spiky.

It's a bit different, I like it.

A bit more him with all the bling on it, and all these fancy colors.

But yeah, I'd be interested to see how that goes.

NARRATOR: Yeah.

Angus meanwhile shelled out every penny of his 152 pounds and 52p on his five lots.

Could turn out to be a pipe dream though.

It's always fascinating when you see objects bought by people, that you know and you assume they're going to be buying things that would suit their character and their personality.

Could you see Angus smoking a dainty little floral pipe like this?

I don't think so.

It's been well used.

It's floral.

It's decorative.

It's got a cockerel.

It's got a lot of things going for it.

He paid 15 quid.

That is for nothing.

NARRATOR: In the professional opinion of our auctioneer today, Mark Darwin.

Selling them at 52!

The Harlequin sugar tongs, there's been a lot of interest in these.

They're unusual.

They're in good condition.

We expect them to do well.

The brass weights are my favorite lot, because they're a complete lot.

I've never seen them before in the original case.

Should do well, I'll be interested to see how they get on.

NARRATOR: Bidding in the room and by phone is underway, so Angus and David need to take a pew.

Oh.

Get ready for the nerves.

This is the hard kitty now.

- I know.

It's going to be good, this.

NARRATOR: David's Italian accordion is first.

Bellissima!

Maybe.

30 pound big.

30, you're doing well.

It's a good price is it.

[AUCTIONEER CHANT] 35.

At 35, be 38 anyway.

Got 35 pounding.

[GROANS] No no, that's expensive is that.

I'm selling at 35.

You all down at 30.

I do apologize, 38.

Oh, what?

40, 2.

45.

48.

50.

Go off, don't know what's going on.

55.

58.

60.

At 58 pound on my left.

- That's expensive.

- 60 anywhere?

That's 60.

I'm selling at 58!

Order.

Oh he's going to put it down at 30 quid.

Well that's a bargain.

NARRATOR: Someone fancies a quick come back to Sorrento, I reckon.

Good start David.

Please with us.

NARRATOR: Let's see how Angus gets on with those test weights.

40 pound.

40 pounds bid.

Oh, straight to 40, hey.

Two anywhere?

42.

45.

48.

Hey we're up.

50.

2.

55.

58.

The leader likes these.

70.

2.

Good start.

This is it.

I have 72 pound upstairs.

5 anywhere?

80, 2.

85.

88.

90, 2.

95.

At 92 pounds upstairs.

Oh, OK. Let's go.

5 anywhere?

Selling at 92, all done.

I eat my hats.

Well done, well done you.

NARRATOR: A hefty 42 pounds to Angus.

He's catching up, that boy.

I'm up here a lot.

That's a good show.

It's good stuff.

That's a good show.

Well done.

NARRATOR: Under the hammer now, David's gentleman's vintage verlise.

- 28.

- Woof.

20 pounds bid.

2 anywhere?

At 20 pounds only.

Bid 22.

25.

28.

30.

At 28 in the center.

Oh come off it.

At 30 behind.

32.

35.

38.

40, 2.

42 now.

Go on madam.

At 40 pound at the back.

2 anywhere?

At 40 pound big.

Going then!

At 40.

Ouch.

Could have been better.

Disappointing.

NARRATOR: Yeah still a profit.

I think you've been unlucky.

I think so.

I generally mean.

Yeah do you?

Yeah I do.

Accelerating.

Well you see, I like the persona you're adopting now.

I don't like it during the auction.

Can we just stick with number two persona?

OK. OK. Yeah that'll be great.

NARRATOR: I'm sensing some friction here.

Oh, they're quite competitive, aren't they?

Time now for Angus' oil stove.

- 20 pounds.

- Oh, no.

20 pounds big.

Oh, that's about it.

That should be 40 quids.

He's got bids on it again.

35.

At 32 What's he stop for?

At 32 pound bid.

I'm selling at 32!

Well.

That's about-- We both thought.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Another good result.

I'm happy enough.

NARRATOR: Next up, David's decorative chimney pots.

I wonder what rooves they're missing from of.

22.

24.

26.

28.

30.

32.

- Let's see.

Come on.

At 32 pound bid.

That's a good price.

The dark side has come back again.

38.

40, 2.

44.

46.

48.

50, 2.

55.

At 52 pound upstairs.

Aw, come on.

A bit more would be nice.

Selling that at 52!

I think you did OK.

It's a profit.

Yeah!

NARRATOR: And a clean sweep so far.

Who writes this stuff?

Brown is in.

Brown is the new yellow.

NARRATOR: If you say so.

Angus' Windsor chair next.

30 pound bid.

5 anywhere?

- We're off now.

At 35.

40, 5.

50, 5.

At 50 pound.

Oh, phones out.

5 anywhere?

5 anywhere?

I'm selling then at 50.

Feel so mixed about this.

50, 5.

60, 5.

70.

I think it's good that you've made some profit.

NARRATOR: So far today David, it's all been profit.

Let's be fair, on a chair like that, I think that was all right.

NARRATOR: Bids are invited right now for David's arts and crafts fire fender.

Can we lift it up?

No.

Come on you big strong-- No, it's too-- You get yourself over here and give him a hand then!

Shall I get behind?

Yes go on.

No I'll get mine.

[LAUGHS] It's a beauty.

Fantastic quality.

Late 19th century, over to you.

You don't need to persuade me.

Paid 50 for it.

It's worth tonnage for scrap.

30!

30 pound bid.

At 30 pound, only bid the fender.

- Come on.

- 32.

35.

38.

40, 2.

Oh, dear.

48.

50.

52.

At 50 pound on my right.

2 anywhere?

I'm selling that at 52!

He's devastated.

He's devastated.

52.

Going then at 52!

Say all that.

He went up there, held it up, showed off to the room, and it failed.

I know.

I made two pounds on paper.

[LAUGHTER] But your hands are dirty.

Look at that.

NARRATOR: And that two pounds will be eaten up in auction cost.

You know, it's a nice thing I did.

Like-- - I know.

I don't think I'll be doing that again.

I think it probably killed the price.

NARRATOR: I'm thinking maybe done.

Well Angus is washed up.

Clean up next.

I have 22 pound bid.

4 anywhere?

What?

It's a good thing.

It's the ribbed details.

Very good.

Yeah.

44.

46.

48.

At 48 pound bid.

I'm selling that at 48, you all done!

They bought it as a cheap bath, haven't they?

NARRATOR: He's being rude about their beloved Yorkshire.

Anyway, Angus is creeping ahead.

I'm enjoying today.

I know you are.

NARRATOR: The fun keeps on coming.

It's David's last lot now, the silver Harlequin sugar tongs.

30 pound bid.

2 anywhere?

At 32.

35.

38.

Commission bids on it.

45.

48.

At 45 pound on my left.

At 45 pound bid, 8 anywhere?

48.

Oh two fresh bidders.

60, 5.

70.

Said it's 100, didn't we?

At 70 pound on my left.

5 anywhere?

Come on.

At 70 pound bid.

5 anywhere?

Going then at 70!

You can't help it.

You cannot help it.

I said somebody told me.

NARRATOR: That he can't.

It's an affliction really.

The dark side came out.

You couldn't help it, the final second.

NARRATOR: Now, Angus' French clay pipe.

This should do well.

20 pounds bid.

2 anywhere?

20 pounds, right then.

At 20 pound only, bid to 30.

32.

34.

36.

That's going crazy, racing away.

44.

46.

48.

50, 2.

NARRATOR: Yeah it's away.

60.

NARRATOR: It's on fire.

80, 2.

85.

NARRATOR: It's smoking.

88.

90, 2 NARRATOR: I can't bear it.

95.

98.

Might do 100.

100 pounds?

At 100 pounds upstairs.

Well I never.

At 100 pound bid.

Going then at 100!

I did well that.

Well done.

That was seriously good.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, as they say.

We've done OK.

I think it just goes to show, doesn't it, that in this business it's always a surprise.

You never know everything.

And that's auctions.

You're always learning something.

You do.

I taught you a few things.

You've taught me a lot Angus.

I really appreciate it.

Well I'll get lunch.

Come on.

[MUSIC PLAYINg] Thank you.

NARRATOR: Ready for a reckoning then?

David sold all his lots at a profit today.

But after sale room fees, he increased his budget by a modest 20 pounds and 4p, to finish with a new total of 293 pounds and 10 pence.

But Angus closed the gap between them to less than 20 pounds, with a whopping profit of 123 pounds and 82p.

So he's our victor on this leg, with 276 pounds and 34 pence.

Well done, that man.

Well well, the result is it's lunch on you.

It is.

I don't mind, I don't mind.

I reckon we've got to do a Yorkshire pudding.

Yorkshire puddings, tea.

Yeah, stuffed with mincemeat.

How about that?

OK.

I'll try it.

NARRATOR: And the gravy.

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