VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts.

This is beautiful.

That's the way to do this.

VO: With £200 each, a classic car and a goal to scour for antiques.

Joy.

Hello.

VO: The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

(LAUGHS) (GAVEL) VO: There will be worthy winners and valiant losers.

Sorry, sorry!

VO: So, will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?

The handbrake's on.

VO: This is Antiques Road Trip!

Yeah.

We're starting the final leg of this road trip in beautiful Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.

And Philip's keen to get going.

Anita, fire up the Fiat!

(ENGINE SCRAPES) That sounds poorly, doesn't it?

Oh Phil, it's not gonna start.

We had this on the first day, didn't we?

And now it's the last day and the thing's haunting us.

What will we do?

I mean, you're a man.

PHIL: Really?

ANITA: Can you fix it?

Oh yeah, leave it to me.

VO: Good luck with that.

(ENGINE SCRAPES) VO: So Philip, diagnosis please.

Now, that's dead.

It might be the fan belt.

You got any stockings on?

Have you?

None of your business.

If you take them off you can replace the fan belt with a pair of lady's stockings.

We can't hang about, Phil.

We've got to carry on to the next shop, come on, let's go.

ANITA: Close it up.

PHIL: OK, just...

I'm just hopeful... Leave the keys in it because someone might nick it.

Give me your hand.

Here we go.

Ha-ha-ha!

VO: Our two auctioneers, Philip Serrell and Anita Manning, have had quite a week of it, so it all comes down now to the final leg.

70, 80, 90...

This is looking good.

VO: They set out with £200 each.

Although Anita raked in big profits at the start of the week...

I think you've bought the right things for this room and I don't think I have.

VO: ..Philip's fought back, winning the last two auctions.

150 right across that side.

I knew that would do well.

VO: On this final stretch Anita has £294.24 at her disposal.

VO: Philip, however, has £469.58 to spend.

VO: Earlier this week they set off from the Lake District and traveled north, have dipped into Scotland, before returning south back over the border in to England, and will end their trip in Crooklands, Cumbria.

This leg kicks off in Castle Douglas in Kirkcudbrightshire and finishes this week's auction in Crooklands.

VO: In 1792 an incredibly wealthy Scot named William Douglas decided to build his very own town, and modestly named the place after himself.

Ha!

Must be a local tradition - guess the name of the owner of Philip's first shop.

Hazel, how are you, my love?

I'm very well, how are you?

Yeah, a long time since I was here, haven't I?

HAZEL: Three, four years.

Well, it's full by the looks of things.

I'm going to go down here and see what I can find.

HAZEL: That's fine.

PHIL: Alright?

You carry on.

VO: This shop is packed, quite literally, to the rafters.

Look at that.

Ha!

Those look like they're old military binoculars, don't they?

HAZEL: Yeah, they do.

VO: You're right.

They're a pair of First World War German-issue army binos.

Priced at £45.

PHIL: What's the best you can do on those?

30 bottom.

PHIL: Try again.

HAZEL: No.

I tell you what, I think there is a bit of room for maneuver there, isn't there?!

Ha!

Go and put them up by the counter, Hazel, and we'll have a look at those.

We'll speak later.

We'll talk later, we can perhaps do a bit of a package deal here.

Yeah.

OK, I'll put them at the desk for you, OK. VO: One contender.

And still time for another nosy around.

I like that.

HAZEL: Nice little table.

PHIL: Well, it's not always been a table, has it?

If you imagine no top on this, and like a broom handle up there, and then...

Your pull screen on the top.

A screen there like that, and the screen was designed to keep the heat off the lady of the house's face so that her make-up didn't melt.

VO: It's a plausible theory.

PHIL: That base is probably 1860.

HAZEL: Mm-hm.

And then if you look at the top... ..this white fleck in this mahogany indicates to me that's probably Edwardian.

How much is it, Hazel?

75.

I tell you what I'll do, I'll give you... ..£60 for the binoculars and the table.

I think you're going to give me £70 for the binoculars and the table.

PHIL: (LAUGHS) PHIL: Why do you think that?

HAZEL: And then we'll... Because you're so nice and you've a lovely smile and you're going to do it, I know you are.

Hazel, you're full of it.

Absolutely.

PHIL: 65 quid.

Thank you, Hazel.

HAZEL: OK, right.

VO: Hazel's been very generous.

The First World War German binoculars for £25, and this occasional table for 40.

Hazel, as ever, it's been a pleasure.

And thank you very much.

You're an angel, thank you very much.

Thank you very much indeed.

OK, thank you.

VO: Good job, Philip.

VO: Anita, meanwhile, has made her way 10 miles southwest to Kirkcudbright.

She's come to see why this picture-perfect harbor town is so highly regarded in the art world.

And why locals will be forever indebted to one pioneering artist whose generous legacy has left a unique collection hidden within his former home.

Hello.

Hello Anita, welcome to Broughton House and Garden, lovely to have you here.

Oh, it is wonderful to be here.

This is a fabulous house.

Tell me a bit about it.

SHEILA: The home of artist Edward Atkinson Hornel from 1901 to 1933.

He was a local lad made good.

And he is the foundation of Kirkcudbright's reputation as an artist town.

I can't wait.

Can we go in?

Of course.

Come on.

Let's go.

VO: Edward Hornel was born in 1864.

He grew up in Kirkcudbright before studying at art school in Edinburgh and Antwerp.

After completing his studies he felt creatively inspired, ready to take on the establishment and rebel against the traditional way of painting.

VO: He became friends with like-minded artists, including John Lavery, James Guthrie and George Henry.

They became known as the Glasgow Boys.

It was almost like an explosion of new ideas, new thought.

About making art about real people, real places and real things.

Glasgow was becoming a very, very prosperous city.

Ordinary people had more money to buy art and they wanted to see themselves reflected in that.

VO: At first, critics derided their work.

But the public loved the Glasgow Boys' new and exciting approach to art.

They were soon regarded as Scotland's own impressionist artists.

Within a few years their exhibitions were shown around the world to much acclaim.

The Glasgow Boys' achievement was to be the most significant art movement in Britain since the romantic artists of Turner and Constable.

So they were rejecting the establishment's idea of painting, drawing, and art?

Yes, very much so.

And Hornel's work was highly decorative and beautiful color harmonies.

Wonderful sense of movement in his paintings.

Was that at the time where he became successful or financially successful?

That is really the start of his financial success, and making his name as a painter.

VO: While some of his contemporaries were moving to the big cities to find fame and fortune, in 1901 Hornel bought one of the grandest properties in his hometown of Kirkcudbright.

As other artists came to visit, they too fell in love with the town.

SHEILA: It really was a snowballing effect.

Hornel was part of the core of that that attracted other artists to come here.

And it became a very successful place.

It must've been a wonderful place to go about in those days.

Oh yes.

You would be hobnobbing with artists every time you walked down the street.

VO: It is said the quality of light in Kirkcudbright was the main draw for many artists.

A favorite subject for Hornel was the local people.

One of his most recognized works is Brighouse Bay, Wild And Burnet Roses from 1919.

ANITA: This one here so typical of his work ANITA: with these wee girls.

SHEILA: Very much so.

Were these wee girls local girls?

Yes, they were.

And in latter days they came back as old ladies to visit and their relatives still do get in touch to say "Oh it was my great auntie," or, "It was my granny that used to pose."

Wow!

VO: Hornel was a passionate collector - from pottery to sculpture to books.

His library is still one of the world's biggest collections of works by Robert Burns.

It cost him tens of thousands of pounds in today's money and includes an incredibly rare first edition of Burns' poems.

ANITA: That is a very warming thought - not only did he love Kirkcudbright and the people of Kirkcudbright but I'm sure the people of Kirkcudbright did and still do love him.

SHEILA: Very much so.

He was a benefactor for the town in many ways.

VO: Hornel died in 1933.

Today, his work sells for tens of thousands of pounds.

Yet he bequeathed his own art collection, his home and other contents to the people of Kirkcudbright.

VO: Today, Broughton House is a library and art gallery open to anyone wishing to appreciate the life works of one of Scotland's greatest artists.

The next stop is across the border in Cumbria in the small village of High Hesket.

VO: During the First World War the government took control of breweries in the area to stop the drunkenness of locals working in the munition factories at Gretna Green.

Licensing hours imposed on pubs still exist in some form today.

VO: Both our experts will be shopping in the Cumbria Curiosity Shop.

But Philip arrives first.

25 dealers trade from here.

Philip soon spots something he likes.

What are those there - are they portholes?

Yeah, brass portholes.

And how much are they?

£70 each.

VO: Aye aye, captain.

Phil still has £404.58 to spend.

PHIL: Let's put that one down there.

I think a pair of those would make 80 to 120 at auction.

That's what I think they would make.

Right.

Which means I've got to try and buy them for just under the £80 the two mark.

I'll do you them for 85.

Right, job's a good one.

VO: Well done Phil, first deal bagged before Anita arrives.

Ha!

Speak of the little devil.

Anita has £294.24 in her purse.

Huh, what's this?

I think it's a magazine rack.

It's made of pine.

What I like most about it is this leather on the front.

And it has been beautifully done, we've got the little cottage here and the huntsman with the hounds.

It's rather a nice thing.

VO: It's priced at £28.

I'm going to have a go at that.

VO: Meanwhile, Phil's found a stag.

And a dealer called Martin.

Right, I've been building up to this for a long time and I just want to ask you one question...

This isn't a little DEAR, is it?

Oh, just a little bit dear.

VO: Priced at £250.

This is a cold-painted Viennese bronze, isn't it?

Yes.

Um, and that refers to the process in which it is made.

I like that.

I tell you what, let's put him down because I like him a lot.

And we'll have a deal on that.

Yup.

But I'd like to have a look at that little table over there.

Let's go and have a look, thank you.

VO: Anita's found Ben.

Are you able to negotiate a deal on this with me?

I'm sure I can come down a little bit.

I would be looking round about the £20 mark.

20?

Yeah.

Could you do 16?

Go on then.

You've got yourself a deal.

Oh!

OK, that's great.

VO: That IS great.

£12 knocked off the ticket price and this magazine rack becomes Anita's first buy today.

Back to Philip and that table.

Martin's asking £140 for it.

PHIL: We've got a drawer here, haven't we?

DEALER: We have.

So... ..does that look like, to you, that is 1760?

I actually would've thought that's a bit more modern.

OK, so I don't...

I don't like that.

That bothers me.

And to you.

OK.

There's silver-tongued Serrell, serenading a dealer over there.

You can just see where that's been done that many times.

DEALER: It has.

PHIL: You've got that line there.

He's looking very serious, he's nodding his head.

But I'm not convinced the top and bottom... ..have always, always, always been together.

Oh!

I can't look at it.

OK, this is my one, one offer, OK?

I'll give you £140 for the two.

That's my one offer.

No more, that's it finished.

Well... you've got to have a percentage to win this game and I think that should give you about that.

You're a gentleman, thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

VO: Crikey.

That's the £250 bronze stag for just £100 and £100 off this gateleg table.

Huh.

Meaning, with the portholes, he's spent £225 in "toto".

VO: Anita's not finished either.

This is a rather sweet wee box.

VO: This little pillbox looks like the sort of thing made for a Georgian lady, although it may date from a bit later.

It is made of a yellow metal, not gold.

There is no hallmark on it but what I do like about it is the lapis inset on the lid and the bottom.

And I love lapis lazuli.

It is the most beautiful color, that wonderful singing blue.

And for me it's the stone that makes this little box.

VO: Lapis lazuli is a semiprecious blue stone, probably most famously used in the funeral mask of young Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Priced at £25, but is Ben open to another deal?

I quite liked this wee box.

What's the best that you can do on that?

How's about 20?

Is that alright?

20 is a wee bit much on it.

Can you come down another wee bit?

Erm, let's say 18 I can do the best on that.

18?

Yeah.

Yeah, we'll go for that.

That's lovely.

VO: So that's the pillbox and magazine rack for £34.

Thank you very, very, very much.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

Oh, hello Phil.

How we doing?

How are you?

You alright?

Yeah, aha, I'm fine.

VO: Time for Philip to pay up.

20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90...

This is looking good.

To me this is looking very, very... PHIL: So... BEN: Yous had a good day?

I've had about £600 worth of goods for 225, top man, Ben.

Have you done alright?

ANITA: I'm happy as well.

PHIL: Come on.

You spend all that money?

PHIL: Yeah, it's good, innit?

ANITA: Great.

What a top shop this is.

So, how much did you spend?

Er... about 30-odd quid.

PHIL: 30-odd quid?!

ANITA: (CHUCKLES) Yeah.

VO: Well done both of you.

After all that walking today, a rest beckons.

Sadly, the little Fiat's still struggling.

But, what will tomorrow bring?

Ha.

Nighty night.

Good morning!

And good news!

The car is dead, long live the car.

VO: A shiny 1969 Triumph Herald keeps our pair on the road today.

This is the type of car that a guy would take a gal out on for a hot date.

Shall we pretend that you're taking me on a hot date?

Hellfire, Mother!

VO: Hey, no time for romance.

The final auction is drawing ever closer.

Let's remind ourselves what's been bought so far.

VO: Yesterday, Anita bought two items.

A lapis lazuli pillbox and a pine magazine rack.

Meaning she still has £260.24.

VO: As for Phil, he spent big, buying five items.

A pair of German army binoculars, a mahogany table, a pair of portholes... ..an oak gateleg table and a bronze stag.

He has £179.58 in his pocket.

Do you feel confident in your lead?

I am going to try and spend, spend, spend.

Go for broke!

VO: That's the spirit!

The first stop is the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth.

So named as it's where the confluence of the River Cocker flows into the River Derwent.

ANITA: Perfect!

Perfect, darling.

PHIL: Here we are.

You have a good day.

Have a great time, bye!

Bye now.

VO: The lady in charge of Anita's first shop is Gwenda, who's been in the antiques biz for well over 30 years.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi Anita, how are you?

Welcome back to Cockermouth.

It's lovely to see you again and to be back in this Aladdin's cave.

Well... VO: Yeah, there's lots here.

Better get to it.

Ah, found something?

I must say that I'm not particularly drawn to football things but I quite like this item.

It is an inkwell and we have a lid which opens here and inside would have been a glass or a porcelain inkwell.

It's missing but it wouldn't be much to get a new one there.

I think this is probably from the 1930s or '40s because these long shorts are not what footballers are wearing now.

And I think I might have a wee go at that.

Gwenda?

Yup?

You know, Glasgow's daft about football.

Yeah.

I'm not football-daft myself but I was kind of drawn to that wee thing because I liked the figure.

VO: It sports a ticket price of £45.

What can Gwenda do?

How about 32?

How about 32?

Let's go for that.

That's smashing.

Oh, well done.

Thank you very much.

I think that's a great thing.

VO: That's a swift deal.

And still plenty more to see.

This plaque looks like it could tell a story.

Er, Gwenda, I quite like this.

Um, it's an image of the Carmanian.

Workington, is that near here?

Yes, six miles up the road.

It was a very busy port.

So this is maybe of local interest?

Very much of local interest, yeah.

VO: The Carmanian was a cargo ship built just down the road and launched in 1897.

While returning from Buenos Aires in 1916 she was sunk by a German U-boat.

This plaque commemorates not only a ship but a once-thriving local industry too.

Priced at £95.

But what's Gwenda's best?

GWENDA: I'll come down to... (EXHALES DEEPLY) ..68 but that is the absolute... ANITA: 68?

GWENDA: That is the absolute... ANITA: 68?

GWENDA: ..bottom line on it.

I can't even negotiate further than that.

You can't?

You definitely can't?

No.

You couldn't come to 60?

I really couldn't.

OK, I'm going to go for that.

You are going for that one.

Yeah.

Aha.

68?

GWENDA: Yes, 68.

ANITA: OK. GWENDA: OK. Shaking on that.

ANITA: That's absolutely fine.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

OK, right.

Okey-doke.

VO: With the footballer inkwell, Anita's spent a total of £100.

GWENDA: Thank you very much.

ANITA: OK. GWENDA: Right, OK. ANITA: It's been lovely ANITA: being here.

Bye bye.

GWENDA: And you.

OK, bye now.

VO: Well done Anita.

Meanwhile, Philip's headed to the Cumbrian coast and to Whitehaven.

This picturesque tourist town was once one of the biggest shipbuilding ports in the country.

And there was one family at the center of Whitehaven's boom period.

An entrepreneurial spirit saw their fortunes soar and helped to make Whitehaven so famous.

Philip's meeting Celia Mackenzie.

Hi, I'm Philip.

How are you?

Welcome Philip, welcome to The Rum Story here in Whitehaven.

Whitehaven, it would have been a real buzzy place, wouldn't it, back in about 1760 or...?

CELIA: It grew very rapidly in population from about 1,000 to about 9,000 people within about 70 or 80 years.

VO: A huge shipbuilding industry, talented, able sailors and an established connection with trade ports in Africa and the New World made Whitehaven the perfect location for merchants to run their empires.

CELIA: The Jeffersons were one of the big families around here.

They were not just merchants, they didn't just focus on their own commercial activity but they also supported the town and made it grow.

VO: Generations of Jeffersons captained cargo ships around the world.

But when Henry Jefferson married, his family's fortunes changed forever.

The oil painting behind me is Henry as a young man and beside him is his wife, a lady called Anne Tweedie, who was the daughter of a plantation owner on Antigua.

Quite a powerful combination.

They certainly were, she brought a dowry of a sugarcane plantation.

This is where the rum really started to come into it.

VO: Henry and Anne had two sons.

Robert and Henry Jr.

They used their mother's inheritance and father's merchant connections to build one of Whitehaven's most successful businesses.

The Jeffersons had one advantage over their competitors as they owned the sugarcane plantations, the raw material for rum.

They were wholesalers.

They actually distilled and blended the rum here in these premises.

And we've got the original blending barrel which would hold the equivalent in today's values of £250,000 worth.

VO: Rum became the fashionable drink of the working class.

And, with 50 coal mines in the local area, and several hundred in Cumbria, sales of Jefferson's rum went from strength to strength.

Jefferson's also manufactured rum for other companies and secured some of the biggest contracts in the world.

CELIA: It's reported that Jefferson's were the first suppliers of rum to the UK navy.

And that they were allowed a tot or a supply of about half a pint a day.

That doesn't bear thinking about.

VO: The Jeffersons built a vast and powerful business from Whitehaven.

Selling not only their own brand of rum, but imported wine, port and champagne.

Who exactly were their clientele?

I've got a few documents here that refers to a supply of product... PHIL: White Star Line.

CELIA: ..to the White Star Line.

PHIL: Titanic.

CELIA: Absolutely.

And that... CELIA: And this is dated the 27th May 1907.

It doesn't actually specifically state that they actually provided directly onto the Titanic but they provided the White Star Line.

VO: Despite Robert's death the family business continued to grow in Whitehaven, even after other businesses abandoned the town as it went into decline.

VO: Henry Jr used his family's wealth and influence to bring a hospital, banks and railways to the town, attracting the very best names in engineering to do so.

So here we've got the prospectus for the new Whitehaven And Furness Junction Railway.

The engineer that they have here is one George Stephenson.

Oh, that is quite cool, isn't it?

CELIA: It was something that was important to the local community.

PHIL: Right.

CELIA: They were extremely wealthy family at the time.

And they put their money to good use in other projects around the area - leisure, commercial, and also looking after the social welfare.

VO: Six generations of Jeffersons built a business that became the longest running wine merchants in the country, finally succumbing to the commercial pressures from supermarkets.

Henry Jnr's great-great- great-granddaughters closed the doors in 1998.

But Jefferson's rum lives on and is one of the oldest brands of rum in the country.

Anita has made her way into the beautiful Lake District National Park and to Keswick.

For well over 200 years the town has been a popular holiday destination and occasionally visited by a shrewd antiques expert.

Ha!

It's one of those days and Anita's headed to dealer Mark's shop looking for a deal.

I'm Anita.

Hello Anita.

Nice to meet you.

I'm just looking at all this vinyl here.

MARK: Oh, I like my records.

ANITA: Do you?

MARK: Yeah.

What I might do is concentrate on the antiques... MARK: Yeah, no.

ANITA: ..and jewelry.

Oh yes.

I know you like your jewelry.

Yeah, aha.

If I need to ask any questions or prices, give you wee shout?

Feel free, give us a shout.

ANITA: OK, thank you.

MARK: No problem.

VO: Anita still has £160.24 to spend.

And, true to form... Look at all these lovely wee brooches.

I am very, very tempted with this cabinet.

We've got wonderful Victorian examples.

We've got everything that a girl might want.

But...!

I'm going to have a good look around and not give in to temptation just immediately.

VO: She's showing restraint.

But she did spot something on her way in.

Looks heavy though.

ANITA: (GROANS) Oh no!

Well, this certainly isn't a wee brooch, but it's a very interesting object.

It's a book press.

I'm not exactly sure how this works but it is such a visually exciting object and it's part of our industrial history.

VO: It sports John Christie's name, a book publisher working in the late 19th century.

It's priced at £125.

I'm going to see what the dealer says about it and I'm going to see if I can do a deal on it.

VO: Careful, Anita.

ANITA: (LAUGHS) MARK: Would you like a hand with that, Anita?

Would you like a hand with that one?

And you wonder why I buy jewelry, you know, it's easy to lift up.

But I think this is a great object but I'm struggling with the weight of it.

MARK: It's a bit heavy.

ANITA: Yeah.

..Anita as well.

OK. First of all, where did you get it?

It's actually a family piece.

Is it?

Oh no!

It is, yeah, it is a family piece, yeah.

Does that mean you're sentimental about it?

Er, not that sentimental, but it's a nice piece.

I remember that, er, being in my dad's shed.

Oh fabulous.

Do you know how that works?

Well, I presume...

I mean that's obviously to rise and fall.

So would you put the whole book un...

I mean... To be honest, do you want to have a try?

Let's pop that in.

ANITA: So would this be for the final sort of...

I think...

I've never tried this.

I'm not an expert on this.

Right, OK. Let's see if this works.

Oh, there you go, yeah.

So that's just given it that extra push just to bind everything in.

I'd like to be buying it for about 50 quid.

I'll be honest with you, I was thinking, if I got 70 quid for it, erm, I think you're not going to be far off on that and I'd be happy at 70 quid.

I'm going to take a chance on it.

MARK: Excellent.

ANITA: Put it there.

BOTH: Thank you very much.

ANITA: Thank you.

..60... VO: Mark has kindly knocked £55 off and Anita has her fifth and final lot for auction.

You're not putting it in your handbag then?

ANITA: No, no.

MARK: OK. ANITA: OK, bye bye.

MARK: Thank you, Anita.

MARK: Thanks now, bye bye.

ANITA: Bye.

VO: Anita's done but Philip has one last opportunity to shop.

VO: In Cockermouth, not far from the River Cocker, is Castle Antiques and Curios.

Philip has just under £180 left to spend.

Dealer Mat knows all about Phil's wily ways as he's had pleasure of his custom on a previous road trip.

Mat, how are you?

Hi, Phil.

Lovely to see you again, how's tricks?

You busy?

Yeah, yeah, not bad.

I'll just tell you, stop you straightaway...

I'm not giving the game away here but my hero.

MAT: Leonard, yeah.

PHIL: I'm a massive Star Trek fan.

Could be the thing for you then.

Live long and hopefully prosper.

Yeah.

PHIL: Can we just have a look at him?

MAT: Yeah, sure.

The man's a legend, isn't he?

Leonard Nimoy just recently died, didn't he?

He did.

Not too long ago.

Ah, look, the man is so cool.

In all seriousness, this is what, 1980s?

This would have been - just to show my Trekkie knowledge here - this would have been The Journey Home, The Wrath Of Khan, that would've come out with that series, wouldn't it?

MAT: That period.

PHIL: Yeah.

So how much is that, Matt?

Er, £15.

Do you know what, I'm not even going to bid you for that, Matt.

Got my hero, look... Mr... Hello Spocky.

VO: Lordy, that was quick!

He's boldly gone and bought it.

He didn't even try to haggle.

That's a Road Trip first for Serrell.

I think Anita is absolutely gonna love Mr Spock because... Mr Spock has got... AS ANITA: ..a nice wee brooch.

VO: Ha-ha.

Cheeky.

He may've bought a tatty piece of cardboard rather than an antique, but I've never seen Philip so happy.

Do you reckon James T Kirk had a bit of a fling with Uhura or not?

VO: Lordy!

PHIL: Mat, you've been a star.

MAT: Yeah.

PHIL: Thanks very much indeed.

MAT: No problem.

VO: Phil leaves Cockermouth with a 1980s cardboard Spock for £15.

Thank you once again very much indeed.

Thank you.

Come on Spock, we've got to go and see if we can find the Enterprise, my friend.

It's parked around here somewhere.

VO: Let's remind ourselves who bought what.

Philip parted with £305 for a pair of German-army-issue binoculars, a mahogany table, two brass portholes, an oak gateleg table, a cold-painted bronze stag, and a cardboard Mr Spock.

What a mixture.

While Anita lavished £204 on a magazine rack, a pillbox, an inkwell, a local plaque and a Victorian book press.

What do they make of each other's buys?

Philip is a furniture man.

He has to buy furniture.

But he might not make any profit on them.

The lot that worries me more than any is that footballer because he could just turn out to be a match winner.

Everybody's a Trekkie!

£15 for all that fun.

That's a bargain.

I just think it's all about... live long and prosper, Jim.

VO: Tim, not Jim.

Ha!

After setting off from Castle Douglas, our pair will now boldly go where experts have been before.

Not the final frontier, but auction just outside Kendal, in the village of Crooklands.

VO: Hey, Fiat's back.

I'm so pleased that we're back in our own wee car again.

Are you not happy about that?

PHIL: No.

ANITA: (LAUGHS) VO: Not impressed with the car, eh Philip?

Well, Anita's in awe of your buying.

You haven't played it safe.

You've gone out there, you've spent money, you've bought big, you've scattered your cash.

Well, the thing is, I was £100-plus in front of you.

I think I've spent £100 more than you.

You know, we could end up neck and neck at the end of this.

Oh, we could.

VO: It's certainly a close one.

Crooklands is located on the Lancaster Canal, once used to transport coal from one northern town to another.

Today's sale is at Eighteen Eighteen Auctioneers.

ANITA: Our very, very last auction.

PHIL: Terribly sad.

Now, I might need some help getting out of here.

Urgh!

Hang on, darling, I'll give you a wee hand.

PHIL: Gordon Bennett!

ANITA: Aw!

Do you want a piggyback?

(LAUGHS) I think I'd probably break your back.

VO: One of the auctioneers here is young Rob Kerr.

Your thoughts, please.

I think the book press should do really well.

I like that piece a lot.

A piece that may struggle, you're probably looking at the furniture, especially the gateleg table.

VO: It's a big sale day so young Rob will be on the rostrum a little later.

For now, old hand Kevin Kendal is wielding the gavel.

Last auction.

Oh, yeah, it is.

Aw.

Good luck, Phil.

And to you too, and to you too.

20?

VO: First to go today is Anita's pillbox.

Start me at 30 then for a quick start?

£30 thank you.

30 to start.

Straight into profit, isn't it?

35.

38.

40 now.

Come on.

40.

40.

42.

45.

48.

50.

Five.

60.

£60 in the center.

£60, we all done this time?

At 60...

Yes!

That's bang on the money, isn't it?

ANITA: Yes!

PHIL: Isn't it?

VO: She's happy, more than tripling her money from the off.

What a great start.

Have I got you worried?

Are you worried?

Are you worried?

Yeah, yeah.

VO: Next, Philip's German military binoculars.

Start me £20 then?

£20, thank you sir.

£20... 20, you're away.

You're away, Phil.

22.

25.

28.

30.

£30 now.

30 in the room.

I'm selling.

All done at 30?

VO: Philip's first profit.

Albeit a small one.

They all count.

PHIL: So after commission... ANITA: You haven't ANITA: lost any money.

PHIL: No.

VO: Now the turn of Anita's magazine rack.

£10 thank you.

£10 bid.

10, 12.

15.

£15 now.

£15.

18.

20.

£20.

I'm going to sell, are we all done?

At 20... VO: Another profit.

I am not quite snapping at your heels but I'm... VO: Now, Philip's favorite buy, his cardboard Spock.

£20 start me then?

Bit of fun.

£20... VO: Hmm, tough crowd.

Start me at 10 then if you like.

10, only £10 for a legend.

VO: Where are the Trekkies?

£10?

£10, thank you.

Yes, we're away, we're away.

£10 bid only.

I feel like being beamed up now.

£10 bid.

All done this time, then?

All done at 10... VO: Oh, bad luck Philip.

Oh Philip.

VO: Now it's Anita's local commemorative plaque.

£30, thank you.

£30 on the internet.

30 on the internet.

£30 bid.

32.

It's struggling, Phil.

38 now.

38.

£40 now on the internet.

40 bid.

There is interest on the internet.

£40, I'm selling to the internet buyer then.

Have you all done this time?

At 40... VO: Bad luck Anita.

Your first loss.

Stop smiling.

Sorry.

VO: Philip's big buy is next.

His stag set him back quite a bit.

KEVIN: I have got interest... ANITA: Yes, yes.

I'm gonna start the bidding with me at £50 only.

That's not bad.

50 bid, five, 60, five, 70, five.

Telephone.

Phil, Phil...

I'll take five.

95.

100.

Have to be 10 now.

110 now.

110.

110 on the telephone.

Have you all done at 110?

VO: A small loss after costs.

But he's just about got away with it.

You got someone on the phone, you're always thinking, "I wonder how far he might've gone."

Yeah.

VO: Huh.

Next up, Anita's book press.

KEVIN: I have got interest.

PHIL: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Start the bidding with me at £30.

£30 bid.

32.

35.

A piece of industrial history.

35, eight on the net, 38.

40.

£40 bid now.

42.

48 on the net.

£50 on commission now.

55.

60.

60!

£60 bid now.

60 bid.

60 bid.

65 in the room.

65.

New bidder in the room now.

65.

70.

KEVIN: Five.

ANITA: Yes!

KEVIN: 75.

ANITA: Yes!

75.

75.

80.

ANITA: Yes!

KEVIN: 85.

Yes!

We all done this time at 85?

You're still in it.

I am very, very... happy.

(LAUGHTER) VO: Ha-ha.

Philip... not so happy.

Well done, Anita, another profit sees you streaking ahead.

The money doesn't matter.

I just feel... Can I just say something to you?

ANITA: What?

PHIL: It does.

VO: Yes, it does!

Will Philip's luck change with the start of Rob's shift?

The first of his two tables is next.

Start me £70 for it, please.

£70?

70?

30 will go then.

£30... VO: Oh dear, Philip.

Thank you very much, madam.

ROB: £30 bid.

ANITA: 30, 30.

You're all out in the room otherwise.

ROB: £30 maiden bid.

PHIL: That is so so cheap, PHIL: isn't it?

ROB: I'll sell at 30.

VO: That's Philip's third loss today.

VO: Now it's Anita's inkwell.

Can it score her another profit?

And I have commission interest, so it's with me at £38.

£38 bid on commission.

40, two, five, eight, 50.

Commission is done.

£50 in the room.

Good.

Any further interest?

I will sell at the 50.

All done?

I'm happy at that.

VO: And so you should be - it helps further increase your lead.

This is going to be a lot closer... ..than I'd like it to be, I think.

VO: Yeah, there's still only a few pounds in it at the moment and your second table is up now.

£30?

£30 someone?

They are not liking it, Philip.

20 then?

£20, thank you sir.

20 bid.

22.

25.

28.

Somebody's holding a bid.

28, if there's no further interest?

Ah!

VO: This all helps Anita catch up, you know.

I think I should probably stay away from furniture.

Yeah.

VO: Philip's portholes are our pair's final lot.

A big loss here may decide our Road Trip winner.

Start me £40 please?

No interest?

30 then.

30 for a start please?

Oh no.

20 then I'll take.

Oh Philip!

ROB: Thank you madam, £20.

ANITA: Philip!

That is for nothing, really.

ROB: Interest online now, at 22.

ANITA: Philip!

25.

Fresh bidder, thank you sir.

28.

Is it 30 madam?

Selling at £30.

Am I still in with a chance?

If no further?

VO: Well this makes for an exciting finale, eh?

VO: Is it possible Anita has pipped him at the post?

Let's go and do the sums.

I think this is going to be quite close.

Yes!

VO: After five incredible auctions, the results are in.

Anita started with £294.24.

After auction costs she made a profit of £5.10 - ha!

Meaning she ends the week with £299.34.

Philip set out with £469.58.

After fees he made a loss of £109.84, meaning his grand total is £359.74.

Although Anita's won this leg, Philip's crowned this week's Road Trip winner.

And all profits from the series go to Children In Need.

The thing is, Philip, I made up a little bit but you've still come out really well.

So, congratulations, darling.

It has been a good old week, hasn't it?

You're driving.

It's been fabulous.

Well done you.

You're driving, my love.

Off we go.

I'm never gonna wash that cheek again.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: There's just one last journey to make - it's down memory lane.

MUSIC: "Nut Rocker" by B Bumble & The Stingers VO: It's been a fun old Road Trip.

You've got to be careful when Phil Serrell's about.

Oh!

Try to keep your eye on the road, Phil.

VO: With some big, big wins.

That will make a fantastic bog-roll holder.

VO: And a few bruising blows.

I wonder if I could give Phil Serrell a hammering with that.

VO: But what a week they've had.

If I was going to buy a classic car, I'm not sure that I would buy one of these.

ANITA: Forward MacDuff.

And you're a lot better looking than Phil Serrell.

Thank you very, very much.

VO: So long, you two.

Next time, a brand-new pairing hit the roads of Ireland.

Well done.

VO: Christina Trevanion's in paradise.

I think it's the most beautiful antiques shop I've ever been in.

VO: And Thomas Plant's in trouble!

I just pulled it down and it locked!

DEALER: Now you've broken it.

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