

Anita Manning and Philip Serrell, Day 3
Season 5 Episode 13 | 44m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Anita Manning and Philip Serrell visit the Dales and make the most of its racing history.
Anita Manning and Philip Serrell get the bit between their teeth as they head through the Dales and make the most of its horse racing history.
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Anita Manning and Philip Serrell, Day 3
Season 5 Episode 13 | 44m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Anita Manning and Philip Serrell get the bit between their teeth as they head through the Dales and make the most of its horse racing history.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipVO: It's the nation's favorite antiques experts, with £200 each, a classic car and a goal to scour Britain for antiques.
That hurts.
Have I got it the right way up?
VO: The aim?
To make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.
There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.
I look like the Mad Hatter.
VO: So will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?
I'm only in this program to be Anita Manning's chauffeur.
VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip!
Yeah!
On this week's road trip, we're on country roads in a lovely 1965 Sunbeam Alpine, together with two auctioneers - Philip Serrell and Anita Manning.
ANITA (AM): I keep forgetting that you're a country boy, because I always thought that you were a sort of sophisticated city type.
PHILIP (PS): Oh no, there's absolutely nothing sophisticated about me.
Go Phil!
VO: Philip from Worcester has a bluff exterior which conceals... er, well, a bluff interior.
He does have his uses though.
PS: Look at the little sheepie-deepies.
AM: Aw.
Young sheep have different names in different parts of the world.
AM: There's one in there called 17.
VO: Anita from Glasgow is a thoroughly metropolitan sort but she loves the countryside too.
Oh look at that big... Oh, I thought that was a big boulder.
No, that is a silage bale, Anita.
VO: So far, Anita's bought several shiny sophisticated pieces, as well as a thoroughly rustic coffin carrier.
Could it be a moment of madness?
VO: She began with £200 and has £265.60 to spend today.
Phil's put his faith in a big lump of cast iron, but also bought several more traditional items, plus he's developed a surprising interest in sewing.
PS: I just think that's a really lovely thing.
VO: He also began with £200 and has the lead, with £344.70 at his disposal.
He's still not exactly happy though.
I've been and bought really predictable old-fashioned antiques.
I haven't done me daft trick yet.
AM: (LAUGHS) VO: This week's road trip starts out at Ford in Northumberland and ventures into Scotland, before winding its way southwards once more and concluding at Harrogate in Yorkshire.
Our latest installments begins in the Dales at Middleham and heads for the Lake District before an auction at Penrith in Cumbria.
VO: They call Middleham the Newmarket of the North, and horseracing is by far the biggest employer in the town.
Several major trainers are based here.
The first one arrived back in 1765.
AM: We parking there?
PS: Why not?
That's a good place.
I think that's a wide enough gap.
AM: Watch it!
Oh!
What's your plan?
I'm going to go round with a brush and a shovel, right, and I'm going to get bags of horse muck for roses, right, take it to the auction, it'll sell.
VO: Well, some might say that's not unlike what you usually do Phil, but I'm sure Middleham can offer more - much more.
Hmm - as I thought, a very nice shop.
Angela keeps it packed to the gunwales too.
Nothing obviously Serrellesque though.
Isn't that just a little child's tabletop sewing machine?
I think that's really sweet.
VO: Ah, of course - sewing.
What's your ticket price on that?
It would have to be 75.
I like that.
VO: And what's that?
So this is a cartridge filler, isn't it?
ANGELA: Yeah.
VO: Ah, OK. That cramps onto a table, doesn't it?
ANGELA: Yes, yes.
PS: OK. You put your cartridge in there... You put your cartridge in there, and this is for a 12 gage or 12 bore.
PS: Cuz it's got a 12 on it.
ANGELA: Yes, yes.
PS: How much is that one?
ANGELA: I said 35, didn't I?
PS: That's 35 ticket price.
ANGELA: Yes, yes.
And how much is this one?
25.
VO: Some devices for filling shotgun cartridges and a Victorian sewing machine.
Well I've given you top prices on them.
PS: You've given me top prices?
ANGELA: Yes, yes.
VO: Now, I think the expression is "brass tacks".
There is room for movement, but I won't move that much.
I've got to try and buy those two I think for like 25, 30 quid.
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
No way on this Earth.
What would you come for those then?
No, I want at least 45 for them.
And what about the sewing machine?
I'll do it for 40.
35 quid on that.
38 and you've got it.
Can you go any better than 38?
37.
And what's the very best on those two?
It has to be 40.
So those have got to be 40.
Yeah.
Look, I'll do 35... 35, that's... 35 - that's 75.
For the lot.
VO: Er... are we following this?
PS: So you do 35 on that, 40 on them, is that what we're saying?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to buy one of them, and how much for just that one and how much for just that one?
VO: What's he up to here?
ANGELA: 18.
PS: 22?
ANGELA: Yeah.
PS: I'm gonna have that.
ANGELA: Right.
PS: OK?
PS: For sure, cuz I like that.
ANGELA: Yeah.
So this is 22, that's 37.
Yeah.
Which, add the two together, is... 59.
VO: Well, I'm feeling as bamboozled as Angela.
Would 55 the two be any good?
ANGELA: No.
PS: OK. Go on, tell me what's the best you can do.
I'll have them both.
Help me out.
Best you can do.
ANGELA: Two off.
PS: 57 quid.
Yeah.
OK.
I'll have them both please.
Right.
VO: (WHISTLES) Sewing machine and cartridge filler for 57 - I think.
You haven't got any headache tablets, have you?
I might have, paracetamol, yeah.
Bring the bottle.
VO: Well, I think we could all do with some of those after that, Philip.
Now, where's Anita?
Hello!
I'm Anita!
Hello Anita.
Can I have a wee look around?
Oh please do.
VO: Richard's shop is a great mix of antiques and collectables - plenty of nods to the equine too, which, in this town, is hardly surprising.
This is the winner of the Lincoln in 1937, and this is the horse, Marmaduke Jinks.
Marmaduke Jinks!
DEALER: What a great name!
AM: It is!
VO: Marmaduke Jinks achieved immortality when its name was used along with other past winners of the Lincoln in the classic 1930s Totopoly board game.
No mention of price yet, but I'm not convinced Anita wants to buy Mr Jinks.
Keep looking, Richard.
I know these things aren't old but they're big, showy pieces, aren't they?
DEALER: They are.
Possibly Indian.
AM: Possibly Indian, aha.
Turquoise is nice.
Yeah, turquoise is very popular, isn't it?
Aha.
VO: The ticket price on those is £35 each.
If I was buying the two of them, what sort of price could you do them for?
I can let you have both of those for £2.
I can't...
I can't go wrong on that.
VO: Blimey - £2!
Good.
OK. That's a deal.
DEALER: OK, lovely.
AM: Thank you very, very much.
VO: A deal?!
I should think so, Anita, it's a gift!
You've got a real friend there.
Just round the corner, Phil's on the prowl.
Is it just me or has the wily old fox got a sniff of something?
And I don't mean manure.
I've been to Middleham many times before, and I know that behind these houses there are racing stables.
I'm going to see if I can knock on a door and buy something just a bit horsey.
VO: The Glasgow House Yard is one of the oldest in Middleham, dating back to 1800.
It currently belongs to the Fairhursts - Chris and Judy.
Fingers crossed.
Hi.
Hi, I'm Philip.
How are you?
Hi.
You train racehorses?
We do.
I want to buy something off you, but I don't know what yet.
Have you got any old blankets, rugs?
They might be a bit past their sell-by date.
PS: Really?
JUDY: Yeah.
You got any silks?
Old silks?
Yeah, we might have some old silks.
Yeah.
Really?
You know, you can have a look up in the saddle room if you want and see if there's anything up there that you might be able to sell.
Actually, that's what I should be asking you for, is a tip.
We're racing today actually.
PS: Where?
JUDY: At Newcastle.
PS: And it's called?
JUDY: Tigerino.
VO: Well, he's certainly got his hoof in the door - tips and goodness knows what else.
These are old.
Are those old?
Father will have had these before us, yeah!
PS: Really?
JUDY: Chris's father, yeah.
This is obviously a newer one.
Has that got your own...?
It's got our... yeah.
PS: Oh-ho, look at that!
OK, that's a starting point, isn't it?
How much would a saddle cost?
Don't worry, I don't want to buy one.
Would that be £1,000?
Well they're there.
I mean, those there, we can't give them away.
You probably COULD give one away!
(CHUCKLES) We'll throw it in with the rug, yeah!
No, no, no, up for that.
Why can't you give them away?
Because the trees have probably gone on those.
The tree being the spine of the saddle?
Yeah, exactly.
Some of these are just... Oh I think that's lovely leather.
It is, it's good leather.
And you can't give that away?
No, no.
We wouldn't be able to give that away.
I'll give you 20 quid for the two, that's me best shot.
Go on.
30.
Get out of here!
You've got a saddle you can't give away... That we have to replace.
I don't like the sound of that.
But I do like the sound of negotiating on the price of something you can't give away.
So is that worth... five or 10 quid?
If you can't give them away.
10.
Go on, you got a deal.
You're an angel, thank you very much my love.
If this goes and makes a profit, you'll have half the Yorkshire Dales coming back in here trying to buy them off you!
Thank you very much indeed, you've been really kind.
You're welcome.
And what was it called?
PS: Tigeroni?
JUDY: Tigerino.
Tigerino at Newcastle tonight, write that down.
VO: Not bad, eh?
A tip too.
Hope I've got a winner.
VO: That worthless old saddle might just have become an important part in Serrell's country collection.
Now, what's Anita horsing around with?
AM: Feature win!
Yes!
(MACHINE BLEEPS) DEALER: There you go!
What have I got?
£300?
You're a gambler, I see!
You've lost!
I've lost - oh no!
Is this an omen?!
What age is this?
Oh, it's not very old actually.
It's probably '70s, '80s.
VO: But it's in full working order - a ticket price of £100 though.
Nudge?
Hold?
Nudge?
What?
I want to buy it, but I can only buy it if it's really, really, really, really, really, really, really cheap.
Would you miss it if it went?
I'll let you have it for £10.
You can't turn it down for that.
Aw!
Give me a kiss!
VO: Jackpot.
I think.
That's the best deal in the world!
VO: 90% off this time - huh!
Richard seems to have an everything must go policy for Anita.
He's happy enough though, and she's not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Now she's after his Jaguar mascot.
DEALER: I think this one's had a bit of weathering.
Aha.
It's got a bit of pitting on it.
Yes.
Taking into consideration the condition, erm, is there... Would you be able to do a deal on that?
I'll have a look for you Anita.
See what we can do.
VO: The asking price is £65, but what's the betting that'll come down, eh?
Anita, I think I can do that for £20 for you.
Oh, can I kiss you again?
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Well, it was hardly a spending spree, but three lots with a combined ticket price of 235, bagged for just £32 - unbelievable.
Phil, meanwhile, has made his way to another corner of Wensleydale, traveling a few short miles from Middleham to Masham.
Just like its neighbor, this ancient town is famous for livestock, though here it's not horses but sheep that count.
Monks from the nearby abbeys used to bring their beasts to the local sheep fair, but it's not the only thing Masham is now known for, as Phil is about to find out.
This is Theakston's, brewing beer since 1827.
Simon, how are you?
Very nice to see you, welcome.
Do you know, I've been dreading coming here, because clearly someone with a frame like this has no interest in alcohol at all (!)
SIMON: Absolutely not Phil.
PS: You know, but now I'm here, I may as well have a look round really I suppose, hadn't I?
VO: Beer making isn't that complicated, which is why it's thought to be our oldest fermented beverage.
The ancient Mesopotamians even had a beer goddess, but brewing to a consistently high standard is a great secret, and in Masham it all started with the landlord of the Black Bull.
Robert Theakston, my great-great-grandfather, was particularly good at brewing beer - he was a very fussy, details man, and when you make beer, you have to be really, really fussy and very detailed.
And as his popularity grew, so other licensees asked him to brew beer for them as well.
VO: Unlike some, this company doesn't believe in change for change's sake, so most of the equipment here is pretty low-tech, like the 100-year-old barley mill.
SIMON: We use electric motors nowadays to drive it, but these wheels and the gears are the originals.
PS: You could modernize this process quite easily.
SIMON: Oh yes.
PS: But you'd lose the taste.
That is so therapeutic, isn't it?
Just to watch that.
And the smell, it's just absolutely lovely, it really is.
VO: Once the barley's been crushed, it ends up in the mash tub below, where the starch is washed out and converted into sugar.
So how long has this been here?
SIMON: This was installed when the brewery was built in 1875.
So that's older than the old shaker?
Yeah, the wooden lid has been replaced from time to time but the metalwork is still the original and certainly inside.
Really?
That's absolutely unchanged.
And what's this made of?
That's cast iron.
It's very heavy and very thick, so it'll last out my lifetime anyway.
You could have been describing me then!
VO: Next, the sugar is infused with hops in the copper, and once the yeast is added, the fermentation starts.
So this is the last bit of the process, really?
Pretty much, yes.
You know what I love about looking at this here?
You can just see this yeast moving, can't you?
Well that's actually carbon dioxide.
That's carbon dioxide.
It would make a great Bond set, this, you can just see the villain lowering... Drowned in a vat of booze - what a way to go!
VO: Something else that makes this brewery unusual - or should that be peculiar?
- is Jonathan, their cooper.
One of only two of his kind in the country, Jonathan makes the wooden casks for the ale.
Why do you not use plastic barrels or tin barrels or... Are you insulting me now?
No, no, no, no.
No, cuz you're too big to insult.
With the wooden cask, you've got an inch and a quarter thickness of timber, which is there to insulate the beer and make the beer the best quality it can be when it reaches the pubs.
VO: Like all great craftsmen, Jonathan makes making a barrel look as easy as shooting fish in one - ha!
- but I'm sure he can pass on a few tips to a keen amateur like Phil.
How often do you have to sharpen that?
Whenever it gets blunt.
PS: Ask a bloody fool question, you get a damn fool answer, don't you?
You could do an instant self-vasectomy doing this, couldn't you?
That is what we're going to do next.
This might take some time.
Sod it.
What is that?!
This is what we call a bar.
Knock it down.
I'm trying to knock it down, Jonathan!
You ever had a problem getting your knocker up in the bunghole?
Ooh, you just watch what you're doing with that!
Lift off.
PS: Oh, look at that.
JONATHAN: There we go.
That's fantastic, isn't it?
VO: Well I think we can say with some certainty that he didn't do well, but Phil being Phil, he's seen an opportunity.
What I think would be quite good...
If I bought one this size and cut it into two and had a pair of planters out of it, what would you sell those for?
Well, we don't normally like to sell casks Phil, because they're very much for our customers, for beer in.
I'm sure we could find an old one, Simon.
I'm sure we could.
What's the best you can do me for?
Well, I think we could probably manage to do £22.
You're a gentleman and a scholar.
Thank you very much.
And can I just thank you?
VO: Well done Phil.
Now, try to lift them up a bit higher - we don't want to scrape the bottom, do we?
Back in Middleham, Anita has another shop in her sights - the same one the old fox graced earlier.
Hello-oh?
Hello?
Angela?
It's lovely to see you again.
You're looking well.
VO: Yes, those two have previous.
Last year, Anita bought a horse-measuring stick from Angela, and it did rather well at auction.
VO: Phil may have got here first today, but there's really plenty of bargains to go around.
Anything that takes me fancy, anything old, interesting and dead... AM: Is that right?
ANGELA: I don't have to feed it!
VO: What'll it be though?
Ah, of course - she rarely misses an opportunity to hat up.
ANGELA: There's that one, and this one on the rack.
Put it on, put it on!
AM: We're a couple of swells!
ANGELA: Swells!
(THEY LAUGH) This isn't my best look.
That would look better on, I think.
It's a tighter fit, it's an older one I would say, that.
Oh, that's much smarter, especially if you had your fishnets on.
You could do a kind of juggling act.
You could do all sorts.
What is that thing they do... ?
Cabaret.
Yeah, ooh my goodness!
I look like the Mad Hatter!
VO: Er, lovely now, but what about the cost of those hats?
Well, ticket price on the black one is £48 and it's £85 for either of the modern ones.
What I'm looking to pay on a top hat, to sell it in auction, is probably between 20 and £25.
No.
No way.
It would have to be a bit more than that.
Just a bit more.
At 30 I might have a chance, Angela.
ANGELA: Yep.
AM: At 30 I'll have a chance.
ANGELA: I'm willing at 30, yeah.
AM: You're willing at 30?
Yeah.
Now, is there any chance the two of those for 40?
AM: Two for 40?
ANGELA: No.
50.
See if you come down a wee bit, it would give me a better chance.
I know, but really, I'm sticking at that.
I mean, I like that one.
I like that one.
ANGELA: The shape...
I mean, it's a Victorian one that, ANGELA: Definite Victorian one.
AM: Yeah.
Yeah.
What did I say, 50?
I'd do those two for 45.
The black one and the gray one.
AM: Could you do them for... ANGELA: No, that's the death.
AM: 45?
ANGELA: 45 yes.
ANGELA: That's the death.
AM: Could you do 42?
Do 42.
It'll give me that wee bit of a chance.
Go on then.
I'll give you the 42, yes, I can manage three.
AM: 42?
ANGELA: Yeah.
42.
Right, you put on that, I'll put on this, you put on this.
Yeah, right-o.
I wish... AM: And we'll shake on 42.
ANGELA: Right.
Right, thank you!
VO: Hats off to Anita and poor Angela, eh?
Phil too.
What a day it's been in Wensleydale.
AM: Cheese - we haven't had any cheese!
VO: Go on, treat yourselves.
Night-night.
It's a new day in the Dales, and Phil is taking a new approach to the road trip.
AM: Phil, can you go backwards?
PS: Yeah.
AM: Careful, careful, careful!
(COW MOOS) VO: Yesterday, Anita picked up some bargain bangles, a bargain car mascot, a bargain slot machine and two toppers.
All that came to a mere £74, leaving her with £191.60 to splurge.
BOTH: # We're a couple of swells!
# VO: While Phil acquiring a sewing machine, a cartridge filler, two barrel planters and an old saddle for a total of £89, leaving him with £255.70 to spend, and he's certainly itching.
I do wanna try and take the band off the bundle.
You want to try and what?!
Take the band off the bundle!
Oh, you want to spend money?
Yeah, absolutely right.
VO: They're heading for an auction in Penrith.
Next stop, Kendal, gateway to the Lakes.
What I particularly like is the way they've got this scaffolding erected there.
That's right, is that very Lake District?
It is, very, very Lake District, quite a nice feature that.
VO: If yesterday was all about cheese and beer, today it's mint cake.
Apparently invented by mistake, the confectionery is a favorite snack of walkers and climbers, and Kendal's most famous export.
Our two are making for their first shop, but there does seem to be some disagreement as to exactly where it is.
No, that's the hairdresser's.
VO: Now, it looks like Phil's being tempted elsewhere.
He's chatting to a guy up there.
So you reckon there's another good place to go?
Yes, there is.
They're on Dockray, in Kendal.
Right.
You go over the bridge.
Up there?
They're gesticulating wildly!
Over there... Over the bridge, first turning on the right, down by the side of the river.
There's an industrial site, and it's there.
VO: OK, so Phil's off to the industrial estate - I do hope he doesn't regret it - while Anita sticks with the plan.
Good morning!
Good morning!
I'm Anita.
I'm Robert.
What a wonderful place Robert!
VO: In Robert's shop, there's plenty of room for his specialty of watches and clocks, but there's also so much more, including free mint cake.
There we are.
Oh!
The pack full of energy.
Yes.
Phil doesn't know what he's missing in this shop.
There is such a variety of everything that you could wish for.
This is the type of shop that Phil Serrell loves!
VO: Oh dear.
Well this definitely isn't an Anita sort of place - a load of furniture, some of it old, but quite a lot, erm, well, more modern.
What can Phil come up with?
Now you can often tell more about something by looking at the back of it than you can by looking at the front.
This looks like an interesting, sort of art-nouveau display cabinet.
What you can see about it, looking, is that we've got some new posidrive screws in here... ..which, to the best of my knowledge, weren't greatly used in the art-nouveau period.
VO: I think our Phil is feeling a little down in the dumps.
Remember that hot tip he got?
Finished sixth.
Planter.
Not sure how old it is, but looks like it's sort of trying to be around 1890, 1900, but it could well be a lot later than that.
This is 12 quid.
If I can get that for a good bit less than that, that'll go with my barrel planters that I've got, so that's worth me looking at.
VO: Now it looks like Phil's talking to himself.
In fact, the dealer's a bit shy.
I wouldn't mind a bit of discount if we can talk about that?
How much is on it?
It's got 12 quid on it.
£10 to you.
You're all heart, you (!)
VO: Seems a tenner is as low as he'll go.
Mr Generous he is!
I can see why he don't want to be seen, look.
And that's it, finished.
That is it.
Go on, I'll buy it off you.
Cuz I think it's a bit of fun, actually.
VO: Good gracious - what's Anita unearthed?
DEALER: A ball and chain, Anita.
VO: (GIGGLES) Well, that wouldn't have been an obvious choice.
DEALER: Very, very heavy, do take care.
To lift it?
We think it's a horse one rather than one for a man.
That would keep a man where you would want him.
Yes, yes.
VO: I can't help wondering if Anita's been spending too much time with Phil, you know.
Have you had it for long?
My brother bought it about... 50 years ago!
Not quite that long ago, two or three years ago now.
So you've had it for a couple of years?
Yes.
And it's not made of 18 karat gold?
No, it's cast iron.
AM: It's probably quite handy as a doorstop.
DEALER: Yes!
How much is it?
To you, £50.
Could I buy that from you for around about £20?
Could we do a deal at 25 on it?
At 25?
Yes.
Could we come to sort of halfway?
Say 22.
Oh, go on then.
We have a deal.
Oh, you're a darling.
AM: Thanks very much.
DEALER: Thank you.
VO: Oh yes, and one other thing you didn't know about Kendal - all that mint cake has some surprising side effects.
Could you help a lady in distress?
Is your back alright?
Yes.
Alright - aw, aw, aw!
Where are we gonna put it - in there?
Just in the middle!
Aw!
What a team!
How's that for a team?
Thank you.
Let me feel those muscles!
Oh, Superman!
VO: Will Phil notice that the front wheels are barely touching the road?
VO: Right, onwards they press, through the Lakes to Low Newton.
Could this be where Phil finally debands his bundle?
AM: Architectural antiques!
PS: That'll be good.
AM: Big things!
Big, big, big, big things.
Righty ho, see you later on.
VO: Yes, this is a perfect Serrell hunting ground, a sort of reclamation heaven, full of what Phil would no doubt call big old lumps.
Plenty inside, but Phil's clearly feeling the lure of the lump dragging him towards the yard.
PS: I quite like these.
There's three of them.
I wouldn't want three.
That's one's got the filling on the tops broken.
That one's got a bit of damage down there.
I think actually that's the one for me.
VO: Time to consult Clive and Pip on those.
Those things there - they almost sort of look like lead dovecots or something, don't they?
CLIVE: Mm, they do.
What are they?
Well they're air vents, aren't they, from a... PS: A stable.
CLIVE: A stable block, yes.
Not far from being completely useless, aren't they?
Absolutely, but a thing of beauty.
So I might be bonkers buying that, mightn't I?
You could be just the man to make a profit on those!
What he means is I'm bonkers.
VO: Yes - and he would have a point.
What have you got them priced up at?
They're 195 apiece.
Hmm.
See, I think they're like 60 to 90 quid's worth, that's what I think.
What might be your best on those?
I'd like to think I could get £95.
Alright, well let's have a think, and let's see if we can put a parcel together - that might be the way forward, mightn't it?
VO: Seems Phil is taking his unique definition of antiques to an entirely new level.
Lordy.
Now, is there anything crazier here?
What's that cowling off?
Well, it came off an old chicken house.
At one point it would have actually rotated, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seized up long ago.
But it's a quirky thing, isn't it?
PS: And how much is that?
CLIVE: £40.
I'm warming to the task now, because that is daft, isn't it?
Proper daft.
So this... well, it's an air vent, isn't it?
Yeah, for venting a roof where there'd be animals in.
So it wouldn't just be letting air in, it'd be letting... CLIVE: Air out.
PS: Absolutely right, yeah!
VO: Well, it sort of fits in with yesterday's manure scheme, anyway.
Let's go and have another look round, then.
VO: But has he gone just too far this time?
What's that?
VO: Looks fascinating.
It's an early frame rucksack.
And that'll be sort of 1910, 1914, won't it?
VO: Ticket price £75.
Put your arms through it.
This is where I knock everything flying.
Have I got it the right way up?
Yeah.
Made for a smaller man than you, Philip.
Yeah - that's most folk!
So that's a rucksack.
That's it.
And then you carry, you strap your load to the back of that, and it's comfortable... Let me have a look at the back, I'll just have a look at the back... !
What's your best on that?
£30.
There we go.
Can I buy the two air vents and this for 140 quid?
No, but they could be 145.
Gentleman.
You're a gentleman.
It's bonkers, isn't it?
VO: Blimey - he's actually bought them.
Now, a quick bite of mint cake Phil, and off you hike in search of Anita.
What does he look like, eh?
Now Anita has traveled the five miles from Low Newton to Cark, bless 'er.
Anita's now off to Holker Hall.
The magnificent red sandstone mansion was once described by Pevsner, the famous architectural historian, as the best Elizabethan gothic house in the north of England.
Hello.
Hello Anita, welcome to Holker Hall, how nice to see you.
Oh Myra, I'm so looking forward to seeing the hall.
Well, come along and I'll show you round.
AM: Thank you.
MYRA: OK. VO: According to guide Myra, there's been a house at Holker since 1604, but much about the present building is down to one William Cavendish, who inherited it in 1834.
He acquired the much grander Chatsworth House when he became Duke of Devonshire a few years later, but continued to spend his time and money at comfortable Holker.
MYRA: This is our library.
Beautiful room.
AM: It's wonderful.
Wonderful.
The seventh duke was a fascinating man.
What sort of influence did he have in this area?
I think he had a great influence in the area.
He supplied a lot of work to people.
Railways were starting to come into the country in the 1840s, and he was instrumental in bringing the railways to this area, and then Barrow-in-Furness was a very tiny village in those days.
He started the shipbuilding there, and in the... oh, the late 1800s, the first British submarine was built in the place that William really had created.
VO: But disaster struck the Cavendishes when, in 1871, a fire at Holker destroyed the entire west wing.
However, with typical Victorian verve, the duke immediately set about rebuilding, and within four years a fine new west wing had sprung up.
MYRA: This is the main entrance hall.
AM: Very splendid.
I think the duke wanted to build rather grander than had been here before.
But it's on the foundations of the old wing, but rather bigger, rather more lofty.
VO: Over by the fireplace, there's a little reminder of the old building.
The day after the fire, the family came in to look at the devastation and there was, I think, a marble vase on a plinth that looked whole, and one of the people just touched it and it absolutely crumbled to pieces, so they incorporated it when they made the new fireplace - can you see the little colored pieces?
AM: I see.
So it's a lovely idea, isn't it?
It is, to bring part of the old Holker Hall...
BOTH: Into the new.
VO: Many of the lost treasures were replaced by paintings, furniture and books from Chatsworth, including works by Henry Cavendish, the 18th century scientist, and another member of one of Britain's richest and most powerful dynasties.
The windows are particularly interesting.
It has all the ducal insignia in there.
You can see the ducal coronet, Seventh Duke of Devonshire William Cavendish, and of course the Cavendish serpent - "Cavendo Tutus."
I think it's "secure by being on guard".
VO: Or even "look before you leap".
(HORN HONKS) VO: Right, time to leave Holker Hall and head for the big reveal - this'll be interesting.
I think you've got together the Turner Prize, Philip.
What on Earth is that?!
I'll just keep... Oh right.
Philip, this looks like a lot of old rubbish.
Tell me, what on Earth is it?
I mean, I know that's a saddle... That saddle actually goes with this rucksack here.
What, is that a rucksack?
That's a very early rucksack, yeah.
This is an arts-and-crafts tin air vent... A what?!
It's an air vent off a coach house.
And I thought it was really, really, cool, and then I thought if you're going to buy one, you may as well buy two.
So what is this?
Another air vent.
In case the first one doesn't work.
And a nice little sewing machine.
Aw, that's lovely, I like that.
Isn't that sweet?
Yeah, that's gorgeous.
And then that over is a cartridge filler.
VO: Ah, two words guaranteed to set her pulse racing.
Now Anita, is honesty the best policy?
It's lovely.
AM: It's all lovely(!)
PS: Yeah.
Well, I think your wee sewing machine is very, very cute.
PS: Yeah.
I think that cartridge filler looks like an old tap, but I'll tell you something - I think this is a work of art.
It's a lovely thing, isn't it?
It's lovely.
Philip, I hope you like my lot as much as I liked your lot.
And this is what I've bought.
This is a ball and chain.
It's a big dod of iron.
You said this lot over here, that I bought, was a load of tat... ..and you bought that.
I couldn't resist it.
I bought it specially for you.
Really?
Thank you for that.
I know what that is.
AM: Aha.
PS: How much was that?
20 quid.
PS: That's alright.
AM: Is that alright?
Yeah.
And what about your bangles?
They are eastern, probably got some silver content in it, a wee bit of turquoise.
Is it your sort of style?
I haven't worn anything like that lately.
You haven't, aha.
Well I only paid two quid for them.
So you've got one, two, three, four.
AM: Aha.
If you like games... PS: Yeah?
..and you like a bit of a punt, well, this is what I bought.
PS: Really?
How much was that?
AM: A tenner.
PS: Well, that's cheap enough.
AM: Aha.
That's got to make 50, 60 quid, hasn't it?
AM: You think so?
Aha.
PS: Yeah, yeah.
Do you think we should go and, er, have a wee go at it?
PS: Yeah.
AM: Come on.
Let's see if we can win a car.
VO: Right girls and boys, what did they really think?
I don't see how she can really lose any money, cuz her top hats were the most expensive and they should do OK, the Jaguar mascot should do OK. the bloomin' manacle - that's a bit dodgy, that.
These... big... metal things have sculptural qualities, and I think people will buy them for their garden.
So although I teased him, I think he might do alright with that lot.
I've gone and spent the thick end of £250.
She's spent just under £100.
So it's going to be an interesting one, this, it really is.
Difficult to call in my view.
VO: After starting out at Middleham in Wensleydale, this part of our trip will conclude at an auction in Penrith, Cumbria.
VO: Just a few miles outside the Lake District National Park, the town is the market center for the region, and at Penrith Farmers' and Kidd's Auctioneers, as well as antiques, they also sell livestock.
They're selling fine ewes and rams today.
Really?
Yeah.
I wonder how all your old junk's going to do.
Get out of here!
VO: But I'm assured they keep the sheep safely apart from the breakables.
So, while everyone takes a much closer look, let's hear what auctioneer Tom Sergeant thinks of Phil and Anita's offerings.
Most things that I would think of interest are going to be anything that's horse-related, any livestock-related items.
There's a stable vent that will have quite a bit of interest.
The horse tether, again for the same reasons.
The top hats, people use them for showjumping etc.
Item that'll do worst, probably, maybe the fruit machine, I think, not much interest in that one I'm afraid.
VO: Anita began with £265.60 and she spent a mere £96 on five auction lots.
VO: Phil started out with £344.70 and he splashed £244 of it, also on five lots.
Kick-off approaches - cue some last minute doubt.
It's just occurred to me - do you think the farmers of Penrith would have much occasion to wear top hats?
They always go milking with top hats round here.
AM: Do they?
PS: Always, yeah.
VO: Yep, everyone's a hatter round here.
(THEY CHUCKLE) Lot 28.
Here we are.
Oh, they look lovely.
TOM: The black moleskin hat and the other gray top hat there.
I have £10 bid, 10 for the two hats.
12, 15, 15, 18, 18, 20, £20, two, 22, 25, 28.
£28 bid, at 28, 30, £30, two, 32, 35, 35, far back at 35.
38, 38, 40, 40 bid, two.
42, 45, 48, 48, 50.
Oh, I'm making a profit.
55, 55, 60.
60 bid.
At 60 at the far back.
That's 60 at the far back.
I thought they'd do that well, didn't you?
£60.
I have to say, I think your model sold them for him!
I know!
I think so!
VO: And quick too - I'm sure he'll have had a few heifers under his hammer in the past.
I've got my real big punt up next, those two air cowls.
Getting nervous?
Yeah.
I've put my neck on the block.
VO: Yes, a unique vent lot.
Anything might happen.
Various bids on this one, I have 110, 120 bid.
AM: Oh!
PS: Got me out of trouble.
At 120 bid, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180.
At 180 bid.
At £180 bid.
At 180 the lot.
At 180, against the room now at 180.
190, 200, 200.
Oh God!
200 bid, 200 and away then, selling, on commission at £200.
Oh, well done Phil, well done.
VO: Well if those can sell, all bets are off.
You like a bit of jeopardy, don't you?
PS: Well, if I can't... AM: You like danger.
Living on the edge, kid.
VO: Next the old beer barrels and the pot from the industrial estate.
15, 18, 20 bid with me.
£20 with me on commission, at 20 bid.
At 20 for the two, and 22, 25, 28, £28 bid, at 30, £30 bid and two.
32, 35, 35, £35 bid.
At 35 for those, at 35.
Are you into profit?
Are you into profit?
Notionally, yeah.
At 38, at the far back then, at 38 and selling at £38.
1452.
That stands me after commission of about a pound.
Every pound counts, darling.
VO: That means Phil's still safely out ahead.
Right, next up is your ball and chain isn't it?
I haven't seen one of them again, but he don't really expect to see them in the middle of Glasgow.
Not too much of a demand in modern society, PS: I don't think.
AM: No, no.
VO: Yes, who WOULD want such a thing?
The Victorian cast iron ball and chain horse tether.
There we are.
TOM: Various bids again.
AM: Lift it up, darling.
£30, two, five, eight, 38.
Bit higher Simon.
40, 40 bid, at 40, two, 42, 45, 48, 50, five, 60, five, 70... AM: Yes.
PS: Well done you.
80, five, 85 bid, 85 that one and away selling at £85.
Good buy isn't it?
AM: Yes.
Not bad, not bad.
PS: Did you expect that?
I had absolutely no idea what it was going to get.
VO: Well there's certainly a demand in Penrith.
Maybe it's because it's a rural area.
Yeah.
VO: The world's oddest rucksack and a broken old saddle.
There's a guy interested.
Lot 82, army issue there, canvas shoulder pack there and also the racing saddle there.
10 bid for those, at 10 bid, 10, 12, £12 bid for those, 15, 18, 18, 20, 20 bid, two, 22, 25, 28...
It's coming on, it's coming on.
32, 35, 38, 40, 40 bid and five, 45, 50, bid five, 55, 60, five, 70, 75.
75, 75 against now, at 75.
75 bid for those, at 75.
75, all done?
That's surprised me.
At £75.
Well done, well done.
75...
Massive relief.
VO: I'll bet he's glad he didn't bring muck now.
Two bangles coming up now, should make 20 quid.
Should they?
15 quid, 12 quid, five quid.
They're nothing to do with tethering horses are they?
VO: No, the bangles are merely decorative and modern but bought for almost nowt.
£10 bid for those, at 10, 12, TOM: 15, 15, 18, 20, 20... AM: Very good.
At 20 for those, at 20, 22, 22, 25, 28.
28.
30, 30 bid, two... Good, good.
£38 bid, at 38 for those, at 38... PS: Result isn't it?
AM: Yeah.
And selling then, at £38.
AM: 38.
PS: Eh?
AM: Ah!
Look at the look on her face.
(EXAGGERATED SCOTS ACCENT) "38!"
VO: Very modest, as she quietly catches up.
We are about neck and neck here, aren't we?
I don't know Phil, I am frightened to count.
VO: Let's just concentrate shall we?
Phil's little sewing machine next.
And lot 96, the Victorian child's cast-iron sewing machine.
PS: This is it.
AM: Here we are, here we are.
Scroll decoration.
I've 12, 15 bid.
Ouch!
18, 20, 20 bid, two, 22, 25, 28, 30, 30 bid, two, 35, 38.
£38 bid, 40, 40 bid, two, 42, 45, 48.
48, 50, five, 55, 60.
60 bid, at 60 bid, at one and five, 65, 65, 65 bid.
At 65, 65, 65, the lot.
65, all done, and selling then at £65.
Great result.
Didn't I say to you about 60 quid?
You did, you did.
You know your sewing machines.
Lot 97...
I could make a very sexist remark here, but I'm above that sort of thing.
VO: It does you credit, Phil.
Nice profit too.
Now for his cartridge filler device from the same shop.
How much did you pay for it, Phil?
Er, £22.
Is that cheap?
How do I know?
I've never seen one before.
Five, 10, 12, £15 with me.
PS: Ouch!
TOM: £15 on commission here.
At 15 bid.
At 15 on the book then, at 15 bid.
At 15 bid the cartridge filler, 15, 18, 20, 20 bid, two, five, 25, 25...
It's creeping up.
28, 30, 32, 35.
35 and away, selling then at £35.
I thought it might have made a little bit more, but I don't know why I thought that.
VO: I don't think anyone could have predicted what Phil's offerings would make.
Now we've got your Jaguar car mascot, haven't we?
Yeah.
I bought that for you, because I know you are a bit of a sort of petrolhead, aren't you?
VO: Now Americans call these car mascots hood ornaments.
Five bid for that one, at five bid, at five for that one, eight, 10, 10 bid at 10, 12, 12, 15, 15 bid.
At 15 against now, 18, £18 bid, at 18, £18 bid.
At 20, 20 bid at 20, £20 bid, and two, 22, 25, eight, 28, 30.
£30 bid, at 30 for the mascot there, at £30 bid.
30 for the Jag... 32, again.
Back in.
32 in the middle, then, at 32.
32, all done and selling at £32.
He's done a real good job.
AM: Excellent.
Excellent.
PS: We'll come here again.
VO: Yep!
Not a single loss today.
Now, my fruit machine - what's it gonna make?
Bit of a gamble, isn't it, really?
Not at 10 quid.
No, sorry, that was a joke, you see.
Oh.
Sorry.
I forgot about your sense of humor!
VO: Most people have, Anita!
It was cheap but will this fruit machine pay out?
I have 20 on commission, at 20, 20 bid.
Two, five, eight, 30, 30 bid.
Two, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42, 45...
I'm telling you, that's good stuff.
50, five, 60, 60 bid.
TOM: 60 for the fruit machine.
AM: Wanted to get more.
60.
Aw.
At 60, and selling then at £60.
Tell you what, if every tenner you spent earned you 50 quid, it would be alright, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Aha.
VO: A great profit and Anita steals this leg of the trip.
VO: With £129.50 after auction costs, she has £395.10.
Phil made £94.66 today giving him pole position, with £439.36.
That was a good auction, wasn't it?
It was really, really good.
Yeah, lovely.
We both did well.
Yep, top dollar.
I've just got to watch you at the minute, haven't I?
I think you certainly have, my darling.
(BOTH YELL) VO: Next time on the Antiques Road Trip, Phil feels the pinch.
Got flies in here?
VO: And Anita goes metric.
10 shillings.
Do you think I'd get it for 50 pence?
Probably not, no.
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