Voiceover (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts... What about that!

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

Can I buy everything here?

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

But it's no mean feat.

Feeling a little saw!

This is going to be an epic battle.

VO: There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

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

The honeymoon is over.

I'm sorry!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

VO: Woah!

Cor we're off to a flying start on the penultimate leg of this journey, as two of our top experts battle it out for Road Trip glory - Christina Trevanion and Philip Serrell.

Well ain't you the lucky one today?

I'm off.

# Here we go again, Philip.

# Oh, lord.

And I am in front.

Yeah.

I've got so much money weighing me down I can barely walk.

VO: Just as well you're in a car then.

A woman blessed with both brains and beauty, Christina is an expert auctioneer with a keen eye for the gorgeous.

Oh, wow.

Look at you.

You're quite spectacular.

VO: Her rival on this road trip is fellow auctioneer Phil, who can be in a bit of a grump sometimes.

Do you like me?

VO: Don't worry, Phil, I like you!

VO: It's leg four and our competitive couple are hitting the road again in this ravishing red 1964 MGB.

CHRISTINA (CT): Tell me what your plan is for today.

Well I have got to be, I believe the word is parsimonious.

Oh.

I have just got to be careful, haven't I, because I've got to... Did it hurt?

Yeah, it did.

I have got to, I have got to catch you up.

There is not a huge amount of catching up to be done, to be fair.

No, but I...

I am only a little bit ahead.

Well, you're about a hundred quid ahead... No, not that much surely!

PHIL (PS): You're about a hundred quid ahead.

VO: Uh-oh, they're at it again.

Our two professionals began the trip with £200 each and it's been some journey so far.

On the last leg Phil's made a tidy profit of over £100, securing himself an impressive £381.30 to play with today.

After making some amazing profits at the last auction, Christina is currently in the lead and has a colossal £485.32 to spend today.

And spend she must, as our intrepid auctioneers made a deal on the previous leg.

Do I have to spend every single last penny?

Every single last penny.

I spent every last penny last time.

I am not very good with spending money, I have always been a spendthrift.

Best start learning.

VO: Game on, eh?

Our feisty antiquers' mammoth mission covers over 1,000 miles, from the Scottish borders, down to the Lakes, the northeast, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the northwest before finishing in Stoke on Trent.

This leg kicks off in Manchester before meandering up to Melbourne, near York, for the auction.

PS: That's very good.

CT: Well done, Philip.

Excellent.

VO: First up, Phil's dropping Christina off in Manchester city center.

PS: Have a good one.

CT: Yep, you too.

VO: Hm but that doesn't look like much of a shop.

Where are you off to Christina?

Anyway, we'll find out later, as Phil is playing catch up again and he needs to get shopping.

He has traveled south of the city center to the town of Sale.

He's arrived at his first shop of the leg, The Manchester Antiques Company, which is a mere 10 minutes from Manchester Airport.

That's handy!

Wayne, how are you my friend?

Hello Phil, how are you?

Good to see you again.

I'm alright.

VO: Wayne's an old chum and looks after a warehouse of antiques.

Anything stand out?

He's got some stunning things here.

I see he's got some musical instruments.

I know nothing about musical instruments.

VO: Isn't he strong?

PS: That is interesting, isn't it?

How much is that?

£75 I just thought.

I think it's Dutch.

I didn't know whether it was an oil, as such.

PS: I think it's a painting.

And what I love is that lady in the red coat there.

WAYNE: Yeah.

PS: With the parasol.

And that is lovely quality.

What is the death on that, Wayne?

£65 to you, for friends.

I was hoping it might be 50 quid for friends.

OK. £50 for friends.

OK, well let me have a think about it... No problem.

I am not sure whether it's on ivory or not or whether it is ivorine.

But that still makes it 19th century.

It is definitely 19th century.

Yeah.

Possibly late 18th.

VO: Oh.

Ivory's not to everyone's taste, but as this was made before 1947, it can be traded legally under the Cites agreement.

But the light in here mate, it doesn't help it too much, does it?

Can we find a bit better light?

Yeah.

If we just put that down there.

Just in a bit of light, there's actually a lot more going on there.

Because you can see, this lady in the red top with the parasol and the young boy and then that's obviously the local church, isn't it?

Yeah, and then.

And that is very Dutch, isn't it, the gable ends on there.

Go on, how much?

WAYNE: £60.

PS: I thought we said 50.

50, I was just trying.

I think you're trying very hard there Wayne, I tell you.

20, 30, 40, 50.

There we are my friend.

There is 50 quid.

Thank you very much.

You are an absolute scholar.

Thank you.

VO: Well done Phil, for your first item and perhaps the smallest thing in the place.

Time to rejoin Christina in Manchester city center, a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution.

Known as Cottonopolis, as it was the biggest marketplace for cotton products in the world at that time, the city saw its population increase by 500% from 1771 to 1831.

Its rapid growth into a significant industrial center meant it became an exciting place to be, a hotbed of new inventions and ways of thinking.

Christina has come to the Museum of Science & Industry to find out more from head of collections, Jack Kirby.

JACK: Manchester was one of the most innovative cities at the time, probably the most innovative in the world.

The science that happened here in the 19th century laid the groundwork for the 20th century and our lives today.

VO: Manchester attracted educated visitors from all parts of Britain and Europe, and was home to some of the world's greatest scientists, including the father of modern atomic theory, John Dalton.

Dalton came to Manchester because as a Quaker he wouldn't have been allowed to study at the prestigious universities like Oxford and Cambridge.

Why was that?

At that time only people who were Church of England were allowed in but Manchester, a very open-minded growing town, he was welcomed, he became a leading figure in science and he came up with this theory that changed chemistry for ever.

Oh what did he do?

Dalton did a series of experiments by which he realized that each individual atom had its own specific weight and that led to things like the periodic table that scientists still use today.

He laid the foundations for chemistry as we know it and he also came up with the idea of modeling atoms using balls, so today scientists use models very like this.

These fill me full of dread.

As a gemology student I would spend hours putting these together and it just reminds me of exams.

Yes.

That led to these...

So these are the original molecular balls?

They are.

Yes.

He was the first person to do this.

VO: As well as his atomic theory, Dalton also developed a theory for color blindness, a condition he and his brother suffered from.

The general condition became known as Daltonism because of his studies in this field.

Dalton wasn't just famous for the varied disciplines he worked on.

His methods of scientific investigation had a lasting impact too.

He was very interested in the weather.

All his life he observed the weather and this is his thermometer and every morning, every evening he would take the temperature outside his house and the neighbors said that you could set your watch by the time that Dalton went and looked at his thermometer.

Really?

Oh my goodness.

He was one of the first people to systematically observe things and that became... That is the basis of modern science.

You make the same measurements at the same time each day and compare.

And having a control, yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

So, he was part of that laying the groundwork of the way that scientists still do things today.

Was he quite an eccentric character?

Because I always think of scientists as being quite wacky, quite eccentric.

Was he that sort of person?

People might well have thought so and he... You know the phrase put your thinking cap on?

Well, Dalton had quite literally a thinking cap and this is it.

This is it!

Oh my goodness.

So, he wore this around his house and when he wanted to concentrate he put the cap on, tied it under his chin and that kept him nice and warm so that he could concentrate on thinking up his next scientific discovery.

How won...

I mean, that's like something out of a book.

I mean, you just sort of think about all these wonderful thoughts traveling round in this hat.

Oh, that is wonderful.

VO: Oh, yes.

John Dalton continued to work and teach in Manchester for the rest of his life, until he passed away on the 27th July 1844.

He was a man of the people and when he died nearly 100,000 people turned out to pay their respects at his funeral.

Really?

Good Lord, that's a lot of people.

VO: A fitting tribute to a man who made a lasting impression on the world of science.

VO: While Christina has been soaking up the science museum, Phil has hit the road again, as is heading northeast to the pretty little village of Holywell Green.

Yorkshire, known to many as 'God's own county', famously provided many of the backdrops for the adventures of vet James Herriott in 'All Creatures Great and Small'.

Phil's continuing his rounds at Barnyard Antiques, where owner Richard is known for his love of all things agricultural and rustic.

So, right up Phil's street, eh?

In the typical no-nonsense Yorkshire way, Phil gets straight down to business.

That's called a Long Tom, isn't it?

RICHARD: Yes.

And those are factory chimney pots, aren't they?

I believe so, yeah.

Salt glazed factory chimney pots.

I quite like these because they are local things.

VO: This one's priced at £95.

Potty?

Go on, I'll stand your bid.

Well, I might buy a couple of things off you, but that, at auction is going to make £60-90, is my view.

Which means I've got to try and buy it off you... Ah, for probably 40-50 quid.

It's a good talking piece, isn't it?

In gardens or anything.

I can see somebody putting their busy lizzie in it and just a cascade of flowers.

A cascade.

Yeah, a lot... Cascading down there.

Like, possibly.

VO: This isn't Gardeners' World, you know, Phil!

The chimney pot is a possibility, now what else has he found?

It's a dough bin.

Full of dough?

That's quite a nice bin, isn't it?

But we have got a touch of the old worm there.

This is a dough bin, isn't it?

Yeah.

And basically you would knead the dough and having kneaded the dough, you left it in there to prove it, didn't you?

Yeah.

And this would've been sat in the parlor of a farmhouse or wherever.

This is made out of elm and this is about 1860, perhaps a little bit earlier.

Yeah.

Could you do the two for 100 quid?

I'll do the two for 120 and that's being fair to you.

That at auction is going to make £60, which means that I'm gonna, it's... What?

Alright then, I'll drop a tenner.

That's the best I can do with you.

I'm going to have those two.

Alright?

VO: Alright indeed!

That's £50 for the chimney and £60 for the dough bin.

Nice work, Phil.

VO: With some serious catching up to do, Christina has left Manchester and made her way to Oldham, home to her first shop.

She's agreed to blow all her budget, so best get moving.

RJ O'Brien & Son is a family-run business that's been on the go for over 40 years.

With a warehouse full of antiques priced from just £5 up to £10,000.

CT: Oh my goodness, this is huge!

VO: It certainly is!

And stuffed to the rafters with goodies.

Now, where to start?

Ah, with a good sit down of course!

Oh!

VO: That's an American rocker.

Woah!

Oh, that's nice.

Just need a cup of tea now.

Get it rocking.

Get it rocking.

Woo-hoo!

It's very comfortable.

I don't know, I've never seen one with a sort of cast metalwork before.

It's very substantial.

The Bentwood ones I'm always quite terrified of sitting on because they might snap.

This one can even take my weight with some wild rocking.

I might take off.

VO: Eh, isn't there something you need to know Christina?

Price.

Wooh.

Not sure.

VO: Well, you'd better find Ronan and ask about a price then.

I know the chair.

It's amazing.

It's very expensive.

Aw, is it?

It's actually not mine.

It's a friend of mine that's put it here and he want £1,200 for that, I'm afraid.

Mmm.

So... Would he take 30?

I wouldn't have thought so.

VO: Even with your fluttering eyelashes I don't think you could get over £1,000 off!

Those are fun.

What are those?

Light fittings.

There's no great age.

I think they're probably about 30 years old, Christina.

They're a good lot and I can do them at quite reasonable money for you.

Can you?

Ooh.

OK, so you've got a pressed glass, or molded glass, light fitting.

I mean the fittings are very... really quite modern, aren't they?

RONAN: Yeah.

CT: But, nonetheless, I mean, they'd be quite impressive, wouldn't they?

They'd look good in a good room, if you had the room.

Yeah.

I mean, it's quite a sort of interior designery piece, isn't it?

Yes.

They're like something... We took them out of a bar.

How many have you got?

Eh, there's a set of 10, Christina.

Ten?

There's no damage on any of them.

We're asking £10 each for them.

If you wanted the 10, I could sell you the 10 at 60 quid, as a treat.

Ooh.

I mean, it seems a shame to split them, doesn't it?

Like I say, you put them in in lots and give the buyer the option.

CT: Yeah.

RONAN: I don't know.

That's true, cos they might not want all 10, but if they did then the option is there.

Yeah.

VO: Definitely something, er, well 10 things, to think about then.

Ah, this seat might be cheaper than the rocking chair.

Looks a bit corporation.

Eh, I like this.

Yeah.

Very rustic bench.

It is, isn't it?

Em...

Bit shabby.

Bit worn, weathered.

It's come... Well I don't know exactly where it's from, but it's a good, good looking thing.

It is a park bench, though, rather than an ornate garden bench, isn't it?

Yeah.

Park bench.

Probably Victorian, looking at the... this end.

It's good and substantial, isn't it?

Oh, what's that name on the back there?

What does that say?

Is it on that... Can you see it?

Is there one on that one?

Oh, I can just make it out.

Hunter & Co, Manchester.

Very local.

That's a nice local piece.

I like that.

Good color.

The only thing I'm thinking is that people who buy garden benches want them quite ornate.

RONAN: Yeah.

CT: Don't they?

Yeah, they do.

And that's quite plain.

But it's reflected in the price, you know.

£65.

I don't think it's dear.

Got to have a chance.

Quite like that.

Is it comfy?

Yeah, that's alright, isn't it?

For a bench.

It's not as comfy as the chair.

No.

It doesn't rock me.

You can have 20 park benches for one chair.

Oh, this is true, this is true.

65, and how much did we say on the light fittings?

£60 on the light fittings.

£60 on the light fittings and 65 on the bench?

Uh-huh, and 65 on the bench.

Should I sit down next to you whilst you... (BOTH LAUGH) Would you do... 100?

RONAN: £100.

CT: £100.

OK. Just to help you to win.

For everything?

For everything.

We have a deal.

I'm a happy girl.

Very good.

CT: Ronan.

RONAN: Thank you very much.

BOTH: Thank you.

VO: I'm amazed!

That's a generous £60 for the 10 glass shades, and a healthy saving of £25 on the verdant bench, down to £40.

Christina is off the mark.

And we've come to the end of the first day's shopping.

Nighty night all.

VO: It's the start of a brand new day.

Christina and Phil are back on the road, cruising through Yorkshire towns and villages, taking in the view.

It's very beautiful.

It's very autumnal, isn't it?

Yeah, I like it when the leaves sort of turn, really.

CT: I'd imagine this is your time of year.

PS: Autumnal.

Everything sort of dying and... CT: Shriveling, and... PS: Yeah.

..getting slowly deader.

Yeah.

You kind of enjoy that, don't you?

Yeah.

The decline of the year.

Yeah, absolutely right.

I'm more a spring person myself, Philip.

Young and inexperienced roots.

Yep.

VO: Er Phil, worth remembering that she is currently in the lead.

Yesterday Phil forked out £160 on three items - the chimney pot, the elm dough bin and the 19th century miniature oil painting.

Which means he has £221.30 left to spend.

While Christina's splashed her cash on two items - spending £100 on the green bench and the large glass shades.

Christina's made a deal to spend all of her money so needs to blow £385.32 today.

This morning our competitive couple have made their way across West Yorkshire to the market town of Ossett - home of Spa Farm Antiques.

Right.

Right, which way are you going?

We haven't been shopping together for a while, have we?

No.

I'll go that way, you go that way.

She's off her rocker.

VO: Formerly a pig farm, this place is jam packed to the trotters with interesting and unusual items.

CT: Oh, wow.

Look at you.

You're quite spectacular.

It's a real peacock, isn't it?

Wow!

Oh, I love him.

I mean, taxidermy isn't really everyone's cup of tea, is it, but I think he's quite cool.

And what a statement piece that is.

Although, people do say that peacock feathers are unlucky, don't they?

Do you think it could bring me unluck?

I think I might have to go and ask a price on him.

Oof!

Be way over my budget.

VO: Yeah.

Those floaty feathers have sure taken Christina's fancy, but outside Phil's with dealer Judith, and has his eye on something a little heavier, as usual.

How much would these be?

The small ones are 2.50, and the large ones are £5, but I'm sure she may come down.

But they are sellable, aren't they?

They're very good.

What would you take for the lot?

All of those.

All of these here?

Yeah.

Are there more?

There are more outside, yeah.

Yeah, just all of those there, just for now.

Those there.

Bear with me, Philip.

Thank you.

These are salt glazed garden edging stones and they would basically just go on the edge of a lawn or a garden or a border and they would separate it off.

I just want to count how many we have got there.

We have got one, two, three, four, five, six... 21, 22...

There's about 23.

You can have those for £30 Philip.

The lot?

The lot.

That's a good deal isn't it?

Yeah.

It is a very good deal that.

And it's a deal that has just been done.

And that's the best?

That's the very very best.

OK. That's one buy isn't it?

Thank you, kind sir.

Are we supposed to shake on it?

Absolutely right.

We're gonna have one of those.

Marvelous.

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Deal done for Phil.

Inside Christina's with owner Julie.

The Peacock she loves has a price tag of £900 so get your haggling head on!

Totally laying it on the line.

Right.

I have got about £385 left in my budget which is a seriously seriously small percentage of what you are asking.

It is yes.

But I am completely in love with him, I think he is magnificent.

Is there any chance you could drop to that sort of level, would that work for you?

To perfectly honest I was hoping to get him about £250.

Oh, I think we would have to go to the 380.

CT: Every last penny?

JULIE: Every last penny, yes.

Can you leave me with maybe a fiver or a tenner?

A fiver.

A fiver, to buy something else.

So are we saying that you will potentially sell me this peacock for £380?

JULIE: Yes.

CT: Really?

Yes.

Look after it won't you?

Really?!

Look after it.

CT: Really?!

JULIE: Yes.

Oh, Julie, oh my goodness me, do we know anything about him?

Where has he come from?

JULIE: I have no idea.

CT: Does he have a name?

He needs careful dusting.

Percy.

Percy.

Percy the peacock.

Aw.

Not very novel.

VO: Julie's clearly in a very generous mood and that's a whopping discount.

It's a bit of a risky buy though being such a niche item but Christina seems pleased as punch with Percy the peacock.

I can't believe I got Percy the peacock.

It's amazing.

VO: While Christina's continues to search for something to spend her final £5.32 on, Phil's back outside with Judith and a selection of children's chairs.

There's this one but it's got a different back to it to the others.

There's some paint on there isn't there?

Yeah, there is, layers and layers of it.

About three or four layers of it.

I've only had them in about a week.

OK. What would you take, let's do this in stages.

What would you take for those four?

Right, £80?

No?

No.

Oh right.

Is he buying a load of chairs?

What on earth is he doing?

One, two, three, four, five, six chairs.

And how much is that one?

That one is £30.

And that one?

Well that one, I'll do that for 10.

What is his game, is he trying to start up a school, the Philip S... My God, the Philip Serrell school - that would be terrifying!

I'm not sure they'd have many applicants.

Well?

I'll give you 60 quid for the lot.

I think that's a deal then.

Do you, my love?

Yes, I think we can do that.

Thank you very much.

You are a star.

I better pay you now hadn't I?

OK. VO: Six chairs for almost half price, and Phil's shopped out.

Christina's still searching for something to buy with her remaining pennies.

Oh, this is beautiful.

It looks to be Indian carving on here, this wonderful inlay on here.

Some ivory stringing.

VO: Just like the piece Phil bought earlier that contained ivory, this is made pre 1947 and so is legal to trade.

CT: Lovely writing slope.

See what happens a bit further down.

Oh isn't that beautiful?

That's where you'd keep all your secret letters, love letters maybe.

All your secrets.

That's really rather beautiful, I like that.

And then in here... Oh, wow!

So we've got two inkwells in here which look to be the originals, great ground out base there which means they are handblown.

Pricetag there of £60.

I'm not sure Julie's going to go for it.

VO: Considering you've only got £5.32 left, neither am I.

It's time for a bit of lateral thinking with Julie.

I was hoping that you might be feeling generous.

I have got £385.32 left and I am prepared to give you everything, every last penny for Percy and the box.

VO: Aha!

So you're hoping to shave a bit off the price of the peacock to add to the bid for the writing slope.

Must be feeling lucky, girl.

OK. OK, we'll do it.

Will we?

JULIE: Yep.

CT: For the two?

Yep, for the two.

Julie, you are a legend.

Yep.

Thank you so much.

I'll give you every last penny.

VO: Well look at that, she's only gone and done it!

Thanks to Julie's generosity, Christina's made a risky purchase of Percy the peacock for £350... ..and the 19th century writing slope for £35.21.

Marvelous!

Well, that's it, I'm absolutely spent up.

I bought everything I need to buy.

Philip may have vanished but I've got Percy to keep me company.

VO: (AS ELVIS) Thank you very much!

Uh-huh.

Phil's made his way to Bradford, where he's going to find out about one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, the television, appropriately at the National Media Museum.

A piece of technology that has impacted on the lives of most people on the planet, the invention of the television is largely credited to Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird.

To tell Phil more is associate curator of the museum, Canadian born, Iain Logie Baird.

Ha!

PS: So Iain, John Logie Baird was your grandfather?

I mean, he was the inventor of television in my mind.

How did all that come about?

Yeah, he has certainly been accredited as the...by all countries as the person who was first able to obtain a true television image with gradations of light and shade as opposed to light behind the subject, it was reflected light from the person so that you would be able to recognize them and the breakthrough happened October 2 1925 with the apparatus here.

That's the apparatus that he basically saw for the first time a true television image and the image that he saw was of his test subject which was a ventriloquist's dummy and he nicknamed it Stookie Bill.

Stookie Bill was very patient for the experiments and didn't mind how hot the lights were and didn't move.

PS: So in a way this here, that's the granddaddy of all televisions, of televisor.

It's the world's first working television system.

VO: Baird started a company to capitalize on his new invention.

PS: Baird television, for want of a better word, what they then wanted to do was produce something that you could put in someone's home.

That's right, they decided to make the first saleable receivers which were the Noah's Ark receivers much like this one here.

It was the first TV set you could actually purchase in Britain and they were first announced at the Radio Olympia show in the fall of 1928 and there was just a few of them on display because they'd never really made more than about a dozen.

If I wanted to go and buy this what would it have cost me?

This one cost about 40 guineas but the more expensive one with two radios built in was 150.

VO: Back then that was the price of a new Rolls Royce.

So what would you have got for all this money?

PS: So this is our screen here and the speaker over yonder.

What would I have seen through here?

When the broadcasts began about September 1929 you wouldn't have seen and heard at the same time because they only had one transmitter so they couldn't do a vision and sound signal, they could only do a vision signal and then a sound signal so what they did was they would have the vision for about two or three minutes and then the sound for two or three minutes.

PS: It seems incredible that this ever caught on really didn't it?

Yes, it didn't catch on very much until they got vision and sound together about March 1930 and then these televisors lived up to their original name which was the dual exhibition receiver.

VO: By 1939, around 20,000 television sets were in use in Great Britain but with the start of World War II in September, all British television broadcasting was shut down.

With no market for TV sets, Baird Television Ltd went into receivership.

However, this didn't stop Baird, as he drew on his personal savings to continue his work developing color television.

IAIN: This system was to be all electronic, it was a home color system that could be broadcast across Britain.

And when does this date to?

The prototypes which this is one of is from 1943.

So that is probably one of the first color TVs in the world?

IAIN: Yes.

PS: Almost.

Is that complete?

This is not complete, it is just the image tube and to see an image on this you would look into this spherical glass and that white disc is where the image appears and you would see a 600 line color television image which is virtually the same as what we had a few years ago before digital switchover.

So we are almost talking HD of almost 70 years ago.

Theoretically he could have built a 30 inch HD color television set had he lived longer in 1946/47.

That's amazing.

VO: John Logie Baird died on the 14th June 1946, sadly at a time when he was about to establish Britain as world leader in color television technology.

I think this has been a really really interesting visit because it sort of relates to something we all watch every day but one thing that really intrigues me... Can you get some of the back episodes of Antiques Road Trip on there?

VO: Eh, we're not that old Phil!

So with shopping and trips down memory lane complete, it's time to check out each other's wares.

Phil spent a total of £250 bagging himself the garden tiles, the set of children's chairs, the Long Tom chimney pot, the dough bin and the miniature oil painting.

Christina kept to her word and spent her whole purse buying the bench, the 10 glass shades complete with fittings... ..the writing slope and of course her big risk, Percy the taxidermy peacock!

But what do they make of the competition?

He's completely reminiscing in his old schoolteachery days with those chairs.

He's bought more architectural salvage.

The only thing that he has gone slightly wacky with is that picture which is very un-Philip Serrell and actually really nice.

I think Christina, well she has seen the light - at £6 each, how can they fail?

With the bench she has surely got to be sitting on a fortune and with that writing slope it is all written in the stars and as for that bird, well that's just a very large bird.

VO: Our road tripping rivals kicked off this penultimate leg in Manchester.

They've been buying up across beautiful Yorkshire and are now making their way to Melbourne near York.

PS: Do you know what, I'm gonna ask you a question.

What's that?

Well your big bird, right...

Yes?

Why did you buy that?

I love him.

See I think you'll do very well... Percy the peacock.

But I just think it's so unlucky.

No!

Is he gonna be lucky for you or unlucky?

I hope he's... Well, hm, it's a tough one isn't it because I literally have put all my eggs in Percy's proverbial basket.

PS: Well, I'm gonna tell you something... Yep?

I saw another Percy in another auction and do you know what the estimate was?

No.

This is going to make me feel very sick this is.

£800-1,200.

You're joking!

No.

You're joking?

No.

VO: Well we'll soon find out if Christina's peacock can pull off a profit as they arrive in the pretty little village of Melbourne, where today's auction is being held in the village hall.

Fantastic.

Ooh, there's my bench!

PS: Pity you didn't run over it.

(BOTH LAUGH) CT: Might have been worth more.

PS: Are we heading out?

Yeah, let's go.

Come on.

Morning!

ALL: Morning.

VO: Presiding over the action today is Chris Clubly, so what does his expert eye make of our teams lots?

We've got the bench which does need quite a bit of repair.

I think we might struggle with that.

The dough bin, I'm not sure that we've got the right people around here that will have the space for that.

I think the peacock is going to do the best.

We've never had a peacock so I think that will attract quite a lot of interest in the hall.

VO: The pressure is on, whoever makes the most today will go into the final leg in pole position so good luck chaps.

I think it's wonderful.

VO: Let's hope you still think so at the end of the auction.

Christina split her 10 glass shades into two different lots, so it's a set of four going under the hammer first.

Here we are now, here we are.

£10 bid, 20, 30, 40... Oh blimey!

50, £50 bid.

60, 80... Well done you.

100 now.

80 bid, 90, 80, 90, 90, £90 bid.

Well done you.

100 you all done, 90, at £90.

Goodness me, £90.

VO: A storming start there for Christina, with a pretty profit of £66.

Blimey!

Who'd have thunk it, Philip?

Eh?

VO: Can Phil do as well with his 23 glazed garden edging tiles?

20?

Ten bid.

£10 bid.

Ten, that's a start.

Ten bid.

15, 20, 20, five, 25.

Oh, the lady behind you's smiling, Phil.

PS: Good.

CHRIS: 25?

30.

30?

Don't worry about him, bid.

On you get.

30.

£30 then, 30.

Five I'll take.

30.

There's a lot of them.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

35?

£30 bid.

35.

Go on, go on.

They're lovely.

They're lovely.

40.

£40 bid.

Five now?

40 bid, £40 bid.

40, five where?

£40.

You all done?

At £40.

That stood still, didn't it?

Well done.

No, you made a bit.

No, after commission it's just about...

It's about four quid, I think.

Yeah, four... Philip, it's better £4 up than £4 down.

I'm just comparing my...

I'm just comparing my four quid to her 50.

She's so magnanimous.

VO: Ah, but she is right Phil, a profit's a profit remember and you've still got plenty of lots to come.

No point being grumpy, is there?

I wouldn't know.

VO: Next up is Christina's green and slightly battered old bench that the auctioneer was worried about.

I bet you a drink, right, that you get a profit out of your bench.

I can't see it.

A drink tonight.

You know I'm a woman of my word, Philip.

For the park bench that's outside.

Oh, it's very lovely.

I'm not too sure which park it came from, but... the park bench.

Where to start me?

Start me at 50?

20?

Ten?

Five bid.

Oh, God, here we... Oh, no.

It's a park bench, it's a good one.

It's very good.

Five bid.

Just needs a new base.

Lovely.

Five bid.

£5 bid.

Five, 10, 15, 20.

£20 bid.

Come on.

25, 30, 30.

And again?

See, I get a drink.

See, this is a real problem for me now, cos I'm sort of kind of wanting to you to get a little bit of profit.

What did it sell for?

What did it sell for?

CHRIS: £30 CT: I get a drink.

LAUGHTER Could you ring off on the booze, please?

LAUGHTER VO: It may be her the first loss of the day but she's still smiling!

Let's hope Phil's selection of children's chairs will sit a bit better with the punters in the room.

Well, six small children's chairs.

Aw.

Aw.

Aren't they pretty?

Ten bid.

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70... See, I told you so, Phil.

£80 bid.

Five.

85, 90.

95.

100 now.

Are you bidding?

100.

100 bid.

There we go.

See?

100.

Indulging your inner child.

Well done, Philip.

VO: Two items down and two profits for Phil.

He's got to be pleased with that.

After making a profit on the earlier lot of four, there's high hopes for these six glass shades.

20 bid, 20, 30, 40, 40, 50 I'll take.

40, 50, 60, 70 now.

70.

See, they're struggling.

70 I'm bid, 70, 80, 90, 90, 100, 100 bid.

110, 110, 120, 120.

120.

120.

VO: As expected, the second set of shades have pulled in a fantastic profit for Christina.

Next up it's another item that auctioneer Chris fears may flop - the dough bin.

10, 20, 30, 40, 40 bid, 50 now, 50.

CT: He gets going, doesn't he?

There you go, you need a clear profit, you need a clear profit.

CHRIS: 70 CT: There we go.

There we go, Philip.

Anywhere?

£100, all done at 100?

Well done, Philip, well done.

That's just narrowed the gap, my love.

That's brilliant.

VO: Look at that.

Phil can breathe a sigh of relief as the bin brings home some dough.

Christina's up again, this time with her beautiful 19th Century writing slope.

10, come on, £10, 15, 20, five, 30, five, 40, five, 45 then.

45.

50 then?

45.

You are all 50.

£50 bid.

50, five I'm selling.

£50.

I'll take that, it's a profit.

VO: Now that's what I like to hear, some positive thinking, you could do with a bit more of that Phil.

Especially as your next lot, the miniature street scene, is coming up.

Let's hope the right buyers are in the room.

£10 bid, 10, 15, 20, five, 20 bid.

25, 30, five, 40, five, 50, five, 60, five.

70 now?

Eight if you like.

60 bid.

65, we are out in the doorway.

The bid's down here.

The bid is here at £65.

I got a little bit more than that.

I thought it was worth more than that.

VO: Not quite as much as he was after, but that's yet another profit for Phil.

Well, lovely, this is the moment, isn't it?

What's happening?

What's happening!

Oh good lord, this is Percy, isn't it?

Oh.

VO: Ah ha, it's the one we've all been waiting for, Christina's final item for the day, her Victorian taxidermy peacock.

Better known as Percy to you and me.

CT: Oh.

Wow.

Where to start me?

Will you start me at 500 for him?

200?

100 bid.

100, 120, 40, 60, 80... Do you like peacocks?

No, I hate peacocks.

They terrify me.

200, 20, 40, 40, 60... You are fine my love, you're fine.

280... VO: It's flapping steadily up.

Do they know his name?

No.

340.

340, 360, 360.

360... His name is Percy.

His name is Percy.

Percy?

We will call him Percy.

The office as well, 360.

Why do you call him Percy?

I don't know.

360.

360.

360.

I don't want to miss anybody on Percy.

360.

Five will you?

360.

You all done?

I'm, I'm very happy at this.

I'm amazed.

At £360, we sell.

Buy there at 360.

Googe, Mr Googe.

Thank you.

Hoh.

So, technically that is a loss, however he has wiped his face.

VO: Yeah, well, due to auction costs it will be a slight loss I'm afraid Christina, but full marks for taking a chance, girl.

I think you've had a really really good go at that and I have the utmost respect for you for that.

I like you again now.

You have the utmost respect because I lost money on it.

No, no, no, no.

VO: Let's see if Phil is feeling as sympathetic after his final lot, the chimney pot.

It's like going to the panto being here.

I love it.

20 bid, the chimney pots.

CT: Oh, come on.

20 bid, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, five if you like?

85, 90, £90 bid.

90.

Five I will take.

CT: Go on, go on, go on.

90 bid.

You don't find many of those around.

90.

Five now?

Five, sir?

Five, 95, 95 bid.

100.

100 bid.

£100.

You all done?

At 100.

Scott.

Well done.

Well done, Mr Scott.

You've doubled your money.

PS: I had to.

CT: Fantastic.

VO: That's yet another great result for Phil, but has it been enough for him to secure the top spot?

Right, come on, onwards and upwards.

Let's go.

Oh, right.

VO: Christina made a profit today of £47.68, giving her a magnificent total of £533 to carry forward.

Phil did even better, bagging himself a profit of £82.10, making him this leg's winner.

He now has a bounteous £463.40 to carry forward to the final leg.

That was wonderful.

Shall we cadge... Who's driving?

Well, I think you may have won today, so I think you can drive.

Really?

Frankly, yep.

Don't call me Frankly.

There we are.

Why, thank you, my love.

VO: Toodle pip road trippers.

What fun.

VO: On the next Antiques Road Trip... Christina gets plenty of bang for her buck.

CT: Three, two, one... Wooh!

God!

VO: And Phil snaps up a bargain.

What on earth have I done here?

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