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

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car.

I'm always in turbo.

VO: And a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

Hot stuff!

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

IZZIE: (GASPS) VO: But it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners... PHIL: Cha-ching.

MARK: Oh, my goodness!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

DAVID: Bonkers!

VO: Will it be the high road to glory... You are my ray of sunshine.

NATASHA: Oh, stop it!

VO: ..or the slow road VO: to disaster?

(GEARS CRUNCH) Sorry!

VO: This is Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

We're in Berkshire this morning, hitting the road again with not one but two antiquers.

MARK (MH): Oh, you had a little sort of Marilyn Monroe moment there.

Oh, my goodness!

IRITA (IM): I don't know what that is.

It's like there's air coming from underneath me while I'm sat down.

VO: Wow!

Irita Marriott is behind the wheel, with Mark Hill in the passenger seat.

I think that was the beans last night.

IM: Oh, Mark!

MH: (CHUCKLES) I might've had one too many.

Maybe.

Yes, exactly.

Maybe not tomorrow.

That's why you have the open-top car.

I know.

Thank goodness for that!

VO: Oo-er, chaps!

Come on - raise the tone a bit.

It's the second leg of our trip with these two and their sky-blue Triumph Herald.

# It's the morning!

# It's the morning after... # My disaster!

IM: It wasn't that bad!

MH: It was for me.

It's alright for you, Miss Moneybags.

VO: Yes.

Things didn't quite go Mark's way last time out.

Charmed by something unusual, he took a punt on a curio.

I rather like this.

VO: While our porcelain princess invested heavily in the ceramics market.

Oh, my goodness, I've got expensive taste!

VO: But there was only one winner at the auction.

AUCTIONEER: 550.

IM: 550?!

550.

IM: No!

MH: Well done!

Now, how are you feeling with the budget that you have?

Agh!

IM: You're... MH: Did that sum it up?

MH: Agh!

IM: (LAUGHS) VO: Poor Mark.

They both began with £200 but after that last trip to the saleroom, he's down to just £114.

While Irita is rolling in the money.

After that first leg, she's topped her piggy up to £570.

This is only my second road trip, so, you know, I'm still learning the ropes.

I'm rooting for you, Mark.

Thank you.

VO: Very sporting!

Now, our antiques adventure began in Surrey, and we're making our way through England's Home Counties and East Anglia en route to a final showdown in Sevenoaks, Kent.

MH: Isn't this lovely?

MH: So, where are we, actually?

IM: I don't know.

And I'm usually the one that knows all the directions and know exactly where I'm heading to.

Well, there's a really important point that has to be remembered here - you're driving.

So if you have no idea where we are, do you have any idea where we're going?

Forward?

VO: As good a direction as any.

On this leg, our shopping spree concludes with an auction in Bedford.

But, first up, we're in Windsor - the historic market town is the ancestral seat, of course, of the Royal Family.

There are some fabulous antiques in Windsor Castle, but after dropping off her buddy, Irita will have to make do with the contents of Windsor Vintage... ..a cozy wee place with plenty of goodies.

£570 in her purse.

Let the games begin!

Isn't that a beautiful image?

Windsor Official Guide.

This is something that is such a bygone kind of item because who goes now somewhere and buys a guide?

Think how many memories that would've brought back to you from when you visited.

And they're really, really educating.

IM: Maybe I should buy one.

VO: Maybe you should.

Meanwhile, let's catch up with Mark.

He's just around the corner at Wellington Antiques.

Oh, loving the jacket!

Hey!

Here we are.

VO: This family-run business has a bit of everything.

Mark's only got £114 to spend, so needs some canny buys if he wants to catch up with Irita.

I spy antiques.

VO: But do you spy any bargains?

Because that's what you need.

Oh, hello!

Amidst all this Victoriana, I spot a mid-century modern glass icon.

Ooh!

(CHUCKLES) And something else on top.

There we go.

Let's grab it properly.

This incredibly elegant candleholder has a little bit of an invader.

This is not an original part of it, so I'm going to pop that there and restore it to exactly what I'd expect to find.

The amazing thing about this particular candleholder, which is known as Brancaster, is that it has a hollow stem.

That's really clever glasswork.

And, of course, because it's hollow, you have this wonderful graduation in the tone of the amethyst glass here.

And there are just tiny details to show that this is a great-quality piece.

When you look at the base here, it's not rounded - it's been nicely finished off.

Elegance for the dining table and something very practical to use today.

And something that, ultimately, is, what?

40, 50 years - nearly half a century old?

Sadly, no price.

I'm going to pop this back on... pop over and have a word with Michael and see what we can do.

VO: Michael is the owner.

Oh, nice blazer, old boy!

MH: Michael?

DEALER: Yeah.

MH: Hello.

DEALER: Good afternoon.

Amazing shop!

Oh, thank you.

That's very kind.

Within, I found this rather snazzy candleholder, which doesn't have a price.

It can't be expensive so could you just let me know what you think?

Um, well, 20 quid.

£20.

OK, so it's actually two things.

If I took this bit off, which isn't part of it, and gave that back to you, could we do something for the price - bearing in mind I've got, like, two thirds of it, three-quarters of it now?

15 quid.

MH: 15 quid?

DEALER: Yeah.

We have a deal.

VO: 15 spent - which leaves Mark with £99.

MH: And away we go.

DEALER: Thank you.

MH: Thank you most kindly.

DEALER: That's alright.

VO: With his business concluded, let's nip back to Irita across town and see how she's getting on.

Oh.

Hello, you chappie!

Hmm.

Stylish.

Interior decorators' thing.

A little plaster bust of what looks a miner... because he got a pickaxe on the shoulder.

I just think if you got, you know, like a library or an office and you got some book shelves, wouldn't he look absolutely superb?

VO: Sculpted heads like this one are known as portrait busts.

The tradition can be traced back to antiquity and the ancient Greeks.

Maybe the price will make up my mind, should I buy it or not?

Oh, it's £38.

I mean, that's cheap as chips, don't you think?

VO: Better HEAD over to the till!

Ha-ha!

Now, Mark, I found this and it's priced at £38.

OK. Mm-hm.

So, here's 40 and I would like £2 change, please.

OK. You weren't expecting that, were you?

No!

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: First time for everything.

Don't forget your change.

Come on, Jeffrey.

Off we go.

VO: That leaves Irita with £532.

And while she motors on... over the border into Buckinghamshire, Mark has made his way to Amersham.

He's caught the scent of a story about a local perfume pioneer who changed the smell of the 1960s.

Emma Treleaven will tell him more.

Hello, Mark.

Hello.

Welcome to Amersham Museum.

I see you're enjoying our beautiful garden.

Well, it's wonderful.

It's not just the flowers, but the incredible sort of smell.

It's all about the senses, isn't it?

It absolutely is.

We have a huge amount of sensory things in our collection, including a wonderful collection of Goya perfume and cosmetics, as well, from a local brand - Goya.

Amazing.

So, when was Goya founded?

So, Goya's began in London in the early 1930s.

A very young entrepreneur named Douglas Collins started a company to make Brylcreem and hair creams when he was just 19 years old in about 1933.

Um, and he realized pretty quickly that he had this enormous talent for mixing perfumes.

So kind of by 1935, he'd already made 15 different kinds of perfumes and had begun selling them very successfully, and the brand kind of just kept going from there.

VO: British perfumery mostly grew out of the gentlemen's grooming industry of the 18th century, but it was pretty exclusive to the affluent classes.

In the 20th century, when fashion houses launched their most famous scents - such as Lanvin Arpege and Chanel's No.

5 - the average person couldn't afford it.

It wasn't until labels like Goya launched affordable perfumes such as Aqua Manda and Black Rose that fashionable scents became accessible to the average working person.

So, what did that do to Amersham?

Because this business arrives and it grows and grows and grows to the point that it's got three factories and, presumably, it transformed the town.

Yeah, it did.

It was very significant in terms of just the amount of people it employed.

It was kind of the coveted summer job.

If you were young and you could become a "Goya girl", that was the place to be.

Um, he... You would get a quarterly allowance of products - so lots of, you know, beautiful lipsticks and perfumes and things, as well as additional discounts if you wanted anything on top of that.

Um, but also socially, he was a very, very supportive employer.

So, you were allowed to chat as you worked, you were allowed to have the radio on.

The working hours were very social.

You'd start at eight in the morning, you'd get a nice, long lunch break, you'd finish at five.

So, he was very supportive of, kind of, his staff.

VO: Goya was also the first company in the UK to offer their staff three weeks of annual leave, as opposed to two.

By the mid '60s, Douglas Collins was not only a successful entrepreneur but a radically progressive employer, too.

So, he builds this enormous business, transforms Amersham, transforms Amersham's community.

What happened to the factory?

So, they kind of went from success to success for a very long time.

You know, Aqua Manda was one of the most famous perfumes in England in the 1970s.

It kind of...

Things began to change a little bit in the '60s.

So, Douglas Collins sold the company in 1960.

Being part of other companies, or a larger conglomerate, didn't really suit Goya, and so it ended up closing in about 1985.

So, was that the end of Goya or...?

Not quite.

There was actually a group that got started that really wanted Aqua Manda, in particular, to be remade, and they kind of gained traction, slowly but steadily.

And, um, Christopher Collins, Douglas' son, in collaboration with a couple of other people, kind of got together and recreated it, which is great.

And we actually have Christopher inside today, if you want to come in and meet him.

I would love to.

Please.

Yes.

VO: As well as Chris, Mark is meeting Neil Cohen, who has been instrumental in resurrecting Goya's famous fragrance.

I need to smell this if I can.

So, I can spray this on here.

So, this is the more modern version.

The recreation.

Which is so close to the... You get the citrusy high notes and then there's... CHRIS: Something beyond it.

MH: Isn't there?

So, what do you think the lasting legacy of Aqua Manda and Goya is?

It was something of its era, but an era of long ago.

The smell is the main thing.

It doesn't matter about...

The packaging can look great and everything else but they've got to get the smell right.

And, luckily enough, we spent so much time doing it and we did get it there.

A lot of people, a lot of complimentary comments from people who remembered it from so many years earlier.

Um, so, yeah, it was really nice to bring those memories back with people.

VO: Over 30 years after its closure, Goya still has resonance in the local area.

For a brief time, the smell of the Swinging Sixties was crafted by Douglas Collins in Amersham.

Several miles around the corner, Irita is in the Herald approaching her next stop.

Shop one done!

Now, then, got a lot of money to play with.

VO: Well, you can spend it all in Berkhamsted at Home & Colonial interiors.

Nice!

Oh, look at this.

Oh, my goodness!

Four stories!

I'm going to get lost.

Established for over 25 years and specializing in interiors and mid-century design, there are more than 35 specialist dealers here, displaying across five floors.

I love cabinets like this because you never know what you're going to find.

It's such an eclectic mix.

Now, one thing that has caught my eye in here is this little chappie.

And why has he caught my eye?

Let's start with the fact that it is 200 years old.

It is what's known as penwork from Regency times.

And when you painted with pen and ink on wood and handled it for 200 years... it rubbed off.

This is rather bright.

And it is rather jolly.

One thing that appeals to me, personally, about this is the fact that it opens right in the middle like a Russian doll.

And that takes me back to being a kid.

This little chappie's priced at £125.

Never seen another one.

I don't think I ever will.

One of a kind.

Am I prepared to take that gamble?

Well, I have pockets full of money, so I might as well buy something that I really, really like.

VO: We're on!

Time to find Lizzie - the dealer.

IM: There you are, Lizzie.

DEALER: Hi, there.

I've been all over the shop.

It is massive, isn't it?

DEALER: Yeah, it is.

IM: There's so much to see.

Sorry to have disturbed you in your work.

DEALER: OK. IM: But I wanted to talk about one little piece of treen that was upstairs.

DEALER: Right.

IM: The little chap.

It was priced £125.

Right.

I've come holding some money.

(CHUCKLES) Do you know, is there any trade on it, at all?

I think there is a little, yes.

OK. What could it be...?

DEALER: Um... IM: Please?

Off my head, I believe she could do a hundred and... ten.

Ooh!

You were just about to say 105.

I was.

You were!

I spotted that!

105.

But that would be it.

That would be it.

OK. Well, we will go with 105.

Thank you very much.

VO: A generous discount.

Thanks, Lizzie.

Thank you, Lizzie.

See you later.

Bye-bye.

VO: 105 spent - leaving Irita with £427.

Now, time to collect Mark.

If you would have to be an animal... ..what kind of animal would you be?

IM: Would you be an insect?

CS: Charming.

IM: I reckon you could be a very good grasshopper.

Long legs, big leaps.

I could do that.

And I will make a big leap in profit.

IM: Hey-hey!

MH: Ha!

Ha!

VO: On that note, let's hop to it and go to bed.

Nighty-night.

Rise and shine!

Another shopping day awaits.

Oh, Mark, I'm feeling rather blue today.

Feeling rather blue?

I think we are all feeling rather blue.

The car - Herald's feeling blue.

I'm blue.

You're blue.

I can't believe how coordinated we all are!

VO: The sky is blue, too!

It's a lovely morning for antiquing.

MH: SO, dotty and blue - do you feel dotty today, as well?

How would you... What do you mean by dotty?

You get those mornings, sometimes - you must have them - when you wake up in the morning and just feeling a bit like... oo-oo.

How do you feel when you feel... oo-oo?

Like, oo-oo.

Well, I'm none the wiser!

(CHUCKLES) VO: Neither am I!

Huh-ha-hah!

Yesterday, Irita picked up two new friends - the Regency penwork gentleman and the miner's head plaster bust... Oh, hello, you chappie.

VO: ..leaving her with £427.

Meanwhile, despite keeping his eyes peeled...

I spy antiques.

..it was only the glass candleholder for Mark, setting him back just £15.

That's two fabulous things you've just bought.

Well.

What can I say?

"What can I say?"

she says, modestly stroking her hair.

VO: Today, our experts will shop exclusively in Hertfordshire, with our first stop-off in the village of Markyate... where Mark, after depositing Irita, will be shopping at Retrovation.

Let's gallop towards some profits.

VO: Open by appointment only, and based on a working farm, inside it's a regular Aladdin's cave.

Mark has £99 to his name, remember?

So let's see what he can rustle up in here.

Love this!

Spleens, livers.

Kidneys.

Body parts.

Jack the Ripper, eat your heart out!

VO: Don't worry, they're fake.

MH: Now, this sort of thing I love - anything quirky, anything macabre, anything that sort of creates a conversation or even perhaps a scream from a guest when they come into your house.

VO: Oh, you ARE a hoot!

MH: These have huge appeal today.

VO: Anatomical models revolutionized medicine.

Previously, students had to wait for fresh cadavers but, by the 19th century, mass-produced plaster models like these gave students greater access to study the human body.

Hopefully won't cost you an arm and a leg.

Ha-ha!

What else is there?

I think I know what these are.

I think these are off a London bus.

And these would have sat on the front inside a frame telling you where the bus was going and, inside, there would have been a little handle that the driver would turn to change the destination.

So what have we got?

We've got Romford, Romford Station.

We've got... Cambridge Heath.

We've got a bit of an east London thing.

I can see these would be interesting to a lot of people and I'm loving this East End vibe going on here.

I mean, imagine cutting these up and then framing them all and displaying them on a wall.

And they're not that common, either.

There's quite a lot of them here, though, and I wonder whether I could do a bulk discount.

A plan is hatched.

VO: Dear me, you spend all day waiting for antiques experts and then two come along at once.

Irita's arrived in Sawbridgeworth at the Herts & Essex Antiques Centre.

Our dealer from Derby has a purse bulging with £427 she's itching to spend.

IM: When I first glanced at it, I was 100% sure that it was an early Napoleonic prisoner-of-war straw-work box.

It has all the signs of it.

I mean, it's a rather cool shape.

Every single bit of this is made with straw.

One drawback - one bit that took my excitement ever so slightly away.

The base is actually wood.

That means it's straw-work on wood - so it is not as early as I thought it might be.

However... look at the quality.

It's not as old as I thought, but £15.

£15.

That is a bargain!

This one's coming with me.

VO: Time for a deal.

IM: Hello, Polly.

DEALER: Oh, hi, there.

Hello.

DEALER: Can I help you?

IM: Yes!

It is priced at a very fair £15.

It is.

No haggling.

Very easy.

£15 right there.

OK.

Thank you.

IM: Thank you very much, Polly.

DEALER: You're welcome.

IM: Have a good one.

Bye!

DEALER: Thank you.

Bye-bye.

VO: Well, that was simple.

£15 spent, leaving Irita with £412 to go on with.

Now, 30 miles away on the farm, let's get back to Mark at Markyate.

I rather like this dinky little pendant lamp.

This really shouts arts and crafts.

And it was all about sort of rejecting industry and going back to handcrafts.

And, sometimes, it's sort of folklore, sort of medieval.

It's kind of a romantic view of those styles.

And this lantern with this sort of hand-beaten - there's very much the evidence of hand craftsmanship here - effect on the brass really sums up the arts-and-crafts movement to me.

I've only got 99 quid.

But, you know, it's worth asking.

As my mum always used to say, "Well, the only thing they can say is no."

Better track down Dawn, then, and see what she can do.

MH: Dawn.

Hello?

DEALER: Hello.

Hi.

I am feeling so inspired.

This is amazing!

It's a real Aladdin's cave for me.

DEALER: Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm so pleased you love it.

I found a few eclectic, quirky objects, but I am working to a really, really tight budget so please, please be gentle with me.

OK. VO: So, that's a box of anatomy models, Routemaster bus signs and a brass lamp.

All unpriced.

What's the very best you could do?

DEALER: For all three?

MH: For three.

Yeah.

MH: Three items.

DEALER: About £100.

Ah, could we come down to... DEALER: Oh, er... MH: If I said 70?

I really want you to win.

MH: 70?

DEALER: Absolutely.

MH: Really?

DEALER: Yes.

Yes.

DEALER: Brilliant.

MH: Thank you!

Loved you coming to visit.

I have loved it here.

That is brilliant.

And this has made my day.

VO: Super generous, Dawn.

Thank you.

MH: I'll pop that there and go and collect my treasures.

DEALER: Brilliant.

MH: Thank you, Dawn.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

VO: That's £25 each for the brass lamp and box of body parts, ha, and £20 on the Routemaster signs, leaving Mark with £29.

Let's saddle up and hit the road.

Meanwhile, Irita has made her way to Clarence Park in St Albans - home of the St Albans Cricket Club.

She's here to meet Rebecca Kelly to learn about the sport, and a player who dedicated her life to raising the profile of the women's game.

Right-io, Irita - time to get kitted up.

Ready for it.

No spikes or studs.

Well, nobody said anything about heels.

Rebecca!

Irita!

You look fantastic!

IM: What do you think?

REBECCA: Heels.

I've never seen or coached anyone in heels before.

Well, there's first time for everything.

Right, what do I do?

Right.

Grab yourself a bat and we'll get started.

I'm guessing that's the bat.

REBECCA: That is the bat.

IM: OK. Ready.

Born ready.

Born ready.

Love it.

OK. Left hand goes on the top.

OK. And your right hand on the bottom.

And we can have a go at the pull shot.

REBECCA: Absolutely.

IM: OK.

So, it's a horizontal shot so your bat's going to be here.

IM: So, one leg forward.

REBECCA: Yeah.

I'm going to put the ball on the tee and it doesn't matter if you hit any of the objects, but the idea is to get the ball and hit it towards the clubhouse as hard as you can.

IM: OK. REBECCA: When you're ready.

IM: As hard as you can.

Yes!

I did it!

There you go!

That was amazing!

Well done, Irita!

Born for this.

VO: Women have played cricket for centuries - the first recorded women's match took place in 1745.

However, despite a rich tradition, women's cricket has always struggled to gain recognition.

One player who stepped up to the crease and worked to change the sport for women was Audrey Collins OBE.

And one beneficiary was our coach.

Would you be playing cricket if it wasn't for her?

No, I definitely wouldn't be.

She certainly got me onto the cricket scene.

Initially, I was just playing with boys and it was fantastic to actually go and play for the Radlett Vagabonds and play with other girls.

VO: She represented England in the Ashes in 1937 and was the longest-serving president of the Women's Cricket Association.

She passed away in 2010, but her memory lives on.

Her good friend Jane has come to meet Irita.

I have a photo of her here... IM: Oh, look!

JANE: ..as our club president.

Oh, she's wearing a dress.

Oh, how lovely!

JANE: Yeah.

IM: I thought...

I just had a go at cricket and I thought I was in very inappropriate attire, wearing a dress.

Well, Audrey never wore trousers, so you were absolutely playing the part.

And it's so important to have role models for females - IM: like her.

JANE: Yeah, absolutely.

And we were very lucky.

When she died - and she was well in her 90s when... when she died - um, we were left £1,000.

Um, and so we thought... We thought long and hard what to do with the £1,000 that was given to our club.

So we thought, what better way than to invest in - not just the Shield, there was a whole tournament, a girls' cricket tournament that continues in Audrey's name, which is... which is fantastic.

I think she would have been very, very proud of how you chose to spend the £1,000 she left you.

VO: Audrey Collins' achievements and dedication inspired a generation of girls to pick up the bat.

And today's women's cricket is growing at an unprecedented rate, finally gaining the recognition it deserves.

25 miles away, our boy in blue and the Herald are back on the road.

You know, out of the two of us - and I'm not trying to, you know, play the violin, the sob story - I think I'm the one under the most pressure because I've got to pull a bargain out of a bag.

I've got to find something for tens of pounds that's worth hundreds of pounds, even if I plan to get anywhere near where Irita is.

VO: Well, you've got one more chance to snaffle some bargains.

Our next and final shop on this leg is in Sawbridgeworth at the delicious-looking Maltings Antiques.

Looks like I'm here first, which means a head start.

VO: This family-run establishment has a bevy of bargains across five rooms and three floors.

Mark has just £29 left, so will have to make every penny count.

Irita, who's arriving close on Mark's heels, doesn't have that problem.

She still got a whopping £412.

Wow!

This area has all the quirks and quirky sells.

It's just a matter of finding the right quirky thing.

A lay figure of a horse.

So, if you're an artist learning to draw, this is for you.

It is a figure of a horse, in this instance, that you can adjust to whatever position you wish, and you can draw it.

And the early ones, they fetch some money - thousands and thousands of pounds.

It is priced at £135.

I think that's an option.

VO: To buy or not to buy, that is the EQUESTRIAN!

Let's trot on - huh!

- and find Mark.

I always try to think of something that is useful in the home.

And when you're looking at antiques, how would it fit into today's homes and would it actually still be useful in today's homes?

It's a little quirky, I admit, but I like this.

I kind of also like oversized or miniature things.

And what we've got here is, effectively, an oversized match striker.

So this would have sat by a fireplace and you'd have taken out a match - very long - struck it on the side, and then you didn't need to use tapers as you lean forward and light your fire.

I think it's 20th century, not quite sure when - earliest maybe 1920s or '30s, latest maybe '50s or '60s - but it's just got a look and it's within spitting distance of my budget.

£35.

I haven't seen one quite like it before, so I think I'm going to clutch this and see whether I can strike up a bargain.

VO: Agnieszka is the lady you have to speak with, Mark.

MH: Agnieszka.

DEALER: Oh, hello.

Hello.

I have a request.

DEALER: Go for it.

MH: It has £35.

You'd like to offer 34?

I would like to offer all the money I have - £29.

£29.

Can we do this?

Come on, baby, light my fire!

As it's you, yes, we can.

Thank you.

Fantastic.

I am delighted.

25.

This is literally every penny I have.

Nine.

Thank you so much... DEALER: Hope you do well.

MH: ..Agnieszka.

MH: I hope so, too.

Thank you.

DEALER: Thank you.

VO: And that's Mark all spent up.

But what about Irita?

Is she still shopping?

Vintage trunk.

£65.

It used to be made for traveling.

Now - you can have it as a coffee table, you can put your blankets inside.

It's practical.

It looks the part.

It has that real shabby-chic... ..feel to it that everybody seems to love right now.

That's it.

Decision made.

See how easy that was?

VO: So, that's the horse with £135 on the ticket and the trunk with 65.

Let's see if Agnieszka is feeling generous.

Agnieszka!

Hi, Irita.

Now, I want to buy two things, please, and I've come to see whether there is a deal to be done.

One was a lay figure of a horse.

The best we can do is £95.

OK. Also, upstairs there is, like, a green canvas chest thing and that was 65.

We can do 55 on that.

OK. VO: 150 in total.

Bargain!

Wow!

I'm spending my money like there's no tomorrow.

DEALER: Good luck with them.

IM: Thank you very much.

IM: It was lovely to meet you.

DEALER: And you.

IM: See you later.

DEALER: Bye.

VO: And that's our shopping on this leg concluded.

Back to the motor now, chaps.

Well, that was a day, Mark.

It was, but you look very happy, smiling.

See?

You're rather cheery.

What have you bought?

Oh, you wait and see.

Right - pub.

MH: Absolutely.

Swift half.

IM: No - cup of tea.

MH: Pff, boring!

IM: It's gonna be a long night.

MH: (CHUCKLES) (GASPS) Oh, my God!

Look at that fire engine.

That is fantastic!

MH: What a beautiful thing!

Now, that's how to make an arrival.

OK, I'm moving... We're moving... (GEARS CRUNCH) MH: Oh God!

When I get in gear, we're moving forward.

We're leaving the fire engine behind.

(CHUCKLES) Oh!

VO: Who needs a fire engine when you have the little Herald?

Sweet.

Nighty-night.

And so, here we are.

Auction day at last.

Bedford is the setting for our saleroom showdown.

How are you feeling?

I'm actually kind of, you know, excited.

IM: (GROANS) Come on, let's get this sorted.

VO: Indeed.

It's time to face the music at W&H Peacock.

There's no going back now.

This place is teeming with bidders and there's online bidding, too.

Running the rostrum today is Lindsay Taylor.

Mark spent practically every penny he has on his five lots.

What do you reckon, Lindsay?

LINDSAY: We've had a huge amount of interest in the Routemaster destination signs for this sale.

The market for any transport items is really good at the moment and this sale's going online and there's lots of people all around the country that would love these - especially those in Essex, where most of these are based.

So I think these are going to do really, really well, today.

VO: That will be music to Mark's ears.

Irita splurged three times as much as Mark on her five lots.

Lindsay?

LINDSAY: The lay figure of the horse is my particular favorite.

It's a lovely-looking item, it's articulated.

It's going to appeal to equestrian buyers, artists, and it's just a really good standout piece in any modern home today.

VO: Fabulous!

Time to take our places.

IM: Oh, my goodness!

MH: Oh, my goodness!

How are you feeling?

Nervy.

VO: Here we go.

It's Irita's miner's head under the hammer first.

LINDSAY: Who's got £20, start me?

MH: 20?

LINDSAY: £20.

10 to get on, then.

10 is bid.

At 10.

At 10.

I have £10 now.

It's the lady's bid at 10.

12 online.

At 12 now.

LINDSAY: 14.

MH: 10?

In the room here now at 14.

I have £14.

And 16.

Feel like I need to hide and pretend it's not mine.

£20.

22.

22.

Just sneaked in there.

24.

24 is bid now.

At £24.

This plaster bust selling online, then.

At £24.

VO: Not the best start.

A MINER £14 loss.

Ha!

I didn't dig myself out of a hole, though, Mark.

Heh-heh-heh!

See what you did there!

VO: Mark's Wedgwood glass candleholder is next.

Any interest at 20, then?

20 to get on.

MH: 20?

IM: Oh, no, she hasn't got it.

My commission takes it now... MH: No!

LINDSAY: ..at 10.

I have £10 now.

This is cheap here now.

At 10.

£10?

Oh, there's a bid over there.

Excellent.

Can't believe it.

12 in the room.

At 12.

There's one there!

It's the gentleman's bid.

We're in the room here at just £12.

VO: And Mark begins with a loss, too.

Well, that was a great start!

Well, you're doing better than me.

VO: It's early days yet.

But let's see how Irita's green canvas travel trunk gets on.

Who's got £30 to start me?

£30?

30 straight online.

At £30.

LINDSAY: Further bids... MH: It opened at 30.

At £30 now.

30's bid, at 30.

Has she got a bid?

Anybody in the room for this?

35 now?

40 is bid.

45 now?

45.

Come on!

It's online at 45.

Online bidder, £45.

LINDSAY: Super.

VO: Oh, dear.

Another loss.

It's not Irita's day so far.

Well, you know, small loss but... Can Mark's oversized fireside match striker light up at the auction?

Who's got 30 to start me?

£30.

30 straight online again.

You're in profit!

£1 profit so far!

LINDSAY: Back in the room now.

IM: First one!

35 and 40.

Well, they like it online.

I have £40 there.

They're nice and warm at home.

At £40, online bidder takes it, then.

Online has it.

Come on, someone!

Bid in the room.

First profit of the day.

I'm happy about that.

VO: A profit!

The bidders are sparking into life!

IM: We need more of those.

MH: Yes, we do!

It's the start of a lucky run for both of us.

VO: Here's hoping.

It's Irita's triangle box under the hammer next.

Who's got 30 again?

30?

20 start me.

IM: Oh, come on!

LINDSAY: Interest at 20?

20 is bid online again.

20.

IM: 20.

LINDSAY: £20 now.

20's online.

LINDSAY: I have £20.

IM: No, no!

I have £20.

It's online.

It's the maiden bid, selling online at just £20.

I mean, come on - even a small profit, it's still a profit.

It's money.

VO: £5 to the good for Irita but she needed it to do more.

We're heading the right direction.

We are.

We're beginning to move upwards.

Ever so slightly.

Taking off slowly.

A pound at a time.

(THEY CHUCKLE) We'll get there.

We'll get there!

VO: Mark's turn again now, with his collection of human organ models.

There we go, then.

Who's got 50 to start me?

LINDSAY: £50, surely.

IM: Go on.

50, straight online.

Doubled my money.

Gentleman's bid at 55.

Gentleman's bid at 60.

60 bid.

65 in the room now.

65... IM: Keep going.

LINDSAY: 70, new bidder.

75.

75 is behind.

80 bid online now.

80 online.

Hey, they're flying.

This is an auction.

90's bid online now.

And 95 in the room again.

At £95 there.

Gentleman's bid.

And 100.

They're not giving up online.

The online - they really want it.

120.

120 is online.

It's getting near to what I said.

This is great.

At £130 now.

It's a generous bid...

It's not bad for a bid of old body parts, is it?

130.

Yes!

Well done!

130.

That is fantastic.

VO: Crikey Moses!

Now, that's a real profit - just what Mark needed.

Back in the game!

VO: Irita's big-ticket item next - her Regency penwork figure.

Got a bit of interest on commission here.

Starts me at £20.

LINDSAY: 20 is bid.

IM: Oh, my God!

20!

22.

24, 26, 28.

I can't believe she's...

It's moving in the right direction but... 35 is my commission.

Selling, then, on the book... MH: Ooh!

LINDSAY: At 35.

IM: There's a bidder.

MH: There's a bidder here.

40.

Last chance now at 40.

We're in the room now at 40.

LINDSAY: I'm out.

IM: Oh, my God!

It's not... Don't give up.

Thank you.

VO: There are no words... but onwards.

And all aboard!

Because it's Mark's Routemaster bus signs coming up next.

Got tons of bids on commission.

I'm going to have to start at £140 on commission.

IM: What?!

LINDSAY: £140 starts me.

I'll take that.

160.

170.

LINDSAY: 180.

IM: God!

Mark, this is amazing!

190.

200.

IM: Oh, my...!

MH: Oh, my goodness!

220's here now.

220's on commission.

240 clears me now.

At £240 now.

All the bids online for these, then.

Last chance.

At 240... That was amazing.

VO: Another stonking profit for Marky boy.

He's back in the game now!

IM: Well done.

MH: Thank you.

A good buy, I think.

VO: Irita's final lot now - the artist's lay figure of a horse.

Start me at £30.

£30.

Oh, my God, I paid 95.

It's my commission bid.

Out at 45 in the room now.

Out at 45.

I've got 65 running online now.

Come on.

65, 70, 75 online now.

75...

Please give me a profit.

£80 is in the room now.

At £80, that's the gentleman's bid at 80.

It's yours, sir, and the horse is going, 80.

85, they're still going.

At £85 now.

Galloping on - online bid - takes it at 85.

IM: Oh, Mark!

MH: You're still smiling.

IM: Do you know why I'm smiling?

MH: Go on.

Because the next option is to cry.

VO: True.

So close yet so far.

It's a £10 loss, unfortunately, rounding off a disappointing day for Irita.

IM: Pff!

MH: I'll buy you a cuppa on the way out.

I think you're going to need to buy me more than that.

VO: And our last item for sale on this leg - Mark's arts and crafts pagoda lantern.

Who's got 30 to start me?

£30?

30 bid.

Now 35 and 40.

45, 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70.

75.

They're rolling online at 75.

75 for the lantern.

I have 75.

80 is in the room now.

At £80.

Gentleman's bid.

85 now.

85 and 90.

It's in the room now.

Stylish thing.

LINDSAY: I've got the room bidder here at 90.

Gentleman's bid.

The lantern's going.

It's yours, sir, at £90.

I'm happy with that.

IM: What can I say?

You know.

MH: (CHUCKLES) Yes!

VO: Always nice to end on a high.

Well done, Mark.

Come on, I need a cup of tea after that.

Sounds good.

VO: While you do that, we'll crunch the numbers.

Irita began this leg ahead with £570.80.

But a mixed bag of an auction means that, after auction costs, she has £438.28 still in her piggy.

Mark started this leg with a measly £114.78.

However, a stunning auction performance has seen Mark come right back into the game.

After the commission, he's topped up his piggy to £420.62.

Game on!

Right, I wasn't the queen of the auction but I'm going to take full advantage of this.

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