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

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

I'm on fire - yes!

Sold - going, going, gone.

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

But it's no mean feat.

50p!

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

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

Ooh!

Oh!

Ow!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

VO: It's the final leg of our tussle in a Triumph GT6... ..with Charles Hanson and Philip Serrell... ..auctioneers and best chums.

CHARLES (CH): I'm a bit wet sometimes, aren't I?

PHIL (PS): No you're not, you're lovely, Charlie.

Thanks mate.

VO: Phil's a Worcester man... ..and some say he has an affinity with dumb creatures.

You see, that's really nice... but it's a little DEER!

Ha!

Our Charles from Derbyshire is equally intuitive.

They say he can actually talk to antiques.

How much are you?

Are you really?

Where were you made?

Were you really?

VO: Charles certainly acquired a fan club last time.

£240.

Think I'm just gonna pack me car and go, Charlie.

I'll see you later on!

VO: He bought 30 fans and made over £900 profit at the auction.

We're selling at £480 for the fans.

F-A-N-S. What's it spell?

It's like a recurring nightmare, Charles.

VO: Phil began with £200 and after four trips to auction, he's managed to increase it to a respectable £357.50.

But he's overshadowed by rival Charles, who's turned his starting £200 into a mighty £1,191.44.

Shall I lend you a fiver?

Oh shut up.

No, shall I?

VO: Our boys set out from Southport in the North West of England and have covered over 800 miles as they weave their way towards Cirencester in the county of Gloucestershire.

Today they begin in Bucks at Old Wolverton and then take a trip round the Midlands before heading southwest for the deciding auction at Cirencester.

VO: Now part of Milton Keynes, Old Wolverton dates back to medieval times.

CH: Sounds like Wolverhampton.

VO: That was earlier in the trip, Charles.

The town's quite a transport hub too, once boasting a repair shop for the London to Birmingham railway, and then there's the Grand Union Canal, which also passes through.

CH: And there is my shop.

Take care.

I'm gonna get him!

CH: Hold on!

VO: Steady on Phil.

VO: Charles safely inside, it seems that Grandad's Collectables features vintage, retro and reproduction, with the occasional antique just waiting to be spotted.

If that is rococo, it's worth maybe three or four hundred pounds.

It's priced at 65.

I have a feeling it's probably a reproduction.

VO: And I've a feeling you might be right, but there's enough of a mix here to get him excited.

Sorry about that.

VO: I suggest you move to another part of the shop, Charles, smartish.

That's nice.

This is good.

Hidden in the corner.

Oh, that's nice.

That's pretty, look at that.

Oops!

Up she goes.

Art nouveau, with these nice bronzed coopered mounts.

It ought to be a log bin or a coal box.

Circa 1890, a splendid arts and crafts, oak-lined copper box, and it is really nice.

And it's priced at £98.

It's lovely.

I'm quite tempted with this, so I'll give it some thought.

So while Charles ponders still further, Phil's heading west - quite appropriate, really - making his way from Old Wolverton to Sulgrave... ..and the ancestral home of George Washington.

Simon, Philip, how are you?

Philip, welcome to Sulgrave Manor.

Yeah.

It's lovely this.

This is a house and a half, isn't it?

It's a lovely house.

VO: The manor was built on the site of an old priory in the mid 16th century by Lawrence Washington, a wealthy farmer and wool trader, who was the great-great- great-great-great-grandfather of the first president of the USA.

So this is 1550, and George Washington is when?

1732 he was born, so we're talking 200-odd years before.

PS: There's all sorts going on here, isn't there?

First thing we've got our flag.

SIMON: Yes.

Then we've got the stars and stripes...

Yes.

But you've got... SIMON: Yes, you've got the... PS: Three stars and two stripes.

Indeed, yes, on the front of the house.

This is the Washington family coat of arms, and was awarded to the family at the Battle of Cressey in 1346.

Is that where the stars and stripes comes from?

Well, many people say it is.

When George Washington became president of this new country, a lady called Betsy Ross was given the task of designing and making a flag for this new country, and apparently it was Martha Washington, George's wife, had a little word in Betsy's shell-like, and said, "My husband's first president - "you should base the flag on his coat of arms."

Oh right.

VO: I'm not sure what the Americans will make of the idea that their flag is based upon English spurs and rivers of French blood, but as the ancestral home of the first president, it really is a must see.

Not only do they have several portraits and even items of clothing once belonging to George Washington, but in the Great Hall they even have it in writing.

Our first known Washington, a gentleman called William de Hertburn.

He was lord of the manor of Hertburn in North East England, had his manor confiscated from him really by the Bishop of Durham, but the Bishop rather kindly gave him another one called the Manor of Wessington, so he had to move with his family to... Wessington, Washington, Wessington, Washington.

Wessington evolved into Washington.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And if that hadn't happened, the president of the United States would now be living in Hertburn DC.

VO: George's most influential forebear was his great-grandfather John, who emigrated to Virginia in 1657, becoming a tobacco planter and subsequently a captain of the local armed militia.

George followed in his footsteps and when the War of Independence began in 1775, Washington was appointed commander-in-chief.

PS: Gilbert Stuart painted this.

SIMON: Yup.

This is an original Gilbert Stuart, but it's not THE-THE original.

Washington only sat for Stuart once, and from that one sitting Stuart produced a very famous portrait called the Athenaeum Portrait.

Right.

And the story goes that someone was visiting Stuart's studio one day, saw the Athenaeum Portrait and said to Stuart, "I rather like that - will you do one for me?"

And Stuart said, "Give me $100 and I'll do it."

And reportedly Stuart did this about 130 times.

Lord above.

He effectively made his living out of painting the same portrait again and again and again.

He had a production line.

VO: The Athenaeum original remained unfinished, but Stuart's famous image of the first president's face was to be reproduced about a squillion more times and counting.

SIMON: It's on the dollar bill.

PS: Is it?

And this is supposedly one of the great mistakes of history.

Back then when you printed something it was reversed and printers had to re-reverse it to get it the right way round, but apparently they forgot to re-reverse the portrait of George Washington, so the dollar bill has the same face on it as you see here but...

But... it's the other way round.

It's the other way around.

And he's still there now.

And he's still there now to this very day.

Tell me, does your canteen accept these?

We will from you Phil.

Come on, let's go, I'll buy you a cup of tea.

This has been fantastic, I've really enjoyed it.

VO: Now talking of hard cash, any news on Charles's first shop?

How did you get on this morning, Charlie, did you spend some money?

It was a really nice shop, it was a new...

Sorry, am I boring you?

Sorry Phil!

Am I boring you?

VO: Actually Phil, he didn't part with as much as a penny, which should add a little spice to your trip to Brackley.

VO: Just down the road from Silverstone, Brackley is the home of the Mercedes Formula One Grand Prix team and some fine Georgian architecture.

The Antique Cellar is huge.

Plenty of room and enough choice to hopefully get our two revved up and off the grid.

These are nice... not really.

VO: Lordy, it's turning into one of those days.

But with his comfortable lead, Charles can dilly-dally as much as he likes.

The pressure is very much on Phil.

I am not going to catch him up by spending 30 quid here and 40 quid there.

I've got to spend every last penny I've got.

VO: And speaking of Penny... Hi Penny, you've got the key, brilliant.

Yep.

What would you like to look at?

I'm going to look at that man in armor.

Ooh!

Like a knight in shining armor.

Nothing like a man in armor!

You think so?

Well Phil's around somewhere, you know, Phil's around on the prowl.

Now what age is that?

PENNY: I can't imagine there's a great age to it.

VO: A novelty cigar lighter, priced £25.

That's quite nice.

PENNY: That's rather nice, isn't it?

Yeah, it's just missing something, isn't it?

What's it missing?

A sword.

Yeah.

It is quite novel.

It's quirky, isn't it?

It is quirky.

Is there much room for maneuver in that price?

Um... not an awful lot I'm afraid.

What's your best?

Penny, whisper to me.

Penny, whisper to me.

22.50.

Say again?

22.50.

22.50.

The protocol in your big emporium is 10%, CH: isn't it, on most lots?

PENNY: It is I'm afraid.

Yeah, and that's good.

You know where you are, there's no hidden sort of... £15?

No!

Take 15?

No, because it's all about 10% here.

So you've got to be fair.

VO: Close but no cigar, Charles.

Now what's Phil got his eye on?

PS: Those are quite fun, aren't they?

I think they're quite nice.

I mean, they're no great age, probably 1920s, but they're quite decorative things, just made a little bit out of the ordinary by all this lot here.

This is mahogany, this is probably stained beech or something.

VO: Well, he did buy a rudder on an earlier leg.

And as I'm so far behind Charlie, I do appear to be up the creek without a paddle.

These might do the job, mightn't they?

Look at that.

We could perhaps have a go at those.

VO: Nice, but at a £30 ticket price they're hardly the make-or-break gamble he had in mind.

Time to have a word with Penny.

MAN: Just need a boat now.

PS: Absolutely.

VO: A boat?

Please don't tempt him.

They're nice.

Yeah, well, they're a bit of fun, aren't they?

Yeah.

I think they're probably painted, aren't they?

Rather than actually inlaid.

Looks like they're painted.

VO: Ah.

I think he's after a bit more than 10% by the sound of it.

Can we do those for 20 quid?

What's on them?

PS: 30.

PENNY: OK. VO: (WHISTLES) First buy, at the very end of the day.

Now, how's he going to keep those hidden?

Better get an early night, chaps - there's an awful lot of shopping to do tomorrow.

Shall we pick some blackberries?

I am not going blackberrying with you.

Why not?

People will talk!

There's cars behind us.

VO: Good grief, eh?

Nighty-night.

VO: Next day, things are a trifle soggy.

Charlie, why are we at the hedge?

I'm not - sorry, I can't see a thing out the window.

VO: Well, I hope they can find their way to the next shop - ha!

- because the £20 that Phil lavished on a pair of paddles was for whatever reason - oh my - the sum total of their purchasing efforts yesterday.

They charge like a wounded rhino in here.

VO: So he's got to play a blinder today and hope that Charles takes his eye off the ball, because with time running out Phil's still over £800 behind.

Later they'll be making for that Cotswolds climax in Cirencester, but the next stop is in Northamptonshire at Weedon Bec, birthplace of Leo G Carroll... ..Mr Waverley in TV's The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

PS: What are you doing?

CH: I'm trying to help you out.

With a friend like you Charlie, I don't need any help - ah, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie!

Ow!

Pull yourself up!

What's up?

My hand!

Sorry!

Sorry Phil!

Sorry!

VO: (GUFFAWS) So much for our agents being undercover.

Right, are you going that way and I'll go this way?

Um, why don't we think about it?

Why don't I go that way... No, no, because I want to go this way.

Bye-bye Charlie.

VO: (LAUGHS) VO: Let's hope for Phil's sake he's off in the right direction.

But there's plenty to choose from here at Shires Antiques Centre.

Let the games commence, eh?

There we go, just like that.

VO: Charles of course has still got an awful lot of cash burning a hole in his pocket.

Any really, really interesting bits of big silver that might cost me £400?

I can afford it.

VO: Blimey Charles.

Now, we know you're very fond of those.

What's the best price?

That can be, today, 2,000.

Could it really?

Look at that, you see...

Charge him more, he's got plenty!

Add some on!

VO: Helpful Phil.

Don't take it off, he's got thousands.

Get out of here!

If you don't ask a question, you never know.

It's a wonderful thing.

I can't quite afford it.

If it could go maybe a bit less I could do.

Serious, serious work of art, I love it.

VO: OK, let's forget the suit of armor - even moneybags here can't buy that.

Now, from top dollar to bargain basement.

It's a pine, probably late 18th-century pine box.

Quite sweet, you may use it for your shoes or for whatever purpose you may find, and then you've just got some quite attractive Hornby bits and pieces in here, which is quite nice.

VO: That's one way of describing them.

The market is pretty buoyant for such tinplate toys from the 1940s, 50s.

Here you've got a Portland Plus Circle cement mixer, and this will probably date again to the early '50s.

I just feel, what's the best price on this?

We've got 10 on that.

We could do that at five but that would be for you.

Yeah, OK, I'll have that, thanks very much.

That's my first buy.

I'm a rocket today, I've got to get going, so a fiver, thanks very much, I'll take it.

No problem.

Lovely.

Right, I'll keep on going.

VO: Thanks to John, Charles has finally got started.

His traveling companion's got his eye on a box too.

In the late 18th century, early 19th century, before you went to bed you got a candle to put in your chamber stick, and went up the stairs and off you went.

And the candles were kept in a box at the bottom of the stairs, and that's it, it's called a candle box, and that's just a really sweet thing.

It's going to make at auction £80-120, but I think the dealer's missed a trick here, because he said this is Victorian oak, and I actually think that's probably elm.

Elm's a little bit more sought after.

OK, I'm going to go and ask what the best they can do is and perhaps if we can put it by.

VO: I wonder what Alison can do on it.

The ticket price is £149.

Wow!

That belongs to our restorer.

We're selling it for him.

Yeah.

The best on that is 120 on its own.

OK. Could you hang onto that for me PS: while I have a look around?

ALISON: Yeah, no worries.

Yep.

VO: I think he'll be back.

Charles meanwhile has tracked down a cabinet with some very nice silver.

This is a lovely... what you call a George III silver helmet-shaped cream jug.

This is 1769, nine years after that madman came on the throne, who was...?

1769?

Which king was that?

In France or in England?

George II.

George III.

That's OK.

Thanks for coming!

It was George III.

I-I'm very much up on my French history!

Yeah, good man, good man, good man.

VO: Not so hot on his British monarchs.

But Alan does have some good things.

I like that, just because...

It's cheap as well.

This - well...

It is for what it is.

It's a pretty silver neoclassical style... sifter?

CH: What is it?

ALAN: Salter I would've thought.

It is a salter, because you'll see here, when it's being cleaned on this cover, the holes have been filled in... Yeah, with the cleaner.

CH: ..by the cleaner, so... ALAN: That wasn't me.

No.

So actually now if you were to use it you wouldn't have any salt come out, because the cleaning agent has obviously filled in the holes.

VO: The ticket price on the sifter is £65, but the jug's a hefty £260.

CH: What's the absolute best on that?

To give me, to give me... To give me a...

I need to eat as well.

Of course you do, absolutely.

50 quid alright?

CH: It's pretty.

ALAN: £30?

Make it 35 and we'll do it.

Yeah, go on, I'll do it.

Good man.

Thanks Alan.

Now, if I said to you, what's the best on that...?

85.

£80 to you.

VO: Blimey, that's a big discount!

It's 18th century.

How often can you buy a bit of 18th century silver?

Yeah, exactly.

What other piece of 18th century have you found in here?

Do it for 60.

Do it for 60.

I'll do it for 65.

Oh, don't say that!

Well, I tell you what then, call it 100 for the two.

So that would be 40 and that would be 60.

ALAN: Yeah.

CH: I'll take it.

Thanks mate.

ALAN: There we go.

CH: That's three down, OK?

Look, when the going gets tough... You've got to do it.

VO: Well done - I think he's mad about that bargain bit of Georgian.

This is George III, 1769, isn't it?

Yes, it's hallmarked.

Who was king of England?

George II.

No, it was George III!

Oh, God!

Hold on, let's take three!

Who was king of England?

George III.

CH: Good lad.

Put it there.

(THEY CHUCKLE) That's a deal.

VO: And they said HE was a bit eccentric.

Ah, Phil's got his eye on some of his beloved Worcester.

That was painted probably about 80 yards from my office and it's called painted fruit, and the people who painted fruit, the greatest fruit painter there ever was was a man called Richard Sebright, and that plate is painted by Richard Sebright.

VO: The ticket price is £190.

PS: I just want to check there's no damage to it.

What's interesting here, look, this is made in Worcester, and you can date it by counting up these... That star there, if you can see that star, they started putting that on in 1916 and then each year after they added a dot, so you've got 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925.

So is that what the ticket says?

1925.

Probably should have read that in the first place.

VO: Not so much fun though.

And then we want to look for restoration and the problem with it is, you can see here, look, there's cut marks there, there, there, there.

Now that wants to be 120-180 quid.

How are we fixed on that one?

Um...

I can do 150 on that plate.

It's getting there.

If I bought the two do you think you could do me a deal?

This and the candle box?

Could you really help me out?

240 would be the best on the two.

VO: When you only have £337.50 that is quite a sum, albeit for a nice couple of things.

Can I give you £200 for the two?

I can't, unfortunately.

Can we split the two down the middle?

Can we go 220 for the two, and then I'll definitely have them both?

What am I doing here, what am I doing?

VO: Gambling, Phil.

You'll need to if you want to catch him.

I really can't, I'm sorry.

Put them by for me and I'll be back in a minute.

OK. VO: Time for Alison to call the dealer.

Now, what's Charles getting excited about?

First Worcester and now Derby - I think they're both feeling a bit homesick.

It's a very sweet dog.

Isn't that nice?

What's the best price on that?

What could it be like?

Could it be like £15, do you think?

I don't think we could go that far.

I think this dealer would probably go to 25 on that at the best.

OK. Why I like this, it's obviously from my hometown, a nice Royal Crown Derby paperweight.

Has its gold stopper.

It's called The Spaniel.

And it's just quite a nice object.

There are lots of dog lovers out there, it's Posie.

Think she'd go 20 for it?

Erm... Is it worth a call?

I think she'd do 20 on that.

You sure?

For you.

It's a modern-day collectable.

Put it there and say sold for £20.

I like it.

VO: Woof woof - yet another buy for Charles.

But how about Phil's double deal for the candle box and the plate?

How can we do, my love?

ALISON: Yes, deal's done.

PS: Oh, you're an angel, you're an angel, you're an angel.

120 for...

He appreciates that's gonna affect the value of it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

That's lovely, thank you very much indeed.

VO: Phil, having bagged that brace for £220, is off to pastures new.

But Charles just can't stop buying this morning.

John, is this your squeezebox?

Yeah.

I just...

The market at the moment is quite bullish for instruments, be it violins, be it concertinas, which this one is, and of course this one's made by quite a good maker, in Lachenal, London, marked, and if you have an auction which is vibrantly online, these can do quite well, and importantly, what's really important to collectors, obviously when it comes to restoration, there's no holes in the actual squeezebox.

There's a restored, I think, maybe hole on the corner here.

There's a couple of tears in the hexagonal corners of the squeezebox, but it's just a great thing, and I can't play them but I wish I could do, because it's just folk art.

What's the best price on this?

It's not priced, I don't think, is it?

I think we've got 120 on it, we could do that for 90 for you.

Wouldn't go a bit less, would you, at all?

I was going to offer maybe £60 cash for it.

I couldn't do 60 on it.

We could go to 80 but that would be the death on it.

I think we're really close... ..but I'll leave it for the time being.

JOHN: OK. CH: I'll leave it.

VO: Fair enough.

He's already spent an awful lot, after all.

Time to settle up.

CH: That's cost me 125.

I could almost make it up to a round £200... ..which would mean I would pay you £75 for the squeezebox.

The man's nodding over there.

That's a done deal then.

VO: Well, if the boss accords.

Thank you.

Sure?

Absolutely.

Guys, thanks ever so much.

VO: (WHISTLES) That was some shop, with those two splashing out over £400 between them, and now Phil's after more... ..stepping a little further into the center of Weedon Bec to visit Helios & Co. Good morning.

How are you?

Not too bad.

I'm Philip.

Hello.

I'm Barry.

This looks a shop and a half.

VO: Yep, impressive, isn't it?

Phil probably wishes he had a bit more than just over £100.

But with Barry's help, I'm sure a little something can be rustled up.

That's quite a nice piece, it's interesting.

I mean it's...

It's well made.

Probably...

It would make a half decent sort of, you know, wastepaper basket or something.

A very good one.

VO: Or you could describe it as a cooper jardiniere.

And what would be the best you could do on that?

70.

Is that good?

I quite like that.

I quite like that.

VO: Yeah, this could go down well in Cirencester Phil.

Now what's he got there?

This is great, I love this.

This is a Lazy Susie.

I'm not quite sure where it gets the nickname from, but it's called a Lazy Susie, cuz you would sit at the dining table and if you wanted your neighbor to have that, just spin it round to him like that.

VO: The origins of the Lazy Susan are hazy, but they were said to be popular with car pioneer Henry Ford.

Some claim it's a German innovation, but modern versions are often found at Chinese buffets.

I like that.

It's very simplistic.

VO: The price is £145 but Barry's come up with a third object to ponder.

Does that not interest you?

That's rather fun, you know.

Nice bit of 19th century... A little spinning wheel.

Yeah, a spinning wheel.

I'm not sure what for, because it's not wool, is it?

It's too small.

No.

So you'd put your foot on there, wouldn't you?

And then there should be a piece of twine that goes round there.

And then as you treadle this...

But how could somebody work it with a foot unless it was a child?

I think it's a child's spinning wheel.

It's a piece of decoration in its own right, so it would sit on a sideboard.

On a sideboard, chest of drawers.

Yeah.

It would dress it.

Yep.

And it's a very interesting thing.

VO: Quite, Barry.

Now there's really no messing about with these chaps.

All three items side-by-side and let the bargaining commence.

I've got £117.50 to spend, that's my budget.

Right.

VO: He took that well, I thought.

The ticket price on that was 145, the ticket price on that is 85 and the ticket price on that is 98.

You tell me what the best price is on each.

That one is going to be £90.

OK. Those I would do for 100 for the two if it helps.

Hundred for the two?

For the two, but that is the absolute bottom on them.

I'm going to just shake you by the hand.

Oh, alright then.

Yeah.

That's wizard.

I love those two.

VO: So with the spinning wheel and a wooden bucket, Phil's done.

That's lovely.

Brilliant, thank you very much.

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Now then, let's see what Charles has been up to.

VO: He's triumphantly tootling in the Triumph from Weedon Bec to Coventry in the West Midlands, to hear the naked truth about one of its famous ancestors.

Hi.

Abby.

Oh, I thought you were Lady Godiva.

No, no, 'fraid not, but I can tell you about her.

And I'm Charles Hanson, good to see you.

Nice to see you.

Let's go!

Fantastic.

VO: Holy Trinity Parish Church, in the very heart of Coventry city center, has been part of the city's story since the 12th century, when it once stood beside the priory established by Leofric, Earl of Murcia, and his famous wife, Godiva.

I think somehow the spin on Lady Godiva, she's just become known as this sort of topless lady... ABBY: Absolutely.

..who floats many a male boat.

She was a really committed Christian woman and believed that God wanted justice for the meek.

Lady Godiva said she would do what she did to protest against her husband's taxes, and the way we know she protested, the myth is that she rode naked on the back of a horse through the city, but she asked the people of Coventry to look away out of respect.

CH: Close their shutters.

ABBY: Exactly.

And of course the story goes that this man called Tom found a way of looking, and got caught.

VO: And so the legend of the Peeping Tom was born.

The people of Coventry did get their tax cut and there's even a window in Holy Trinity honoring the famous protester.

Do you ever recreate the Lady Godiva scene?

Is it a tradition here?

We have, we have a Coventry Lady Godiva.

Do you really?

There's a lady who kind of is Lady Godiva.

Is she here today?

Not here today I'm afraid, no!

VO: The Benedictine priory was destroyed by Henry VIII, but Holy Trinity survived and was restored in the 17th century.

The puritans however took exception to a significant work of medieval art, the Coventry Doom, and whitewashed it over.

Thankfully, this too has now been restored.

CH: What is so doomful about that?

ABBY: It's about the last judgment, so when Jesus comes back to earth and judges people on the choices they've made in their life.

Yes.

Absolutely, and so the boat like things are actually coffins, so they're souls coming, rising up from their coffins to be judged by Jesus.

VO: The Victorians rediscovered the painting but coated it in a varnish which became so dark it was almost hidden again.

Coventry was to overcome much worse hardships in the subsequent century.

Has someone spilled a pot of ink down there?

Afraid not, no, it's actually marks from the Blitz, from incendiaries that fell through into the building during the Blitz.

The whole of the city center was hit.

Obviously we're right in the middle of the city centre, right next to the cathedral, which so famously was completely destroyed.

VO: When the Second World War began, car-manufacturing Coventry was considered a prime target for Luftwaffe bombing and there had already been several raids before the terrible night of 14th November 1940, when the nearby cathedral was destroyed, along with much the city's ancient centre.

ABBY: We have a picture of the morning after that night, so from what would have been a maze of little medieval streets and buildings all around the church, all that's left is the church.

VO: But the apparently miraculous survival of Holy Trinity did have quite a lot of human help.

ABBY: The vicar, the Reverend Graham Clitheroe, he and his team kept vigil basically night after night in case of attack, and on the night itself he did these amazing things like kicking incendiaries off the roof so they didn't take hold, so determined that this building would not be destroyed, and it wasn't.

VO: Time now, in the grounds of this beautiful and historic church, for our boys to finally reveal their wares.

Which is your favorite bit, Charlie?

I love the box.

That appears to be what, elm?

PS: Yes.

CH: Late 18th century.

Is it a candle box Phil?

Candle box, yeah.

Gorgeous, gorgeous box which I think will do really, really well.

If that came into my saleroom tomorrow I'd say, "I love your elm candle box."

I love your patination, Phil, as well, gorgeous patination.

I think somebody's put a lot of polish into that, Charlie.

They have.

That's over many, many years.

I think, Phil, that would fetch probably at auction between 150 and 250, what did it cost you?

That cost £100.

Yeah, that's a really, really good buy.

My second favorite lot is probably... What's the plate down here, Phil?

Worcester, Richard Sebright.

Just about the best fruit painter there was.

Well, you are the authority, Phil, when it comes to Royal Worcester.

Don't know about that, Charlie.

CH: No, you are.

PS: 1925.

That cost me £120.

It's got a puce mark as well, gorgeous.

Yeah.

See, that could make 300 quid.

It could.

You've got some big margins here potentially, Phil.

Well, I don't know.

You have!

VO: Yeah, but those could go either way Charles.

Now your turn.

This is my collection.

Just for you.

That squeezebox looks good, Charlie.

What do you think?

Well these things make money, don't they?

CH: Yeah.

PS: I mean, they do.

Yeah.

Um, and is that like 100, 150 quid Charles?

I hope so.

It's a Lachenal, it's a good name.

It has got a few condition issues which will affect value but it comes with its box, it's got a few holes in the squeezer... Just details Charlie, details.

CH: Exactly.

PS: How much was that?

It was £75.

Yeah.

So £100 sort of gets you your money back, doesn't it?

Exactly.

Exactly.

But Phil, I've bought some history.

CH: You know, I love history.

PS: Charlie... Where we - yeah?

What on earth is that?

Well Phil, after our road trip I'm going back to Derby, you know, I'm going back to where it all began for me, Derby, and this is Royal Crown Derby from the year 1997.

What's really rare is Imari was always the design used on paperweights.

Very rarely did they use a Posie, and that's a Posie dog, and the dealer wasn't quite aware of its potential, I don't think.

PS: (GROANS) VO: But what do they really think?

I've looked really hard in Charlie's lots and for the life of me I can't see £1,000 in there this time.

I don't quite understand that Derby paperweight but you know, Charlie's the Derby expert.

Maybe he says that's what it is, that's what it is.

I really think Phil has saved the best till last.

I love almost everything he's bought.

I think his star lot must be his elm candle box, circa 1760, could do very, very well, so who knows?

He could make a three or four hundred pound profit.

Whilst I think I'm going to struggle to catch him up...

..I'm hoping I might just win this leg.

He'll do very well but he won't catch me.

VO: After starting out in Old Wolverton, Bucks, the final episode of our Road Trip will conclude at a deciding auction in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

TO TUNE OF "LONDON'S BURNING": # Antique Road Trip # Antique Road Trip # Make a profit Make a profit.

# PS: Were you annoying as a child?

CH: Yeah.

PS: Very annoying.

VO: As the second-largest town in the Roman province of Britannia, Cirencester, or Corinium, must have been quite something.

Several hundred years later it's now much, much smaller than Londinium, but nonetheless no worse for that.

PS: Do you know what?

CH: Yes?

You know the loser always drives?

Right?

I've been your chauffeur for a week!

VO: Welcome to Moore Allen & Innocent, who've been doing this sort of thing for so long they could have started out in an amphitheater.

They didn't though.

But what does auctioneer Philip Allwood make of our two chaps' lots?

PHILIP ALLWOOD (PA): The Royal Worcester cabinet plate, pretty, well painted, lots of things going for it.

One downside - little bit scratched, so 80 to 120, where in good condition it could be two or three hundred pounds.

The concertina by one of the good makers, Louis Lachenal.

Unfortunately it's got a couple of little holes in the actual bag but still should be around the sort of 100, £150, around there.

We shall see.

VO: Charles began today's leg with £1,191.44 and he spent just £200 on five auction lots.

Good man.

VO: Whilst Phil started out with £357.50 and he's parted with £340, also on five lots.

Yes.

Oh, you're an angel, you're an angel.

Deal's done.

VO: Catching Charles is a long shot, but can Phil do it?

His paddles could get him started.

Who'll bid £30?

30 I'm bid on the net.

Good lad.

That's a profit.

At £30, got to be cheap at £30, five here, at £30 the bid, at £30, five anywhere?

Five, thank you.

Good lad!

PA: At 35, in the room now... PS: Well!

I can't believe it - that's £12 I've made.

I'm absolutely astounded Charlie.

Doubled your money Phil, you've doubled your money.

Well, look at this.

At £40, you all sure then at 40?

(GAVEL) PS: Absolutely... phew!

VO: That little profit's just a drop in the ocean.

Next is Charles's George III jug.

Who'll start me?

Is that 50 to get on?

£50?

Oh no.

30 to get on then.

£30, got to be 30, hasn't it?

1769.

Oh... At £20 I'm bid here, at £20, got to be cheap at £20 only.

At £20, five, 30, at £30 I have.

This is cheap.

Five, 40, five, 50, five, 60, five, 70, five, at 75 here, £80.

Keep going, come on!

At £75 in the room now, at £75, you all sure?

75 it is and that's number...

It could have been a lot worse.

That could have been £25.

It looked like he was going to sell it for less than scrap.

Frightening, isn't it?

Yeah.

VO: Or encouraging, Phil.

A tiny profit after costs.

CH: It's a hard game Phil.

Do you want to swap?

No, I'm OK. VO: Phil's jardiniere or wastepaper basket - who cares as long as Cirencester loves it?

£30.

20?

Got to be £20.

A tenner then?

£10 for the... £10 I'm bid there, at 10, at 12, 15, 18, 20, five, 30, at £30 on my right here, at £30, five anywhere now?

It's moving.

At £30, it's on my right.

Selling here on my right, you all done then at 30?

(GAVEL) CH: How much did it make, £30?

PS: Yeah!

CH: Oh Jeez!

VO: It's looking like profits will be few and far between.

Hand on heart, I think it's worth nearer £100.

VO: Now for Charles's other bit of silver.

50.

Come on.

£30 to get on, stylish little piece, £30.

It's heavy.

20 then, got to be £20 in it, £20 I'm bid here, at 20.

£20, five.

30.

Five.

40.

Five.

50, at £50 on my right now, £50.

Come on, one more.

That's good Charlie, that's good.

Disappointing.

All done then at 50?

But you're nurdling good little profit, I mean little profit.

I'm pleased, I'm pleased Phil.

You know what?

Just to come here, it's a tough auction house.

VO: Yet another close one, but it's not over yet.

I'm nibbling along Phil, I'm nibbling.

VO: This is the big one.

If Phil's fruity Worcester does well, he could be back in it.

Yes, £30 I'm bid here on the net, at £30, five anywhere now?

120.

At £30.

Five anyone else?

Here, at £30, five, at 35, 40 if you like now, at 35, it's in the room.

It's the cheapest thing I've ever seen.

At £40, you... Five, thank you madam, at 45, 50 now.

Now it's moving, now it's moving.

At £50, five if you like.

Now it's moving, it's moving, it's moving.

At £55.

60.

At 65, at 65, 70 now then?

At 65, 70 on the net, at £70 it's here, sure?

At £70, you all sure?

It's selling here on the net then at 70.

That's just 50 quid down the drain, Charlie.

VO: Someone's got a really good thing for a really low price.

How do you feel?

Er... like I've felt every other day on this road trip!

Look at me.

I love you mate!

VO: Time for Charlie's floral pooch to have its day.

CH: (HOWLS) It's howling, Charlie.

I know, I'm howling for a profit.

It's a rare thing.

£20 here only.

That's cheap, isn't it, Charlie?

It's cheap.

Keep going!

At £30, five now, at £30, still cheap at £30, five anywhere now?

At 35, 40 if you like sir?

Go on!

Go on, go on sir!

It's a rare thing!

It's a rare thing!

One more for the road!

PA: It's here... 40.

CH: Yes!

At £40, five give me now, at £40.

Charlie, I love you.

Sorry.

One more!

At £40 the bid here, you all sure now then at 40?

Good lad.

Brilliant.

Well done Charlie, well done Charlie.

Thank you sir.

VO: He's doubled his money.

Can't complain.

At least I haven't made a loss.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I have.

Exactly.

Thanks Charlie!

VO: Phil's candle box.

Will it set the auction alight or finally snuff out his hopes?

£30?

20?

At £20 a bid there, £20, five, 30, at £30 on my left now, £30, five anywhere now?

Five, 40 to me madam, at £40, 35 here, at £35 it's on my left.

Come on.

At £35 and selling on my left then at 35.

That's for nothing, isn't it?

Really is for nothing.

VO: Another big loss and another big bargain for someone.

Phil, look at me.

It's not quite the finale, is it, we wanted?

No.

VO: Charles's toy box was so cheap it can't fail.

£5 a bid there, five, eight, 10 on the net, 12.

Come on internet!

£12, 15 if you like now, at 12 here, 15, at 15, 18 if you like now, £15, 18, at 18, 20 if you like now, at 18, 20, at £20, five now, at £20 and selling on the net then.

Going.

All done, selling here, at 25.

Put it there Phil - oh, over there!

At 25, in the room now at 25, 30... Go on my son!

Come on!

At £25 bid here, at 25, at 30 if you like now.

Keep going.

£25.

They can't see you on the net!

At £25, at £25.

I'm over here!

Sorry.

It's too late anyway.

Go on!

PA: At 25.

CH: Thanks very much.

(GAVEL) CH: Well done.

Very good Phil, put it there.

Well done matey.

VO: It's all going the way of the winner in waiting.

So Phil just needs his spinning wheel to make over £1,000.

PA: Start me, 50.

VO: Huh!

£30, pretty little wheel there.

£30?

20 to get on.

I don't believe, I don't believe this.

Got to be £20, hasn't there?

20?

A tenner?

At £10 a bid here, at 10, 12 if you like now, £10 a bid here.

I just think that's funny.

It's good, yeah.

At £10 only, at £10.

12 if you like now.

£10.

Thanks for coming here.

Yeah, I really enjoyed this!

£10.

(GAVEL) PA: £10.

(THEY LAUGH) Oh my life!

How can that be worth £10?!

Give me a hug!

Give me a hug!

Oh Charlie, how is that worth a tenner?

VO: Oh dear.

At times like these it's best to see the funny side.

I had a dream just then that that made £10.

I've had a nightmare!

VO: What can Charles squeeze out of this one, I wonder?

Start me at 100.

CH: Come on.

PA: 100 to get on.

CH: Come on.

PS: 50 then.

CH: Oh!

PA: At £50, a bid here at 50.

Five, 60, five, 70.

Five, 80, five, 90.

Go on.

Five, 100, and five, 110, at 110.

CH: Come on.

PA: 110, 120 now.

Internet, come on!

130.

At 130, are you all sure?

One more.

(GAVEL) PA: 130 it is.

Great, delighted.

VO: So you should be, Charles.

When you had theater, drama and romance, I had tragedy, tragedy and tragedy.

You had speculation, speculation... PS: And no accumulation!

CH: And no accumulation.

VO: So a week that was once very much neck and neck has turned into a one-horse race.

Charles wins by a country mile.

Phil started out with £357.50 and after paying auction costs he made a loss of £188.30, leaving him with a final total of £169.20.

Not your best outing.

While Charles began with £1,191.44 and after paying auction costs he made a profit of £62.40, which means Charles, with £1,253.84, is this week's runaway winner.

Well done boy.

VO: All profits of course go to Children In Need.

Charlie, let me shake you by the hand.

Phil, it's been a wonderful time.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it, thanks.

It's a week I'll never forget.

PS: No, neither will I. CH: I mean it.

(FUNK MUSIC PLAYS) Grandad!

Grandad!

BOTH: Agh!

CH: Gimme a roar.

PS: A growl.

Ooh!

(WINCES) Eugh!

That's exciting.

CH: (LAUGHS) (THEY LAUGH) VO: Next time on the Antiques Road Trip... we're full of national pride as Anita Manning pipes up for Scotland.

(TOOT!)

VO: And James Braxton hopes for some right royal bargains.

DEALER: The Queen might be at the sale.

Unlikely, James, unlikely.

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