VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts, with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal: to scour Britain for antiques.

Going, going, gone.

Yes!

Hello!

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

But it's no mean feat.

Yes!

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

I've got to try and win.

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

Sun shines on the brave, doesn't it?

Exactly.

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah!

VO: It's day two of our week in the way out West Country with Tom Scott and Phil Serrell.

Do you know what I love about the Road Trip?

TOM: Go on.

The weather.

TOM: This is just right.

It's lovely, isn't it?

TOM: A little bit of soft top.

Shouldn't we have gone down there?

VO: Part-time Lancia navigator Phil, from Worcester, is an auctioneer by day, with a wealth of knowledge.

That's a fairly grotesque bit of Bretby, isn't it?

DEALER: Very good spot.

VO: Dealer Tom, from the county of Rutland, may have only just slipped behind the wheel but he's already proving to be a smart, speedy and extremely determined chap.

Watch out, Phil - he means business.

TOM: Deal.

DEALER: Done.

PHIL: I got quite excited when they said to me "we've got this new chap coming on, he hasn't done it before".

I thought 'that'll be alright'.

TOM: This is my first time.

PHIL: Get out.

PHIL: Oh, listen, your cheque's in the post, and I'll still love you in the morning.

PHIL: Yeah, I've heard all that.

VO: Well, Tom started out with £200 and he's managed to increase that to £220.24.

VO: Whilst Phil also began with £200 but has a slim lead with £240.08.

PHIL: I'm gonna blow the lot on clotted cream and pasties.

VO: Well, that should even things up!

VO: Our trip begins at the far southwest corner of Britain at St Buryan, before wending its way around several counties, but always hugging the coast, to reach Wareham in Dorset.

Today we're starting out in Cornwall at Lostwithiel and after a brief excursion into Devon, end up back there for the auction as well.

PHIL: Lostwithiel.

TOM: Here we go.

PHIL: "Ancient Stannary Town".

What's a stannary town?

VO: Well, any number of things to do with tin mining in Cornwall and Devon, actually.

Lostwithiel was the administrative center of a mining area where tin coinage was once collected for the Crown, or the Duchy of Cornwall.

PHIL: This is lovely, isn't it?

TOM: It's beautiful.

VO: In another strange quirk, Lostwithiel and the other stannary towns could appoint representatives or "stannators" to Cornwall's stannary parliament too.

VO: Nowadays though the local currency is known as the "antique".

PHIL: Well there we go.

TOM: Let's go.

See what we can find.

PHIL: We've got some nice lights.

TOM: Looks good, mate.

See you later.

Have a lovely time.

PHIL: Have a good day.

TOM: Take care.

Hello.

How are you?

Oh, fine, thanks.

VO: Mike's shop is crammed with high quality vintage items.

The only trouble is, quality tends to cost.

PHIL: Wicked shop.

Wicked, wicked shop.

MIKE: Oh, that's nice.

PHIL: I think you've got really cool things.

PHIL: Shall I have a quick look round?

MIKE: Yeah, OK. And then perhaps if you can think of anything that might do well for me, that'd be lovely.

Fine.

Alright, then, Phillip.

PHIL: Look at that.

PHIL: That's just taking me back to the wild days of the 60s, you've got Procol Harum, Santana.

It's an original poster from 1968, you see, and it's 245 quid, and I don't think that's expensive, but the problem that I've got, it's all my money.

VO: Not only will the auction be a general sale, so no rock ephemera please, but it'll be just down the street.

Mike though might be able to point Phil at something he can see a profit in.

PHIL: I like this mirror - don't give me a price on it yet, but I mean, is that by anybody?

MIKE: No, it's not, no it's not.

MIKE: It's just a nice design, the shape's right, it fits in with that kind of mid-century look.

But I would see that making, what, 20-40 quid, something like that, in an auction?

VO: Hah!

I think Mike just realized what Phil might be offering.

PHIL: Can I have a look at the back of it?

MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's quite hefty.

PHIL: It looks to me like it's come out of Star Trek.

It does, it does...

I mean, it's got the right look, anyway.

I can just see that in Mr Spock's living quarters.

VO: Ha.

Logical.

Could you do that for 10 or 15 quid?

I'd do it for 15, I couldn't go any lower than that.

No, that's alright, I'm not... PHIL: I'm going to buy that off you for 15 quid.

PHIL: And I think...

In the right auction, I would hope that that could make 50 or 60 quid.

VO: Hmm - general sale round the corner?

Don't get carried away.

Quids in.

Yes, absolutely right.

I think that's a bit of fun.

PHIL: I quite like that.

VO: OK, Tom's turn.

TOM: Morning.

JUDITH: Morning.

You must be Judith.

JUDITH: Yes.

TOM: Tom.

Hello.

Lovely to meet you.

Do you mind if I have a bit of a wander round and see what we can come up with?

Upstairs, whatever, yeah.

Upstairs and...

Brilliant, OK.

I'll get stuck in.

I'll give you a shout.

I just hope you can find something.

VO: That didn't sound helpful, did it?

So far this week Tom's sniffed out something in no time flat.

He seems to have relaxed a bit this morning though.

TOM: It's another piece of wood.

I love bits of wood.

It's just a beech rolling pin.

I love that, though.

VO: How much, I wonder?

Because like Phil, he needs to buy for the auction, which is in this town.

TOM: Couple of terracotta plant pots.

I mean, that's...

They're pretty recent, obviously, but they're quite nice, it's good as a pair.

VO: The ticket price on these is £28.

TOM: They're worth a quick go, perfect for a general sale.

Good seasonal piece as well.

VO: He's definitely getting the hang of it.

I think I'll avoid anything Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, vintage.

TOM: Something like the eight glasses up here, these are quite fun.

These eight.

They're quite fun.

Very, very fine.

They could be quite good.

VO: The ticket price is £18.

Time to speak to Judith.

Um, you've got a pair of terracotta garden urns upstairs.

TOM: You've got £28 on them.

I'm just wondering whether we might be able to do a bit of a friendly... dealer to dealer trade discount, really?

Oh, it sounds ominous when you say that.

TOM: It does, a little.

TOM: What do you think we could do on those?

Usually 10%.

TOM: Can we bend those "usually" rules?

I would normally say 25.

OK.

I know what you're gonna ask for.

VO: Interesting.

How about 20?

Exactly.

Can we do a deal at 20?

JUDITH: Can we bridge it half way?

JUDITH: Because it's not mine, it's a different customer.

I've got to get them through the auction, I've got to get all that commission through.

Can we do 20?

What do you think?

He's a tough cookie.

VO: Tom's proving to be no pushover either, Judith.

TOM: I can apologize to him personally.

But you won't!

VO: No, he won't actually.

TOM: Can we do 20?

We'll say 20.

TOM: Perfect.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

To help the deal maybe, if you give me that little bit more off - you've got another little set of eight little green glasses up on the shelf there.

TOM: Those are quite fun.

Those are on at 18, I think.

JUDITH: Yeah.

He would go down to 15, but definitely no more.

TOM: No, OK. Because they're worth it.

TOM: Well that's fair.

So we could do the two for 35?

JUDITH: Yeah.

TOM: Perfect.

Right.

Two purchases, done.

Thank you very much.

I'd better get you some money.

VO: So with his younger rival off to another good start, what's the next move for the Silver Fox?

VO: Ay ay?

Hello.

How are you?

JACKIE: Very well, thank you.

Good, good, good.

Can I have a grapefruit juice, please?

VO: With at least ten antique shops to choose from, why come here?

You've got some interesting bits hanging on the walls and whatever.

Can I...tempt to you flog any of those to me?

Well, it depends how much you offer, but yeah.

PHIL: Story of my life, that, isn't it?

That's it.

PHIL: Let's go and have a look round.

JACKIE: OK. VO: Here we go.

PHIL: That's quite interesting, look, cuz this would have hung on a bar over a fireplace, not too dissimilar to that, and then you, by adjusting this, you'd have a saucepan or a pan on the bottom, or a kettle, and then you could have adjusted this up and down so that it was either really low on the fire, or higher up.

JACKIE: Oh, right.

PHIL: So Jackie, my budget is little, alright, and I mean really little, we're talking a few pounds here, not big time.

JACKIE: Okey doke.

PHIL: And I think that bit of metal is interesting, and you've got two of those, haven't you?

PHIL: So you might not miss one of those.

JACKIE: Right, yeah.

PHIL: Is there anything outside we can have a look at?

JACKIE: Yes.

VO: Ah, now for a trip up the beer garden path.

PHIL: I like that.

JACKIE: The wheel?

PHIL: That wheel, yeah.

That's cool.

JACKIE: Yeah, that is quite nice.

PHIL: That's quite tidy, that, isn't it?

PHIL: And I could put that with that ratchet thing as one lot.

PHIL: Don't suppose you've got another one, have you?

I'm afraid not.

VO: She's a pub landlady Phil, not a scrap metal dealer.

PHIL: That's come off something like a railway porter's trolley or something, yeah.

But I think it's a bit of fun.

I think the two of them are going to make... sort of 15 to 25 quid, and I've got to pay me commission, like to make a profit, can I...

This is really mean, can I give you a fiver for the two?

PHIL: Fiver.

Is that all?

PHIL: I am mean.

I don't know how to show a girl a good time!

Go on then.

A fiver'll do.

You're an angel.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I'll get myself a drink with that.

I've got to go and pay for mine first, come on.

VO: Well for a price like that it's hard to go wrong, whatever those old lumps make.

PHIL: So ideally what I'm looking for is someone at the auction room who's got a saucepan they want to warm over a fire, and a one-wheeled trolley.

VO: Haha.

Well, good luck, Phil.

VO: Meanwhile they're back on the road, heading east from Lostwithiel towards Liskeard.

PHIL: Do you want to go to the loo?

TOM: Me?

PHIL: Yeah.

TOM: Yeah, can do.

PHIL: It's just up here on the... see, that was a little joke, you see, cuz we're in Looe.

Oh mate, I totally missed that.

PHIL: Looe is just up here.

TOM: Oh I see, right, got you.

PHIL: See, it was just a geographical joke.

VO: Liskeard, about nine miles north of Looe - with an E, Tom - is another stannary town.

PHIL: Is that my shop there?

TOM: Oh, there you go, Bay Tree Trading.

VO: It's also the home of Cornish blue cheese.

Careful now, Phil.

TOM: That looks alright.

PHIL: Yeah, absolutely right.

TOM: Get in there mate, have fun.

Yeah, have a good time.

TOM: See you later.

PHIL: Bye.

Hi, how are you?

ALEXIS: Fine, thanks.

Welcome to Liskeard.

Yeah, cheers, good to see you.

How you doing, alright?

Yeah, really good.

VO: Bay Tree Trading doesn't sell trees.

Not many traditional antiques here either.

Just the job for Phil then.

I'm sure he'll rise to the challenge.

PHIL: I could put that with the two bits I bought from the pub, couldn't I?

Kind of like a little bit of metalware.

So there's a sort of a bit of a theme running.

VO: But for all Phil's high hopes, nothing's quite right.

VO: He's even lost interest in that piece of metal he was so "pumped up" by just now.

I really have to buy something here.

This is panic time.

VO: Keep calm, Phil.

You can cope.

It's not often that I'm speechless.

But I am.

VO: Hang on, has Alexis got something?

ALEXIS: Nice piece of Doulton, plate, absolutely perfect.

18th century Royal Doulton.

Well, that's not 18th century, that's about 1930.

ALEXIS: 1930s, is it?

PHIL: Yeah, well, made in England, anything that's got made in England is 20th century.

PHIL: Here we are.

ALEXIS: Don't like that one.

Yeah.

VO: Oh dear.

Good luck Phil.

VO: But while Phil struggles, Tom motors on, heading southeast from Liskeard to St Germans to visit an ancient and magical home.

TOM: It's beautiful, this, isn't it?

A little bit bumpy for the old Lancia, but it's going to be an impressive view when we get round this corner, I think.

VO: Port Eliot has been the home of the Eliots of St Germans for 500 years, and Tom's here to see a few of its accumulated treasures with the lady of the house.

Lady St Germans.

Hello.

Hello.

Pleasure to meet you.

I'm Tom.

Lovely to see you.

Thank you so much for having me at this wonderful house.

Come in.

Shall we go in?

VO: Not forgetting Roo and Lark.

The nation's oldest continually inhabited dwelling, and now open to the public every summer, Port Eliot is vast, with over 100 rooms and an air of faded grandeur about each one.

The house might almost have inspired Gormenghast.

I think one of the things that I love about Port Eliot, and it's known for, is its patina.

It's an extremely old house, and it really hasn't been redecorated for several generations.

For example, this wallpaper is 19th century.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

CATHY: It's green, as you can see, and the green dye contained arsenic, and people died from this wallpaper!

Of course!

But we'll be OK today?

You should be, yeah.

There's no recorded cases of anyone dying from the wallpaper here.

VO: During the middle ages, Port Eliot really was a flourishing port, and an Augustinian priory.

But in the 18th century the Eliots employed landscape painter Humphrey Repton to build a dam and create what is now a grade one listed park and garden.

Now it's a perfect, perfect classical landscape, it's a kind of pastoral ideal.

And it does change hourly.

CATHY: And also, it would have been a bit inconvenient to have to wait for the tide to get home.

TOM: Yeah, it's a bit of a wait.

Yeah, it would have been every 12 hours you could have made it home.

VO: Neo-classical architect Sir John Soane, who designed the old Bank of England, also got to work on the house at that time, demolishing much that was medieval to create an enfilade.

TOM: Incredible, isn't it?

VO: The first Baron Eliot, and the man who paid for that refit, can be seen in this family portrait by Joshua Reynolds.

He was a patron of Joshua Reynolds all his life, and Reynolds was so grateful to Edward Eliot that when he died, he left him his snuff box, which we have here.

TOM: Which is beautiful.

CATHY: And when Reynolds academics come here and they sit on this sofa to study this picture and the others in the room, if you give them this to hold, and they open it, they almost pass out, because they can't quite believe what they're looking at.

CATHY: And we're very lucky to have it here.

TOM: Yeah.

VO: And if you're not keen on Reynolds, there's plenty more, like the Van Dyck in the morning room, as well as several more modern works.

But the house's undoubted masterpiece is the huge mural in Sir John Soane's round room.

TOM: It is all incredible, isn't it?

CATHY: It's so powerful, the mural, you actually can't read a book sitting in here.

Yeah, it distracts you, you're gonna be taken away.

All you can think about when you're in here is the mural and what it's saying.

VO: "The Riddle", by the controversial Plymouth based artist Robert Lenkiewicz, was commissioned in 1980 and took over 20 years to complete.

VO: Hidden amongst the dragons and destruction are several references to the family's history.

CATHY: Every time I come in here, I see something different.

You suddenly spot something.

Well I've just spotted a Harley-Davidson in the corner.

CATHY: Absolutely, that's my husband's, he rode to Morocco on that in the 60s.

TOM: Fabulous.

And it gives you some sense of the scale of the room.

TOM: Absolutely, yeah, you can lose a seven foot long motorcycle in the corner of a room.

Well thank you so much for showing me around, it's been absolutely brilliant.

Maybe I should show you the way out.

Do you mind?

It's not that easy, it's not that straightforward.

TOM: Brilliant, thank you.

VO: Now, what's Phil been up to?

VO: Last time we saw him he was a bit stuck.

An antique shop would be useful though.

You've gotta think laterally in this business.

VO: Quite, Phil.

I suppose after his trip to the pub earlier, anything is possible.

But it's hard to see much resembling an antique here, but Owen has got an idea about some granite.

Now, I do like those.

VO: I think they're coping stones, or curbs.

OWEN: Heavy, mind.

PHIL: How old are they?

OWEN: They're probably I would say late Victorian.

How much would just that piece be?

That bit, ooh, let's say £250.

Really?

Yeah, it's not cheap stuff.

Really?

Granite is very expensive, yeah.

PHIL: So that could be the oldest thing I've ever bought on this program.

Well, it could be.

But it's 250 quid?

Yeah.

That's out of my budget.

VO: Whoops!

That's a no no, but these may be substantially cheaper.

PHIL: Are these barrels, are they ex- like beer barrels, or are they just barrels that are made for garden centers?

They're whisky barrels, they're ex-whisky barrels.

You actually, if you...

If you've got a sensitive nose, you can smell the aroma.

Actually, you can smell some booze, can't you?

Yeah, you can.

PHIL: That's fantastic.

I'll have four of 'em!

VO: It's a bit like the pub all over again.

£20, £19.

Could we take the best looking one of the £19-ers... OWEN: I would say... That one looks quite nice.

OK, can we try it, can we take that up?

Certainly.

VO: Right, and to put in sir's pot?

Now, what I want is something that looks really, really big, and is really, really cheap.

OWEN: OK. You could have something like a rhododendron, shorter but it will fill out the container better.

VO: I'm not sure how Phil's "big and cheap" approach would go down on our Gardeners' Question Time, but it's a plan.

OWEN: So that's about the right size.

And would it be possible to put some stuff in there?

VO: Er, stuff?

Soil I guess is what we're looking for, is it?

Compost, yeah, we can do that.

And how much could you do that for?

Er, so we've got the barrel, 19, the rhododendron is 25.

Could you do it for 20 quid, the two?

Cuz I'm stuffed.

I think we could, yeah.

Come on, shake hands.

Let me get some money out.

VO: That's the quickest I've ever seen Phil move.

Look at that.

VO: It looks like Phil might have saved a difficult day.

But is he happy?

PHIL: So let me just work this out, then.

PHIL: You get to go to a really beautiful home, with a collection of artwork, yeah?

TOM: Yeah.

PHIL: And later on in the week, I'm going to a prison.

TOM: Yeah.

PHIL: How's that work?

VO: Sounds about right.

Night night, boys.

VO: Next morning, Phil's made an important resolution.

PHIL: I think I've got to remember the title of this program today.

I'll just leave it at that.

TOM: Right.

VO: Good idea.

Because things did go a little awry yesterday.

This is panic time.

VO: A frustrated Phil ended up spending £40 on a pot and plant, a mirror and some old bits of metal, leaving him with £200.08 to spend today.

PHIL: That's quite tidy, that, isn't it?

VO: His young rival Tom, meanwhile, spent just £35 on some glasses, and more pots...

Perfect.

Right.

VO: ..leaving him with £185.24 at his disposal.

VO: Later they'll be making for that auction back in Lostwithiel.

But our first stop is in Devon, at the port of Plymouth.

TOM: It's lovely being by the sea, but I do like Rutland.

PHIL: Do you?

That ain't by the sea, is it?

VO: This is the Hoe, where in 1588 Sir Francis Drake famously insisted on finishing his game of bowls before whipping the Spanish Armada.

Drake was from nearby Tavistock, but famous Plymothians include former Labour leader Michael Foot, Olympian Tom Daley and Scott of the Antarctic.

VO: And speaking of highly competitive explorers... PHIL: You and I haven't done the same shop yet, have we?

TOM: No mate, this is another new experience.

PHIL: This is going to be tussles and tussles, isn't it?

TOM: They did say that you were a very, very fair man.

PHIL: Let me tell you - they lied.

TOM: It's brilliant, this place, isn't it?

PHIL: It's really cool.

VO: This looks quite something.

TOM: Plenty of space.

PHIL: Hello.

JOHN: Morning.

John, this is the oppo, Tom.

VO: Charming, Phil!

Pleased to meet you.

You've got some stuff in here, haven't you?

Yes, yes, it's the product of a diseased mind.

VO: Now steady, John.

Eclectic, certainly.

With a strong martial influence I'd say.

VO: Enough to make our two a little giddy.

I've seen a thing up here I like.

Look at that.

An air raid siren.

How cool is that?

This is a rear wheel off a German World War II bomber.

Brilliant.

VO: Now come on, think general sale.

Can I get that down and have a look at it, please?

PHIL: I like that.

PHIL: This is a Victorian woolwork piece of militaria, relating to the battle of Ladysmith and other battles.

Er, the latest one was Ladysmith.

So we're talking about just before 1900.

JOHN: So actually it's the Gloucester regiment.

VO: "The Glorious Glosters" were one of the most honored units in the British Army, although since 2005 they've merged with some other regiments to become the First Battalion, The Rifles.

PHIL: And what would that come for?

JOHN: 35 And that's the death on that?

That's the death.

OK, I'll have that.

VO: I think Phil's mojo is definitely on the rise.

PHIL: Can we just have a look at that?

What is that?

JOHN: It's a loudspeaker.

It's called the Sterling Baby.

JOHN: Probably a 1910, 1920 early speaker.

I really like that.

And what would that come for?

JOHN: I'll do it for 20.

PHIL: OK. You know, for someone who lives in the early 20th century or whatever.

I mean, it would be a great decorative thing for a house.

PHIL: But what you have to do is think laterally, and I tell you what I'm thinking here: If you put a light in there, wouldn't that make a great lamp?

Yes, yes, it would, actually.

VO: I suppose that could be described as a lamp bulb moment?

Two buys to Phil.

PHIL: I'd better give you some money.

JOHN: Yes, that would be good.

VO: £55 the total.

JOHN: Thanks very much.

PHIL: Thank you, thank you very much.

VO: Phil's finally content, it seems.

Time for Tom to get a turn with the proprietor.

JOHN: What about Buddhas?

You can't go wrong with Buddhas.

VO: Ah ha, too easy to reach I think, John.

Tom's intent on a rummage.

That's a camel saddle.

You could convert that and stick a... JOHN: You could even turn it into a coffee table.

TOM: Turn it into a coffee table, couldn't you?

VO: Or if you had a camel..?

TOM: That's great, isn't it?

I like that.

Plenty of backsides on here.

It's just really rough and ready, isn't it?

It's another old nice piece of wood, and it's really dusty, so it's clearly been here for a long time, John.

JOHN: No, no, I dust every day.

It must be woodworm!

TOM: Ah, if it's worm as well then that's even better for me!

What would you do something like that for?

JOHN: Has it got a ticket on it, actually?

TOM: It does.

What does it say?

TOM: Do you want me to be honest, or not?

JOHN: Yeah, yeah, tell me.

TOM: It is at 75.

JOHN: I'll do it for 50.

How's that?

50's probably still a bit steep for me.

TOM: But I do like it.

JOHN: Alright, 40.

Now that I look at it in the light, I must admit, it's not inspiring me either.

TOM: It's been through the wars, hasn't it, probably?

I tell you, I'd go for it at 30.

Well... Could you do me at 30?

JOHN: I'll do it for 35, how's that?

Meet you halfway.

How about meeting me half way, 32.50?

No!

No, no, no, no.

35.

32.50.

JOHN: 35 TOM: Go on, 35.

OK, cheers.

TOM: Deal.

I like that, that's brilliant, thanks, John.

VO: Now, that's just the sort of thing Phil would have bought.

TOM: £40.

JOHN: You'll be coming down some other time, won't you?

I'll give you your fiver then.

There's a tenner in there, that'll do.

JOHN: Oh go on then.

TOM: Look at that, you beauty!

I was only joking, John, but that's brilliant.

Even better, a bit more of a deal!

VO: A fiver's discount because of a lack of change?

Not bad.

TOM: Brilliant, thank you very much indeed.

JOHN: It's OK. VO: Time to say farewell to the Devon coast for a while and head inland from Plymouth to Morwellham.

VO: Where Phil's about to visit a historic mine and river port that's now an open museum.

It may look a little quiet right now, but back in Victorian times, Morwellham Quay was very busy indeed.

Hi, Jason.

Phillip.

How are you?

Or Phil, good to see you.

Welcome to Morwellham.

Yes, nice to meet you.

Now, they tell me that this is the Devonian cooper capital of the 19th century, isn't it?

It certainly was, yeah, biggest copper port in Queen Victoria's empire.

What I really wanna know is, how do they get the stuff out, how do they make it?

Well let me show you, I'll take you into our mine and show you how they got the copper out.

PHIL: Into a mine?

JASON: Yeah, certainly, yeah.

JASON: Perfectly safe.

PHIL: Oh right.

VO: Just like Port Eliot that Tom visited yesterday, the port was first established by monks - Benedictine this time - transporting tin, lead and silver from inland to Plymouth.

VO: Much later, copper deposits were discovered right beside the port and a mine was opened in the 18th century.

PHIL: And you are 100% sure this is all quite safe?

Yeah, this mine has been here since 1718, and has been very, very safe.

VO: The narrow gauge railway travels deep inside the copper mine to visit the abandoned workplaces and help demonstrate just how tough conditions were for the miners.

PHIL: How much is there between us and up there?

JASON: You've got about 50 feet of rock above us.

PHIL: 50 feet of rock?

Oh.

PHIL: So what does this do, exactly?

JASON: This water wheel was installed to actually pump the water from the levels below us, but this level we're on is the lowest level that would naturally drain the water, but those four levels below us will flood.

This was a man's job, presumably?

Yeah, if you consider men that are starting their adulthood at about the age of 10.

PHIL: You're joking?

JASON: Well, legally boys at the age of 10 were allowed to work underground, and so we find boys of 10 or 11 coming down and working as miners.

PHIL: Doesn't bear thinking about, does it?

VO: Life wasn't a lot easier above ground at Morwellham either, because they were still an awfully long way from getting their hands on the copper.

JASON: And this is where the ore is dressed, and this means removing as much of the waste rock as possible to get down to that copper.

PHIL: So what they did was smash that lump of rock there with that as hard as they could?

JASON: Yep, break that down.

Sounds like my sort of job, that.

Yeah, certainly.

Have a pair of goggles.

And then we'll have a go.

Right, there we go.

Where's that gone?

Look at that!

VO: Oh lordy.

Come on Phil, concentrate.

JASON: I've never seen anybody do that.

JASON: Are you any good at snooker?

VO: Huh.

Come on Phil, concentrate.

Flat rocks tend to break easier.

Really?

It's man's work, this, isn't it?

Well, not necessarily.

In Victorian times, this would be done by children aged seven upwards, and you'd really have lots of women doing this.

PHIL: You're joking.

JASON: And...

There we go.

PHIL: That's fool's gold, isn't it?

Actually you've got some copper, this is a... Get in there!

Look at that.

JASON: And you can see this gold color is actually the copper.

VO: The pieces of copper, some of them quite a bit bigger than Phil's little find, were then posted through the holes in a griddle to help the assayer determine their value.

When, in 1844, huge new deposits were discovered just four miles to the north, Morwellham's reputation as the richest copper port in the empire was assured.

Right, so what we have here, this is the end product, so after we've done all of that work, we've sent our ore off to south Wales, in their huge furnaces they've smelt it, turned it into these ingots, so you can see here where it's been liquefied at one point.

And this was then sent off to manufacturers to be turned into pots, pans, kettles, coins, and all sorts of copper products.

I've really, really enjoyed this.

You have terrified me, taking me down that mine, and that was a little bit unfair of you, but I think it's time I bought you a cup of tea.

Ah, that's very welcome.

Excellent.

PHIL: Thank you.

VO: Meanwhile Tom has still got quite a bit of shopping to do.

VO: Motoring from Morwellham back into Cornwall and Callington.

VO: Plenty of cash in his pocket too.

TOM: I've still got £150 left to get rid of, so I'm sure we'll find something.

Still need a hairband.

VO: Or maybe a haircut.

The little town of Callington is famous for its murals.

Pasties too.

TOM: Afternoon.

DAVE: Good afternoon.

Tom.

Nice to meet you.

Dave Williams.

Welcome to my humble emporium, Tom.

TOM: I love it.

VO: Strangely, Tom hasn't spotted anything in the shop window on this leg of the trip.

But despite its moderate size, Goldings has a good mix, with a bit of eastern promise too.

TOM: What is this Dave?

What is this?

DAVE: It's something quite rare.

Pick it up, it's very light.

TOM: It's like a great big finial, isn't it?

DAVE: It's actually a rice container.

Rice container, OK. Er, made in Burma.

DAVE: You'll see them in Burma still in use by monks to get their daily rice ration in.

But they're very much smaller than those.

TOM: Yeah.

VO: The other useful fact is that the wood contains a particular sort of resin which discourages any insects or rodents who might have designs on your rice.

We'll keep that one in mind.

DAVE: Mm hm.

VO: Dave's also got a storeroom at the back.

Might there be a bargain?

TOM: Nice oval frames there.

DAVE: Very nice Regency frames there.

TOM: Very nice.

DAVE: Dig 'em out for you.

They're prints by Angelica Kauffman.

Yeah?

That were extremely popular in that period.

VO: Angelica Kauffman was a Swiss born artist who was one of the only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

TOM: Where you would see these at?

TOM: What would you do these for me at?

Make me a reasonable offer for them.

What I'm thinking, Dave, is probably really, the condition they are, I'm probably looking about £20 for the pair.

DAVE: Phoo!

VO: Despite Dave's reaction, I think we're making progress.

Let's look at the rice container again.

DAVE: I've got 85 on it.

It's a very, very unusual piece.

Um... How about 85 for all three?

TOM: If I knew a little bit more about the sale, then I'd be a little more...eager, but I'm just... Well, I bought it!

I know you did.

But then again, I buy odd things.

But that's the thing, you've got it in your lovely shop, it's... You could have a steering wheel for an elephant.

VO: Obviously!

That's an ankus.

TOM: You have got some brilliant little pieces lying around, haven't you?

DAVE: Do you know how they use them?

TOM: I'm assuming it's kind of... Well probably not very nicely, by the looks of that.

Hook that behind the elephant's ear, either left or right, just to give it a tug to tell it to go left or right.

TOM: I could have done with that with Phillip earlier.

VO: It would take more than that.

You're at 85, aren't you, with the rice container and the two frames.

Yep.

TOM: You've got 30 on here.

How about 100 for the four pieces?

Well, I was going to say 90.

Ooh!

Painful.

95.

Shall we meet in the middle?

92.50?

Go on.

You've got a deal.

TOM: Brilliant.

VO: So £62.50 for the rice pot and elephant goad, plus £30 for the Kauffman prints.

Now let's have a look at what they've bought.

Tom, how've you got on?

It's been a great one again, Phil.

It's been good, but we need to get a move on.

Oh, you'll whip that off before it takes off.

PHIL: Do you want me to help?

No.

TOM: Well, maybe.

PHIL: Oh, it's going on its own.

You've got it?

I like those.

TOM: They're nice, aren't they?

Where'd you buy that, Pisa?

VO: I dunno what's happened here, but it looks a bit wonky.

I like those.

TOM: They're lovely, aren't they?

PHIL: Yeah, those are really cool.

And I mean, it's all a bit of a joke, isn't it, really, that you buy these things today for the frames, not the prints.

TOM: That's exactly what I did.

PHIL: What did they cost you?

30 quid.

£30 for them.

Well they've gotta make, what, £50-80?

TOM: I'd hope so.

What the hell is that?

TOM: This, I'm reliably informed, is an elephant steering wheel.

What?

We've got one, two, three, four?

Four lots there, and there's one more, I'm going to show you this.

PHIL: What's that, then?

That's a saddle, isn't it?

TOM: It's my camel saddle.

PHIL: It's off a camel?

I thought you got the hump!

What do you... What do you think of that?

It's actually OK, isn't it?

PHIL: Because you can either make that into a really cool stool, or a low table.

TOM: A little low table.

VO: I think he liked some of those.

PHIL: I'm going to show you what I've got.

PHIL: Are you ready for this?

TOM: Yeah, go.

Crikey, this all looks pretty vicious.

PHIL: Yeah.

I like your horn.

PHIL: I'm really, really pleased with that.

TOM: I saw this.

PHIL: Did you?

I did.

That was 20 quid.

TOM: Was it really?

PHIL: Yeah.

I was gonna reach for that, but I didn't.

TOM: Stupidly.

But I like that, that's lovely.

And this, that I love.

I like that.

Yeah?

It's from the Gloucester regiment.

It's 19th century and it just records their battles.

TOM: Yeah.

No, that's lovely.

PHIL: Yeah.

I went and bought these from the pub.

TOM: Right.

VO: Yeah, Tom, the pub.

And there's more.

PHIL: This is my bit of, um...camouflage here, look.

TOM: This is a rhododendron.

PHIL: Yeah.

Where did you get that?

Well, I went to a garden center, cuz I got fed up in the shop, so I went to a garden center and I bought that in there.

Is that all you bought?

No, no, there is something else, look.

Look at this.

You got a little, um...

This is my Star Trek mirror.

TOM: Never seen anything like that in my life!

PHIL: You're Mr Contemporary Man, aren't you?

No!

That was 15 quid.

What do you reckon?

It's kinda cool, but should I have bought it?

TOM: 15 quid, that's brilliant.

TOM: You could always use it down the beach, what's it called, boogie board or something?

Yeah, boogie board.

VO: Enough levity, what did they really think?

TOM: I'm not a fan of the surfboard mirror, I've got to say.

But what do I know?

I'm not overly convinced about that big bamboo pot thing, and that elephant steerer, what's all that about?

TOM: I thought it would be really, really simple to spend £200, but I'm learning this Antique Road Trip's not as easy as it looks.

VO: Not exactly sounding very confident, are they?

VO: After beginning in Lostwithiel, today's trip will conclude at an auction right back here in Lostwithiel.

PHIL: I wonder what Lostwithiel means.

VO: Well, since you ask Phil, it's reckoned to come from an old Cornish expression meaning "tail end of the woodland".

VO: There was a battle here too back in 1644 - probably not fought with elephant prods and rhododendrons though.

PHIL: Up and at 'em, Tommo.

Who's going to win, you or me?

TOM: Come on, let's get in.

VO: Jefferys have been here in Lostwithiel for almost 150 years, so I suppose they must have sold a potted plant before.

But what does auctioneer Ian Morris make of what Phil and Tom have brought?

The baby Sterling horn, I quite like this.

IAN: Early 20th century, it's got a bit of a look to it, and I think maybe in the region of £60-100.

IAN: Pair of terracotta urns, right time of year, coming into the gardening season, so I hope they might be a good earner.

VO: The bad news for Tom though is that two of his items have been damaged in transit: He's lost one green glass, and the bamboo rice container's become even more misshapen.

IAN: If it wasn't damaged, I think it would certainly make £50.

Maybe a little bit more.

But as it is, maybe £30-50 would be a more conservative estimate.

VO: Because Tom's items were insured though, the auctioneer's valuation guarantees a minimum payout: £25 for the glasses and £50 for the rice device.

TOM: Right.

VO: Tom started out with £220.24 and he's spent £157.50 on five auction lots.

That's great, isn't it?

I like that.

VO: Whilst Phil began with £240.08 and he's spent just £95, also on five auction lots.

That is the "wheel" deal.

IAN: 45, thank you.

It is exciting though, isn't it?

Yeah, in a perverse sort of way, if you like some sort of masochistic pleasure, the rinser that you put yourself through.

VO: Phil's first into battle with his Glorious Glosters woolwork.

A good little lot, I've got two bids of £20, exactly the same.

Ouch.

Start with me at £20.

At £20, at £20, at 22.

At 22, 25, 28, 28, £30?

At £28, lady's bid in the door.

£30 there.

32.

32, 35, 35, 38, 38.

£40?

38 in the middle, lady's bid.

£40.

That's good.

Good?

I'll tell you in a minute.

45.

48?

48.

£50?

£50.

55?

55.

£60?

60.

Five?

£60, gentleman's bid, then.

IAN: At £60 we're bid, at £60, all done at 60.

To buyer 50, thank you.

VO: First skirmish to Phil.

Well done.

I'll tell you, that's record breaking for me, that is.

Double figure profit?

Get in!

VO: And speaking of things being broken, Tom's seven green glasses.

£30 away, £20 away, very, very nice looking.

£20.

Tenner bid, at 10.

At £10 I'm bid, I'll take 12 to get on.

It'd be nice to get over 25.

At 16.

At £16 I'm bid, 18 now.

At £16, 18 now, are we all done?

Going for £16.

£16 to 184.

VO: Just a pound more than he paid, but remember because they were damaged in transit, the £25 insurance valuation applies.

So I would have made £1.

But I've actually made 10.

I'm going to start breaking a bit more of my stuff, mate, I tell you.

That's the way forward.

VO: How about Phil's horn?

The auctioneer likes it.

I think that's got real potential.

I hope so, I hope so.

I've got three bids, and I've got a start at £40.

Ooh, profit.

At £40, the bid's with me.

At £40, I'll take five to get on.

IAN: 45.

£50.

55.

£60.

£60, still with me at £60, five now, 65.

£70.

IAN: Is there five?

£70 still with me.

At £70 I'm bid, five or not?

At 75 or not, are we all done?

At £70.

To 729.

VO: After all the angst, Phil's doing very well here.

That's good, really, really good.

Phew!

Well done, mate.

VO: Now for Tom's elephant steering device and damaged rice container.

Actually I don't mind the bamboo pot, it's the elephant steering wheel I can't quite get my head round.

IAN: There we are, that one is now carrying a little bit of damage, what say for those two together, very quickly?

Can I say £50 away?

£30 away.

£20 I'm bid.

At £20.

IAN: At £20.

22 to get on, then.

At £20 I'm bid, 22.

25.

28.

£30.

IAN: 32.

35.

35.

38?

At £35 I'm bid.

At £35, eight or not, are we all done?

Going at £35.

To 721.

VO: Thanks to the guaranteed insurance price of £50, based on the auctioneer's valuation, the loss is nowhere near as heavy.

I think he really wanted the elephant steering wheel!

And he's hoping in the next sale there's going to be a set of brakes, wing mirrors, and lights to go with it.

VO: Time for Tom's frames.

Prints too, if you like.

IAN: Can I say £50 away?

£30 away.

£30 I'm bid.

At £30.

35.

Got £40.

Got bids on the book.

Got 45.

£50.

55.

60.

Five?

65, my bid's out.

65, bid's in the room.

At £65 I'm bid.

That's a good one, that.

At 65.

65.

VO: That's better, Tom.

I'm pleased with that, cuz it's, you know... Don't rub it in, Tom.

It's a result, no need to just labor the point.

VO: Now for Phil's pub acquisitions.

PHIL: That's the way forward, you start buying lumps of metal, watch them try and bust that.

IAN: £5 away.

It's probably that what rolled into my boxes!

Can I say £20 away?

£20.

I've got £15 on the book.

Get in!

18.

20, is it two?

At £20 I'm bid.

At £20 bid, two or not?

At £20 I'm bid, two or not, or are we done?

At £20.

I'll sell them at the £20.

A tenner profit.

Lovely job.

Pleased with that.

VO: Yes, almost anything would have been good.

PHIL: It's your urns next, isn't it?

How much does a Greek "urn"?

Not a lot these days, do they?

No, no.

Not an awful lot.

VO: Tom's looking for a couple of keen gardeners here.

Can I say £30 away?

£20 I've got bid on the book.

At £20, I'll take two to get on.

Do you know what?

I thought he said £200.

£30.

32.

35.

38.

£40.

£40, bid's on the book.

Oh no, is that it?

Two, at 42 to my left, I'm out.

At 42 over there, then.

At 42, 45 or not?

Are we done at 42.

To 307.

VO: Not bad.

If only he'd stuck some rhododendrons in them.

They were very cheap for somebody.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Yeah.

VO: Phil's Star Trek mirror.

How boldly will the bidders go?

The retro-style oval embeveled wall mirror.

Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why?

What say, lovely wall mirror there, £30 away?

£20 away.

IAN: £10.

Pretty as a picture.

10 I'm bid.

12.

Is it 14?

VO: Isn't that Alexis from Bay Tree Trading?

22.

22, 25?

At 22, bid's right in the middle.

At £22.

At £22, 25 or not?

Absolutely flabbergasted.

IAN: £22.

That's made me a profit.

How the hell has that happened?

VO: Not out of this world, but better than some expectations.

Always knew that'd make a profit.

Always knew, had confidence in it, all the way through.

VO: It's the one Lostwithiel's been waiting for: Phil's plant and pot lot.

It's very antique, it's a rhododendron in a high bed called the rocket, hopefully it will fly.

I've got two bids very close together.

Get in there!

Two bids very close together.

I've got to start at £28.

Oh, get in there!

Oh, man.

At £28, 30 or not?

At £28, 30 or not?

Are we done?

IAN: At £28 I'm bid, 30 or not?

Are we all done?

Both bids on the books, very close together, at £28.

To buyer 79.

I should have bought two, shouldn't I?

VO: Don't push your luck, Phil.

So just Tom's camel saddle between Phil and a comfortable victory.

Wish me luck, mate, come on.

I do wish you luck, actually, I do.

Not much, but a little bit.

Can I say £30 away?

£20 away.

10 I'm bid, at 10.

IAN: At £10 I'm bid, I'll take 12 to get on.

IAN: At £10 I'm bid.

12.

14.

16.

Come on, come on, come on.

IAN: At £16...18.

Oh no!

IAN: 22.

22.

25.

At £22.

That's a bit harsh, mate, actually.

Oh, mate.

At £22, five or not, are we all done?

Going at £22.

Oh!

VO: An even bigger loss after auction costs means the old hand triumphs again.

Loser drives?

Alright.

Again.

It's always me.

VO: Tom began with £220.24 and after paying auction costs, he made a profit of £9.78, leaving him with £230.02.

VO: Phil started out with £240.08 and after paying auction costs, he made a profit of £69, so he has £309.08 to spend next time.

There we go.

Well done, Phil.

VO: Perhaps wary of young Tom's capacity to fight back, Phil is not rubbing it in, though.

PHIL: You're a tenner up, aren't you?

TOM: I am a tenner up, yeah.

PHIL: You're not a loser, Tom.

TOM: A tenner up.

PHIL: Oh, look out!

TOM: Hey, we're off.

VO: Next on the Antiques Road Trip: Tom tries a new tactic.

That's really nice.

What sort of friendly deal could you do for me?

Bearing in mind I'm holding a mallet.

VO: And Phil reverts to type.

PHIL: That doesn't work, Tina, does it?

Faulty goods.

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