The roadshow team visit Roundhay Park in Leeds, where treasures include family photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger, a psychedelic chair, an original script for Dad’s Army and a mysterious diamond ring.
Elaine Binning is thrilled to see a plastic chair from the 1960s with a psychedelic colour scheme, while Susan Rumfitt admires a mysterious diamond ring that could date as far back as the 17th century.
Paul Atterbury hears the bizarre tale of the London bus that ‘jumped’ over Tower Bridge as it was opening and finds out how a little girl got the chance to meet Winston Churchill on a flight from France in 1953. Clive Farahar is intrigued to see a collection of family photos documenting a visit to Leeds by Arnold Schwarzenegger during his early days as a bodybuilder, and he also gets the chance to appraise a valuable script for an early episode of much-loved sitcom Dad’s Army.
Fashion expert Suzi Yang sees two fabulous dresses by 60s designer Ossie Clark, while Fiona Bruce hears the story of pioneering cyclist Beryl Burton, a Yorkshire woman who worked on a rhubarb farm and broke cycling records in the 1950s. Fiona also gets the chance to meet Joanne Harris, best-selling author of Chocolat, to hear her childhood memories of Roundhay Park and see a treasured antique that belonged to her grandmother.
Some cities are synonymous with sports in leads rugby and Cricket aheading le football at Ellen road with leads United here at rounde Park cycling and the world Triathlon championships within its sprawling 700 Acres there’s also a cricket pitch rowing on the lake and today our road Shure experts have taken
To the field it all started with the mouse absolutely might try and squeeze into it when I get back Arnold here with a picture of your dad lifting his arm up about volue that’s your job that’s your expertise so on your bikes it’s time to saddle up and get on with the
Show are you ready get set welcome to the Antiques Road Show So this is one of a pair of chairs that you bought back in 1969 uh do you remember how much you paid for them no I can’t remember at all we’ have tried to remember we just couldn’t our first two pieces of furniture first pieces of furniture yes that we
Bought I just thought we’d have you know normal Furniture you know a three piece Suite like everybody else but it took me to this sh to the shop in town and there it was and we had it well it’s really of its era isn’t it 1969 and I suppose the most significant
Thing in furniture design is that instead of having four legs it’s just got this single leg have you ever seen a label on it or a name on it not until you found it earlier um there’s one on the bottom of the Bas you saw me having
A quick look yes yes don’t look at the bottom of your chair you don’t and I love the fact that you bought it because you loved it all those years ago and it actually has the name underneath made in Sweden by the Overman company they made in the 1950s and 60s these very
Lightweight and durable and very stylish chairs these colors the pink the orange the purple was so much of that late 60s early 70s era and actually I mean the upholstery looks to be in very good condition we bought a roll of material so that at a later stage we could get it
Covered then our son liked them and he said he’d like them covered and we had all this material so it’s original material but this is the second upholstery of these chairs which which is why they look so good it is it’s such a stylish chair really good that you’ve
Got this original fabric right and as a pair of chairs they must have a value of £1,500 for the pair for the pair yes they’re so stylish thank you so much for bringing this chair in you that’s fine this a wonderful Breeze we’ve got blowing today I just imagine these here
With a little pair of kind of incense sticks in there with a wonderful sort of Aroma coming off them for these pair of lovely incense burners what’s their story to you they originally came from my aunt’s house they were on a mantle piece and I can remember them being
There from being a child she sadly passed away in 2004 they asked if I wanted anything from the house and I said well those two things I said One Was a Teddy and the other thing were these Chinese little lions cuz I always like them you’re right to like them
They’re lovely um well they are Chinese and what they are a pair of incense burners with these wonderful kind of Buddhist Lions here and what hits me about them immediately is this lovely sort of vivid green they’re what we call here in the west a fam which is this
Lovely apple green the yellow and then this wonderful oine color that you see on the mains here and we first started really seeing this this type of sort of fam vert becoming very popular during the sort of kangi period so that’s in the Ching Dynasty kangi period and that’s between 1662 and
1722 however these have remained very very popular and we saw lots of kind of not fakes but sort of copies as we were copying things here and we were looking back on the 17th and 18th century here in the UK with a great deal of fondness and so we were reproducing items that
Were desirable then looking back on these sort of earlier periods so I suppose the question therefore for you straight away as well are they kangi or are they later and I’m going to say they are later copies of that sort of kangi period so they’re not early Ching they’re later Ching putting them
Probably somewhere in the kind of last quarter of the 19th century so the other thing I find unusual about these is the fact there’s little or no damage and often the ones I see you know they’ve got a chip or two out of the teeth or
You know the tongues are missing or you know around these you know you’ve always got a little chip or a bump or a knock or something and you have this type of fam porcelain has become incredibly desirable in particular that sort of kangi period and those today
Probably would make between 800 to 12200 at auction brilliant comfortably they sometimes make a little bit more it’s quite an unpredictable Market at the excellent that’s really oh gosh that’s brilliant yeah yeah very pleased thank you now what happened to the teddy I’ve still got the teddy still there good I’m
Pleased to hear it yeah thank you very much pleasure thanks for bring in a minut nice Than now a very long time ago when I was a child I lived a lot with my grandmother and you she used to take me on trips around London I was about seven or and we traveled a lot on buses one day I can remember saying a most extraordinary
Thing has happened a London bus crossed tile Bridge as it was going up and had to jump the Gap and I think it’s a sort of piece of folklore a bit of extraordinary London history the flying bus I too knew the story and I got a
Catalog from one of the oan houses and there was a bus item in there and it said that this place was actually from the bus that jumped tower bridge and I just put a telephone bid in and I got this now let’s just go back a bit in
1939 London transport introduced a new type of bus called the RT the driver sits in a single cab on the right and the engine is beside him and on the engine of every London bus there was this number plate which was a bonnet plaque yeah and it was the identity for
That particular bus what of course we know is that that bus RT 793 is the flying bus what happened was that um in those days there was a a traffic light and a gate which shut off the road to the bridge and on this murky cold Misty
Morning the gatekeeper forgot to do it and the number 78 bus on its way to sh ditch entered onto the bridge and the bascule began to rise and the driver had a choice do I slam the brakes on and back off or do I slam my foot down and
Go for it and now clearly the obvious decision is stop and reverse off for some reason he thought no no I can do it there were 20 passengers on the bus all of them had injuries minor or major CU of course they all fell about that’s the
Story and there is the number so what did you pay 32 I think that’s going to be 800,00 something like that it’s never going to be sold you’re never going to sell it yeah thank you very much for bringing this great story to life thank you very
Much we got this little spinning chair what part of the world do your family come from Yorkshire Yorkshire this doesn’t look very Yorkshire really to be honest with you this Notch carving is all rather fine it kind of almost looks Welsh actually a w dates from around
About the late 19th century it’s got a rather arts and craftsy feel about it it’s a nice decorative little item value is probably going to be between sort of1 and2 200 something like That we’ve got two wonderful pictures here both signed by philli navii who was an artist who spent the best part of his life in and around leads now was he someone that you knew no we didn’t know him personally but when we moved into the house we’re in we discovered that he
Had been the previous owner and there’s only him and us that have owned the house since it was built in 1926 oh wow and so were these pictures in the house when you bought them no there was an aid shelter that we explored there was attics and there was a safe and there
Was no paintings where did you find these well there was a rug shop in Chapel alleron that was displaying some of his work and we went down there and they sold two pieces to us for half price cuzz we lived in his house well that’s lucky this was one of them and so
Where did you find this one I used to work for a charity in South Leeds and uh two paintings came into the charity shop and as I got close I like I can’t believe it they’re both Navi Asis so I looked on the back of one of them and
Discovered that it actually had our address on the back which I was really excited about but I had to go through the whole bidding process properly and fortunately I did actually win the one that I wanted so this is an oil painted on canvas board and it really shows how
Confident Navas was um using oil he’s used these wonderfully fluid brush Strokes with how he’s captured the water and the sky and the Mast of the ships and in terms of the pallet he’s really captured the warmth of a Spanish Seaside Harbor and I think it’s quite a nice
Contrast to this much more technical drawing of a mother and child I think his wife and one of his children in black chalk on paper and he’s just captured them I love sketches because you really see the artists working process and they’re always a little bit more spontaneous you know you can’t make
Any mistakes on that you’ve just got to go for it and the way that he’s portrayed the shading and the Contours of both of their features he’s really looked at them carefully I’m not so fond of his Landscapes but I absolutely love his portraits whereas I think I I do
Like this yeah so if this one came from a charity shop how much did you pay for it somewhere between 150 and £250 that’s not a bad find cuz I think these days I mean naski he doesn’t come up all that often if the Spanish viewers to come
Auction we’d probably see an estimate in around £800 to 12200 oh wow um and then this little draing again very rare they do not come up at auction that often I would have thought that would probably be in the region of 3 to 500 wow brilliant yeah that is surprising
Actually isn’t it yes yeah yeah we can put them back where they belong on the wall in his house absolutely well what an intriguing plaque so private young was he your presumably your grandfather not your father yes yeah tell me about him he took the name Young
His name actually morale but he took the name Young of his of his mom’s M name because he felt he might be too young to to get into the army to enlist for the first war for the first world war so he become known as yungi of course all the
Lads wanted to get involved yes that’s right he was a stretcher Bearer he went into no man’s land under heavy fire bandages him up and carried them back to to safety uh on nine separate occasions for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross yes that’s right what a brave chat
And having been awarded the VC he was presented with this watch as an extra thank you that’s right when he yes yeah and apparently there was over 100,000 people at the ceremony how incredible yeah well the watch is sign Reen son’s Newcastle Pon very very good Jewelers
And there is his monogram on the back yeah let’s look at the movement it’s a 3/4 plate English lever movement and it’s just a nice quality product yeah nine karat gold the Hallmark is in fact London 1914 it’s not working you probably when did you last have it
Cleaned and overhaul do you ever remember having it done no been on the wall there probably been wound up too many times with the grandchildren well it’s like your car it needs the occasional service and a regular oil you see so pretty much seized up as such now
Forget the watch for the time being what happened to the Victoria Cross itself well the story is me Granddad porned the medal and the watch because obviously times were hard the officers from the Duran right infantry club together they bought the watch and the medal back they
Presented the medal to the Dural light infantry to go into their Museum and they promised to present me father with the watch when he was 21 which they did do and my mom his sisters had to get special permission to go to the ceremony because they weren’t allowed in pubs or
Clubs at the time women weren’t allowed in and this was given back to my father when he was what a lovely story yes yeah and the VC is still in in the LI in museum well yes we wanted to put the watch with the medal but last time I
Heard the medal was in Durham University Library somewhere I’m hoping that somebody could G up and and get the medal back and then you can have it all as one little thing together that would what we would love to do of course if you can try the reunite them that would
Be lovely yeah the watch has say nine karat it’s not a fortune no no forget the connection if it was just a watch on its own at auction it would be making 7 to 900 it’s not the finest but it’s a wonderful wonderful story and please try
Your best to reunite the whole lot I will do yes certainly would love to thanks thank you good to see you thank you very much thank [Applause] you our gloriously verdant venue has a long tradition of sporting activity here at Round day park there’s one sport that’s been part of the landscape for
More than 120 years and that is grass track cycling and this banked Drome was built in the 1890s as part of a sports arena here in the park and that was at a time when cycling was becoming much more popular rounde Park’s vrone would go on to be a training circuit for future
Olympic and world champions the West riding track League still race here and Mandy Parker is one of the coaches and organizers there’s a long proud tradition here in Mand isn’t there recycling you’ve got some photographs there when did they date from well we’ve got one from probably 19 1927 1928 and
That’s when there was an amazing mock castle built in the park and what about the other one the other one is just a start of the races they’re all on track bikes fixed wheel no brakes so as long as those pedals are turning those wheels are turning and that’s how it is today
Of course exactly the same on the vrone and this is a grass vrone and when it comes to local record-breaking cyclists none are more proudly remembered than the legendary Barrel Bur Burton now tell me about barl Burton cuz she’s not a household name but she is an absolute icon of cycling
Isn’t she she’s a Yorkshire lass worked on a rhubarb farm and this is the 1950s we’re talking it’s 1950s when she actually started a cycling career and she broke records by the Dozen oh she did these are all time trials so they’re all on open roads so you’ve looking at 10 Mile
25 and 50 m time trial records were kept for something like 20 years nobody could beat her her 100 mile time child record was held for I think it was 28 years and the distance she could cover in 12 hours which is called the 12-h hour record was
Held for 50 years and it wasn’t broken until 2017 did she beat men uh yes she beat men all the time they were just all in together they weren’t separate in one instance she was on a 12-hour record and she actually pulled up alongside mik mnara who was the male record holder at
The time offered him a suite I think it was a licorice also and went past him and she was just stunning I mean these days we’re used to successful record-breaking female cyclist Laura Kenny Victor Pendleton come to mind but barl when she was doing it she was out
There ahead of them all wasn’t she she was they didn’t have the sort of support that our athletes now have to go abroad and race internationally they had to do it themselves so they had to fund it themselves they had to save up the money a husband would drive around on the
12-hour record with all the food packed in the car car and feed on the wing so to speak and that’s how they did it in those days well thank you for telling us all about it you’re welcome well among 300 bodybuilding magazines which you brought in to begin
With I managed to find these photographs here and behind it you have a wonderful story uh these are all including Arnold Schwarzenegger and your father yes that’s tell me about it well my dad was born in India I moved to Kenya and then to England his passion from being young
Was weight training he was a builder but he always wanted to open his own gym which he did in the 70s in harate the first one and he first met Arnold at the age of 19 in London when he was that age there this is the young Arnold
Gosh yes and Arnold’s inspiration was a lead bodybuilder reg Park who made the film Hercules right my dad called Arnold to do some seminars in 1981 to lead yes he came to our house mom cooked and there’s you yes that’s me Arnold my brother and my mom and your mom oh how
Wonderful look you’ve got a wonderful photograph here and it’s to Stephanie and obviously we’ve got Arnold here with a picture of your dad lifting his arm up he just thought my dad was so strong and your father’s got all his clothes on for sake we can’t possibly tell from that
And who’s this this is Arnold Schwarzenegger and and Dave John’s passed away now me and my brother so that’s absolutely wonderful I mean that is quite incredible well how does how do I value this you wanted me to Value 300 bodybuilding magazines from the 1940s I
Can’t I’m not going to I’m not going to go there we’ve got well these lovely personal photographs you’ve got about four sign photographs of Arnold Schwarz and Egger what am I going to put on it what do you think I I hav a clue well I think just this small private section of
The collection I’m going to put £2,000 in it really £2,000 for unknown photographs of Arnold Schwarz and ner this one I think it’s a well-known one it’s the one that he used as a publicity one all the other ones as far as I can see are absolutely private oh yes and
Early Arnold schwarzeneger too thank you for bringing it in I’m very proud of my father for what he did and I just wanted to share it with you something for lead thank you for sharing it with us we we love [Applause] it I always love when we can do a bit of
A reveal with a beautiful box and then there’s going to be a fabulous piece of jewelry inside and here we have it such a pretty Diamond clustering it’s got a name on the inside George Harriet so what do you know about the Jeweler George Harriot George Harriet was the
Jeweler to King James the first of England James I 6 of Scotland were more specifically for his wife who was Queen an of Denmark oh of course she liked her jewelry she liked her jewelry so much that in fact at one point she was indebted to George Harriet for 10,000
Which you can imagine in the early 1600s in today’s money it’s a lot isn’t it it was a money lender as well wasn’t he and that was one of the interesting things about him he was lending money to the Royals who would then spend the money
Back with him brilliant way to have a jewelry business really isn’t it and it’s really quite fun but he was also had a nickname do you know what it was jingling George that jingling Jordie that’s it because he would walk around with all his cash in his pockets and and
Of course there were coins and it it jingled so that’s that’s what he was known as which he’s great fun isn’t it but not to take away from the fact that he was a superb Jeweler with a great eye so how did this get into your family an antecedent of mine married
Somebody who was the descendant of George Harriet ah and the ring came through that roofe good so looking at the piece of jewelry itself I mean it’s so pretty isn’t it it really is a lovely ring and if we have a look at the back of the actual piece of jewelry we have
This fluting on the inside of the Ring here which is very typical of early 18th century possibly late 17th century but definitely moving into the Georgian period this style was picked up on and used a lot and there are Jewelers today who really love this what we call a
Button setting so that’s the first sort of thing to look at we then look at the way the stones have been cut and they’re very beautifully cut rose cut diamonds which have a flatb and facets all around the top to make them Sparkle and then they’ve been put into quite heavy collet
Settings which are silver and that helps to secure the stones in before we knew about prongs the you know the claw setting that we have today and then of course it’s on a beautiful gold band now there are some pieces from the period that we’re talking about that were made
Like this but there’s something that I’m just feeling that it could be a bit later than we are thinking and that there’s been this big sort of diversion put your way by having George Harriet’s name in the box but of course it has come down through descent from this lady
Who married into the family and we’ve got the we’ve got the backstory there so it’s it’s a little bit of a mystery in some ways isn’t it I’m not disputing that it isn’t by him or was prove it is exactly and I think that that’s what we
Always have to be very open about when it comes to looking at jewelry in terms of value if it turns out that it isn’t George Harriet and it’s a Georgian ring then we’d be looking at an auction estimate of, 15500 to £2,000 that’s still quite a substantial
Amount of it is isn’t it yeah it’s not bad at all so of course if if we can link it to George herit and the fact that he might have handled it or it had been given back in repayment of a debt by the king and queen we would be
Looking at a value in the region of £6,000 really that would be very nice good thank you for bringing it along thank you for looking at it antique games and toys always brighten up our day on the road show and none more so than rare merchandise of a
Much loved cartoon character when I look at this Mickey Mouse toy or doll I think of what Walt Disney said we must remember it all started with the mouse absolutely and that’s where Disney kicked off in 1928 when Steamboat Willie came out the first cartoon was synchronized sound and
Of course everybody then wanted a Mickey Mouse doll so in came the moment of merchandising what do you feel when you look at this I think there is so much that we feel because Disney is a really big part of our life so we got engaged at Disney and our entire house every
Different room is a different Disney story well gosh I feel rather sort of uh nervous at this point that’s but I’m just going to LEAP in so all the materials are the right sort of kind of materials so made from cloth but I think that what you’ve got here is the
Barebones of a 19 36 Nica toy company Mickey Mouse doll Nica was a toy company that was in New York and they started making Mickey Mouse dolls in around 1934 right how much did you pay for it so we paid uh $400 $400 okay you’re looking rather worried at that point
Submitting it to the parents there we are no your secret is out so there have been little changes along the way definitely I think the whiskers are probably later the original whiskers were slightly thicker string and slightly longer probably for me the biggest thing is the hands those 1936
Hands were like little stylized flowerheads with four Petals on the fingers were not joined together at all and then the original shoes were made of a like a formed cardboard MH and they had like a flock finish to them now you paid £400 so you $ but yeah well that’s
Even less so you’re on pretty safe territory good I think that probably this would be worth around what you paid for it you have the heart of an original Mickey Mouse for us thank you so much for bringing along the first nicok 1936 Mickey Mouse doll that I’ve seen
So how did this beautiful lady come into your possession well it was always on my mother’s mantle piece and I believe they used to travel around Europe a little bit and I think about 40 to 50 years ago it just arrived when I was sort of teenager something like that and it
Always sat on the mantle piece my stock and trade for 20 years was Art Deco and I sold many figurines but it didn’t come across that many in this good condition it would have been a fairly expensive item in the 1920s maybe 1930s when it
Was sold let’s have a look at it it’s Onyx base of two different pieces we have a coal painted bronze and I love the different colors of the shoes and I love the fan it’s like mother app P it has been applied over the bronze and you can just
See how it reflects I’ve got actually a little Spotlight at home which not on it all the time but just occasionally it lights up the mantle piece and the coloring is super it’s never been cleaned as far as I know in its life it’s never been washed or anything if I
Was buying it I want to see it like that I don’t want to see it over cleaned and over stored it maybe just a little light cloth on it but she’s in fantastic condition I don’t think you really need to worry and she’s what now coming up
100 nearly 100 years old I mean can you believe that is 100 years old it looks so fresh and modern in today’s terms there’s varying sizes of this particular style by Joseph Lorenzo we smaller ones and then we go in the big ones but this is probably a mediumsized
Piece strangely enough for me they seem to fluctuate like property prices and I remember these when I first started dealing an arle with something like standard 3 3400 but now this piece is £2,000 worth right thank you very much for bringing it in it’s brought back a few of my
Memories what brought me into the job well I’ve learned a bit more about her as well thanks very much for that thank you thank you we have three tennis rackets in front of us rise you brought these along and we have to rank them in order of value so
Basic better best wouldn’t have a clue how to begin how to do this Raj well are you a tennis player F owna no I’d love to be but sadly I never learned it’s actually the sixth most popular sport in the whole world so it’s a very very
Popular sport and of course because of that it’s become highly collectible and here we’ve got three rackets that represent that so tell us about each one well the first one nearest you is a what we call a flat top racket it’s double stringed it’s got this lovely bulbous
Handle as well and it was made in MA in sacot in the Punjab and it’s dated around 1886 okay okay the second one is an all aluminium racket it’s about 1920 and it’s made by the Birmingham aluminium Casting Company and this was the first time in the 1920s that they started
Wrapping the handles with leather and cord and this is the original leather and cord from those days when I started play I mean i’ play a little bit but I just never had lessons that’s what my racket looked like well a lot of people will recognize this kind of Racket it’s
Made in Ash because Ash is very malleable this one is a Slazenger racket another British Racket and it’s signed in the middle by Fred Perry Oh okay a look you see at at last we might don’t know a lot about tennis but we’ve heard of fr exactly and this was actually his
Racket Fred Perry was actually the last Englishman to win Wimbledon he won it in 1934 1935 and 1936 so these are our three rackets and did Fred Perry actually play with that racket yes he did so first of all what are the three values we’re talking about okay
Value-wise we’re talking about one is worth £1,000 one is worth £4,000 and one is worth £4,000 it’s like being in the pantoon and and I mean the obvious thing to go for is the Fred Perry racket so what should we be thinking about when trying to assess the
Value of these well I mean when you’re assessing tennis rackets it’s you know how old they are who own them but you’re looking at unusual shapes one-offs right come on give me some help here what do you think um I think the one on the left is the most expensive
Cuz it’s the oldest not swayed by the Fred Perry connection tour no I think that might be the second second right he’s too young he’s too young yeah too young oh my goodness what about you what do you think um I think the one on the
Left is the most valuable so the one from India yes yeah and what makes you go for that um I think just because it’s the oldest and I don’t know it might be quite rare because of its age okay I don’t know what do you think any ideas
Yeah I think the Fred Perry one really well I think the Fred Perry one has to be the best one so you’re shaking your head why I just think we’re being drawn to the other two and the middle one’s being ignored so I’d go for the one that’s least obvious
Okay right you set it’s quite a challenge hav you I mean I mean I have no idea and so far I’ve got a different option from pretty much every single person okay I’m G to say basic better best okay not quite not quite you got one right oh
Okay this is the basic one right okay and so why is that there were a lot of them made uh and when it comes to the other two the history behind the other two is much more important this is the second most valuable the Fred Perry one okay and the
Most expensive one is the Indian one so some of you were absolutely right and the reason for that there is a reason for that is that uh an Indian gentleman who lived in India and he was playing tennis uh this is at the end of the 19th
Century and he broke Racket and he sent back to England for another racket but it just didn’t arrive in time so he took the racket to a local Tradesman and he said is there any chance that you can fix it and the Indian Tradesman did such
A good job that from there a trade was born so this is possibly the oldest racket ever made in India they see if we’ known all this might have affected my view so a th000 yep 4,000 14,000 so this is a very rare Survivor this is a very rare tennis racket
Indeed well done Raj you might get it right next time I’m sure you will [Applause] Fiona well I’m looking at a pile of newspaper cuttings and a photograph of a little girl now who’s that little girl that’s me two years old well all I can say is
Not much has changed oh thank you anyway why are you here and what were you doing when you were too well I was on holiday in the south of France with my parents and we got on a plane to come home and on the plane was Winston Churchill who
Was a prime minister at the time so when are we talking 1953 I think being a 2-year-old I was running up and down the plane and there was a spare seat next to him so of course I went and chatted to him and he was having a lovely
Conversation with me he’d give me some sweets and biscuits and whatever and then he gave me a cigar wrapper which is here which is there and you remember all that I don’t actually the only thing I remember is from the Press cuttings so you don’t remember the I don’t remember
Doing it I wish I did yes and then what happens next well then when we landed apparently the Press had got hold of the story and the were there taking pictures so that’s a press picture is that your dad yes that’s my dad yeah very proud
Dad and they wrote about the whole story small girl makes a new friend no other than Sir Winston yeah headline news somebody on the plane must have phoned ahead saying we’ve got this great story must have done yeah how else I think it’s amazing it must have been your
Family who sort of realized that this was an important mve yeah my dad did yeah he definitely knew he spoke to the press as well I think he gave an interview about it all yeah so you’ve had to live with this all your life yes
I’ve loved it yes loved it well here you are telling it to Millions more well anything to do with Churchill has a price he seem to have scattered cigar butts around the world and they do appear and they do sell and therefore that its own the rapper with your story
To fanatical Churchill collector of which there are many is probably a couple of hundred pound wow simply because the story is so great and we know it had to come from him it’s all about provenance but that to me isn’t it I mean what we’ve got here is a
Fantastic piece of unexpected history thank you very much thank you if you went to a grocer shop in the late 19th century to buy your loose leaf tea this is the type of tin that would have been served out of tell me where did you get it so this belongs to my
Husband’s mom and I believe it’s been in the family for a few Generations so it was his grandmother’s grandmothers and it’s just always been in The Farmhouse well as I said it’s a tea tin for maati tea they started in the 1850s and by the 1900s they were the largest Tea Company
In the world they didn’t actually produce their own tea but they bought it from plantations in places like Salon which is now modern day Sri Lanka and India was bought from all over the world and it was imported but they were a British company but they really understood the power of advertising they
Actually advertised the tea on the sides of carriages which actually were pulled around London by zebras oh wow so can you imagine sort of zebras pulling sort of an advertising truck essentially around the Streets of London advertising Ma tea wow this is actually one of their most iconic
Advertising images and of course you’ve got sort of the grandmother and the granddaughter here are drinking tea with the title Old Folks at home yeah what do they drink tea now these are really really collectible you know tins generally is quite a collectible genre but people really like these very big display tins
That would basically would been parts of large grocery shops and they’re even sort of specialist auctions for this type of thing but I absolutely love it and if it were in an auction it would probably sell from the region of2 to £300 oh that’s good yeah I’m delighted to see it thank
You increasingly on the road show our visitors are bringing along stunning items of clothing by some of Britain’s top fashion designers it’s got to be the late great Vivian Westwood it is and here in leads two stylish dresses have caught the eye of suie Yang wow look at this pair of beautiful
Dresses can you tell me a little bit about them the dresses are by Aussie Clark I was at college with Aussie he was a couple of years ahead of me it’s so happened that I was standard size and so I modeled for him not these I loved his clothes he was brilliant patent
Cutter and he understood what looked good on women and how did you come to to collect these pieces and have you worn them yes I did used to wear them when I was slightly smaller than I am now and uh my daughter over there she wore them as well but I
Actually bought them at I suppose it was an upmarket jumble sale probably very early’ 7s 7172 and how much did you pay for them I have no idea no idea at all it wouldn’t have been a lot lot oie clar is a legendary British designer yes that
Really changed how people dress up in the swing 60s as you said he’s a brilliant cutter with this shape that’s often very flowy and very comfortable to wear the material is sort of rayon Crepes that flows really beautifully sometimes referred to as Moss crepe and it just looks good on
Women with any shape with cinched in waist and flowy bottom and as you can see that there are some beautiful stylized pointed colorss and that’s quite often seen on his work and the one on the right has a really interesting print do you know anything about this
Print the print is by Celia bertwell yeah they were a creative duel that’s romantic linked and they they were married for a few years and this pattern is called Step by Step it has a geometric shape that she is sometimes inspired by artists like Ma so a dress
That has both of their creative input is highly collectible this is probably worth around £500 or more really and this one with the pointed collar would have a value around £300 so both together they would easily fetch 700 to 900 at auction well I’m amazed absolutely amazed I’ve never really thought about
The value but I just like looking at them I really like this this one especially I would take it home with me if I could I know I might try and squeeze into it when I get back it’s a lovely piece of History isn’t it thank [Applause] you
Well this looks like an amazing scrapbook on the footballer Bert Williams is that correct it is indeed yes Bert played for wolves and England um I first met him in 2007 and I got to know him really well this book is put together by his wife
Eing it details the life of a very young footballer that goes into the War years there are numerous autographs from some pretty famous names of football from Stanley Matthews Matt Busby all sorts of people now from my era goalkeepers who had a nickname like the cat yes was
Peter benetti I don’t remember any others but he was the original cat he was he was nicknamed the cat as a result of he played edby skin against Italy in one of the games and they called him IL Gaton and so how did you acquire it it
Went up for auction in 2013 my brother and I we just had to buy it so you had a nice close association with him I mean I used to go to his house I mean he was one of the greats played for England roughly 24 25 24 plus there were war
Games that weren’t class I think it was 28 but the other four aren’t actually accepted as being official caps he also got awarded the MBE didn’t he he did indeed he did indeed for his services to football and charity yes his wife eving I think she died of Alzheimer’s and he
Raised a lot of money for charity and uh as a result he deservedly got an NBA I mean do you have any idea what the value of this might be I bought it because I love the book uh I’m not really interested in the money if this was to
Come into auction H and it was let’s say outside of the Wolves area okay because I would hope this would go to somebody a supporter of wolves or or the club itself I think it would be estimated somewhere between 12 to 1500 okay today that’s that’s what I I think
Thank you for bringing it in thank you a pleasure thank [Applause] you our home for the day round hey park has long been a special place for the people of Yorkshire and one of them Joanne Harris bestselling author of the novel Shola has joined us to share her local
Memories and show me a much cherished family antique John it’s lovely to meet you big fanet your books thank you and round hey Park is somewhere you used to come as a child yes my grandfather used to bring me here and I taught at Le’s grammar school that was at the time just across the mo here
Of course yes because you a teacher before you were a writer I was for 15 years and then hit huge Fame with your novel Shaka yes unexpectedly yes so many people have read the book Shaka for the few that haven’t just remind us of the
Plot oh it’s a story about a woman with an Immaculate sense of timing who moves into a chocolate shop in rural France in just the right place right opposite the church where there is a quite austere Catholic priest in charge and she genuinely thinks that’s not going to
Cause trouble and in shakla you drew upon your own history quite a lot you’re half French half British yes a lot of it was Nostalgia about my family and particularly my great-grandmother who was a character in the book and lat to the film so that was Armand it was yes
Arand who is crabby and tough and very like my great-grandmother who I just remember she died when I was four but she was the matriarch of the family and the statue that brought along is is that connected to your great-grandmother it was hers I think it was also her
Mother’s it’s a piece of camp potery camp out being a town in Britany yes it was the one nice thing that she owned and I remember it on her mantlepiece in her house and and now it’s on my mantle piece in my house it’s a Catholic piece even though my great grand grandmother
Wasn’t a very devout Catholic she was quite a bad Catholic actually she didn’t get on very well with her Parish priest and pranked him all the time in fact she dressed up as the Virgin Mary at one point when he was a character when he
Was coming out late from the pub and he thought he’d seen an actual Apparition um and it caused a scandal but you she obviously cared for this piece very much and presumably now important to you very much so yes it watched me as I wrote Chaka and watched you many novel since
Of course as well absolutely and now I’m writing the prequel to Shaka and so she will sit there and watch me there too and when you sit down and you write your books where do you begin how do you find your inspiration everywhere really uh very often it’s ideas that rattle around
In my head with no connection and then eventually they start to make connections but sometimes it’s an event a person’s voice sometimes it’s something in the news lovely to meet you Joanne thank you so much so here we see in front of us a program some boxing gloves and a poster
Not any old poster a bit of history from one of the most important bouts in boxing history Joe Frasier Muhammad Ali both undefeated World Heavyweight Champions so how did these come into your possession cuz I was there so you witnessed this big boat yes and of course this was the comeback the Ali
Comeback wasn’t he he’d only had two three fights before the this one on the comeback Trail were you ringside the $150 seats no where were you there m in the gods the three astronauts from the moon were there Sonata was official photographer it was like a fashion show
And that was just the guys yeah yeah yeah right yeah but you haven’t asked me the one crucial question one how much did it cost me well your $20 seat in the mezzanine but it must have cost you a few BS on the plan Fair mustn’t it 1971 5 Days
Hotel five breakfasts 125 quid that’s good value isn’t it we’ve got a pair of gloves here they are souvenir gloves so this is how you got the signatures yes that is Muhammad Ali that is taken in the 80s they’re not very good signatures now for the simple
Fact I didn’t have a permanent pen at the time who’s this onome fell here oh well that might be me cuz that’s taken at the top of the Empire State Building good Providence that well of course Alli lost the match but didn’t had a rematch
A later on was that 7 74 and of course Alli won and that was his comeback well that was the start of his comeback but it wasn’t the real thing until he fought George Foreman we’ve got one last small glove here the name is Tony galento I
Met him in Dempsey’s bar if you saw a photograph of him his belly was bigger than his chest and he nickname was 2 Ton Tony gento but he signed that so about value have you ever been offered any money for the gloves I think about 500
But I would think more but I don’t know that’s your job that’s your expertise and it’s a hard one because where are you going to find a pair of gloves signed by all these people and this sort of archive Providence by the man who was there that makes the story that makes it
More special for the gloves we’re going to starts at £1,000 but I don’t know where it would end up you could get two boxing fans all the history behind it it could carry on and on and on and I think the rest of this small archive I think
We put one to 2,000 so about 3,000 just here if you were ever to sell it I don’t think I would well do you know what for me today it’s great to meet somebody who was there bringing a bit of History to life and thank you ever so much for
Coming in and tells us your story thank you so in round park there’s a lovely large lake it looks a bit chilly today for me for a swim I have to say this gentleman he was obviously made of Stoner stuff tell me who was he well
This is my father he was an English school boy and new Yorkshire champion at swimming he swam in a a commemorative race for the coronation in the big lake just down here okay well yeah nth the 1937 coronation obviously it had to be because George V 6 wasn’t actually ever
Expected to become king and it’s only because uh his brother Edward abdicated that he then became king and so they suddenly had to um it all had to be organized in something of a of a rush basically but there was you know it was a huge celebration and you know and
There was games and competitions all over the country and this as we see it says the coronation cup I like the way it says that it’s open to all yorkman so you have to you have to be a yorkman to actually to enter did you did so You’
Also got a program here for the open air bathing pool yeah that was on the same day I think as far as I know big thing in the 1930s wasn’t in of open lios of course they’ve all you know they’ve all pretty much disappeared now this is a fantastic photograph of you really
Proudly displaying all his medals and cups and the old 1930s swimming costume made of wool exactly probably sort of when you got in the water and it got wet probably it went all baggy so how old was he phot 16 pre- winning the cup and and preway won lots of Cups and he
Played water polo for England really um and would have gone to the Olympics but for the war did he carry on swimming after this no cuz he got injured in the war so he obviously had great promise he did he did yeah for so many people I
Guess the war took yes things away from them well it’s a silver cup made in Sheffield so it’s relatively local sort of South York sh and it’s typical very sort of Art Deco in style so would have been very typical of silver trophy cups that were were being made at the time
And obviously given out as presented as as prizes I’m sure he was very proud to have won this I’m I’m proud to bring it today as well pricewise it would be300 or 400 but I’m sure it’s invaluable to you given yeah it is the family connection The Blood Sweat and Tears
That went into winning that as well yes absolutely it’s been lovely to see it and a great memory of your dad so thank for showing it thank you in recent years we’ve began to see more and more TV memorabilia from our much missed expert Judith miling basil
The rat from Faulty Towers quite simply the most famous rodent on British television to Dell boy’s car from Only Fools and Horses wife what a mean green machine and here in leads a script from the much loved sitcom Dad’s Army has caught cly farrar’s eye I can’t believe that I’m
Actually hand handling the original script from one of dad’s Army’s programs this is all in handwriting this is David Croft presumably wrote it yes well tell me all about it well I acquired it back in the mid90s I had a work placement at the BBC attached to the comedy
Department did the week with David croft’s office wrote to David to thank him and afterwards he he sent me that as a he sent you a thank you at the time I was thinking maybe you’re going into script writing what is it called Sergeant saved my boy Sergeant saved my
Boy here it all is his first thoughts yes um that was the thing that I was really amazed at this is quarrying at the cold face this is where all the thoughts lie where everything is tied it up where it’s tremendous and he sends you a wonderful letter here which you’ve
Also included thank you for your letter I’m enclosing a manuscript of a Dad’s Army program unfortunately the first page is missing yes clumsy clumsy but it is the manuscript of Sergeant save my boy which you said which went out a couple of weeks ago and the original is
In my own bad handwriting well I can’t read it uh I can write better than this but in trying to keep up with my thoughts theability goes out of the window which I think is absolutely wonderful because this is the whole thing yeah including all the catches stupid boy oh we got one
Here yeah oh it’s Pike here we are I’m caught in the wire and I’ve hurt my leg and then the stupid boy it’s all there isn’t it i’ now work in TV but not not in script writing but it did um inspire me that week to to go down go into the
Industry there these pieces of paper are probably Terri rare I can’t imagine that there are any more around really these would all be typed up and all the actors would have a copy they’d all make their own notes on it and all that sort of thing whereas this the original nugget
From which the whole thing came was just completely discarded give it to somebody who popped in for a week or so work experience and all that sort which is amazing absolutely amazing well I suppose I’ve got to Value it now which is the most difficult thing because I
Don’t think I’ve got anything to compare it with I would say you have something between £5 and 10,000 which which sounds like a lot of money but when you think when you think how rare how rare these scripts can possibly be this which I think is the
Most golden piece of Dad’s Army this is where the heart of Dad’s Army is so congratulations wow we’ve seen a lot of sporting Treasures here at Round Hay Park from boxing gloves to treas so in the spirit of competition we thought we’d end the show with a race to
The finish the summer cycling season is underway here and this trophy first presented in 1937 is up for grabs at the West riding track league so come on right you ready yeah on your marks get set go for the Antics Road Show team bye-bye remember that early Mass doll
Well he’s back in Prime position in his Disney themed home and those Navas paintings so we’ve got both of our Philip navias pictures back on the wall in the space where his Art Studio used to Be Oh Oh Oh [Laughter] Oh Oh Oh O A Oh