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00:00On all new salvage hunters, with almost 60 years combined experience, three leading antique and salvage dealers are joining forces.
00:10From West Wales, country house connoisseur Alistair Dryborough loves the traditional.
00:16Sorry about that, isn't it? It's nice. Welsh. It's handsome.
00:18Pine, tavern, settle. Don't try to sell it to me.
00:21No, I'm not trying to sell it to you.
00:23Edinburgh-based dealer Vicky Knott has an incredible eye for interiors.
00:27I just think it's ever easy.
00:30I just think that's brilliant.
00:31In London, Shere Khan Yamakja is a devotee of retro design and industrial salvage sourced from all over Europe.
00:39These were made by gents of Leicester, and it's a general post office one.
00:43While his brother Jay restores items back to life.
00:47There's nothing to rust, nothing to go wrong, and that's why these last forever.
00:52Together, they're travelling the country, on the hunt for the very best antiques and decorative salvage.
01:00This time, in Manchester, 100-year-old fire safety equipment sparks flames of desire.
01:11It's the glass with the hand-painted fire hose. That kind of makes it for me.
01:15In Cheshire, a hobby horse with an eccentric history causes Vicky to have a wobble.
01:21Have I gone mental?
01:22I don't know. I don't know.
01:24Remember, we ain't got no brakes, yeah?
01:26That's great.
01:27And a visit to a historic Thames boatyard has Shere Khan dreaming of life on the waves.
01:33That's the life I would like to have, you know, get on the yacht, go out to France, do a little bit of shopping, come back.
01:46Edinburgh dealer Vicky Knott has become known for spotting extraordinary vintage objects
01:51and reimagining them with new life and new purpose in our customers' homes.
01:55But even with decades of experience, every day is still a school day.
02:01I've been doing this 25 years and there's not a day that goes by that I don't learn something new.
02:07You don't have to go out and buy a documented piece of furniture from an established auction house to find history.
02:17You can go out and pick something up for a few pounds and do some research and you will be amazed what doors open
02:27in terms of why it was made, who made it, what it was used for.
02:33And that is what gets the goose bumps going in me,
02:38is when you really don't need much money to find an item with really interest and historic value.
02:49Vicky's on her way to Warrington in Cheshire,
02:51to a destination which promises the kind of history lessons not taught in school.
02:56Today she's joined by London-based dealer Shere Khan Yumutja,
03:00who specialises in 20th century vintage items,
03:03sharing Vicky's fascination with contemporary history.
03:06We are going to see a guy called Paul.
03:12He's got this cycle museum.
03:15Yeah.
03:15And it is like his lifetime collection of bikes and anything to do with cycling.
03:22OK.
03:22And I've heard that he's slowing down a bit and he's wanting to clear a bit of his collection.
03:30All right.
03:31Now, I don't know what we're going into.
03:34I don't know what he's got on offer.
03:36But all I know is it's going to be bike related.
03:40OK.
03:41So, I reckon we're in for an interesting day, yeah.
03:48Warrington's brewing industry flourished during the Industrial Revolution,
03:52and it was a 19th century brewing magnet who built Walton Hall,
03:56which today is open to the public.
03:58In the house's former laundry rooms,
04:00packed with two-wheeled wonders and assorted memorabilia,
04:03is the cycling museum and the passion project of historian Paul Adams.
04:08It's a collection of bicycles and other artifacts collected over 35 years.
04:19The museum was open because the sheds that I had were full and I had no more capacity.
04:27So, I thought, right, the next thing is let's put them in a building somewhere
04:32and everybody can enjoy the bicycles.
04:34How many bicycles I've got?
04:38Possibly close to 100.
04:40The reaction from people is surprise, nostalgia,
04:46and that's where conversations start.
04:49I've got antiques.
04:51I've got lamps.
04:53I mean, there's so much stuff that I think might be interesting.
04:56It's very difficult to recall everything that's here,
04:59but I'm absolutely certain there will be things that they'll go away with.
05:03Hello.
05:04Hi there, I'm Vicky.
05:06How do you do?
05:07Paul.
05:07Hi, Paul.
05:08Shere Khan.
05:09Good morning, sir.
05:10What's in here?
05:12Er, secrets.
05:14You're going to reveal those secrets to us?
05:16We will.
05:17Let's go.
05:18Let's go.
05:20There we are.
05:20Oh, thank you.
05:24Oh, wow, Paul, look at this place.
05:26Oh, it's a bit packed.
05:29Paul, can I ask you, what made you make a bicycle museum?
05:33Obsession.
05:35Obsession.
05:35It started with cars.
05:37Okay.
05:38Cars became very expensive.
05:41In the early days, bicycles were relatively cheap.
05:44Yeah.
05:45But now, they're not.
05:47Some of them are more expensive than cars.
05:49Exactly.
05:49Exactly.
05:50I mean, I think the highest price that I've sold a bicycle for was £28,000.
05:58Wow.
05:59You always know that you're about to meet somebody who's really interesting when they've taken
06:06a slight passion and a small collection and turned it into a museum.
06:12It always means that that person is going to be interesting and slightly bonkers.
06:20There's a lot of signage everywhere.
06:23Yes.
06:23And posters and things.
06:25Are they reproduction ones?
06:28Some are.
06:29Some are.
06:29Some are virtual.
06:30And some aren't.
06:31And some aren't.
06:32Right, okay.
06:34What's that one?
06:37That's a company in Warrington, locally here.
06:40Ever easy.
06:42Eh?
06:43Is that what it's called?
06:46Yeah, look.
06:47Ever easy.
06:49Three-piece suites.
06:51Still lead the way.
06:53That's actually been drawn.
06:55Hand painted.
06:56Yeah, hand painted.
06:57Yeah.
06:58Yeah.
06:58That's quite well done, actually.
07:01Would £20 buy it off you?
07:03£25 would.
07:07Do you know what?
07:08I'm going to have that.
07:08£25.
07:10Good girl.
07:12I just think ever easy.
07:14I just think that's brilliant.
07:15It's really well done.
07:17It's got absolutely nothing to do with bikes, but it's titled ever easy.
07:22It's just fun.
07:24It's got a little bit of age to it, and it's really just true and innocent and of its type.
07:32Well, look at that bike.
07:34The wooden one.
07:34The wooden one.
07:36It's a copy of Hobby Horse.
07:39It was made in Reykjavik, Iceland.
07:43I don't mean the shop.
07:44Yeah.
07:45It's the place.
07:45Yeah.
07:45Yeah.
07:48It's just a bit of fun.
07:49They make these for little kids now, don't they?
07:51They do.
07:52They call them a balance bike.
07:53Yeah, that's right.
07:54They're balance bikes.
07:55Yeah.
07:56It's made out of ply.
07:57Yeah, it is.
07:58How old will it be?
08:00Oh, I've had it for 40 years.
08:03It looks easy.
08:04Can I just say, you will not see another.
08:07Would I even consider buying a bike?
08:08I don't know.
08:10Can I ask why?
08:11As a kind of like an art piece.
08:14Oh, yeah.
08:14As a sculpture.
08:16And I actually rode that on a ride that we did.
08:21Uh-huh.
08:22In Nancy, in France.
08:25You rode this?
08:26Yeah.
08:26It's made from ply.
08:28It's a one-off.
08:29It's got a bit of provenance.
08:31It's got a bit of history.
08:32Paul cycled part of the way from France to Germany on this, you know, to celebrate 200 years of the hobby horse being invented.
08:45You know, what's not to love about that story?
08:50This plywood model is a reproduction of an 1817 German invention, the Lauf machine, or hobby horse in English.
08:58A precursor to the bicycle, it required the rider to push with their feet and then try to balance.
09:03With an eccentric history built in, Vicky's wondering if this piece also has decorative appeal, perhaps worth around £500 to one of her customers.
09:12So how much money would be in a bike like that?
09:17£150 would buy today.
09:20Have I gone mental?
09:22I don't know.
09:23I don't know.
09:31In Cheshire with Shere Khan, Vicky's getting a lesson in the history of cycling at a mind-blowing passion project museum, where she's drawn to an unlikely object.
09:41Have I gone mental?
09:43I don't know.
09:44I don't know.
09:45An Icelandic plywood replica of a 19th century ancestor to the modern bicycle, the hobby horse.
09:52So you just walk with it.
09:53It was called a Lauf machine.
09:56Or a walking machine.
09:59Lauf machine is German.
10:01Or walking.
10:02So you walk.
10:04I have to say, I think it's fabulous.
10:07Do you?
10:07Yes.
10:09So what did you say, £150?
10:10Yeah.
10:12I'll have it.
10:15It's actually a collector's item.
10:17So that ticks a really good box.
10:20But then it's also a piece of art in itself.
10:24I wasn't sure if I would buy a bike today.
10:28But, yeah, why not buy a bike?
10:31Please do not ask to borrow tools as refusal may offend.
10:40I can see that on your brother's door.
10:42Yeah.
10:44This is so for my brother, isn't it?
10:46I think I might even let him actually keep this this time.
10:50Would you sell that?
10:51Yes.
10:52How much would you like for that?
10:5525 quid.
10:58Shake your hand at that.
10:59Good, man.
11:00Fantastic.
11:01I think that's great.
11:02So there's a lovely hand-painted sign there.
11:06One of the fastest things I've ever sold was a workshop-related hand-painted sign.
11:11This will also sell very quickly.
11:13Although this is something I think would go really well in my brother's workshop because
11:17there is a lot of tool borrowing going on there, by myself especially.
11:22Let him enjoy it for a bit and then we'll sell it.
11:25That's the original.
11:26Yeah.
11:26Ochtung.
11:27It's to give riders an idea.
11:29Perhaps you're coming up to a bad bend or...
11:32Right, okay, yeah.
11:33So, like, take care.
11:35And what's the milk race?
11:37It's a bicycle race.
11:38Famous bicycle race.
11:40Is it, yeah?
11:40Oh, yeah.
11:41Very much so.
11:42And is it a road race?
11:44Yeah.
11:45What would buy that?
11:46Twenty-five quid.
11:49Yeah.
11:50Yeah.
11:50I'll have that too.
11:52Good.
11:52It's another bit of cycling history which switches over to the art world and that's what I'm looking
12:02for here today.
12:04Is the Morris Post original?
12:05Yeah.
12:06Oh, yes.
12:07Yeah.
12:10What's this for?
12:11Morris Minor?
12:12Oh, earlier.
12:13To Morris Aid.
12:14Seriously.
12:14What would you want for something like that, Paul?
12:20Sixty pounds.
12:22It's original.
12:23Yeah.
12:24You square it at fifty?
12:27Yeah.
12:29Good, man.
12:30Fantastic.
12:30Yeah.
12:31That's a nice one.
12:32Do you know how much this poster was originally?
12:34How much?
12:36Sixpence.
12:36This kind of thing I've always got customers for.
12:39It kind of speaks to my customers.
12:42They'll love it.
12:43You know, the strongest demographic that I've got are men who love their cars, who love industrial.
12:51It's a very manly poster.
12:52That's not going to be hard to sell.
12:55Produced to go up on the mechanic's wall to give precise data on how to care for the once
13:00extremely popular Morris Aid, this 1930s poster boasts exceptional artwork because it also
13:06functioned as advertising for the mobile oil company.
13:09With appeal for motoring enthusiasts, advertising fans and history buffs, Shere Khan thinks he
13:16could sell it for around £135.
13:18Is this some sort of oil can?
13:22It is.
13:23I think the maker is underneath.
13:26Double J and S Limited.
13:29Birmingham.
13:301942.
13:311944.
13:3244.
13:33So it's two years younger than me.
13:36How much is something like that?
13:39£45.
13:40Rare.
13:41Cheap.
13:43Well made.
13:43It's a nice feeling.
13:44Novel.
13:46Inexpensive.
13:46Inexpensive.
13:47Not on my website.
13:49I'll take that for my website.
13:52It's a lovely thing.
13:53Still in very, very good condition.
13:55Nicely worn.
13:57Perfect.
13:57With everything else I bought today, probably the same people that are going to buy the poster
14:01are going to go for that.
14:03Probably never going to be used anymore, but it's going to just look good as display,
14:08decorative display in someone's garage, on someone's table, whatever.
14:12I think we'll get the fan.
14:14Let's get everything loaded.
14:15Loaded.
14:16Excellent.
14:16Get you paid.
14:17Get you paid.
14:18And then we can...
14:19Get out your hair.
14:20There you go.
14:21It's lost, have I?
14:22It is.
14:24Right.
14:25It's always interesting coming to see people like Paul.
14:30Paul's kind of in the same camp as people like myself and Vicky.
14:34People who are obsessed with certain things.
14:36You just kind of know that, you know what, I'm not really alone in this madness.
14:40That is my job.
14:41I'm amazed that Vicky bought the wooden bike.
14:42I'm amazed that Vicky bought the wooden bike, I really am.
14:45It was the last thing, I think on her mind, and certainly the last thing on my mind.
14:51It's been a very interesting day.
14:54Thank you very much.
14:55Bye.
14:56Bye.
14:57See you later.
14:58Bye.
14:59For the first time, I feel like the parent that's brought the kid to the park.
15:02It's quite difficult, actually.
15:05Here we go.
15:09Remember, he ain't got no brakes, yeah?
15:11That's fine.
15:17Paul's a card, isn't he?
15:19What a card, seriously.
15:21He didn't let us down.
15:22He didn't.
15:23I can see why he might want to try and thin down his collection slightly.
15:29But it's just so interesting.
15:31I think he's still got the, I mean, he said he's obsessed.
15:35I think he's still got the same obsession.
15:37He's got some lovely bikes there as well.
15:39And you buying one, a wooden bike.
15:44It's not even a pedal one, it's one of them ones you get for your kids to learn.
15:47I've got to say, I was a little bit disappointed you didn't offer me a ride.
15:51It looked a lot of fun.
15:52I was trying to protect your bottom because the seat was really uncomfortable.
15:57Thank you for having me, Keith.
15:58With playtime over, it's time for another history lesson.
16:03Just a short drive into Greater Manchester,
16:05to a location which promises to be another time capsule.
16:10We're going to a mill, Lee Spinner's Mill.
16:13From what I can gather, they've got a sort of museum area.
16:17OK.
16:18They've got some old equipment that they're trying to preserve it within the museum.
16:22OK.
16:23But it's getting access into mills nowadays is getting tougher.
16:28They've normally been stripped out.
16:30Yeah.
16:31So...
16:32Demolished or turned into housing or...
16:35Exactly.
16:35But all I can say is that our step counter should be high today
16:41and we will be putting in a bit of graft.
16:45Like I always do.
16:47Yeah, right.
16:48A little graft up.
16:50Yeah, yeah.
16:50At its peak in the early 20th century,
16:55the Lancashire cotton industry employed over 600,000 people.
16:59It was at this time that Lee Spinner's Mill was built,
17:03consisting of two giant mechanised mills,
17:06one of which today remains relatively untouched,
17:09while the other has been converted into a museum and thriving business centre.
17:13Its success has led to plans to develop and preserve
17:16the remaining historic mill for the community.
17:19It's the work of a small team of local history enthusiasts,
17:23including Deborah Murphy and Paul Costello.
17:28There's two mills.
17:30It's one of the last existings in the UK
17:32that's got a double mill with a single chimney.
17:35So the first mill, mill one, was built in 1913,
17:39and we're in mill two, which is 1925.
17:43And it's got five floors in each mill,
17:46and it was the biggest employer of Lee
17:48when it was in its full extent.
17:51On the fifth floor was really big engines, was up there.
17:55And then on each floor, there was producing cotton
17:59coming in through the canal, which is very close to the mill.
18:02So going forward, we have artists, we have a cinema,
18:07we have a computer museum, we have a micro pub.
18:10We would like to do what we've done with mill two
18:13and make mill one a duplicate.
18:16But mill one has still got a lot of things in there,
18:18and there's so many things that we don't want to just throw away.
18:22We'd love for somebody to come along,
18:24and if they can use them again, that'd be fantastic.
18:26Hi there. Welcome.
18:30I'm Vicky. I'm Paul.
18:32Shea Khan. Hi, Vicky. I'm Debra.
18:34Hello, Debra. Shea Khan.
18:35Do you like our little...
18:37Yeah. 1900s living room.
18:40Mill cottage.
18:41It wasn't what I was expecting when I walked into a mill.
18:45It's like, there was no one lived in the mill.
18:47OK.
18:48So it's just like reenacting what we want and let people show what...
18:51So what the houses were like, early 1900s.
18:53So do you still manufacture here?
18:56Yes, so Lease Binners Limited,
18:57which are downstairs on floor one across both mills,
19:00they manufacture carpets.
19:02So there's a workforce still working,
19:04is still in the working mill.
19:05In this building?
19:06In the mill, yes.
19:07That's brilliant.
19:08It is absolutely amazing.
19:09How many people work now?
19:11I think we're down to 40.
19:1340, no.
19:14We used to be 800.
19:16800 people in this building.
19:17800 back in...
19:19Right, yeah, back in the day.
19:21You see the frosted windows there?
19:23So the reason they're there
19:25is stop them looking out the windows while they were working.
19:28Oh, my God.
19:29They had some...
19:30So they're frosted there.
19:30They had some hardcore bosses.
19:32They had some very hardcore.
19:33You're not even...
19:33You don't even like your brother to have a window.
19:36Never mind frosted glass.
19:38My brother stays in there.
19:39Yeah, the basement.
19:40The basement.
19:40This old building is being given a new lease of life for the community
19:45and it's quite remarkable what they're pulling off in here
19:50because these things are not inexpensive to run.
19:55I'm actually a little bit speechless about what they've managed to do here
20:00and this is just half the mill.
20:03They've got the other half to do yet.
20:05If we can get in and we can get a look and a rake about in the other bit
20:09and help them to recreate what they've done in the first section
20:13in the second, that just adds to the day.
20:17I love this.
20:19See this?
20:20Lee Spinner's limited.
20:21It's an impressive building.
20:24Oh, thank you.
20:26So this is mill one.
20:27So they're still working on the ground floor.
20:29Right, OK.
20:30And the first floor.
20:31We've got two floors, two, three, four, four and five.
20:34Are they for you?
20:35Yeah.
20:36Would you consider selling the fire hose?
20:39I don't need the hose.
20:40I think there's a couple more as well.
20:42OK.
20:42Without the hoses in.
20:44All right, so there's some more upstairs.
20:46OK, we'll have a look at those.
20:46There's one more cage floor.
20:47All right, we'll have a look at those ones.
20:48All right, we'll go up here.
20:54Yeah, so this one.
20:55So potentially this one is for sale?
20:57Yes.
20:57It's the glass with the hand-painting fire hose.
21:02That kind of makes it for me.
21:04Shea can't seem this fire hose cabinet.
21:07They've got some lovely handwritten wording on them.
21:11They've got to be original to the building,
21:12so they'll be 100 years old.
21:15You know, they're good, decorative kind of stock.
21:20Do you know what you would want for these?
21:22What, 100 quid, you think?
21:27Vicky and Shea Khan are at a Lancashire cotton mill turned museum,
21:36having a fascinating history lesson.
21:39Did you see the frosted windows there?
21:41The reason they're there is to stop looking out the windows
21:43while they were working.
21:44They had some hardcore bosses.
21:45And Shea Khan spotted some 100-year-old fire hose cabinets
21:49with hand-painted glass,
21:51which he thinks could be salvaged and sold on.
21:55Do you know what you would want for these?
21:57What, 100 quid, you think?
21:58100 pounds?
21:59Yeah.
21:59Yeah.
21:59Yeah?
22:00Yeah.
22:01So if you have any more, like that...
22:04We've got some, one's broken and we've got one more.
22:07It's just been there forever.
22:09No-one's touched it.
22:10It's just totally original.
22:12Straight away, I'm imagining it in someone's home,
22:15imagining it in a nice bathroom.
22:17So, yeah, I'll go for it.
22:20There's another intact one here with its original glass.
22:23100 pound?
22:24Yeah.
22:24Yeah?
22:24Fantastic.
22:25Lancashire's cotton mills were notorious fire hazards
22:29due to the combination of highly flammable cotton dust
22:33and sparks generated by friction in the heavy machinery.
22:37This fire hose cabinet would probably have protected
22:40many hundreds of lives,
22:41and its hand-painted lettering adds a human dimension.
22:45Once restored, Shea Khan believes he could sell
22:48these industrial relics for around 475 pounds each.
22:53This is the fourth.
22:53Four, four.
22:54Okay.
22:54Thank you very much.
22:56What a space.
22:58God.
22:58Wow.
22:59I've been to a lot of mills now,
23:01and as a dealer,
23:03you're sort of fizzing inside with excitement
23:05because you genuinely do not know
23:08what you're going to come across.
23:10God, there really is everything here.
23:14That's quite a nicely worn one.
23:16Take 20 pound for that.
23:18What do you think, Deirdre?
23:2025.
23:21Go on, then.
23:22Well, what was that?
23:23What was useful?
23:24I think this was used for empty bobbins.
23:26They used to put the empty ones in these.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Yeah.
23:28Sorry, I was going to say,
23:30I love how it's had, like, this repair.
23:32Yeah.
23:33And it's still a little bit...
23:34It's nice, isn't it?
23:34Yeah, it's good.
23:36Debra, would you say 25 for these ones as well?
23:38Yes.
23:39Yeah.
23:39There's another one in there as well.
23:40Yeah, there's another one there as well.
23:42So 25 each?
23:43Yeah.
23:43So I've got three there, 25 each.
23:45Excellent.
23:47Bins like this were used to store and retrieve bobbins,
23:50the cylindrical spools on which cotton was wound.
23:54With likely thousands of bobbins being shifted around the factory every day,
23:58these would have been an integral part of the cotton producing process.
24:02Easily repurposed,
24:04Shere Khan thinks these relics could be preserved
24:06and worth around £90 each.
24:11What about these bad boys?
24:13Oh, my God.
24:14Are they...
24:14I would usually buy these.
24:16There's only one problem.
24:18I cannot sell these
24:19unless I have the original fittings which go on the top.
24:24We've got these British-made shades
24:27made by a company called Maxilume.
24:28It's another British company that would make
24:31for industrial use, for Ministry of Defence.
24:33If you watch some of the old movies,
24:35we see World War II kind of bunkers,
24:37you'll see these hanging in there.
24:38Now, these usually have a fitting on the top.
24:42All of them are missing.
24:43At the time, in the 40s or in the 30s,
24:46when these were fitted,
24:47the electrician fitted all the fittings into the ceiling
24:50and just popped all the shades into their fittings.
24:53We're not going to be able to get those fittings down.
24:55They are as they are.
24:56Would you take a cheeky £50 on the ones that you've got down?
25:00That would just be kind of like to save them.
25:03I think it's cheap.
25:05I think £100.
25:06For all of them?
25:07Yeah.
25:08For the ones that are down, yeah?
25:09Yeah.
25:10Yeah, go on then.
25:11I'll do £100.
25:13I do a very cheeky bid on that.
25:15£50.
25:16He asks for £100.
25:18And maybe that's where it's going to a good cause comes in
25:22and I accept £100 on it.
25:24Right, Debra, I found this little cupboard
25:26with a bit of a rough wee table,
25:31but...
25:32..I had a quick look at it.
25:35And again, with a clean, I might be able to do something with it.
25:41In a building this size,
25:43it's really tricky as two dealers to stick together.
25:48So I sort of wandered off with Debra
25:51and I had a little look in a darkened cupboard
25:54and there was this lovely little rough-around-the-edges
25:58painted kitchen table.
26:00It's been put together in-house.
26:02It's been a table in there.
26:04What's in that drawer?
26:04Oh, what's in the drawer?
26:05Any secrets?
26:10Looks like old ledgers.
26:11Uh-huh, it does.
26:13Well, you can keep the ledgers.
26:14Can I keep the ledgers?
26:15For the museum.
26:16We'll put them in our heritage centre.
26:19God, the state, it's an eccentric...
26:21£50?
26:23Oh, yeah.
26:24Yeah.
26:24Definitely.
26:25No, that's absolutely fine.
26:26Brilliant, thank you.
26:27Can I shake your hands with that?
26:29I am.
26:31It's requiring a bit of attention,
26:35but it's got a good colour about it.
26:37It's a good size.
26:38It's quite original.
26:40So I thought, yeah.
26:41Because when you come somewhere like this,
26:43you have to look everywhere.
26:46And if you don't,
26:47you can miss little gems like that table.
26:49The best thing I've taken from today is what the volunteers and what Paul and Deborah are doing with this fabulously marvellous building.
27:03You know, it's not getting turned into flats, it's not getting bulldozed, it's not getting flattened, and I genuinely am so enthusiastic about what they're doing here.
27:15What a mill, what a place.
27:20Yeah.
27:21It's quite fabulous what they're doing there, though, isn't it?
27:24It's amazing what they're doing.
27:25Yeah.
27:25And they're very proud of it, aren't they?
27:27Yeah, really proud of it.
27:28They are.
27:31While Vicky's off home to Edinburgh, Shere Khan heads back to London, to the shop he runs with brother Jay, who takes care of the restoration side of the business.
27:40Both brothers are always keen to understand the history of the objects they handle.
27:45Many of the items that we have has a history preserved in them, and it's very important for us to know about that history.
27:51You know, who designed it, who made it, why did they make it, where did they make it?
27:56Knowing that history, knowing about that item, and being able to pass that on to someone, that's a great thing.
28:02The story of that piece, you know, carrying on to the next user.
28:07Today, Shere Khan and Jay are heading west out of London, towards Windsor, to an unusual buying location where they're hoping to find items with unique history.
28:18You can just see the castle there, Jay.
28:21We're going to go and see a lady called Dilly, and she runs Tom Jones' boatyard.
28:29Not to be mixed up with the Welsh singing sensation Tom Jones.
28:34One of Dad's favourites.
28:36Yeah, this was a boat builder called Tom Jones.
28:39Dilly and her husband have taken over this boatyard.
28:42They do restorations, they fix up boats, they more boats there, everything to do with boats.
28:50So, hopefully, we're going to find ourselves just kind of a load of boating paraphernalia.
28:56It should be a good day.
28:57You should enjoy it.
28:58Are you a bit of a boating man, Jay?
29:00I don't mind it.
29:01Not really much call for boating in North London, is there?
29:05No, no.
29:06I think I'd be more of a pirate than a sailor.
29:11Windsor Castle was built by William the Conqueror to assert Norman dominance at a strategically vital point on the River Thames.
29:19Boats and boating have been important to the town for centuries.
29:22And dating back to the late 1950s, Tom Jones' boatyard has today been revitalised as a hub of community life.
29:31It's the vision of Dilly Bill and her family.
29:37When I met my husband 40 years ago, the second day I knew him, he said,
29:41what I really want is a boatyard.
29:43And so it's taken us 40 years to get there.
29:45We bought the boatyard in 2020.
29:48We're pretty well known now for racing skiffs.
29:51The Thames traditional skiff racing is very popular, and there aren't that many yards that do that.
29:56But we're also known commercially.
29:58We run traditional Thames tugs, and we have a towing business.
30:03We've got all sorts of stuff in our storeroom and laying about.
30:06I don't know what will interest them, but I'm certain there'll be things that they'll see and go,
30:11oh, yeah, we wouldn't mind having a try at that.
30:13Let's see what they find when they get here.
30:17Good morning.
30:18Morning.
30:19Good morning, Dilly.
30:20I'm Dilly.
30:20Nice to meet you.
30:22I'm Shere Khan.
30:22Hello, Shere Khan.
30:23I'm Jay.
30:24Hello, Jay.
30:25Welcome to Tom Jones Boatyard.
30:26Fantastic.
30:27Tom Jones.
30:27Come and have a look around.
30:28How long have you been involved in this, Dilly?
30:30I've come from a boating background.
30:32My husband's also a marine engineer, so when we got together, we always wanted a boatyard.
30:36Wow.
30:37And this is the result.
30:38It's just one of those perfect places.
30:41It's on the Thames, and it's one of those places where you never know what you're going to find,
30:45and there could be some really neat bits of treasure.
30:49Right, so there's lots to look at.
30:51This is a Thames racing skiff.
30:53Let me take the covers off so you can have a look.
30:56These are very specialised.
30:58They race them on the Thames.
30:59Oh, wow.
31:00Look at that.
31:00Fixed seat rowing boat.
31:02So these have come in.
31:03There's three of them.
31:04They've come in to have a tidy up and a re-varnish ready for the season.
31:08So how many coats of varnish goes on something like this typically?
31:12So on one of these, you'll have a wash coat, then you'll have two build-up coats, thick coats,
31:17and then three top coats, and each time they'll be rubbed down each layer,
31:22and then you'll get this high gloss at the end.
31:24Wow.
31:25That's a lot of man hours.
31:26That's a lot of expertise gone into just that surface there.
31:30You know, you cannot help but admire it.
31:34Right, welcome to Aladdin's cave.
31:36Okay.
31:37So this is where you just win everything.
31:39This is the dumping ground, yes.
31:40I've got a storage unit called Where Things Go to Die.
31:44Yeah.
31:44Yes, yeah, well, this is where things come to die in here.
31:53Those are quite nice.
31:55Mayfair.
31:57They're hand-painted as well.
32:00They're like on metal, aren't they?
32:02Would you be happy to sell those, Dilly?
32:05All three of them?
32:06Yep, yep, they could go.
32:07Yep, that boat actually has bitten the dust now,
32:11so it'd be nice to see them go to another home.
32:14How much would you want for those three?
32:1820 quid each.
32:20I'll give you...
32:21I know you said 20 quid, but...
32:23Jump on that now.
32:24No, I was going to jump on it, but I want to give you, you know, 20 quid.
32:27I have no idea.
32:28In my mind, I had 75,
32:30so I'm still going to offer you 75 for the free if you're...
32:32Oh, brilliant. Fantastic.
32:33Now, boat signs sell really well.
32:37The reason why they sell really well
32:39isn't always because they come from boat.
32:41It's more to do with the hand writing on it,
32:44the hand painting on it.
32:45People love original hand-painted signs.
32:49They've got Mayfair written on them.
32:51Mayfair means a lot to a lot of different people.
32:52You've got a party in London called Mayfair.
32:54So, you know, we can find customers for this.
32:57Like yourselves, we collect all sorts of things.
33:02Yeah, we never throw anything away.
33:03We always know one day we're going to need them for something.
33:06That's it.
33:07You work on the premise that somebody might want it some stage.
33:12They're nice.
33:15What would these be?
33:17So, those are chromed ventilators,
33:19so they'll go on the front of a boat or onto an engine hatch
33:23so that you've got airflow going into the engine.
33:25They'll probably be a 1930s cruiser.
33:30Something really looks nice ornamental about them, isn't there?
33:33Well, there's two, yeah.
33:35There's a brass one as well.
33:37These are brass as well.
33:38Yeah, but they're...
33:39Yeah, they're chromed brass.
33:41My brother liked the brass one,
33:42but I thought the two chromed ones were really nice
33:45because the inside is painted red.
33:47Have a nice plinth made for that.
33:49Someone's desk, you know, put your pens in there.
33:51Even on its own, just as a decorative piece, it's nice.
33:54What would you want for the three, didn't you?
33:58150 for the three.
34:02They're a nice thing.
34:04They're difficult to come by.
34:07At a historic boatyard in Windsor,
34:19Shere Khan and Jay have spotted some chrome and brass ventilators
34:22from a 1930s cruiser,
34:24which they think have decorative appeal.
34:26What would you want for the three, didn't you?
34:30150 for the three.
34:32These two are really nice.
34:33One, two, five for the three.
34:36Go on, then.
34:39Lovely. Thank you.
34:40I've never seen one of those before.
34:43I really, you know, don't know anything about them,
34:45but what I do know
34:46is they're really good-looking things.
34:49Let's see.
34:56Those originally came from a cruiser,
34:58a 1930s cruiser that was fitted out.
35:02I don't know if they are actually of the date,
35:04but they certainly look like they were probably of that age.
35:07I mean, they've still got the GEC,
35:09the old GEC emblem on the back.
35:11Right.
35:12So these would have been inside the boat,
35:14in the cabins,
35:15just a little on-off switch.
35:17They're made by GEC, General Electric,
35:20American company that also, you know,
35:22was producing lighting in England.
35:241930s.
35:25You've got age, you've got a make-up,
35:28and you've got two great-looking wall lights.
35:31Dating from a time when electrical lighting
35:33had not long been available on board a ship,
35:35these cabin lights came from a 1930s seagoing launch,
35:40a large motorboat strong enough for coastal waters
35:42and even the open sea.
35:44With a quality build and a historic maker's mark,
35:47once restored to working order,
35:49the pair could be worth around £250.
35:52Which are you asking for these?
35:54For the two.
35:56£25 each.
35:58Yeah?
35:59Yeah, I love that. Thank you.
36:00They're great-looking things.
36:01You get them wired up.
36:03They'll look amazing in someone's bedroom.
36:05Each side of a bed.
36:06You sell them as a pair of wall lights.
36:08You're going to get a lot of buys for them.
36:11That one.
36:12The only thing I know is that it came off an ex-commercial vessel.
36:17That's all I know about it.
36:19We had the end of a commercial vessel come in to be broken up,
36:24and that was what was on there, so we took it off.
36:27Exactly what part of the boat would this be on, Dilly?
36:29That has come off the stern.
36:30That's the back of the boat.
36:31The stern is the back of the boat.
36:32Yeah.
36:32That shape it's got,
36:34it's almost kind of like a sitting beast,
36:36kind of like the sphinx.
36:38It gives you that kind of feeling.
36:40It's very, very deco.
36:42That one's going to be a little bit more.
36:44I'd want 50 for that.
36:46Do you want to take that one?
36:48It's nice, isn't it?
36:50Yeah, go on.
36:51Yeah.
36:52Take that as well.
36:53So shake your hand on that as well, Dilly.
36:54Thank you very much.
36:55These are the kind of things that boatyards like this will put away.
36:59You know, they'll put them away to use one day.
37:02Sometimes they forget about them.
37:03Sometimes the person who put them away isn't here anymore.
37:06And then it's people like us that come and find them
37:08and then repurpose them.
37:11All the lights that we've bought today,
37:13they will look great in an interior.
37:16As steam-powered ship traffic increased in the 19th century,
37:20it became clear that every vessel would need
37:22colour-coded navigation lighting
37:24to indicate position and direction.
37:27From 1849, red and green lights became mandatory
37:30on the sides of a ship.
37:32And a century later, stern lights like this one
37:35were required to have a white bulb.
37:37After restoration, it could be worth around £270.
37:42Let's collect up our pieces.
37:43We'll sort you out some money, Dilly,
37:45and then my brother makes a lovely cup of tea.
37:48Fantastic. I'm looking forward to that.
37:50Office?
37:51Office.
37:51All right.
37:54Coming here has been amazing.
37:57You forget places like this exist anymore.
37:59You know, not too far from the heart of London.
38:02I'm very happy with the things we've bought.
38:04They're all good, sellable items.
38:07The vents are a punt,
38:09but I think they're going to give a good return.
38:10And, you know, what an amazing contact we've got now.
38:14Dilly's got my details.
38:16If she's breaking down a boat
38:17and she thinks there's things there
38:19that me or my brother are interested in,
38:21she'll contact us.
38:22And that's what it's all about.
38:23It isn't just what we buy on the date,
38:25it's what we could buy in the future.
38:27With boat stuff, you know,
38:29it has a long history behind it and a long life,
38:31and I'm glad they managed to find something.
38:34You never really know what you've got around the yard
38:37because you're familiar with it all the time,
38:39so I'm really pleased that they found something
38:41they can take away with them today.
38:42Dilly and her husband,
38:47this was a good dream, innit?
38:49They've got the right idea here.
38:51Just on a nice day, out here, ice cream.
38:54I could do a bit of this.
38:57Rather than sitting, you know,
38:59looking out into an empty alley.
39:02This is a bit of me.
39:04This really is a bit of me.
39:05I could see myself, a little yacht,
39:08parked up here.
39:10You know, I could get on the yacht,
39:12go out to France,
39:14do a little bit of shopping, come back.
39:16You can do the restorations here.
39:20There's a boat coming.
39:22That's the life I would like to have.
39:26Back in reality,
39:28in Jay's North London workshop,
39:30restoration of the fireholes cabinets from Lee
39:32is underway,
39:33starting with the removal of a century of factory grime.
39:37Now that most of the dirt is out,
39:39it's time to remove the actual hose holders
39:42and the bracket, which actually held the hose.
39:46And if you have a look here,
39:48even the hose holders are made out of brass.
39:51Now you know why things like this last.
39:54Quality materials,
39:57properly made.
39:58It's seen a hundred years.
40:00And once we're done,
40:02it's going to see another hundred years.
40:04To shift the more deeply ingrained grime
40:07without damaging the original paint,
40:09Jay uses a gentle mixture
40:10of non-solvent grease remover
40:12and sugar soap.
40:14Basically,
40:16this is just pure,
40:17good old elbow grease
40:19and being patient.
40:21Nice.
40:22That looks good already.
40:24Now,
40:24the outside.
40:29You can already see that red coming through.
40:32And then with another dry cloth,
40:35get it off.
40:40Already that looks amazing.
40:42Not all restorations
40:44have to be stripped,
40:46cleaned,
40:47repainted,
40:48looking as new.
40:49I would rather
40:50have it
40:51like this,
40:53where
40:53you can still
40:55see the wear,
40:56the tear.
40:56You know
40:57it's got its history behind it.
41:00It's got a story to tell.
41:02But
41:02I have to clean it up
41:04in a way
41:05where you can use it.
41:06So, you know,
41:07you could put food items in there.
41:09You could put your bath items in there.
41:11See, for me,
41:12that is
41:12that is perfect.
41:16And while cleaning the inside,
41:20what you have to be careful about
41:22is the actual
41:23hand-painted
41:25fire hose
41:26sign.
41:26You just don't want
41:28to take
41:29any of that away.
41:31That's where
41:32it's all its character,
41:33all its
41:34history.
41:35That's
41:35it lies in there.
41:37There we go.
41:39Pucker.
41:41To protect
41:42the aged
41:43thimber,
41:44Jay uses
41:44a natural wax.
41:48And he's decided
41:49to repurpose
41:50the original
41:51hose holders
41:52as brackets
41:53for a new glass shelf.
41:55So, when you put wax
41:56on metal,
41:58it just gives it
41:59a nice kind of
42:00shine.
42:01Right.
42:02They're ready
42:03to go on.
42:04So, what I'm going to do,
42:05I'm going to place it
42:06halfway up.
42:08So,
42:09if they want to put
42:09bottles or anything
42:10up there,
42:11they could put it
42:11up there.
42:12Or,
42:12you know,
42:13it's easy
42:14to reach stuff
42:15down here.
42:17The only part
42:18that's missing
42:19from this cabinet
42:19is the original
42:20door handle.
42:22And Jay
42:22has a plan.
42:24Got a box
42:25of
42:25brass knobs
42:27that we've
42:28collected over
42:28the years
42:29of furniture
42:30and stuff.
42:30We'll just
42:30take them off.
42:31and I think
42:33that will look
42:34pretty good
42:35there.
42:43All that's
42:44needed now
42:44is the glass.
42:49Here we go.
42:50Done.
42:52And
42:52dusted.
42:54Oi!
42:55Selkan!
42:56Here it comes.
43:01That's good,
43:01though,
43:02isn't it?
43:02I mean,
43:03the colour
43:03was nice,
43:04even as dirty,
43:05but this is just
43:06next level,
43:07isn't it?
43:07And after waxing it,
43:09the wax has worked
43:10its way into the cracks.
43:11You see the age of it.
43:13I love it.
43:14They would have ripped
43:14those down,
43:15they would have
43:15thrown them away,
43:16so we've saved these.
43:17For another
43:18hundred years.
43:19Yeah!
43:19Fabulous week
43:22with my brother
43:23and Vicky,
43:24Tom Jones Boatyard,
43:25what an incredible
43:26place,
43:27a lot of history
43:28there,
43:28everything we found
43:29there,
43:30you know,
43:30really,
43:30really gorgeous
43:31pieces.
43:32And then the
43:33Cycle Museum,
43:34that wooden
43:35hobby horse bike
43:36that Vicky found,
43:37that was a great buy.
43:38Found some really
43:39good posters there.
43:40They're all pieces
43:41that have got
43:42history with them
43:42and we're able
43:43to pass that on
43:44to the next
43:45custodian.
43:49To be continued...
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