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00:00Today we're in Yorkshire in the city of Bradford and our venue is Lister Park and
00:08the art gallery Cartwright Hall. Grand buildings like Cartwright Hall were
00:14built on the wealth of the textile industries in the 19th and 20th
00:18centuries weaving materials like wool and silk but also later on fabrics like
00:25this Resilitex it's called and it had a crucial role in the Second World War it
00:33was used to make decoy equipment such as these inflatable tanks in order to fool
00:39the enemy and our experts will be hoping there are no fakes among the treasures on
00:44offer today exciting isn't it every girl loves a tiara one of the most bizarre
00:50things I've ever seen Wow I don't think we'll be getting rid of them though
00:59welcome to the Antiques Roadshow
01:20when I woke up this morning I did not think I'd be greeted by these two
01:32beautiful ventriloquist dummies aren't they fantastic tell me everything okay so
01:37dad was a musical ventriloquist born in 1916 he made his first puppet when he was
01:44eight years old and over the years he's worked with so many famous names
01:48Mork and Wise, Norm Wisdom, Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd. Wow okay so is your dad just the
01:56creator or was he also a showman himself? He was a showman he operated the puppets
01:59but he made them at home usually on our dining room table in front of mum driving
02:04her crazy and he'd form them in clay he'd then put paper mache on them and bake
02:10them in the oven in your oven that you had your dinner out of absolutely amazing so
02:15did you have an old shed in the back garden that just had bits of pieces of
02:18me carnal sets coat hanger wire knicker elastic I think that was my mum's and one
02:26day I came home from school with a friend and there's this beautiful smell of
02:29baking and I said to my friend well let's have a look in the oven see what
02:32mum's doing and we open the oven and there was a head in there amazing
02:36absolutely amazing that the mechanics inside of these and you think of modern
02:41day robots humanoid robots that are being created now she is automated and she
02:47would walk across the stage stop turn lift a hanky to her eye to wipe a tear
02:51away and she'd end the act next to the old man with his arm around her that's a
02:56song of old Dutch so and this was in the 40s and 50s he started just before the
03:01second world war full-time into the 50s his first TV performance was 1952 and
03:05then he got a TV series with Roy Kinnear it was huge at that time in the mid 20th
03:11century ventriloquist dummies were huge weren't they absolutely but these your
03:14favorites out of the collection they are because you know the song mail Dutch is
03:18very romantic song about an old couple have been together for 40 years and it
03:21don't seem a day too long so I can still hear that meant to this day and that's no
03:26longer with us I'm afraid but so that song when I see these two is always on my
03:29mind amazing and what do you think of them though well it's certainly a
03:33different um edge to the family say that well I suppose I will have to put a
03:40value on a very difficult thing to value but I think they were to come on the
03:42open market I would expect three to five thousand I would say yep dad would be so
03:49so proud to be here today to see this from a full high amazing are you making me
03:55emotional well wonderful day here in Bradford in the park I used to come and
04:09play here when I was a child and go in the museum so it's really lovely to be
04:13here and to be looking at a beautiful diamond necklace in a box that says
04:19fat erine is how have you come to get this my paternal grandmother was given
04:23it on the occasion of her 21st birthday mm-hmm I know nothing about it but I
04:29think that it was because she was the eldest of nine oh my goodness and she did
04:34a lot to help with her younger siblings yes well-deserved by absolutely really is
04:40isn't it and who are the people in the photographs um well I've got this one here
04:45this is my grandmother uh-huh she had no daughters so it was given to my mother
04:51who wore it on her wedding day okay and I wore it on my wedding day and my daughter
04:56wore it on her wedding day oh how fabulous so has it been worn outside of
05:00weddings or is it just kept for wedding days I've bought the night away in it oh
05:04brilliant that's fabulous and that's the way it should be jewelries to be worn so
05:11Fattorini's they were founded by Antonio Fattorini who came over from Italy and
05:16settled in Leeds they were fabulous jewelers and decided to open up in
05:21Harrogate which isn't that far away it was the fashionable town at the time that
05:25was in the 1830s in the 1850s they decided to open a shop in Kirkgate in
05:31Bradford which of course is how we get the connection with the box date wise we're
05:36looking at round about 1900 it's got these lovely scrolls and pretty little diamonds
05:44which are sparkling away all the way around and they're picking up on the
05:48delicate Edwardian style of jewelry which is sometimes referred to as the garland
05:53style of jewelry and a little bit of art nouveau movement to it as well which is
06:00really absolutely wonderful there are clips either side there are and I didn't
06:04know if that was so that you could make it into a tiara well you're absolutely
06:09spot-on oh right it's exciting isn't it every girl loves a tiara so yes we've got
06:15these little clips here just at the sides and it would have just sat nice and
06:20elegantly on the top of the head sparkled away as the sunshine shone through so
06:24really is lovely and of course this was the period for tiaras with lace-fronted
06:29dresses in the early part of the 1900 the elegance of the Edwardian period have
06:35you got the fitting for the tiara anywhere no no no no as a necklace at
06:42auction this period is doing very well at the moment and an auction estimate would
06:47be between two thousand and three thousand pounds if we had had the tiara
06:53fitting I probably would have been straight in there at five to seven
06:57thousands yeah it makes such a difference to have that I knew
07:02absolutely nothing about it it's a shame I don't have the tiara fitting but I love
07:07it anyway and I shall continue to enjoy wearing it
07:26so I was immediately drawn to this watercolor of boats because the artist has
07:32used such confident brushwork to bring out the moss of the ships or the boats the
07:37little sailing boats in the background he's used watercolor on paper and I can
07:41see that it's signed George Horton who spent a lot of his life in South Shields
07:46now how did this come to be yours well George Horton is a great great uncle of
07:51mine whom I never knew and I discovered him through doing family history quite a
07:56while ago and he turns out to be an artist so we looked him up and tried to
08:02find something I bought it and I didn't know where it was painted I didn't know
08:07much about him but a cousin of mine who lives in Canada came to see me and he
08:11immediately recognized it as a Dutch boat as though it's painted in Holland I
08:15think actually George Horton is quite inspiring because his family didn't really
08:19support him as an artist and as the story goes he taught himself how to paint by
08:26going to his local library and copying reproductions yes of the old masters and
08:31it was only on his honeymoon which was to Holland that he became completely
08:35inspired by the tradition of Dutch landscape painting and therefore became
08:40inspired to paint boats such as these from a distance this looks like quite a
08:45rainy day he's used a palette of browns and greys to describe the background the
08:51water is a bit sludgy it's not sunny there's no beautiful reflection but then to
08:58make it more dynamic he's bringing out the color and I think that could be some
09:04sails that are wrapped up it could be cargo but most importantly it really draws
09:08you in I love it and it's also quite bold for the time period that he was
09:13painting in him he was painting in the early 20th century yes at a time where this
09:17kind of impressionistic style had only really quite recently come to Britain
09:22yes what do you like about it oh well I love it first of all because I know he
09:26was a relative of mine which is brilliant and like you say just that color just
09:30pulls you into the center of it doesn't it just lightens everything and is the
09:34rest of your family artistic and no not at all certainly not me so the Horton jeans
09:40yes yes no no they haven't come through to me sorry no no well it's the sort of
09:45thing that were it to come to auction today I would probably put an estimate in
09:49the region of four to six hundred pounds right yes that's that's the money
09:53pride isn't important it's just that I've got a painting that belonged to a
09:57relative of mine which is absolutely wonderful let's find the next Horton in
10:01the family well I think everybody knows who these four are it's a great great
10:16photograph of them and with all these lovely signatures below how did you come
10:21by it and so this came to me by my dad by his brother who got it via George
10:26Harrison's dad oh really in a pub drinking in Skipton but my dad's brother
10:33didn't like the Beatles but like Cliff Richard but my dad's brother did say well
10:41look my brother absolutely adores the Beatles so and then a few years ago my
10:46dad said you can have it now because you're the biggest Beatles fan and when
10:50the children were younger they always used to ask who is it in the picture so we'd say
10:53it's some called John Paul George and Ringo in the picture
10:57I think you were saying well it'd be good yeah it'd be good fantastic so well I think it's a great
11:03photograph and the story gives it provenance as well but you have to remember that there are a lot of these
11:09photographs with facsimile you know signatures and they're out there everywhere you know but this
11:17particular one is a genuine one these are genuine signatures that means that this if it went into
11:25auction and I'm going to be very conservative this is worth between three and five thousand pounds
11:32this is a very interesting cow horn what do you think it was for well blowing making a tube
12:02no no it's for holding gum powder oh my god it's a powder hole we didn't know that did we
12:08where did you get it well it was my grandfather's and then when he passed away it went down to my
12:15father and now he passed away a few years ago I'm sorry it's now mine so you've known it all your
12:22childhood I've I remember it at my grandparents house you do yes when I first saw it I thought it
12:28was um North American yes settlers yes we wondered about it is that what you think it is yeah yeah
12:34then I got confused with the design here this is very geometric and not American at all yeah and it
12:40reminds me of the work of a designer called Bugatti which it isn't but it almost makes me wonder where
12:46he got his ideas I mean he might have seen something like this yeah and then I looked at this more
12:51closely this is cow horn and these are cows or their steer and then there's hate what look like
12:58haystacks on it well I look at it closely and the haystacks aren't haste that haystacks round here
13:05there's Zulu dwellings yes so this is South African design yes I lived in Cape Town for 20 years and
13:19came back five years ago so how bizarre that we've got something in the family that exactly and that's
13:24what it is and and 19th century or is this the end of the 19th century I think the Zulu were
13:31herders by nature cows are their wealth but these are Westerners herding the cattle yeah not not the
13:40indigenous people but it really is a real pictorial dream mum really loved it and she had a relative
13:49who was quite involved with antiques and he often said oh if you don't want it I'd like it I bet he
13:56would I would too but she wouldn't part with it obviously people collect them and I think they
14:02would pay something like between 800 and 1200 pounds for this that's what I think it's charming
14:13we are beginning to lose the soldiers and sailors and airmen and nurses who were actually there during
14:26the second world war so every time I come across a person who was there at the time the story always
14:33fascinates me so who was this man this is Sergeant Eric Light he's my granddad and my Auntie Andrea's
14:41father father and he in 1940 was called up and joined East Yorkshire Regiment and served for six
14:49years away from Bradford in North Africa and Italy as a fireman returned on two home leaves the first
14:56one to see my dad being born and the second where he wrote in his diary that he was visiting Cartwright
15:03Hall and Lister Park where we are where we are today can you read that for us I can yeah so this is
15:09Sunday the 11th of November 1945 he writes spent the afternoon at Cartwright Hall and Lister Park and
15:16the next day he left from Bradford train station on the journey back to Naples you know by his medals I
15:22can tell that what you're saying is is what he did we have a 1939 45 defence medal he has an Africa star
15:31with the first army bar which means that he was part of the invasion of Africa from the the western
15:37side going towards Tunisia then he moves to Italy as you say the 1939 45 star and the 1939 45 war medal
15:48did he talk about this stuff do you know he loved Italy he loved the language he learned Italian so he
15:55spoke about his time in Italy he didn't particularly talk about the the events or the fires that he dealt
16:01with but it was a wordsmith he enjoyed telling stories he's a good artist as well isn't he he was an
16:07artist from the beginning and he documented quite a lot of his journeys but this is where he he was
16:12billeted for two years this is John dark in North Africa a tent with his uniform there and his bed
16:19we're still all all the family have artwork around the house that is done it is these archives which
16:27are so important to tell the story of just ordinary people just like me and you yeah yeah but they stood
16:34up when the time came yeah they went and did it yeah it's been a real honor to meet him today yeah I
16:40know you've got lots more stuff and for your for your whole collection you're looking at somewhere in
16:45around about 500 pounds okay thank you so much for bringing it along privilege for us to talk about
16:49him thank you in 2025 Bradford is celebrating its status a city of culture with exhibitions and events
17:06across the city but over a century ago Lister Park was at the center of another cultural event the Bradford
17:14great exhibition at the time the land was owned by Samuel Lister his family made their fortune from
17:22weaving wool and silk only some of the biggest mills of the day now he was a wealthy industrialist and he
17:28wanted to give something back so in 1898 he agreed to fund the building of a new museum and art gallery set
17:35in huge green parkland for the public to enjoy me and a few years later in 1904 Cartwright Hall with its
17:48galleries filled with artwork from around the world opened its doors to the people of Bradford
17:53as part of the opening a great exhibition was held as well spread all across Lister Park its aim was to
18:05celebrate Cartwright Hall but also to showcase Bradford's trade and industry it had all sorts of
18:11different attractions aimed at drawing in visitors from all over the world musicians and exhibitors came from
18:18all over the country there were sports events a fair ground even a huge water shoot as well as mock
18:27naval battles on the lake the exhibition here in Bradford was a huge success between May and October
18:341904 nearly two and a half million people came putting Cartwright Hall well and truly on the map
18:48well this bird has come and landed on our table um tell us what do you think it is honestly I've got
19:01no idea um and how it stood off my late father my dad was a bit of a collector slash holder probably more
19:08than order he used to do the car boot sales a lot and that sorts of things so did you have a name for
19:13it at home I've called it um Lydia Lydia yeah because it's got a lid on it so it's just Lydia lid it's
19:20just it clicked that way Lydia bird yeah wonderful well it's an incense burner hence we have the lid on
19:29the top and also the wings you'll see are pierced and engraved so that's to allow the fragrance to to
19:35waft out now it comes from a northeastern area of modern-day Iran so Persia called Kurasan and it was
19:43a metalworking area specializing and intricate work just like this so this decoration on the bird it's
19:50all hand engraved beautifully worked and birds occupy quite a preeminent position in Islamic decoration it
19:59symbolizes the freedom of the spirit and they're also looked on as good luck or good fortune pieces so
20:05right hopefully that might be true today yeah yeah um this is copying a style for much earlier there
20:12are similar birds to your birds in the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the Louvre in Paris oh but
20:20they are much earlier ones they are from the 12th 13th century yeah your one I think dates from late
20:2619th stroke early 20th century so it's more a kind of touristy piece yeah so what's it worth we don't
20:32know what was paid for it no idea it's hopefully brought you some good fortune yeah and if this
20:38turned up on the market today you'd be looking at between 600 and a thousand pounds wow really you're
20:47joking no I'm watching I pleased my dad to be honest I wasn't expecting it to be be worth anything I just
20:57thought you know it's a big metal bird and you know it's quite pretty you know it won't be going
21:01anywhere it's going to stay with me and the family for a bit but yeah I don't think I don't think I'm
21:06certainly not ready to part with it anyway so
21:08so I'm looking at a small doll under this dome but what interests me is this tray of wonderful
21:24objects that she's holding and showing to the viewer did you buy her no she was left to me by my
21:31great-aunt it was made by her grandmother that puts us back into the 19th century the 1890s so
21:39she's been a family companion really yes yes I've known her all all my life presumably yes you you have
21:46to yes yes she's always been outside my bedroom and with my parents went out I would sneakily lift
21:52off the dome and touch sorry touch the scissors were my favorite so let's talk about peddler dolls
22:01generally I mean in the 18th and 19th centuries shops were a long way away and you would have
22:07traveling salesmen often ladies who had a big array of those things that made a lady's life at home
22:16yeah just a bit more enjoyable yeah and so when you look into this tray you've got pins and needles
22:24and buttons there's a tennis racket there are skittles there's a little doll there are scissors
22:29your favorite you said you may have borrowed them but you put them back again oh yes
22:34the older peddler dolls often their heads were made from apples dried apples and so you get this very
22:44kind of wizened looking face but she is she's got a wax head it looks like and she looks like she's
22:51got human hair on there not not mohair the doll market really has has had massive peaks and then
22:59a bit of a slide so I'm happy to put a valuation on it of between a thousand and twelve hundred pounds
23:06which I think is right for now yeah but who knows in the fullness of time we could see another another
23:11peak developing yeah but fabulous object great to hear that it's a family thing good yeah thank
23:17you for going to my daughter and granddaughter lucky you maybe great-granddaughter one day no pressure
23:31our ceramics expert Stephen Moore has discovered an item linked to the black dyke band Yorkshire's
23:38celebrated brass ensemble established in 1855 with an impressive 170 year legacy the band is playing a
23:47leading role in Bradford's 2025 city of culture celebrations and it all started in the hills around
23:54the city if we were to head out of Bradford towards Halifax up the hill we would end up at Queensbury
24:04wouldn't we yes and what would we find there Queensbury and the black dyke mills and you worked
24:10at the black dyke mills I did from 1958 to 1993 what did the make of the mill mohair cloth for the
24:18Japanese businessman okay four thousand pounder suit quite high-end stuff yes and were you a member of
24:24the famous band I was from 58 to 73 hence the skeleton of black type most memorabilia so tell me how it
24:30came to your possession the gentleman Phineas Bower there was the original owner of the jug right he
24:37then passed it on to his son Fred who then passed it on to his daughter Gladys Bower right but she'd no
24:43family and I was an apprentice at the mill at the time and the lady there she asked would somebody like
24:49the jug and the medal right and I said yes please I mean this joke records that between 1856 and 1882
24:57that the band won 2011 pounds nine shillings and nothing yeah that's a lot of money then isn't it I
25:06mean that's and then this is is the same this is a record history of of the band yes and the band
25:11won thousands I mean all all these on here well there's one they've got seven guineas for being
25:16disqualified yeah that was a good gig wasn't it it's uh but I mean it we have to put that in the
25:22context of the period I mean this joke dates to you know 18 the 1880s that was a huge amount of money
25:29what happened to the band prize money it was divided amongst the band members you see it was worthwhile
25:34being in the band it was because I earned three pounds two and six a week and we did two concerts
25:39on Saturday and Sunday and the week after that I got three pound in me and so like two weeks wages
25:46for about 30 weeks each year well there we are well I think this little collection a little booklet on
25:53the history of the band and the jug this is nine carat gold let's not deny that we're looking at
25:58between eight and twelve hundred pounds you didn't think it was that much the medal alone is five hundred
26:05pound wow keep it safe
26:07the wonderful liberty table turn of the century and it's just superb and what's beautiful about this
26:23is all the hand carved detail on there is just wonderful super stylish and super usable as well
26:29was this table in the family it was my grandma's and I've got no idea where it came from
26:34uh I can't imagine that she could afforded to go to liberties and buy it to be quite honest but
26:39she used to go to a lot of auctions I always loved it as a little child I'm growing up everything and then
26:44when we lost her that was the one thing that I wanted from her house good choice the lovely table
26:51very in vogue easily three to five hundred pounds it really is the lovely table
26:57here we have a little I think I know what that is a very beautiful beautiful singing bird music box
27:10I can see that the lid needs a little bit of tweaking because it doesn't quite pop back down but that's
27:20something that can be remedied tell me what you know about it I know um the manufacturer is Swiss I think
27:25yes I looked them up on the bottom it says Saint Croix made in Switzerland now they are a very old
27:32traditional music box maker this one was probably made in the 1960s well okay it's made in exactly the
27:39same tradition as those early antique boxes right but it's faux tortoiseshell finish on it it's not
27:45a real tortoiseshell it's a nice thing do you really like this yeah I really like it watching it dance and
27:52like sing yeah it's quite mesmerizing isn't it yeah yeah where did you buy it my antiques dealer right
27:58yeah because it was kind of we thought it was a bit interesting do you mind me asking what you paid
28:02for it I remember what did you pay for it I think it was 1500 1500 pounds it's 1500 pounds I think that
28:07was kind of about the money yeah be honest with you yeah a nice ladies gold fob watch who did it belong
28:29to it belonged to my grandmother Isabella okay and do you ever recall her wearing it well I was only
28:37four at the time when she died so no I'm afraid not okay well let's have a look it's one of these
28:44English watches that you just have a little nib there in the six o'clock position you push that in
28:49and then you withdraw the movement okay and there it is it's signed dent yeah watchmaker to the Queen now of course
28:57that was Queen Victoria yes a good maker but you've got a full set of London hallmarks for 1871 okay I'm delighted to see this long chain and of course it would have been worn on a long chain around her neck popped into a
29:17a pocket somewhere hallmark nine carat so many of these were cut into small places to make bracelets or necklaces so to see an original long chain is really rather nice
29:32it would have been even better it would have been 18 carat gold of course but it's still very nice does anybody wear it anymore or not?
29:39no sadly not it's been in a draw for for years so money yes the watch 18 carat gold by dent in pretty good condition eight nine hundred pounds for the watch and the chain because it's original and because it's long and it hasn't been cut down at all a similar price on the chain as well
30:02christmas me don't leave it in the drawer get somebody to wear it don't you think I will I will my daughter perhaps she'll probably sell it she'll never know she'd better not
30:12this is a rather beautiful handworked textile which is not actually an altar frontal can you tell me about it
30:41so this was designed by louisa pestle who was a bradfordian woman born in 1870 and a bit of a pioneer she trained at the national art training school in london under lewis foreman day
30:52obviously very well known arts and crafts designer yeah and she then went to greece to be a designer at the royal hellenic school of needlework and lace she travelled all over egypt India she made notes of all the textile designs the motifs the patterns
31:08so she was one of those group of sort of pioneering victorian ladies that really was something there would be very few women that were in a position to be able to have done that
31:17there's a great photo of her on the kyber pass on the back of a camel in full edwardian gear with a hat and everything and she just looks amazing
31:25i mean we can only imagine what that would be like and it's corseted as well yeah when she came back to bradford and the first world war was on she did a lot of work with the abraham peel hospital which was a hospital for shell shock soldiers
31:38uh she worked with them as a form of occupational therapy really in doing embroidery work and other things and they worked on this the shell shock soldiers to her design
31:49so this idea of you know occupational therapy the hand and the mind being occupied that it was really really good for them
31:56the repetitive nature of it is very kind of soothing really for people suffering from you know post traumatic stress
32:02um it's very interesting is that she went to the royal hellenistic school of needlework in greece
32:07because i think we could see that influence here definitely in the stitch work
32:11and because we've got this sort of meandering design and then these sort of these little flower heads
32:16and this is all worked in cross stitch if you look at the stitches they look they don't really appear to have been done by different people
32:23so perhaps she was a very exacting sort of mistress i imagine she was because she was an expert in her field
32:29it's an absolute pleasure to see it we need to mention price um generally speaking you can buy all two frontals
32:35from this sort of period when they do come up at auction it would probably only be something like three to four hundred pounds
32:41but obviously its home is bradford and it's still in bradford and that's where it's going to remain
32:45i mean to us it's priceless so thank you very much exactly thank you
32:49you've brought me here a brooch and a ring i'm going to start with the brooch first
33:05and it's lovely to see the three leaf clover design here how did you find this it belonged to my grandmother
33:11my father gave it to me about 15 years ago because i kept wearing it he said rather than storing it all the time
33:18he gave it to me you were borrowing it you were allowed to wear it on yeah high days and holidays
33:23high days and holidays that's quite substantial jewel it is my granny was very very proud of it
33:29and was also worried about losing it so she carried it in her handbag every single day of her life
33:35really yes on the bus no when she went shopping everywhere
33:41oh my goodness yeah well this is dated about 1880 right and it is silver and gold that there's no maker's mark
33:53and and that's quite usual for um for jewels of this period but it looks english to me all set with cushion shaped diamonds
34:03and rose cut diamonds and then you also have this ring and tell me the story about this ring
34:11the family legend is that my great-grandfather accepted it in settlement of a gambling debt in monte carlo
34:18in monte carlo in monte carlo yes oh my gosh i wonder how much the debt was it'd be interesting wouldn't it
34:26it would it'd be lovely to know but unfortunately he spent the family fortune oh did he and by the time
34:34my grandfather came back from the first world war my great-grandfather passed away and there was no
34:40money left apart from the ring well it's 18 carat gold and these are cushion shaped diamonds again the
34:48diamonds were cut in about 1880 right and i think they're set in a slightly later mount so i mean at
34:56auction you'd be looking at about three thousand pounds and for this one here you'd be looking in the
35:03region of about fifteen hundred to two thousand pounds right thank you so what will happen to it now
35:09i'll continue to wear them and enjoy them oh that's wonderful
35:23at a previous roadshow in yorkshire in 2021 we revealed the bellevue studio archive
35:30a collection of 17 000 portraits taken by photographer tony walker between the 1950s and the 1970s
35:42housed in bradford the archive is a fascinating record of the migrant communities who made the city
35:47their home after the second world war and now available online it's become a valuable resource
35:53for families to search for long-lost images of their relatives
36:01i'm sitting here with people who found relatives in the bellevue archive now cynthia you're here with
36:06your mom olive who i hope you don't mind saying you're 103 grand old age and you were looking in
36:13the archive for pictures of yourself i think that's right i thought you know i'll have to look in the
36:18archives to see if they think of me as a baby and then found mom and then there she is what did you
36:26think when you saw that uh it took me back because i remember that jacket she was wearing it was an olive
36:32green jacket three quarter of those sleeves and it just took me back to being 67 years old oh and what
36:39about you olive do you remember this picture being taken yes and you look beautiful in this picture
36:45what did you do when you were here when you first came over the first time i come here i used to
36:51work at a school to work at a school school yeah they were very nice were they people with me you know
37:00so i sit together until i get to come back to badford yeah well what a wonderful thing to come
37:06across it so unexpectedly yeah so you've got this one picture whereas you hamza yep so you found all
37:14sorts of members of your family yeah from my mum's side as well as my dad's side who have we got here
37:21who's this one that's my father um and that's his two brothers uh that's his brother-in-law and these are
37:29uncles and just general relatives uh family when you started looking hamza did you have any idea you
37:36would find such a treasure trove no i only discovered that picture first of all of my uncle
37:43and and then the more i went into it i discovered two or three more pictures and then after a week or
37:52two i found another five pictures and and then before i knew it i'd have 50 plus pictures of my close
37:59relatives so boys this is your granddad yeah i think he looks very handsome don't you yeah yeah
38:06yeah absolutely so what did you think when you saw your dad well i've i hadn't seen a picture of him
38:14like that yeah i was emotional yeah seeing him so young like that he came over in 1961 you were a
38:24second year medical student he didn't want to come but grandma said go on go see what it's like
38:30so he came over um his mum gave him half a dozen boiled eggs to come over with and a fiver in his
38:38pocket and did he then pursue a medical career uh no no he didn't he worked in textiles then after
38:44that that's so many did that's part of the world because the the asian community came over to do the
38:51labour jobs well it's fascinating to meet you and hear your stories and see these pictures and if
38:57you're watching at home and think i mean who knows maybe your family's in the bellevue archive have a
39:02look there's clearly thousands of pictures to go through from what hamza says but you never know what
39:06you'll find so on this beautiful sunny day at lister park when the gardens are in full bloom and the
39:21flowers are all out you've brought along this beautifully florally painted tea set are you a
39:26collector no not at all this was my mother's she was very poorly as a small child she was confined to
39:35bed for months she had yellow jaundice i think and her father my grandfather bought her this to cheer
39:42her up i can think of nothing that would cheer me up more if i was poorly than getting a cup of tea
39:47and my breakfast served to me from a service like this with toast from this little toast rack and even
39:53this wonderful warming dish so that your breakfast comes to the table warm and you just remove this
39:59stopper fill the base of the dish with hot water and it keeps the breakfast toasty and warm
40:05yeah the service is by claris cliff an iconic designer in britain in the 1920s and the 30s
40:13and the shape of this teapot is known as the bonjour shape with this round design and the very
40:18distinctive round finial handle even on the little circular feet these pieces are a bit later in claris
40:26cliff's design career her heyday was really the late 1920s to the mid 1930s i would think these are sort of
40:33late 1930s and date and you can see the slight change in style where she's used this more sort of
40:40floral feminine decoration rather than the bold iconic art deco designs with very strong colors
40:47i'm sure it's something you would never want to sell but of course it does have a value
40:52my thoughts are that being a slightly later claris cliff design slightly removed from the more iconic
40:58art deco period um i think it's worth in the region of two to three hundred pounds for this group
41:04well thank you very much that's absolutely lovely i won't be selling it and hopefully it can go on
41:08to generations you know still to come we've got may west's name spelt out in her own hair where on earth
41:27did this come from we're not 100 sure of its original provenance and it was a gift to the family
41:34on my dad's side and a wedding gift and it's just been sat in my dad's downstairs toilet for about 10
41:40years and i think as a talking point for parties that sort of thing it is that i mean she's one of
41:47the legends of film i mean in the 1930s she was the big box office drawer and obviously she's done an
41:56official opening we have the rishi salons for hair and beauty culture were officially opened by
42:03may west and i mean i don't know much about women's hair i'll be honest but it almost looks like little
42:09sort of extensions they're beautifully tied but underneath and i think this is the name of the
42:16hairdresser but we can't make it out um most lovely beauty salon every success something something
42:25may west and that almost definitely is her signature brilliant yeah um march the 11th 1948 she was ahead
42:35of her times you know she said what she thought yeah and some of the things were quite risque
42:41she's famous for the line is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
42:47she said censorship i like censorship i've made a fortune from it um we've got to put a value on
42:56this yeah yeah unique thing um i mean her signature alone is fairly sought after
43:04i think if it went in an auction it would do probably a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds
43:09i think it'll hang around in the family though do you know uh yeah it's so strange one of the most
43:16bizarre things i've ever seen
43:20don't forget i'm off to see miss me time
43:29oh i've been waiting for one of these to come in for a long time good okay so where did you get it
43:34from it to my parents house for as long as i can remember okay it's a cinema ticket for a film
43:42called theirs is the glory yeah for the premiere yeah it was made in 1946 it premiered on the 17th
43:48of september 1946 yeah which is exactly two years after the first day that they dropped by parachute
43:55and glider into a place called arnhem yeah now we would know it as a bridge too far but the original
44:02film was theirs is the glory yeah and these were the original cinema tickets for the premiere yeah
44:07and they're amazing because it says this souvenir ticket is made of metal from one of the crash
44:14gliders which carried the british first airborne division into battle at arnhem on september the 17th
44:201944 that has to be the very best cinema ticket in the world do you know what it's worth i haven't
44:28got a clue it's 150 quid 150 quid 150 quid with a bit of aluminium it's a very special piece of aluminium though
44:45this is a lovely silver and enamel case and it looks quite classy doesn't it it looks something
44:50quite special tell us about the dog when we bought it you couldn't see all the detail on it
44:57as in it was really tarnished you mean yeah yeah it was black so mule spent cleaned it up and then
45:03it revealed what were on it it's a french bulldog that is gorgeous isn't it yeah it's a little
45:09cigarette case so that's what the elasticated band is for yeah now i know it doesn't look like you could
45:14fit cigarettes in there but that's what cigarettes were like when this was made which was about 1910.
45:21now did you notice also on the side here that is a sapphire push thumbpiece oh no i didn't know
45:29yeah so that is quality it's superb detail the way that that's all painted it's enamel painted
45:34all hand done it's either austrian or german probably right now you're gonna have to tell us
45:40what you paid for it it was five pound you've done very well that now is four to six hundred pounds
45:48to six hundred pounds i think this is the most wonderful enigmatic beautiful photographic image
46:11Can you tell me a little bit about it, please?
46:13It's a snapshot that was taken by my grandfather in 1931.
46:17He entered a worldwide competition run by Eastman Kodak
46:21to find the world's best snapshot
46:23using the first introduction of the Velochrome film.
46:27This is my granny here.
46:30They were engaged and went on holiday to Brad Ahead on the Isle of Man.
46:34He entered it in the competition and the final was in Geneva.
46:39And Eastman Kodak was a really famous company that was...
46:42A big company at the time.
46:43Founded by George Eastman in 1888.
46:46He made photography available to the masses.
46:49These vest pocket, in inverted commas,
46:53folding bellows cameras made it affordable and they made it portable.
46:57And your great-grandfather was obviously one of those people.
47:01There he is, takes your grandmother out.
47:03Indeed.
47:03Takes this wonderful photograph of her,
47:06enters this competition and won it.
47:09He won the amazing amount of £4,400.
47:12It equates to £235,000.
47:15They got married and he bought his first house,
47:18their first house with that.
47:20And the family were very, very excited.
47:21Well, it would have been huge excitement all over
47:23because he would have been pretty famous, in fact,
47:25because that would have been obviously published
47:27in the Eastman Kodak magazine thing.
47:30That's right.
47:30Which was a massive worldwide seller of a magazine as well.
47:34On the table here, we have this beautiful silver trophy,
47:38which, of course, is representative of photography by the lens in the top here.
47:44That is stunningly beautiful.
47:46But I'm going to have to kind of try and put a value on this,
47:49and it's a bit of an odd one, really.
47:51I'm kind of minded to give it a global valuation,
47:54but then individually looking at some of the pieces,
47:56it's a kind of different thing in my head, so to speak.
47:59So this beautiful Art Deco trophy is wonderful,
48:03and it's worth £2,000 or £3,000.
48:06Okay, yeah.
48:07Which is pretty amazing.
48:08The camera, to be honest with you,
48:10if that were completely disconnected from this story
48:13and were just a Kodak pocket vest camera,
48:16it's worth £50 to £100.
48:17Right.
48:18Because they made so many of them.
48:20Yes, yeah.
48:20The image itself, stunning image.
48:23I really, really love this.
48:24But in reality, it's worth a few hundred pounds.
48:27We've got a couple of medallions that were awarded to him also.
48:31We've got a bronze one here.
48:34But this one, did you see that I nipped off just before we started filming?
48:37It did, I did, yes.
48:38Well, I nipped off to weigh this medal.
48:40Okay.
48:40Because I don't know whether you know, but this is an 18-carat gold medal.
48:43Oh, gosh, right.
48:44And its scrap value alone is £7,000.
48:48That's amazing.
48:49I see why he ran off.
48:51I'm glad you came back.
48:52I did come back with it.
48:54So, I think that what you have here,
48:58one of my favourite stories of the day,
49:00at £12,000 to £18,000.
49:02That's very good, isn't it?
49:03Yeah.
49:03Thank you so much for coming today.
49:05That's a pleasure.
49:06We've always been proud of him.
49:12I think that people could look more at what skills and talents they've got.
49:18There's more there outside if they only would try things,
49:21because he was just a normal guy working as a draftsman,
49:24and he tapped into the talents that he had.
49:26The sun is shining,
49:40two beautiful jewels sparkling away.
49:42How did you get them?
49:43Well, these belong to my grandmother,
49:45who was born in 1900 in Donegal,
49:48in very rural Ireland.
49:50And I always remembered this watch on my grandmother's wrist
49:54as a little child growing up.
49:56I can never remember her with any other type of watch on her wrist.
50:00She went to Trinity College in Dublin to study as a young woman.
50:04At the age of 25, in 1925,
50:08she travelled from Ireland to New York.
50:11Gosh.
50:11Where she would have travelled on her own.
50:13She would have sailed as a 25-year-old woman.
50:16And to know that she was such a confident lady,
50:18it's no wonder that she chose some really pretty pieces of jewellery,
50:22more than likely in New York,
50:24because the style of both of the pieces is very American.
50:28They have a lovely way of producing
50:30what we could call this sort of filigree-pierced metalwork
50:34in this bracelet in particular.
50:37There's another mark that denotes that it's not a European piece,
50:40because it's marked 10K, which is for 10-carat white gold,
50:44which, again, is something very typical of American jewellery
50:47at the time.
50:48In the centre here,
50:50you've got a lovely little diamond sparkling away,
50:53and either side,
50:54the two green stones are actually synthetic emeralds.
50:56They're not natural emeralds.
50:58I bet she was drawn to the green for Emerald Isle, of course,
51:02so no doubt.
51:03And it was very popular, again,
51:05to use synthetic stones at this stage,
51:07because to cut stones this size and of that shape
51:10would have been very expensive.
51:11But all in all, a beautiful, elegant piece of jewellery.
51:16And she sounds as though she was a very elegant lady as well.
51:19And particularly, if she wore this watch all the time,
51:22that is a level of sophistication, I have to say,
51:25to be wearing a beautiful cocktail watch, as we can see here.
51:28She ended up also a pig farmer's wife,
51:30so I guess she didn't wear those slopping out the pigs.
51:34Now, we have a watch which we would class as a costume watch,
51:40because it's actually a metal that has been rhodium-plated,
51:44so it's not a precious metal strap.
51:46And also, the green stones here, these are actually glass.
51:50So that fits in, again,
51:52with this whole idea of costume dress jewellery,
51:55which, again, was rising in popularity in the 1920s.
51:59I mean, even Chanel would mix up her costume jewellery
52:02and her precious gem jewellery and try and trick her friends
52:06and say which do you think's real and which is fake,
52:08and they often got it wrong.
52:09But that was how good the quality was on both of them.
52:13You know, we're looking at a, you know, a reasonable value,
52:16maybe £50, £60.
52:18And then with the bracelet, because it is that 10-carat gold
52:21as opposed to 14, 15 or 18, that keeps the value down.
52:25At auction, I'd expect that to fetch between £500 and £700.
52:29So, collectively, in the region of £600 for the two pieces,
52:34but as we have seen,
52:36it is the story that counts in the elegance of your grandmother.
52:40That's right. Thank you very much indeed.
52:41My pleasure. Thank you.
52:42Two Indian albums dated around the start of the 1800s.
52:55So, 1810 to 1820 are many of them.
52:59How did these come into your possession?
53:01My mother got them in a second-hand market in Dublin.
53:05OK. And do you remember how much she paid for them?
53:07Possibly, maybe £5 for the pair.
53:12OK. So, we have two albums.
53:15And the school of painting is called Company School,
53:19meaning East India Company.
53:21Started in 1600 and went on well into the late 1800s.
53:27Let's face it, they were there to extract money and resources from India.
53:32There are some small mercies and human stories that come out of it.
53:38So, you have this beautiful new school of painting,
53:41which is a mix of Indian and European.
53:45And you see some beautiful examples in these albums.
53:49This one.
53:51It shows Indian life.
53:52You see the tradesmen working away in the background.
53:57Maybe a subject matter that was avoided
53:59in traditional Indian miniature painting or Mughal miniature painting.
54:04You see some real Indian life,
54:06which is what the Europeans were interested in.
54:08So, this book was made for the Europeans?
54:12Exactly. Exactly.
54:13That's so interesting.
54:15These are the Polaroids of early India.
54:17And the centre of this picture is the abhorrent act of Sati.
54:24And Sati is when the husband dies,
54:28the woman put herself on a funeral pyre and commits suicide.
54:33It was banned by the Mughal emperors
54:36and later made illegal by the British in the mid-1800s.
54:40So, this painting here.
54:43It's great that we've got such an early date, 1780.
54:47And this album is just stuffed with wonderful examples
54:54of this mix of Indian and European work.
54:59A teapoy.
55:00So, a local soldier.
55:03Isn't that beautiful?
55:05Extraordinary.
55:06It's very European.
55:08It's like a biblical tale.
55:09It's really startling.
55:10Absolutely.
55:11Well, they are very collectible.
55:12Each piece, a slight variance in quality.
55:18The sepoy, for example.
55:21On its own, £1,000.
55:23Oh.
55:24Wow.
55:25Wait, each page?
55:27Each page.
55:28That's just the sepoy.
55:29That's extraordinary.
55:30Oh, my God.
55:31That's your starting point.
55:33The Satie Burning, £6,000 to £8,000.
55:37For the book or each?
55:39For that page.
55:41That's the Satie Burning.
55:42Oh, my God.
55:43£6,000 to £8,000.
55:43So, to try and put an overall figure on both albums, minimum £22,000.
55:53Wow.
55:54That's amazing.
55:55If you ever decided to sell them.
55:57I don't think we'll be getting rid of them, though.
56:00I think that's so beautiful.
56:02You can't.
56:03It's great to hear.
56:07A lot more than we thought.
56:09Startling.
56:10Yeah.
56:11Really extraordinary.
56:12Really nice to know more information about it.
56:16I have to do some more.
56:17Digging.
56:18Digging, yeah.
56:28Before we go, I just wanted to show you something unusual.
56:32We see lots of dolls on the Antiques Roadshow,
56:34but I've never seen one like this.
56:37She dates from the 1860s.
56:38She's a fortune-telling doll,
56:40and she would have been used as a kind of after-dinner or parlour game
56:44if we passed around the guests.
56:46And the reason is, because, look,
56:47under her skirts
56:49are all these little fortunes written on pieces of paper.
56:54And I've been allowed to open one,
56:56which I should do very carefully.
56:58Look.
56:58There you are.
56:59There you are.
57:01And in it,
57:02it says,
57:05what you wish for,
57:06you shall obtain.
57:09Isn't she amazing?
57:11From the Antiques Roadshow here at Cartwright Hall.
57:13Bye-bye.
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