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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 built on the wealth
00:15of the textile industries in the 19th and 20th centuries weaving materials like wool and silk
00:22but also later on fabrics like this Resilitex it's called and it had a crucial role in the
00:31Second World War it was used to make decoy equipment such as these inflatable tanks in
00:38order to fool the enemy and our experts will be hoping there are no fakes among the treasures
00:44on offer today exciting isn't it every girl loves a tiara one of the most bizarre things
00:50I'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 beautiful ventriloquist
01:34dummies aren't they fantastic tell me everything okay so that was a musical ventriloquist born in 1916 he made his first puppet when he was eight years old and over the years he's worked with so many famous names
01:48Mark and wise non wisdom Tommy Cooper Ken Dodd Wow okay so is your dad just the creator or was he also a showman himself he was a showman he operated the puppets but he made them at home usually on our dining room table in front of mum driving her crazy and he'd form them in clay he then put paper mache on them and bake them in the oven in your oven that you had your dinner out of absolutely amazing so did you have an old shed in the back garden that just had bits of pieces of
02:18my carnal sets coat hanger wire knicker elastic I think that was my mum's and one day I came home from school with a friend and there's this beautiful smell of baking and I said to my friend
02:30oh let's have a look in the oven see what mum's doing and we opened the oven and there was a head in there amazing
02:36absolutely amazing the mechanics inside of these and you think of modern-day robots humanoid robots that are being created now she is automated and she would walk across the stage stop turn lift a hanky to her eye to wipe a tear away and she'd end the act next to the old man with his arm around her to a song of old Dutch so and this was in the 40s and 50s
02:59he started just before the second world war full-time into the 50s his first TV performance was 1952 and then he got a TV series with Roy Kinnear
03:08it was huge at that time in the mid 20th century ventriloquist dummies were huge weren't they absolutely
03:13were these your favorites out of the collection they are because you know the song male dutch is very romantic song about an old couple have been together for 40 years and it don't seem a day too long so I can still hear that to this day and dad's no longer with us I'm afraid but
03:26um so that song when I see these two is always on my mind amazing and what do you think of them though well it's certainly a different um edge to the family
03:35yeah you can say that well I suppose I will have to put a value on a very difficult thing to value but I think they were to come on the open market I would expect
03:44three to five thousand I would say yep dad would be so so proud to be here today to see this from a full high amazing oh you're making me emotional that's lovely
03:56well wonderful day here in Bradford in the park I used to come and play here when I was a child and go
04:11in the museum so it's really lovely to be here and to be looking at a beautiful diamond necklace in a box that
04:18says Fattorini's how have you come to get this my paternal grandmother was given it on the occasion of her 21st birthday
04:27mm-hmm I know nothing about it but I think that it was because she was the eldest of nine oh my goodness
04:33and she did a lot to help with her younger siblings yes well deserved by the sounds of things it really is isn't it and who
04:41and who are the people in the photographs um well I've got this one here this is my grandmother uh-huh she
04:48had no daughters so it was given to my mother uh who wore it on her wedding day okay and I wore it on my
04:55wedding day and my daughter wore it on her wedding day oh how fabulous so has it been worn outside of
05:00weddings or is it just oh yes I bought the night away in it oh brilliant
05:06that's fabulous and that's the way it should be jewelries to be worn so Fattorini's they were founded
05:13by Antonio Fattorini who came over from Italy and settled in Leeds they were fabulous jewelers and
05:20decided to open up in Harrogate which isn't that far away it was the fashionable town at the time
05:25that was in the 1830s in the 1850s they decided to open a shop in Kirkgate in Bradford which of course
05:32is how we get the connection with the box date wise we're looking at round about 1900 it's got
05:39these lovely scrolls and pretty little diamonds which are sparkling away all the way around and
05:47they're picking up on the delicate 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 really absolutely
06:00wonderful there are clips either side there are and I didn't know if that was so that you could
06:06make it into a tiara well you're absolutely spot-on oh right it's exciting isn't it every girl loves a
06:12tiara so yes we've got these little clips here just at the sides and it would have just sat nice and
06:19elegantly on the top of the head sparkled away as the sunshine shone through so really is lovely and of
06:25course this was the period for tiaras with lace-fronted dresses in the early part of the
06:311900 the elegance of the Edwardian period have you got the fitting for the tiara anywhere no
06:39no sadly no as a necklace at auction this period is doing very well at the moment and an auction
06:46estimate would be between two thousand and three thousand pounds if we had had the tiara fitting I
06:54probably would have been straight in there at five to seven thousand yeah it makes such a difference to
06:59have that I knew absolutely nothing about it it's a shame I don't have the tiara fitting but I love it
07:07I love it anyway and I shall continue to enjoy wearing it
07:14so I was immediately drawn to this watercolor of boats because the artist has used such confident
07:33brushwork to bring out the masts of the ships well the boats the little sailing boats in the background
07:39he's used watercolor on paper and I can see that it's signed George Horton who spent a lot of his life
07:45in South Shields now how did this come to be yours well George Horton is a great great uncle of mine
07:52whom I never knew and I discovered him through doing family history quite a while ago and he turns out to
07:58be an artist so we looked him up and tried to find something I bought it and I didn't know where it was painted
08:06I didn't know much about him but a cousin of mine who lives in Canada came to see me and he immediately
08:12recognized it as a Dutch boat as though it's painted in Holland I think actually George Horton is quite
08:16inspiring because his family didn't really support him as an artist and as the story goes he taught
08:24himself how to paint by going to his local library and copying reproductions yes of the old masters and it was
08:31only on his honeymoon which was to Holland that he became completely inspired by the tradition of Dutch
08:36landscape painting and therefore became inspired to paint boats such as these from a distance this
08:44looks like quite a rainy 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 make it more dynamic he's
09:00bringing out the colour and I think that could be some sails that are wrapped up it could be cargo
09:06but most importantly it really draws you in I love it and it's also quite bold for the time period that
09:12he was painting in I mean he was painting in the early 20th century yes at a time where this kind
09:17of impressionistic style had only really quite recently come to Britain yes what do you like about
09:23it oh well I love it first of all because I know he was a relative of mine which is brilliant and like you say
09:29just that color just pulls 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 yes yes no
09:41no they haven't come through to me sorry no no well it's the sort of thing that were it to come to
09:46auction today I would probably put an estimate in the region of four to six hundred pounds right yes that's
09:52that's that's the money plan isn't important it's just that I've got a painting that belong to a
09:57relative of man which is absolutely wonderful let's find the next Horton in the family
10:01well I think everybody knows who these four are it's a great great photograph of them and with all
10:17these lovely signatures below how did you come by it and so this came to me by my dad by his brother
10:24who got it via George Harrison's dad oh really in a pub drinking in Skipton but my dad's brother
10:33didn't like the Beatles like Cliff Richard but my dad's brother did say well look my brother
10:42absolutely adores the Beatles so and then a few years ago my dad said you can have it now because
10:47you're the biggest Beatles fan and when the children were younger they always used to ask who is it in the
10:52picture so we'd say some called John Paul George and Ringo in the pitch fantastic so well I think it's a
11:02great photograph and the story gives it provenance as well but you have to remember that there are a
11:08lot of these photographs with facsimile you know signatures and they're out there everywhere you know
11:15but this particular one is a genuine one these are genuine signatures that means that this if it went
11:25into auction 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
12:00well blowing making a tuna no it's for holding gunpowder gunpowder we didn't know that did we
12:08and where did you get it well it was my grandfather's and then when he passed away it went down to my
12:14father and now he passed away a few years ago and so it's now mine so you've known it all your childhood
12:22i've i've i remember it at my grandparents house you do yes when i first saw it i thought it was um north
12:28american yes we wondered about it is that what you think it is then i got confused with the design here
12:36this is very geometric and not american at all yeah and it reminds me of the work of a designer called
12:42bugatti which it isn't but it almost makes me wonder where he got his ideas i mean he might have seen
12:48something like this yeah and then i looked at this more closely this is cow horn and these are cows
12:54or they're steer and then there's hate what look like haystacks on it well i look at it closely and
13:00the haystacks aren't haste haystacks around here no so they're zulu dwellings oh
13:10of course yes so this is south african design yes i lived in cape town for 20 years and came back five
13:20years ago so how bizarre that we've got something in the family that exactly and that's what it is and
13:26and 19th century or is this the end of the 19th century i think the zulu were herders by nature cows
13:34their wealth but these are westerners herding the cattle yeah not not the indigenous people
13:42but it really is a real pictorial dream mum really loved it and she had a relative who was quite
13:51involved with antiques and he often said oh if you don't want it i'd like it i bet he would i would
13:57too but she wouldn't part with it obviously people collect them and i think they would pay something
14:04like between 800 and 1200 pounds for this wow that's what i think it's charming
14:20we 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 andrew's
14:41father and he in 1940 was called up and joined the east yorkshire regiment and served for six years
14:49away from bradford in north africa and italy as a fireman returned on two home leaves the first one
14:56to see my dad being born and the second where he wrote in his diary that he was visiting cartwright hall
15:03and lister park where we are where we are today can you read that for us i can yeah so this is sunday
15:09the 11th of november 1945 he writes spent the afternoon at cartwright hall and lister park
15:16and the next day he left from bradford train station on the journey back to naples you know by his
15:22medals i can tell that what you're saying is is what he did we have a 1939 45 defense medal
15:30he has an africa star with the first army bar which means that he was part of the invasion of
15:35africa from the the western side going towards tunisia then he moves to italy as you say
15:42the 1939 45 star and the 1939 45 war medal did he talk about this stuff do you know he loved italy he
15:53loved the language he learned italian so he spoke about his time in italy he didn't particularly
15:58talk about the the events or the fires that he dealt with but it was a wordsmith he enjoyed telling
16:03stories he's a good artist as well isn't he he was an artist from the beginning and he documented
16:09quite a lot of his journeys but this is where he he was billeted for two years this is john dark in
16:15north africa a tent with his uniform there and his bed we're still all all the family have artwork
16:23around the house that is done it is these archives which are so important to tell the story of just
16:30ordinary people just like me and you yeah yeah but they stood up when the time came yeah they went and
16:37did it yeah it's been a real honor to meet him today yeah i know you've got lots more stuff and
16:42for your for your whole collection you're looking at somewhere in around about 500 pounds okay thank
16:47you so much for bringing it along privilege for us to talk about him thank you
17:00in 2025 bradford is celebrating its status as city of culture with exhibitions and events across the city
17:08but over a century ago lister park was at the center of another cultural event the bradford great
17:14exhibition at the time the land was owned by samuel lister his family made their fortune from weaving
17:22wool and silk only some of the biggest mills of the day now he was a wealthy industrialist and he wanted
17:28to give something back so in 1898 he agreed to fund the building of a new museum and art gallery set in huge
17:35green parkland for the public to enjoy
17:44and a few years later in 1904 cartwright hall with its galleries filled with artwork from around the world
17:50opened its doors to the people of bradford
17:59as 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
18:18came from all over the country there were sports events a fairground even a huge water shoot as well
18:27as mock naval battles on the lake the exhibition here in bradford was a huge success between may and october
18:351904 nearly two and a half million people came putting cartwright hall well and truly on the map
18:41well this bird has come and landed on our table um tell us what do you think it is honestly i've got no
19:01idea um and how it stood off my late father my dad was a bit of a collector slash holder probably more
19:08like a hoarder he used to do the carbide sales a lot and uh and that sort of thing so did you have
19:13a name for it at home i've called it um lydia lydia yeah because it's got a lid on it so it's just lydia
19:19lid it's just it clicked that way lydia bird yeah wonderful well it's an incense burner hence we have
19:28the lid on the top and also the wings you'll see are pierced and engraved so that's to allow the fragrance
19:34to to to waft out now it comes from a north eastern area of modern day iran so persia called kurasan and
19:43it was a metal working area specializing in intricate work just like this so this decoration on the bird
19:50it's all hand engraved beautifully worked and birds occupy quite a pre-eminent position in islamic
19:58decoration it symbolizes the freedom of the spirit and they're also looked on as good luck or good fortune
20:04pieces so right hopefully that might be true today yeah yeah um this is copying a style for much
20:11earlier there are similar birds to your birds in the metropolitan museum in new york in the louvre in
20:18paris wow but they are much earlier ones they are from the 12th 13th century yeah your one i think dates
20:25from late 19th stroke early 20th century so it's more a kind of touristy piece yeah so what's it worth we
20:32we don't know what was paid for it no idea it's hopefully brought you some good fortune yeah and
20:38if this turned up on the market today you'd be looking at between 600 and a thousand pounds wow
20:46really you're joking no i'm watching
20:53a pleasable to be honest i wasn't expecting it to be worth anything i just thought you know it's a big
20:58metal bird and you know it's quite pretty you know it won't be going anywhere it's going to stay with me
21:03and the family for a bit but um but yeah i don't think i don't think i'm certainly not ready to part
21:07with it anyway so
21:16so i'm looking at a small doll um under this dome but what interests me is this tray of wonderful objects
21:25that she's holding and showing to the viewer did you buy her no she was left to me by my great aunt
21:32it was made by her grandmother that puts us back into the 19th century the 1890s i think so she's
21:40been a family companion really yes yes i've known her all all my life and presumably yes you you have too
21:46yes yes she's always been outside my bedroom and if my parents went out i would sneakily lift off the
21:52dome and touch sorry touch the scissors were my favorite so let's talk about peddler dolls generally
22:02i mean in the 18th and 19th centuries shops were a long way away and you would have traveling salesmen
22:09often ladies who had a big array of those things that made a lady's life at home yeah
22:17just a bit more enjoyable yeah and so when you look into this tray you've got pins and needles and
22:24buttons there's a tennis racket there are skittles there's a little doll there are scissors your
22:30favorite 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
22:44very kind of wizened looking face um but she is she's got a wax head it looks like and she looks
22:50as if she's got human hair on there not not mohair uh the doll market really has has had massive peaks
22:58and then a bit of a slide so i'm happy to put a valuation on it of between a thousand and 1200
23:05pounds which i think is right for now yeah but who knows in the fullness of time we could see another
23:11another peak developing yeah but fabulous object great to hear that it's a family thing good yeah
23:17and thank you for my daughter and granddaughter lucky you maybe great granddaughter one day no pressure
23:28our ceramics expert stephen moore has discovered an item linked to the black dike band yorkshire's
23:38celebrated brass ensemble established in 1855 with an impressive 170 year legacy the band is
23:47playing a leading role in bradford's 2025 city of culture celebrations and it all started in the hills
23:54around the city if we were to head out of bradford towards halifax up the hill we would end up at
24:04queensberry wouldn't we yes and what would we find there queensberry and the black dike mills
24:09and you worked at the black dike mills i did from 1958 to 1993. what did the make of the mill mohair
24:17cloth for the japanese businessman okay four thousand pounder suit quite high-end stuff yes
24:23and were you a member of the famous band i was from 58 to 73 hence the skeleton of black type
24:28most memorabilia so tell me how it came to your possession the gentleman uh phineas bauer there
24:34was the original owner of the jug right he then passed it on to his son fred who then passed it on
24:40to his daughter gladys bauer right but she'd no family and i was an apprentice at the mill at the time
24:46and the lady there she asked would somebody like the jug and the medal right and i said yes please
24:53i mean this joke records that between 1856 and 1882 that the band won 2011 pounds nine shillings and
25:03nothing yeah that's a lot of money then isn't it i mean that's it and then this is is the same this is
25:08a record history of of the band yes and the band won thousands i mean all all these on here there's one
25:15they've got seven guineas for being disqualified yeah that was a good gig wasn't it it's uh but i
25:20mean we have to put that in the context of the period i mean this joke dates to you know 18 the 1880s
25:27that was a huge amount of money uh what happened to the band prize money it was divided amongst the
25:32band members you see it was worthwhile being in the band it was because i earned three pounds two and
25:37six a week and we did two concerts on saturday and sunday and the week after i got three pound in me
25:43and so like two weeks wages for about 30 weeks each year well there we are well i think this little
25:51collection a little booklet on the history of the band and the jug this is nine carat gold let's not
25:56deny that we're looking at between eight and twelve hundred pounds didn't think it was that much
26:03the medal it earns 500 pound wow keep it safe
26:15the 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 uh i can't
26:36imagine that she could afford to go to liberties and buy it to be quite honest but uh she used to
26:40go to a lot of auctions i always loved it as a little child i'm growing up everything and then
26:45when 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 it's a lovely table
27:03here 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
27:20that's something that can be remedied tell me what you know about it i know um the manufacturer is swiss i
27:25think yes i looked them up on the bottom it says santa croix made in switzerland now they are a very
27:31old traditional music box maker this one was probably made in the 1960s 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 a real
27:46tortoiseshell it's a nice thing do you really like this yeah i really like it watching it dance and like
27:52same yeah it's quite mesmerizing isn't it yeah yeah where did you buy it my antique stilo right yeah
27:58because 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 what did you pay for it i think it was 1500 1500 pounds it's 1500 pounds i
28:07think that was kind of about the money to be honest with you yeah
28:22a nice ladies gold fob watch who did it belong to it belonged to my grandmother isabella okay
28:33and do you ever recall her wearing it well i was only four at the time when she died so no i'm afraid
28:39not okay well let's have a look it's one of these english watches that you just have a little nib there
28:47in the six o'clock position you push that in and then you withdraw the movement okay
28:54and there it is it's signed dent yeah watchmaker to the queen now of course that was queen victoria
29:00yes a good maker but you've got a full set of london hallmarks for 1871. okay
29:10i'm delighted to see this long chain and of course it would have been worn on a long chain around her
29:18neck popped into a pocket somewhere hallmark nine carats so many of these were cut into small places
29:27to make bracelets or necklaces so to see an original long chain is really rather nice
29:33it would be even better it would have been 18 karat gold of course but it's still very nice
29:38does anybody wear it anymore or not no uh sadly not it's been in a draw for for years
29:44so money yes the watch 18 karat gold by dent in pretty good condition eight nine hundred pounds
29:55for watch and the chain because it's original and because it's long and it hasn't been cut down at all
30:01a similar price on the chain because it's me because don't leave it in the drawer get somebody
30:06to wear it don't you think i will you will my daughter perhaps she'll probably sell it she'll never
30:12know she better not
30:31this is a rather beautiful hand worked textile which is not actually an altar frontal can you
30:41tell me about it so this was designed by louisa pestle who was a bradfordian woman born in 1870 and
30:48a bit of a pioneer she trained at the national art training school in london under lewis foreman day
30:53obviously very well known arts and crafts designer yeah and she then went to greece to be a designer at the
30:59royal hellenic school of needlework and lace she traveled all over egypt india she made notes of
31:06all the textile designs the motifs the patterns so she was one of those group of sort of pioneering
31:12victorian ladies that really was something there would have been very few women that were in a
31:16position to be able to have done that there's a great photo of her on the kyber pass on the back
31:22of a camel in full edwardian gear with a hat and everything and she just looks amazing we can only
31:27imagine what that would be like and just corseted as well yeah when she came back to bradford and the
31:31first world war was on she did a lot of work with the abraham peel hospital which was a hospital for
31:37shell shock soldiers uh she worked with them as a form of occupational therapy really in doing
31:44embroidery work and and other things and they worked on this the shell shock soldiers to her design
31:50so this idea of you know occupational therapy the hand and the mind being occupied that it was really
31:55really good for them the repetitive nature of it is very kind of soothing really for people suffering
32:01from you know post-traumatic stress um it's very interesting is that she went to the royal hellenistic
32:06school of needlework in greece because i think we can see that influence here definitely in the stitch
32:11work and because we've got this sort of meandering design and then these sort of these little flower
32:16heads and this is all worked in cross stitch if you look at the stitches they don't they don't really
32:21appear to have been done by different people so perhaps she was a very exacting sort of mistress
32:26i imagine she was because she was an expert in her field it's an absolute pleasure to see it
32:32we need to mention price um generally speaking you can buy all two frontals from this sort of period
32:37when 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
32:46i mean to us it's priceless so thank you very much exactly thank you
32:58you'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
33:11grandmother my father gave it to me about 15 years ago because i kept wearing it he said rather than
33:18storing it all the time he gave it to me you were borrowing it you were allowed to wear it on yeah
33:23high days and holidays high days and holidays that's quite substantial jewel it is my granny was very very
33:30proud of it and was also worried about losing it so she carried it in her handbag every single day of
33:36her life really yes on the boss no when she went shopping everywhere oh my goodness yeah well this is
33:47dated about 1880 right and it is silver and gold that there's no maker's mark and and that's quite usual
33:57for um for jewels of this period but it looks english to me all set with cushion shaped diamonds
34:05and rose cut diamonds and then you also have this ring and tell me the story about this ring the
34:12family legend is that my great grandfather accepted it in settlement of a gambling debt in monte carlo
34:20in monte carlo yes oh my gosh i wonder how much the debt was it'd be interesting wouldn't it it would
34:27it'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 3 000 pounds and for this one here you'd be looking in the region of
35:04about 1500 to 2000 pounds right thank you so what will happen to it now i'll continue to wear them and
35:11enjoy them oh that's wonderful
35:23at a previous roadshow in yorkshire in 2021 we revealed the bellevue studio archive a collection
35:31of 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 your
36:06mum olive who i hope you don't mind saying you're 103 grand old age and you were looking in the archive
36:14for pictures of yourself i think that's right i thought you know i'll have to look in the archives
36:19to see if they think of me as a baby and then found mum and there she is what did you think when you saw
36:27that uh it took me back because i remember that jacket she was wearing it was an olive green jacket
36:33three quality sleeves and it just took me back to being 67 years old oh and what about you olive
36:40do you remember this picture being taken yes and you look beautiful in this picture
36:46what did you do when you were here when you first came over the first time i come here i used to work
36:51at 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 what a wonderful thing to come across
37:07it 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
37:29are uncles and just general relatives uh family when you started looking hamza did you have any idea you
37:37would 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 grandad 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
38:14him like that yeah i was emotional yeah seeing him so young like that he came over in 1961
38:23he were a second year medical student he didn't want to come but grandma said go on go see what it's
38:29like so he came over um his mum gave him half a dozen boiled eggs to come over with and a fiver in
38:38his pocket 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
38:52labor jobs well it's fascinating to meet you and hear your stories and see these pictures and if you're
38:58watching at home and think i mean who knows maybe your family's in the bellevue archive have a look
39:02there's clearly thousands of pictures to go through from what hamster says but you never know what you'll find
39:16so on this beautiful sunny day at lister park when the gardens are in full bloom and the flowers are all
39:22out you've brought along this beautifully florally painted tea set are you a collector no not at all
39:29this was my my mother's she was very poorly as a small child she was confined to bed for months
39:36she had yellow jaundice i think and her father my grandfather bought her this to cheer her up i can
39:43think of nothing that would cheer me up more if i was poorly than getting a cup of tea and my breakfast
39:48served to me from a service like this with toast from this little toast rack and even this wonderful
39:54warming dish so that your breakfast comes to the table warm and you just remove this stopper fill
40:00the base of the dish with hot water and it keeps the breakfast toasty and warm yep the service is by
40:07claris cliff an iconic designer in britain in the 1920s and the 30s and the shape of this teapot is known as
40:16the bonjour shape with this round design and the very distinctive round finial handle even on the
40:21little circular feet these pieces are a bit later in claris cliff's design career her heyday was really
40:29the late 1920s to the mid 1930s i would think these are sort of late 1930s and date and you can see the
40:36slight change in style where she's used this more sort of floral feminine decoration rather than the bold
40:43iconic art deco designs with very strong colors i'm sure it's something you would never want to sell
40:49but of course it does have a value um my thoughts are that being a slightly later claris cliff design
40:56slightly removed from the more iconic art deco period um i think it's worth in the region of two to three
41:02hundred pounds for this group well thank you very much that's absolutely lovely i won't be selling it
41:07and hopefully it can go on to generations you know still to come
41:21we've got may west's name spelt out in her own hair where on earth did this come from
41:28uh we're not 100 sure of its original provenance and it was a gift to the family on my dad's side
41:35um a wedding gift and it's just been sat in my dad's downstairs toilet for about 10 years
41:42and i think as a talking point for parties that sort of thing it is that i mean she's one of the
41:47legends of film i mean in the 1930s she was the big box office drawer and obviously she's done an official
41:57opening yeah 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
42:34she was ahead of her times you know she said what she thought yeah and some of the things were quite
42:40risque she's famous for the line is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
42:48she 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 i think if it went in
43:06an auction it would do probably a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds i think it'll hang around in the
43:12family though you know uh yeah it's so strange one of the most bizarre things i've ever seen
43:20don't forget you must 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 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 was made in 1946 it premiered on the 17th of
43:48september 1946 yeah which is exactly two years after the first day that they dropped by parachute and
43:56glider into a place called arnhem yeah now we would know it as a bridge too far but the original film
44:02was 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
44:1917th 1944. that has to be the very best cinema ticket in the world do you know what it's worth i
44:28haven't got a clue it's 150 quid 150 quid with a bit of aluminium it's a very special piece of aluminium
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 it was black so mule spent cleaned it up and then it
45:03revealed what we're on it it's a french bulldog that is gorgeous isn't it yeah it's a little cigarette
45:10case so that's what the elasticated band is for yeah now i know it doesn't look like you could fit
45:15cigarettes 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 thumb piece 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
45:48lovely beautiful thing
45:52i think this is the most wonderful enigmatic beautiful photographic image
46:11can you tell me a little bit about it please it's a snapshot that was taken by my grandfather
46:16in 1931 he entered the worldwide competition run by eastman kodak to find the world's best snapshot
46:24using the first introduction of the velochrome film this is my granny here they were engaged and went on
46:31holiday to brad ahead on the isle of man he entered in the competition and it won the final was in
46:38geneva and eastman kodak was a really famous company that was a big company at the time founded by george
46:44eastman in 1888 he made photography available to the masses these vest pocket in inverted commas
46:53folding bellows cameras made it affordable and they made it portable and your great-grandfather was
46:59obviously one of those people there he is takes your grandmother out indeed takes this wonderful
47:04photograph of her enters this competition and won it he won the amazing amount of 4 400 pounds it
47:13equates to 235 000 pounds they got married and he bought his first house and their first house with
47:19that and the family were very very excited well it would have been huge excitement all over because he
47:23would have been pretty famous in fact because that would have been obviously published in you know the
47:28the eastman kodak magazine that's right which was a massive worldwide seller of a magazine as well
47:34on the table here we have this beautiful silver trophy which of course is representative of
47:40photography by the lens lens in the top here that is stunningly beautiful um but i'm going to have
47:47to kind of try and put a value on this and it's a bit of an odd one really yeah i'm kind of minded to
47:52give it a global valuation but then individually looking at some of the pieces it's a kind of different
47:58thing in my head so to speak so this beautiful art deco trophy is wonderful and it's worth two or
48:05three thousand pounds okay yeah which is pretty amazing yeah the camera to be honest with you if
48:11that were completely disconnected from this story and were just a kodak pocket vest camera it's worth 50
48:16to 100 pounds right because they made so many of them yes yeah the image itself stunning image i really
48:23really love this but in reality it's worth a few hundred pounds we've got a couple of uh medallions
48:30that were awarded to him also we've got a bronze one here but this one uh did you see that i nipped
48:35off just before we started filming well i i nipped off to weigh this medal okay because i don't know
48:41whether you know but this is an 18 karat gold medal oh gosh right and its scrap value alone is 7 000
48:48pounds that's amazing i see why he ran off i'm glad you came back i did come back with it so i think
48:56that what you have here one of my favorite stories of the day at 12 to 18 000 pounds that's very good
49:02isn't it yeah thank you so much for coming that's a pleasure thank you thank you
49:06we've always been proud of him i think that people could look more at what skills and talents they've
49:17got there's more there outside if they only would try things because he was just a normal
49:22guy working as a draftsman and he tapped into the talents that he had the sun is shining two
49:40beautiful jewels sparkling away how did you get them well these belong to my grandmother who was born in
49:461900 in donegal in very rural ireland um and i always remembered this watch on my grandmother's
49:54wrist as a little child growing up i can never remember her with any other type of watch on her
49:59wrist she went to trinity college in dublin to study as a young woman at the age of 25 in 1925
50:08she traveled from ireland to new york gosh where she would have traveled on her own she would have
50:13sailed as a 25 year old woman and to know that she was such a confident lady it's no wonder that
50:19she chose some really pretty pieces of jewelry more than likely in new york because the style of
50:25both of the pieces is very american they have a a lovely way of producing what we could call this sort
50:31of filigree pierced metal work in in this bracelet in particular there's another mark that denotes that
50:39it's not a european piece because it's marked 10k which is for 10 carat white gold which again is
50:45something very typical of american jewelry at the time in the center here you've got a lovely little
50:51diamond sparkling away and either side the two green stones are actually synthetic emeralds
50:56they're they're not natural emeralds i bet she was drawn to the green for for emerald isle of course so
51:02no no doubt and it was very popular again to use synthetic stones at this stage because to cut
51:08stones this size and of that shape would have been very expensive but all in all a beautiful elegant
51:15piece of jewelry and she sounds as though she was a very elegant lady as well and particularly if she
51:20wore this watch all the time that that is a level of sophistication i have to say to be wearing a
51:26beautiful cocktail watch as we can see here she ended up also a pig farmer's wife so i'm guessing she
51:32didn't wear those slopping out the pigs now we have a watch which we would class as a costume watch
51:40because it's actually a metal that has been rhodium plated so it's not a precious metal strap and also
51:47the green stones here these are actually glass so that fits in again with this whole idea of costume
51:54dress jewelry which again was rising in popularity in the 1920s i mean even chanel would mix up her
52:01costume jewelry and her precious gem jewelry and try and trick her friends and say which do you think
52:07is real and which is fake and they often got it wrong but that was how good the quality was on both
52:12of them you know we're looking at a you know a reasonable value maybe 50 60 pounds and then with
52:19the bracelet because it is that 10 carat gold as opposed to 14 15 or 18 and that keeps the value
52:25down at auction i'd expect that to fetch between 500 and 700 pounds so collectively in the region of 600
52:33pounds for the two pieces but as we have seen it is the story that counts in the elegance of your
52:39grandmother that's right thank you very much thank you thank you
52:50two indian albums dated around the start of the 1800s so 1810 to 1820 are many of them
52:59how did these come into your possession my mother got them in a second-hand market in dublin
53:05okay and do you remember how much she paid for them possibly maybe five pounds for the pair okay so we
53:13have two albums and the school of painting is called company school meaning east india company
53:21started in 1600 and went on well into the late 1800s let's face it they were there to extract money
53:30and resources from india there are some small mercies and human stories that come out of it
53:38so you have this beautiful new school of painting which is a mix of indian and european and you see
53:45some beautiful examples in these albums this one it shows indian life you see the tradesman
53:55working away in the background maybe a subject matter that was avoided in traditional indian
54:01miniature painting or mughal miniature painting you see some real indian life which is what the
54:06europeans were interested in so this book was made for the europeans exactly exactly so interesting
54:15these are the polaroids of early india and the center of this picture is the abhorrent act of sati
54:24and sati is when the husband dies the woman put herself on the funeral pyre and commit suicide
54:33it was banned by the mughal emperors and later made illegal by the british in the mid-1800s
54:41so this painting here it's great that we've got such an early date 1780 and this album is just
54:51stuffed with wonderful examples of this mix of indian and european work
54:58a sepoy so a local soldier
55:03isn't that beautiful extraordinary it's very european it's like a biblical tale
55:09startling absolutely well they are very collectible
55:14each piece a slight variance in quality the sepoy for example
55:19on its own a thousand pounds oh wow wait each page each page that's just the sepoy that's
55:29extraordinary oh my god that's your starting point the sati burning six to eight thousand pounds for
55:37the book or each for that page that's the sati burning six to eight thousand pounds so to try
55:46and put an overall figure on both albums minimum 22 000 pounds wow amazing if you ever decided to sell
55:56them i don't think we'll be getting rid of them though i think that's so beautiful you can't it's great to hear
56:07a lot more than i thought startling yeah really extraordinary really nice to know more
56:14information about it i have to do some more digging digging yeah
56:28before we go i just wanted to show you something unusual
56:32we see lots of dolls on the antiques roadshow but i've never seen one like this she dates from the
56:381860s she's a fortune-telling doll and she would have been used as a kind of after dinner or parlour game
56:44if we passed around the guests and the reason is because look under her skirts are all these little
56:52fortunes written on pieces of paper and i've been allowed to open one which i should do very carefully
56:58look there you are and in it it says what you wish for you shall obtain
57:07is she amazing from the antiques treasure here at cotwright hole bye-bye
57:21so
57:35so
57:37so
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