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00:01On all new salvage hunters
00:03With almost 60 years combined experience
00:06Three leading antique and salvage dealers are joining forces
00:10From West Wales, country house connoisseur Alistair Dryborough
00:14Loves the traditional
00:15Sorry about that, isn't it?
00:17It's nice, Welsh, handsome
00:20Don't try to sell it to me
00:21No, I'm not trying to sell it to you
00:22Edinburgh based dealer Vicky Knott has an incredible eye for interiors
00:27I just think it's ever easy
00:29I just think that's brilliant
00:30In London, Shirkan Yamakcha is a devotee of retro design and industrial salvage
00:37Sourced from all over Europe
00:39These were made by gents of Leicester
00:41And it's a general post office one
00:43While his brother Jay restores items back to life
00:46There's nothing to rust, nothing to go wrong
00:49And that's why these last forever
00:51Together, they're travelling the country
00:54On the hunt for the very best antiques and decorative salvage
01:04This time
01:06As a loot and dye and bleach works
01:08Shere Khan and Jay discover mistakes can be costly
01:12Sorry, it's ripped now, I bought it
01:14We'll add that to the park
01:15In Hampshire, Alistair and Shere Khan find out value is subject to artistic licence
01:21There's something about this
01:22It's probably my favourite bit of art
01:24That's going to become expensive
01:25No, no, no
01:27And at a Southport amusement park
01:30It's two signs for the price of one
01:32I like that open sign
01:34So it should have closed on the other side
01:36Hello
01:40Based in North London
01:42Dealer Shere Khan and Brother Jay specialise in industrial salvage and vintage lighting
01:49And other items that appeal to customers with an eye for modern design
01:54Me and my brother have been very lucky
01:56We've been able to get into some old factories, old workshops, old train stations
02:00And we've been able to save some amazing lighting and furniture
02:06They were designed perfectly
02:09They were designed to do a job
02:10We don't see them as relics of the past
02:13Because they were designed and made in such a way that they're future proof
02:16While Shere Khan concentrates on buying, Jay restores items in his workshop
02:22The best part about my job is
02:24I get to work on all these old industrial lights
02:27They were made in the 1920s, 30s
02:30They were so well designed
02:32Knowing they're going to last another 100 years or so
02:35Just gives me pure joy
02:38Both share a love for finding and rescuing items rich in history and character
02:47On the hunt for forgotten gems
02:49Shere Khan and Jay are heading out of London to Luton
02:53Once famous for the production of hats
02:55And an eponymous van
02:58For over two centuries
02:59The hat industry flourished here
03:01Fashioning everything from straw bonnets
03:04To bowlers
03:05Today the boys have been invited to look round an old factory
03:08That's having a clear out
03:11We're going to meet John
03:13John's part of a family
03:15That since the 18th century
03:18They've been in Luton
03:19Working with milliners
03:21And in the hat trade
03:23As they're like family run business
03:26They've been in it for such a long time
03:28Yeah
03:28They've probably got so much stuff
03:30Yeah, yeah
03:33Stuff that we could use
03:34Yeah, and it's always good coming to
03:37Yeah
03:39So do you know why Luton vans were made in that shape?
03:44I don't know why but I'm sure you're about to tell me
03:46Yeah, I am about to tell you
03:47So Luton vans were made in that kind of high shape
03:52Because Luton being famous for the hat trade
03:55They invented a van
03:58Which has got the high top
04:00So they can stack up the hats high
04:02Yeah, hence it was called the Luton van
04:04There you go
04:05I'm gonna have to Google that
04:07Why do you need to Google it?
04:09You don't need to Google it
04:10I've just told you
04:13By the 1930s
04:15Luton firms were producing around 70 million hats a year
04:20But changing fashions and foreign competition took their toll
04:24Today Barford brothers dye and bleach works
04:27Is the last of its kind in the UK
04:29Its skills preserved by fifth generation dyer, John Horne
04:36My family connection with the hat trade started in 1823
04:41And I joined the company in 1976
04:45We are dyers for the millinery trade basically
04:49We only specialise in goods for the hat industry
04:53I've dyed hats for celebrities
04:56I've dyed hats for royal family, Lady Di
04:59She was a great wearer of hats
05:01And she did enormous things for the industry
05:04There's very few people in the country
05:08Who can actually do what we do here
05:11We also die for Europe, America, even China
05:16But the industry has changed
05:19We don't use a lot of the stuff that we used to use
05:22And consequently it might as well go to a better home
05:25And have a second life from being stored here
05:31You must be John?
05:33I am indeed
05:34Nice to meet you
05:35Nice to meet you
05:36Nice to meet you
05:36Lovely to see you
05:37Shall we go inside?
05:38Yeah sure
05:39You lead the way
05:40Show what we're doing
05:41Okay
05:43So this is our dye yard
05:45That's a sauna in here John
05:46Yeah
05:48This is ribbons being dyed
05:50Oh
05:52And these are going to be used for the ribbons around the hats?
05:55Yeah
05:55Yeah
05:55Okay
05:57So this is our blocking room
05:58Oh wow
05:59After we've dyed it
06:01We've stiffened it
06:03Give it some body
06:04And then it can go onto the hot moulds
06:06Okay
06:06And then the edges trimmed off
06:08And then that's the start of it
06:09Yeah
06:10This machinery is old
06:12Yeah, Victorian most of it
06:13Victorian?
06:14Wow
06:14I mean in it's heyday
06:16How many people would work here?
06:17When I joined there was
06:19I think it was 56 staff I think
06:2156 staff
06:22Yeah
06:22Yeah
06:23And now?
06:24Now there's three of us
06:25Wow
06:25Wow
06:26Yeah
06:26John's got these
06:28Old
06:29Big strong machines
06:30You know they're like
06:31Over a hundred years old
06:32Victorian Edwardian machines
06:34And they
06:35Are still using them to make these
06:37Beautiful hats
06:38And I'll ask him I'll say
06:39Are there modern versions of these machines?
06:41And he said yeah you can get modern versions
06:43But they don't do the job as good as these ones
06:46Just goes to show you
06:47Old is gold
06:50So there's bits and pieces in here maybe
06:52You're interested in?
06:55What is that actually?
06:57They're little short chairs
06:58They were ones that children used to weave straw plait on
07:03These short-legged stools once served the local craft of straw plaiting
07:08A process by which wheat straw was hand braided and woven into hats and other textile garments
07:14A relic of a bygone industry, Shere Khan thinks these pitch pine stools
07:18Made from offcuts and scraps by local workers
07:21Could be worth around £125 each
07:26Do you know what kind of money you would want for these?
07:28I don't know, make me an offer
07:31£40 each
07:34Make it a bit more
07:37£45
07:39Yeah go on then
07:40Shake his hand
07:42Excellent
07:43As a deal
07:44That's a good start
07:46Get the ball rolling
07:47Scratch built things have a bit of a soul to them
07:50And also with these ones you can see how the people working in this factory were sitting on them
07:56You can see where they've worn out certain parts of it
07:59All of that makes for great character
08:01This is quite an interesting little thing
08:04When they used to weave straw plait, they used to put it in a skein
08:08You remember if you held your wool out for your grandmother and she used to wrap it round your arms
08:14Yeah, yeah, yeah
08:14So the skein of straw would go over the top
08:17And then it would go to the little sewing machine over there
08:21And it would unwind the skein of straw as it was being stitched into a bonnet
08:27That's very nice but I just saw something else
08:29Could you see?
08:31Oh, I know what you saw
08:34Ah, yeah
08:38It's an adjusting one
08:40I buy and sell a lot of stools
08:42These ones, really nice, chunky, oak seat on them
08:46The legs can be extended, they've got little bolts on them
08:49So you can extend them to the height that you want
08:52They've got maker's marks on them that I can't quite make out
08:54What would you want for this?
08:56I think I've got another two somewhere too
08:58If you're interested in those
08:59All right, let's find them, we'll put it together
09:01Yeah
09:01We'll do a job lot price
09:03He says to us, there's a few more
09:05So when he says that, we say to him, we'll do a job lot on the prices
09:08So we carry on trying to find a few more
09:10It's another one, isn't it? Is it the same one?
09:13I think it's the same, mate
09:14Yeah
09:15Yeah, it's the same one
09:16Been here?
09:18Same room, we should go
09:19Hold on, it's
09:20Oh no, no, it just needs the thing inside there
09:23It's got, yeah
09:25Top's all right as well, isn't it?
09:27That's got a cover on it
09:28Sorry
09:29It's ripped now, I bought it
09:32Yeah, we'll add that to the party
09:38Anything you found there?
09:39Give me one minute
09:40It's an old clock
09:42It's dead, but
09:44Mechanism's not in there
09:45No
09:46I would say that's the late 1800s, early 1900s
09:50Normally those type of clocks, you wind it up
09:52And then once it's wound up, there's a pendulum
09:56And you swing the pendulum
09:58But all of that is gone, there's nothing left in there
10:01So I'll put a high quartz movement in there
10:04So it'll be batter operated
10:06And yeah, it's gonna look nice when I'm finished with it
10:10Ten pounds?
10:11Yeah, I'm sure that'd be fun
10:12Yep, fantastic
10:14Well, my brother looks at stuff logically
10:16He works out pricing in his head
10:18The work that he has to put into it
10:19What can be fixed, what can't be fixed
10:21What's gonna cost a lot of money
10:22That's why it's good to go out with my brother
10:25There's some more of those
10:27Oh, two
10:28There's a maker's mark on this one
10:29Ah
10:30Yes, yes
10:32So we found the last two
10:35So we've got four of these stools now
10:36One of them, we can clearly see the maker's mark
10:41It's a company called Sankey Sheldon
10:43As we suspected, these are British-made industrial stools
10:47These adjustable stools date from the mid-20th century
10:50And were produced by Sankey Sheldon
10:53A former giant of British metalworking
10:55They're in need of restoration
10:57But with the solid provenance they come with
11:00Once complete, Shere Khan thinks they could be worth
11:02Around £190 each
11:06So, we now have how many? Four?
11:09Four, mm-hmm
11:09What will you want for four?
11:12Erm... 60 quid each
11:22Always on the lookout for lost relics to rescue and restore
11:26Brothers Shere Khan and Jay Yumukja
11:28Are in the traditional hat-making centre of Luton
11:31Trawling and old dye works
11:33There's some Shereys, old
11:35Yeah, they're carrying most of it
11:37Fifth generation owner John is having a clear-out
11:41And Shere Khan and Jay have found top-quality industrial stools
11:45Abandoned in various rooms
11:46We now have how many? Four?
11:49Four, mm-hmm
11:49What will you want for four?
11:53Erm... 60 quid each
11:55Yeah?
11:56Yeah
11:56I'm 60 quid
11:57Nice
11:58Lovely
11:58Thank you
11:59Not much work needs being done on these
12:01Bit of a clean
12:02Once that's done, they will picture really well
12:04Usually, people take them in pairs
12:06But we will price them individually
12:08So if someone wants, they can take a single one as well
12:11There's a few old baskets up here
12:13What were these baskets being used for?
12:16They were used in the ribbon room
12:21They're still solid
12:22They are
12:23How old are they roughly?
12:25I would have said they're certainly older than 50 years old
12:27They were here when I got here
12:29What would you want on these?
12:32John?
12:33What kind of price?
12:34I don't know
12:35I don't know
12:3640 quid each
12:38If I said, if I take five for 150, would you accept that?
12:44170
12:47Okay, yeah, five for 170
12:49Good
12:50I think they'll be all right
12:52I think they'll be all right
12:52If we can petrol station jet wash
12:54Yeah
12:54Yeah
12:54Give them a quick one
12:56My brother's answer to cleaning things is always
12:59Let's use the jet spray
13:01Anything, doesn't matter
13:02Okay, jeans
13:04Car
13:06Pot
13:06Jet wash
13:07Because it's easy
13:08But I reckon that's gonna be nice warm water, brush and a bit of soap
13:13They'll come up sparkling
13:17So this is where we used to do all our maintenance for pipe works and steam machinery
13:23Oh wow, look at those
13:25They're just full of engineering stuff, pipe fittings and bits and pieces
13:31Went into the old workshop and straight away there was these, like, metal cabinets
13:38I just love them and I think I gave it away
13:40Oh, would you be seeing any of them?
13:42Yeah, I don't know what I'd do with the contents but, um, you can have five of them if you
13:46like
13:47And what would you want for them?
13:50Well, I think they're, they're quite valuable because I've never seen anything like them to be fair
13:56I think they're about 200 quid each
13:59If I said to you 600 for four
14:03700
14:05Because I think, I think they're really quite nice
14:08They're so nice
14:08They are, shake the man's hand
14:10I should have, I should have kept quiet, shouldn't I?
14:12I know, I know
14:12Do you know what? We need to start playing our poker face a little bit better
14:15Yeah, I don't play poker
14:17Shake the man's hand at 700 for four
14:19Yeah, alright
14:20Okay
14:21Thank you very much, John
14:22Thank you
14:23Yeah
14:23One of them will be going in my workshop
14:25Oh really?
14:26They're just so nice
14:27I love them
14:28Once I've cleaned them up
14:29Not a lot of work to be done
14:31Because I still want to keep some of the rust on the inside
14:33And also, just to say, you know, show how old it is
14:37We'll make a tidy sum on them
14:39Right, do you think you're done?
14:41Yeah, I'm, I'm done in the air
14:42I'm happy with them
14:43You're going to have to start moving those
14:46Clear them out
14:47And then move them to the van
14:51Perfect
14:52It's been a wonderful day
14:53Wonderful gear
14:55I think we're both very, very happy
14:57Out of the buys today
14:58The Sankey Sheldon stalls
15:00Very good profit in those
15:02The middle cabinets
15:03What can I say?
15:05They are awesome
15:07They're cool
15:08And yeah, I can't wait to get them back
15:10He thinks he's going to keep one
15:11I am keeping one
15:12For me, in my workshop
15:14If you can afford it, you can keep it
15:16He ain't keeping one
15:18Some of the things I've forgotten
15:20That they were even there
15:21To be honest
15:23You walk past them every day
15:24And you don't really notice them anymore
15:27Greatly appreciate you allowing us in Tablet
15:29Thank you very much
15:30Thank you very much for coming
15:31It's been a pleasure
15:32Thank you very much
15:33Lovely to meet you
15:33You too
15:34I hope you've got some reasonable things
15:36Yeah, yeah
15:37Fill the band
15:38We might be back for more
15:39That'd be great
15:40Take care, John
15:41Thanks very much
15:41Cheers, bye
15:45Good day today?
15:46That was a good day
15:47It turned out really well
15:48It did
15:50Some nice
15:51Very, very nice stuff
15:52And
15:54Jeeves
15:55I need a cup of tea
15:56No respect, man
15:57Seriously
16:00Shere Khan and Jay aren't alone in their passion
16:02For sourcing lost relics
16:03And giving them a new life
16:06Based in West Wales
16:07Dealer Alistair Dryborough specialises in traditional country furniture, unusual signs and folk art
16:14And he's always on the lookout for rare pieces of distinction
16:17I love items with history, with character, and that's what my customers have grown to expect from me
16:24And that could be anything from an enamel sign to a Welsh dresser
16:28And as a dealer, you've got to look everywhere
16:30Living in rural Wales, there's a lot of remote cottages, hill farms
16:35But things turn up sometimes where you least expect them to
16:40Like this great example of a 19th century stick chair
16:43Turned up in a 1950s house within Aberystwyth
16:46It just goes to show that these lost relics can turn up anywhere
16:51And you've got to look everywhere for them
16:57Alistair has arranged a visit to a seaside location
17:00For which he's teaming up with Shere Khan
17:02While Shere Khan loves vintage retro and Al loves tradition
17:06They both share a passion for rescuing authentic items with a fascinating history
17:10And their destination offers the opportunity for both
17:13Today
17:16We're going to Southport Pleasureland
17:19To meet the owner Norman
17:20Okay, by Pleasureland, you mean like a fun fair or amusement park?
17:25Yeah
17:25Okay
17:25At one point it was hot, wasn't it?
17:27Everybody wanted fairground art
17:28And it didn't even have to be old
17:29And everyone wanted it
17:31Yeah
17:31But now it's like everything, it goes round
17:32Yeah
17:33So it's got to be good stuff today
17:35Yeah
17:35It's got to be stuff with age
17:37And I was just going to say like
17:39You driving me around today, right?
17:41Yeah
17:41It's like being on a fairground, right?
17:43Yeah
17:48At the end of the 18th century, the fashion for healthy sea bathing
17:52And the building of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal
17:54Turned Southport from a sleepy coastal village
17:57To a thriving tourist hotspot
18:00In 1907, the White City Amusement Park opened
18:03One of the first in the UK
18:05It was renamed Pleasureland in 1922
18:09When the park was moved
18:10In the early 2000s, fire destroyed some of the rides
18:14But a huge renovation is now underway
18:16Guided by a man with entertainment in his bones
18:19Norman Wallace
18:23My great-great-great-grandfather was here in the 1880s, 1890s
18:29I'm the sixth generation
18:30And I'm very lucky to have that history and those ancestors
18:33You know, what I do, much of it comes from my ancestors
18:37And my father and my grandfather have educated me
18:41And taught me things about the industry
18:42We've got all sorts of rides here
18:44Dodgeums, Waltzers, the British favourites
18:47We're going to rebrand
18:49And there are a number of items that we've put to one side
18:52Because they were too good to skip
18:54And there isn't enough space to keep it
18:56So it's best to bring in the new
18:59Let someone else have the advantages of it
19:02And upcycle
19:02And hopefully someone else will get the benefit in the future
19:06Norman
19:07All right, lads, what's new?
19:09I'm all right, Norman, I'm Shikhan
19:10How you doing?
19:11Nice to meet you
19:12Nice to meet you
19:12Can we have a look inside?
19:13You can
19:13What are you looking for? Anything particular?
19:16Whatever we kind of like
19:19There's nothing in particular
19:20When we see it
19:20When we see it, we'll know
19:21Okay, cool
19:22Like that
19:24That's a lovely sign
19:25Like that
19:25I don't sell a lot of fairground art
19:29Or rides and stuff like that
19:31But signage
19:32I buy a lot of signs
19:33And I'm just hoping there's going to be something here
19:36Right from the start
19:37Or, you know, from the 30s, from the 40s
19:39Modern stuff, not really into
19:41But if I can get something old today
19:43That would be great
19:45We're changing the name this year
19:46Actually, we're rebranding
19:47It's going to be Wallace's Adventure Coast
19:50Okay
19:50Instead of Pleasureland, yeah
19:52Adventure Coast
19:52So how long has it been called Pleasureland for then?
19:54It's since about 1922
19:56My great-great-great-grandfather had the carousel which was over there
20:00And then in the 50s my grandfather and my father were inside
20:04Oh, okay
20:05But I haven't been here all that time
20:06Okay
20:08Okay, so here we are
20:11So this is the engine shed
20:12Yep
20:14A few signs and bits and pieces that you may be interested in
20:17I like those, Norman
20:19That open sign
20:20So do I
20:21Do you?
20:22That's bad news then
20:24Can I climb over there and have a look at them?
20:26Yeah, get over
20:29So it should have closed on the other side, shouldn't it?
20:31I'd have thought
20:32Turn it around
20:33Ta-da
20:35Closed
20:35Absolutely right
20:36So would these be up for sale then?
20:38Yeah
20:38Yeah?
20:40Everything's for sale
20:41Oh, nice
20:42Just if you've got enough money, that's all
20:44Hey
20:45We go into the engineering shed
20:47Straight off
20:48Load of signs
20:49All down the left-hand wall
20:50They're hand painted
20:52These signs were purposely made for here
20:55This is an iconic place that we're in today
20:58So to buy something that's been purposely made for here
21:01It's come from Southport Pleasurelands
21:05That's a great listing for the website
21:08Right, so there's one, two, three
21:10And then there's two there, she can't
21:13And that miniature railway possibly
21:14And that, what does it say?
21:16Pier station, is it?
21:17Pier station
21:18Open 1911, closed 1948
21:21Because that was the other station
21:22There was a station between the ones that we have now
21:25Ah, okay
21:27That one
21:28Single-sided?
21:29Yeah, single
21:31Really amazing signs, you know, all about the railway
21:35Closed, open
21:36There's one there that says
21:37Only staff beyond this point
21:39And then there's a really nice
21:40Keep this workshop tidy one
21:41My eye is on that workshop tidy one
21:43That's the one that I really want
21:46These signs that vary in age
21:48Once served the lakeside miniature railway ride
21:51The oldest 15-inch gauge in the world
21:53Built in 1911 and still running today
21:57Hand-painted, decorative and original
21:59These are genuine relics of British Seaside resort history
22:02And Al thinks this set of nine
22:04Could be worth around 900 pounds
22:08So how would you want to do this then?
22:09I'll tell you what I'll do
22:10Right
22:11Anything
22:14You give me for these
22:15I'm going to donate to all the Hay Children's Hospital
22:17Really?
22:19Yeah
22:19Okay
22:21So, think kindly upon me
22:24Pressure's on
22:24You'll probably want one or two of these, wouldn't you?
22:27Yeah, well look, you go for it
22:28Yeah
22:29I'm with you on it
22:30Yeah
22:31And then whatever I take
22:32We'll just split it between
22:34We'll sort it out between us after, yeah?
22:35Yeah
22:36Who's having what?
22:37That's it
22:37Okay
22:43500 quid
22:57In Southport, Al and Shere Khan are trawling for lost relics
23:01Among the sheds of an amusement park with a long history
23:05How long has it been called Pleasureland for then?
23:07Since about 1922
23:09Since about 1922
23:10My great-great-great-grandfather had the carousel which was over there
23:13And they've discovered a hoard of hand-painted signage from the fairgrounds' historic railway ride
23:19500 quid
23:23Yeah
23:24See, and is it for you?
23:24Okay then
23:25And all that's going to go to Holderhead Children's Hospital?
23:27Yeah
23:27Okay
23:28Okay, I'll give you a shake
23:30All right
23:30Thank you very much
23:32Lovely
23:32Thank you, mate
23:33All of the money that we pay for these signs are going to go to a hospital
23:37So, me and Alistair say, look, we'll buy these together, we'll split the bill
23:41Yeah, £500, nine signs, it's a no-brainer, isn't it?
23:46These type of handwritten signs, there's so many places that they can go into from retail to residential houses
23:52People love them
23:55Anybody like beef burgers?
23:56Beef burgers, that's a good one, isn't it?
23:57Oh, that's another one
24:01So, has that been a part of a door or something?
24:03No, it's been part of a flap that lifts up
24:05Right
24:05So that would lock in there with the two shot bolts
24:07And that would lift up and then hook up on the top and go up again
24:11Yeah, on a vendor's thing and that, yeah
24:14That's quite nice, isn't it?
24:15Yeah, there's nice colours on that
24:18What do you want for that, Norman?
24:21It was 50 quid
24:2250 quid?
24:24You didn't want that, did you?
24:25No, sure
24:26I'll let you have it
24:27Although I do like a good beef burger
24:29I do
24:30Beef burgers, £50
24:32Good price
24:32Once it's cleaned and photographed correctly
24:36And given its provenance, where it was from
24:39It's £150
24:41Do you like that?
24:43It's nice
24:43It's striking, isn't it?
24:44Yeah
24:44The red to the trains
24:45To the trains
24:46I didn't notice that on the way in, but it's different on the other side, is it?
24:49No
24:49Have a look
24:50Yeah, on that side, I think it just tells you
24:53The South Pole miniature train station
24:55Yeah
24:55You were being observant, weren't you?
24:57I'm very observant, I understand
24:59I'm very, very observant
25:00Is that part of the revamp?
25:02Is that going?
25:03Yes
25:03What were you on for that?
25:05Well, I can't be the buyer, I'm the seller
25:06You make me an offer
25:07Okay
25:08Erm
25:09200 quid
25:12220
25:14Thank you
25:15Can't argue over 20 quid
25:17No
25:17Definitely not
25:18Lovely
25:19No, that is nice
25:20Huge sign
25:21It's quite fresh
25:22It's been over painted throughout the years
25:25Under it is the original sign
25:27To the trains
25:28It's just eye-catching
25:31So
25:33These are very nice
25:34This is a piece of art by a man called Fowl, Fred Fowl
25:38His work is very well known
25:40And this is from a helter-skelter slide and it says slip and slide
25:47Is it something you're into?
25:49Right
25:49Have a look at it
25:51Norman pulls out these two amazing signs
25:54Hand painted
25:56Really big
25:57You know, proper size things
25:59You could cover a whole wall in them
26:01Just the colours in them
26:02The text
26:03Everything about it
26:05They were just so beautiful
26:07Probably dating from the 1970s
26:10This is the work of iconic showman artist Fred Fowl
26:14Drawing on popular comic book art and futuristic 3D lettering
26:18Fowl is credited with bringing traditional fairground art
26:21Into the 20th century
26:22Shere Khan thinks this lost relic from the master of the genre
26:25Could be worth around 1,100 pounds
26:29The art is really nice on it
26:31Would 500 buy them?
26:36600 would
26:39Shake a 550
26:42Go on then
26:44All it's gonna need is a good clean
26:46They're gonna photograph really well
26:48You know, put something next to it
26:50Just so that people can see the size of it
26:52Selling something that big
26:54You need to find someone with the space for it
26:56When the right person does come along
26:57And they've got the right space in their house
27:00They've got the right space above their bed
27:02Slip and slide
27:02It's gonna look amazing
27:04It's really vibrant isn't it
27:06Yeah
27:07Well that was part of it you see
27:08What people forget is that fairgrounds
27:11Were the place where people went to for the vibrancy and the colour
27:15Yeah
27:15That's great mate
27:16It's got nice wording as well isn't it?
27:18Yeah
27:18Slip and slide
27:19Yeah
27:21Meeting Norman today
27:23Meeting Norman today was great
27:24You know, he's dedicated to this business
27:28He's putting his heart and soul into it
27:30It's always a gamble, you know, when you come to places like this
27:35It's not like a table and a chair
27:37People always want tables and chairs
27:39But when you come into sort of fairground attraction like this
27:45You've got to be a little bit picky in the way you buy
27:48You've got to find the stuff that's just that little bit older
27:51And we did
27:52We found some really good stuff today
27:54Stuff that's been here from the beginning, some of it
27:58Thanks for having us
27:58All right, good stuff
27:59It's been an absolute pleasure
28:00All right, thank you very much
28:01Nice was really good
28:02Thanks for having met you
28:03Yeah, thank you very much
28:03See you next time
28:04Take care man
28:04Bye bye
28:13Well that was all right, wasn't it?
28:14That was good
28:15Very good
28:15You bought some nice signs, all of them hand painted
28:18Yeah
28:19The set of signs we bought together as well
28:21And they're all...
28:22What's good about them too, they've got history
28:24Yeah
28:25You know, when we go to selling them
28:27Yeah
28:27You can say, they were from here
28:28Yeah, they're from there
28:29Yeah, so we need to split them now
28:31Yeah
28:31And I know what you're gonna say
28:33I know what one you want
28:34The workshop one?
28:36Yeah
28:36All right, I'll take the workshop one
28:38And then I'll give you the choice of all the rest
28:41Any others you can choose next
28:43All right
28:43Thanks mate
28:44Are you gonna give me 500 quid for that one?
28:46multis
28:46Thanks cohorts
28:50The Wha...
28:50While Chia Kahn has been busy in Southport
28:52Brother Jay has been sorting through the haul of items from Luton
28:57Bought for just ten pounds
28:58The old Barford brother's factory clock is missing all its works
29:02so he's going to give it a new life.
29:05We're going to try and remove the hands carefully
29:08without any damage.
29:10The hands are brass.
29:13Some people like to polish the hands,
29:15getting back to brass, but I'll keep them as they are
29:17because it tells the age and where.
29:21Right, OK, the face of the clock,
29:24I'm just going to give it a little brush
29:29so most of the flaky bits come off.
29:31That's the original paint over the years
29:35as it's, like, coming away from the face.
29:41I always like clocks original to how we found them
29:45and how they look, so I won't respray it,
29:48I won't repaint it, I'll just leave it as it is.
29:52Right, that's sorted out.
29:55So now we're going to apply the wax using wire wool.
30:05What else the wire wool does with the wax is,
30:07if there's, like, all the little bits of grime in there,
30:10it's going to pick it up and move it along.
30:14Give it a nice little shine.
30:17You can see all the little nooks and crannies in the woods.
30:22Still showing its age.
30:24Lovely.
30:25With the original mechanism of this relic lost,
30:28Jay plans to fit a modern quartz movement,
30:31but there's a problem.
30:33So at the moment, the hour hand doesn't fit on the new mechanism,
30:37too big, basically.
30:39So I'm going to adjust that so it fits the hour hand.
30:44And then the same again with the minute hands.
30:47The face and the hands is where the character of the clock is.
30:50If I mess this up, I hope this is going to go well,
30:53but if it doesn't, all right, that's it.
30:54That clock's going on the shelf.
30:56It all rides on this.
31:09It needs a little bit more.
31:16The original had a square fitting in,
31:19where this one is circled up,
31:22so I'm just trying to file the edges so it sits in there.
31:36Nice, that's it.
31:39Right, that's done.
31:42Once connected to the new mechanism,
31:44Jay needs to test whether the hour hand still moves correctly
31:47in relation to the minute hand.
31:50So when it's at 12,
31:52the hour hand is on the 3 or on the 2, on the 4.
31:58So it's all aligned.
32:00I normally test from 1 to 6.
32:08I'm happy with that.
32:10Now we're going to slowly put it all back together now.
32:16Restoring old clocks, old lights,
32:19I would say is the best part of this job for me.
32:25One, it takes me away from everything else.
32:29And then as you are restoring it,
32:31I just love to know if this clock could talk
32:35all the things, all the stories it could tell.
32:40Knowing that it's lived a really long life
32:43and hopefully he's going to carry on.
32:50Back on the road,
32:52Jay's brother Shere Khan is still out in Al's van,
32:55heading south to the county of Hampshire.
32:58Al has set up an appointment with a dealer he knows,
33:00who has a reputation for discovering fascinating lost relics.
33:05So, Pete Noah Valentine?
33:08Yeah.
33:08Are you familiar with him?
33:09I know him from, like, social media, Instagram and that.
33:12So I do follow him.
33:13I've never met him.
33:14But you never got a bean from him?
33:15I've never bought a bean.
33:17I've dealt with him.
33:18OK.
33:19He's always at the fairs,
33:20he's always rushing around, buying.
33:22You always see Pete, right, in a fair,
33:25carrying something really good under his arm.
33:27OK.
33:30200 years ago,
33:32the Hampshire village of Milford lay inland.
33:34But coastal erosion and village expansion
33:37meant that by 1900,
33:39sea and village were so close
33:40that the name was altered to Milford-on-Sea.
33:44Today, the stock of Noah Valentine
33:46is stored in a former grain shed.
33:50A vast collection of unique finds and lost relics.
33:53Opened by appointment only,
33:55it's run by dealer Peter Hall.
33:59I was bought and sold all my life.
34:01And then the antiques came in about 20 years ago
34:04and then became a full-time job about 15 years ago.
34:07Personally, I love advertising,
34:09but anything decorative,
34:11anything of good scale,
34:13and country house furniture,
34:15which at the moment seems to be very in vogue.
34:19Alistair, definitely,
34:20there's a couple of signs that I think would be interested.
34:22Shere Khan, not sure.
34:24He does more mid-centre, I think,
34:25but there's a couple of bits
34:26that hopefully he would be interested in.
34:28How are you?
34:29You all right, mate?
34:29How you doing all right?
34:30Very well. Shere Khan.
34:31Nice to meet you, mate.
34:32How you doing, Pete?
34:33I think we've made before.
34:34We have, mate.
34:34You're good, yeah.
34:35You all right?
34:35Good. Come on in.
34:36This is your place.
34:37It is, mate. Come on in.
34:38Oh, wow.
34:40It's like an airplane hangar in here.
34:42Yeah.
34:42That's nice, Pete, isn't it?
34:43That's gorgeous, yeah.
34:44So is it like a little stable in a country?
34:46Well, it's...
34:47Yeah, it's folk art, I think.
34:49I presume it's probably a one-off.
34:51I think Swedish, you're definitely European.
34:53Yeah.
34:54But the way it's built, I think it's...
34:56It's actually a lovely original paint and of good scale, really.
35:00It's just the colour, the paint.
35:02It's got that really crusty, dry paint to it.
35:06It's very, very folky and it's very, very me.
35:09It's got to be, what, 19...
35:11Turn of the century, is it?
35:12I was going to say, 1900s, 1920s, I would have thought.
35:15I buy a lot of folk art, I buy a lot of houses like that.
35:20They're a slow burner, but they look great in the shop.
35:24What have you got on that?
35:26To you, £2.50.
35:28£2.50?
35:29Yeah.
35:38In Hampshire, on the south coast,
35:40Al and Shere Khan are in a warehouse wonderland of lost relics.
35:44Run by veteran dealer Peter Hall,
35:46Al is keen to buy a charming piece of early 20th-century folk art.
35:52So, what have you got on that?
35:54To you, £2.50.
35:56£2.50 with the horse, then, yeah?
35:57£2.50, yeah. It's yours, mate.
35:58Thank you. Thank you very much.
36:01Hell of a mix, aren't you?
36:03So you just buy across the board?
36:04Yeah, we just try to buy a bit of everything.
36:07Those pheasants up there, they're from Aberystwyth.
36:09Are they?
36:10100%, that's Hutchins of Aberystwyth.
36:12I'm a bit of a geek with, like...
36:13Oh, OK.
36:14...taxidermy.
36:15£150.
36:16£150.
36:17Can we get it down?
36:18Yeah.
36:19Coming from Aberystwyth, Hutchins was a local Victorian taxidermist.
36:24He operated on an industrial scale.
36:27Surprises any animals left in the town.
36:29But the quality of his work was exceptional,
36:32and I've had hundreds of cases over the years.
36:35In the 1860s, James Hutchins set up as a taxidermist
36:40in Al's hometown of Aberystwyth
36:42and is now considered to be among the greatest practitioners of the art.
36:46This early example doesn't have the more sought-after glass sides,
36:50but birds command a high price.
36:52Having built up the relevant customer base,
36:54Al's confident he could sell this for around £450.
36:59150 quid.
37:00Yeah.
37:01For two pheasants.
37:04Yep.
37:04Yep.
37:05Cheers, Al's.
37:05Got to take it home, haven't I?
37:06Yeah.
37:07Taxidermy.
37:07I've got a real passion for it,
37:09but it's got to be Hutchins and it's got to be old.
37:12Peter, you know the light up there?
37:14Yes.
37:14Can I have a look at that?
37:15Yeah, I'll get it for you.
37:17Oh, the bottom's missing.
37:19Yeah, yeah.
37:19The bottom's missing.
37:20All right.
37:21Unfortunately.
37:22Yeah.
37:22Designed by a very famous designer.
37:25Peter Brennan's?
37:26Yeah, it is.
37:26Yeah.
37:27It should actually have this kind of, like, white diffuser there.
37:30They're beautiful when they're done.
37:32I've got one.
37:33How much do you want for that?
37:34£50 has this missing.
37:35Yeah, it's got the original chain on it as well.
37:38If you can find the diffuser, put it back together, rewire it,
37:41what are you looking at?
37:42It's £800.
37:43Really?
37:44Yeah.
37:45Let me show you around then before I change my mind.
37:48Unfortunately, the bottom is missing.
37:50It doesn't matter.
37:51I'll still buy that.
37:52I'll buy them all day long.
37:53I'll buy pieces of them all day long.
37:55I got that for £50.
37:57So if I get the other piece for £50 as well,
38:00that's a good bit of bunce.
38:02Can I just have a look at this as well?
38:04Yeah, yeah.
38:04That?
38:05I love that.
38:06It's really nice.
38:07I love that, yeah.
38:07Do you know what?
38:08Most of the stuff I sell is very functional.
38:11Okay.
38:11But this, there's something about this.
38:13Bearded men waiting around and...
38:15I'll be honest with you.
38:16That's probably my favourite bit of art.
38:18Oh, that's going to become expensive.
38:19It's just getting shot through the roof.
38:21No, no, no, it's viable.
38:22I think it's Irish and it could be to do with the poverty.
38:25It's a lovely thing, isn't it?
38:27I think it's, yeah.
38:28What's the damage?
38:28It can be £250.
38:30£250?
38:30Yeah.
38:31I'll take that, £250.
38:32Lovely thing.
38:33So that painting isn't my usual thing,
38:35but I really like the look of it.
38:37I did see it's 1917,
38:39so that's a good bit of age on there,
38:41but yeah, it just caught my eye.
38:42So what I have got, Alistair,
38:45that you might like...
38:46Right.
38:46...is this here,
38:49campaign chest.
38:50Right, do you want to know a story about that?
38:51It used to be yours.
38:52It was mine.
38:53Yeah, do you know what?
38:53I thought you were going to say that.
38:55It was mine.
38:55I sold it to probably a mutual friend of ours,
38:58but I had that out of a house in Pembrokeshire.
39:00And you sold it to someone.
39:01I sold it to a very good friend.
39:02And that's going to cost a lot of money now.
39:04I bet I can sell it back cheaper.
39:07There's something wrong here, isn't there?
39:08There is something wrong.
39:09That just doesn't make sense.
39:09This is just stuff going around to traders.
39:12There's a famous saying,
39:13they say,
39:14how do you make an antique dealer worth one million?
39:17Give him two million.
39:19That's just the way it is, isn't it?
39:20Yeah, yeah.
39:21What can you sell that back to me for, then?
39:23I can sell that back to you for 580.
39:26Actually, I think I sold it for a round about that.
39:28I remember what I gave for it.
39:30I gave three for that originally.
39:32God, that was a good buy.
39:33That's a good thing.
39:33For the campaign, these are campaign, really rare things.
39:37Make great taxidermy stands or, uh,
39:41originally, again, when they were in the field,
39:42would have put their enamel wash bowl.
39:44OK.
39:45For when they were shaving.
39:46And then when they were on manoeuvres...
39:48Ah, it comes apart.
39:49It comes apart like that.
39:50All faux bamboo.
39:52Great.
39:53To be honest with you, honestly,
39:54I saw them,
39:55cos what it is,
39:56I've got these two really nice,
39:58old, um, ottoman urns, copper ones.
40:03Characterised by exceptional quality
40:05and ingenious design,
40:07the heyday of campaign furniture
40:08was during the expansion of the British Empire
40:11in the 18th and 19th centuries.
40:13Collapsible by design for easy transport,
40:16this pair of matching wash stands
40:18date from around 1880
40:20and would have provided home comforts
40:22for commanding officers in army camps.
40:24With some sympathetic restoration,
40:27Shere Khan thinks they could be worth
40:29around 440 pounds.
40:32So I can do, uh,
40:35220 the pair, 110 quid each.
40:40You spotted them first.
40:42Square them up at 200.
40:43200 quid will ever do.
40:45I'm a bit gutted.
40:46I didn't buy them, no.
40:47Do you know what?
40:48What made me notice them is these bits.
40:50They've got these little brass caps.
40:52They're lovely.
40:52I did notice those as we were coming down.
40:55I did notice those.
40:56But, yeah, when he pulled them out,
40:57I just, I just had to go for them.
40:59They were, they were really nice.
41:01And if you like campaign...
41:03Here he goes.
41:04I've also got a nice campaign chair,
41:06as it happens.
41:07Do you reckon that fabric's original, then?
41:09It's got to be, isn't it?
41:09Yeah, 100%.
41:10100%.
41:10Yeah, original.
41:11Again, faux bamboo.
41:13Uh, does fold.
41:15Really, really, really nice ironwork on it.
41:17Probably a captain's chair.
41:19It is incredibly comfortable.
41:20I like that there, mate.
41:21Yeah, it's lovely.
41:22Imagine two osh stands either side now.
41:24Yeah, staring at a campaign chest at the same time.
41:26I'm not buying this, Pete.
41:27I'm not buying it.
41:29But I might buy this.
41:30How much is that?
41:31That can be 150.
41:34Got to shake his hand at that.
41:35Yeah, I think that's probably the cheapest campaign.
41:38No worries, mate.
41:38That's really good.
41:39I love that.
41:41It's got history.
41:42It's well-made.
41:43It's ebonised.
41:44It's got the faux bamboo.
41:45It's everything a piece of campaign furniture needs.
41:54Today's been really good.
41:56Pete's, he's a hard worker.
41:58You can just tell, you know, the masses of stock he's got, the variety of stock he's got.
42:03The one that got away, but I mustn't beat myself up over it, are the pair of campaign stands.
42:10You know, Shere Khan's got them now.
42:11And great.
42:12You know, he'll do well on them.
42:14But I wish I saw them before him.
42:17In terms of selling really quickly is going to be the stands, but I think my favourite thing is the
42:22painting.
42:24I think I'm getting into kind of like art now.
42:27And when it sells, it's going to be even better because I'm going to make a nice bit of money
42:30on top of it.
42:33Today was really good.
42:34He was good.
42:34Pete's a really nice guy.
42:35Yeah.
42:36Very, very nice guy.
42:37He was good.
42:37He was fair as well with the prices.
42:39I was gutted when you bought those campaign holders.
42:43Did you really see them?
42:44Honestly, I saw them.
42:45I saw them.
42:46I did.
42:47I did.
42:47But that chair's made up.
42:49Yeah.
42:50Definitely.
42:50Yeah, it was nice.
42:52I love things in old paint and that's just got it.
42:54Yeah.
42:55Enjoyed today?
42:56Yep.
42:56Yeah, it's been fun, hasn't it?
42:57It's been a very good day.
42:58You'll have to do it again soon.
42:59We will.
43:00Definitely.
43:01Yep.
43:05So what week it's been?
43:07With my brother, we went to Barford Brothers, centuries-old milliner in Luton,
43:10where we found lost relics from Britain's industrial past, the lovely cabinets from the early 1900s.
43:18And that wonderful clock that my brother found.
43:21Really nice to see Pete.
43:23Found some really beautiful decorative items from him.
43:26Campaign furniture.
43:27I mean, who would have thought that you're going to find them in the back of a warehouse?
43:31And at Pleasureland, an amazing fairground artwork done by Fred Fowle.
43:37I never ever thought I'd go and find something of that quality there.
43:42Amazing.
43:42Some lovely buys that hopefully will sell very, very quickly.
44:04We'll see you next time.
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