NARRATOR: The nation's favorite celebrities-- I like surprises.
VO: ..paired up with an expert...
I got excited then!
VO: Whoopsie!
And a classic car.
BOTH: Here we go!
(CAR BACKFIRES) Wowzer!
VO: Their mission?
To scour Britain for antiques.
Am I on safari?
(WHISTLE BLOWS) VO: The aim?
To make the biggest profit at auction.
But it's no easy ride.
Oh, dear!
VO: Who will find a hidden gem?
(NEIGHS) VO: Who will take the biggest risk?
(LAUGHS) VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?
I hate it.
VO: There will be worthy winners... (LAUGHS) VO: ..and valiant losers.
Double drat!
Oh, no!
VO: Put your pedal to the metal.
Spend, spend, spend.
VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!
VO: Nice!
VO: On this trip, we're bowling along with two bona fide stars of the small screen.
Will Mellor...
Roof down.
I've had worse days, son.
Yeah.
Nice car, though, innit?
Still purrs like a kitten.
Yeah.
They don't make 'em like they used to!
(LAUGHS) VO: ..and his old pal, Nick Pickard.
Will and Nick first met here in Liverpool in 1995, as two of the original cast members of the soap Hollyoaks.
Here we are, pal.
Back in our old stomping ground.
I know, mate.
WILL: We was 19 when we started.
NICK: I know.
WILL: Well, I was.
NICK: You was the youngest.
Oh... Nah, it was good days, man.
The best days.
They were amazing.
VO: Since then, Will's gone on to star in all manner of productions, from long-running comedy to prestige drama.
He's a leading man much in demand.
So how long is it since you've been to the studios?
Man... Years, years.
It's got to be 20 odd years, innit?
WILL: Well, I mean... NICK: I mean, I'm not gonna...
It's changed so much, you won't even recognize the place now.
I won't recognize it.
That's the thing.
It's strange, strange.
So many memories.
It was just amazing times.
VO: While Nick has been no less busy.
He's the only original Hollyoaks star still in the cast, and has appeared continuously since the soap first aired.
But how are our accomplished actors feeling about buying antiques?
But no, I've got a few ideas of what I'm going to look for.
You've been proper studying up.
I know you have, I can tell.
You're going to wipe the floor with me.
Nah, nah.
Well, you know, it is a competition at the end.
And, you know, I do like winning, so we'll see.
NICK: Yeah, exactly.
VO: Yeah.
Tripping with our two thesps today are a pair of excitable antiques experts, Steph Connell and Paul Laidlaw.
STEPH: I'm really excited!
I'm really excited.
I used to be a fan of Hollyoaks.
It's gonna be good.
I think Will, Nick, they're gonna be hilarious, are they not?
I think they're going to be comedy gold.
NICK: Yeah.
WILL: Alright?
NICK: Hi, mate.
WILL: Do you know him?
Of course I do.
I work here.
(THEY LAUGH) I'm with him.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: I say, look where they are!
In the actual, very real, village of Hollyoaks!
It's time for our teams to meet.
WILL: Here we are.
(PAUL CHUCKLES) Hey.
STEPH: Good morning!
WILL: Hello, guys.
STEPH: Hello!
PAUL: Hey.
What a beautiful day for it!
PAUL: Man alive!
How're you doing?
WILL: Good to see you.
PAUL: Lovely to meet you!
WILL: Nice to meet you.
VO: They've already decided that Will will team up with Paul and Nick with Steph.
WILL: Good luck, good luck.
(PAUL LAUGHS) PAUL: Good luck.
Have a good 'un!
STEPH: Thank you.
You too, see you soon.
VO: And like the veritable shot, they're off!
VO: Today, Nick and Steph are driving a 1966 Volvo Amazon estate, and contemplating the opposition.
I think Paul's quite competitive, but how competitive is Will?
NICK: Oh, very competitive.
STEPH: Is he?
Yeah, he used to be... used to be a boxer.
Did he?
So he's got a lot of fight in him, yeah.
Oh God.
We can't lose.
I can't lose to Nick!
VO: And Will and Paul are piloting a sleek 1988 Jaguar XJS, and talking tactics against the others.
Make up some horrible stories about Nick.
(PAUL LAUGHS) Hates cats, you know, he hates cats.
WILL: No, yeah, yeah.
PAUL: A bad man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He hates children and animals, hates them!
Well, he's an alpha male, I'd say.
Is he?
Yes, very much so.
So he's definitely wanting to come out with the trophy.
Oh.
Well, we'll have to beat him then.
We can't let him get away with that.
We can't let him get away with that.
NICK: No, definitely not.
The most important thing is we beat Nick.
You know?
I'll never hear the last of it, you know what I mean?
VO: On this trip, they're beginning today in the fine city of Liverpool, then heading for auction down south in the London borough of Greenwich.
Both our teams start today with a budget of £400 to spend.
VO: This morning, Nick and Steph are heading for the Edgehill district of Liverpool, and Tunnel Furniture, their very first shop.
Exciting!
Tell you what, this place is absolutely huge.
You could get lost in here.
I really don't know where to start.
It's like Aladdin's cave.
Think I'm going to need my partner here, cuz I haven't got a clue.
I've only just met Steph today, but I'll get her round to my sense of humor.
Just found this one here.
Steph?
VO: Lordy.
(NICK CACKLES) (STEPH SCREAMS AND LAUGHS) You scared me to death!
I've been waiting for ages!
There could be anything in here.
I wouldn't be surprised if a gorilla came out and attacked me.
VO: I would.
Now, enough of these ape japes.
Time for some concentration, team.
Aww.
My mum used to have one of these in her living room and it was a plant pot and it was a white one, and me and my brother... (LAUGHS) Me and my brother John broke its nose off when we were younger, fighting.
And we never told my mum for ages.
(LAUGHS) Got in a right bit of trouble.
She went bananas.
That... That was... That was it there!
It was exactly like that.
I don't think Steph will let me have that, though.
VO: The elephant's a modern piece and not great for an antique auction, so Nick will have to search on.
VO: Will and Paul are also in Liverpool this morning, and aiming for their first shop of the day.
So are you a haggler?
Surely you are good at that.
Um, I'm a bit of a cheeky chappy.
I don't mind, you know, getting straight to the point.
VO: Yeah, glad to hear it.
Near the very famous thoroughfare is Penny Lane Emporium.
WOMAN: Hiya.
WILL: Hello.
You alright?
WOMAN: Good, thanks.
You?
WILL: Hi, I'm Will.
WOMAN: Hi, I'm Claire.
WILL: Hi, Claire.
Alright, love?
PAUL: Right, then.
Gonna do this?
Let's get involved.
Let's have a look round.
VO: And they're off!
PAUL: That's a dark look!
(HE LAUGHS) Alright, love?
Don't mind me.
The part time baddie.
VO: Yeah.
But can they find a goodie amongst this shop's ample stock?
That's the kind of novelty thing that does well at auction.
It's...it's a cheapy, but... What is it?
It's a tape measure, isn't it?
From the Shropshire Tyre Co Ltd.
There you go.
Date on that?
1920s, 1930s, isn't it?
I quite like that.
VO: The little novelty tape measure modeled as a car tire is ticketed at £15.
What I like about that is, I didn't know what it was and I was surprised as soon as I found out.
VO: That's definitely a possibility.
And they'll search on.
VO: Oh, hello!
Is it glass enamel, is the question.
We don't want this to be... Nah, it's celluloid.
VO: You do like to use all your senses, don't you, Paul?
It's getting worth less every time you start eating it.
VO: Looks like Paul's got the taste for bargains this morning.
He's found a silver matchbook case bearing a hallmark from the 1920s.
PAUL: A glamorous time.
This is right in Peaky Blinders' timescale, isn't it?
Ah, yes, yes.
And you could see them being at the races and... Yeah?
Whipping that out.
Yeah, totally, yeah.
PAUL: A bit of flamboyance.
WILL: Yeah, that's good.
I like that, cuz that's right in now.
That's right in.
It's tapping into a great market, that whole equestrian market.
VO: It bears the image of a horse and an initial W. PAUL: It was...it was... WILL: Oh, is it a name?
..Will's case.
PAUL: That belonged to Will.
Or, if you turn it upside down, Will... Mellor.
WILL: I see what you've done there!
That's got my name on it.
VO: Ha-ha!
Quite literally.
It's ticketed at £120.
PAUL: Now, I'm in two minds.
VO: But what's this?
I can see glue there... Oh.
..and that wouldnae be glued on.
It's not what I want it to be.
VO: Paul thinks that the silver case does date from the 1920s, but the little horse plaque is a later addition, which might seriously lessen its market value.
Off to dealer Claire they trot.
Stand by, Claire.
WILL: Hello, Claire.
CLAIRE: Hiya.
We just want to have a little chat about this silver Vesta matchbox.
PAUL: I think the horse is an embellishment.
Could you get in touch with whomsoever owns that...
I can certainly.
..and say, on that basis, the bottom line is going to be what was paid for it, but I'd be offering 20 or 30 quid for it.
Fair enough.
CLAIRE: Let me make a call... PAUL: Leave it with you.
No problem.
We'll go have a look round.
CLAIRE: Yeah.
WILL: Thank you very much.
CLAIRE: Alright, no worries.
WILL: Thank you.
VO: So, they'll continue the hunt.
But meanwhile, Nick and Steph are still in Tunnel Furniture, and still fooling about.
Oh, look at this.
Dear, oh, dear.
# Under the sea, under the sea # This is my little crab, look.
STEPH: What have you found?!
Found us a bit of lunch.
(THEY LAUGH) A little seafood cocktail.
STEPH: Not sure they're very edible.
NICK: No, I'm not sure they're very profitable either, but they made me laugh.
VO: You two are having a chuckle.
But plastic crustacea aside, it's time to find something to buy!
There's so much to see, isn't there?
It's like I said earlier, it's like Aladdin's cave.
It is like Aladdin's cave.
Oh.
Now, they're nice.
Here you go.
NICK: Right.
STEPH: Bit theatrical.
Ooh, yes.
STEPH: So... NICK: Make way for the exit.
Something you're trying to tell me?
VO: They've happened across some illuminating exit signs.
From maybe a theater or a cinema or something like that.
(POSHLY) Well, I'm always front of the house.
Oh, are you?
You've never seen the exit sign before?
So they've got... Love them.
How many is there?
I don't know.
One, two, three...
There's five.
Five?
So they've got a maker's name on them, they are by a company called Flambersign.
NICK: OK. STEPH: So I think they were American, probably '40s going into '50s.
And at the minute, this kind of thing is very fashionable cuz people want funky lights for in their house that's a bit different.
They have no price on them at all.
I quite like those.
What do you think?
NICK: I'm game.
Definitely.
STEPH: Yeah?
It'd be the first buy.
STEPH: First buy.
NICK: First buy of the day.
First buy...
It depends how much they are though.
VO: That it does.
So, off to dealer Paul they go.
STEPH: We've seen a box of lights that we like.
PAUL: Theater lights?
STEPH: The theater lights, yeah.
PAUL: Alright.
They've got no price on any of the lights...
They only came in this morning, I haven't had time to price them up.
STEPH: OK. PAUL: They can be 250 quid.
NICK: What about half of that?
PAUL: Can't do it.
NICK: No, not at all?
No, we're buying it, we're not stealing it anymore.
No?
(THEY LAUGH) He's got all the answers, babe.
He has got all the answers.
I think he's foolproof, this one.
STEPH: Do you think?
NICK: Yeah.
I think if they're any more than kind of 160, then we're going to struggle to take them, really.
I'll take 170 quid off you.
STEPH: What do you think?
NICK: OK. STEPH: You sure?
NICK: Yeah, go on then.
STEPH: You sure?
You sure?
PAUL: Yeah.
Is everybody sure?
PAUL: Done.
STEPH: Done?
VO: Everybody's sure.
They've got their first lot in the bag and £230 left after that purchase.
Right.
Shall we exit stage left?
Let's.
I like what you did there.
VO: Meanwhile, the other team are still in the shop near Penny Lane.
And are still diligently scouring the place for bargains.
VO: 'Ello, 'ello, 'ello.
What do we have 'ere, then?
What's that?
Why are you smelling it?
So I can confirm my suspicions as to what it's made of.
What's that?
That... Well, you know what it is?
It's a truncheon, yeah?
The blackjack.
Back in the day, that's an old English term for coshes, truncheons and so on.
I'm sure there might have been a police force somewhere, issued with these.
VO: Police in this country have carried truncheons since the force's modern formation in the early-1800s.
Unusually, this example seems to be made from rolled-up rubber and canvas.
And that's what you can see there, it's like a Swiss roll.
WILL: You can see it, like a swirl, yeah.
Date?
They think... ..Victorian or Edwardian, and you know what?
I agree.
I've not seen one like this before.
I think it's actually quite a good thing.
Priced at 25.
WILL: It's the story that I like as well.
I think we go with that.
I like it.
It's got a story.
PAUL: Yeah.
WILL: And I've never seen it before.
Let's see what I can do.
(LAUGHS) VO: With three items now earmarked, it's time to interrogate Claire.
We just wanted to see... (SMACKS TRUNCHEON) ..what the best price... (SMACKS TRUNCHEON) ..you can give us would be.
(SMACKS TRUNCHEON) With that action, as cheap as you like.
VO: Ha-ha!
All joking aside, Claire's heard back from the dealer who owns the matchbook case.
The absolute minimum he can do on that is 45.
That would be his absolute lowest.
PAUL: Alright.
WILL: OK. VO: With the truncheon and novelty tape measure they also like, at their ticket prices, that takes this trio of lots to a total of £85.
Is there any way we could maybe do a deal for the lot if we bought them all off you in one lump sum?
CLAIRE: Erm... WILL: Is it possible?
Could we do a little bit of a squeeze on it?
I could go to... Because we've taken so much off that one, I could go to 75.
There's me hand.
Thank you very much, Claire.
CLAIRE: Sounds good.
PAUL: It's a deal!
VO: Done.
After that spree, they still have £325, and they've got those three lots bang to rights.
It's a fair cop, guv.
WILL: That was good, wasn't it?
PAUL: Yeah.
You're happy?
I'm proper happy with that.
Officially in the show now.
VO: The other team, back in the Volvo, are reminiscing about Will and Nick's long friendship.
We actually used to live together.
Did you?
Well, when we were filming Hollyoaks, we lived in Liverpool and we all used to live in a big boys' house together.
Em, so... (THEY LAUGH) So you can imagine that.
Those early days, for me, and even just driving in with him there this morning, it brought back a lot of the old memories, you know?
STEPH: Yeah.
NICK: Cuz we started...
This journey started together, me and him, back in... Well, 25 years ago now.
VO: These two are driving across the Mersey this afternoon to the village of Port Sunlight.
VO: In celebration of Nick's long career in soap land, they're on their way to visit another storied legend of soaps - well, soap, actually.
The Victorian soap baron and social entrepreneur, William Hesketh Lever.
This village is close to Lever's soap factory, which made him a fortune and changed the lives of ordinary Britons too.
They're meeting Lizzie Heywood of the Port Sunlight Village Trust.
NICK: Lizzie, tell us about William Lever.
OK, so he was born in Bolton in 1851.
He was the son of a wholesale grocer, and he went into the family business at 16, so he was quite young, and he was very successful.
He was doing very well and he was becoming very wealthy.
But he wanted to specialize in...
Particularly in soap manufacture.
VO: Lever was the first entrepreneur to create a packaged, branded laundry soap.
Sunlight Soap was a huge success, and created a revolution in home hygiene.
LIZZIE: I think it was the right time to start a soap manufacturing business.
It was post-industrial revolution, so the workforce had the readily available funds to buy soap.
It was also a time when advertising products was becoming more and more popular, and Lever was really keen on advertising.
And he used his own artwork to create that advertising.
VO: Helped by his pioneering advertising and branding, Lever's soap-making business expanded rapidly.
Within the year, they'd... they prospered so much that they needed to find a bigger site, and that's where Port Sunlight comes into it.
Yeah.
NICK: What, and then he just started building then?
He did, yeah.
He bought the land and the first sod was cut in 1888.
VO: Lever constructed a large soap factory here.
It is from the Sunlight Soap brand that the village of Port Sunlight gets its name.
LIZZIE: The success of the soap manufacture really funded the success of Port Sunlight itself.
VO: Lizzie wants to show Nick and Steph how the early Sunlight soap was used.
Right, you need to shave some of the soap with the grater into the water here.
Alright, I'll take me shoes off.
STEPH: How much does it need?
NICK: Put a bit of welly behind it!
So that's in there, so this in here, presumably?
Mm-hm.
Right.
And er, here's one we soiled earlier.
LIZZIE: Oh!
NICK: Oh, dear.
Right.
So, let's get that in there.
NICK: They must have been knackered back then.
STEPH: It looks like hard work!
NICK: It is a little bit.
And then, what, this bit here?
LIZZIE: There we go.
Oh, I like the action.
It's like I'm doing a little dance.
Yeah, it is.
VO: You're such a soap star, Nick.
NICK: And the moment of truth.
STEPH: Ooh.
NICK: Here we go.
(CHUCKLES) OK. Oh!
Well, it's not bad.
It was my first go.
It looks a lot better than it did.
VO: Yeah, certainly does.
As William Lever's business continued to grow, so did the community at Port Sunlight.
As well as the factory itself, Lever built this whole village as a community in which his employees could live.
Lizzie's taking our two on a driving tour of the village, so buckle up.
Who designed all of this, then?
Well, actually, there were 30 different architects involved in the building of Port Sunlight.
With the final buildings being completed in 1938.
You do get a real mix of architecture styles walking around the village.
It does mean that no two blocks look the same.
VO: As well as a highly successful businessman, William Lever was also committed to positive social change and designed Port Sunlight to be a new kind of community.
One that would rescue his employees from the industrial slums of the era.
STEPH: What was life like here for people, Lizzie?
It was very different from workers' conditions elsewhere.
A happy and healthy workforce would be a productive one.
So that's why we do see so many communal buildings, and so much social activity.
But also so much green space as well.
VO: Port Sunlight was designed with school, churches, clubs and healthy social spaces for the residents to enjoy.
It really meant that the life expectancy was much higher here.
In fact, it was about double that of Liverpool, which is just across the river.
Did Port Sunlight influence other places, then, as well?
Very much so.
The garden city movement was heavily influenced by the designs of Port Sunlight.
This concept of green, open space marrying with communal buildings and residential properties.
You'll see the likes of that in Letchworth, Welwyn Garden City, to name just a couple.
VO: So, as well as revolutionizing how the country laundered its smalls, Lever also created a pioneering planned community.
In the 1920s, the company Lever founded merged with a Dutch firm to become Unilever.
That huge international business still operates in Port Sunlight.
NICK: Well Lizzie, I've had an amazing day.
LIZZIE: I hope it's given you a flavor of Port Sunlight today.
VO: The other team, meanwhile, are motoring on in the Jag.
And Will's filling Paul in on the type of objects which might catch his eye.
History interests me, and where things have come from.
And I like things that are useful.
And I collect watches, as well.
I'm a watch fan.
I think it came from my grandfather.
He was always tinkering.
He always had a black cloth out with watch parts everywhere.
And he'd have an eyeglass in.
Then, my dad was the same, always had an eyeglass in.
You know, you'd turn to talk to him, he'd be like, "What?"
He's got an eyeglass in one eye.
Like, different pairs of glasses for different things.
But I'd like to get some kind of watch thing, or... Just because it's something I really like.
I am now going to be gutted if we do not find a watch.
We're finding a watch!
VO: They're certainly on a mission as they approach their next shop.
This afternoon, they're motoring on to the town of Warrington in Cheshire, where they're strolling into Hunt And Gather Antiques And Collectables.
WILL: Here we go.
PAUL: Thank you very much.
Age before beauty.
Wow.
OK. Well, I did not see this coming.
VO: An antique shop?
They do tend to crop up, you know, Paul, on this show.
VO: There's a marvelous diversity of stock in here, but like clockwork - ha!
- watch fan Will is soon making a beeline for his favorite things.
I've got him to get me out some of these pocket watches.
VO: Dealer Steve will assist.
That.
People call that a gunmetal case.
I don't like that term.
That was blued steel, originally.
Vivid, almost peacock blue.
And it's muted, now, it's worn.
VO: It's a late-Victorian pocket watch.
Ticket price is £60.
And when that's oiled, that...
Believe me, that's exquisite.
Hinge is gone.
Who cares?
That's the one I'd buy.
Even an easy-enough repair to that hinge.
That's not... WILL: It's very costly, that.
(PAUL LAUGHS) WILL: Very costly repair, that hinge.
PAUL: But... (LAUGHS) VO: You're a wind-up merchant.
Oh, no, Steve is.
WILL: I don't know what it is about that, but that is beautiful to me.
When I see movement on watches, I don't know what it is, there must be something just in my blood because my dad and my grandad... You know, the watch movements...
But I just love looking at it.
It's beautiful.
VO: Sounds like they're both smitten.
PAUL: What do you want for it?
I will let you have it for £50.
VO: They've lost no time on that.
It's a good game, this, isn't it?
I got myself a watch!
(PAUL LAUGHS) I love that.
VO: And they've won a watch.
VO: And with that, it's almost the end of a jam-packed first day of the trip.
But what will tomorrow bring?
I think what we've got, I'm happy with.
Good.
I'm quietly confident, can I say?
Oof.
VO: Sleep tight.
VO: But the morning finds them back in the cars, and Will and Nick are comparing notes on the trip so far.
What was it like working with Paul, then?
Paul?
Sound.
Do you know what I like?
When you've got somebody who knows so much about this stuff.
Honestly, he gets excited about it.
And, you know, he goes...
He scans everything.
And then I said, "Well, what about this?"
And he just knew everything about it.
I was like, "How do you know all that stuff?"
That's what Steph did as well.
She went in, she just got in the zone and then just walking round... VO: And in the other car, Steph and Paul are doing much the same.
PAUL: Erm...
In his element.
STEPH: Yes?
Yeah.
Cliche, but duck to water.
He had a ball!
Good guys, though, eh?
Yeah, really nice guys.
WILL: Really, I'm looking forward to today cuz I'm going to, as I say, try and spend a bit more dough.
So, hopefully spend a bit more, we might make a bit more on the back end.
NICK: Yeah.
(LAUGHS) Still going to do ya.
Yeah.
We'll see, son.
At the auction.
VO: That we will, Will.
It's time to reunite our two teams.
PAUL: Hey!
Hello!
STEPH: Good morning.
Seconds out, round two.
VO: First, the chance for a sneak peek at each other's buys.
STEPH: Oooh!
NICK: You gonna show us then?
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
WILL: Alright, sweetie.
(NICK LAUGHS) WILL: Let's have a look.
Right.
STEPH: Oh.
WILL: Now... (NICK AND WILL LAUGH) STEPH: Oh!
Are we coming over?
Weird distance.
Right, this is the first one.
(NICK LAUGHS) STEPH: Alright... PAUL: It's a truncheon.
Something you can use!
No... Yeah, you can use it.
VO: Er, I wouldn't!
WILL: But... STEPH: Yeah?
The one thing about this is, what I learnt from Paul... (NICK LAUGHS) Oh my God!
STEPH: Don't pretend you're... WILL: It's rare!
It's rare!
NICK: Right.
WILL: Am I right?
It's quite rare, is it?
PAUL: Yeah, it's a rare beasty.
I fear aficionados may be as rare as the object itself.
But we'll be alright.
Yes.
Because it's actually, as you see by the swirl... And it's actually rubber rolled.
And usually a lot of these, which I think... Maybe I'm speaking out of turn.
You definitely learned all this yesterday.
(WILL AND PAUL LAUGH) You never knew any of that!
WILL: I googled it last night!
That's your words coming out of his mouth.
VO: Hm, I think the jury's out on the truncheon.
But what about the pocket watch they both loved?
WILL: But this is my favorite one.
NICK: Oh, that's nice.
This is my watch.
Pocket watch.
Now, I love this.
NICK: Yeah, that's nice.
STEPH: Can I look have a look at it?
WILL: No.
(THEY LAUGH) Oh, it's really unusual.
It's really nice.
WILL: Yeah, I might end up bidding for it myself.
That's not how it works.
That's called cheating!
But I love... That's me watch.
Yeah.
I reckon you'll get more for that than the truncheon.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Will and Paul also bought the little novelty tape measure, and the silver matchbook case with the applied horse plaque.
They still have a substantial £275 left to spend.
But what's in the back of the Volvo, then?
We've got this.
We've got five of them.
WILL: Five of them?!
STEPH: Yeah.
NICK: Five of them, yeah.
WILL: OK.
So how much did you pay for that then?
170 for five.
WILL: Right.
STEPH: Yeah.
You're hoping for someone to be in the auction room who's got a lot of exits in their house?
Yeah.
Someone who's buying...
Someone who's looking for a way out.
(THEY LAUGH) Go on, son, you've still got it!
VO: I'll say.
But Nick and Steph have spent more on that one lot than the other two have spent on their four items.
Risky.
That team still have £235 pocketed, and it's time for both twosomes to vamoose.
But how are they feeling about the day ahead?
Actually, I'm really looking forward to it.
And I think we can win.
I really do.
Is that important?
Yes, it's important!
(PAUL LAUGHS) If there's a winner, I want to be it.
NICK: He's definitely upped the ante there, cuz I've known him a long time and he's got his game face on, so, we've got to stuff him, really.
STEPH: We... NICK: Got to stuff him.
VO: So, with simply everyone's jaws set in fierce competition, Nick and Steph are heading for their first shop of the day.
They're beginning this morning in the town of Wigan, and in Antiques And Oddities.
Oh, look at these.
Maybe I should get these for Will.
Eh?
To go with his truncheon.
Hello, what's this?
It's like a big ruler.
That's exactly what it is.
Is it?
Yeah, kind of.
It's a surveyor's instrument.
So a surveyor's... Well, it's sort of like a measuring stick.
So I'd assume, if we were a pair of surveyors...
Right.
..you would have this, and I would have a thing called a theodolite, I think... OK, for the leveling?
And... For the leveling, and I'd be looking through and we'd be making a judgment of heights...
So we'd be on a level?
We'd be on the level!
I was dying to do that one.
Aw, it's a good joke.
VO: Steady.
The surveyor's stick bears the name of the maker.
STEPH: J Halden & Co, Manchester & Branches.
NICK: Do you know them?
STEPH: No.
VO: I do.
J Halden & Co were a scientific instrument manufacturer who operated between 1878 and 1969.
You're welcome.
And how old do you think that is then?
I think it's probably the '40s or '50s.
NICK: I like a bit of DIY.
I'm feeling this one, to be honest, Steph.
STEPH: Are you?
Do you like it?
NICK: Yeah.
Hang on, let's see the price.
Well, it's £100, crossed-out, then it says... STEPH: Now it's £50.
NICK: ..50 or nearest offer.
I think the nearest offer would be as low as we could get it for.
Yeah.
VO: But will it be ONO or "Oh, no!"
when they meet dealer Amanda?
Hello, darling.
Amanda, I'm Nick.
AMANDA: Hiya, nice to meet you.
NICK: You alright?
Hiya, Steph.
Nice to meet you.
NICK: So, yeah, we're after this.
And it's got on the price "£50 or nearest offer".
He'd take 40 for it.
Would you take, and I know it's maybe a bit cheeky, but would you take 25?
He wouldn't.
He wouldn't.
I think minimum he'd go to is 35.
35?
You want to do it?
I definitely want to do it, yeah.
I'm feeling this one.
You do?
You like it?
NICK: I'm not letting him go.
STEPH: Let's do it then.
STEPH: £35.
AMANDA: No worries.
VO: That's another lot bagged.
But there are yet more antiques and oddities to be surveyed in here.
STEPH: I quite like this.
It's unusual.
It's some kind of money box.
For Kenilworth, which I know is in Warwickshire.
But I don't know why it would exist.
VO: Let's see what Nick thinks of the money box with existential issues.
STEPH: It's obviously some sort of honesty box.
It's got a little wall-hanging bit there... NICK: Right.
STEPH: ..to pop on.
Where you put the money in.
Yeah, and I assume it's because Kenilworth...
This is for the gatehouse of a place called Kenilworth, which is in a famous estate... NICK: Right.
STEPH: ..in Warwickshire.
VO: The gatehouse at Kenilworth Castle was built by none other than Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1571, as part of his scheme to woo Queen Elizabeth I.
Fancy!
VO: The honesty box probably dates from the early 20th century, and seems to have been used to collect pennies for phone calls made from the gatehouse in Kenilworth.
So I can only think that it's for tradesmen or people when they arrive at the gatehouse, if they make a telephone call.
It's an honesty box for that.
But I just quite like it.
I think it's a nice...
It's got its key.
Do you want to have a go at unlocking it?
Yeah.
Let's have a look.
See if it's got any money in.
That'll help.
Yeah.
They wouldn't do this nowadays, would they?
No, they wouldn't.
Will it work?
Oh yeah, look, it works alright.
Any cash in there?
NICK: No, no dough.
STEPH: Oh.
VO: No cash in the box, but they do have plenty left in their wallet.
Ticket price is a modest £20.
NICK: It won't break the bank if we get it.
STEPH: It won't break the bank.
And it is one!
Yeah.
Let's go pay for it, then.
Alright, great.
VO: So, back to Amanda they go.
Right, Amanda.
Thanks for having us.
We found another little bit as well.
It's only £20 so we won't haggle you on that one.
Brilliant.
VO: They've got the surveyor's stick and the honesty box for £55 all in.
NICK: There we go, as if by magic.
You alright with all that?
I'm off, off we go.
See you later.
AMANDA: See you soon!
STEPH: Bye!
Thanks, bye.
VO: Meanwhile, Will and Paul are in their car and cruising the byways between Liverpool and Manchester, where Will grew up.
So we're in the heart of the northwest.
WILL: Yeah.
This is still your spiritual home, is it?
Yeah, yeah, it's hard, you know, when you're a northerner, it always will be my home, Manchester or... Up north, I think we're a different kind of breed.
I love northern people.
When I come up north, it always feels like coming home.
PAUL: Yeah.
VO: These two are taking a break from shopping this morning to explore one of the northwest's historically significant industries - glass-making.
This morning, Will and Paul are travelling to the town of St Helens.
Here, they're on their way to The World Of Glass, which tells the story of St Helens' unique place in the history of glass-making.
They're meeting executive director Ron Helsby.
WILL: Hiya.
RON: Morning.
WILL: Hi, I'm Will.
RON: How are you?
PAUL: Paul.
RON: Nice to see you.
WILL: What a great place you've got here.
RON: Thank you.
How do you make glass?
Glass is made from sand, silica and lime.
It's melted to 1,700 degrees, that's the melting point.
And at that point, it becomes a liquid form.
And as you can see from what Marcin's doing, it's basically like honey on the end of a spoon, really.
It becomes that liquid.
In Roman times, the way of making glass down a blowing iron was developed, and it hasn't changed since.
So for the best part of 3,000 years, that's the way to make glass.
WILL: The same technique?
RON: The same technique.
VO: Without further ado, Will's going to try out this ancient glass-making technique, helped by glass blower Marcin.
Whoa!
Toasty!
It's roasting!
It's a bit frightening because you're like... You just...you can feel the heat off it, and you just think, if I just do this by mistake - psst!
My skin's gone.
WILL: Yeah?
MARCIN: Hold firm and just blow.
Ooh!
It's scary because it's... You know how hot that is.
MARCIN: It is.
It's going well.
It feels strange cuz you can smell the paper burning.
It's a glorious amber it's turned now, isn't it?
RON: It is lovely.
PAUL: And that's white glass?
RON: That's just clear glass at the moment.
It's just molten glass.
We haven't added any colors into it.
WILL: And you let it drop so it stays in the center, right?
MARCIN: Yeah.
I know about this glass game!
(THEY LAUGH) I learnt everything I need to know in the last minute and a half.
VO: To learn a little more about "the glass game" in St Helens, Ron's taking Will and Paul for a tour, starting outside on the banks of the nearby canal.
RON: Well, glass has been made in St Helens from round about the 1770s.
WILL: Really?
Yeah, yeah.
The raw materials were always here.
There was sand.
And there was always the energy.
There was massive coal mines here all over the St Helens area.
VO: These natural resources made St Helens a center for glass-making.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, as the growth of industry increased the demand for glass, Pilkington was the local firm that took St Helens glass manufacture into this new age.
So this must have been like a boom time for glass makers?
It was the boom time for the industrial revolution, and for glass, it was amazing.
William Windle Pilkington, he wanted to get away from making it in pots to making it so it could be mass produced.
VO: Glass was traditionally heated in clay pots, which were lit in the morning and cooled at night.
But inspired by a German innovation, William Windle Pilkington revolutionized the glass-making system.
PAUL: So what was the idea that was borrowed from Germany?
RON: Windle William Pilkington heard about an idea that Siemens Brothers in Germany were creating a furnace that could run 24/7, and using regenerative gas and air.
VO: This new regenerative tank furnace could, for the first time, produce a constant supply of molten glass which increased productivity and reduced the cost of glass.
Here, within the museum, are the remains of the world's first continuous regenerative glass-making furnace.
The pioneering design enabled the furnaces to reuse energy and increased efficiency.
WILL: Did these, like, innovations give Pilkington an advantage in the market then?
Massively.
It meant they were the leaders in glass-making in the country.
WILL: Yeah.
Nobody could compete with this.
They could make more.
They could sell more.
They could export more.
And it meant that they could go from strength to strength, in taking glass from being made in pots to being made in something the size of a swimming bath.
And that hasn't really changed.
Glass is still being made in a tank similar to this by Pilkington's, as a going concern today.
VO: The legacy of William Windle Pilkington and his revolutionary furnace still continues today, alongside the older artisan glass-blowing techniques they also keep alive here.
PAUL: So that's a bubble... RON: So, yeah... MARCIN: Turn it, yeah.
RON: So now you can see.
There you go.
PAUL: Gee whizz!
No!
Oh my goodness!
PAUL: No, is there no limit to this?
What?
Get in there!
My breath.
(PAUL LAUGHS) Worth a fortune, that.
VO: Maybe you should take it to auction.
Ha!
(GLASS SHATTERS) No one told me he was going to do that!
Harsh critic, Marcin.
That's a harsh... That's a work of art he's just blown up in a bucket!
(PAUL LAUGHS) So thank you very much.
VO: Hm, maybe not then!
(CHUCKLES) Nick and Steph, meanwhile, are back on the road.
Well, I have had a lovely time shopping with you.
So have I, darling, yeah.
I've really enjoyed it.
It's been...
It's been an experience!
STEPH: Good!
NICK: A good one!
VO: Glad to hear it, but those two still have money to spend, and one more shop to visit today.
They're travelling onwards to the town of Widnes in Cheshire, and to Timeless Collectables... NICK: Right, shop number three.
STEPH: Shop time.
VO: ..where they'd better get a move on with the final burst of buying.
Is this for a boat?
It looks like a rudder.
Oh, right.
You look like you're on a journey!
Am I on safari?
VO: No, you're in an antique shop.
NICK: Hey, Steph.
STEPH: Yeah?
(IRISH ACCENT) What's the point?
(THEY LAUGH) What have you got there, some...
I like those signal points.
They're nice, aren't they?
Yeah?
You like them?
I do, vintage railway points.
NICK: They look really old.
STEPH: They probably are.
For changing the points on the railway line.
VO: They are indeed.
They're priced up at £50 each.
STEPH: I think they're probably quite good.
If we could get them for 50, the pair... NICK: Do you reckon?
VO: Let's hope they can make a winning impression on dealer Mark.
STEPH: Points.
MARK: Yeah.
Got a few points to make here.
Yeah, we have got a few points to make.
VO: Do get on with it, then.
It says that they are £50 each.
Yeah.
I'm going to make you an offer.
Can they be 50 for the pair?
Call it 60.
Call it 60?
You want to do it?
Yeah, definitely.
Alright.
Shake the man's hand.
Bite your hand off.
Well in, mate.
Thank you very much.
MARK: Thank you.
STEPH: Awesome.
VO: Very much to the point.
Meanwhile, the other team are motoring along in the Jag and chatting about their chances in this old game.
WILL: The auction's in Greenwich.
How are you feeling about it?
Well...
I'm positive because I'm with you, and I believe in you.
So if anything goes wrong, it's your fault.
(LAUGHS) I... Way ahead of you, there!
No, I am, I'm looking forward to it.
I've never really done an auction, so it's going to be nerve-racking.
It's going to be tense.
It's going to be exciting.
I'm looking forward to it, really looking forward to it.
VO: Marvy!
But before then, these two still have one last shop to tackle.
And as fate would have it, it's the self-same shop the others are browsing in.
Oh, dear!
Wow, the size of this place!
VO: They're ready to get stuck in on their last bout of shopping too.
VO: How's Will feeling this afternoon?
We are struggling!
VO: Oh, dear.
It seems the dread curse of indecision has gripped that team.
NICK: Oh hello, guys.
STEPH: Hello.
WILL: Alright?
How's it going?
STEPH: Yeah, alright.
NICK: Color's gone out of your face!
STEPH: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
PAUL: It's like a draw!
I'm not sure what I'm getting here.
NICK: You don't look as confident as this morning.
What's happened?
I'm just indecisive at the moment on what I'm going to get.
WILL: You look a bit more confident!
Yeah!
WILL: A bit of bounciness.
You look like Del Boy... NICK: Little bit of spring in my step, you know what I mean?
I'm knocking 'em dandy!
(THEY LAUGH) WILL: Oh, right, well listen... NICK: Good luck.
Go on!
I'm still shopping, here, I'm shopping!
NICK: OK. VO: You are, but perhaps that little encounter might have strengthened Will's resolve.
WILL: Mark?
MARK: Yeah.
Can I have a look at this, please, here?
PAUL: So, Victorian quack.
It was supposed to cure just about everything, wasn't it, that wee electric shock?
VO: Huh.
It's an electrotherapy machine, for the dubious purpose of shocking health back into a patient.
It's ticketed at £80.
Not rare, but a while since I've seen a half-decent one, and that looks not bad.
WILL: I like talking point pieces, so... PAUL: Yeah.
Is there no way you can do it for, like, 45?
Yeah, go on.
We're done.
I made a decision.
PAUL: Bzzzt!
(THEY LAUGH) I just had to do it.
I've got a feeling.
VO: Marvelous.
An electrifying discount means that team are all bought up.
Nick and Steph, meanwhile, still have £115 burning a hole in their pocket, so they're still doggedly searching for something special.
What are you doing down there with that porthole?
I don't know.
It looks...
I kind of like the look of this.
STEPH: I like that.
Bit of salvage.
NICK: Yeah.
STEPH: Reclamation from a boat.
NICK: I like a bit of that.
Em... STEPH: It's very worn.
NICK: Yeah.
STEPH: Er, the paint's obviously peeled, but I like a bit of kind of salvage reclamation.
Two... What's it up for?
BOTH: 220.
I think the only thing we can do is ask Mark what his absolute death on it is.
VO: Dealer Mark, you're needed once more.
Now, listen, don't take advantage of me.
I'm on my knees here.
(THEY LAUGH) You know what I'm going to say.
We've got... What is your... Well, what is the absolute death on that, first of all?
What is the absolute death on this you can go to?
I think, more to the point, what have you got left?
(NICK LAUGHS) STEPH: Oh, clever, I'd say.
Yeah, he knows!
VO: No flies on Mark!
Well, listen, I've got in my pocket...your money for...
Hang on.
I've got...
Sorry.
So we've got the money for the points.
There's your money for the points.
Thank you.
And I've got two, four, six, eight, one, five... 115.
MARK: Go on.
NICK: Aaah, there he is!
NICK: Well in, mate.
Thank you.
MARK: You'll do well with that.
STEPH: Thanks very much, Mark, that's lovely.
NICK: That's fantastic.
STEPH: Thank you.
VO: With that very decent deal, both teams are all bought up.
WILL: That's it, mate.
PAUL: You reckon?
It's all done and dusted, thanks, mate.
NICK: Thank you, Steph.
STEPH: You're welcome.
NICK: I enjoyed that.
PAUL: Nowhere to hide now.
WILL: Shopping's finished.
PAUL: Good?
STEPH: Yeah.
You can do no more.
That's it.
May the best man win, son.
WILL: I'll see you at the auction, pal.
NICK: See you at the auction.
PAUL: Good luck, Nick.
STEPH: See you there!
PAUL: Safe journey, you.
STEPH: Yeah.
Bye.
PAUL: See you later.
STEPH: Drive safe.
VO: Sweet dreams.
VO: But they're not off the road for long.
This is it, big boy!
NICK: I know.
WILL: Auction day.
(CHUCKLES) I'm excited, mate, I really am.
Have you ever been to an auction?
NICK: No, never.
WILL: Me neither.
Never in my life.
VO: This epic showdown is taking place in the London borough of Greenwich.
The thing about it is though, mate, obviously, there's got to be a winner and a loser.
NICK: There has.
WILL: I want to win so badly!
I know you do!
WILL: It'd be nice.
It'd be nice to win.
NICK: Yeah, it will be.
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Yeah, but only time and the saleroom will tell who will emerge victorious, chaps.
Oh, here they come!
Hello, hello!
Hey!
How you doing?
STEPH: Good morning.
WILL: We have arrived!
NICK: Here we go.
PAUL: How are you feeling?
NICK: Oh, confident, confident.
STEPH: Confident!
VO: Then, at Greenwich Auctions, it's time to get inside.
WILL: Can't wait.
Look at you, running!
Got a jog on.
NICK: I know, I'm excited!
WILL: This way.
VO: Both our teams started this race to the finish line with £400.
Will and Paul spent £170 exactly, and have five lots in today's sale.
STEPH: Ah!
So this is what in the trade we would call a piece of automobilia.
Right.
It's a tape measure.
It's a tape measure!
But it's car-related.
Right, OK.
So very collectable normally.
NICK: Would that go for a few quid?
It might do.
I can't see it making more than £30 or £40.
Will doesn't seem to spend a lot of money.
No.
Right.
We spent all our money.
We spent all our money.
We took a lot of gambles, and they... Did we?
Yeah.
I think they played it safe.
Yeah, I think they have done.
Well, he who dares wins.
Got to be in it to win it!
VO: Well, Nick and Steph did indeed spend every last bean of their £400 budget, and also have five lots for sale.
One amongst them, their honesty box from Kenilworth House.
Think that's got a chance of doing alright?
I think it has.
They paid £20 for that.
That's a profit.
£20?
They'll get a profit out of that, won't they?
Oops!
(LAUGHS) Come on, it's not over yet.
VO: Certainly is not.
Auctioneer Robert Dodd holds the gavel today, and before the off, what does he make of our teams' lots?
Here we have a gunmetal case pocket watch.
Yeah, it's a nice item.
Some pocket watches can make a lot of money.
Yeah, I expect it to do reasonably well.
The porthole cover, especially Greenwich, there are people who collect marine items.
It's a solid quality piece of brass.
Yeah, may be some interest.
VO: Yeah.
Good-oh!
Take your seats, teams.
The final reckoning is coming.
PAUL: How's the nerves, Nick?
I know, it's good, isn't it?
It's exciting!
VO: With bids accepted online and by phone, the sale's about to begin.
VO: First up, it's Nick and Steph's telephone honesty box from Kenilworth House.
Straight in at a big £5 on this.
VO: Oh, dear!
(WILL LAUGHS) I'm looking for eight.
Yes?
Eight.
10, 12, 15, 18, 20.
22.
STEPH: It's gone.
NICK: Oh, yes!
AUCTIONEER: 25, 28.
£30 with me.
Looking for 32.
£50 on the Internet... 50 quid!
AUCTIONEER: You got the money?
I got £50.
Looking for 55.
Five!
55 in the room.
60?
Looking for 60.
£60 on the net.
Looking for five.
65, there in the room.
Looking for 70.
£70 on the internet.
Looking for 75.
Yes?
Phone bid at 75.
Looking for 80.
On the phone at £85.
Looking for 90.
WILL: The woman over there!
STEPH: Come on, come on.
£90 on the internet.
Looking for five.
95 there.
Looking for 100.
Here we go, here we go!
AUCTIONEER: Let's round it up.
100 I've got.
Oh my... 110 on the phone.
Looking for 120.
110 I have on the telephone.
A telephone bidder on 110.
Are we all done?
Last time.
Oh, 120 on the internet.
130 I have on the phone.
He's got this at 130!
I don't believe it!
I have 130, looking for 140.
Are we all done at £130?
Is that it?
Phone bid, last time.
Are you sure?
£140.
NICK: Wahey!
Go on!
WILL: It's unbelievable!
150.
No?
£140 internet bid on this.
At £140 on the money box.
Are we all done?
I told you 185 quid, Will.
I wasn't far off.
(GAVEL) Give them a round of applause.
NICK: Get in there!
STEPH: Yay!
(APPLAUSE) Well done, darling.
I can't believe that!
VO: From a low start, they ring up a massive profit.
What a first lot.
NICK: Oh... WILL: I've got a sweat on!
VO: The debut lot for Will and Paul now is their novelty tape measure, modeled as a car tire.
£8.
10 here, looking for 12.
WILL: Go on, go on!
AUCTIONEER: I've got 10.
NICK: Here we go, same again.
18, 20 here.
Two, I want anywhere.
Five, eight.
Someone in the room wants it, as well.
AUCTIONEER: Looking for 32.
32, I'm out in the room.
That's better.
Looking for 35.
Another one.
There's another one.
38 I need.
38.
£40, madam.
It's £2.
Come on, you can't get a doughnut for that.
PAUL: Yes!
AUCTIONEER: £40, I've got.
Yeah, go on.
Keep that hand going up, love.
No?
£40, there.
Looking for two.
We all done at £40?
Pretend you're flagging a cab, get that hand up.
I'm going to sell the tape measure at £40 only.
VO: That speeds off with a tidy profit for them.
We'll take that.
It's a profit.
It's not...
I thought it would go for more, but it's a profit.
Well done.
It's a good margin as well.
Yeah, it's good.
Nearly tripled your money.
VO: We should all be so lucky.
One for Nick and Steph now, as their surveyor's measuring stick is sized up.
30 with me.
35, 38.
40 with me.
What did you pay for it?
Come on, up we go.
40, here we go.
It's on commission with me at £40.
Looking for two.
Are they in profit yet?
Are you in profit yet?
NICK: We're in profit, yeah.
WILL: For God's sake!
PAUL: It's still going up!
WILL: Still going... 60 with me, looking for 65.
I'm sick of this!
Commission bid on this measuring stick.
There's a conspiracy going on here.
£60.
We all done?
Are you sure?
It's a stick.
Go on, I'll give you a chance to get your finger on the buzzer.
Put the hammer down!
£60 I've got, looking for five.
All done?
£60... (GAVEL) VO: And once again, they're masters of all they survey.
NICK: Get in there!
STEPH: Yay!
Thank you, darling.
Another one.
VO: The little silver matchbook case with applied horse head now for Will and Paul.
Looking for eight on this.
Eight, 10, 12, 15, 18.
20 with me.
Looking for two.
Five.
I'm in the saddle.
30, two.
Five.
35, I've got.
I'm looking for 38.
Go on, it's silver!
38 I have.
I'm out.
It's here in front of me at 38.
It's worth more than that.
It's worth a lot more than that!
£40 there, and two, sir.
42, I want.
No?
Four... PAUL: It's coming, it's coming.
STEPH: 42.
AUCTIONEER: 45 in the room.
Looking for 48.
WILL: Come on, 45, 48... 48 seated.
£50 I have.
PAUL: Fresh outbreak there.
WILL: Oh, 50!
Come on!
At £50.
Looking for 55.
£50.
WILL: This horse is flagging.
NICK: Come on, come on.
Come on, it's silver, it's silver!
AUCTIONEER: At £50 only.
WILL: Come on, whip it.
(GAVEL) 287.
VO: It gallops over the finish line, but isn't enough to catch up with the others yet.
Maybe it's cuz I'm northern.
I should keep my mouth shut.
They go, "The northerner's in the room.
Don't give him nowt."
AUCTIONEER: I've got 12 on them...
I'm also northern!
You've got him, though, ain't you?
You've got your Cockney china with you!
I've got...
I've got someone even more northern than me!
You're sounding more and more bitter as the day goes on!
VO: (CHUCKLES) It's Nick and Steph's railway signal points now.
The bid's with me on this at £5 on the pair.
NICK: Oh, no!
STEPH: Oh, no!
NICK: Come on.
WILL: On the pair.
AUCTIONEER: Looking for eight.
STEPH: Eight.
Oh.
I have £8 on the internet on two old railway levers.
AUCTIONEER: £12 now.
NICK: Yeah, go on.
20 now.
Looking for two.
25.
Looking for 28.
28, I have.
£30.
Looking for two.
Come on, come on.
32 I've got.
Looking for five.
NICK: Go on, just a bit more.
AUCTIONEER: This is so cheap!
NICK: Just a little bit!
STEPH: A little bit more.
32.
Looking for 35.
We all done at 30?
£35, I've got in the room.
I've got £40 on the internet.
Are we all done?
Last time.
Selling these two levers at £40.
VO: Those barely made it out of the station.
Bad luck.
I thought you'd do well with those.
NICK: Yeah?
PAUL: I thought they'd be... STEPH: Did you?
PAUL: Yeah.
You didn't think they'd go?
No money, but you can't post them.
STEPH: No, you can't post them.
PAUL: Thank goodness.
Exactly.
VO: For Will and Paul now, the unusual truncheon.
Straight in on this, at £5.
Looking for eight.
I've got £5 on commission.
Eight, 10, 12, 15, 18.
STEPH: Oh, it's away.
WILL: Come on!
Go on!
Looking for two, five, eight.
£30.
WILL: Go on!
With me at £30.
Looking for 32.
£30 on commission.
Are we all done on the truncheon?
Very rare, it's very rare!
AUCTIONEER: I'm selling this truncheon at £30.
VO: Again, not a huge profit, but it certainly doesn't take a beating.
PAUL: Small steps.
WILL: Small steps.
Better than going south.
VO: It's a big ticket item now for Nick and Steph.
The brass porthole cover.
£8.
£12.
18.
20.
Two, come on.
Oh, that's not enough.
AUCTIONEER: 25.
Rest of the boat's coming in next week.
32, I've got.
May still get there.
I have 32.
30... 35.
Do I have £40 now?
Two.
45.
48.
50.
Five.
60.
I need £5.
I've got 60.
It's a piece of junk!
65 in the room.
Looking for 70.
Captain Birdseye on the phone here.
I have 75.
£80.
Looking for 90.
I've 85.
Looking for 90.
Are we all done?
WILL: Hammer down!
STEPH: One more.
£85, it is, room bid.
That it?
That's it, it's finished.
Are you sure?
All done at £85.... (GAVEL) VO: That's an unlucky loss for them.
WILL: That'll do for me!
STEPH: We lost a little bit.
WILL: Oh, never mind, mate.
STEPH: We lost 30 quid.
WILL: Lost 30 quid?
STEPH: Yeah.
It's a loss, innit?
You can afford it, though!
VO: Ha ha!
One for Will and Paul now, with their Victorian electrotherapy machine.
10, 12, 15, 18, 22.
Oh, it's at 30 on the internet.
30 I want.
28 with me.
I'm looking for 30.
£35 on the internet.
WILL: Go on!
AUCTIONEER: Looking for 38.
38 on the net.
Looking for 40.
I have 38.
That's all the money for that.
Nice and low.
Ooh... AUCTIONEER: Oh, hello.
WILL: Go on.
£40 in the room, looking for 42.
Come on, now, let's have a go.
I have £40, looking for 42.
We all done at 40?
You must be out of your minds!
Victorian.
The box is worth more than that!
An electrotherapy machine.
What great fun these must be.
£40 I've got.
Looking for 42.
It's got all the bits in the bottom.
£40, I have, Internet.
It's in the room at 40.
Internet out, everyone else out.
I'm going to sell this box at £40.
VO: It's a little loss, but not too bad a shock!
WILL: That's rubbish.
NICK: Shocking!
(THEY LAUGH) VO: Don't despair, Will, you still have one more lot to try.
For Nick and Steph now, their priciest buy, the five illuminating exit signs.
170, I want.
NICK: Yeah, we're covered!
AUCTIONEER: 170 I've got.
Yeah!
180, 190.
200, I need.
AUCTIONEER: 200, I've got.
210.
STEPH: Come on!
Come on.
AUCTIONEER: Looking for 220.
NICK: Go on!
AUCTIONEER: 220, 230.
£240, I want.
Got 240 on the internet.
260.
I'm getting killed here!
270, I need.
£260 on the net.
I'm looking for 270.
This is so cheap for this.
NICK: Go on, go on!
AUCTIONEER: Looking for 280.
I can't believe what's going on here.
AUCTIONEER: 280 I've got.
Looking for 290.
290 I have.
Looking for £300.
Let's round it up.
WILL: No, let's not!
NICK: Yeah!
WILL: I don't believe it!
NICK: Go on!
310, I have.
Looking for 320.
I can't believe it!
310 on these.
Looking for 320.
Are we all done at only £310 on five exit signs?
PAUL: At only...at only 310!
They are so useful, these.
310, looking for 320.
AUCTIONEER: Are we all done?
WILL: I don't believe this!
Last time at £310.
VO: Exit, pursued by profit.
A stunning win for them.
NICK: Thank you, darling.
STEPH: Yay!
I think we need to find the exit.
Oh Will, you need to get out, Will!
VO: Now, Will's and Paul's favorite purchase, the unusual pocket watch.
AUCTIONEER: Bid's with me at £5.
NICK: Yeah, go on, mate.
AUCTIONEER: Looking for eight.
WILL: Is he having a laugh?
Oh, internet.
Straight in at two there, on the internet.
WILL: Come on!
AUCTIONEER: 55, 65.
Go on!
65 on the internet.
Looking for 70.
WILL: Go on!
75 I've got.
80 I want.
WILL: Come on!
AUCTIONEER: 85.
AUCTIONEER: 90.
WILL: 90.
AUCTIONEER: 95, 100.
NICK: Go on, mate.
Go on.
110.
120's next, or go wherever you want.
Come on, keep going.
PAUL: Still cheap at that.
WILL: Still proper cheap.
PAUL: It's a rare watch.
That's a rare watch, man.
Proper rare.
AUCTIONEER: 120.
130.
WILL: Come on.
AUCTIONEER: Come on.
WILL: Have a go, internet.
I've got 130.
I'm looking for 140.
Someone stick your hand up!
Come on, it's worth a lot more than that!
AUCTIONEER: 150 now, 160's next.
WILL: It's a very rare watch.
I'll take 150, I've got.
But I want 160 if I can get it.
WILL: It's very, very rare.
NICK: That's enough now.
Looking for 160.
Are we all done?
Last time.
At £150 on this watch.
WILL: Good job, well done, pal.
NICK: Yeah, and you.
VO: They tripled their money before costs.
Everyone's a winner.
So time's up!
Enough, already!
It just kept... "My lots just kept going up and up and up!"
Facts, facts!
Shall we make a move?
Yeah, come on, let's go.
VO: But with late profits to both teams, this is a close-run game.
VO: Let's do some mathematics, shall we?
Both teams began this trip with £400.
Will and Paul made a very tidy little profit, and finish up today with £484.20.
But Nick and Steph made a stunning profit of over £100, leaving them with £520.70 all told.
And indisputable bragging rights for all eternity.
All that profit goes to Children In Need.
Well done.
NICK: I feel like doing one of them, look!
Ho-ho!
(THEY LAUGH) WILL: Jesus, he's still... PAUL: How's about you, Will?
You feel like clicking your heels?
I don't feel like clicking my heels, no.
Do you not, eh?
Of course you don't, mate.
Pull out the Cockney dance moves now.
Well done.
It was good, wasn't it?
NICK: Yeah, it was brilliant.
You know what, though?
The way I look at it, yeah, you beat me, but we all made a profit.
Yeah, I did really beat you!
I didn't just beat you, I buried you!
(THEY LAUGH) But we all made a profit!
NICK: We buried you, sorry, I apologize.
Look at me taking all the credit now.
I didn't have a clue earlier what it was all about.
At least we all made a profit, though, we did alright.
NICK: Yeah.
It was fantastic.
WILL: It was good.
Oh, I'm going to miss you!
WILL: Paul, absolute pleasure to meet you, my friend.
It's been great.
Really has been.
PAUL: Nick, well done, man.
NICK: See you soon, mate.
WILL: Nice to see you.
NICK: Look after yourselves.
STEPH: Pleasure.
WILL: Take care.
STEPH: Safe travels, guys.
NICK: Give us the car as well!
STEPH: Yeah.
NICK: See you later!
VO: Time to hit the road.
Got to listen to this all the way home now.
NICK: I know!
WILL: See you, bye!
PAUL: See you, fellas!
STEPH: Safe travels.
(NICK LAUGHS) You stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Will!
Oh, mate, I've only gone and done you!
VO: Cheerio, chaps.
Try not to bicker all the way home.
No, mate.
You did, well done.
NICK: Thanks, mate.
WILL: I'll give you my hand.
NICK: Cheers, pal.
WILL: Congrats, well done.
I'll tell you what, pal, though, it's been good to see you.
NICK: You too, mate.
WILL: It's been good, man.
It's been great few days.
VO: It has.
Ta-ra!
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