It's the nation's favorite antiques experts!

I think I've found something.

Pretty good, yeah.

Behind the wheel of a classic car.

- Oh!

- Stop it!

And a goal to scour Britain for antiques.

- Ooh!

- I think it's brilliant.

The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.

- (GAVEL) - But it's no mean feat.

You're some man!

There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

- (LAUGHS) - No!

Will it be the high road to glory... ..or the slow road to disaster?

- (GEARS CRUNCH) - Oh, no!

This is the Antiques Road Trip!

Ha ha!

VOICEOVER (VO): We're out on the wily, windy moors for one last run-around with this adventurous duo.

Louise, why did you insist on taking the roof off?

I mean, hello!

Wait, well, I thought the sun was going to come out.

And I've got nothing on my head.

I'm freezing cold, here.

And whose fault is that?

Well it's not my fault, it's nature's.

Have you never heard of a hat?

VO: Braving the elements are experts Louise Gostelow and David Harper.

Ooh!

VO: They're taking in the landscape that inspired the writing of the Bront sisters, West Yorkshire, for their final trip together.

- It's been brill, hasn't it?

- It has.

Particularly because I've got double the amount of money that you've got.

Do you know what, I wondered how long it would be before that was mentioned.

Not long, baby, not long.

VO: Well, he's got good reason to gloat.

Last time out David went for the weird and the wonderful... What on earth is that?

..and that worked out quite well for him.

(GAVEL) (SIGHS) Go on.

VO: Louise opted for the tried and tested strategy of "man's best friend".

I really like the look of these.

And she got a bit of a mauling at the auction.

(GAVEL) That's it, I'm off dogs.

Oh!

(GROANS) How does that make you feel?

I mean, terrible, I'm sure.

What can I say, I like a challenge.

VO: Well, good job, too because Louise, who started out with £200, has unfortunately whittled that down to a worrying £156.62.

(GAVEL) But David, who started with the same amount, has been steadily growing his coffers to a respectable £327.88.

You've got one more chance, Louise.

One more chance.

I'm trying to inspire you, here, to beat me.

- Yes.

- Is it helping?

It's... (LAUGHS) (CHUCKLES) I'm not sure what it's doing.

(LAUGHS) VO: Quite.

Our buddies in the Beetle started this journey in Northern Ireland.

And since then, they've been all over the place, taking in Lancashire and Wales.

Now they're traversing Yorkshire, heading to their last auction in Scarborough.

Later we'll reach journey's end at the coast for that final showdown, but let's get things started in the village of Thornton, home of the Thornton Viaduct, the impressive railway bridge across the Pinch Beck Valley.

And the birthplace of those aforementioned Bront s, as well as the location of David's first retail opportunity.

Look at that, it's tiny.

Ah!

Gorgeous though.

What a sweet place.

Right, have a lovely day.

Brilliant, enjoy.

Happy shopping!

Thank you very much.

See you later.

- Bye!

- Bye!

VO: Well, good things come in small packages, so they say.

Let's see if they're right about Field House Antiques.

(DOORBELL RINGS) Wow, what a doorbell!

Ah, how are you doing?

Hi there, good to meet you.

What's your name?

- Chris.

- Chris.

And more importantly, who is this?

- This is Bukowski.

- Bukowski!

Is that the poet?

Yes, the poet, named after the poet.

VO: We're all very literary today, aren't we?

So this is a tiny little place.

Quirky, that's what we like to call it.

- Upstairs as well?

- Yeah.

Very steep steps, so you get a workout as you're going up.

(LAUGHS) Well, I'll start up there then.

VO: And the best thing about small shops?

You don't have to go far to find something you like!

I've never in my life bought a camel seat.

"Original Egyptian camel saddle", 100 quid.

I've seen these things before advertised on certain websites, mainly in America, for huge sums of money.

They like to tie them in to Napoleon's time in Egypt, late 18th, early 19th century.

And he had a regiment called a dromedary regiment, named after the particular kind of camel with the single hump.

The dromedary camel.

If it could pass as being 19th century, at 100 quid, it is for nothing.

OK, so it's made of, probably, teak.

Your straps here are forge made, in other words they're handmade.

These are not machine made things.

So, I can categorically say that it is not a tourist piece.

VO: Yeah, I doubt you'd get it on the plane as hand luggage, either.

Ha!

Oh, that's interesting.

Every single pin and nail is handmade.

You can see that the timbers are hand cut.

You can actually see where the saw mark has scoured it.

I think it's early.

I think it's 19th century.

Could make 20 quid, or it could make £500.

Ho!

How exciting is that?

I've got the money.

Gonna have to have it.

VO: You impetuous fool!

Ha!

Now, down the road, his travelling companion is just pulling into her first shop of the day in the market town of Hebden Bridge.

And another literar-ary connection, the final resting place of the celebrated poet Sylvia Plath is nearby.

Louise is here to visit Hebden Bridge Antiques, looking for some inspiration of her own.

Oh!

Do you know what, I love these.

OK, so the giveaway to begin with...

The box says Elkington and Co Ltd, and they are a very prolific and good quality silversmiths.

Just look at the shape of the bowls, they're fantastic.

They are art deco silver, I love art deco silver.

And they're silver gilt, as well.

Hence the gold appearance.

Absolutely stunning.

I love silver for many reasons.

It's always got an intrinsic value, it's a precious metal, it's always going to be worth something at auction.

Can I buy them?

That's the question.

Ticket, OK, "wonderful box silver gilt spoons, £69.

(SUCKS AIR THROUGH TEETH) VO: Well, don't believe everything you read.

But it's a big slice of your money for one item, girl.

Can you tell that I like them?

I'm going to keep them with me, and have a think.

VO: Very wise.

You don't want anyone else snaffling them while you're not looking.

Back in Thornton, though, David's parked that camel saddle and has ventured back downstairs.

Aren't they lovely?

£8!

VO: Sounds like a bargain to me.

What is it?

Signed piece of studio glass.

VO: No!

That is lovely, isn't it?

You know, it's not an antique, but it is an antique of the future.

And it's certainly something that is collected today.

Signed... Oh, that's interesting.

Norman Stuart Clarke, 1989.

So it's got a bit of age.

Quite a well known glass artist.

In the 80s he was working in St Ives, in Cornwall.

And I know that, like most artists that worked in that part of the countryside, they're inspired by the light down there.

And of course, the ocean.

There you go, I think that's an inspiration we have here.

They are waves, aren't they?

Absolutely gorgeous.

Good artist, very good artist.

That looks a bit like him as well, hang on a minute.

VO: Oh, he's found another one!

Fantastic, two pieces by a good...

I think still-living artist.

Pontil marks on the base, they're the things that prove that they're completely hand-blown.

What a pair, so at £8 each, I'm buying them.

So... Chris?

Yup.

Well, first of all I want to say that I'm going to buy these.

Yeah, fine.

£8 each, so there's no negotiating there, they're absolutely fine.

But upstairs you've got a crazy camel saddle.

I thought you might mention that, to be honest.

It's wild, isn't it?

100 quid on it, what's the absolute best for me?

We can't really go down too far.

We probably... we can probably do it for 80.

80's fine, I'll have it at 80.

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: £96 in total, then.

- And you, missus, are gorgeous.

- Yup.

- See you next time.

- See you.

Thanks, David.

VO: And off he goes, still with over £230 left.

Hm!

And looking like a man who's misplaced his camel (CHUCKLES) Over in Hebden Bridge, though, with some silver spoons squirreled away, Louise is on the prowl again.

I love these.

Look at the color of them.

Mid century, vintage, retro children's chairs.

Do you know, they remind me of being at school.

Sat at the little low chairs with little low desks.

And there's a pair of them, as well.

Let's see, are they comfy?

Ooh!

I think I would need a pair, possibly one for each bum cheek.

VO: Eh... Well, you said it, love.

And they're already reduced.

£45.

Hopefully they're looking to get rid of them.

Yes!

VO: Well, it is a shop, and that's kind of what they do.

- Alexa!

- Hello, Alexa.

- Hi, Louise, you alright?

- I need your help.

- OK. - I really, really like these.

- Okey dokey.

- OK, they're priced at 69.

Yep.

But I also really like, upstairs you've got little retro children's chairs.

Blue, steel frame...

Yes, they're cute, aren't they?

So, if they're 69, and the chairs are 45... - Yep.

Yep.

What can I do?

- What can you do?

OK, so the chairs have already been reduced a little bit, to 45 like you say.

- Mm-hm.

But I can take you another fiver off.

- So we don't mind doing that.

- OK. And 69 on there.

I reckon we could do those for 55, if that suited you.

Is there any chance that you could do these for 50?

I tell you what, I will meet you in the middle... - Yeah.

- ..and I will do 52.50.

- I'm going to say, yes please.

- That's lovely.

- Thank you.

- Thank you very much indeed.

VO: £92, and the all-important 50p spent.

And that's nearly two thirds of her money gone already.

After all that, you could probably do with a sit down, love.

Now, keen sports fan David has taken a break from the shopping, and come to Huddersfield to find out how the town became the birthplace of a new game with a particularly northern following.

He's come to the home of the Huddersfield Giants Rugby League team to meet sports historian, Professor Tony Collins.

What a stadium!

Fantastic, isn't it?

It's fantastic architecture, fantastic backdrop overlooking the stadium.

In the birthplace of rugby league, Huddersfield.

But what about rugby itself?

It's always been played, in a way, because when you go back through the centuries and you see these games between villages, there's always been kicking, passing the ball.

It's never been really soccer as we know it today.

Or even rugby as we know it today.

It's been a mixture of everything.

VO: These "mob football" matches were often so violent that it was made unlawful to play them in a public place.

However, on the private playing fields of grammar schools, the game began to flourish.

Each school had its own set of rules, but those of Rugby School in Warwickshire allowed players to pick up and run with the ball.

The thing that really made the game popular was Tom Brown's School Days, written in the 1850s.

It was like the Harry Potter of its day.

And at the centerpiece was a game of rugby.

And people, like people in Huddersfield, read the book and thought 'we want to play this game.

It's so exciting'.

And that was one of the main reasons why it spread across the country.

So, this is something to do, then, with industrialization.

So people are looking for past times.

Absolutely, because by the time you get to the 1870s, you get half-day working on a Saturday.

So they're working in factories, they're working in mines, they're working on the docks.

All of a sudden, they've got Saturday afternoon free.

So you're looking for something to do.

And here's this game that's newly popular, so people think, 'well, we should have a team'.

VO: Yeah.

Such was the game's popularity that in 1871, the Rugby Football Union was formed in London to standardize the rules and regulate the sport.

Rugby continued to grow, both in the public schools of the south, and the industrial towns of the north.

But in the 1880s, the governing body decided that to ensure fair play and the purity of the sport, players should not be paid.

The teams in the north of England didn't like that.

Because their players were predominantly from working class industrial backgrounds.

And to play rugby, they had to take time off work.

But they weren't compensated for that, they lost money.

The Rugby Union Authority said, "No, we're an amateur sport, nobody gets any type of money for playing our game".

And what happened was that rugby really embarked on a civil war.

VO: So, on 29th August 1895, here at the George Hotel in Huddersfield, 21 clubs from Yorkshire and Lancashire met to establish a Northern Rugby Union, with its own version of the game, which would later come to be called Rugby League.

So the northerners changed the rules?

Very quickly.

Because one of the things that was going on in the civil war that took place in rugby was that there were different ideas about how rugby should be played.

Teams in the north wanted to concentrate more on scoring tries, passing the ball, and generally wanted to make the game more attractive for the player and the spectator.

VO: Remarkably, both versions of the game continued to thrive and spread round the world, whilst it was the young upstart, Rugby League, that often led the way.

In 1954 it was the first to hold a World Cup.

And 100 years after that meeting in the George Hotel, Rugby Union finally followed its lead and went professional.

And speaking of professional... Ha ha!

Woo, look at him!

Oh, that bodes well.

- Good to see you.

- Pleased to meet ya.

- Eorl.

- Pleasure.

Fantastic to meet you too.

Now, can I just ask you a question - could Antiques Road Trip have actually got me two bigger rugby players?

VO: Nope.

Eorl Crabtree and Keith Senior are both huge names in the game, having represented their country on many occasions.

Rugby League's smaller teams, smaller pitch, and different scoring system make for a faster-paced game compared to its older sibling.

Time for you to test your mettle, David.

He's a natural.

OK, now I think I've had enough training.

Now, just have a look over my shoulder, see those guys?

About eight foot tall.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a try.

VO: Yeah, it's a try, alright.

Oh!

(LAUGHS) Ha, oh dear!

Oh, God.

That, boys, is how you do it!

VO: Yeah.

While the lad goes for an early bath, Louise is back on the move.

She's heading to the village of Holywell Green which, as the name suggests, is the site of a holy well and a place of pilgrimage in medieval times.

But it's the lure of antiques that's calling to our girl.

Irresistible.

- Hello!

- Hiya.

VO: That'll be Richard.

He runs things around here.

He's friendly, too.

There's an eclectic mix on offer, plenty to spend her remaining £64 on.

Quite a few farming implements too.

Well, it is called Barnyard Antiques.

How often do you see a pot with a jousting scene on it?

I'm guessing, what is it, it's probably early 20th century.

Nice little decorative scene with the castle turret and the knights fighting.

And it's got a little artist's monogram by the looks of it, down here.

It could be English, it could possibly be Scandinavian.

Presuming that they had knights that jousted in Scandinavia.

VO: I'm sure they did.

No ticket price on that, thought.

It's got real sort of tactile appeal.

It's functional.

It's decorative.

It's a good size.

I think, if this is going to an auction where there's online bidding, it could be quite saleable.

On the right day, in the right saleroom.

It's definitely worth a go.

VO: Well, your auction is online, so it could be a shrewd purchase, girl.

Do you know what this is?

Come with me.

VO: Intriguing.

If I bring it to here, press my foot there.

It's an early carpet sweeper.

Going back to a time before vacuum cleaners were around.

So prior to this, you'd have to take your carpets and your rugs outside, beat the dust out of them.

Really hard labor.

Then along came this, and just with a mere push of your hand, you could clean all the bits and pieces and dust out of your carpet.

It really was the start of mod cons as we know it.

VO: Invented by the Bissell Company in the 1870s, and still made today.

Queen Victoria was an early adopter, apparently.

What more could you want in your life?

It's eco-friendly, it doesn't use any electricity.

Keep your bills down.

Look at it, it's doing a fantastic job.

VO: And it could be yours for just £32!

It's like watching the shopping channel, this, isn't it?

Right, I'm going to clean my way to Richard.

VO: Yeah, works on hard surfaces too.

Very multi-purpose.

Come on, let's chat Richard up, then.

- Hello, Richard.

- Hiya.

Now then, is there any chance I can buy this, and the jousting pot, for £30?

I was hoping you were going to be a lot more than that, but... Can we say 40?

Go on!

Look, I'll do a bit more hoovering for you, before I go.

You've gotta make sure... You get the corners.

If I do a bit more sweeping can we have a deal at 40?

Yeah, go on then.

Good man, you!

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: That's an even £20 each for the jousting box and the sweeper.

And once you've done your chores - ha!

- you'd better go and pick up David.

It'll be dark soon, and there's a full moon tonight.

And, uh... - Do you need a lift?

- I do need a lift.

Oh, bad luck!

(LAUGHS) You little rat bag!

VO: Oh, dear.

- Get that heater on.

- Oh, get in!

VO: I'm sure there'll be a hospitable country inn around here somewhere.

So nighty night, now... (ANIMALS WAILING) ..very Wuthering Heights.

It's a glorious morning in west Yorkshire, for our final bout of shopping.

Look at this, the sun is shining... Ooh!

..on the righteous.

So, how are you feeling?

Ooh!

Well, it's a lovely day.

Things are looking positive.

Tell me about your buying, yesterday.

Oh, I don't know.

I bought four things.

(SIGHS) I'm pleased with some, I'm apprehensive about others.

VO: Yeah, well, she certainly was no slouch, picking up a carpet sweeper, a boxed set of spoons, a turned wooden box with a jousting scene on it, and a pair of school chairs.

- One for each bum cheek.

And that all means she has a mere £24.12 for her shopping today.

David had a good start too, and he still has over £230 after netting a couple of pieces of studio glass...

Absolutely gorgeous.

..and a camel saddle.

And we're going to auction where?

We're going to Scarborough.

What do you find in Scarborough?

Not normally camels, I don't think.

No, but you find sand.

And where there's sand, there's bound to be a camel.

(LAUGHS) VO: It's a fine line between an idiot and a genius, isn't it?

And get this - it's a camel seat for two people.

- So you and I, baby... - You find the camel... Well what we could do, we could find a donkey, couldn't we?

(LAUGHS) An unsuspecting donkey.

VO: We'll get letters, you know.

We're inching ever closer to that final Scarborough showdown, but the fun begins today in Cleckheaton.

The town was the birthplace of Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr Men children's books.

Our very own Mr Shoppy - ha!

- has dropped off Little Miss Sunshine, and is here for a mooch around Terrier Antiques.

Flashing the pins again, I see.

Oh, lordy.

Oh, this is a proper antiques shop.

Hello, I'm David.

Good morning, I'm Pete.

Nice to meet you.

Hello, Pete.

And you look like a proper antique dealer as well.

Thank you very much.

I like the shop.

Is this it?

This is it, in its entirety, yes.

Interesting things, Pete.

Oh, a painter's box.

And that's a watercolor box, isn't it?

It is, yeah.

Painting is one of the things I absolutely adore in life.

And I'm always drawn to painters' boxes.

And that is gorgeous.

There's the original watercolors there, got some great colors.

Vermilion is one of my favorite colors, which is a red.

And then a chrome yellow.

Windsor and Newton were formed in 1832, and 38 Rathbone Place was Henry Newton's home.

So they started life, their business, from Henry Newton's house.

And it was in a lovely little quarter in London, an artist's quarter.

John Constable had a studio in the same area.

So, it was a little commune of art suppliers and artists.

Mahogany box, strung with a little bit of ebony, or ebonized wood, just for decoration.

That's very mid 19th century in its style.

It's so neat, and such good quality.

And it would have been an expensive thing when new and barely used.

VO: And it's got a ticket price of £90.

Pete, what's the best on that?

We could go down to 65 today.

- Oh!

- That's the best we could do.

OK, Pete, I'll have that.

Let me... - Lovely.

- ..just put that aside.

- Thank you very much.

- Smashing, thank you.

That's one down, nice one.

VO: Good, I don't think he's done with those cabinets yet.

Hmm, such interesting things in there.

I love Indian deities.

That's a bronze one.

Don't recognize the... the goddess.

Don't recognize the bird, what kind of bird is that?

VO: It could be a peacock, which might make her the goddess Saraswati.

What about the other one in there?

There is the goddess Lakshmi.

So she is a Hindu goddess, and she is the god, I think, of power, of wealth, of money.

She's got four arms, makes her a bit special.

And she's riding an elephant.

So it could be a little temple piece, or a tourist piece.

But not a new one.

Certainly from the 19th century.

So two of those, probably always been together I'm guessing.

VO: Now, an observant viewer might recall he's already dabbled in this sort of thing... and it didn't go terribly well.

(GAVEL) (SPLUTTERS) VO: Yeah... Pete, can I talk to you about these?

You can.

OK, I recognize the goddess Lakshmi... Yeah.

..she's the goddess of wealth and good fortune, and that kind of thing.

I think they're 19th century, would you agree?

Yeah, yeah.

So, priced at 58 and 39.

Where could we be?

75 is the best we could do on those today.

Would 60 buy them?

No, she's the goddess of wealth but she's not that good.

VO: You tell 'em, Pete.

70, and that's the lowest I could go.

Because they are nice, and they're very different.

OK, so 70 and 65 is 135.

- I'll have 'em.

Yeah.

- Excellent.

VO: So those, along with the watercolor set, leaves him with a smidge under £97 pounds.

These little shops are working out rather well for him, aren't they?

Pete, you're a dream, thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

They're off to Scarborough.

In this weather?

With those shorts?

(LAUGHS) Yeah!

VO: Oh, he suffers for his fashion, Pete.

It's not easy being a style icon.

Now inspired by that little wooden pot she bought yesterday, Louise has headed into the big city, Leeds, to find out about the medieval martial art of jousting.

And she's picked the right day to come to the Royal Armouries Museum, as they're busily gearing up for a tournament.

Her guide to this chivalric sport is the Armouries' head of education and events, Tristan Langlois.

Jousting originated as a way to actually practice for warfare, in a relatively safe and controlled environment.

The earliest jousts, in the 11th and 12th centuries, often involved just an arena, essentially, into which armies would be placed, and they would go at each other hell for leather.

And whoever was left standing at the end was the winner, essentially.

VO: A key component of warfare at the time was the heavy cavalry - armored shock troops on powerful horses with lances, who would charge into the fray.

And so, tournaments gradually developed into a show of skill for these riders.

Rules were formalized.

And even a few safety measures were introduced to cut down the high number of casualties.

The tilt rail is essentially a fence, initially cloth, later wood, that when individual, now, not armies, but individual riders were riding at each other, would separate the horses one from the other.

So that the riders could concentrate on power, accuracy, speed, rather than simply survival.

Also, the jousts became increasingly associated with almost a cult of chivalry.

The development of the idea of knighthood itself.

Uh-huh.

So for example, a very famous knight called Ulrich von Liechtenstein travelled from joust to joust, in one instance dressed as Venus, the goddess of love.

And jousted as Venus, in order to demonstrate his love for the woman whom he admired.

VO: The effectiveness of these knights on horseback diminished in war with the introduction of gunpowder.

By the 15th century tournaments stopped being a way of training for battle, and turned into a spectacle to show off the wealth and prestige of the nobility.

It's the glitz, the glamour, the wealth involved, as anything else.

And that's talking about power, and that's talking about prestige and that's talking about authority.

So, a definite rise in popularity, then, in that case?

They certainly became more popular in terms of attendance.

We know that some of the big tournaments in the United Kingdom and in France were attended by thousands of people.

Not just the great and the good... - Uh-huh.

- ..but anyone, really, who wanted to come and see this extraordinary event.

VO: Jousting died out completely during the 17th century, as other forms of entertainment sprang up.

Apart from the Eglinton tournament in the 19th century, in the 1970s, re-enactors began to bring it back.

And over the last 20 years or so, it's grown into a competitive sport.

The museum's very own Sir Lancelot... - Hello.

- ..Andy Deane... - Hello Andy, I'm Louise.

- Very nice to meet you.

..is Team England's great hope for the tournament today.

For me, I just had a misspent youth.

Riding horses, fighting, and it...

I found a job that's perfect.

Someone asked me to go and hit another person with a big stick, while travelling 30mph on a horse.

What could I not do?

(LAUGHS) What equipment do you need to joust?

Well, the obvious part is the armor.

And this one's based on a 1480s Germanic armor.

And it's sprung steel, in the same way as the originals.

Because when you get hit, it hurts.

Now, tell me about the lance that you use.

Oh well, here we go, look at this.

Have a hold of it.

That's where you hold it, by the handle.

Now all the weight's in front of you.

And it can go up eight, ten, 14 feet away from you.

Yup.

You curl it tightly under here.

- Yeah.

- Now this hand is let go, because it's holding onto the reins of a horse.

- Of course!

- So, I'm going to let go now.

- Go on then.

- OK.

It's quite heavy, isn't it?

Quite!

Yeah, it is.

You don't want to keep it there too long.

(LAUGHS) That's why I've got the body of a god!

(LAUGHS) VO: Modest, with it.

I think she's smitten.

Today, Andy and his fellow knights are taking on the might of Team America in the challenge for the Queen's jubilee trophy.

Let battle commence.

It's the English team!

VO: Loving the headgear, Louise!

So, today Andy is fighting for my honor.

I don't think I've ever had anybody fight for my honor before.

VO: Well, David's never done it, that's for sure.

Here we go.

The lances used in the bouts are designed to shatter if you hit your opponent with enough force.

You get points for that, as well as accuracy and horsemanship.

- Oh my gosh!

- Here come Team England.

My knight in shining armor, Andy, here he comes!

VO: Oh my lordy!

And with England winning this bout, m'lady's honor is upheld.

Elsewhere in West Yorkshire, our errant knave is out on the king's highway.

He's heading to the market town of Ossett for a look around Spa Farm Antiques.

Still got a fair chunk of cash burning a hole in his shorts, too.

Well, this is a huge shop, so if I'm going to blow £96 and something, I'm going to blow it here, aren't I?

Plenty to look at.

VO: Just a bit!

This former pig farm has room for a goodly amount of stock.

A bit bigger than the shops you've been visiting so far, David.

So, anything grab you?

Oh, look at that, good color!

Theatre seat.

I love theatre seats.

Proving these days to be really, really popular.

These seats, originally designed and made and used in the theatre, for many generations, are perfect for barbershops, for cool bars, London cafes.

It's all about... Well, it's recycling, isn't it?

Timber would be probably walnut.

Cast iron sides, very Victorian in their decoration, but late 19th, early 20th century.

They'll have a fold-up seat.

I can tell instantly that is not the original fabric.

Price... Oh, that's a shocker.

Cinema seat, £80 per set.

Per set.

So that's two.

I tell you what I would do, I would give them all the money I have, £96, for two sets.

That'll be a hard bid, but I think it's quite fair.

So, let me try and find a human being that works here.

What do I do?

Hello?

VO: That's usually how it works.

- OK.

I'm David.

How do you do, David?

Nice to meet you.

VO: Ah, hello Judith!

Judith, can I talk to you about these theatre seats?

- Of course you can.

- OK.

I think they're great.

I've got £96 and some change, that's all I have.

Right, yes.

So, if that's £80 for the set...

It's not quite £80 for the set, it's £80 per chair.

- Ah!

- "Each per seat .

VO: You've got to read the small print, David.

Oh right, hang on.

Take a seat, please.

- Sit with me, because... - Yes, of course.

..we need to discuss this, Judith.

- Because I'm confused, right.

- Right.

- I thought they were £80 for... - The set.

- ..the set.

- Right.

The set being two.

Because no matter how hard I tried, I would not be able to separate my chair from yours.

Exactly.

So my offer to you would be everything I've got, - £96 and some change... - Uh-huh.

..for basically two of these.

Not two seats, two things that look like this?

- So, four seats all together?

- Yes.

No.

VO: Are we all following this?

Cos of the cost of the seats, individually, it would be £160.

I will let you have these two for the £96, and some change.

So, basically what we're looking at, not two of these.

What we're sat on, would be £96 and some change.

And that's a real bargain.

VO: I think I'm getting this now.

So, you're saying it's a good deal.

Perfectly excellent.

- And you think I should do it?

- Certainly do.

So, in other words, you're saying I'm a winner?

Exactly, David.

Judith, I'm going to have to have them.

Well done.

VO: So, to clarify, he's just blown the last of his money on either two seats, or one set of seats.

Simple, really.

But you're good!

VO: And with those high-level negotiations out of the way, let's give Louise a go.

She's down to her last £24, but there's bound to be something in here she can afford.

My advice?

Avoid things in sets of two.

Look at this!

This I love!

Mid-century, retro, orange, hanging light.

It's fantastic.

And right on trend at the moment.

It's a good bit of retro interior design.

Fantastic color, chrome finish, and it's still got a light bulb in it.

VO: Ah!

Probably designed by the Italian company Guzzini.

They were well into orange lamps during the 70s.

This one has an added feature - you can adjust the height of it.

Could this be my ticket to beating David at auction?

I need to pull something out the bag.

Could it be an orange pendant light?

Now then... oh!

£45.

And I've got £24.12.

Same old story, isn't it?

Never have enough money.

Right.

Judith.

VO: We're keeping her busy today.

- See this lamp here.

- I do.

I think it's absolutely fantastic.

It is rather nice.

- I have just one dilemma.

- Uh-huh?

I would really like to buy it, but the only money I have left is £24.12!

Very big discount.

I know it is, look, I'll show you.

I'll show, just to prove it.

Look.

This... this is literally all the money that I have.

Well, I can't see that being a problem today.

- Oh, Judith!

- Seeing as the sun's out, and we want you to do well at the auction.

Oh!

Judith, thank you so much!

That's fantastic, there you go.

- You're very welcome.

- There's the £20, and the £4... And the bits.

..and the 12 pence.

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Well, there we have it.

With both their pockets completely empty, there's only one place left to go for our penniless pair.

(SINGS) Are we going to Scarborough Fair?

VO: Uh-oh.

He's off again.

(SINGS) There's plenty sand, therefore there'll be camels.

(LAUGHS) (SINGS) So that was a jolly good purchase, on David's behalf.

David hopes, fingers crossed.

Yeah.

(LAUGHS) VO: Well, we'll find out.

After some shut-eye.

Great.

We've reached journey's end at the fabulous seaside town of Scarborough.

A good place for a dip, if you don't mind the sea fret.

There's also a medieval castle around here somewhere, allegedly.

Ah, yes.

Oh, last one!

End of an era.

I know, I'm going to miss you.

Aw!

Last chance, Louise, for you to perform!

VO: After a whirlwind tour of West Yorkshire, we've arrived on the east coast.

The stage is set for their swansong at David Duggleby Auctioneers.

With bids in the room, on the phone, and over the internet.

Louise spent every last penny of her £156.62 on five auction lots.

Oh, would you look at that!

Isn't that vintage chic?

Style and sophistication, something that would have been chucked away in the bin about 20 years ago.

1960s, 70s, now absolutely bang on trend.

Top tip here is never throw something out.

Even when you feel it's so unfashionable, don't worry.

In time, it will come back in fashion, just like this jacket.

VO: If you say so.

(CHUCKLES) David also went all in, blowing his £327.88 on five lots.

Oh, David has such an eye.

These are brilliant.

They're practical, and they're actually really rather comfy.

David paid nearly £100 for them, but do you know what, I don't think that's expensive.

I'm rooting for David today, these are a good buy.

VO: Well, it's all smiles so far.

Let's see if our man on the podium today, Jeremy Wood, is as optimistic.

(GAVEL) I think the carpet sweeper's a really really interesting item.

We have had a push around, and it does work.

So, if anybody's looking for a reasonably-priced, non-noisy carpet sweeper, then I think they've got one there.

Well, the camel saddle's a tricky one.

We don't see many camels in Scarborough, so it may be that we sell this to somebody on the internet.

I think it will definitely sell, but I can't see it making a lot of money.

So, I hope it doesn't give whoever bought it the hump.

VO: Ha ha!

Well, the old ones are the best, aren't they?

Right, let's grab a pew for one last time, and see how we get on.

Good location, look at that, right in front of the rostrum.

Fantastic.

Louise is first to charge into battle with her jousting box.

Are you still searching for your knight in shining armor?

Oh, I... David, he's sat right next to me.

At £15 I'm bid, the lot.

Thank you, £20 now, 25, thank you, £30.

At £30 I'm bid on my right, thank you at £30.

At £30...

It must be the jousters.

Are we all done, finished, at £30?

(GAVEL) Hey!

Go on!

VO: A hit, a very palpable hit.

- Profit!

- Yes, very well done!

VO: Next up are David's wave-inspired bits of art glass.

At £25 on commission, then.

At £25, £30, thank you.

£35, £40.

At £40 I'm bid, do I see five?

- Go on!

- At £45 I'm bid, thank you.

Go on!

Go on!

£45, all done and finished?

Got £50, thank you.

£50, 55 internet, 60 for you, sir?

Go on, sir.

Excellent.

At £60.

At £60.

In the room then at £60, do I see five?

At 60, I shan't dwell then.

I'm selling then at £60.... (GAVEL) With enthusiasm, please!

Better!

VO: A good return there.

The bidders lapped those up.

Congratulations.

Thank you, thank you very much.

VO: Will Louise be sitting pretty with her very small school chairs?

At £15, got the laminate seats, at £15, and £20 I'm bid.

- 25, thank you.

And £30.

- Oooh!

- £30, 35 now.

- Hello!

- And 40 now.

- Hello!

At £40 I'm bid, now.

Sit up straight, sit up straight!

All done and finished then at £40.

45 anywhere?

It's good.

That's good!

..because I'm selling them.

£40.

Are you... are you relieved?

I am.

I am relieved, can you tell?

VO: Yes, a little bit of squeaky bum time there.

Yeah, not an epic fail.

VO: Yeah, David's Hindu figurines next.

Divine inspiration?

£30, thank you.

£30, 35, £40 internet, 45, and 50.

At £50 I'm bid, thank you, at £50.

Come on!

At £50 I'm bid for the lot, thank you.

At £50.

55, thank you.

At £55 now.

At £55.

All done and finished then at 55, I shall sell.

- I'm sorry for your loss.

- You are not!

VO: I don't think the goddess of wealth was smiling upon you for that lot.

That could have been £10, couldn't it?

- In fairness, it could be.

- Yeah.

VO: Louise's retro lamp now.

Perfect for illuminating a fondue set.

£30 is bid, thank you.

£20, at 25 I'm bid, thank you.

At £30.

35, 35 thank you.

£40.

£40, 45.

At £40 I'm bid for the lot, thank you.

£40, 45 now.

At £45 I'm bid, thank you.

At £45 I'm selling.

£45.

(GAVEL) - I'm happy.

- Well done.

VO: A glowing result, very groovy!

And it deserves that, I really think it's a cool thing.

It's a nice thing, it's a good thing.

Yeah, well done.

VO: Time to find out if Scarborough's Bedouin community have come out of the dunes yet.

You realize it's missing something though, don't you?

- A camel?

- Exactly.

At £35 I'm bid for the lot, thank you.

£35, at £40.

- Come on!

- You'll be fine.

45, £50.

55, £60.

65, £70.

75, £80.

At £80 I'm bid... Come on!

(LAUGHS) £80, 85 anywhere?

At 80, I shall sell it then.

No mistake, at £80... See?

Camel shortage.

(LAUGHS) VO: Ha!

Some lucky camel herder got a good deal, though.

Hey, it could have been £300, couldn't it?

It could have been.

Yeah.

On another planet.

VO: Yeah Arabia.

Now, can Louise clean up with her carpet sweeper?

At £15 I'm bid for it, thank you.

(LAUGHS) Thought he said 50!

£20 thank you.

I've got 25 here.

Got £30 here, do you want to bid 35?

I've got £30, then are you sure?

- Go on!

- Go on!

At £30, all done and finished then at £30, it's a commission bid then at 30.

Don't mistake it 30.

Are you sure?

You won't see many of these.

- 35, thank you.

- Yes!

There you go, there you go.

I'll ask you again, though.

At £35.

(GAVEL) Well done.

VO: That's a tidy profit for our domestic goddess.

Totally deserved.

VO: David's box of paints is up next.

Color me interested.

You know when we talk about buying with our hearts?

- Oh, yes!

- And rarely with our heads?

- Mm-hm.

- This is a definite heart buy.

At £80 I'm bid for it, thank you.

£80.

85, £90.

95, 100.

At £100 I'm bid for it, thank you.

Come on!

Come on.

£100, 110 anywhere?

110, thank you, 120.

At £120 I'm bid, it's against the internet now.

- Come on, internet.

- It's a commission bid.

Don't mistake it at 120, I'm selling at £120.

(GAVEL) A heart purchase.

A heart purchase, and didn't it reward you?

Ah, how won...

I'm really, really, really happy.

VO: He's tickled pink.

Or possibly crimson.

- I'm going now, to be honest.

- Aw!

VO: Don't leave yet, it's your last lot, your silver gilt spoons.

At £15 I'm bid for the pair of spoons, then at £15.

And £20 now.

At £20 now I'm bid then, then at £20.

Do I see 5?

25, thank you.

At £25 now.

£25, all done and finished then at 25?

£30 I'm bid now.

At £30 I'm bid then, at £30, on the internet then at £30, God bless the internet at £30.

(GAVEL) There's no need to be smug.

(LAUGHS) VO: Yeah, he is a little stirrer, isn't he?

And I'm right in saying, the aim of the game is to make the biggest loss.

- That's it, isn't it?

- Yes, yes.

- Yup, brilliant, good.

- That's why you're a winner.

- Yes!

- Yes!

VO: Well, you're guaranteed at least a second place spot.

Huh!

Now for our grand finale, it's David's theatre chairs.

At £50 I'm bid, 55 thank you, got commission bids at 60, five, 70, five, 80, five, 90, five, 100, and 10... - VO: We're on a run here.

20, 30, 140, 150?

At 140 here, do you want to bid 150, sir?

150 it is, thank you.

I have 160 on commission... - Come on, baby!

- ..do you want to bid 170?

- Are you sure?

- Go on sir!

I've got... (LAUGHS) Sorry, did I say that out loud?

Yeah.

- Shh!

- VO: Calm yourself, David.

- This is my show.

- Yeah!

(LAUGHS) At £160 then.

170, thank you.

180?

180 for you.

190, thank you.

200?

£190, I have £200 on the internet, at 200.

Would you like to bid 220?

Thank you.

At £220, on my right there.... - Come on!

Yes!

- ..I have 240.

250?

250, you've done this before haven't you?

At 250.

- 260 back on the internet.

270?

- Go on!

£270, thank you.

270.

At £270, 280?

280, thank you.

290?

Thank you anyway.

At £280, I'm on the internet at £280... (GAVEL) (LAUGHS) VO: A fantastic result.

What a way to bring the curtain down, eh?

- Congratulations.

- Thank you so much.

- Seriously, honestly.

- It's been fantastic, come on!

It's been marvelous.

VO: You're both winners in my eyes.

Maybe one a bit more than the other, eh?

Louise started this final leg with £156 and some change.

But after auction costs she's made a small loss.

She ends up with £147.60.

A valiant effort.

(GAVEL) But David romped away with this one, making a whopping profit after costs of £160.

So he wins the trip with £487.90.

Well done that man!

And that final profit goes to Children In Need.

Oh!

Louise, it's been just heavenly with you.

So lovely.

- Heavenly.

Can we do it again?

- Course we can.

- Can we?

- Any time!

VO: Well, it's been a blast with you two.

And in the dog-eat-dog world of the Road Trip, it's always nice to have a faithful companion.

You stay there, I'll go in.

(LAUGHS) I've bought a cannonball, David.

Oh!

We're going for walkies.

Oh!

A dog brooch!

Oh, no.

Not another dog, please.

(SINGS) You give me the creeps when you jump on your feet, so get down, get down, get down.

Keep your hands to yourself, I'm strictly out of bounds VO: Cheerio then.

Mind how you go.

Next time, it's team Bisram and Raskin Sharp.

Our names are on the car!

And it looks so cool!

- And ain't that cool?

- VO: Showing off their moves.

- Always on cue.

- Just like that.

Raj Bisram!

VO: They're in it to win!

(GAVEL) Yeah, fist bump!

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