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NARRATOR: On Salvage Hunters,

Industrial relics
resemble works of art.

Oh, my God, look at that.
It's absolutely brilliant.

Allegiances are tested.

It's worth about 350.Yeah.
Shall we call it 350?

Four-fifty. Take no notice of him.
(LAUGHS)

And nothing gets in the way
of a promising deal.

I've never done this before.
Yeah, yeah, come on.
Show me how it's done. Come on.

Hoo-hoo-hoo!

Drew Pritchard is one of Britain's
leading

antique and decorative
salvage dealers.

It's a great looking thing.
It's a fab thing.

Joined on the road by queen of the
haggle and quick flip, Viki Knott...

Two seven five the lot?Yeah.
Yeah, I'll take them.

... and lover of all things
weathered and wonderful,

Alister Dryburgh...

It just needs a load of cleaning.
You clean it, I'll sell it.
Can we do it the other way round?

... Drew is sharing the knowledge...
What are those, Drew?

They're great little mill carts.
... and expertise...

Three-step Anglepoise. Rare as hell.

God, it's an education already!

... he's gained
over the past three decades.

It'd have to be a really buy-me-now
price, but I don't think it will be.
Five fifty, Drew.

(LAUGHTER)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

So we're off to Matlock today
to Masson Mills.

Derbyshire.Derbyshire, yeah.
Lovely. Beautiful.

Um, a first for me. This place is...
Have you been anywhere?

Not many places outside Aberystwyth.
(CHUCKLES)

I do venture outside Caerdydd
sometimes.Okay.

But not to a big mill like this. The
start of the Industrial Revolution.

I'm excited about this,
I'm not gonna lie.

I'm looking forward to this one.
It's huge, apparently.

Today, Drew and Alister are heading
115 miles due east into Derbyshire

where they've heard a former mill
is undergoing a transformation.

Drew knows from experience
that when a business changes
direction

it can create
a unique buying opportunity

for the likes of him and Al.

These guys have got a problem.
They want to clear it out...

Yeah.
... so they can develop.Okay.

Isn't it like self-sufficient,
he said?

With hydroelectric or something?
Something like that.Good, yeah.

I don't know.
I'm excited.

From antiquity,
Matlock in Derbyshire

was the site of lead mining.

But in the late 18th century,

seeking to harvest the power
of the River Derwent,

Richard Arkwright built an
extraordinary cotton mill here.

One of the great innovators
of the Industrial Revolution,

Arkwright had invented
spinning machines

that mechanised
the labour-intensive processes

of transforming raw cotton
to woven fabric.

Today, Masson Mill has been bought
by a hydroelectric business

and the River Derwent is now
generating renewable energy

for the National Grid.

But the building's heritage
has been preserved

by creating
a working textile museum.

Dean Needle is one of three brothers
in charge of the venture.

We're primarily a hydroelectric
power generator, erm, and operator.

When we first moved in, when we were
looking around, we were struck by

how much interesting stuff
there is here.

So we want people to engage,
so we've opened a Visitor Centre.

Erm, we've brought this room
back into life.

This is a working textile museum,
which is a great feature
of the mill.

It's great for Drew and Alister
to come and be with us today.

It's wonderful that they want to
look around,

see what other people
might like to share.

I don't know if I'm any good
at haggling.

My two brothers are also
directors of this company,

so if I'm pushed a bit hard,
I might have to get

some authority from them as well.

Hello.
Hello.Hi.

How you doing?
Dean.Drew.

Drew, good to meet you.
Hi. Alister. You all right?
Yes, thank you.

Welcome to Masson Mills.
Yeah.

You'll have to explain
what's going on 'cause I know

none of this sort of really says
what you guys are doing now.
Not at all.

So we're a hydroelectric power
company, erm, first and foremost.

So we've got 16 turbines
across the UK generating
renewable electricity.

We've diversified,
we've increased the business

and bought Masson Mill.
So this is a huge mill,

it was built in 1783
by Sir Richard Arkwright.

It's thought to be the finest
surviving example of his mills.

It's huge. It's massive, isn't it?
It is.

There's a lot of heritage here.

See all these metal things
you've got?Yeah.What are they?

These are healds.
Hills?

Healds. H-E-A-L-D-S.

They're used in the weaving process.

We've got a huge amount of them.
We've found

they're great for
decking the ceiling.

In the conference suite,
we've used them as a divider.
They're really versatile.Yeah.

Straight away I'm seeing that
they're using elements of the mill

to decorate it, and I have to say

it's really beautifully done.

So I've got high hopes for today.
This is just one room.

Oh, man, look at that!

So the water that's coming
underneath us here...Yeah.

... is all going through
that water turbine
and it'll produce

up to 160 kilowatts
to power this site.

Any spare is sold through
the National Grid.

We generate nine gigawatt hours
annually, er,

which is a fair amount of power.

What a great thing that is.
You know, using these old buildings

to generate electricity today
in a completely green way.

I'm all for that.
It's a really good use.

But what comes along with that

is an enormous building
full of stuff.

(GASPS) Look at that!

So this is the textile museum.
(GASPS)

So is all this working?
Many of the machines do work.

These machines, when running,
make their own cloth.

We make our own string on site
as well.Wow!

So we are still a functioning
textile museum.

I like that. Wow.

This is when engineering
becomes art.

It's great, isn't it?
Yeah, that's wicked.

This place is brilliant.
We're in the weaving shed.

They do tours here. They get all
these machines up and running.

You can just imagine the noise,
the smell of it. Brilliant.

These are good.
(KNOCKS METAL)

They're fire bins.
I think they held sand.Ah, okay.

Saleable?
What do you think?

Yeah.
Really?Don't you?

No.
Don't you?No.

Honest?
No, I don't think so, no.

Well, you can sell anything,
but you know, there's...

Look at his little face.

Have you got a couple
with that font on the front?

I think we've got another one
with font. There's a lot of rooms
to check.

Okay. Okay.
(CHUCKLES)

Yeah, I'd love to buy two
with the font.Right, okay.

I just think that is wonderful.

The look of that, you know.
We've got more than that as well.

Have you?So that's what the ceiling
was decorated with upstairs
as we walked in, yeah?Yep.

Could do something with them,
couldn't you?
So many different things.

I see them going over... You know
when you see all these awful lights,
like modern strip lights?

There's no point buying five or six,
you need to buy a lot.Yes.

Well, they come in sets of four,
so that's actually just two there.

They're normally four in a string.

So, we've got this big, big rack
of these healds.

Loads of them. I think it's very,
very important

just to show people what you can do
with these things

because they're just bits of wood
with wire on, at the end of the day.

So you have to explain to people,
take a picture of what you've seen,

and say, "This is what you can do
with these. Look."

A revolutionary component
at mechanised looms,

first designed
in the 18th century...

... wooden heald frames lifted
the vertical threads, or warp,

so that the horizontal threads,
or weft, could be woven through.

Fuelled by cheap cotton
harvested by enslaved people
in the American South,

this process created not only fabric

but vast wealth
for British industrialists.

With decorative potential,
and complex social history,

Al thinks these relics
could be worth around £80 each.

If I took 60 off you,

I'd be looking to pay 20
for the group of four.

Yep. And you're looking for
60 units altogether?Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, we could do that.
Yeah?Yeah.

Thank you.
Thank you very much. Good.

You've got to sell them
the whole story.

They've come out from a huge mill
in Derbyshire.

The start of
the Industrial Revolution.

Just give it all. Just tell them
everything about these things
and that helps it sell.

Look at that! Look at that!
(LAUGHS)

This is the largest collection
of bobbins in the world.
Oh, my God, look at that!

They're everywhere, aren't they?

Whoever has done this
just needs a medal.

It's absolutely brilliant.

Do come in.

Okay. Oh, it's great.

As it goes back, there's stuff
that goes all the way back
to the 18th century,

to the beginning of the mill.
Really interesting.

They're doing it right.
They're saving the right things.

But I'm starting to see things
of real interest to me.

I really like this thing.
Wow, yeah.

Oh, God, yeah.

The wear on it's really good,
isn't it?Yeah.

I'll check on that one.
I'd be interested in that.

Yup.
That's got a lot going on.

It's just a shelf. So this
would have been above

a lathe, or a polishing station,
or a drill, or something.

And it's for putting chucks,

or tools, or drill heads,
or whatever.

And it's just acquired
this wonderful shape

and colour
and wear and scale and size,

and it's almost like a little
miniature sort of landscape
in itself.

It isn't just
a dirty old bit of wood.

If I give you a bid on it...
Yep.

One-twenty.
Right, okay.

So, I'll leave that with you.
Yeah.

You can decide what you want to do.
And you'll come back at 150.

I'm not gonna pay you 150.
Right.It's 120.

(LAUGHS)
Let's cut that out. Yeah.

Hello. Drew's found something
that he's interested in.

It's an old tool rack.
A tool rack, we think.

And he'd like to give us
an offer on that.

Do you think it's for sale?

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NARRATOR: In Derbyshire,
changes at

a former powerhouse of
the Industrial Revolution

have provided a unique buying
opportunity for Drew and Al.

I like that. Wow.

This is when sort of engineering
becomes art.

And Drew wants to buy a
characterfully worn tool shelf

which he feels has
decorative potential.

But he doesn't want to pay
more than £120.

Drew's found something
that he's interested in

and he'd like to give us an offer
on that.

Do you think it's for sale?
Great. Thank you.

It's okay.
It's okay?

It's okay to go,
so what was that, 120?
A hundred and 20, yeah.

It's nice, that.
Go on.

Thanks very much.
Okay?Yeah.

I was massively excited, when I got
going in the early 90s,

um, getting called in to mills
and factories

all around the northwest of England,
just like this.

And I look back on it and think
just how lucky we were

going through these factories
and mills

when we were the last people
to see them in that state.

Nobody else was gonna see them
again in that complete state.

So to see one that's so complete
30 years later is remarkable.

Skip Warehouse.
That's all right, innit?

As we're walking around
from room to room,

there's a lot of these fire bins,
I think they're called.

But some are better than others.
Some have got that wording
on the front

from which room they were from,

and they've got that nice crusty,
worn look to them.

But not every one's got the wording
and they're the ones I'm keen on.

Would you be prepared to let that
one and the one downstairs go?

Yeah.Yeah?
Where are you starting on that?

Starting and ending.
(THEY LAUGH)

Um, 50 quid each.
Hundred for the pair.

Fifty each. Yeah, again,
that's what I was thinking,

so I'm quite happy with that.
Cool.Great stuff.Lovely.

Drew's turned his nose up at them.
He doesn't rate them at all.

But I think they've got something.

They've got "Fire" on them.
Put your logs in it,

put your coal in it. Put anything
you want in it, it'll look great.

And they don't need a lot of work.
Just a wipe over. Fantastic.

I like this.
Yeah, it's fun.

Yeah, that's fun, isn't it?

I like that. Fab thing.

Drew pulled it out.
It was a small little trolley.

I think it probably housed some kind
of sewing machine or something
originally.

The height of it's right.
The look of it's right.

The wear of it's right.

At the side of the sofa,
put your glass of wine on it,

push it over to somebody else,

and they can use it too.
It's brilliant.

Were you having a go on that, Drew?
No, you can.You sure?

Tell me what you want for that.
It can go. Um...

One-fifty.
No.

It's too much for that, innit?
Honestly, it's 30 quid too much.

Yeah.
It's 120 quid and no more,

I'm afraid. To me anyhow.
You pay what you want for it.

But that's where I'm at.
Yeah. I was 100,

so do you want to do 120?
Add five?

One-twenty?One two five.
Go on, then.Yup.That's fair.

Cool. Thank you.

This is where we're in our element.
This is where we want to be.

As antique dealers,

we want to go to places like this
every day.

We want to root through stuff,
rummage, and find good things.

And we did. That is a lovely,
lovely little thing.

That's a nice one.

It's just about all right.

That's a 40, 45 quid thing
in that state.

Forty-five's all right.
All right?Yeah.
I'll shake your hand on that one.

If we sort of can put a few of those
together, that would be great.

If not, you know.
Have a dig around.Yeah.

These mills, cotton mills,
would have these wicker baskets

for lots of reasons. They were
very quick and cheap to make.

They were light, and they were
very, very strong.

They still are. They were just
a practical thing

and millions of them were made.

What does that say on there?
Can you read it?

I think it's just figures, isn't it?
Six one two nine, I think.

And they have to be the right scale
and colour,

and they have to be old.
But they can't be broken.

They just can't, because
they're just not worth fixing,
there's not enough money in them.

That's the size.
That's the size you want.Yep.

So, that one I'll pay £80 for,
as it is.

So, twice the price of the other
one.I'm happy with that.
Sorry about the dirty hands.

Mine are the same.
Thank you.

The only problem with them,
and it's always the same with these,
is they're filthy.

And if you've ever tried to clean
a wicker basket,

they are a bit of a nightmare,
to be honest.

First, you use an air hose
to get all the dust off as you can,

then you've still got to clean it.
But they don't hang around long.
They will go.

Right, then. We'll have to
start loading all this stuff up.

And you'll need to pick up those.
And you'll have to go up to the
attic to bring that load down.Yeah.

Yeah, okay.
Brilliant. Thank you.
Let's do that. Okay.

A fantastic day.
Meeting Dean today

and the massive, I mean huge job
they've taken on doing this place,

and looking after it and retaining
the integrity of the history,

you know, good on 'em.

But I'm very grateful they called us
in, and I think we'll be coming
back,

'cause there's more layers of this
that are as yet untouched.

There's rooms below us
that are just full,

which we couldn't even get into
today.

We're at the start of the journey
with this mill.

Right. Dean, thank you, mate.
Much appreciated.

Thanks for coming. Thanks, Alister.
Thank you very much.

Take care. Bye-bye.
Cheers. Ta.

It's been really nice walking
around a mill that I know well

and seeing them see it
for the first time. Erm,

see how excited they are
about things we've got here,

the space,
just the history of the site.

It's been really nice to see that
almost afresh through their eyes.
It's been great.

Right, so, Masson Mill,
what do you reckon?

I did all right. I did all right.
I bought some different things.

Things I didn't expect to buy,
really. Healds.

Wasn't it healds?
Heald?Heald.

Heald.Yeah.
They were a bit of a risky one,

but what they did with them
upstairs,

if I could sort of replicate that
in my shop...

You'll sell 'em.
... they're gonna go, aren't they?
The little trolley,

it's a nice little thing, isn't it?
It's charming.Yeah.

And there is a hell of a lot more
to come out of there.Yeah.

There's a month in that one room,
you know, clearing it.

And shifting through it,
finding stuff, yeah.

But happy. Happy.

Change at the historic mill
has made for a great haul,

but before they head back to Wales,

the boys are continuing their trip
eastwards,

travelling another 200 miles
towards the Suffolk coast,

where a fellow antique dealer
and old contact of Drew's

has also been transforming
his business.

Today, we're gonna meet a guy
called Dominic Straiton.

And Dominic is somebody who I've
been buying off for a while,

but online.
You've never met him.

I've never met him.Right.
But today

is the opening day
of his new showroom.

Really?Nobody's been in.
We're gonna be the first
through the door?

We're first through the door.
Excellent.

A market town
since the 13th century,

the prosperity of Halesworth
in northeast Suffolk

has long made it a haven

for traders of
the finer things in life.

One reason why it's now home
to an expert dealer

who began his long career
in the antiques trade

as an 18-year-old porter
at Christie's,

Dominic Straiton.

I've been doing this
quite a long time.

It's the hunt, isn't it?
Just finding things that you like

and making a profit on them.
Can't get better than that.

So I moved out of London.
I found this house

that had been empty for five years.
I thought that's the house
for me.

The back walls are knackered, so
we're working on that at the moment.

The house was full of my stuff,

so I thought I'll get it in the shop
and we can have more room in here.

My style's mainly
English country house - upholstery,

furniture. I try and buy furniture
that's got a bit of colour about it.

Good patina, originality.
All those things.

I know Drew.
I've sold to him before.

I've never met Alister,
so let's see what happens.

What a frontage.
It is pretty good, isn't it?
Bloomin' heck.

Dominic, hi.
Hello, Drew. Nice to see you.

And you. Nice to meet you.
And you.

Hello, Dominic. I'm Alister.
Alister, nice to meet you.

Come in.

Ooh, this is smart.
It is, isn't it? Very nice.

Very nice.
Wow.

How long have you been here?
One day.

One day.
(LAUGHTER)

Yeah, moved in yesterday.

It looks great.

You walk through the door,
and within seconds

you're going you're in the presence
of somebody who really knows
what they're doing.

A very educated eye.

English, Irish, and a little
smattering of Italian furniture.

All of the right bits
in all the right condition.

That's nice too, Dominic.
Yeah.Like that. It's very me.
I love that.

I just love that paint.
And the legs.

I really like the offset keyholes.
I didn't even notice that.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

We've just barely
walked into the shop

and my eyes are everywhere,
'cause Drew's eyes are everywhere.

You've got to act quick.
When you're with him,

you've got to be really quick,

because he's been doing it
for years, he's on it.

So I've got to try and get on it
before him.

There's this vernacular table.

It's just got everything I love
about a piece of furniture.

What have you got on that?
Er, 600.

Is that your best?

Five fifty?
Yeah.

Lovely. Love it.
Yeah? Thank you.

That was quick.

It's chunky, it's got six drawers.

But the paint on it,
that's what I love about it.

It's got that black crusty paint.

And I think there's a little bit
of red coming through.

I'm very, very happy with that.

This is nice.
I was looking at that.

I really like that. Lovely.
This came in last week.

Very blokey, very masculine piece.

And it's wider than normal.
Normally, you'll find these

and they're quite dainty.
They're sort of yay wide.

This one's that wide.

But the base itself has got a little
bit too much rubbish all over it.

It's covered in French polish,
which is gonna have to come off.
Apart from that, it's good as gold.

The early 19th-century
English craftsman

who built this unusually-sized
writing desk

created the unique pattern
of the tabletop

by using the bur of an oak tree.

The bur is a rounded outgrowth
containing dormant buds

which yield very decorative timber.

Oak leaves have also been carved
into the spandrels

either side of the frieze drawer,

and with some restoration
to the base

Drew thinks it could be worth
around £1,400.

£1,000.
Very nice.

There's a good profit in there.

Hmm.

2
NARRATOR: In Suffolk,
the newly-transformed business

of a veteran dealer could mean
rich pickings for Drew and Al.

How long have you been here?
Er, one day.

One day.
(LAUGHTER)

Yeah, moved in yesterday.

And Drew's fallen for a stunning
200-year-old bur oak desk.

£1,000.
Very nice.

There's a good profit in there.
Hmm.

Yes.Cheers, Drew.
Thank you very much.

Very nice.

£1,000.

That is a come-buy-me price.

There's money left in that,
because the thing is ripe itself.

(LAUGHS) I picked that up.

You were looking at the table.
You helped me...
You were looking at the table.

That's very good of you. Thank you.
(LAUGHS)

As we're on the desk, I could see

Alister going for
that little plaster arm.

And I thought I'm just gonna
mess with him, so I picked it up.

I knew he was trying to buy it.
I want it really,

it's my sort of thing, and he...

And you could see him going...
(MIMICS WHIMPERING)

Get back to the table
and give me that arm.

Drew's looking at this table
in great depth.

It's not really for me.
All is can see on this table

is this arm. So I grab it.

And I could see his eyes light up.

He knows it's a good thing.

So I thought right,
I'm keeping this arm with me.

What do you call it?
Ecorche.

Ecorche.
So it's a flayed arm.

So it hasn't got any skin on it.
No.

So it's used for either medical
or artistic...

You know, to learn about
the muscles.

They get them in full-size figures,
small figures,

arms, legs, heads, hands, limbs,
hearts.

I mean, all sorts really.
And they've got their own sort of...
I love 'em.

That sinister beauty to it.
I went straight to that.

It's nice, innit?

Eighty-five quid.

(CHUCKLES)

Eighty-five pound.
I was expecting more than 85 pound.

Couldn't get my arm out my pocket
quick enough.

I hung onto it a bit
then gave it to him.
He ended up buying it.

Really nice. Eighty-five quid.
Um, I'll buy it off him later.

From around the 15th century,

western artists became interested
in painting the human body

with accurate anatomy.

Artists would find opportunities
to watch medical dissections

of cadavers. And the ecochet,
a plaster figure

with the skin removed
to show the musculature,
became popular.

This skilfully rendered plaster
arm, dating from around 1880,

is now an intriguing decorative
piece which Al thinks could fetch

around £350.

Oh, it's good in here, isn't it?
Ooph, look at that.

Nice chair I thought you might like.
That's got everything on it.

They've gone to town on that.
I like that. That's nice.

Look at the casters.
Oh, yeah. God almighty.

There is a carved armchair.

Again, almost exactly the same age

as the desk I've just bought
in the main room.

Mid 1830s to early 1840s.

Rosewood. Heavily carved all over.
Really not my thing.

But there's something about it.

I'm not sure about this. I'm not
sure. It'd have to be a really
sort of buy-me-now price,

but I don't think it will be.
Five-fifty, Drew.

(LAUGHTER)

Yeah, that's very buyable, isn't it?

(LAUGHS)
I've got to buy that, haven't I?
I've got no choice.

There's money left in it.
That's what Dominic does so well.
It's the old-fashioned dealer way.

Really good things, spin them over
as quickly as you can
for a small profit.All right, Drew.

And you will sell stuff
all day long.

Okay. Anywhere else to see, Dom?
Yeah, we'll go round the house.

Let's do that.
A few bits there?Yeah.Brilliant.

Dominic says, "Look, I live
a two-minute walk away.

I've got more stuff in the house."

I've got to have a look at that.

A major restoration on the back wall
of this house.

Ooh, look at that. This is it, yeah?
Yeah.

That's lovely! What a cracker.

I love these finials.

That wall looks like
it's about to fall over.
I like that.Yeah.

Anyway, come in.
We're going through this window.

Over the planks.
Over the planks
and through the window.

So he says, "Come through
the front garden, come through
the bay window." Like burglars.

I've never done this before.
(LAUGHS)

Yeah, yeah. Come on,
show me how it's done. Come on.
(LAUGHS)

(SARCASTICALLY)
Never done it before.
Hoo-hoo-hoo!

But we come into this room
and it's full of great things.

You know, again,
we are into the home

of an educated, experienced
antique dealer.

Oh, wow, what a great room.
Whoa. Yes.

What's that sword, Dominic?

My dad gave me that when I was 12.
Your dad gave you it?

Yeah.
Did he?Yeah.

When you were 12?
Yeah. Could hardly lift it up.

Is it bigger than me?
It is, isn't it?

He gave me these as well.
Bloody hell.

Pretty rough where you grew up,
was it?(LAUGHTER)

It's all the fun of just dealing,
you know?

If you get into antique dealing,
it isn't a normal life.

You've got to expect
the unexpected.

And if somebody says, "Come through
the front window", as long as it's
legal, go through the front window.

Ooh, hello, more.
I love these little things.

Mmm.
That's a nice one.That's lovely.

That sort of grotesque nature,
I think lots of people

find beauty in it, don't they?
Mmm.

That's why they're so collectable.

So we come into the hallway
and then there was these, um,

beautiful plaster figures again.

One of them strikes me
straight away

and it's a smaller version of it,
a sort of darker grey.

So what's this one?
That's Italian.About 1880? 1900?

Probably earlier than that,
actually.Really?Yeah.Okay.

This one is 400.

I think there's a bit of guilt
coming over me that, okay,

I had the arm back in the shop
and Drew wanted it,

so I thought let's leave him
to these.

How much was it?
Four.Four.Four, innit?

Yeah, I'll have it. Thank you.
Got to have that. It's lovely.

Isn't that beautiful!
It is nice.Isn't it?

They're scarce. They're not rare,
they're scarce.

He said, "That one's Italian,
I've got all the history on it.
It's about 1830." I was like, "Wow!"

What a wonderful thing. £400.
Shake the man's hand.
Have it. Yeah.

Lovely.Nice.
Okay, well, I think we're done.

So if we go and get the van...
Start loading up.
... and start loading everything up.

Superb. All right.
Thank you very much.

What a day with Dominic. Me and Al
were the first people through
door of his brand-new shop.

And my word, does it look smart.

Bought really well there.

Then he said, "Come back
to the house." We've come back
to this place.

We had to go through the
window. Everything's a first.

Every day's a new day in this job

and today has been
a really good day

and I bought well.

Today's been brilliant.
Not what I expected at all.

Dominic, an absolute gent.

And his prices were good.

He looked after us really well.

It's been a pleasure.
Thank you very much.

Nice to meet you.
And you, too.See you again soon.

Be in touch.Bye.
Thank you. Bye-bye.

So what did you think of Dominic
and his place? That shop
looks the nuts, doesn't it?

What a nice bloke, too, huh?
What a nice bloke.

And, like you said,
his prices were brilliant.

Very happy.

He's just a, just a fantastic
contact and a thoroughly nice man.
Yeah.

I must say, I drove away from there
thinking

I should have just bought all of it.
How much is all of it?

Just buy the lot.

Back in South Wales, Al's decided
to do some homework

on the ecochet plaster model
of an arm

which caught both his and Drew's
attention in Suffolk.

What I've learnt is these things
go back to the Renaissance.

Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo,

A name that keep popping up

when I'm doing this research is
Jean-Antoine Hudon.

A lot of his work seems to be
in the Louvre in Paris.

The 18th-century sculptor
Jean-Antoine Udon's
most iconic ecochet

has been copied for use
in art schools for centuries.

But among Udon's work, Al's made
a fascinating discovery.

So, this sculpture on the screen
is by Jean-Antoine Hudon.

And mine is very, very similar,

although not done
by the master himself.

But the form of the arm
is very, very similar,

the way it's held up...

... is pretty much identical.

So, I can quite safely say that

this is in the style,
in the manner of Hudon.

And that, in my opinion,
is gonna add value to it.

That's what's good about this game.
It's not only buying the item,

it's looking into it,
it's researching it

it's learning from it,

and then moving it on.

I'm pretty sure I'll come out with
a tidy profit on it.

It's such a good thing.

It's been a superb buying week
already,

but the boys are heading 191 miles
southeast into Herefordshire

where Drew's heard of another
business

that's going through some changes.

Today we are in Ross-on-Wye.

Ross-on-Wye. I've been there.
Not too far from you.

Not a million miles away, no.
We're going to see, um,

a couple who look after a place
called Wilton Castle,

but they're not the owners.
Right.

They manage the place
for the owner

who has been renting it out
as like a B&B holiday place.

But he now wants to turn it into
a wedding venue.

Okay.
Now, that's chalk and cheese.

You've got to have different
furniture in there for it.Yes.

And that's what they want us to do.
Okay. And it's a castle?

It's called a castle, yeah. The
remnants of a castle, it's not an
actual castle anymore.Right, okay.

Interesting.
Interesting.

Right next to the picturesque
Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye,

Wilton is a Norman castle
built close to a ford in the river

to fortify the town during
skirmishes between the invading
Normans and the unconquered Welsh.

Today, much of the original castle
stands as part of

a more recently built
grand stately home,

stewarded by local couple,
Sue and Nick Wall.

It really is
a beautiful house setting.

The age of the place, from the
castle walls right through,

is the 1150s.

The houses have been built up
over the years

so there's different stages
all through.

It's quite incredible
when you go through the house

to see the different periods
and the castle itself

went through
the centre of the house.

And there's not many places
you can say that.

Oh, it's fantastic to live and work
in a place like this.

I'm excited to meet Drew and Al.

Hopefully they will find something
to purchase,

but who knows?
We'll just have to wait and see.

Morning.Morning.
How you doing?Good morning.

Drew. Nice to meet you.
Good to see you.

I'm Sue. Nice to see you.
Lovely to meet you.

How you doing? All right?
Al, nice to see you.Hello.

What a place!
Welcome to Wilton Castle.

We'd like to show you around.
Yes, please.We'd love to look.
It's incredible.

Today we are at Wilton House.
Built originally as a castle,

er, on the river here,
to protect the river

and to protect the border from
the Welsh, keep the Welsh out.

But it hasn't worked today, has it?

Come on in. It's warmer in here.
Yeah.Yes.

It is warmer, yeah.
It is.

Okay, so what's the plan?
'Cause I know it's not
your building, is it?No.

So the owner is thinking of
doing wedding venues

and so he's hoping to maybe get rid
of some of the furniture.

Okay. Well, look, has he left you
with a list of stuff to get rid of?

There is a list, yeah.
Shall we just do that? Let's have
a look and see what's what.

This is the scullery in here.
Yeah.

And there's a modern...
very dated furniture there.

Maybe you'd be better on
the on date.

Well...
It's not all there, is it?

No, it's missing some stuff. Um...

You mean it was bigger?
Yeah.

There's a top on it.
Really? Was it?Yeah.Good Lord.

It's useful,

but pretty much unsaleable
in the market I work in.Mm.

I think it looks good here.
Shall we leave it here?

Yeah. I think we're gonna have to
leave that one there.
Oh, do you have to?Yeah.

Yeah. Oh.
Next room, please.

I don't know if you're interested in
the chairs as we go.Um...

It's got a great look.

Damage there.

This is not everything
it's cracked up to be.No.

What date would that be?
It's pretending to be a lot older
than it is,

but it's very late 19th
into early 20th century.Right.

The joint that's come apart is
a very big clue to its era,
you know.

It's a machined joint.
It's not ripe.

But it's not that wrong.
You know, it's still a good chair.

Great seat. Great colour.

Black, which I think everything
looks better in black.
Cars, houses, everything.

NARRATOR: This chair is probably
a 20th-century American version

of a traditional stick back style
known as the Windsor chair.

a design which can be traced as far
back as the 15th century.

when wheelwrights began making
chair spindles

at the same time as producing spokes
for wheels.

With graceful proportions,
Drew thinks it could be worth

around £350.

Whoever's done the paint's
done a nice job,

but they've done it
a week last Wednesday.
Do you have a price?

I imagine you've got a price for
everything.Yeah. Five?

Five hundred? No.
It's a good-looking chair,

I think it's worth half what he's
asking.Two-fifty?Yeah.

I think the break on it is simple.
It doesn't affect the price, that
can be fixed in minutes

so that's fine.
We could go to three.

We can go to 150 if you like.
What is it, 1920s?

It's not an old chair, is it?
I'm not sure if it's even a bit
newer than that, to be honest.

Two seven five I'll pay you.
I won't pay any more, but 275
I'd be happy to do a deal.

2
NARRATOR: In Herefordshire,
a remarkable country house

is having a clear out, and Drew's
spotted a well crafted

early 20th-century version
of a classic chair.

Two seven five I'll pay you.
Won't pay any more,

but 275 I'll be happy to do a deal.

Two 80?
(LAUGHTER)

Are we arguing over a fiver?
Yeah.

You know I'm not gonna argue
over a fiver. I prefer an eight
to a seven.Yes.Go on, then.

Evens it up.
That's it though.

Tough lady.
Deal done. Yes.
Thank you very much.

Two 80. That's okay. Like I said,
a little bit of work.

And to be honest with you,
I'd have it in my house.

You know, you can be,
"Oh, I'm an absolute purist

and I only use chairs
from the 17th century

that were made on a Wednesday
afternoon after four in that valley
over there."

Fine. But it'll cost you £2,000
to £4,000 for a really good one.

This is doing something that's
giving you that sort of look and
feel for a few hundred quid.

So we've got these chairs.
One, two, three, four.

French?Yep.
French?Yep.

French stuff is something that
I very rarely buy.

These would have been done
originally in a very vivid
gold brocade

with tassels, and all sorts of stuff
all over them.

I prefer them like that.
But French stuff,

French chairs particularly,
there's a lot of them,

but they don't stand up to scrutiny
compared to an English one.

Price?
Seven hundred pound a chair.

Per chair? Okay.

Next room.
(LAUGHTER)

It's fine, it's fine. It is what it
is. So they will be staying here.

Well priced for somebody.
Seven hundred each, that's fine.

We're now up in the top bedroom.
Anything that takes your fancy?

That chair's nice.
Ah. Right.

Just the one?
There's two.
There's a pair, is there?

There's one in the other room.
Okay.

What sort of period are those?
They're later than you think.

They're meant to look like something

from the last quarter
of the 18th century,

but they're a lot later.
Six hundred pound a chair.

Per chair? Can't get to that.

These were made in the latter part
of the 19th century.

They look like they're the latter
part of the 18th century.

They're a sort of revival of that,
but they're not pure at all.

If we were looking at the 18th
century for the pair of chairs,
I'd have bought them.

But they're not,
so they're staying here.

What else have we got to see?
We have one table
up in the northwest tower.

So outside?Outside.Let's do that.
In the cold.I'll get my hat on.
Don't worry.

We got to dozens and dozens
of houses in this game

and sometimes you can tell
straight away

that it's not quite
what we want.

I'm not taking away, there's some
good stuff there, but not stuff
to make the money on.

And that's what we do.
We've got to make money
from things we buy.

As we're leaving, Sue said

over in the west tower
there's a table.

I thought:
right, please be a good table.

Gosh.
One table.

That's nice.

It's constructed of oak.
And they're appealing

for where I live, farmhouses.

Er, it's not massive, it's about
six and a half foot,

so it can go into a smaller kitchen
too.

And that's just got the look
of an older table.

So I've got to try and buy it,
but I've got to buy it
for the right price.

It's very obviously a reproduction.
An older table like this,

the timber would have been cut
in a different way,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

So all of these dints and marks have
been done with little grinders.

Ah, right.
Yeah, all that sort of stuff.

Do you know how much he wants
for it?Seven hundred.

No, that's too much for that.
Because of what age it is.Yeah.

If you cut the price in half...
Oh!

It's worth about 350.
Yeah.Four?

Five?
(DREW LAUGHS)

You're meant to come down.
Three fifty.

Shall we call it 350?
It's a good table

for 450.

I think I'm gonna buy it for that.
I think there's money left in there.
The profit is not a lot.

(EXHALES HEAVILY)
Just be realistic.

You're a big boy, you know what
you're doing.Yeah.

Four fifty, take no notice of him.
Four fifty.

(CHUCKLES)

Yeah, come on, 450, yeah.
Four fifty. Well done.
Thank you very much indeed.

I can see this table at about
650, 750.

Eight hundred on a good day.

But I'd happily take a couple of
hundred quid profit on it
just for today's wages.

Right, are a we done?
Have we seen everything?
I think you have.Yep.

You can put that in the van.
Yep.

Let's go. Thank you.
Lovely, thanks.

Ah, thank you so much indeed.

Wilton Castle, Ross-on-Wye,
beautiful location.

The river is right there
and the remains of the castle.
It is a fantastic spot.

Not so great on the sort of
purchase front

for myself and Al.

But you have to go to
every house call that sounds right.

And as I say, if you're ever called

to anywhere that has got

castle, manor or palace
on the end of the address, you go.

You just go.

SUE: Oh, Drew and Al have been
amazing. I've had a fantastic time.

Yeah, I think Drew and Al
had a good time

and a good deal as well. Pity
they didn't buy a little bit more,

but hey-ho.
That's life, isn't it?

Thanks very much.
Okay, thank you very much.

Take care.
Thank you ever so much indeed.
Nice to meet you both.

Cheers.
Bye-bye.Bye.

NARRATOR: For both Drew and Al,

visiting businesses in the process
of transformation

has meant a great week
of buying.

One of my favourite days out
actually for ages was going
to see Dominic.

Cheers, Drew.
Thank you very much.

I bought a particularly good desk
and I really like it.

The colour of that timber
on the top, I'd have bought it
for that alone.

The day in Masson Mills
was particularly good.

Nobody wants to see these buildings
and this industry and these
businesses close down.

Unfortunately, it happens.

We get called because they do have
to find another purpose and use
for these buildings

because it stops the buildings
going into decay.

So, what do they do with
all the stuff in there?
They call people like me.

I'm making some money out of it,
Al's making some money.

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

It's reuse in action.
It's recycling.

And it's not getting thrown away, so
we're doing the very best we can.

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