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Series 48: 6. Shuttleworth House 2

The roadshow is at Shuttleworth House in Bedfordshire, where highlights include gorgeous diamond earrings, a lunar souvenir and an umbrella stand in the shape of a bear.\n\nFrances Christie is thrilled to find a vibrant work by 20th-century Northern Irish artist Gladys Maccabe, while a ceramic fish is just Serhat Ahmet’s cup of tea.\n\nKate Flitcroft admires a silver christening cup which was once a gift from Sir Winston Churchill, and Paul Atterbury gets off to a flying start with a brochure commemorating the first aerial derby at the London Aerodrome, Hendon, in 1912.\n\nChris Yeo is intrigued by a wooden umbrella stand carved in the shape of a bear, while Mark Hill gets nostalgic over an old film script for the movie Reach for the Sky, which tells the story of aviator Douglas Bader. \n\nHilary Kay is entertained by a large Popeye doll made by Dean’s Rag Book Company in the 1930s, while Robert Tilney marvels at the story of Great Uncle Morris, a WWI fighter ace who engaged in ‘balloon-busting’ missions against enemy observation balloons.\n\nFiona Bruce delves into the history of Shuttleworth House’s traction engine collection when she gets to see the Phoenix engine in action, and she finds out about 19th-century engineering industrialist Joseph Shuttleworth, who made his fortune from agricultural machinery.

Source: BBC 2