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Antiques Roadshow

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Fiona Bruce and the team uncover the fascinating stories behind valuable personal items.

Amazing items, poignant stories, beautiful locations. Fiona Bruce and the experts uncover fascinating family and social history embodied in priceless, personal and peculiar items.

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Antiques Roadshow: Series 40

Fiona Bruce

Simon Shaw

Simon Pass

Antiques Roadshow: Series 40: Episode 23: Abbey Pumping Station 1

Abbey Pumping Station 1

Episode 23

Episode 23: Abbey Pumping Station 1

Series 40

BBC One - Antiques Roadshow, Series 40, Abbey Pumping Station 1

The team is in Leicester at the historic Abbey Pumping Station.

Fiona Bruce and the team are in Leicester at the historic Abbey Pumping Station, where treasures include a gigantic statue and a tiny frog.

Fiona and the team head to Leicester's Museum of Technology, housed in a Victorian sewage pumping station. The Abbey Pumping Station, complete with four working beam engines, provides a unique backdrop for the show. 

On a busy day of valuations, Mark Hill casts his expert eye over an abandoned sculpture which looks strangely familiar, could it be a lost masterpiece? 

Richard Price values a clock powered by gravity and John Axford explains how a tiny frog can have a big price tag.

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Experts invite members of the public to bring along their antiques for examination.

Experts invite members of the public to bring along their antiques for examination. Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

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