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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 44: Aston Hall 2

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Fiona and the team return to the glorious grounds of Aston Hall in Birmingham.

The team return to Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include Wind in the Willows figures, memorabilia from an Aston Villa footballer and items from a pioneering mountaineer.


Antiques Roadshow is at Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include wooden figures depicting characters from children’s favourite The Wind in the Willows and a stunning opal and diamond necklace from the 1900s. 

Will Farmer discovers that celebrated poet and Aston local Benjamin Zephaniah is a passionate collector of money – in the form of unusual banknotes and currency, including a gold medal honouring Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. 

Raj Bisram is thrilled to see a collection of football memorabilia belonging to Aston Villa legend Eric Houghton, a celebrated player and manager when the club last won the FA Cup, while Rupert Maas is intrigued by a painting by an artist known as the Picasso of the Philippines.

Fuchsia Voremberg is captivated by a collection of artwork and mountaineering equipment that belonged to Theodore Howard Sommervell, a pioneering climber, while Chris Yeo hears the moving story of a woman found who a new life in the UK after being abandoned as a baby in Hong Kong in the 1960s.

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