Flog It! on TV in Rochdale

Date published: 27/02/2007

The popular BBC Two antiques programme Flog It!, presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Rochdale Town Hall on Sunday 11 March from 9.30am until 4pm. The auction will take place on Wednesday 25 April 2007 at the Calder Valley Auctioneers in Luddenden Foot, near Halifax and will be broadcast as part of the sixth series later in the year.

Rochdale Town Hall will be hosting the Flog It! Valuation Day.  Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public are invited to bring along the antiques and collectables they might be interested in selling. Once valued, the owner and team of experts decide whether it should go forward for auction.  If the item is chosen it is sold a few weeks later – often with the owner making a tidy sum.  Everyone who goes along to the Valuation Day will receive a valuation – even if their antiques are not chosen to go forward for auction.

Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of 2 million viewers each weekday – around 25% of the television audience.

Previous programmes have seen a small cream jug sold at auction for £1,300; a ceramic bowl, bought for £4 at a car boot sale, achieving £1,500; and a lady in Aberdeen sold a Shelley tea set for a huge £3,400! So if you've ever wondered how much those boot sale bargains or clutter in the loft might be worth, now is your chance to find out.
hen the owner and a team of experts decide whether the antique should go forward to auction. 

Rochdale Town Hall has already hosted two visits by the BBC One programme Antiques Roadshow in 1991 and 2005. In 2005, people started arriving at 4.15am and queued right around the Town Hall.