Antiques Roadshow leaves Swallows and Amazons actress STUNNED with HUGE valuation for movie’s memorabilia 50-years after she appeared in the iconic family film
Antiques Roadshow welcomed Swallows and Amazons actress Sophie Neville to the show which was filmed from the Lake District on Sunday, 50 years after she appeared in the iconic family film.
The former child star, 64, who played Titty Walker and is now an author, brought along memorabilia from the 1974 set, including pirate flags and a bow and arrow.
The film, based on the 1930 novel by Arthur Ransome, followed the Walker children and their adventures in the Lake District as they sailed in their dinghy named Swallow.
Expert Mark Allum was impressed with the collection, as Sophie said: ‘[Starring in the movie] was a great opportunity and we came over and filmed it on location overlooking Lake Windermere.
When the antiques empresario saw the original Swallows flag from their boat, he said, “I just have to touch it out of respect.”
Antiques Roadshow welcomed Swallows and Amazons actress Sophie Neville to the show on Sunday, 50 years after she appeared in the iconic family film
The former child star, who played Titty Walker (pictured second right in the film), brought along memorabilia from the set, including pirate flags and a bow and arrow
Sophie was delighted with the appraisal (R, pictured in the film)
Sophie then joked: “My character Titty made that flag, in reality the props made it, and I was twelve, playing a nine year old and I thought those stitches were quite sloppy and big and I could have made a much neater flag . An’.
Turning to valuation, Mark mused: ‘In monetary terms, worth about £4,000 to £6,000 at auction.’
Shocked, the actress asked, “Really?! These little things?’.
Smiling, he assured her, “Those hard-core fans would kill for a bit of movie memorabilia like this.”
Swallows and Amazons was remade in 2016 with Harry Enfield and Andrew Scott, despite being a huge success with critics, it failed and the box office and rumored sequels were cancelled.
Last week the BBC was praised after dedicating a special episode of Antiques Roadshow to the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
An estimated 12,000 Allied troops were killed during Operation Overlord, a planned landing operation on the beaches of Nazi-occupied Normandy at the height of World War II.
The invasion on June 6, 1944 is recognized as one of the defining (and harrowing) conflicts of the war, and veteran survivors will testify from the victims during Sunday night’s show.
Expert Mark Allum was impressed with the collection, as Sophie said: ‘[Starring in the movie] was a great opportunity and we came over and filmed it on location overlooking Lake Windermere
When the antique empresario saw the original Swallows flag from their boat, he said: ‘I just have to touch it out of respect’
Thinking about valuation, Mark thought: ‘In monetary terms, worth around £4,000 to £6,000 at auction’, leaving the actress stunned
The film, based on the 1930 novel by Arthur Ransome, followed the Walker children and their adventures in the Lake District as they sailed in their dinghy named Swallow.
Swallows and Amazons was remade in 2016 (pictured) with Harry Enfield and Andrew Scott, despite being a huge success with critics, it failed and the box office and rumored sequels were cancelled.
Host Fiona Bruce and her team of experts traveled between Portsmouth, where the Grade II listed Southwick House was used as a command post during the battle, and Normandy for an episode that left many viewers in tears.
In what seemed to be a recurring theme on social media, fans praised the BBC for its upcoming anniversary tribute, while admitting the episode was marred by a series of geographical errors.
They wrote to X: ‘Listening in awe to the stories behind D-Day on the Antiques Roadshow special. What gratitude we owe to those who have given so much;
‘A suitable vehicle for Dday80 – excellent programme;
‘Extraordinary Antiques Roadshow tonight; what would have happened if Hitler had won?;
‘Watching this riveting, deeply moving episode of Antiques Roadshow, which honors the bravery of those who landed on the beaches of Normandy, and the planning and support for DDay;
‘Amazingly moving and beautifully produced;
‘Well done BBC for the extraordinarily moving stories of D-Day on The Antiques Roadshow;
“Jesus, that episode of the D-Day Antiques Roadshow was excellent. You would have a heart of stone if you didn’t shed a tear. Braver than brave!;
‘Tonight’s Antiques Roadshow on BBC One was breathtaking. A DDay80 special, that was an enlightening lesson about everything those troops gave us today. We will remember them. Always.’
