Bargain hunt featuring scenes from Maidstone and Detling
13:21, 17 April 2020
updated: 13:34, 17 April 2020
Those enjoying a spot of daytime TV would have seen some familiar Kent scenes today, filmed before social distancing regulations took hold.
Bargain Hunt was broadcast, with filming taking place in Maidstone, Detling and Canterbury.
Filmed at the Detling Antiques and Collectors Fair at the Kent Showground, the episode also featured TV personality Raj Bisram, the director of Bentleys Antiques in Cranbrook, who was on hand to advise the blue team - mother and daughter Elaine and Jean.
Presenter Natasha Raskin Sharp began the episode on the Millennium Bridge at Lockmeadow, joined by a cuddly version of the town's mascot - Iggy the Iguanodon dinosaur.
Iggy - as he is popularly known - was exposed during rock-blasting at a ragstone quarry off the Queen's Road in Maidstone in 1834.
He was recently commemorated on a special range of Royal Mint coins.
On the BBC1 programme, the red team chose to buy a Canterbury West railway sign for £95 and a vintage puzzle called Mousy Mousy for just £1. But it was a wooden box of Mecchano which let them down, which sold for £45 against a purchase price of £165.
After a bonus buy of a scent bottle sold for £50, against a purchase price of £20, the team ended up with an £85 loss.
The blues bought a pair of stone pigs for £40, an inkwell for £16 and a belt buckle and sugar sifter for £100. These generated the biggest loss, when it sold for just £45.
When the mum and daughter's bonus buy of a silver Chester envelope, for £30 was auctioned off at the Canterbury Auction Galleries, it bought in a £20 profit, seeing the blue team win.
