MORE than 3,000 antiques enthusiasts and local people hoping to find treasure in their attics, queued up in the sunshine on Sunday to make the most of a visit to Hanbury Hall by the Antiques Roadshow team, with some interesting discoveries.

The BBC show, in which experts value items brought in by members of the public, came to the hall to film at the weekend, along with presenter Fiona Bruce, and the crowds turned out to make the most of them.

Antiques Roadshow series producer, Robert Murphy, said: “We had a fantastic filming day at Hanbury Hall, the sun shone and we had over 3,500 people attending. There was a huge range of items brought along for our experts to see and value, some fascinating finds included locally-produced Worcester ceramics, a book relating to the early days of “The Archers”, and one of the oldest pieces of glass ever seen on the Antiques Roadshow.”

Rachael Trimm, visitor services manager at Hanbury Hall, added: “We had a fabulous amount of people coming through, and the weather kept dry for us which was amazing because we were dreading rain.

“We had such a lovely atmosphere with the BBC doing their filming and people wandering around, it was just lovely.

This is the first time Hanbury Hall has played host to the Antiques Roadshow, and came about after the show’s director happened to visit the hall, but Rachael thinks they will invite the crew back, once they’ve had time to recover from this visit.

She said: “We had people from all over, some from London, some from up north, but there were a lot of local people there, lots of faces we recognised from other community events.”

The air date is yet to be announced for the programme.