Laden with heirlooms and antiques, hundreds of people from all over the south west were in Falmouth today as a popular TV show Flog It rolled into town.
Visitors from Somerset to Penzance were in town, as BBC TV antiques show came to film at the National Maritime Museum.
The show's presenter, Paul Martin, is originally from Falmouth, and he said: "It's been brilliant.
"It's really nice to be home."
He added: "It's early days, but we might fun some real pieces of history.
"They've all got a story to tell and that's what this show's about."
One piece of local history was brought to the museum by Falmouth resident Dudley Watts.
He had a Ronson pen, which also doubled as a cigarette lighter, and which his had used when he ran a grocer's shop on the corner of Church Street in the 1950s, in part of the building which is now The Grapes pub.
Dudley said: "It's been in a drawer at my place for years and years.
"I remember when I was a boy, about nine or ten, my dad writing with it. He used to do his own book work."
The event opened from 10am, and will continue until 4.30pm, with the Maritime Museum reporting at least 600 people have already passed through the doors to have their antiques valued, with the possibility they will be auctioned at Lostwithiel on Wednesday, February 11.
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