Bexhill's gem goes before nationwide audience

THE newly-restored De La Warr Pavilion was shown off to perfection to a nationwide audience as last summer's recording of BBC's popular Antiques Roadshow was televised on Sunday.

THE newly-restored De La Warr Pavilion was shown off to perfection to a nationwide audience as last summer's recording of BBC's popular Antiques Roadshow was televised on Sunday.

In keeping with the show's 30th anniversary, items shown had a Seventies theme. From ceramics to that short-lived phenomenon the LED wristwatch, the show's resident experts were seen valuing items either on the sun-lit terrace or indoors, framed by the pavilion's famed South Staircase.

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The show opened with presenter Michael Aspel driving a Seventies Triumph TR6 from the Sea Angling Club along De La Warr Parade to the pavilion.

A typically bright and breezy Bexhill day also saw a Chinese coffin-figure revealed as a modern reproduction and a 150,000 valuation put on what was only part of a massive collection of Nikon cameras.

An hour's prime-time television coverage, which included sweeping views over the pavilion lawn to the Colonnade and the sea, is valued at hundreds of thousands of pounds in publicity terms.