"I’ve got you an old fishing reel and it came out of a props cupboard in a department store – Debenhams in Guildford - they must have had a window display relating to country pursuits and they were throwing these in the bin. It’s quite an old reel, not sure how old, I thought it would be useful but it turned out not to be, it was too big and too heavy. I do trout fishing, fly fishing, I’ve been fishing forever, I taught myself, but this is for sea fishing and I don’t do sea fishing."

"I’ve brought you a cribbage board made to score the points in a game with two players. On the back it says “Made out of the Old Black Mill by J. Butcher in 1880 and for Charles Hodgson” and Charles Hodgson was my Great-great-uncle and he was concerned with Hodgson’s Mill which was called the Old Black Mill and was on top of the hill in Brighton just above Brighton station. Basically when they built Brighton station there was no more wind because ether were too many house around and so the mill stopped working so they took the mill down and out of the wood they made this."

"I got you a stout stick, bent at an elbow and it’s a rough stick, there is no finish on it. I’m staging a piece called ‘Imaging O’ which combines Histoire d’O a kind of erotic novel in French called The Story of O in English, and Ophelia’s predicaments and for part of it I did some filming and one of the films I had was of a man being chased by a woman who was wielding this stick and she wants to beat him and really hurt him with it and I gave him a head-start because I told the actor playing the woman “If you catch him, beat the f***er to death.” And it’s a true sacrifice because this is a prop, it’s irreplaceable and I’ll have to reconsider the entire performance, there will no longer be this stick in it, it won’t make an reappearance, I won’t have a substitute."

"We’ve brought you two security boxes which look like ordinary plain, boring boxes but at the beginning of the war they contained thousands of pounds worth of securities which went to Canada for safekeeping when Churchill reckoned that Britain was going to be invaded after France fell in June 1940. Our father was in charge of the whole operation, he was Chief Auditor and Head of Securities at the Bank of England and we all went to Montreal because that was the nearest place that we were going to run the war from. A destroyer came back at the end of the war and took these boxes with what was left of the securities and things, and my father being in charge of it was allowed to have some of the boxes. They are very strong boxes and have no actual value, but historic value."

"It’s a pulley block spindle, a fid for the riggers to do the rope, and part of a gunpowder barrel and these are a few of the pieces from HMS Invincible which lies 3 miles out from Southsea Castle. In 1979 I was trawling, because I’m a fisherman, and it got my nets caught. So I buoyed it off and I brought a diver out but the buoys had gone. But I had that gut feeling that there was definitely something there and it took me another two months, going out most days to find it again. The navy divers came out to have look and they said it’s such a big wreck that we think it’s one of our capital warships. I learned to dive at the navy baths on Pitt Street and worked on the wreck for 9 years."

“This was given to me by my Grandfather who was a make-up artist at Pinewood in the 1960’s. He worked on a lot of the Carry On films and used to have to explain the jokes to my Grandmother, who was his assistant, as she didn’t get them.”

“We had a little boy called Leo who used to come to our playgroup who died of a brain tumor and we bought a table in his memory. We want to carry on that memorial to him by putting this into the boat.”

“We saw this piece of wood cut straight from the tree in a steam rally in Bristol in 1970’s. They were selling the bits off so we bought one to make into something, but never got around to it.”

'I've brought you three animals, all of which come from my very very old aunt's house which I helped clear out when she moved into a home. They're traces of the Williams family's murky colonial past.'

‘This is a piece of teak which comes from north China, I left north China when I was four, my father had been working there for 17 years… he couldn’t get any money out so he bought Chinese jade and porcelain and scrolls and he managed to get them out of China in a teak crate and this is the last piece of wood from that teak crate’

‘I used to play the drums, I had a band in the local area and we used to do various gigs along the coast, we’d try and make a name for ourselves – we used to play covers by bands like The Red Hot Chilly Peppers and Green Day, it tended to be the easiest songs. We were called Exodus.' 

"It’s a piece of a lock gate, it was made by an old master carpenter I knew called Peter Fletcher, who’s now deceased….He would love this, the thought of a little bit of Fletcher floating and bobbing around out there would be great - so here I am."