An antiques shop will make a television appearance on the BBC show Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Monday.

Gavantiques, on Stoneleigh Broadway will be featured on the programme which sees antiques experts battling to make the biggest profit from buying and selling antiques, with the winner donating their money to charity.

The episode will show expert Mark Franks selling items to the shop’s manager, Gavin Taylor.

Mr Taylor, from Stoneleigh, has been a dealer for 35 years and opened the shop in 2001. He sells furniture, lighting and collectables.

Only this week he sold a rare copy of a newspaper covering the sinking of the Titanic the day after it went down.

He said: "I have known Mark Franks for a number of years and he decided to film in my shop. In the programme he will be shown selling me items. I have done some acting in the past so having a camera crew in here didn’t really bother me. But crowds were gathering outside when they were filming as people recognise Mark."

The 53-year-old said that at the same time that popular interest in antiques is increasing, the number buying from antique shops has declined.

He said: "It’s not just about making money, but about having an interest in things from the past and in history. I have been doing this for a long time because I find it interesting.

"The shop sells a mixture of items - 30 per cent are actually brand-new as you have to keep up with the times, keep your finger on the pulse and try to make a profit. If you turn on the television, you can watch endless programmes about antiques at the moment. But people don’t approach dealers like me as much now as they are finding other ways of selling items, including over the internet on Ebay, and with the economy the way it is, people are only buying essentials."

But Mr Taylor is still keen to sell items to other dealers, rather than on the web.

He said: "Only two newspapers covered the Titanic sinking - the Daily Mirror and the Daily Sketch - and yesterday I sold an original copy of the Mirror, dated the day after the Titanic sank, to a dealer for £110.

"I had the newspaper for 20 years and spent two hours in my attic finding it to sell. It is something I would liked to have kept, but paper tends to deteriorate and break over time. I could have sold that on Ebay for more money, but didn’t want to."

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is will be shown on BBC2 at 5.15pm on Monday April 2.