Chances are you’ve already met Henry Cole on all sorts of TV programmes.
Over the past few years, he’s presented, produced and been involved in numerous shows, mostly meeting fellow shed fans and collectors of everything from oil cans to Daleks.
“My first memories are of our Morris van, which I sat in the back of with the typical health and safety of the day – a mattress and an old army blanket,” he recalls.
“I would sit cross-legged in between the two front seats with a Lego steering wheel, steering with my old man. I loved that.”
Yet the passion for all things automotive started from an unlikely source: “My uncle – ‘Uncle Dick Red Beard’ Gladstone – lived in this rambling old house in Liverpool, which was being encroached on by modern suburbia.