Career
She is well known for her appearances as an expert and presenter on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Bargain Hunt, Flog lieutenant! and the Antiques Road Trip. She is claimed to be the first female auctioneer in Scotland. Manning"s father used to take her to auctions on Sauchiehall Street, in Glasgow and she grew to love antiques.
She first got into the antiques business in the 1970s after buying a bed from an Irish dealer.
He offered her a job as a buyer. As a young mother, she developed a knowledge of antiques buying furniture from auctions.
After her first visit to Glasgow as a buyer, she bought and sold furniture in England and Ireland for about three years, driving all around the country in a truck. Manning"s son lives in Hong Kong, while her mother lived in Australia for the last 35 years of her life.
