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Welcome to The Repair Shop At Christmas, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
where cherished heirlooms are brought back to life. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:07 | |
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Overseeing the festive repairs is furniture restorer Jay Blades. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
Nowadays, everybody spends a fortune on stuff | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
and once it's broken, they just bin it. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
But everybody has something | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
that means too much to be thrown away. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
And that's where we come in. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Working on items with Christmas spirit | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
are some of the country's leading craftspeople. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
Every piece has its own story. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
It's amazing to think that some of my work becomes part of that story. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
There's a feeling of anticipation when you take something to pieces, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
because you never quite know what you're going to find. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
As I'm doing this, she's actually really coming to life in my hands | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
and I'm getting this sort of little fluster of excitement. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
Each with their own unique set of skills. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
It's a real treat to be able to work on a painting like this. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
There are not that many of them around. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
They will resurrect, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
-revive... -Now, that's Christmas red, isn't it? | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
-It is Christmas red. -..and rejuvenate... -Oh, wow! | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
..bringing the objects and their memories back to life... | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
-Oh! -Oh, my goodness! | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
..to make Christmas wishes come true. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
I'm going to cry! | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
# It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
# Everywhere you go... # | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
In the Repair Shop this Christmas... | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
..five rusty sleigh parts... | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
So, we have artistic licence to make this look | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
like the best Santa's sleigh ever? | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
-Yes! -..four brass cogs... | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
Put a disc on and let's see what happens. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
..three tissue patches... | 0:01:53 | 0:01:54 | |
-It's like massage for paintings. -..two donkeys' ears... | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
This looks interesting. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
I like the donkey, even though his ears are missing. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
..and a doll really needing TLC. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
This is well and truly stuck. My heart is going... | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
But, first, hoping to recapture the magic of the family Christmases | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
of yesteryear, Catherine Bridgwater from Leamington Spa. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
-Hello, you must be Catherine! -Yes. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
She's hoping mechanical music box expert Stephen Kember | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
will be able to restore this treasured family heirloom - | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
a Polyphon, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:33 | |
a Victorian precursor to the jukebox, invented in 1870. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:39 | |
Well, it's a beautiful thing. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
What's the history? How did you come by it? | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
Well, it belonged to my step-grandfather. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
-And he apparently was given it in lieu of a debt. -Oh, right. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
So we don't know any more than that. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
And then it's come through the family. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
So handed down to my father and mother. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
And then when my mother died, my sisters and I inherited it. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
Well, these were very popular in the late 1890s. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
They were a very effective piece of home entertainment. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
But by 1910, this became redundant technology. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:12 | |
When did it fail to function as you would like it to? | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Well, it's just gradually got worse and worse. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
Put a disc on, let's see what happens. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
-We'll take that down. -Yes. What have you chosen? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
That's Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
-Pretty good. -That was one that was always played at Christmas at home. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:31 | |
-And then you... -Give it a wind. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
-And sometimes it doesn't quite go. -Use some encouragement. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
-There we go. -That's it. -And then... | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
ONE NOTE PLAYS | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
Will it start? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:49 | |
TUNE PLAYS CLANKING | 0:03:49 | 0:03:54 | |
The sprockets are slipping. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
-It's trying hard, though. -It's trying hard, yes. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
It's like a stuck record in there. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Oh, well, we're off! If I remove the disc, then perhaps... | 0:04:03 | 0:04:09 | |
..the mechanism might continue. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
-So, there we are, look at that. -TWANG | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
-I've never done that before! -It's quite safe, it's all right. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
So, the penny's in each cradle there. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
Yes, and then as it goes through, the penny drops, | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
and drops into the drawer. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:24 | |
So with an item like this, you must have a lot of memories. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
Oh, yes, wonderful memories, especially of Christmas. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
One thing my father always used to do, | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
if we were a bit late getting up in the morning on Christmas Day, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
he'd put Christians Awake on the Polyphon, | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
-and that always got us up and going out of bed. -Yeah. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
So who else other than yourself is going to be happy | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
-to see this restored? -Oh, my two sisters, definitely. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
They'd love to see it restored, especially in time for Christmas, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
playing the Christmas carols. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
I've always felt a bit guilty about it being in such a state. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
And so being able hopefully to get it repaired for Christmas | 0:05:03 | 0:05:08 | |
will be just wonderful. And I'm hoping that my sisters | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
will really enjoy hearing the music again. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
-Phew, it's a big one, isn't it? -Yeah. Big and heavy. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
-So what have you got to do to this? -We've got to stop that jittering. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
When you say jittering, you've got to make this play? | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
And so you get continuous music rather than a lot of chomping about. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
-OK. Let's get it to your bench then. -OK. No problem. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
-Right. -Tilt it back. One, two, three. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
Cor blimey, it is heavy, isn't it? | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
The Polyphon is a large disc-operated music box. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
It produces a tune when a clockwork mechanism rotates a perforated disc | 0:05:39 | 0:05:44 | |
that plucks notes on a cone. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
It's this mechanism that musical box maestro Stephen | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
is going to turn his attention to first. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
There'll probably be a few little corpses in here as well, | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
the odd sort of spider and goodness knows what. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
-It's remarkably clean, actually. -RINGING | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
And each tooth is ringing. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
Now we can get to grips with the motor. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
A bit more unscrewing is required. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
Despite the fact I've been doing this for sort of quite a few years, | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
you have some feeling of excitement. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
There's a feeling of anticipation when you take something to pieces, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
because you never know quite what you're going to find. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
And there's a sort of little link between me and maybe | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
the last restorer or the manufacturer. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
We're a few years apart, but we tread in the same path. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
So I do get a bit excited. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
There we go. Right, now, | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
removal of the biggest oily bit. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
Out it comes. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
Oh, yes, there we are. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
Right, true to form. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
We've got a little casualty there. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
Yuck! | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Next to arrive at the Repair Shop this Christmas, | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
Merlin Evans and his cousin, Emily, | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
bringing with them a piece of family history | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
with a distinctly holy theme. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
All right, let's see what we've got. Oh, now that's nice, isn't it? | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
Nice painting. Lucia, I've got something here for you. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
The Repair Shop's art historian Lucia Scalisi | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
is keen to explore this interpretation | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
of the Madonna and Child. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
Oh, this is absolutely stunning. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
Stunning. This is quite a special piece. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
-Is it? -I've worked on something like this before in museums. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
They are quite rare. It's absolutely exquisite. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
This damage is not so exquisite. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
What happened? What happened? | 0:07:41 | 0:07:42 | |
What happened? | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
So, the thing to have when I was a boy was these little light sabres. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
Me and my brother, I think, we were settling a score, and at one point, | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
one of the light sabres went through the painting. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
I just remember looking at my brother just with wide eyes | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
-and the fear of God in you. -Right. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
Ran away and didn't say a thing. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
It was a few weeks before my mum noticed. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Really?! Oh, my goodness me, that is serious damage. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
This is Spanish Colonial, | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
which means that it came from Central or South America, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
probably South American. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:12 | |
And it's the Madonna and Child with angels in attendance. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
And the child is wearing the same fabric as his mum's dress. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
It looks to me, it looks quite early. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
I mean, it definitely looks sort of semi-Baroque. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
Because what happened was the painters down there were trained | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
by the Spanish colonialists, usually the priests were artists, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
and they would train the local indigenous people, the Quechua. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
So, how old is this thing, do you reckon? | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
-18th century. -As old as that? | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
Yeah, mid-to-late 18th century. Yeah, I think definitely 1700s. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
Was it your painting or was it the family's? | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
So I've got an older brother, who I was fighting with, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
and just before he was born, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
my dad bought my mum this painting for her first-born. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
Oh, so the mother and child. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
So what does Dad think about this, then? | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
My uncle Matthew died last summer, | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
so I think it would be a nice symbol | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
for all of us to have it back in its true splendour. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
Oh, I'm really sorry to hear that. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
-That's a sad thing. -Yeah, we miss him. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
So you're having this repaired... | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
-Hopefully, yeah. -..or you want it repaired for your mum? | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
Yeah, absolutely. She deserves it, after this many years. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
This has been a long time coming to pay for our mistakes. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
And then once it's done, we can deny it ever happened! | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
-Well, thank you for bringing it in. -Thank you. -I appreciate it. Cheers. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
-It was a pleasure. -I'll give it my best. -Thanks very much. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
-Thanks, guys. -Take care. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
His mum, you know, thinks the world of him. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
And just going to the effort of getting something done like that, | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
I think she'll be really touched. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
Ah, you know, my mum's my world, you know, | 0:09:40 | 0:09:41 | |
she's forgiven me for everything wrong I've done in life, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
which is huge. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:45 | |
And then on top of that, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
she's always very supportive and very kind. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
So it's the least I can do. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:50 | |
-OK, you got the easel? -Yes. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
-Cool. -Once the painting is out of its frame, | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
Lucia can begin to repair the damage. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
First, preparing the canvas around the hole. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
I'm applying acid-free tissue, which is very fine tissue, | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
just to the edges of the tear with isinglass, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
which is a water-based adhesive, | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
which will make it easier to remove later on. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
And this will protect the paint layer | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
when I'm working on it from the back, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
because we want to keep as much of the original paint as possible. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
So I think what I might do now is work with a little bit of heat, | 0:10:25 | 0:10:30 | |
very gently, not much pressure. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
The heat from Lucia's spatula relaxes the torn fibres | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
in the canvas so the ragged edges lie flat. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
It's like massage for paintings! | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
The barn's already bustling with festive assignments. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
But a huge Christmas project has just landed outside the workshop. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
-LAUGHTER -Oh, wow, brilliant! | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
-How are we doing? You all right? -All good. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
We're going to get it up on there and have a proper look, yeah? | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
Joe and Emma are hoping metalworker Dominic Chinea | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
and furniture restorer Will Kirk | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
can help spruce up their traditional Swedish sleigh, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
which they use to raise money for charity in the Essex town | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
of Leigh-on-Sea. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
So, tell me about this, why have you got this? | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
It's like an age-old tradition with local charity groups, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
we go around the roads with Santa on top, raising money, | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
-knocking on the doors. -Whereabouts did you buy it from? | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
-I mean, is it English...? -We bought it in England. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
It was advertised as a Scandinavian sleigh. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
-It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? -It is, a really nice thing. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
And it looks like something that probably | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
looked really nice when it was actually made in the beginning. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
-A bit worse for wear. -So, what do you want it looking like? | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
Do you want it looking in this same kind of green, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
or do you want it vamped up a bit? | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
-You're the experts! -So, we have, would you say, | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
artistic licence to make this look like the best Santa's sleigh ever? | 0:11:55 | 0:12:00 | |
-Yes! -Yeah? Amazing. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
During Christmas, what more could we want apart from a sleigh to work on? | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
-Take care. -WOMAN: -Thank you. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
This sleigh dates from around 1900. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
It would have been used as a family vehicle in rural Sweden. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
Although pulled, rather disappointingly, | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
not by Rudolph, but by a horse. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
This is all bent at the top there, see. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
That is metal. But it's really tricky, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
because lots of the metalwork's | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
actually been painted over in that faux...wood paint. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
There's lots of bits of filler and old repairs. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
-What are we working with here? We've got wood... -Metal... | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
-Paintwork. -And the nice paint. Yeah. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
-Team effort! -Team effort. I don't know where to start! | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
Dom takes charge | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
and begins to strip the sleigh down to its individual components. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
I'm just working my way around now, | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
loosening all the nuts and bolts | 0:12:59 | 0:13:00 | |
that are holding all the steelwork to the sleigh. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
This is an old thing, over 100 years old. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
And over the years, it's been all different bolt sizes, | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
thread sizes, even the heads of the nuts did change. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
Obviously, being made in Sweden, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
I'm not entirely sure what they used, | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
so I'm having to try and fit the correct spanner to that, | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
which is quite time-consuming, | 0:13:18 | 0:13:19 | |
but it's just the only way to do it properly. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
Great. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
The work is now split into metal parts for Dom | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
and wooden pieces for Will. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
But whatever the material, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
they are both transformed the same way - | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
hours and hours of sanding. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
Only once the surfaces are clean and smooth | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
can the festive paint job commence. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
So, the paint that I'm using is enamel paint. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
It's quite good, because it is really durable and hard-wearing, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
which is what it needs, | 0:13:57 | 0:13:58 | |
because having some of the children and Santa in here as well, | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
it gives it that extra piece of protection. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
This is one of the biggest challenges the Repair Shop | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
has ever faced. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:10 | |
And to create a sleigh Father Christmas would be proud of, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
Dom and Will have a huge amount of work ahead. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
There's a notable buzz in the Repair Shop this morning. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
Hello, guys, how are we doing? | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Foreman Jay wants to make sure | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
the experts get their own little piece of Christmas cheer. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
So I know we are all busy people, | 0:14:39 | 0:14:40 | |
but I wanted to do something nice for Christmas. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
We've got Secret Santa going on. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:44 | |
So, in here, I've got all your names. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
What I want you to do is pick a name out, | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
then you're going to make something for that person. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
You can't tell anybody who it is you've got. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
You know what I'm saying, Will?! | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
-Yes. -Right, Secret Santa! -So, in the spirit of Christmas, | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
I think it's ladies first. Here you go, Will! | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
I'm only joking. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
-What are you doing?! -What?! | 0:15:10 | 0:15:11 | |
I'm just seeing where the bits of paper are! | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
Put your hand in there! | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
So, are we all happy with who we've got? | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
All right, back to work, then! | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
Music box expert Stephen has disassembled the Victorian Polyphon. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:34 | |
On closer inspection of the mechanism, | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
he may have pinpointed why it's having trouble starting. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
This is a funny shaped gearwheel. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
It's a bevelled gearwheel. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
And that might account for the fact that it's a bit of a slow starter. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:51 | |
So I'm used to seeing gearwheels that look like this. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:56 | |
If I hold the two up, they are a different shape. | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
It's a different profile. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
I'd be more happy if this is installed rather than this. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:06 | |
So, let's see if it works. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
I'll pop it in there. Put that in there. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
We're on new territory here. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:13 | |
So, we'll put a bit of pressure on the main spring, | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
and we'll see what happens. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
And away it goes! | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
The motor may be whirring away nicely, | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
but without attending to the battered brass discs | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
that play the tunes, the Polyphon will remain silent. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
With his eye on the countdown to Christmas, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
it's Jay's job to make sure all the repairs hit the deadline. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
-So, how are you getting on? -I'm very pleased. -OK. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
But we've got to create some music now. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
The position of each one of these protrusions gives us a note. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
-OK. -The protrusions have to be upright, not bent forward a bit, | 0:16:46 | 0:16:51 | |
not bent sideways a bit, because that'll jam the machine. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
So, if I'm going to have to straighten those, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
I can't do it with my bare eyes, | 0:16:56 | 0:16:57 | |
I've got to have some magnifying glasses? | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
I have the very things here. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:00 | |
You can have the J90 Dame Edna power glasses, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
and I've selected a little tortoiseshell. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
-That's magnified, isn't it?! -Yes, they're special strong ones. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
-Oh! All right, cool. -Yeah. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
And then I'll need... Oh, wow! | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
-Look at that! -OK, here we go, then. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
How about that one, what does that look like from your direction? | 0:17:19 | 0:17:23 | |
Does it need a bit of a tweak? | 0:17:23 | 0:17:24 | |
Is it this one you've got your finger on? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
-No, no, that one there. -This one? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
-It's slightly bent, you see. -I see it, I see it. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
That's it. We're getting there. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
JAY MUMBLES | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
They're good on the close-up, but not far away, are they? | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
No, hopeless. Twist it. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:45 | |
-What do you reckon? -I think we're actually approaching perfection. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
Restorations and covert Secret Santa projects are underway | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
throughout the Repair Shop. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
Lucia is getting to grips with the Madonna and Child painting. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
She is applying a patch to the back of the canvas | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
to erase any trace of the youthful misadventure. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
So that's a very weak little patch. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
It's going to hold that tear together. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:24 | |
Now to carefully remove the protective tissue | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
from the edges of the tear. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:28 | |
Now, because it was isinglass, it's water-soluble, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
so I should be able to get this off with my favourite... | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
Spit, and just roll over. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
No pulling, just roll it off very gently. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
And then we'll see the full extent of the tear. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
I'm very pleased. It's lined up very nicely. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
It's absolutely even. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:47 | |
With the painting in one piece again, Lucia now cleans the surface, | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
which has accumulated years of dirt, | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
dulling the colours and obscuring the detail. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
And she's revealing some fascinating history. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
When you're cleaning, you actually | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
spend a lot of time looking very closely at the surface, | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
and it gives you time to contemplate what's going on there | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
and what the artist used in terms of materials. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
For example, we've got Prussian blue, | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
which are elements of jewels in the Madonna's dress. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
And that is one of the very few datable pigments. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
It has an exact date of when it was actually made - 1704. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
And what we see in this fantastic painting, | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
and why we know it's Spanish Colonial | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
is because the Quechua artist has actually introduced a Quechua person | 0:19:29 | 0:19:34 | |
in the face of the Madonna. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
The angels aren't. The angels are very European in their looks. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
But the Madonna and the child | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
are definitely native people of the South Americas. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
It's wonderful. Every picture tells a story. It's really great. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
Now it's clean, Lucia can fill the damaged area. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
The next step is to varnish the painting, | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
which will consolidate the surface and reveal the colours | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
to their fullest. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
And I do a cross, take another dip of varnish, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
and then I go out. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
It's a bit like a Union Jack, really. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:09 | |
But you can see just brushing that out, it's fantastic. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
It looks beautiful. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:23 | |
You start to see the radiating light behind the Madonna. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
You know, she's basically hovering forwards in the air, | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
and you can really see the Indian quality to her face. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:34 | |
It's a real treat to be able to work on a painting like this. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
There aren't that many of them around. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
The next customers to arrive are Patricia Hall | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
and her daughter Alison... | 0:20:45 | 0:20:46 | |
Good morning. Welcome to the Repair Shop. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
-You must be Patricia? -Yes. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
..here to consult toy restoration duo | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:57 | |
This is Betty, my precious dolly. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Oh, she's beautiful. I can see why you treasure her. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
-Can you tell us when you got her? -Christmas 1939. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
I was a little evacuee from London and this war broke out. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:12 | |
They said they'd got to get all the children out of London. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
We went off one morning and, as I say, we didn't go back home. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
The Government evacuation scheme began in September 1939 | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
after the outbreak of the Second World War. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
Children from British cities | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
were moved to rural areas to protect them from bombing raids. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
Over 800,000 children were torn away from their families, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:39 | |
some not returning to their homes and loved ones for six years. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
We finished up being sent off to Bedfordshire | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
and it was just coming up to Christmas. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
We finished up with this delightful family. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
-This was your Christmas present? -Yes, yes. -Oh, wow. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
Obviously I was thrilled to bits with her. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:56 | |
She was all dressed up in this beautiful little red cape, | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
little white socks and plastic black shoes. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
-I think she's pretty. -Absolutely. No, I totally agree. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
-So she holds some very special memories. -Oh, yes, yeah. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:11 | |
They welcomed me in, made such a fuss of me. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
It was lovely, actually. I was part of a family again. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
-That's lovely. -She's the only thing I've ever kept. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
She's never been away from me. She sits in a chair in the bedroom. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
So you're used to seeing Betty all the time as well. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
Yes, she is always sat in the chair, | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
because by the time I was old enough to even go on it, | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
she was already damaged a bit. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
So I knew I was never allowed to touch. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
She's obviously got some damage here. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
This is just... I mean, after 78 years, it's amazing it's not worse. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
It'd be amazing if she could even look a little bit better. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
-Bless her. -Will you let Alison cuddle her, then, maybe? | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
Oh, yes! Oh, yes! | 0:22:49 | 0:22:50 | |
-Well done. -Thank you. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:54 | |
Having Betty back at Christmas time, well, I'd be thrilled to bits. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
My mum's my hero. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
For her to have gone through everything she's gone through | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
and to be who she is, it's just outstanding. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
What a lovely lady. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
We've got our work cut out here. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
My main concern at this stage, we've got to get the head off, | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
cos obviously we don't want to do any more damage | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
than there already is. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:24 | |
But I think once we've done that, I'll take the head and arms | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
and you will have the body and legs. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
Yeah. We have a plan. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
Before Betty Doll can get better, she's going to look a lot worse. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
Julie and Amanda have got to take her apart | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
so they can work on her individual components. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
The last little stitch. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:46 | |
There she is. Betty minus her legs. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
That includes removing the 78-year-old stuffing. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
There we go! I can't believe all that went inside her. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
I think I've got the more nerve-racking job, | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
because I'm not 100% sure at this point | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
how easy it's going to be to get her head off. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
I think it's a combination of glue and stitching. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
It's quite tough. This is well and truly stuck. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
That sounds promising. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
Oh, it does, but... My heart's going! | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
While Amanda and Julie have their hands full with Betty, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
Jay's got a project of his own on the go. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
What I'm doing is I'm making my Secret Santa. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
I've got to wait for the paint to dry. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
The reason why I'm whispering is | 0:24:30 | 0:24:31 | |
because it's for someone in the workshop. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
They're just over there. Shh. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
In the metalwork shed, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
Dom and Will are toiling away on the Scandinavian sleigh. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
How are we doing, lads? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:47 | |
Mind your head on that. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
That's all wet up there. That's all of the steel parts for the sleigh. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
It's wet, Will! | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
So, Will, how are you getting on, mate? | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
Not bad. So the inside of the sleigh's been sanded and painted. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
-Yes. Green. -Green, which is this green here. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
-Nice. Is that dry, yeah? -Yeah, yeah, go on. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
But the outside, Dom and I have decided to paint that red. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
-Oh, that's nice. -A bit Christmassy, a bit festive. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
Yeah, yeah, cool. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
Whilst you are here, maybe you'd like to, er... | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
-Get on the tools! -..get on the tools. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
-OK, cool. -So, we've got this wonderful, vibrant... | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
-Wow. That's Christmas red, isn't it? -That is Christmas red. -Nice. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
WHISTLING | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
So, guys, do you reckon we should give this sleigh a name? | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
-What do you reckon? -What, like a boat? | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
-Yeah, that's it. -What would we call it, though? | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
That's a good question. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
-Help me out. -I don't know. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
It's from Leigh-on-Sea, so what about Leigh? | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
Leigh? Leigh-on-Sea is spelt L-E-I-G-H. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
-L-E-I-G-H. -Actually, if you put an S in front of... | 0:25:57 | 0:26:02 | |
-The first initial... -Leigh... -Yeah, clever! | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
-It's... -Sleigh. -..sleigh. -So what, S-Leigh? | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
-S. Leigh. -I like it. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:10 | |
Next into the Christmas Repair Shop, | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
a trio bearing gifts for ceramic conservator Kirsten Ramsay. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
Hello. Come in. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
This looks interesting. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
Baby Jesus. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:31 | |
We've got a rather sad-looking donkey. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
What a lovely nativity set. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
Where are these from? | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
They're from our school, | 0:26:38 | 0:26:39 | |
which is Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
-OK. -We can see that they've been slightly damaged over the years. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
What's the actual history of these pieces? | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
The school became a school in 1971. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:54 | |
Prior to that, it was a convent for about 100 years, | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
until the nuns left Brighton because they thought it was too racy. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
-OK. -So we understand it's part of... | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
We think it's part of the original set from the convent. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
So, looking at them, they look to me like they are made of plaster. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
They're painted plaster. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
-OK. -Which I would have thought was sort of 1920s, | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
'30s, that sort of era. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
So maybe that does fit in, ties in. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
Yeah, date-wise. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
Do you have any favourite pieces, or...? | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
-I like the donkey. -Do you? | 0:27:27 | 0:27:28 | |
Even though his ears are missing. I still like him. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
-And yours is? -I like Mary and Jesus. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
Jesus has got no hands, though, has he? | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
-See that? -Goodness. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:39 | |
I don't suppose you have the arms or the hands, do you? | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
Unfortunately, no. No, we don't know what happened. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
Well, I mean, this will be an absolute pleasure to work on | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
and get ready for your nativity. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
-So, thank you for bringing them. -BOY: Thank you. GIRL: -Thank you. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
Thanks very much. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
-That's nice, isn't it? -It's absolutely lovely. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:03 | |
Look at this. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
I feel proud of our nativity set. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
It is the centre of our Advent celebrations and our fundraising. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:13 | |
We raise a lot of money, | 0:28:13 | 0:28:14 | |
we do a lot of good for the local homeless charity | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
and having it back looking its best | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
will just make us feel even that bit prouder. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
Making it new will make it a memory for the next generations | 0:28:22 | 0:28:26 | |
that come to the school and it's something that makes everyone happy. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:30 | |
So what are you going to do to these guys, then? | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
So I think the main thing, actually, | 0:28:34 | 0:28:36 | |
which is going to transform them is to give them a really good clean. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:39 | |
They've got quite a lot of chips and things. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
I think the main things that I see really are the ears on the donkey | 0:28:41 | 0:28:46 | |
and obviously little baby Jesus, some new... | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
-He needs some hands, doesn't he? -Yes, hands and arms. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
It's going to be an absolute pleasure to work on. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
-It's going to be a joy? -I can't wait! Do you want to give me a hand? | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
There's nothing I like more than sitting cleaning objects. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
You get an opportunity to really look at how the pieces are made. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:12 | |
You get to see all the sort of tiny details | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
that normally just would be missed. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
You know, the faces are quite exquisite. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
The colouring is absolutely beautiful as well. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
So this is lovely. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:27 | |
With the Polyphon nearly playing again, | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
Stephen just needs to make a few finishing touches. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
And Will is on hand to lend his woodwork expertise | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
to the lock in the coin box. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:48 | |
It would have had a nice little finished area there, a little disc. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:53 | |
But it would have been a light wood, | 0:29:53 | 0:29:55 | |
made of the same materials as the other embellishments, | 0:29:55 | 0:29:57 | |
but stained to look walnut. | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
The clever bit is putting the keyhole in the middle. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:04 | |
Now, I've worked on a few of these before | 0:30:04 | 0:30:06 | |
and I know that they can be really tricky to drill into. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:10 | |
They have a tendency just to split out. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
Why do you think I'm giving you the job? | 0:30:12 | 0:30:14 | |
-If you give me the key and I'll get started on this. -Thank you. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:19 | |
-Excellent. Thanks a lot. -See you. -See you later. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
It's quite tricky. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
Now, I'm just going to slide that into there. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:31 | |
Stephen, meanwhile, rebuilds the mechanism. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:34 | |
A bit of a crunch moment, this. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:36 | |
We're going to see if the coin chute | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
is going to switch the motor on and off. So fingers crossed. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
Ha-ha! There you go. It started first time, | 0:30:45 | 0:30:48 | |
which it didn't do before. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:50 | |
As finishing touches are applied... | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
..Catherine arrives with her sister Anne, | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
who shares the fond memories of the Polyphon | 0:31:03 | 0:31:05 | |
being played at Christmas in the family home. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
-Hello, Catherine. How are you doing? -I'm fine, thank you. -All right? | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
-Hello again. -This is my sister Anne. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:14 | |
-Hello, how are you? -I'm fine, thanks. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:16 | |
-Hello, Anne, I'm Steve. Nice to meet you. -Are you Steve? | 0:31:16 | 0:31:18 | |
-Are you the repairman? -I am, yeah. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
So, are you ready to see this? | 0:31:20 | 0:31:22 | |
-Yes. -Excited. -Excited. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
Do the honours, Steve, go on. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:28 | |
OK, here we go, then. Right. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:30 | |
-There we are. -Oh! | 0:31:31 | 0:31:33 | |
And of course the main purpose of this is to produce music. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:38 | |
-Yes. -Who's going to do it? | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
I brought some pennies with me in case you didn't have one! | 0:31:40 | 0:31:44 | |
Oh, no, this is a penny. Would you like to do the honours? | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
Shall I do the honours? | 0:31:47 | 0:31:48 | |
I haven't done this for a long, long time. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
-I'm so excited. -You ready? -Yes. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:54 | |
Oh, here it goes. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:56 | |
IT PLAYS: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
-Oh... -I'm going to cry. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:18 | |
You've done well. Well done. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
THEY HUM ALONG | 0:32:28 | 0:32:31 | |
-LIGHT CLATTER -There goes the penny! | 0:32:36 | 0:32:40 | |
# Glory to the newborn king. # | 0:32:40 | 0:32:45 | |
-Absolutely brilliant. -Good, wasn't it? -Absolutely brilliant. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:50 | |
Oh, yes. It's just moved me so much. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
Because the last time I heard it playing, I think, was about 1985. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:59 | |
-As long as that? -Yes. Yes. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
So...it just brought so many memories back of my dad playing it. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:08 | |
It sounded more beautiful than I remembered. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
-Yes, absolutely. -Yeah? -Oh, yes. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:12 | |
I've still got tears in my eyes! | 0:33:12 | 0:33:14 | |
Yes, same here. Same here. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
-Well, it's a special sound, isn't it? -It is, yes. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:18 | |
And everyone who hears it always remembers it and asks about it, | 0:33:18 | 0:33:23 | |
and if we've still got it and if it's still working. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:26 | |
And if it's still working, yes. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:28 | |
-Well, it is now. -It's wonderful. Thank you ever so much. | 0:33:28 | 0:33:32 | |
It's been an absolute joy to work on this one. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
-Would you agree, Steve? -I would. It's a privilege, thank you. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:37 | |
Well, thank you so much. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:39 | |
-Merry Christmas. -And to you. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:40 | |
And a happy New Year. OK? | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
-Yeah, Merry Christmas. -Merry Christmas, Steve. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
-Thank you ever so much. -Thanks. -It's wonderful. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
Being able to play it all the way through | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
-without having to wind it halfway and hearing that penny drop. -Yes. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:56 | |
I haven't heard that properly | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
for a long, long time, so I was overwhelmed. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
Yes, I was, too. Very emotional. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:03 | |
It's very precious to us, isn't it, the Polyphon? | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
I think it's going to be a really magical Christmas this year. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
-Yes. -And the grandchildren will be able to hear it as well, | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
which is marvellous. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:14 | |
-It'll be lovely, won't it? -Really good. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
The next stage of the sleigh repair requires some serious heat, | 0:34:25 | 0:34:30 | |
so it's over to the Repair Shop forge. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
So this is the front grab rail from the sleigh. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:35 | |
And I think it's really important that this is symmetrical. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:37 | |
At the moment, it's not. It should be nice and curved like that, | 0:34:37 | 0:34:40 | |
and there's quite a bit of damage here. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:42 | |
So I've brought it into the forge, | 0:34:42 | 0:34:44 | |
and we're going to heat it up and try and wrangle it back into shape. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:47 | |
Dom draws a chalk outline of how the grab rail should look | 0:34:49 | 0:34:53 | |
with the help of blacksmith Martin. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
And then turn it right over. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
-Um... -It's way off, isn't it? | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
-Right back to here. -And it's got bent from right back here. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
In my head, I would start in the middle and work out. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
You're absolutely right. So we start from what we know, | 0:35:06 | 0:35:09 | |
-and then we work along and file it all the way down. -Exactly. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
So the grab rail's in the fire now, it's heating up. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:19 | |
So we have to act quite quickly. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
Once this comes out the fire, it's going to be cooling instantly, | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
the cold anvil, the cold air, it's all... | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
And then it becomes harder to move, so...we need to act quick. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
That's really good. I'm really pleased. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:49 | |
I honestly didn't think we'd get it looking that symmetrical again. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:52 | |
And it's straight. | 0:35:53 | 0:35:54 | |
While Dom's feeling the heat... | 0:35:55 | 0:35:57 | |
..Will concentrates on the finer work of the sleigh. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:02 | |
So what I'm doing now is pinstriping the front of the sleigh. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:06 | |
It's really tricky, because this brush here is so delicate. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:10 | |
It's really good for getting the nice pinstripe lines, | 0:36:10 | 0:36:12 | |
but you almost have to hold your breath whilst painting it, | 0:36:12 | 0:36:15 | |
because it takes... | 0:36:15 | 0:36:17 | |
Takes a lot of patience and... | 0:36:19 | 0:36:22 | |
..a very steady hand. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:25 | |
With Will suitably occupied, | 0:36:25 | 0:36:28 | |
Dom's starting work on his Secret Santa project. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:32 | |
So, I picked out Will, which is great. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
I'm really looking forward to making him his present. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:37 | |
I thought I'd do something different. | 0:36:37 | 0:36:38 | |
Instead of making something out of metal, | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
which is what he's probably expecting, | 0:36:40 | 0:36:42 | |
I'm going to knit him a scarf. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:43 | |
He's always saying he's really cold and always moaning, | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
so I thought this would be a really good present. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:47 | |
Practical as well, he can use it. It's just going to take a long time, | 0:36:47 | 0:36:51 | |
and I'm definitely not the fastest knitter. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:53 | |
Meanwhile, a delivery for Amanda and Julie. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:03 | |
It's a bit early for presents, but this is in a good cause. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:06 | |
Hi. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:08 | |
-Ooh! -I believe it is for you. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:11 | |
So, what is this for? Is this for the sleigh? | 0:37:11 | 0:37:13 | |
-Maybe. -Maybe. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
They have their own little contribution plan. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:18 | |
Oh! Ooh! | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
-That's looking good. -Look at that. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
-It's quite big, so don't drop it on the floor. -My gosh. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:29 | |
It's like a poncho! | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
-That's lovely. -Perfect. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:32 | |
Across the barn, Jay has also pulled the Repair Shop's clockmaker | 0:37:32 | 0:37:36 | |
Steve Fletcher onto Team Sleigh. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:39 | |
-Having fun? -Yeah, real good fun. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:42 | |
-These are the bells for the sleigh, then, yeah? -Yeah. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:44 | |
-Let's see? -That's right. That sounds right, doesn't it? | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
-That does sound right. -They're going to hang on the side. -Right. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:50 | |
And they sound like jingle bells? | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
-They do sound like jingle bells. -Yeah. -All right. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
-How did you do them, then? -So I've got these discs, | 0:37:55 | 0:37:58 | |
-drilling a hole in them. -OK. -And then punching them in this former, | 0:37:58 | 0:38:03 | |
and that's what comes out. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:05 | |
-That to that? -Yeah. -That's quite cool, isn't it? -Yeah. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
While Steve is focused on his jingle bells, | 0:38:10 | 0:38:13 | |
Kirsten is working on her secret Santa. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:17 | |
-WHISPERING: -I've got Steve. | 0:38:17 | 0:38:18 | |
So he's quite tricky. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
I wasn't sure whether to do something ceramic-y, but actually, | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
I've decided to go with something Scandinavian | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
because of my Norwegian background. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
So in Scandinavia, | 0:38:30 | 0:38:33 | |
there's quite a lot of little Christmas people | 0:38:33 | 0:38:35 | |
which are called Nisse. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
You find them all over people's houses tucked in corners. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
And I thought I'd make a little Nisse. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:44 | |
-Do you want to have a go? -Of course! So I can just bash away, yeah? | 0:38:46 | 0:38:50 | |
Yeah. Don't hit your fingers. | 0:38:50 | 0:38:52 | |
-Never. -I'd laugh... | 0:38:52 | 0:38:54 | |
If it went! | 0:38:54 | 0:38:56 | |
-OK. And then...? -That's it, yeah. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:00 | |
I do like this. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:04 | |
-This is therapeutic, isn't it? -It is really therapeutic. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
So, when do you know when to stop? | 0:39:08 | 0:39:09 | |
Because I could just do this forever. | 0:39:09 | 0:39:11 | |
-Shall I leave you to it? -You can have a break now. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
-I'll take over. -OK. See you later! | 0:39:14 | 0:39:16 | |
-I'll be back in a mo. -Take your time. | 0:39:16 | 0:39:18 | |
Don't worry about it. I've got this covered. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:20 | |
Over on Lucia's workbench, | 0:39:30 | 0:39:32 | |
having closed the tear on the Madonna and Child picture, | 0:39:32 | 0:39:35 | |
she must now flex her skill as an artist | 0:39:35 | 0:39:38 | |
to blend in the missing area of the repair. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:41 | |
After carefully mixing colour to match, it's time to take the plunge. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:47 | |
So you can see it's actually quite transparent, this, | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
it's not knocking the white out very much, but it's the tonality | 0:39:49 | 0:39:53 | |
of the colour is quite good. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:54 | |
I just want my greenish raw umber, that's it. | 0:39:54 | 0:39:57 | |
My favourite pigment. I'm dotting it on | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
because I don't want one flat coverage. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
I actually want quite a broken surface. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:05 | |
I want the light to reflect off it in a broken way. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:07 | |
Not one solid colour. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
So that's starting to disappear. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:12 | |
-So, how's it going? -Yeah, good, nearly ready. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:21 | |
-Nearly ready to go. -Merlin's mum's painting is finished, then, yeah? | 0:40:21 | 0:40:24 | |
Yeah, it is. It's got to be refitted in the frame, | 0:40:24 | 0:40:26 | |
which maybe you can help me with. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:27 | |
Now, that looks beautiful. You can see orange in there. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:30 | |
Now, the other thing I can see is these rays coming out the back. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
Yeah, these rays have become much more prominent now | 0:40:32 | 0:40:35 | |
because the dirt has gone. But, you see, what happens is, | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
when there's a damage like there was here, | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
your eye is always attracted to that. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:41 | |
The damage, yeah. The focus now is what is meant to be the focus. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:45 | |
Madonna and the Child. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:46 | |
-Yes. -It's proper special, but we have to put it back in its frame, | 0:40:46 | 0:40:49 | |
-don't we? -Yeah, we do. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:50 | |
Merlin brought his mum's painting to the Repair Shop | 0:40:53 | 0:40:55 | |
on a Yuletide mercy mission. | 0:40:55 | 0:40:57 | |
He needed to fix the damage he and his brother caused decades ago | 0:40:57 | 0:41:01 | |
in time to present it to his mum at Christmas. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:05 | |
So Lucia worked her magic, repairing the tear and restoring the painting, | 0:41:05 | 0:41:10 | |
revealing the Madonna and Child in their full glory again. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:14 | |
-Hi. -Nice to see you again. | 0:41:14 | 0:41:16 | |
-Ooh! -Hi, Lucia. -OK, Merlin, you're going to have to help me with this, | 0:41:16 | 0:41:20 | |
because I want you to help me lift the cloth up | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
and away from the surface. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:24 | |
-SHE GASPS -Look! | 0:41:24 | 0:41:25 | |
-That's amazing. -Wow. Look, it's completely gone. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
So much brighter as well. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:32 | |
My brother's back in town in a few weeks, so for her sake, | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
-hopefully we'll get along. -Any sharp objects around? | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
-No light sabres! -No light sabres, yeah. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
But there's so much more detail. Do you agree? | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
I don't think I even noticed | 0:41:43 | 0:41:44 | |
that there was the stuff down there before. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
There was a lot of dirt on there, | 0:41:46 | 0:41:47 | |
but it's had a surface clean and a re-varnish as well. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:51 | |
And, also, the hole is invisible, which is incredible. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
It's great to see it back in good condition, but I'm sure, yeah, | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
my mum will be over the moon and I can put this chapter behind me | 0:41:58 | 0:42:01 | |
and I'll be a good son again. | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
That's good. I mean, it's a fitting subject for Christmas anyway. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:06 | |
-Absolutely. -So that's an extra treat. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:08 | |
Everyone will have Christmas lunch sitting right next to it. | 0:42:08 | 0:42:11 | |
So just no more sharp objects next to it. | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
-No more fighting! No more fighting. -Is that cool? | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
No promises! | 0:42:17 | 0:42:18 | |
Yes, exactly. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:20 | |
So, thank you for bringing it in. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
-Thanks, Jay. -OK? -We appreciate it. -Yeah, no problem. -Thank you, Lucia. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
-A pleasure. -Amazing, thank you. -For saving my bacon. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
The Repair Shop team pull together | 0:42:34 | 0:42:37 | |
as toy restoration experts Julie and Amanda | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
give a 78-year-old doll called Betty a new lease of life. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:45 | |
I have managed to clean Betty | 0:42:45 | 0:42:48 | |
and I'm really pleased with the way that she's come up. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:50 | |
Now I'm able to address this crack, | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
which is the big concern. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:55 | |
So I'm making a composite of fine sawdust and glue, | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
which is what the original mould would have been made of. | 0:42:59 | 0:43:02 | |
It would have been formed in the mould, | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
a two-part mould, then when dry, a bit like an Easter egg, | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
put together and glued in place. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:11 | |
At the moment when I squeeze her head together around that crack, | 0:43:11 | 0:43:16 | |
there's movement and that's what we must stop. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
Until we've completely filled this hole and the glue has dried firm, | 0:43:19 | 0:43:24 | |
I'm not going to know for sure. | 0:43:24 | 0:43:26 | |
Meanwhile, clockmaker Steve has a plan for his Secret Santa. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:38 | |
Basically, I've been given Julie... | 0:43:38 | 0:43:40 | |
..to make a Secret Santa present for, | 0:43:41 | 0:43:44 | |
and I've got an idea what I'm going to do. | 0:43:44 | 0:43:47 | |
I've got a box of wheels and what I plan on doing is taking... | 0:43:47 | 0:43:51 | |
Taking a few of them, polishing them up and making a necklace, | 0:43:54 | 0:43:59 | |
and I've looked on the internet... | 0:43:59 | 0:44:02 | |
..at teddies, and I never thought I'd hear myself say that! | 0:44:02 | 0:44:05 | |
And I'm going to - on the string of wheels - | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
I'm going to have a little teddy hanging from the middle one | 0:44:09 | 0:44:12 | |
even though I've never made a brass teddy before. | 0:44:12 | 0:44:16 | |
I'm quite excited about this as well. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:18 | |
I'm going to make Betty all-new body parts. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:24 | |
This is the better of the two legs. | 0:44:24 | 0:44:26 | |
Patricia had covered them in stocking fabric, | 0:44:26 | 0:44:31 | |
which had preserved enough of her legs | 0:44:31 | 0:44:33 | |
for me to be able to use them as a template, which is really good. | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
I'm now just filling with a really fine acrylic filler. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:43 | |
Fortunately, I was able to use some of Lucia's. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:47 | |
Once I've got that smooth, I'll be able to start | 0:44:47 | 0:44:49 | |
matching the paint colours, which I'm quite looking forward to. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:52 | |
Here I have Betty's original body parts. | 0:44:52 | 0:44:57 | |
Patricia, she has such an attachment to Betty, | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
we thought it would be really nice to keep these original pieces, | 0:45:00 | 0:45:03 | |
so I've made this little pouch here. | 0:45:03 | 0:45:06 | |
When we eventually get to put Betty doll back together, | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
we're going to put this inside her tummy and Patricia will know | 0:45:09 | 0:45:13 | |
that she's still got all the original parts inside there. | 0:45:13 | 0:45:16 | |
She's coming along really well. | 0:45:20 | 0:45:22 | |
It's amazing, just with that first coat, | 0:45:22 | 0:45:24 | |
how much better this is looking. | 0:45:24 | 0:45:27 | |
Little girls of this era would have only had one doll. | 0:45:27 | 0:45:30 | |
You know, she loved her, she had to look after her, | 0:45:30 | 0:45:33 | |
otherwise she wouldn't have got another one. | 0:45:33 | 0:45:35 | |
She was lucky to have this one. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:36 | |
And now we live in this sort of throwaway society | 0:45:36 | 0:45:39 | |
that the children have so many toys, so many toys, | 0:45:39 | 0:45:42 | |
which makes these all the more special, doesn't it? | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
Betty was originally stuffed with wood wool. | 0:45:47 | 0:45:49 | |
All the early toys, they used wood wool. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:51 | |
It's going to get a bit messy. I get covered. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:53 | |
I'll look like Worzel Gummidge by the end of this. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:55 | |
Just every time you pull a bit out, it goes everywhere. | 0:45:55 | 0:45:58 | |
You can feel when it's right because it starts to get firm. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:01 | |
There's no point putting wood wool in it | 0:46:01 | 0:46:02 | |
and just leaving it all soft and squishy. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:04 | |
She wouldn't have been soft and squishy. | 0:46:04 | 0:46:06 | |
She was a firm, good firm dolly. | 0:46:06 | 0:46:08 | |
As I'm doing this, she's actually really coming to life in my hands | 0:46:10 | 0:46:13 | |
and I'm getting this sort of little fluster of excitement. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:16 | |
Because I'm just imagining what Patricia must have seen | 0:46:17 | 0:46:21 | |
on that Christmas morning when this doll was brand-new. | 0:46:21 | 0:46:24 | |
I just... I'm a little bit emotional, actually. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
Over on Kirsten's workbench, | 0:46:35 | 0:46:37 | |
she has her hands full with a very important Christmas visitor. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:42 | |
So I've been really looking forward to working on little Jesus here. | 0:46:42 | 0:46:47 | |
He's in a rather sorry state at the moment. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:50 | |
The obvious thing is that he's missing his hands, | 0:46:50 | 0:46:53 | |
so I'm going to try and make up some new hands. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:56 | |
Before I start modelling anything on a piece, | 0:46:57 | 0:47:01 | |
I sort of have a look and see if I can find helpful references, | 0:47:01 | 0:47:07 | |
and in this case, I haven't got any hands, but I have got feet. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:11 | |
And as you would expect on a baby, | 0:47:11 | 0:47:13 | |
they're rather sort of sweet and podgy, | 0:47:13 | 0:47:16 | |
so I'm going to have a look at those and sort of try and make hands | 0:47:16 | 0:47:21 | |
that match the feet, really. | 0:47:21 | 0:47:24 | |
The modelling material that I've used has now gone completely hard | 0:47:34 | 0:47:38 | |
and I'm able to start sort of improving on the shape. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:41 | |
The other sort of quite major repair | 0:47:47 | 0:47:50 | |
is to make up the broken donkey's ears, | 0:47:50 | 0:47:54 | |
so I've made up some modelling paste. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:58 | |
It's just a really nice part of the job, this. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:06 | |
It is quite challenging, but it's one that I really enjoy. | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
It's just the sweetest donkey. | 0:48:12 | 0:48:13 | |
It's got such a gentle face. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
It's really lovely. | 0:48:16 | 0:48:17 | |
While Kirsten labours to get her repair finished... | 0:48:21 | 0:48:25 | |
..things are rather more boisterous in the metalwork shed. | 0:48:29 | 0:48:33 | |
Dom is piecing the newly painted metalwork of the sleigh | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
back together with a little help from Will. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:40 | |
-Next are the skis. -Ah. One of these? -Yes. -Whoa! | 0:48:40 | 0:48:43 | |
-In there? -Yeah, that's it. Are you lined up? | 0:48:45 | 0:48:47 | |
Look down there, is it? | 0:48:47 | 0:48:49 | |
-No, a bit more. -That should be it. -It's not! | 0:48:49 | 0:48:53 | |
-How's that? -Yeah. -Yeah. -Perfect. -OK. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:55 | |
As the reassembly of the sleigh continues, | 0:48:56 | 0:48:59 | |
Julie and Amanda have put Betty the doll to one side | 0:48:59 | 0:49:03 | |
while they whip up some cosy seat covers. | 0:49:03 | 0:49:06 | |
It reminds me of like an Arctic sort of look about it. | 0:49:06 | 0:49:08 | |
It's got that Lapland sort of... | 0:49:08 | 0:49:10 | |
Yeah. Those boys have been doing all that grafting and sanding | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
and doing what they do and we've got is this lovely cosy job. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:16 | |
I've got the heavy end, haven't I? | 0:49:16 | 0:49:18 | |
-I don't think you have. -I've got all the seats and chairs on my end. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:22 | |
-Yeah? -Yeah. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:24 | |
THEY EXHALE | 0:49:25 | 0:49:28 | |
-BREATHLESS: -Quite a thing, isn't it? | 0:49:28 | 0:49:29 | |
When the sleigh arrived at the Repair Shop, | 0:49:34 | 0:49:36 | |
it was decidedly lacking in Christmas cheer. | 0:49:36 | 0:49:40 | |
Dull, bent, rusted and chipped. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:43 | |
But the whole team has transformed it | 0:49:45 | 0:49:47 | |
into a sleigh that Father Christmas can be proud of. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:50 | |
-Hi. -Hi. How you doing? | 0:49:51 | 0:49:53 | |
Joe and Emma are hoping it will be the prize attraction | 0:49:53 | 0:49:57 | |
during their festive fundraising. | 0:49:57 | 0:49:59 | |
This has been a massive team effort here. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:02 | |
And we just want to say that we've enjoyed this thoroughly. | 0:50:02 | 0:50:04 | |
So thank you for bring it along. | 0:50:04 | 0:50:05 | |
And if you don't mind, you're going to grab one side | 0:50:05 | 0:50:08 | |
-and we'll grab the other side and unveil it. Yeah? -Yeah. -You ready? | 0:50:08 | 0:50:11 | |
I don't think you're ready yet. Are you ready? | 0:50:11 | 0:50:13 | |
-Very ready. -This is killing me. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:15 | |
Is it? OK, cool. | 0:50:15 | 0:50:16 | |
Let's go for it. | 0:50:16 | 0:50:17 | |
-Oh, wow. -It does look amazing, doesn't it? | 0:50:18 | 0:50:22 | |
-It's so cool. Oh, look, you've got little bells on the back. -Yeah. | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
This is going to be so cool going through the streets of Leigh, | 0:50:25 | 0:50:28 | |
it really is. It's going to really make a lot of difference | 0:50:28 | 0:50:30 | |
to a lot of people. I'm actually... | 0:50:30 | 0:50:33 | |
I'm a little bit speechless. So, yeah. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:37 | |
Oh, look, it's even got Leigh here, Joe. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:39 | |
That's such a nice touch, isn't it? | 0:50:39 | 0:50:41 | |
And it's nice to have the red down here with the green as well. | 0:50:41 | 0:50:44 | |
It'll look good with Santa's suit. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:45 | |
It's not what I expected, is it, yeah? | 0:50:45 | 0:50:47 | |
-No, it really isn't. -It's good. It's good, though. | 0:50:47 | 0:50:50 | |
-It's good, yeah? -In a good way, yeah. -You've not done bad. | 0:50:50 | 0:50:52 | |
-So, do you want to give it a go? -Yeah. -Go on, then. | 0:50:52 | 0:50:55 | |
I think it might... If it can hold up to my weight, | 0:50:56 | 0:50:58 | |
-I think it can hold up to Santa's weight. -Yeah. | 0:50:58 | 0:51:01 | |
That's quite comfy, actually. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:03 | |
Oh, yeah. The big man's going to love this. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:05 | |
You've done an absolutely fantastic job. I'm well chuffed with this. | 0:51:05 | 0:51:08 | |
-It's been a pleasure to be working on. -Brilliant. Thank you. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:11 | |
A good Christmas present, yeah? Thank you for bringing it in. | 0:51:11 | 0:51:14 | |
-Thank you very much, guys. -Thank you. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:15 | |
-Merry Christmas. -Merry Christmas. -Merry Christmas, guys. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:19 | |
The sleigh is set to make a lot of children in Leigh-on-Sea | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
very happy this Christmas. | 0:51:26 | 0:51:28 | |
But hoping to rekindle some past magical memories | 0:51:30 | 0:51:33 | |
are Julie and Amanda. | 0:51:33 | 0:51:35 | |
They're carrying out surgery on a very important wartime present. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
We need another pair of hands, don't we? | 0:51:39 | 0:51:41 | |
-I think we do actually, yeah. -We do, yeah. | 0:51:41 | 0:51:43 | |
We're only going to get that one go at this. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:45 | |
We've got to get it in the right place before the glue goes off. | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
-If you could hold, support her head? -Yeah, I've got her head. | 0:51:48 | 0:51:50 | |
-And I'll just line it up like that. -And you're going... Right. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:53 | |
I'll just hold it till the glue goes off. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:56 | |
-OK. -She's going to have a little bit on her chest there, Amanda. | 0:51:56 | 0:51:58 | |
Is there any way we can get rid of that before it sets? | 0:51:58 | 0:52:01 | |
Oh, Betty, come on. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:03 | |
-We did it. -Good or not good? -I'm thinking positive. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:10 | |
-Good. -Yeah. -That's good. -Looks good from here. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:13 | |
Well done. I'm glad I could be of help. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:18 | |
Yeah, you came in just at the right time. | 0:52:18 | 0:52:21 | |
It was Christmas morning in 1939 when four-year-old evacuee Patricia | 0:52:25 | 0:52:31 | |
unwrapped Betty for the first time. | 0:52:31 | 0:52:34 | |
Betty's always been there. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:35 | |
A part of my life. I'm quite worried about her. | 0:52:35 | 0:52:38 | |
I'm wondering what she is going to look like when I get her back. | 0:52:38 | 0:52:41 | |
I'm really excited to see Betty again, | 0:52:41 | 0:52:43 | |
so I'm like the five-year-old at Christmas | 0:52:43 | 0:52:45 | |
waiting to see what's under the tree, basically. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:48 | |
-Hello, Patricia. -Hello. | 0:52:51 | 0:52:52 | |
Take a seat. So how're you both feeling? | 0:52:52 | 0:52:54 | |
Apprehensive. Excited. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
A mixture of feelings. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:58 | |
If it's any consolation, we're feeling similar. | 0:52:58 | 0:53:01 | |
-So are you ready? -Go on, then. Go on, then. | 0:53:01 | 0:53:05 | |
-Oh, my... -Oh, my goodness. | 0:53:05 | 0:53:07 | |
Oh, my goodness. | 0:53:07 | 0:53:09 | |
-Oh, wow. -Oh, wow. | 0:53:09 | 0:53:10 | |
She's fab. She's beautiful. | 0:53:14 | 0:53:16 | |
Oh, thank you. | 0:53:16 | 0:53:17 | |
Hold her. | 0:53:19 | 0:53:21 | |
-Oh, wow. -God. | 0:53:21 | 0:53:22 | |
-Just look at her. She's got legs again. -I know, she's amazing. | 0:53:23 | 0:53:26 | |
That's her original dress. | 0:53:26 | 0:53:28 | |
Oh, thank you so much. | 0:53:28 | 0:53:29 | |
Did you try and keep as much as original as you can? | 0:53:31 | 0:53:34 | |
All the pieces of her that were torn and worn over the years, | 0:53:34 | 0:53:39 | |
they're all in a little pouch inside her tummy. | 0:53:39 | 0:53:41 | |
-Oh, wow. -So every bit of her is here. -It's still here. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:46 | |
Thank you. Thank you both so much. | 0:53:46 | 0:53:49 | |
Thank you. Absolutely fantastic. | 0:53:49 | 0:53:51 | |
-She looks amazing. -Does she look like how you remember her? | 0:53:51 | 0:53:53 | |
The face is identical. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:55 | |
There's nothing different about that face. | 0:53:55 | 0:53:57 | |
-Oh... -Which is beautiful. | 0:53:57 | 0:53:59 | |
-Well done. -Yeah, I never thought she'd look like that again. | 0:53:59 | 0:54:02 | |
-Yeah. -It's a wonderful Christmas present | 0:54:02 | 0:54:04 | |
and more than I'd ever expected. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:05 | |
-Look at that. -Oh, my God. Can I cuddle her? | 0:54:08 | 0:54:10 | |
I was going to say, Alison, you can cuddle her now. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:14 | |
-No! -I'll cuddle you, then, instead. -Oh, she's beautiful. | 0:54:14 | 0:54:19 | |
She was always beautiful in my eyes anyway. | 0:54:19 | 0:54:22 | |
-JAY: -So, Merry Christmas. | 0:54:23 | 0:54:25 | |
And I hope you enjoy her for many more years to come. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
She's lovely. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:30 | |
Betty will be in pride of place this Christmas | 0:54:30 | 0:54:33 | |
when all the children come. | 0:54:33 | 0:54:35 | |
She's always part of the family, anyway, | 0:54:35 | 0:54:36 | |
but she'll be taken where she can join in a little more this year. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:39 | |
With Betty on her way home for Christmas... | 0:54:41 | 0:54:44 | |
..it's up to Kirsten to complete the last item | 0:54:45 | 0:54:48 | |
in the Christmas Repair Shop. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:51 | |
So, just putting the final touches here | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
on the nativity set for the Cardinal Newman School. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:57 | |
I know that they're going to be needing these pieces back | 0:54:57 | 0:55:00 | |
soon for Christmas, so I'm almost there. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:03 | |
Just a few more little bits to do and then I'm finished. | 0:55:03 | 0:55:06 | |
-Here we go. -Is that the last one, yeah? -It is, yeah. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:17 | |
-They're looking good. -Thank you, Jay. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
Everyone, come round and grab a glass of mulled wine. | 0:55:19 | 0:55:25 | |
-They look really good. -So Jesus has got some hands. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:27 | |
-He has, yes. -And the donkey has some ears. -Yes, yeah. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:31 | |
Which is your favourite, Kirsten? | 0:55:31 | 0:55:33 | |
I'm... Easily the donkey. I absolutely love the donkey. | 0:55:33 | 0:55:37 | |
-Well done. Well done. -Thank you. Thank you very much. -Well done. | 0:55:39 | 0:55:42 | |
I prefer this one here. He's got, like, the same chiselled jaw. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:44 | |
The final repair complete, | 0:55:47 | 0:55:50 | |
the experts can at last down tools | 0:55:50 | 0:55:53 | |
and unwrap some handmade gifts of their own. | 0:55:53 | 0:55:56 | |
-Ooh! -Oh, my word. | 0:55:56 | 0:55:59 | |
-There's something on the end. Hang on, hang on. -Oh, look at that. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:04 | |
-Oh, wow. -Look at that. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
-It's lovely. -I think it was either Jay or Will. | 0:56:07 | 0:56:13 | |
-It was me, actually. Yeah. -Oh, thank you. -You're welcome. | 0:56:13 | 0:56:15 | |
Well, I love it. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:17 | |
Oh, wow. Oh, look at the spanner! | 0:56:17 | 0:56:20 | |
Oh, that's really nice. Thank you. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:22 | |
-Ooh. -Handmade box. Tissue paper. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:27 | |
-Lots and lots of... Oh, my goodness! -Oh, wow. | 0:56:27 | 0:56:30 | |
That is amazing. I absolutely love it. | 0:56:30 | 0:56:35 | |
Thank you. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:37 | |
MUSIC BOX PLAYS | 0:56:39 | 0:56:41 | |
Oh, look. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:44 | |
Oh, my goodness. | 0:56:46 | 0:56:47 | |
God, I'm absolutely blown away. | 0:56:47 | 0:56:49 | |
Oh, wow. That's a winner. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:53 | |
-Oh, no. -Who's it from, Steve? | 0:56:53 | 0:56:55 | |
-Have a guess. -I suppose I have to own up to it. | 0:56:55 | 0:56:58 | |
Well, if I work it out. | 0:57:01 | 0:57:02 | |
-Process of elimination. -I've worked it out. | 0:57:02 | 0:57:04 | |
I think I've worked it out. But it's... But it's soft. | 0:57:04 | 0:57:07 | |
-It's suspiciously soft. -Oh, my God. -Come on, let's see it. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:11 | |
-Ooh! -I'm really confused. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:16 | |
I've got no idea. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
It can't be one of the... No. | 0:57:21 | 0:57:24 | |
-Who's done that, then? -Don't look at us. We've done ours. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:29 | |
-There's only one person... -Dom. | 0:57:29 | 0:57:30 | |
-You didn't make this, did you? -I did, yeah. Yeah. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:33 | |
-Really? -Honestly, yeah. -Are you being serious? -Yeah. | 0:57:33 | 0:57:36 | |
You're such a liar! Did you? Honestly? | 0:57:36 | 0:57:40 | |
-Yes. -Did you really? -Yeah. | 0:57:40 | 0:57:42 | |
-Did you really? -Honestly, it's taken ages. It's taken so long. | 0:57:45 | 0:57:48 | |
-Thanks, Dom. -Dom, how do you know how to knit? | 0:57:48 | 0:57:51 | |
My mum taught me years ago. | 0:57:51 | 0:57:53 | |
I'm completely shocked. | 0:57:53 | 0:57:54 | |
-Dom... -Oh, no, don't start, because you'll start me off. | 0:58:00 | 0:58:04 | |
-Well, I am speechless. Thank you, Dom. -Good. | 0:58:06 | 0:58:10 | |
-Let's make a toast. -Yeah. | 0:58:10 | 0:58:11 | |
First of all, to Dom's knitting. | 0:58:11 | 0:58:12 | |
-ALL: -To Dom's knitting. -Cheers. Thank you. | 0:58:12 | 0:58:16 | |
-Well done. Everybody, well done. -Yeah. -Been a brilliant Christmas. | 0:58:17 | 0:58:20 | |
-Thank you. -Thank you all. -Merry Christmas. -Merry Christmas. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:22 | |
-Merry Christmas. -And to many more. -Absolutely! -Yeah, many more. | 0:58:22 | 0:58:26 | |
Cheers. | 0:58:26 | 0:58:28 |