0:00:02 > 0:00:03Welcome to The Repair Shop,
0:00:03 > 0:00:06where cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08This is the workshop of dreams.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Home to furniture restorer Jay Blades.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15Nowadays, everybody spends a fortune on stuff that, once it's broken,
0:00:15 > 0:00:19they just bin it. But everybody has something that means too much to be
0:00:19 > 0:00:21thrown away and that's where we come in.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26Working alongside Jay will be some of the country's leading craftspeople...
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Every piece has its own story.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31It's amazing to think that some of my work becomes part of that story.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35I've always played with things, I've always repaired things,
0:00:35 > 0:00:39- and I just love it.- There is a real pleasure in bringing people's pieces
0:00:39 > 0:00:40back to life again.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43..each with their own unique set of skills.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45The right tool for the right job.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48They will resurrect,
0:00:48 > 0:00:52- revive...- I'm warm, man! - ..and rejuvenate
0:00:52 > 0:00:57treasured possessions and irreplaceable pieces of family history...
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Wow. She's fantastic!
0:00:59 > 0:01:02..bringing both the objects...
0:01:02 > 0:01:03- Oh!- This is what I remember.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08- ..and the memories that they hold... - Wow!- ..back to life.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Oh, my God!
0:01:25 > 0:01:30In The Repair Shop today, a much-loved toy lies in tatters.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32That is quite serious, isn't it?
0:01:32 > 0:01:33- Yeah.- So how are you going to fix this?
0:01:33 > 0:01:35You've got no reference - there's nothing there.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39And Brenton's search for some precious metal leads him to a fellow
0:01:39 > 0:01:41expert's stash.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Have you got any bigger diameter brass bar?
0:01:45 > 0:01:46That might be the piece.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Failing that, THAT might be the piece.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53That IS the piece! I can turn it down from there!
0:01:57 > 0:02:01First to arrive at The Repair Shop clutching a cherished possession are
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Roger and Frances Livet.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07- Hello, how are we doing?- Very well, how about yourself?
0:02:07 > 0:02:09- I'm very good, actually.- Good. I'm Roger.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- I'm Jay.- Jay, nice to see you.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15They've brought with them a piece of wartime history that survived
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- against the odds.- A music box, a rather battered music box.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22OK, I know just... Steve! We've got a music box here, mate.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27This job calls for the skills of music box maestro Steve Kember.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29- Steve's the man.- Yeah, Steve is the man.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Steve, nice to see you. Nice to see you.
0:02:30 > 0:02:31Hello.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37This poor fella was involved in a bomb in September 1940.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Hold on, let's rewind it a minute. What do you mean, involved in a bomb?
0:02:40 > 0:02:46It was in a house near Beckenham and in 1940, a bomb landed on the house.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49This was in there as well, hence this damage.
0:02:51 > 0:02:57Like all things in the Second World War, you were either lucky or unlucky.
0:02:57 > 0:03:03My grandmother, her two sons and an aunt were in the house at the time.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07The bomb destroyed the family home, killing everyone inside.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Fortunately, Roger's mum Charlotte wasn't in the house at the time.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14She had moved out a few years earlier after getting married.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15The family she grew up with,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18the family she expected to see for years and years,
0:03:18 > 0:03:22had been taken away from her in just one afternoon.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25It was something that hurt Mum all her life.
0:03:26 > 0:03:32The family music box was one of the only possessions to survive the fatal blast.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39There, in that music box, I have something that they have touched,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41they have listened to.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46It does bring a connection to the family which I wish I had known,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48but I'm afraid I never did.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54So this means a hell of a lot to me.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56I can understand just the history to it.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58What would you like us to do to this?
0:03:58 > 0:04:02If possible, I'd like you to make sure that's safe to play.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Obviously the glass bit.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Yeah.- I haven't got the other bit of that.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08If possible, if you can make the lid fit again,
0:04:08 > 0:04:10that would be absolutely fantastic.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11- OK.- One thing I do ask,
0:04:11 > 0:04:15can we leave as much of the scars and bruises as possible?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Because I think that's part of it.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19- Yeah.- To me.- That's part of your family history right there.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23- That's the history of it.- I'm so pleased you said that, because
0:04:23 > 0:04:26- it's sort of a monument to what happened.- Yes.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30And you don't want to sort of remove its history.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- Well, it's things that they would have touched.- Yeah.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37- If you make it too clean, they wouldn't have touched it.- Yeah.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38And it won't be there any more.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- No.- The approach I would take if it were mine,
0:04:41 > 0:04:45was I would do the best job possible on the mechanism and the outside,
0:04:45 > 0:04:49the approach is more one of conservation.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51- Yes.- Rather than.- I certainly don't want...
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- ..restoration.- Yes. If that's possible, that would be fantastic.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56It's very possible. It's in safe hands.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- Jay, thank you very much indeed. - Thank you for bringing it along.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00- Thank you both.- Thank you.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Steve, thank you very much.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13In order to determine the extent of the damage and which bits are missing,
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Steve will have to first dismantle the entire mechanism.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20It looks pretty dreadful, to be honest.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23But don't worry - a lot of that is just dirt and grime.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Yeah, but you've taken all of that out of there, yeah?
0:05:26 > 0:05:29No, no, no. I've just taken that out of there.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32- And these parts here...- You're showing off again, aren't you?
0:05:32 > 0:05:36- Yeah!- All right. - ..are from my graveyard.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38All of these parts came from the same village that this was made in.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40If we have a quick look at the cone.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Cor blimey! There's a bit of fluff in between them two.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46- There's a bit of fluff, we'll deal with the fluff.- Oh, my God!
0:05:46 > 0:05:50We've got the equipment, we have the technology to deal with the fluff!
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I like your thinking!
0:05:53 > 0:05:58Some of the items that enter The Repair Shop haven't just been handed down through generations.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01They've been lovingly crafted by a family member.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Jonathan Dukes has a handmade heirloom for the attention
0:06:05 > 0:06:08of silversmith and metals expert Brenton.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11- Hello there.- Hello. - I'm Brenton.- I'm Jonathan.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Nice to meet you. What have you brought me?
0:06:13 > 0:06:19I've brought you some tongs from a set of fire irons that were made by
0:06:19 > 0:06:24my great-grandfather in his foundry in the Black Country.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Wow.- Yes.- These are fabulous.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29But unfortunately, the hinge has come apart.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31And are these all the parts?
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- These are all the parts of the tongs.- Because it's brass,
0:06:34 > 0:06:39- it's quite soft and it will wear out in time, unfortunately.- Yes, and that's what's happened.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I'm sure when these were made, they weren't expecting them to last that
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- long, so they've done really, really well.- Yes.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47And the fact that you've still got this is brilliant.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52These fire tongs mean a lot to me, because they were made by my
0:06:52 > 0:06:56great-grandfather but our family's manufacturing history goes back
0:06:56 > 0:06:57to at least 1829.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00It would be nice to have them in their proper state.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Outside in the metal workshop, Brenton sets about his task.
0:07:07 > 0:07:13So what I've got to do with these is replace the thread
0:07:13 > 0:07:15in here.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19Brenton's got a stash of threaded brass rods in his toolkit, so he
0:07:19 > 0:07:21tries them for size.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25That's going to be too small. I've got a bigger bit here.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29That should do it. No, that's too small as well.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32So these two bits I've got are no use.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35So I'm going to need to get some brass from somewhere.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41First port of call is clock maker Steve with his collection
0:07:41 > 0:07:43of odds, ends and offcuts.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Steve, you know the fire tongs that I'm repairing?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- Yes.- I've brought some brass from my tool box but they're too small.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Have you got any bigger diameter brass?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Do you want a thread?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- I can make the thread.- You don't want a big thread?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Have you got a big thread?
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- Actually, no, I haven't. - All right, I'll make my own, then!
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Here we go.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09How big?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12That might be the piece.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14That might be the piece.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Failing that, THAT might be the piece.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20That IS the piece, I can turn it down from that!
0:08:20 > 0:08:22THEY LAUGH
0:08:22 > 0:08:24If I could borrow those two.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- Yeah, of course you can.- And I'll probably have about an inch of one of them.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30- That would be brilliant, thank you very much.- Okey doke.- Thanks, Steve.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Steve Kember is rescuing a music box that miraculously survived
0:08:40 > 0:08:42a World War II bomb during the Blitz.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47Having never actually restored a music box that's been bombed before,
0:08:47 > 0:08:49I'm quite happy with that.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Meanwhile, Jay assigns the task of repairing the music box case
0:08:53 > 0:08:55to furniture restorer Will.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59How you doing, Will? I've got a little present for you.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- An actual present?- Of course not, it's a job!
0:09:02 > 0:09:04So it's a music box.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Steve's working on the actual mechanism in there.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- OK.- What we need you to do is fix that.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12So it's missing a piece and you don't have the missing piece?
0:09:12 > 0:09:14- Don't have the missing piece.- OK.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17What Roger wants is - not to be fully restored.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20There's a lot of history in there and he doesn't want to lose it.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Doesn't want to lose it. So it is sympathetic restoration.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28- But it's even more sympathetic in the sense that...- Yeah.- ..we don't want any if this to go.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- OK.- No damage to be hidden.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- OK. Yeah, that makes sense. - All right, I'll leave it with you.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Next to arrive, Anne Bailey and her grandson Elliot.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44They have brought in an old friend who met with an unfortunate accident.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49They're hoping he can be revived by soft-toy restorers Amanda and Julie.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- Oh! What have you got for us? - We have something from my childhood.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Right.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- And he's seen...- Oh, look. - ..better days.- Bless him!
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Oh, dear. A bit of stuffing there.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08I'm fairly sure that she was damaged by my Irish setters.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Yeah. It's what they do. So can you tell us a little bit more about him?
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Yes, of course. I was given him by a person called Arthur Askey who was a
0:10:16 > 0:10:20- comedian...- Gosh, yeah.- ..who lived in our village.- Right.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23And he went, "Goo goo goo goo goo goo!" into my pram and I went...
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- "Argh!"- Yeah, as you would!
0:10:26 > 0:10:31As you would. And I screamed and screamed and screamed,
0:10:31 > 0:10:32because I was only about one.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36And he said, "I don't think she likes me."
0:10:36 > 0:10:40So he went away, and a couple of days, weeks later,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43he came back with this, and gave it to me...
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Fantastic. Oh, wow!
0:10:44 > 0:10:47..with the hope that I wouldn't scream at him again!
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- And did you?- No, I don't think I did!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51SHE LAUGHS
0:10:51 > 0:10:53That's nice.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Yeah, we should be able to sort him out for you.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57- That would be wonderful. - You're welcome.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00- And can you put a buttercup...?- Of course he can have a buttercup.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04- Yes, that's not a problem. - I remember him having a yellow buttercup in his mouth.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08But the main thing you want is to see him with a body.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Absolutely. He needs to be cuddled again.
0:11:10 > 0:11:15- Absolutely. Thanks for bringing him in.- Nice to meet you. - Thank you.- Bye-bye.- Bye-bye.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Amanda and Julie are going to need all of their wealth of
0:11:20 > 0:11:23experience to get this poor little lamb back on its feet again.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- What do you think?- That's quite serious, isn't it?
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- Hello, Jay.- Yeah.- So how are you going to fix this?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33You've got no reference - there's nothing there.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36We have got a bit of a clue,
0:11:36 > 0:11:39in that we've got - if we turn him this way...
0:11:41 > 0:11:44..so there's a tummy panel here.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- Right.- OK? That's still intact.
0:11:46 > 0:11:52- From here, we can kind of see how fat the body was.- OK.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- If we just hold him up. - That would have dropped down a bit.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- This sort of era, the style of this era, his head would have been up here...- Right.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02..and he would have been quite short in the body and very long in the leg.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03You know you can rebuild that?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05- Yeah, yeah, yeah.- Yeah, yeah.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08There's a lot of work here because it isn't just about doing that.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09We've got to completely dismantle him.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13This seam, we will undo all of this.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15And the tail and the head will come off.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Right.- And also, I don't know if you can see here, Jay...- Yeah.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20..there's a little piece of wire here.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25It's suggesting to us that he had a wire frame.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30- OK.- Certainly these sort of toys from this era were very often wired.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32So this is going to take quite a while to do, isn't it?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Yes. It's very intricate, this one.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38- I'm going to be off to do some painting.- Thanks, Jay.- Cheers, Jay.- See you later.- Bye.
0:12:47 > 0:12:53Outside, Brenton's made his brass screw for the 140-year-old fire tongs.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57He now needs to create a new thread, so that he can attach them together again.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01It will make my life a lot easier if I can get the back plate off
0:13:01 > 0:13:06here. It means I can drill all the way through and then it'll be easier
0:13:06 > 0:13:09for me to cut the thread. So I'm just going to try and lever that off.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Brilliant, OK, that's got that off there.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20So I'm really pleased I managed to get this plate off here.
0:13:20 > 0:13:25I'm going to start cutting the larger thread in this piece.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33And this brass cuts really nicely. It's nice and soft.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37You go half a turn forward and then you go half a turn back.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50So I'm just going to solder this plate that we took off earlier back
0:13:50 > 0:13:52on now that I've cut the thread.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03I'm really happy. That's soldered really, really nicely.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07That plate is now stuck back onto the handle of the tongs -
0:14:07 > 0:14:09how it originally was.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13We've got to polish this up and this bit is now finished.
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Back inside the workshop,
0:14:21 > 0:14:26Steve has reached a critical point in the repair of the bomb-damaged
0:14:26 > 0:14:29music box. He's given all the components a thorough clean.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Now he needs to get it singing again.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33We're getting serious now.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37This is the cylinder. It's had all the oil removed.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Now, we've prepared the clockwork mechanism, and that's all good.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45If we have a look along the pins on the cylinder,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48there are a significant number of them that are bent.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53That one's bent forward, and so the timing of the note will be wrong -
0:14:53 > 0:14:58it will be late. If they're either bent to the right or to the left,
0:14:58 > 0:15:03we'll end up with some gibberish, and these deficiencies can be heard.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07While Steve continues the painstaking process of straightening
0:15:07 > 0:15:13the 8,000 pins, Will is tackling the section of the box's lid lost in the bomb blast.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16I've actually salvaged this drawer front,
0:15:16 > 0:15:20which was going in a skip, and I think that this'll be perfect,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23if I can cut a section out of there
0:15:23 > 0:15:26and splice it onto the front of this.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29However, when you look at it like that,
0:15:29 > 0:15:33you can actually see that the top is actually slightly domed.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35You can actually see the gap on the outside,
0:15:35 > 0:15:38which is going to be a bit of a problem for me,
0:15:38 > 0:15:41because the only bit that I have to replace is flat.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51It might look like I'm being quite forceful with this plane -
0:15:51 > 0:15:55however, there's a lot of excess wood that needs to be shaved down,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58and if I just used a file or sandpaper, I'd be there for days.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02So the pressure is really on.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05I don't want to do any more damage to the original top,
0:16:05 > 0:16:09but I need to almost shave so close that I get a nice,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12even surface for the new piece of wood.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19That's pretty well finished for the pin-straightening part of the procedure.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Now we're going to produce some music.
0:16:21 > 0:16:27We'll give it a go, and we'll see what we've got. Give it a wind.
0:16:27 > 0:16:34TWO TUNES PLAY SIMULTANEOUSLY
0:16:34 > 0:16:37TWO TUNES PLAY SIMULTANEOUSLY
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Well, as you can hear, it's not that great.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43We're playing a bit of one tune and a bit of another.
0:16:43 > 0:16:49The cylinder is clearly not aligned properly with the tips of the comb.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54The cylinder's pins play the notes of ten different tunes,
0:16:54 > 0:16:57but if they're not perfectly in line with the teeth of the comb they
0:16:57 > 0:17:03strike, the chosen tune will be either incomplete or jumbled up with another.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Let's have another go.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07DISCORDANT SOUND
0:17:07 > 0:17:09That's lovely!
0:17:09 > 0:17:11We've got gibberish now!
0:17:11 > 0:17:16Imagine somebody playing the piano and somebody sneaks up and shifts
0:17:16 > 0:17:19the piano one key-width to the left or the right,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23so you're playing all the wrong notes, in all the right places,
0:17:23 > 0:17:25and that's what we've got here.
0:17:34 > 0:17:40Soft toy restorers Julie and Amanda are trying to rescue a childhood treasure.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42With a large portion of the lamb missing,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46the duo must rely on their years of experience to fill in the gaps.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47At the moment,
0:17:47 > 0:17:52I am making the pieces that I need for the body out of felt.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58I've made myself a pattern, so I've now got the body filled in,
0:17:58 > 0:18:02so I know now, you know, what shape his body was.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Making them out of felt initially for two reasons -
0:18:04 > 0:18:07one, because I want to sort of do a dummy run,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10just to make sure that I've got everything in proportion.
0:18:10 > 0:18:16And two, because I'm going to use this felt to line the pieces,
0:18:16 > 0:18:20because we have sourced some fabulous fabric,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23but it is a little bit... just a tad stretchy,
0:18:23 > 0:18:27so the felt is going to support it and give it a bit of stability.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Now it's a case of completing the jigsaw puzzle,
0:18:32 > 0:18:36as all of the lamb's existing pieces are stitched back together and
0:18:36 > 0:18:37assembled with a new wire frame.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Hold on. Look, I can see sewing going on, and I said I'd been practising my buttons.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45That's fine, we've got a job for you.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46- Oh, is it?- We've been saving a job for you.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Yep. You can turn this leg, OK?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50What do you mean, turn it inside out?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54- It already is.- Pull this through so it looks like this.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56- Like that? So like pulling my socks on?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- There you go.- So now, the frame goes into...
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- Yeah.- The legs. That'll go down inside there.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Now it looks like a proper lamb.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10- It's going to look like a lamb, isn't it?- I think that's quite cool.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13- We're getting there. - That's kind of where we're at.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15So you know what? I did have my doubts.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19- Yeah, we know you did.- But, yeah, you've got it all under control now, look.- Yeah, it's getting there.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Oh, but this... You've missed a bit!
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- What about the leg?- Yeah. - Are you going to put that on?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- There's a bit of a problem going on round here.- Oh, OK, all right, that's cool.- You're welcome.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Back outside in the metalwork area,
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Brenton wants to get the components of the antique fire tools gleaming
0:19:40 > 0:19:42before he puts the pieces back together.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46As you can see, that comes up really nicely,
0:19:46 > 0:19:49so I've just got to work on the rest of this handle,
0:19:49 > 0:19:52get all of these marks off here that are a result of me heating it up,
0:19:52 > 0:19:54and then it'll be fine to give back to Jonathan.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02It's the moment of truth. Let's see if it goes together.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04And, more importantly, stays together.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13The tongs have been in Jonathan's family for 140 years,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16but they haven't been working for the last 40.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Now he's back to reclaim a piece of his family's manufacturing past.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- Jonathan.- Yeah, hello again, Brenton.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27- Nice to see you.- I'm hoping you've got something nice to show me.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Do you remember what you gave me?
0:20:28 > 0:20:33I certainly remember what I gave you, which was a pair of fire tongs.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35It was a pair, wasn't it?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Well, it was a pair, because it was two bits.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41I'm really interested know whether you've been able to fix them for me.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43- Well, would you like to see them? - I'd love to see.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Let's reveal what we've got under here.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49My goodness! They're a lot more shiny than they were before,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51and they look to be in one piece.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54They haven't fallen apart, which is lovely.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57They open and shut - that's really good.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03I'm really keen to know how you've actually done the fixing.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05OK, well, if you want to take it apart for me.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08If I take it apart, right.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09This is the knob that unscrews.
0:21:09 > 0:21:15- Correct.- And you've somehow put a lovely new brass thread on that.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18I've drilled the old thread out.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22- Yes.- And cut a new thread into it, and then...
0:21:22 > 0:21:23It all screws together again.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26- Polished it all up.- And polished it all up.- And, yeah.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30That's exactly what I was hoping you'd be able to do, something like that.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34OK, well, they're back to new again for you.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36That's really good, I'm really pleased.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38- Good.- I really am.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42It's so nice to have it working, rather than just something that clatters
0:21:42 > 0:21:45to the floor every time you touch it.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47I'm glad you're really pleased with them.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51- Yeah, thank you ever so much Brenton, thank you.- OK. Bye-bye.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Over on Julie and Amanda's workbench,
0:22:06 > 0:22:10the once-disembodied toy lamb is being brought back to life.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14We need to get on and get the stuffing in,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17because he's looking a bit starved at the moment.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19We have to kind of build it up. It's a bit like a brick wall, really.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21You can't start at the top and work down.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- That's better.- There we go.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Really pleased with how he's turning out -
0:22:26 > 0:22:29finishing touch will be his buttercup,
0:22:29 > 0:22:32which we'll put back in his mouth, and we might even put a bow on him!
0:22:34 > 0:22:38It's been decades since Anne saw her childhood playmate in fine fettle.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45- Hello!- How lovely to see you. Come on over.- Thank you.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- This must be it, is it?- Yeah. - Wonderful.- Ready to go for it?
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Yeah.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Oh, wow! He's fantastic!
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- Even with the blue ribbon! - Absolutely.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06Wonderful. He looks almost real, doesn't he?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Yes, he does, yeah.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10That is absolutely amazing.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13I just can't believe you've managed to match that.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16- You are an absolute poppet! - Give him a cuddle.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18There you go. That's nice.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21You are an absolute love!
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Even with your buttercup.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- Wow!- Oh, yeah, he's got his new buttercup.- New buttercup.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30He has got a wire frame in him now.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Has he?- He would have had,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35with the research that we did of that style and that era.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38- Right.- But the frame that's in him is not so rigid
0:23:38 > 0:23:43that you won't be able to pose him a little bit, and obviously with care.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46I will, I will. Yes, I shall look after him lovingly this time.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49There you go. He's all yours.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53- Wonderful.- Do enjoy him.- He's got a good few more years in him now.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56He has. He's lasted 74 years.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- Probably do another 74. - Yeah, another 74.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- Absolutely. Wonderful. Thank you so much.- You're welcome.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03It's a pleasure.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- Bye-bye.- Thank you.- Bye.- Bye.
0:24:18 > 0:24:24Music box fanatic Steve is lovingly restoring a precious piece of family history.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Grafting alongside him on the woodwork is Will,
0:24:27 > 0:24:33whose remit was to restore the case while retaining traces of its turbulent past.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36- Stevie.- Ah!- For you.- Lovely.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38I think this is as they specified.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41- So we've got some of its original... - Some of its original...
0:24:41 > 0:24:45..character, and he's got a link with the event that...
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- That has taken place, yeah.- Yeah, excellent.- Exactly. I'll leave you to put that in.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50- Thank you very much.- All right, matey.- Cheers. Bye.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Right, let's see.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06That's it. Rather splendid, I think.
0:25:06 > 0:25:12This music box is the only link Roger has to the part of his family he never knew.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16But will it look and sound just as he remembers it when he was a child?
0:25:19 > 0:25:22- Hello. Nice to see you again. - Good to see you.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Great to see you.- And you.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- Hi, Steve.- Are you as nervous as me?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28- Yes.- Probably. Probably more.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31OK. Anyway, are you ready?
0:25:31 > 0:25:32- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:25:34 > 0:25:35SHE GASPS
0:25:35 > 0:25:37HE LAUGHS
0:25:40 > 0:25:43Look at that!
0:25:43 > 0:25:45It's reborn.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48That is absolutely fantastic.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50That is gorgeous.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Am I allowed to have a quick peek inside?
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Yes, carry on. It's yours.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59I can't believe it's the same thing.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- Look how clean that is. - It looks beautiful.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06Well, it has to be clean and sparkly, so it performs
0:26:06 > 0:26:10as it was originally intended, and as your relatives once enjoyed it.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14- Yeah. Now then, is it going to...? - You know what to do, don't you?
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- Can I just...?- Yeah.- Here we go.
0:26:17 > 0:26:27MUSIC PLAYS
0:26:27 > 0:26:30That is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32This is a brilliant job, Steve.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- You really have done a fantastic job.- Thank you very much.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Can you imagine, 1905,
0:26:37 > 0:26:40people sitting around the fireplace with this playing in the background?
0:26:40 > 0:26:44That sort of brings a connection with your family, does it?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- Yes, very much so.- The fact they had this, and you have it.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Because of what we've done here,
0:26:49 > 0:26:54your family now will be hearing the same music as your family then.
0:26:54 > 0:26:58- So it's quite an interesting thought, isn't it? - That is a very good thought.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00I'll tell you what, Steve,
0:27:00 > 0:27:03one of the things I wanted more than anything else was not to change it
0:27:03 > 0:27:08too much, because the scars, the damage, the bits and pieces -
0:27:08 > 0:27:10that's part of its history to me.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12I had hoped that it would look like this,
0:27:12 > 0:27:16but this is actually way beyond my expectations.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17It is fabulous.
0:27:17 > 0:27:22I'm pleased you're happy with the finish and the result.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25More than happy. It's brilliant. Thank you.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Thank you, too. All right, then.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- Thank you very much.- Thanks very much. Thanks for the privilege of working on it. Thank you.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35This is something I've anticipated a long, long time.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39I don't think anything prepared me quite for what I saw.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41It was an emotional moment.
0:27:42 > 0:27:48It's something that binds you to the people who have gone before.
0:27:48 > 0:27:49If Mum was here now,
0:27:49 > 0:27:53knowing that we're all listening to something she listened to
0:27:53 > 0:27:57when she was a little one of five or six years of age,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00that would just bring a big smile to her face.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04As indeed it's going to bring a big smile to my face, too.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Join us in The Repair Shop next time,
0:28:11 > 0:28:15as the team gets to grips with more precious pieces in need of some TLC,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18and breathes new life back into them.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- Oh, my goodness!- Beautiful!