0:00:02 > 0:00:04Welcome to The Repair Shop,
0:00:04 > 0:00:07where cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life...
0:00:07 > 0:00:08This is the workshop of dreams.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11..home 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 > 0:00:24Working alongside Jay will be some of the country's leading
0:00:24 > 0:00:27- craftspeople... - Every piece has its own story.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31It's amazing to think that some of my work becomes part of that story.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34I've always played with things. I've always repaired things.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38- And I just love it.- There is a real pleasure in bringing people's pieces
0:00:38 > 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 > 0:00:47They will resurrect...
0:00:47 > 0:00:52- revive...- I'm warm, man! - ..and rejuvenate
0:00:52 > 0:00:55treasured possessions and irreplaceable pieces of family
0:00:55 > 0:00:58- history...- Wow, she's fantastic!
0:00:58 > 0:01:01..bringing both the objects...
0:01:01 > 0:01:03- Oh!- This is what I remember!
0:01:03 > 0:01:07- ..and the memories that they hold... - Wow!- ..back to life.
0:01:07 > 0:01:08Oh, my God!
0:01:25 > 0:01:30In The Repair Shop today, clockmaker Steve is set a unique challenge...
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Do you know what, I've never seen a pipe like this.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- I've never repaired a pipe.- Yeah.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37I've repaired a lot of things, but not a pipe.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41..while Kirsten pieces together a historical artefact with a dark
0:01:41 > 0:01:43story to tell.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Three legions of Roman soldiers were actually massacred.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48It was a turning point in history.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54But first, Corrie Evans has turned to The Repair Shop for help with a
0:01:54 > 0:01:57faded relic from her childhood.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01She's hoping that Jay and gramophone guru Tim Weeks can
0:02:01 > 0:02:05- jump-start it back to life.- Hello. You must be Corrie.- Hello.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08- You all right?- Yeah.- Hi, Corrie. I'm Tim. Pleased to meet you.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12- And you.- So this is your baby, yeah? - Yeah.- Can I have a look?- Yeah.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16- So, what is it, then?- It's a Dalek.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19- It's a Dalek?- It's a Dalek and a record player. - LAUGHTER
0:02:19 > 0:02:24- A Dalek in a record player. - Ah, yes...- And a broken old radio.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- So, hold on, why do you call it a Dalek?- Well, it looked like a Dalek when I was little.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31- I wanted a Dalek, and I couldn't have one. - LAUGHTER
0:02:31 > 0:02:36- It had records in here, but they've gone.- Ah, yes. Yeah.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38I had The Laughing Policeman and fairy tales.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41- The Laughing Policeman!- It was the only one I liked.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43OK. How long have you had this?
0:02:43 > 0:02:46I bought it when I was five, in an auction.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49- Five years old, in an auction? - Yeah, yeah. Well, I bought it, but my dad paid for it.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54- At five years old?!- I was in the auction, I was having it.- OK, OK. - LAUGHTER
0:02:54 > 0:02:57What you've got here, actually, it's quite interesting,
0:02:57 > 0:02:59it's the changeover period between the wind-up gramophone,
0:02:59 > 0:03:01that you had to put needles in, and
0:03:01 > 0:03:05- the beginning of electronic reproduction.- Oh?
0:03:05 > 0:03:08This sort of thing only lasted for a short time, because,
0:03:08 > 0:03:13quite soon afterwards, of course, they went over to 33s and 45s.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16It's a curious historical anomaly, this.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18- Oh.- Which will need mending.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- Yeah, it's a bit battered. - LAUGHTER
0:03:21 > 0:03:24This, by the way, I've just found inside there, I know what that is.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28- That is... It's actually what they call the cursor.- Oh, yeah.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31It's the thing that's supposed to be inside there, sliding up and down,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33to tell you what station it's on.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36So, when was the last time this was working, then?
0:03:36 > 0:03:40I think it was just before I left home, so when I was about 15 or 16.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43And I love it. My sister and me, just lying on the floor,
0:03:43 > 0:03:48listening to The Laughing Policeman, over and over and over again.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51She's not with us any more, so just to have this,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- with my kids laughing at it, would be great.- Oh, brilliant.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Well, we can definitely get it going, can't we, Tim?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Talk to me.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- We can do it, yeah. - Thank you. The simpleness of it!
0:04:03 > 0:04:05We're going to get it working, so thank you for bringing it.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09- Short answer is, we're going to get it working.- Right.- Nice to meet you.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11- Thank you, and you.- Thank you.- Bye. - You take care.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- Let's get this over to your bench, then.- Righty ho.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Tim will need to draw on all of his 50 years of gramophone experience to
0:04:21 > 0:04:23get this one up and running again.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29I think what we need to do first here is get the electric motor
0:04:29 > 0:04:34running, and the electric motor is, of course, this bit here.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37What I'll have to do first is
0:04:37 > 0:04:39take the main winding out of there,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42see if we can get it to turn smoothly,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46re-lubricate it, and then, bit of luck and a following wind,
0:04:46 > 0:04:48we'll have the thing spinning.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54The Repair Shop has seen some
0:04:54 > 0:04:56unusual items pass through its doors,
0:04:56 > 0:04:59and the next arrival is no exception.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02It's been brought here by 85-year-old Lisken Jellings
0:05:02 > 0:05:05and her granddaughter, Katie.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Hello, ladies. How are we doing?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- So what have we got here, then?- My great-grandfather's pipe.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12OK. Well, this looks like a job for Steve.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Steve, if you don't mind joining me?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- Hello.- Hi. Do you know what?
0:05:17 > 0:05:21I've never seen a pipe like this. I've never repaired a pipe.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23- Yeah.- I've repaired a lot of things, but not a pipe.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25So how long has it been in the family, then?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Oh, it's been in the family since...
0:05:27 > 0:05:31- Well, we estimated something like 140 years.- Oh, really?- Yes.- Gosh.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34It depends when he bought it, we don't know when he bought the pipe.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39- The meerschaum pipe, it is blocked. I can't blow through it.- OK. - LAUGHTER
0:05:39 > 0:05:43- But...- Ornate pipes like this first came into use in the 18th century.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46The bowl is carved from a porous white mineral called meerschaum,
0:05:46 > 0:05:50or sepiolite, found in abundance in the Black Sea region.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53The more they are smoked, the more the white bowls are stained a golden
0:05:53 > 0:05:55brown by the tobacco.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- Have you ever seen this pipe being used?- No, I haven't.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02But my mother says, when she was five,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05she used to be with her grandfather a lot,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08she told me that he used to sit in his rocking chair...
0:06:10 > 0:06:15..this bowl was resting on a stool by his feet,
0:06:15 > 0:06:19and he just sat and the smoke coiled around him.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22He had been a very busy businessman,
0:06:22 > 0:06:24he'd been mayor of the town,
0:06:24 > 0:06:27he had done a lot of good work.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30And I would like to do it, in his honour, too,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34- that it isn't just a wreck in a drawer.- Yes.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37If we got this fully working and unblocked again, down there,
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- what would it mean?- What would we do? We'd have a party!
0:06:41 > 0:06:43- We'd have a party. - LAUGHTER
0:06:43 > 0:06:47- A meerschaum pipe party.- I'll get it over to my bench, then.- Yeah.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53This is a really nice pipe.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Some lovely, lovely silver mounts to it.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59These are beautiful.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01It is really well blocked.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I'm not sure how I'm going to get to the blockage, actually,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06because I can see down both ends.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10So the blockage is in the part I can't see.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14I mean, this is the real difficult part.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16There's a spring that's in pretty poor condition here.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19I'll probably have to make a new spring.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22The leather-work on the pipe is also in a sorry state...
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- Hello.- Hiya.- What are you doing?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27..so Steve's roped in his sister and master saddle maker Suzie
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- for some assistance. - That's connected to that.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Like that. Yeah?- OK.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36And then, at this top end,
0:07:36 > 0:07:40it's got this flexible piece that goes in there,
0:07:40 > 0:07:41- like that.- Right.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45- And then that goes in there like that.- OK.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49The part connecting the mouthpiece to the stem is a flexible hose,
0:07:49 > 0:07:52constructed from a leather-bound spring.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54The spring goes in the middle.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56- Right.- And then there's three layers of leather. That is leather,
0:07:56 > 0:08:01- isn't it?- Yes.- OK.- Yeah.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05This spring is so old and rusty, and the leather so worn,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08that the only solution is to build a new section from scratch.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13- Leather's a lovely material to show...- Yeah.- ..and we can certainly
0:08:13 > 0:08:16stain it to this colour.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I think the leather on the outside would look very pretty,
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- cos it'll be pigskin that I'll use. - Oh, right, OK.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25So it has a grain to it. So, there's your texture, and you can do the
0:08:25 > 0:08:27spring, you can remake the spring.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Yeah, I've got some piano wire on the way,
0:08:29 > 0:08:33- then it shouldn't be too difficult, should it?- No, piece of cake.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- Oh, really? Oh, good. - LAUGHTER
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Next into The Repair Shop, Brenda and Norman Jenner have
0:08:41 > 0:08:44brought a much-loved family heirloom
0:08:44 > 0:08:46which has met with an unfortunate accident.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- That's a big pot in there. - It is a big pot, it is a big pot.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Oh, right, OK.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- Oh, wow!- Oh, wow!
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Absolutely fabulous, isn't it?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- How long have you had it? Where did it come from? - LAUGHTER
0:09:04 > 0:09:10My earliest memory of it was that I'm probably about three years old.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Oh, golly.- And it was...
0:09:12 > 0:09:15it sat in my Nana Norfolk's house.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20It took pride of place in her house. When Nana died,
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Mum inherited the vase, and that's sat in various rooms in her house.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28So this has been with you all your life?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- It... Yes, I've known it all my life.- And it made, obviously, a big
0:09:31 > 0:09:33impression when you were very, very young.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36It was one of those things, it's... I don't have any photos of it,
0:09:36 > 0:09:39and unfortunately we don't have any photos of Nana,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42so the memories that this jug brings back is of us as children,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- and, you know, just...- Wonderful.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48It brings back lots and lots of happy memories.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51What have we got here? Presumably the...
0:09:51 > 0:09:54These are the broken bits.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- Right.- How did it break?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Unfortunately, one Christmas, we were taking down the
0:09:58 > 0:10:03- Christmas decorations, and poor Norman stepped off the ladder... - Oh, no!
0:10:03 > 0:10:07..knocked the speaker, which knocked into the vase, which went...
0:10:07 > 0:10:10- Oh, no!- ..on the floor. - LAUGHTER
0:10:10 > 0:10:14- That's just... Yeah, I feel for you. - LAUGHTER
0:10:14 > 0:10:19- How long ago was that? How many Christmases?- Oh, it must be going on for about 15-odd years ago.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23- Oh, really?!- Yeah.- I think it's a really lovely, interesting piece,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26and I would certainly
0:10:26 > 0:10:29love to restore it, if you're happy to leave it with us,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- and I'll get on with it.- Lovely. - Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46I think my initial concern, really, is whether all the pieces are here.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48And I'm just trying to sort of, like a jigsaw,
0:10:48 > 0:10:51just get a rough sort of outline of what's actually here,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53and what I'm going to have to make up.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57For me, the worst-case scenario is if there's going to be an area
0:10:57 > 0:11:00missing with a lot of detail in it,
0:11:00 > 0:11:04that I'm then going to have to model up. As you can see,
0:11:04 > 0:11:08it's absolutely covered in decoration, so I'm hoping
0:11:08 > 0:11:10that everything's here, but if it's not, I'll just have to
0:11:10 > 0:11:13- deal with it! - SHE LAUGHS
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Meanwhile, Tim's fixed the turntable on the gramophone.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30You beauty! You beauty!
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Next, he's turning his attention to the radio.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37What's interesting is that it gives one of the stations here
0:11:37 > 0:11:41as "BBC Light Programme". What that tells us is that this is, in fact,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44made after the War, rather than before it.
0:11:44 > 0:11:50I'd assumed this was prewar, about 1937, '38. I would say now
0:11:50 > 0:11:54this must be post-war, and I'll tell you how we know that,
0:11:54 > 0:11:58because the Light Programme didn't come into being until 1946,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00I think it was.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Pre- or post-war, reattaching the
0:12:05 > 0:12:08straight tuning cursor is going to be a bit of a battle.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Fortunately Tim's armed with a secret weapon.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I've been able to find the instructions,
0:12:13 > 0:12:18and the diagram for how it's done, on this particular set.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21This was published in a trade magazine in 1949.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25And the instructions, in case you want to try this yourselves,
0:12:25 > 0:12:30go like this... "Pass one end into the drive wheels through the hole K.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32"Make a small loop into it,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35"wind it clockwise around the fixing boss inside and fix the loop to
0:12:35 > 0:12:40"the screw D. Drop pulley N, and with the free wire, wind three and
0:12:40 > 0:12:45"three quarters turns anticlockwise into the large outer channel,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48"winding towards the rear of the channel, running off at T
0:12:48 > 0:12:52"to the pulley M." Following that, are we?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53It's great fun!
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Absolutely great fun.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Any suggestion that one might use bad language at a time like this is
0:12:59 > 0:13:01totally not the case...!
0:13:12 > 0:13:17Steve and Suzie are steaming ahead with the restoration of the elderly
0:13:17 > 0:13:22- meerschaum pipe.- I'm just about to make a new spring for the pipe.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26I'm not sure how much length I need,
0:13:26 > 0:13:31but I've got three metres of
0:13:31 > 0:13:35hard wire. It's always surprising how much wire you need to make a
0:13:35 > 0:13:36small spring.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47And that's the spring.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Right. Here we go.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53- Made the spring.- Oh, look at that!
0:13:55 > 0:13:58- That's very impressive. - Thank you very much.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00- Cool.- OK, I look forward to seeing it.- Yeah, OK.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03All right, thanks so much.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Suzie's first job is to wrap and glue layers of leather around the
0:14:07 > 0:14:09spring, ready to be stitched.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12I've got three layers of pigskin on here.
0:14:12 > 0:14:18So I'm sewing the seam to lock all the leathers together.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Next, some staining.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27I've just done a test spot on a leftover piece of pigskin,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30just to see how it's going to come out.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32It looks really nice.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Suzie's leather-work is done.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Now it's back over to Steve to reassemble the pipe.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42- Oh, that looks fantastic! - Thank you.- Yeah, that's great.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44We'll have to get it all together then,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- and then get you to smoke it! - LAUGHTER
0:14:48 > 0:14:50- All right.- All right, thanks.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Over in the ceramics section of the workshop, Kirsten is discovering
0:15:04 > 0:15:08some more hidden secrets within the 19th-century German pitcher.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12- So, how is my ceramic queen doing? - Hello, you.- You all right?
0:15:12 > 0:15:16- Yeah, good, actually, thank you. - What's...what's happening there?
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- Look at that!- Oh, yeah, OK, that's quite interesting.
0:15:19 > 0:15:25I think it's probably a crack that appeared, a firing crack.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28So it's actually in the manufacture of the piece.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30It's a really big piece, and it's got so much stuff sort of added to
0:15:30 > 0:15:35- it, that it probably happened in the manufacturing.- Yeah.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38And you can hear, when you tap it, it sounds good.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40It's got a really nice sort of ring to it, and that means that,
0:15:40 > 0:15:44- actually, it's...- It's not busted? - No.- So what are you going to do with this now, then?
0:15:44 > 0:15:48- You're going to...- So I'm taking off the old restoration,
0:15:48 > 0:15:51and I'm going to give this a really good clean using the steam cleaner
0:15:51 > 0:15:55that I've got there. Actually, that's the sort of thing you quite like doing, isn't it?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57- I would love to do that, actually... - Yeah, I know.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- ..but I know you won't let me. - No, no, I won't. - LAUGHTER
0:16:01 > 0:16:03It's really satisfying, this.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06- I know, it would be.- So I'm just going to try and remove any...
0:16:08 > 0:16:10..excess dirt.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15- It's great for getting in all these sort of nooks and crannies and detail.- Yeah.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21- It's lifting the dirt, you can see it, compared to there.- Yeah, it's great, isn't it?- Wow!
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Tim has his hands full with a dilapidated gramophone.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36He's reattached the cursor for the radio,
0:16:36 > 0:16:40now it's time to find out if the whole system will come back to life.
0:16:41 > 0:16:46We've now got all the major component parts sorted, I think,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49and ready to go. Now for the really interesting bit.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51We plug it in,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54and see if it all goes.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56So, they're both plugged in, like so.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04Well, that wasn't supposed to happen! Not quite sure what's wrong
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- there. I'll just check... - Are you all right?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09Um, I seem to have plunged the place into darkness.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- I think you have.- Yes.- All right.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- Sorry about that.- So, what have you done? You've just plugged that in?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Well, I've plugged the radio, plugged the tuner amplifier part of
0:17:16 > 0:17:19- it in, that was fine. Plugged the deck in...- OK.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- ..and suddenly all the lights went out.- Yeah.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24So is it unplugged? Everything's unplugged?
0:17:24 > 0:17:29- Everything's unplugged now. - OK.- So if we can reset the fuses...
0:17:29 > 0:17:33..there's a reasonable chance we could work out what's actually gone wrong.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37I think maybe there's a little short-out going on inside here.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39And they're staying on. That's a good sign.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41- That is a good sign. - That is a good sign.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Yeah. I don't quite know what's happening there.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50I'll just take this apart and see if we've got a short in there,
0:17:50 > 0:17:52before we risk it again.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- We've taken the turntable off.- Yeah. - I've had the cover off of there.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07- OK.- The wiring in there seems to be OK.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11- It's only two wires, just come to a couple of terminals.- Yeah.
0:18:11 > 0:18:17So I can't, for the life of me, see anything, wiring-wise, wrong with it.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19- OK.- So, are you ready for this?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Yeah, I am.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26- That's it.- That's the bit I'd just plugged in when all the lights went
0:18:26 > 0:18:28- out.- Oh, right.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Now, the other bit, of course, is to turn the tuner on and see if it all...
0:18:32 > 0:18:34..see what happens when we do that.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39- There we are.- That's good.- And the valve's lighting up.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- We've got it all going.- So you've got it all sorted, you blew the
0:18:42 > 0:18:44fuse, but I'm happy.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47- Yeah?- Yeah. I'm never going to forget about blowing that fuse.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51- Neither am I, all right? - Righto.- OK, Tim. - LAUGHTER
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Here we go.
0:18:56 > 0:19:01Power restored, the workshop is back in full swing.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Steve's managed to remove the blockage from the meerschaum pipe,
0:19:05 > 0:19:07and after a thorough polish, he
0:19:07 > 0:19:09can put the ancient puffer back together.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14There we are. All finished.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Ready to...
0:19:18 > 0:19:21HE COUGHS
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Ugh! To smoke. Yeah, it's a bit dusty.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Lisken and Kate are back at The Repair Shop,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31ready to be reunited with their precious family heirloom.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38- Hi.- Hello.- How are you?
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Come and have a seat. Look, Nanny.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Oh...
0:19:43 > 0:19:46- Thank you. Now, then...- Are you looking forward to this moment?
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- Yes. Very much. - LAUGHTER
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- I didn't sleep last night! - Oh, really? OK. - LAUGHTER
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Abracadabra.- Take this off...
0:19:55 > 0:19:59- Oh, my gosh!- Oh, yes!
0:19:59 > 0:20:03- How marvellous! - Oh, my gosh, that's amazing!
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Look at that!
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- Beautiful.- OK?- Look how shiny it is.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10It hasn't been like that for years!
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Now, wait a minute, I'm going to blow. - LAUGHTER
0:20:14 > 0:20:15AIR RUSHES THROUGH PIPE
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Oh, you can hear it!
0:20:19 > 0:20:21That's marvellous. Marvellous.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24- Oh!- It's so good, you've done an amazing job.- Thank you.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26It's beautiful.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31- You said that this piece had fallen off of this main wooden pipe...- Yes.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- It had.- Now, it's actually meant to come off.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38- Is it?- Oh!- So it pushes on really tight,
0:20:38 > 0:20:43- and stays on.- Oh, really?- That's so you can clean it out.- Oh, that's interesting.- When do you think it
0:20:43 > 0:20:46- was last in this condition? - Oh, gosh.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49I reckon over 100 years it probably hasn't looked like this.
0:20:49 > 0:20:54- Mmm, that's true, yes. When it was brand-new, I should think! - LAUGHTER
0:20:54 > 0:20:56- Better than new, this is. - I can't believe it.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00- You have been marvellous, thank you. - Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:21:03 > 0:21:09- I was quite moved, actually, but I'm good at hiding it. - LAUGHTER
0:21:09 > 0:21:12It is better than I ever thought it could be.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15He's done a wonderful job, really wonderful.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19- Yeah.- Yeah.- It looks amazing.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23The whole family, they've got strict instructions that I'll haunt
0:21:23 > 0:21:26- them if they sell it. - LAUGHTER
0:21:33 > 0:21:37Ceramics expert Kirsten has cleaned the 19th-century German pitcher,
0:21:37 > 0:21:40and removed all the old glue from the broken pieces.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Now she can focus on putting it all back together again.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48But several smaller pieces were lost when the pitcher was knocked over.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53Fortunately, Kirsten is a dab hand with modelling clays.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- So, how are you doing, Kirst? Oh, you've come along, haven't you? - LAUGHTER
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Thank you. I'm glad you can see the difference.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Do you know what, I'm actually really, really pleased with this.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05I was just working on it a few moments ago and thinking, you know,
0:22:05 > 0:22:12this was just in pieces, and actually, it's stable, it's solid,
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- it's...- Yeah.- I'm really delighted with the way it's come back together.- You sound happy.- Yeah.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19We've done a little bit of research on this, and in fact,
0:22:19 > 0:22:22it is depicting a massacre in the Teutoburg Forest,
0:22:22 > 0:22:28- in Germany.- OK.- So this piece is from north-west Germany.
0:22:29 > 0:22:34The massacre itself is actually quite interesting.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37It was a point in history where the Romans were actually sort of
0:22:37 > 0:22:40- coming up through Europe...- OK.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44..and they had a leader, who was called Herman the German.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- LAUGHTER - Was he?- Yeah.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- You're not joking?- No, I'm not joking.- Herman the German.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Herman the German!- OK.- And the Romans thought that he was, you
0:22:52 > 0:22:54know, loyal to them, and they were coming
0:22:54 > 0:22:57up through Germany, and he led the
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Roman legions into a massacre in the Teutoburg Forest.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04It was actually sort of a turning point in history, because
0:23:04 > 0:23:08up until that point, the Romans had been, you know,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- everyone thought that they were invincible.- Right.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13And at this point, where three legions of Roman soldiers were
0:23:13 > 0:23:15actually massacred, you know, it's sort of...
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Because of what Herman the German did?- Herman the German!
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Now she's successfully reassembled all of the broken pieces,
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Kirsten can start the delicate
0:23:33 > 0:23:36process of repairing the firing crack.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39I'm going to make up a coloured fill, just out of a two-parts
0:23:39 > 0:23:44adhesive, adding some pigment,
0:23:44 > 0:23:48and I'm just going to run that in here to actually try
0:23:48 > 0:23:52and mimic the glaze that's there.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55It's quite handy, really, this is so incredibly busy,
0:23:55 > 0:24:00that the eye isn't naturally drawn to this crack at all.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04But I think the colour filling is blending in quite nicely,
0:24:04 > 0:24:09and supporting and hiding
0:24:09 > 0:24:11the firing crack.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16With the firing crack fixed,
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Kirsten can put the finishing touches to the paintwork.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23And just in the nick of time,
0:24:23 > 0:24:26as Brenda and Norman have returned
0:24:26 > 0:24:28to see what magic she's been able to work.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33- Hi, hello.- Hi, lovely to see you. - Lovely to see you.- Come in.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35LAUGHTER
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Right, well, I won't keep you waiting any longer.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39I shall reveal your piece.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50- That's incredible. - That is just how I remember it.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53It's brought back my childhood, I'm three years old again.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55- Oh, really?- Yeah. Seeing it...
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Oh, gosh, that is so good.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03And the handle's all in one piece, too.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Lovely.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10We never saw that like that, did we, because that was in two pieces,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12and there was a bit missing, wasn't there?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15There was, yes, I made up a part of that.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Was that always missing, then, that bit?
0:25:17 > 0:25:21No, I don't think so. I think that probably...
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- Went up the Hoover!- Possibly, yes. - LAUGHTER
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Quite a few bits went up the Hoover, but we kept the biggest bits, yeah.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Oh, just feeling over the moon.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40It's just beyond how I would have imagined that it would be.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43It's a lot of history that's just come back to life, isn't it?
0:25:43 > 0:25:47It's a nice piece of the family, coming back home, basically.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Yes, it is, yes.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58Tim's huge undertaking with the antique gramophone is almost over.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01All of the separate parts are back in working order.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Time to put this piece of audio history back together again.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14And there we are.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20The last time Corrie saw her dear
0:26:20 > 0:26:23old gramophone it was in a sorry state,
0:26:23 > 0:26:24without a record to its name.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28It's accompanied her throughout most of her life,
0:26:28 > 0:26:32and for over 30 of those years, it's been silent.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38- Hello. How are you? You all right? - Yes, thank you. How are you?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Good to see you again.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44- Are you ready, Tim? - Yeah, let's do...do the thing.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Oh, it's shiny! There we are.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Oh, it looks so much better. - It does, doesn't it?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Yes.- Oh, look, it's lit up and everything.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- It's never lit up!- Yeah?
0:26:55 > 0:26:59- Oh, it's got the thing.- And what's more, it goes up and down...- Oh, my gosh!- ..like it's supposed to.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03So, seeing it in this state, does it bring back any childhood memories?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Oh, yeah, this is how it was. It was shiny, and I don't think I've
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- listened to it since I was about ten. - LAUGHTER
0:27:09 > 0:27:14- Well, we can rectify that.- Sounds to me like a cue to put a record on.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17And here's one I prepared earlier.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20And for Corrie and her late sister,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23there was one track that was always a firm favourite.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26MUSIC: The Laughing Policeman by Charles Jolly
0:27:32 > 0:27:35That's it now. I'm just going to laugh forever.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Oh, it's lovely. He's done such a lovely job.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49It just took me straight back to when my sister and I were on the
0:27:49 > 0:27:51floor, laughing, and it's so lovely
0:27:51 > 0:27:53to have those memories of when we were kids.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55We had an amazing childhood,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57and just to be taken back there was so special.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01And that record is so funny, I think it's going to be worn out!
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Join us next time as more treasured possessions are revived,
0:28:12 > 0:28:16and their precious memories restored in...
0:28:16 > 0:28:17..The Repair Shop.