The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 12, Episode 2 - Matchstick Big Ben - full transcript
The team breathe new life into a bugle belonging to a blind veteran, a five-foot matchstick replica of Big Ben and a worn-out pair of toddler's shoes that tell a tale of resilience.
Welcome to The Repair Shop... Oh, my
goodness! ..where precious but faded
keepsakes... That is proper crushed!
..are restored
to their former glory.
Zsha-zshing. Zsha-zshing!
Can I get finished now, please?
Yes! A dream team of expert
craftspeople...
I'm absolutely chuffed to bits!
Fantastic! Brilliant!
Yes! Look at that!
..using traditional techniques
passed down the generations...
Perfecto! It's almost magic. Nothing
better than a plan that works!
..restore irreplaceable treasures...
Oh, my God! Look at that!
It's perfect!
..and unlock the stories they hold.
BELL PINGS
Happy tears! It feels more magical!
I just want to hug everybody!
Hello! Hello. Hi! You all right?
Morning!
On a mission to deliver
the first assignment,
former Royal Artillery Staff
Sergeant Billy Baxter
alongside charity director
Nicky Shaw.
They're here to recruit the musical
instrument expertise of Pete Woods.
Hello, there. Hello! Hello. Hi.
Welcome to the barn. Thank you.
Thank you. Nice to meet you both.
What's this? So, this is a bugle.
A bugle. Yeah.
It belonged to my great-grandfather.
He passed it on to my grandfather,
who used it
when he was in the Scouts. Right.
We believe it's dated to about
1885-ish. 1885? Approximately.
So how comes it's
made its way into the barn today?
A few years ago now, I joined a
charity called Blind Veterans UK,
where I met Billy,
who works at our rehabilitation
centre in Llandudno
and discovered how musical
instruments are used as part
of a rehabilitation
process for blind veterans.
And so I gifted the bugle to Billy,
who is now custodian of it. Right.
So, Billy, are you a bugle player,
then? Absolutely not!
I'm a self-taught bugler.
I play five notes badly.
But I can knock out some different
calls and I use this
instrument to call our blind
veterans to different functions.
It pierces all of the noise
within the building,
so they know something's going on.
It stimulates a lot of memories
from their military days.
There's a call more or less
in the military for everything with
a bugle. Right. So, how long did you
serve in the Army for? For 20 years.
Unfortunately, while serving
in the Balkans in the late '90s,
I contracted a very rare virus
that rendered me totally blind.
You know, losing your sight
sort of extracts
you from the world around you.
We take everything for granted
by looking at things and
when you can't see that, the world
becomes a very, very scary place.
So what was life like for you
when you came back home?
Married, three young children. My
wife's holding down a full-time job.
My children didn't realise why dad
wasn't working properly.
I did everything with the kids,
as dads do, very active lifestyle.
So, this suddenly stopped.
But, thank God,
I was then gratefully
picked up by Blind Veterans UK
and the charity saved my life.
When you see Billy in action,
he brings magic into the centre
and into other blind veterans,
through the way in which he uses
his charm and his personality,
but also music to help with
people's rehabilitation.
It's amazing what strength
you get from the staff
and the other blind veterans.
We all support each other.
For me, I never thought that I'd be
playing the bugle! No idea at all.
I just thought, you know, they gave
me the confidence
to have a go at things and I
thought, "Do you know what?
"I'll have a go at
playing the bugle."
So, what's really wrong with
the bugle that you'd like me to fix?
I can feel every... Every blemish,
everything on the instrument.
And I'm sure that you could
feel the dents.
I mean, I can see there's
a lot of dents here.
I think it was used as an anchor in
its former life. I'm not too sure!
You want it fit for parade, sir?
Yes, sir!
So, can you see
the potential in this, Pete?
Yes, it's a bugle, they're meant for
use. They get in a state. Do they?
Why do you want it done up?
It was something that would look
the part when it comes to
Remembrance Service,
or a celebration, or a dinner.
It's something we could proudly
show. I think, for me,
if my grandad and my
great-grandfather knew that that was
how it was being used today, I think
they would be delighted, actually.
Pete, are you excited?
Yeah, there's a lot of work there,
isn't there, mate?
We'll let you know when
it's all ready to be picked up
and we'll see you soon. Thank
you very much. Thank you so much.
Bye-bye. Thank you. Pleasure.
Billy's bugle is exactly what I'd
expect to see for the age of it.
The problem is all the dents
and, of course, Billy not being
able to see now, he's going
to feel every little dent.
To get the dents out,
because of the way a bugle's made,
the only way to do it is to get
the whole thing apart.
The parts of a bugle are
soft-soldered together.
It doesn't take much to get it -
a little bit of heat
softens the solder.
Off it comes.
Good news!
Off to the acid bath.
Next, a tiny assignment
with a big history.
Nechama Freibach and her daughter
Shia have brought a very precious
keepsake to the barn.
Hello. Hello. Hello.
How are you doing? Good. Fine.
Oh, wow! Let's see.
Got a pair of shoes.
Steve, do you mind joining us?
Not at all.
16 years of experience has taught
cobbler Dean Westmoreland how
to handle treasured footwear
both big and small.
So whose shoes are these?
Mine. They're yours.
When did you get these?
On one year old.
When I started walking.
It was almost 80 years ago.
So, you're over... Over 80. Nah!
OK. So, where were they bought?
I was born in Tel Aviv
and that time,
'42, when I was born,
it wasn't called Palestine.
Was your parents born in Tel Aviv?
No, they were both from Poland.
They came before World War II.
Right.
They were Jewish
and wanted a better future. Yeah.
And they came separately.
They met in Tel Aviv. Wow!
They married in Tel Aviv
and I was born in Tel Aviv. Yeah.
So all the rest of the family
stayed in Poland and...
..unfortunately,
died in the Holocaust.
Wow! Wow!
Not only my grandparents,
but many uncles and aunts.
The brother and sister of my parents
also went in the Holocaust.
So me and my parents, we were
the family, the only family. Yeah.
Last survivors of the family.
That's... Mm.
Actually, it's the only tangible
object I have from my parents.
This is it. Yes. Mm.
Wow! So it's very dear to me.
Very dear.
And you're trusting us with them,
as well. Yes, of course. Thank you.
Why are the toes worn
out in that way?
Those times, the situation was not
so good. When you say not so good,
what was it like? Tough life.
My father didn't earn much.
And they wanted me
to use them as long as they can, so
when they cut here, my toes go out,
a few months more, use the shoes.
Hold on...
That's why you've cut that.
So, your parents would cut this,
so your toes could come out.
To last longer. Last longer.
Last longer.
It's very resourceful, isn't it?
Now, after my parents died,
it became even more precious to me.
Yeah. So I decided I keep them on
and give them to my children
and they will give them
to my grandchildren.
It will be some kind of memory.
Yeah.
That's why I want them to be in a
better condition, to last longer.
What would you like to happen to
these? What do you want Dean to do?
We had a vision -
how about quite close to what
they looked like the last day
she wore them, in a way, you know?
DEAN: So, the hole on the toes,
you want them keeping?
Of course. You don't
want that covering up. No.
That's the point. Yeah, yeah.
Perfect.
Thank you for trusting us. Thank
you. Enjoy. You take care now. Bye.
Bye-bye. Come on.
Wow! I've never seen that before,
where the toes are cut... I know.
Some hard times they've gone
through, isn't it? Wow!
Well, you know what you've got to
do. Cheers, Jay. I know you've got
this. Cheers, mate.
As a repairer, it's in my nature to
kind of strip off the old repairs
and replace with new,
but it's really important to Nechama
and Shia that I preserve
all the history here.
So, in the spirit of conservation
and preservation,
I'm not going to go too far
with these.
I'm going to recolour this upper
leather to the original
sort of off-white khaki colour.
I'm going to repair any little
tears like there are at the toes,
glue all that back together.
I'm going to scrape clean
and wax the soles to preserve them.
And hopefully
these can last for many more years.
I think, initially, what I need to
do is give that upper a good clean.
Make it a bit softer. And then
I'll know what I'm working with.
So, this is a leather cleaner
that I use almost daily.
It will strip any old muck
and it will also prepare
the pores of the leather,
so it will kind of open them up.
It is working at a level that we
can't really see
and preparing the leather for the
next stage of dyeing and colouring.
And as with any craft,
preparation is key.
This weather is so fantastic,
isn't it? I know. It's so nice.
It's lovely, yeah. Yeah, my paint
will dry nicely in this, won't it?
Yeah, and my varnish will dry
nicely in this, as well.
Making the most of the balmy
conditions by fixing al fresco,
brass master Pete.
We've acid cleaned it, which
means we've got all the muck off.
The worst thing about it is
that the bell has been dented
inwards. Somebody has just put it
down heavy.
It pushes it all up
and then, of course,
we get a nasty gap there
because we've got a taper.
So the first thing we've got to do
is get this back.
I'm just hitting it down.
It's being supported by all
that in there to hold the shape.
You can notice
how far it has come down
just by the marks on the bugle.
That appears to have worked well.
I'm quite happy now!
So, now, I'm going to start on the
dents on the main body of the bugle.
We've got some nasty dents round
underneath what was the cap.
We've got these things called plugs.
They're round.
They fit inside the bugle.
I actually push the dent
out from inside.
So I'm just going to push
a couple of wooden ones through.
And then
we use a thing called a driver.
It does exactly what it says,
it drives the piece of wood
round the tube.
So we put it in there
and that is equal to a hammer
going round inside.
As I'm hammering it,
trying to force it down to push out
any dents I've got from inside.
It's rather like you would with
a dolly and a piece of steel
and a hammer on a car body.
Exactly the same thing,
only your dolly is in the middle.
At the end of the day, you end up
with this nice smooth bugle
again and that's the idea
of the operation - to do it up.
I can feel the piece of wood
is just there.
That is jammed in there,
which is pushing up,
so I can then just...
..gently tap...
TAPPING
..and get all the dents out
and then we just put a driver
in the other end to get it out.
It's quite simple.
There's nothing worse than getting
the dent ball jammed in there.
It's everybody's worst nightmare.
It's a laborious job.
It's quite a few hours on just
a bugle, but we've got to get
every little ding out
because Billy is going to feel them.
It's got to be tactile.
Pete has given me
most of the ingredients that
I need to make a lovely
stand for his bugle.
This piece fits inside the bell,
which is
a really nice way of supporting it.
First thing I'm going to do is heat
it up and bend it on my first mark.
Once I've got that bend
where I want it,
I then cut it off
at the second mark.
That fits on the end
and the bugle fits on there.
The bugle's had most of the dents
taken out now.
Now I'm just going to wire it all
together, so I can solder it.
It's always a bit of a relief
when you get to this point.
It doesn't matter how many times
you've done it,
you're still... Phewf!
Now I've just got to get it
soldered up.
Using an old drumstick
because the whole thing is going
to get quite warm.
Next, a tall order for horologist
Steve Fletcher.
Cor blimey!
That's incredible, isn't it?
That IS incredible.
All matchsticks. Wow!
Charlotte Fisher from Bedfordshire
grew up in the shadow of this
little landmark.
There she is. Hello, Charlotte.
How are you doing? Hiya.
I'm good. How are you?
You all right? Good. Hello. Hi.
Please tell me, is this seriously
made of all matchsticks?
Yeah, so the matchsticks
are built around wood
and then carved into shape.
How many matches did this take?
It's 5,520 matchsticks.
Oh, you know exactly! Yeah, it does
say on the back, so... Oh, OK!
It's easy to remember.
I thought you'd counted them! No!
I think that would take me too long!
So, whose is this?
It's my great-grandfather's.
What's his name? Edwin Aldous.
So he just kind of made it
as a hobby, I think, to begin with,
and then made quite a few
different ones.
This one was
for the Queen's Coronation.
I can see there's a place where
a clock could have gone.
Yeah, yeah, so I've got all
the little bits and pieces
and the pendulum.
Oh, brilliant. And the key.
When it didn't turn,
we knew it was broken then.
So we decided to take it out.
And what else is in there?
So, I've got a few boxes
of the things that have fallen off.
There's a few things... Matches!
..that have come off over the time!
So he made this
for the Queen's Coronation.
Did it go on display anywhere,
or what?
Yes, in an exhibition in London,
they have pictures of him
and articles and things like that.
And is this what
he did for a living?
Just making models like this?
Yeah, he did quite a few things.
He was also a painter, as well,
so he was quite a famous painter.
He was featured in, like,
TV and shorts before cinemas
and things like that.
But he was quite famous for this
and then it ended up
being in my Nan's house.
So your nan must have been,
like, super proud of this. Yeah.
Cos this is what her dad made. Yeah.
She wasn't necessarily a very
sentimental kind of woman,
but this was, like, the thing
she kept. She loved it so much.
She was most proud of her
dad in that sense.
My Nan definitely used it
as a normal working clock.
It was, like, pride of place right
next to the teeny tiny small TV.
She had to, like, wind it up,
which I think was
her favourite thing to do.
I'd go round there all the time
and she'd sometimes allow me
to wind it up,
if I was well behaved.
So you grew up with this clock.
Mm-hm.
So, I'm just thinking,
when you were a little toddler,
this must have seemed quite a big
clock. It was ginormous.
I just remember it ticking
and the pendulum going,
but I can't quite place
the chime of it.
So that'll be a nice surprise to
hear that again.
And how come you've got this now?
Three years ago,
just before my nan passed away,
she told me that she wanted me to be
the caretaker of it for perpetuity.
That was quite nice. So how did
that feel when she gave it to you?
It was a huge pressure,
but a really lovely thing
cos I'm so close to my nan.
I was close to my nan. You
got on well with her, yeah? Yeah.
Yeah, she was my favourite person.
To look after a clock like this,
it needs a lot of work. Yeah.
Yeah, it was kind of quite daunting
cos it's a big thing for her
to give this to me. Yeah.
But I've taken as much care as I can
and kind of picked up all the little
pieces and, as you can see, like,
some details have really started
to come off, like at the bottom.
And when bigger chunks were starting
to come off, I was like, "Oh, no!"
And feeling the pressure.
So, what would it mean to you
if I can get it ticking again?
It would be amazing.
I think it would really bring back
nice memories, especially
since my nan's passed, and really,
like, this is obviously the biggest
thing I have of hers and it is just
sentimentally the biggest thing.
And just to have that working again,
I think it would
just bring me back to being in
her house. I think we can do that.
We can do that? Oh, yeah. OK.
Charlotte, thank you for
bringing this in. Thank you.
Yeah, it's going to be good fun
trying to get this working.
You take care now. Bye!
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Well, you're going to
get that going.
I'm going to have a word with Will,
see if he can deal with all this
wood for us. Brilliant. OK?
I don't think this clock has been
apart for decades -
probably when Edwin first built it
back in the '50s.
I can't see what's wrong with it
until I take it all apart.
The first thing I have to do
is let down the power.
Right, I'm just going to
get my letting-down key.
There's a huge amount of power
in one of these main springs.
When you wind up a clock,
you're then storing a lot of energy.
Quite often,
when an amateur takes a clock apart,
the one thing they fail to do is
take the power off, and if they undo
the plates,
everything goes whizz, bang,
and it strips teeth and causes
so much damage.
They can actually destroy a clock
mechanism by doing that.
So I have to make sure that
I get all the power off.
Here we go. Great.
Now I've let down the power,
I'm going to take the clock apart.
I'm going to give it
a really good clean
and then I'll be able to see what
there is that I've got to repair.
While Steve grapples
with his monumental fix...
..cobbler Dean is
working in miniature.
I'm really very happy with how
this has come out.
For an 80-year-old pair of shoes
to feel so soft still
is amazing, really.
So now I'm going to try
and recolour where the leather
has flaked away.
It's quite difficult, this, because
it isn't just one block colour.
And I don't really want to lose all
that character and history,
so my idea is to go round
and touch up where it has cracked
with acrylic paints.
It'll fill the gaps
and then strip it off.
But it won't strip out the leather
and it'll keep a lot of the acrylic
in the gaps that I wanted to fill.
And still keep that lovely
leather feel.
I know it looks a little
bit patchy now,
but kind of the base colour is there
and I'm pretty happy with that.
So what I'm going to do now
is strip it off.
So, to strip it, I'm using
the original cleaner that I used
to clean the leather,
and what that's doing is nicely
taking off the excess...
..paint...
..from the original.
And you may only see a patch here,
but you can see the effect.
You see how much
is coming off there.
And that original colour
is coming back through.
But the paint has stayed in where
I wanted it to.
So, when I first saw these,
I thought
perhaps they'd want the toe
remaking, like a new toe, almost.
But after listening to Nechama's
story, I think it's
so important to keep that because
that is what her parents had to do.
They were the hardships
that they endured.
But what I would like to do,
where that lining has come away,
is get a little
bit of glue in there.
And just bond those two together
and that'll just give it some
strength and some structure.
So I'm just going to feed a little
bit of my trusted neoprene glue.
Really, really strong glue.
It's always quite a novel thing,
getting children's shoes.
Everything's so tiny.
So refined, so dainty.
They can be quite
difficult to work on.
God knows I've spent so many
hours on my own children's shoes,
who completely wreck them,
but I'm in a very fortunate
position in that I can either
repair - or even in today's world,
we can just go and buy a new pair.
You think of the hardships back then
and Nechama's little toes poking
through the end there.
It really puts things
in perspective, I think,
for our own lives.
We've got some lovely
shape at the front, there.
I'm going to let that dry a little
bit and then my final job is
to have a look at the soles
and try and preserve them.
Almost ready for inspection, the
once-battered 19th-century bugle.
We've put this...compound on there.
It's a wax with very,
very fine grit in there.
It's just taking the very top
surface off.
I know it sounds funny,
but you can actually feel the shine,
cos it will be a lot, lot smoother.
When Billy feels it,
it'll be nice and smooth.
And that is important for him. He'll
feel that all those dents are gone.
This bugle heralds the events
of daily life for Billy
and his comrades in the
Blind Veterans Centre.
Along with Nicky, who gifted Billy
her family heirloom,
they are hoping the instrument now
befits its prestigious purpose.
Hello. Hi.
Welcome back. Thank you.
Hello, there. I'm Don.
It's nice to meet you both.
Lovely to meet you.
We're very excited. Yeah.
All the members and staff,
volunteers from Blind Veterans
are just... They're just made up
because it means
so much to so many people.
Yeah. I've brought my white gloves.
What are the white gloves for?
So they're part
of a ceremonial dress.
When you're handling anything that's
been polished, it stops the sweat
from your fingers in your hands
burnishing the metal.
OK. You ready? No!
Nicky, ready? Yes. Yes.
Go on.
Oh!
It's incredible, Billy.
It's absolutely incredible.
It's really shiny.
Really? Yes.
It's a copper colour now.
It's not brown any more.
Oh, my goodness!
There's a really clear distinction
between the brass and the copper.
Wow!
Around the mouthpiece and the bell.
And it's got the most
stunning cord -
blue, red and yellow. Brilliant.
And it is mounted.
It's presented just beautifully,
it really is.
Oh, I can't wait to touch it.
Go on, then.
Oh, my goodness!
Crikey!
Crikey!
My goodness me!
There's no dents in her.
There is no dents!
This bugle!
It feels more magical. Yeah.
Wow!
Pete, you are a wizard.
It's absolutely stunning.
It certainly suits you.
That's where it's meant to be.
It's the perfect length.
Here's a family favourite. Go on.
It's one the members love
because it means that they're going
to be filling their bellies.
HE PLAYS BUGLE CALL
Dinner time, quick, let's go!
Grub's up!
Oh, gents.
I just want to cuddle you.
This is absolutely amazing.
You happy, then?
I'm over the moon!
I'm over the moon.
It's incredible.
I think if my grandfathers
were to see this bugle now,
I think they'd be amazed.
You know, they wouldn't
have possibly been able to imagine
that this would be part
of its journey.
And just personally, I'm so pleased
it's got a purpose now.
You really deserve it.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Brilliant. Genius.
And thank you.
See you later. Cheers, guys! Bye!
Wow!
What Pete's managed to do is
retain the character and the history
that lives within the bugle,
but at the same time,
he's readied it for its onward
journey, and that journey gives it
purpose and it's so meaningful
to those blind veterans
that are going to hear it
going forward.
It had magic before,
but it's got super magic now.
Next, hairstylist Carl Williams
has brought a sonic souvenir
from his family business.
Poised to give it a makeover,
electronics whiz Mark Stuckey.
Hi. My name is Carl.
Hi, Carl. I'm Will. I'm Mark.
Nice to see you.
Today, I've brought in
my dad's radio.
That's a radio?
Yeah. That is very small!
They call them portable radios
for a good reason.
Oh, a portable radio?
That makes much more sense.
My dad used to use this in the salon
when they first opened up in 1973.
What kind of salon? A hairdressers,
ladies' hairdressers.
Oh, really?
My dad was born in Antigua.
And he came over here aged 19.
Where was his shop?
The first salon was in
Dalston Lane in Hackney.
Oh, right, OK.
And then he then opened
the hairdressing school,
called the Ebony School
of Hairdressing.
Around about 1980, he opened
up a salon in New York.
So he went worldwide then? He did.
He had great ambitions
for a guy from Antigua.
I think that was really great. Yes.
So, like I said, this radio
is so precious
because it's where he started.
And this radio started off
in the very first salon
because they didn't have
hi-fis as we have now.
He played his favourite songs
on here... Oh, right.
..and listened to the cricket
in the summer, and boxing
if he was there till late.
What was life like in the salon?
Oh, the salon was always busy,
always buzzing.
My brothers and I
loved the vibe there.
Did your dad put you to work?
He put us to work eventually.
Ultimately, he had a plan to get us
all into the business at some later
stage, and two out of the four -
my brother Emil and myself - came
into the profession that way.
Oh, so you're a hairdresser,
as well? Yes.
You mentioned your dad used
to listen to the cricket,
but also listen to music.
What kind of songs
are we talking about?
He liked a guy called Emile Ford
and he had a song called
Why Do You Want To Make
Those Eyes At Me For?
Oh, yeah. And that was
his kind of signature tune.
He would sing that to my mum.
So, yes, it's more than just
the radio to me.
It's more about just
remembering my dad's sound.
So when was the last time
you actually ever heard
that radio work?
Oh, well, my dad gave it to me
when I was 14.
So it's been broken
for quite a long time?
About 30 years.
Fact is that you've kept it
so it obviously was precious
to you as a memory. Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
After my father passed in December
of 2020, I thought maybe
I should just see
if I can get it resurrected.
We're so proud of him.
Not just in hairdressing
but, like I said, his love of music
and his love of entertaining.
May I have a quick look at it?
Of course.
Of course, yes.
So what have we got?
Russian radio.
How do you know it's Russian?
I can tell by the design,
and signal 601's Russian.
Yeah, they were always well made.
I think it's really sweet.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it'd be so lovely because,
you know, it's really precious.
It's really lovely.
It's something that I can keep
of Dad... Yeah.
..to remind me of him and the
things that started his business,
just getting to where he became.
It's been nice to hear about
your dad. An amazing story.
Mark's looking forward to getting
the back off that radio, I think.
Thank you so much. Cheers, bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
There we go.
Wow!
OK, this is where the aerial is.
And I can tell that
that actually is separating.
So, no question,
at some stage, this radio actually
has been dropped because that's
the only way that ferrite material,
which is though strong
for compaction, is a bit like iron -
you drop it, it will shatter.
What a ferrite does,
it concentrates the energy
within the magnetic field
and strengthens the signal,
makes it more efficient.
Hence why you can now
have a portable radio receiver.
So I know that needs to be repaired.
There's the battery terminal
itself, that needs to be done.
But the most important thing
at the moment is trying to actually
get the printed circuit board
off of the original case.
While time lord Steve is also
tinkering with some inner workings,
the outer case of the model
monument is no match for Will.
I've seen things
made out of matchsticks,
but nothing as big as this.
5,520 matches.
A lot of work has gone into making
this, just with these tiny
pieces of wood.
Little grooves have been etched
into the side there.
I think that's to imitate bricks.
Some areas are smooth.
I believe that's where a lot
of this sort of brick
detailing should be.
So I'm hoping a lot of these kind
of larger pieces here might give me
more of an indication
of where they should go.
Actually - actually! -
I think that does actually go
around about there.
Once I've got all these loose pieces
glued back onto the surface,
I can give the entire clock a clean,
then I can work out all those bits
that are missing and recreate them.
I am envious of Will doing
the match work on the case
because I used to make things
out of matchsticks when I was a kid.
I'm sure it's going
to look amazing.
After giving the clock
its first clean,
I've gone through everything,
checked every single tooth,
but I've found on the back plate
here there are three worn holes
that I've got to repair.
You see, this pivot is just wobbling
around in there and it shouldn't
at all, because if it is worn like
that, the wheels actually start
rubbing on each other.
So you then get the wear
on the teeth of the clock,
which then causes a lot of problems.
And what I've got to do is, I've got
to put new plugs of brass in
with holes in,
and they're called bushes.
I'm just gently...
..filing this back.
It's almost like making the hole
worse before I make it better.
It's now - instead of an oval hole,
it's a round hole.
What I need to do now is to go
through the bushes...
..and decide which is
going to be the best.
I think it's going to be
that one there.
Good. I need to now open up
the hole to the right side
so this will actually push in.
I've opened up the hole
big enough now,
and that bush will just
push into there.
That should just...
Push nice and tightly into there,
and now it's done.
I just need to do the other two now
and then I can give it
its final clean
and get everything
back together again.
I have a great respect for
Charlotte's great-grandfather.
The spacing between the sort of
fake bricks need to be spot on
because if they're different
from everything else,
it's going to stand out.
Must have taken absolutely ages.
I just need to do the other
sides, now, and the top.
And once it's all dried,
I can then colour match
the new pieces to match the old,
and then get it over to Steve.
Thousands of pairs of shoes have
passed through the talented hands
of cobbler Dean,
but he's been tested
by these little lace-ups.
So now I'm happy with the uppers,
I can move on to the sole.
It's really just a case of sanding
it until it's nice and smooth
and reasonably clean,
and then I can wax it.
Even with a mere few strokes
of sandpaper,
it's cleaning up already.
The lovely details
from that old repair.
Those little wooden pegs there.
The heads of the pins
kind of shining through.
And it's really nice to see
all those details.
The wax is going on really nice.
And it's soaking up so quickly.
This leather's so dry,
it's never had any moisture.
It's been quite humbling,
working on these shoes.
It's been an honour to be involved
in it and preserve these
for Nechama and Shia.
These shoes have survived for
over 80 years, but bear the marks
of persecution
and difficult new beginnings.
For Nechama and her daughter, Shia,
they represent their family's story
and the fight for survival
in a post-war world.
Hello? Hello.
You all right? Hi, Tim.
Nice to see you again.
Yeah. And you.
How are you both feeling?
Wonderful.
Yeah? I know I'll be happier
when I see them.
I'm excited. Are you excited?
I'm nervous and excited. Yeah.
Are you ready? Mm-hm.
Do the honours? Yeah.
Wow! Wow!
Wow!
I thought I wouldn't cry,
but I'm going to cry!
It's... Wow!
Wow!
Wow...
It's lovely.
Beautiful, Dean. Really beautiful.
It fills my heart with happiness,
I must say.
I wish my parents could see them.
Yeah.
My mother, I can imagine how happy
and proud she was when she put
those shoes on me.
She came from a very tiny
village in Poland... Yeah.
..and I have a photo of her,
about age of six or seven,
standing with classmates,
and she was barefoot.
And I'm sure she was so happy
that she could afford
to give me my first shoes
when I was one year old, so...
..you have made an old lady
very happy.
Good. Bless you.
This is, for me,
really love personified.
Love of my grandparents
to their child.
Love and resilience,
and coming together.
All in this tiny thing.
JAY CHUCKLES
It's quite something.
Well, we know you brought
them in a little box,
and you're going to have them
on display, so.... Yes.
Oh, wow! ..we thought we'd
make you one. Oh, wow!
Much nicer box! Fantastic.
THEY LAUGH
Can display them properly, then.
Now it's a museums item.
It is, yeah. Yeah.
Couldn't be happier.
It's been an honour to work
on them, so... Thank you.
..I hope you can enjoy them...
Thank you so much.
..and the generations after you
can enjoy them, too.
I'm really touched.
Thank you.
You want to take the shoes, Mum?
Yes! Yeah! Gladly!
It's like a treasure to me, really.
Maybe it sounds funny, but it's
a real treasure. No, not at all.
It's not funny, no. We understand.
Well, you take care now. Thank you
so much. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
She's happy.
She couldn't stop smiling.
This is what you do, man!
Eh?
OK.
It feels nice to imagine
how my mother put my shoes
on my tiny feet.
I will keep them as long as I live,
and then I hope my daughter
will take over and keep them
and pass them on to grandchildren,
and so it will go on and on.
It's not just about us.
It's not just about the shoes.
I think it holds something
much bigger.
Small shoes, big history.
It's been radio silence
over on Mark's bench as he focuses
on pinpointing the fault
in the salon Russian wireless.
I've given the radio a real
thorough inspection, visually now,
and there's no other faults
I can locate, apart from one.
Still got to change the battery
connector because it won't
work without that, and when that's
done, we'll have a go
and see what happens.
Out with the old,
in with the new.
The live and the neutral wires
now connected
in there.
The next thing I've got to do
here is the ferrite rod.
That also has been broken
and needs to be joined together.
Fortunately, with ferrite,
you can actually glue it together.
You don't have to replace it.
So, to do that, I'm using
a contact adhesive.
I'll push that in, make it nice
and tight for a minute.
That should be now fairly strong,
which it is.
I'll see if I can find
a radio station.
RADIO STATIC
Hmm.
Right. The radio,
though I've done some of the fixes,
there's still some issues,
as you could probably hear.
So it's a bit of a tricky one.
What I'm hearing is the transistor
breaking down.
The transistor, which I think
is possible culprit -
so I can assume - I'm going to
physically remove it
from the printed circuit board.
So...
Right, that's the transistor out.
Found an equivalent to what
I think is the equivalent
to this type of transistor.
And proof is in the pudding.
So what I want to do is just
carefully just fit it in.
So, that's like that,
and that's like that.
Drum roll.
What's going to happen?
RADIO STATIC
It's still the same.
Background noise is still there.
That's not the culprit.
But there is one other possible.
So we'll bring the next
suspect in, please.
I need to now remove
that transistor out.
Right, OK. Put that in.
See what happens.
CRACKLING
Oh... That's better.
A little bit of background noise.
So that's definitely an improvement
by quite a way.
Karl's going to be over the moon
when this is presented back to him
and he's hearing it for the first
time since he's - what,
18 or something?
That'll be amazing.
It's finally game, set and match
on the model-clock repair.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, that's heavy!
That does look amazing.
You've done such great job.
How many matchsticks did you use?
Between 400 to 500. Wow!
So how's the mechanism?
I had to give it
a complete overhaul.
It was quite worn in places.
Well, it looks striking.
Let's hope that it sounds
striking, too. Ah, very good.
Thank you. Well done, Steve.
Will really has made
a great job of this.
So much patience.
The mechanism's all ready.
Now I'm just going to pop it in.
I love this stage of getting
a clock together.
I just need to get
the hands on there.
This is going to make it
look fantastic.
Very happy with that.
I'm just going to pop
the pendulum on now.
CLOCK CHIMES AND TICKS
The tick is everything.
The sounds are everything.
I now need to just do a few more
adjustments and then I can pop
the top on and then it'll be ready
to hand back to Charlotte.
Can't wait.
Taking over a year to complete,
and crafted
from over 5,000 matchsticks,
this replica was built by a talented
model enthusiast and artist
to celebrate the late
Queen's coronation.
OK, and then just twist
it around. Like that?
Oh, amazing. Yeah? Brilliant. OK.
For Charlotte, the clock
is a reminder of time spent
with her beloved nan.
Hello. Hi. Hi, there.
Hi, there. Welcome back to the barn.
Thank you. Thank you.
Are you quite excited?
Yeah, I'm really excited.
I'm very looking forward to hearing
the sound of it and the actual clock
and all that stuff,
but everything, really.
We'll see what it looks like.
So, has there been, like, an empty
space there since it's been here?
Yeah, there's actually, like, a
little, like, square of what it was.
The space is there... Yeah.
..you just need the clock.
We've got it all designed out.
I think we've held you in suspense
for too long now.
I think we'll have to have a look.
Yes, please! You ready? Definitely.
SHE GASPS
Wow!
Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh!
It even has hands, as well!
Oh, my gosh! Thank you!
THEY CHUCKLE
It's beautiful.
Just going to take the hands around.
CLOCK CHIMES
QUIETLY: Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
It's kind of like a flashback back
to my nan's flat in Dunstable,
when I'd be sitting there with my
little bowl of custard and bananas.
SHE LAUGHS
It's like I've got just
a large piece of my nan back
because I just have so many memories
to do with her and this clock,
and it's just nice having this back.
I think she'd probably want
to give you guys big hugs.
She'd be so grateful.
Thanks for coming down...
Thank you so much.
Thank you for all your time
doing it, as well.
You're very welcome. It's been
a real pleasure, hasn't it?
Definitely. Well, obviously,
this is a very big item... Yes!
..and quite fragile in places,
so Steve and I are going to wrap
it up and send it over to you.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Bye. Bye now. Bye.
Well done. Well done, you.
Airwaves aficionado Mark
is preparing to give
the vintage radio its fine tuning.
What I've got to do now is get
all this back into the case,
which is quite precarious.
There's a couple of little minor
things yet still to do,
a little bit of a clean, and I can't
wait to give it back to Karl.
This radio once provided the backing
track to the buzz of a pioneering
London hair salon of the 1970s.
RADIO CRACKLES
Oh!
Hi, Jay. Have you fixed it?
Yes. You sure?
MARK LAUGHS
Yeah! Because we've got so much
interference in the barn,
receiving a signal from outside
into here is quite a task.
OK. I'm using a tablet... Yeah.
..with the music which I've already
had downloaded. OK. It's then going
through this little box,
which is like a transmitter.
So when Karl's got this home...
Yeah. ..he won't need all of this.
No, he'll be able to receive
radio stations... Oh, happy days.
Hairstylist Karl has returned with
his brothers,
Duncan and Cordell,
all keen to see this little legacy
of their family business.
Here we go. Oh, we've got more!
Hang on. Whoa!
LAUGHTER
I didn't know you were going to
bring backup! What's going on?
So, all brothers, yeah?
All brothers, yeah.
You guys remember this radio,
as well, do you? Sure, sure.
Yeah? Sure, sure. Fond memories?
Oh, very fond.
I mean, I used to love to go
around to the shop after school.
Yeah, yeah. And I used to
actually laugh at it
because I've been in my barber's
and they've got this big system...
Yeah, yeah. ..blasting. I go to
my dad's shop and he's got this
poxy little radio playing,
and it's like...
THEY LAUGH
So the radio is quite important to
you guys, then? Sure is. Yeah?
So what are you hoping
is underneath it?
I know you want the radio, but
what do you want it to be doing?
A working radio.
THEY LAUGH
All right. They didn't say that
at the time. Did they not?
THEY LAUGH
OK. You ready to show them?
As ready as I'll ever be.
You've got to be ready -
we've got three of them now!
THEY LAUGH
Wow! Oh! Amazing. Wow!
A lot cleaner, a lot tidier.
Now for the big question.
You don't even want to...?
THEY LAUGH
No question,
you just want to hear it?
I want to hear it working before
I touch it! It looks good.
It looks good. We want to know if
it works. OK. It looks amazing.
Proof's in the pudding, isn't it?
So we'll turn this on.
RADIO CRACKLES
Sound. Oh, gosh. Yeah.
MUSIC PLAYS
Oh, wow.
That's incredible!
THEY SING ALONG WITH MUSIC
Can see Dad now, huh?
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Wow, that's amazing. Brilliant.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Absolutely. Wow! Brilliant. Wow!
It's amazing. Wow! Wow!
That's amazing. Yeah.
The picture is Dad,
doing his...singing along
to that same track,
so, yeah, very emotional.
One of his favourite songs there.
Yeah. Yeah? Definitely.
So, a little bit of him still in
there. Oh, 100%. Absolutely. 100%.
Yeah. I think that's the most
important part,
just to hear it again and remember
the sounds and where it used to be
and... I mean, this is really taking
us back. What are you going to do
with it? Is it going back into a
shop? I think I'm going to have it
on display in my salon now,
because it'd be great to sort of
have something of his present.
What do you think Dad would make
of it now? Oh... He'd be amazed.
Yeah? I think he'd be...
Yeah. He'd be shocked that we
still even have it. Absolutely.
CROSSTALK
Yeah, I would imagine that he
would've thought this was...
Long gone. ..thrown away somewhere.
Long gone, long gone.
All right, well, the radio's yours
now. OK. It's yours to take home.
That's great. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you, guys.
Take care now. All the best.
Bye-bye. See you soon. Bye. Bye-bye.
It's an absolutely great feeling
to have the radio back and working.
Great memories of Dad and times
in the salon with both my parents
and my brothers.
The fact that we've lost Dad,
it's like he was here again,
he's present again, and that just
means the world. Yeah, that's true.
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Hello! Hello. Hi! You all right?
Morning!
On a mission to deliver
the first assignment,
former Royal Artillery Staff
Sergeant Billy Baxter
alongside charity director
Nicky Shaw.
They're here to recruit the musical
instrument expertise of Pete Woods.
Hello, there. Hello! Hello. Hi.
Welcome to the barn. Thank you.
Thank you. Nice to meet you both.
What's this? So, this is a bugle.
A bugle. Yeah.
It belonged to my great-grandfather.
He passed it on to my grandfather,
who used it
when he was in the Scouts. Right.
We believe it's dated to about
1885-ish. 1885? Approximately.
So how comes it's
made its way into the barn today?
A few years ago now, I joined a
charity called Blind Veterans UK,
where I met Billy,
who works at our rehabilitation
centre in Llandudno
and discovered how musical
instruments are used as part
of a rehabilitation
process for blind veterans.
And so I gifted the bugle to Billy,
who is now custodian of it. Right.
So, Billy, are you a bugle player,
then? Absolutely not!
I'm a self-taught bugler.
I play five notes badly.
But I can knock out some different
calls and I use this
instrument to call our blind
veterans to different functions.
It pierces all of the noise
within the building,
so they know something's going on.
It stimulates a lot of memories
from their military days.
There's a call more or less
in the military for everything with
a bugle. Right. So, how long did you
serve in the Army for? For 20 years.
Unfortunately, while serving
in the Balkans in the late '90s,
I contracted a very rare virus
that rendered me totally blind.
You know, losing your sight
sort of extracts
you from the world around you.
We take everything for granted
by looking at things and
when you can't see that, the world
becomes a very, very scary place.
So what was life like for you
when you came back home?
Married, three young children. My
wife's holding down a full-time job.
My children didn't realise why dad
wasn't working properly.
I did everything with the kids,
as dads do, very active lifestyle.
So, this suddenly stopped.
But, thank God,
I was then gratefully
picked up by Blind Veterans UK
and the charity saved my life.
When you see Billy in action,
he brings magic into the centre
and into other blind veterans,
through the way in which he uses
his charm and his personality,
but also music to help with
people's rehabilitation.
It's amazing what strength
you get from the staff
and the other blind veterans.
We all support each other.
For me, I never thought that I'd be
playing the bugle! No idea at all.
I just thought, you know, they gave
me the confidence
to have a go at things and I
thought, "Do you know what?
"I'll have a go at
playing the bugle."
So, what's really wrong with
the bugle that you'd like me to fix?
I can feel every... Every blemish,
everything on the instrument.
And I'm sure that you could
feel the dents.
I mean, I can see there's
a lot of dents here.
I think it was used as an anchor in
its former life. I'm not too sure!
You want it fit for parade, sir?
Yes, sir!
So, can you see
the potential in this, Pete?
Yes, it's a bugle, they're meant for
use. They get in a state. Do they?
Why do you want it done up?
It was something that would look
the part when it comes to
Remembrance Service,
or a celebration, or a dinner.
It's something we could proudly
show. I think, for me,
if my grandad and my
great-grandfather knew that that was
how it was being used today, I think
they would be delighted, actually.
Pete, are you excited?
Yeah, there's a lot of work there,
isn't there, mate?
We'll let you know when
it's all ready to be picked up
and we'll see you soon. Thank
you very much. Thank you so much.
Bye-bye. Thank you. Pleasure.
Billy's bugle is exactly what I'd
expect to see for the age of it.
The problem is all the dents
and, of course, Billy not being
able to see now, he's going
to feel every little dent.
To get the dents out,
because of the way a bugle's made,
the only way to do it is to get
the whole thing apart.
The parts of a bugle are
soft-soldered together.
It doesn't take much to get it -
a little bit of heat
softens the solder.
Off it comes.
Good news!
Off to the acid bath.
Next, a tiny assignment
with a big history.
Nechama Freibach and her daughter
Shia have brought a very precious
keepsake to the barn.
Hello. Hello. Hello.
How are you doing? Good. Fine.
Oh, wow! Let's see.
Got a pair of shoes.
Steve, do you mind joining us?
Not at all.
16 years of experience has taught
cobbler Dean Westmoreland how
to handle treasured footwear
both big and small.
So whose shoes are these?
Mine. They're yours.
When did you get these?
On one year old.
When I started walking.
It was almost 80 years ago.
So, you're over... Over 80. Nah!
OK. So, where were they bought?
I was born in Tel Aviv
and that time,
'42, when I was born,
it wasn't called Palestine.
Was your parents born in Tel Aviv?
No, they were both from Poland.
They came before World War II.
Right.
They were Jewish
and wanted a better future. Yeah.
And they came separately.
They met in Tel Aviv. Wow!
They married in Tel Aviv
and I was born in Tel Aviv. Yeah.
So all the rest of the family
stayed in Poland and...
..unfortunately,
died in the Holocaust.
Wow! Wow!
Not only my grandparents,
but many uncles and aunts.
The brother and sister of my parents
also went in the Holocaust.
So me and my parents, we were
the family, the only family. Yeah.
Last survivors of the family.
That's... Mm.
Actually, it's the only tangible
object I have from my parents.
This is it. Yes. Mm.
Wow! So it's very dear to me.
Very dear.
And you're trusting us with them,
as well. Yes, of course. Thank you.
Why are the toes worn
out in that way?
Those times, the situation was not
so good. When you say not so good,
what was it like? Tough life.
My father didn't earn much.
And they wanted me
to use them as long as they can, so
when they cut here, my toes go out,
a few months more, use the shoes.
Hold on...
That's why you've cut that.
So, your parents would cut this,
so your toes could come out.
To last longer. Last longer.
Last longer.
It's very resourceful, isn't it?
Now, after my parents died,
it became even more precious to me.
Yeah. So I decided I keep them on
and give them to my children
and they will give them
to my grandchildren.
It will be some kind of memory.
Yeah.
That's why I want them to be in a
better condition, to last longer.
What would you like to happen to
these? What do you want Dean to do?
We had a vision -
how about quite close to what
they looked like the last day
she wore them, in a way, you know?
DEAN: So, the hole on the toes,
you want them keeping?
Of course. You don't
want that covering up. No.
That's the point. Yeah, yeah.
Perfect.
Thank you for trusting us. Thank
you. Enjoy. You take care now. Bye.
Bye-bye. Come on.
Wow! I've never seen that before,
where the toes are cut... I know.
Some hard times they've gone
through, isn't it? Wow!
Well, you know what you've got to
do. Cheers, Jay. I know you've got
this. Cheers, mate.
As a repairer, it's in my nature to
kind of strip off the old repairs
and replace with new,
but it's really important to Nechama
and Shia that I preserve
all the history here.
So, in the spirit of conservation
and preservation,
I'm not going to go too far
with these.
I'm going to recolour this upper
leather to the original
sort of off-white khaki colour.
I'm going to repair any little
tears like there are at the toes,
glue all that back together.
I'm going to scrape clean
and wax the soles to preserve them.
And hopefully
these can last for many more years.
I think, initially, what I need to
do is give that upper a good clean.
Make it a bit softer. And then
I'll know what I'm working with.
So, this is a leather cleaner
that I use almost daily.
It will strip any old muck
and it will also prepare
the pores of the leather,
so it will kind of open them up.
It is working at a level that we
can't really see
and preparing the leather for the
next stage of dyeing and colouring.
And as with any craft,
preparation is key.
This weather is so fantastic,
isn't it? I know. It's so nice.
It's lovely, yeah. Yeah, my paint
will dry nicely in this, won't it?
Yeah, and my varnish will dry
nicely in this, as well.
Making the most of the balmy
conditions by fixing al fresco,
brass master Pete.
We've acid cleaned it, which
means we've got all the muck off.
The worst thing about it is
that the bell has been dented
inwards. Somebody has just put it
down heavy.
It pushes it all up
and then, of course,
we get a nasty gap there
because we've got a taper.
So the first thing we've got to do
is get this back.
I'm just hitting it down.
It's being supported by all
that in there to hold the shape.
You can notice
how far it has come down
just by the marks on the bugle.
That appears to have worked well.
I'm quite happy now!
So, now, I'm going to start on the
dents on the main body of the bugle.
We've got some nasty dents round
underneath what was the cap.
We've got these things called plugs.
They're round.
They fit inside the bugle.
I actually push the dent
out from inside.
So I'm just going to push
a couple of wooden ones through.
And then
we use a thing called a driver.
It does exactly what it says,
it drives the piece of wood
round the tube.
So we put it in there
and that is equal to a hammer
going round inside.
As I'm hammering it,
trying to force it down to push out
any dents I've got from inside.
It's rather like you would with
a dolly and a piece of steel
and a hammer on a car body.
Exactly the same thing,
only your dolly is in the middle.
At the end of the day, you end up
with this nice smooth bugle
again and that's the idea
of the operation - to do it up.
I can feel the piece of wood
is just there.
That is jammed in there,
which is pushing up,
so I can then just...
..gently tap...
TAPPING
..and get all the dents out
and then we just put a driver
in the other end to get it out.
It's quite simple.
There's nothing worse than getting
the dent ball jammed in there.
It's everybody's worst nightmare.
It's a laborious job.
It's quite a few hours on just
a bugle, but we've got to get
every little ding out
because Billy is going to feel them.
It's got to be tactile.
Pete has given me
most of the ingredients that
I need to make a lovely
stand for his bugle.
This piece fits inside the bell,
which is
a really nice way of supporting it.
First thing I'm going to do is heat
it up and bend it on my first mark.
Once I've got that bend
where I want it,
I then cut it off
at the second mark.
That fits on the end
and the bugle fits on there.
The bugle's had most of the dents
taken out now.
Now I'm just going to wire it all
together, so I can solder it.
It's always a bit of a relief
when you get to this point.
It doesn't matter how many times
you've done it,
you're still... Phewf!
Now I've just got to get it
soldered up.
Using an old drumstick
because the whole thing is going
to get quite warm.
Next, a tall order for horologist
Steve Fletcher.
Cor blimey!
That's incredible, isn't it?
That IS incredible.
All matchsticks. Wow!
Charlotte Fisher from Bedfordshire
grew up in the shadow of this
little landmark.
There she is. Hello, Charlotte.
How are you doing? Hiya.
I'm good. How are you?
You all right? Good. Hello. Hi.
Please tell me, is this seriously
made of all matchsticks?
Yeah, so the matchsticks
are built around wood
and then carved into shape.
How many matches did this take?
It's 5,520 matchsticks.
Oh, you know exactly! Yeah, it does
say on the back, so... Oh, OK!
It's easy to remember.
I thought you'd counted them! No!
I think that would take me too long!
So, whose is this?
It's my great-grandfather's.
What's his name? Edwin Aldous.
So he just kind of made it
as a hobby, I think, to begin with,
and then made quite a few
different ones.
This one was
for the Queen's Coronation.
I can see there's a place where
a clock could have gone.
Yeah, yeah, so I've got all
the little bits and pieces
and the pendulum.
Oh, brilliant. And the key.
When it didn't turn,
we knew it was broken then.
So we decided to take it out.
And what else is in there?
So, I've got a few boxes
of the things that have fallen off.
There's a few things... Matches!
..that have come off over the time!
So he made this
for the Queen's Coronation.
Did it go on display anywhere,
or what?
Yes, in an exhibition in London,
they have pictures of him
and articles and things like that.
And is this what
he did for a living?
Just making models like this?
Yeah, he did quite a few things.
He was also a painter, as well,
so he was quite a famous painter.
He was featured in, like,
TV and shorts before cinemas
and things like that.
But he was quite famous for this
and then it ended up
being in my Nan's house.
So your nan must have been,
like, super proud of this. Yeah.
Cos this is what her dad made. Yeah.
She wasn't necessarily a very
sentimental kind of woman,
but this was, like, the thing
she kept. She loved it so much.
She was most proud of her
dad in that sense.
My Nan definitely used it
as a normal working clock.
It was, like, pride of place right
next to the teeny tiny small TV.
She had to, like, wind it up,
which I think was
her favourite thing to do.
I'd go round there all the time
and she'd sometimes allow me
to wind it up,
if I was well behaved.
So you grew up with this clock.
Mm-hm.
So, I'm just thinking,
when you were a little toddler,
this must have seemed quite a big
clock. It was ginormous.
I just remember it ticking
and the pendulum going,
but I can't quite place
the chime of it.
So that'll be a nice surprise to
hear that again.
And how come you've got this now?
Three years ago,
just before my nan passed away,
she told me that she wanted me to be
the caretaker of it for perpetuity.
That was quite nice. So how did
that feel when she gave it to you?
It was a huge pressure,
but a really lovely thing
cos I'm so close to my nan.
I was close to my nan. You
got on well with her, yeah? Yeah.
Yeah, she was my favourite person.
To look after a clock like this,
it needs a lot of work. Yeah.
Yeah, it was kind of quite daunting
cos it's a big thing for her
to give this to me. Yeah.
But I've taken as much care as I can
and kind of picked up all the little
pieces and, as you can see, like,
some details have really started
to come off, like at the bottom.
And when bigger chunks were starting
to come off, I was like, "Oh, no!"
And feeling the pressure.
So, what would it mean to you
if I can get it ticking again?
It would be amazing.
I think it would really bring back
nice memories, especially
since my nan's passed, and really,
like, this is obviously the biggest
thing I have of hers and it is just
sentimentally the biggest thing.
And just to have that working again,
I think it would
just bring me back to being in
her house. I think we can do that.
We can do that? Oh, yeah. OK.
Charlotte, thank you for
bringing this in. Thank you.
Yeah, it's going to be good fun
trying to get this working.
You take care now. Bye!
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Well, you're going to
get that going.
I'm going to have a word with Will,
see if he can deal with all this
wood for us. Brilliant. OK?
I don't think this clock has been
apart for decades -
probably when Edwin first built it
back in the '50s.
I can't see what's wrong with it
until I take it all apart.
The first thing I have to do
is let down the power.
Right, I'm just going to
get my letting-down key.
There's a huge amount of power
in one of these main springs.
When you wind up a clock,
you're then storing a lot of energy.
Quite often,
when an amateur takes a clock apart,
the one thing they fail to do is
take the power off, and if they undo
the plates,
everything goes whizz, bang,
and it strips teeth and causes
so much damage.
They can actually destroy a clock
mechanism by doing that.
So I have to make sure that
I get all the power off.
Here we go. Great.
Now I've let down the power,
I'm going to take the clock apart.
I'm going to give it
a really good clean
and then I'll be able to see what
there is that I've got to repair.
While Steve grapples
with his monumental fix...
..cobbler Dean is
working in miniature.
I'm really very happy with how
this has come out.
For an 80-year-old pair of shoes
to feel so soft still
is amazing, really.
So now I'm going to try
and recolour where the leather
has flaked away.
It's quite difficult, this, because
it isn't just one block colour.
And I don't really want to lose all
that character and history,
so my idea is to go round
and touch up where it has cracked
with acrylic paints.
It'll fill the gaps
and then strip it off.
But it won't strip out the leather
and it'll keep a lot of the acrylic
in the gaps that I wanted to fill.
And still keep that lovely
leather feel.
I know it looks a little
bit patchy now,
but kind of the base colour is there
and I'm pretty happy with that.
So what I'm going to do now
is strip it off.
So, to strip it, I'm using
the original cleaner that I used
to clean the leather,
and what that's doing is nicely
taking off the excess...
..paint...
..from the original.
And you may only see a patch here,
but you can see the effect.
You see how much
is coming off there.
And that original colour
is coming back through.
But the paint has stayed in where
I wanted it to.
So, when I first saw these,
I thought
perhaps they'd want the toe
remaking, like a new toe, almost.
But after listening to Nechama's
story, I think it's
so important to keep that because
that is what her parents had to do.
They were the hardships
that they endured.
But what I would like to do,
where that lining has come away,
is get a little
bit of glue in there.
And just bond those two together
and that'll just give it some
strength and some structure.
So I'm just going to feed a little
bit of my trusted neoprene glue.
Really, really strong glue.
It's always quite a novel thing,
getting children's shoes.
Everything's so tiny.
So refined, so dainty.
They can be quite
difficult to work on.
God knows I've spent so many
hours on my own children's shoes,
who completely wreck them,
but I'm in a very fortunate
position in that I can either
repair - or even in today's world,
we can just go and buy a new pair.
You think of the hardships back then
and Nechama's little toes poking
through the end there.
It really puts things
in perspective, I think,
for our own lives.
We've got some lovely
shape at the front, there.
I'm going to let that dry a little
bit and then my final job is
to have a look at the soles
and try and preserve them.
Almost ready for inspection, the
once-battered 19th-century bugle.
We've put this...compound on there.
It's a wax with very,
very fine grit in there.
It's just taking the very top
surface off.
I know it sounds funny,
but you can actually feel the shine,
cos it will be a lot, lot smoother.
When Billy feels it,
it'll be nice and smooth.
And that is important for him. He'll
feel that all those dents are gone.
This bugle heralds the events
of daily life for Billy
and his comrades in the
Blind Veterans Centre.
Along with Nicky, who gifted Billy
her family heirloom,
they are hoping the instrument now
befits its prestigious purpose.
Hello. Hi.
Welcome back. Thank you.
Hello, there. I'm Don.
It's nice to meet you both.
Lovely to meet you.
We're very excited. Yeah.
All the members and staff,
volunteers from Blind Veterans
are just... They're just made up
because it means
so much to so many people.
Yeah. I've brought my white gloves.
What are the white gloves for?
So they're part
of a ceremonial dress.
When you're handling anything that's
been polished, it stops the sweat
from your fingers in your hands
burnishing the metal.
OK. You ready? No!
Nicky, ready? Yes. Yes.
Go on.
Oh!
It's incredible, Billy.
It's absolutely incredible.
It's really shiny.
Really? Yes.
It's a copper colour now.
It's not brown any more.
Oh, my goodness!
There's a really clear distinction
between the brass and the copper.
Wow!
Around the mouthpiece and the bell.
And it's got the most
stunning cord -
blue, red and yellow. Brilliant.
And it is mounted.
It's presented just beautifully,
it really is.
Oh, I can't wait to touch it.
Go on, then.
Oh, my goodness!
Crikey!
Crikey!
My goodness me!
There's no dents in her.
There is no dents!
This bugle!
It feels more magical. Yeah.
Wow!
Pete, you are a wizard.
It's absolutely stunning.
It certainly suits you.
That's where it's meant to be.
It's the perfect length.
Here's a family favourite. Go on.
It's one the members love
because it means that they're going
to be filling their bellies.
HE PLAYS BUGLE CALL
Dinner time, quick, let's go!
Grub's up!
Oh, gents.
I just want to cuddle you.
This is absolutely amazing.
You happy, then?
I'm over the moon!
I'm over the moon.
It's incredible.
I think if my grandfathers
were to see this bugle now,
I think they'd be amazed.
You know, they wouldn't
have possibly been able to imagine
that this would be part
of its journey.
And just personally, I'm so pleased
it's got a purpose now.
You really deserve it.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Brilliant. Genius.
And thank you.
See you later. Cheers, guys! Bye!
Wow!
What Pete's managed to do is
retain the character and the history
that lives within the bugle,
but at the same time,
he's readied it for its onward
journey, and that journey gives it
purpose and it's so meaningful
to those blind veterans
that are going to hear it
going forward.
It had magic before,
but it's got super magic now.
Next, hairstylist Carl Williams
has brought a sonic souvenir
from his family business.
Poised to give it a makeover,
electronics whiz Mark Stuckey.
Hi. My name is Carl.
Hi, Carl. I'm Will. I'm Mark.
Nice to see you.
Today, I've brought in
my dad's radio.
That's a radio?
Yeah. That is very small!
They call them portable radios
for a good reason.
Oh, a portable radio?
That makes much more sense.
My dad used to use this in the salon
when they first opened up in 1973.
What kind of salon? A hairdressers,
ladies' hairdressers.
Oh, really?
My dad was born in Antigua.
And he came over here aged 19.
Where was his shop?
The first salon was in
Dalston Lane in Hackney.
Oh, right, OK.
And then he then opened
the hairdressing school,
called the Ebony School
of Hairdressing.
Around about 1980, he opened
up a salon in New York.
So he went worldwide then? He did.
He had great ambitions
for a guy from Antigua.
I think that was really great. Yes.
So, like I said, this radio
is so precious
because it's where he started.
And this radio started off
in the very first salon
because they didn't have
hi-fis as we have now.
He played his favourite songs
on here... Oh, right.
..and listened to the cricket
in the summer, and boxing
if he was there till late.
What was life like in the salon?
Oh, the salon was always busy,
always buzzing.
My brothers and I
loved the vibe there.
Did your dad put you to work?
He put us to work eventually.
Ultimately, he had a plan to get us
all into the business at some later
stage, and two out of the four -
my brother Emil and myself - came
into the profession that way.
Oh, so you're a hairdresser,
as well? Yes.
You mentioned your dad used
to listen to the cricket,
but also listen to music.
What kind of songs
are we talking about?
He liked a guy called Emile Ford
and he had a song called
Why Do You Want To Make
Those Eyes At Me For?
Oh, yeah. And that was
his kind of signature tune.
He would sing that to my mum.
So, yes, it's more than just
the radio to me.
It's more about just
remembering my dad's sound.
So when was the last time
you actually ever heard
that radio work?
Oh, well, my dad gave it to me
when I was 14.
So it's been broken
for quite a long time?
About 30 years.
Fact is that you've kept it
so it obviously was precious
to you as a memory. Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
After my father passed in December
of 2020, I thought maybe
I should just see
if I can get it resurrected.
We're so proud of him.
Not just in hairdressing
but, like I said, his love of music
and his love of entertaining.
May I have a quick look at it?
Of course.
Of course, yes.
So what have we got?
Russian radio.
How do you know it's Russian?
I can tell by the design,
and signal 601's Russian.
Yeah, they were always well made.
I think it's really sweet.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it'd be so lovely because,
you know, it's really precious.
It's really lovely.
It's something that I can keep
of Dad... Yeah.
..to remind me of him and the
things that started his business,
just getting to where he became.
It's been nice to hear about
your dad. An amazing story.
Mark's looking forward to getting
the back off that radio, I think.
Thank you so much. Cheers, bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
There we go.
Wow!
OK, this is where the aerial is.
And I can tell that
that actually is separating.
So, no question,
at some stage, this radio actually
has been dropped because that's
the only way that ferrite material,
which is though strong
for compaction, is a bit like iron -
you drop it, it will shatter.
What a ferrite does,
it concentrates the energy
within the magnetic field
and strengthens the signal,
makes it more efficient.
Hence why you can now
have a portable radio receiver.
So I know that needs to be repaired.
There's the battery terminal
itself, that needs to be done.
But the most important thing
at the moment is trying to actually
get the printed circuit board
off of the original case.
While time lord Steve is also
tinkering with some inner workings,
the outer case of the model
monument is no match for Will.
I've seen things
made out of matchsticks,
but nothing as big as this.
5,520 matches.
A lot of work has gone into making
this, just with these tiny
pieces of wood.
Little grooves have been etched
into the side there.
I think that's to imitate bricks.
Some areas are smooth.
I believe that's where a lot
of this sort of brick
detailing should be.
So I'm hoping a lot of these kind
of larger pieces here might give me
more of an indication
of where they should go.
Actually - actually! -
I think that does actually go
around about there.
Once I've got all these loose pieces
glued back onto the surface,
I can give the entire clock a clean,
then I can work out all those bits
that are missing and recreate them.
I am envious of Will doing
the match work on the case
because I used to make things
out of matchsticks when I was a kid.
I'm sure it's going
to look amazing.
After giving the clock
its first clean,
I've gone through everything,
checked every single tooth,
but I've found on the back plate
here there are three worn holes
that I've got to repair.
You see, this pivot is just wobbling
around in there and it shouldn't
at all, because if it is worn like
that, the wheels actually start
rubbing on each other.
So you then get the wear
on the teeth of the clock,
which then causes a lot of problems.
And what I've got to do is, I've got
to put new plugs of brass in
with holes in,
and they're called bushes.
I'm just gently...
..filing this back.
It's almost like making the hole
worse before I make it better.
It's now - instead of an oval hole,
it's a round hole.
What I need to do now is to go
through the bushes...
..and decide which is
going to be the best.
I think it's going to be
that one there.
Good. I need to now open up
the hole to the right side
so this will actually push in.
I've opened up the hole
big enough now,
and that bush will just
push into there.
That should just...
Push nice and tightly into there,
and now it's done.
I just need to do the other two now
and then I can give it
its final clean
and get everything
back together again.
I have a great respect for
Charlotte's great-grandfather.
The spacing between the sort of
fake bricks need to be spot on
because if they're different
from everything else,
it's going to stand out.
Must have taken absolutely ages.
I just need to do the other
sides, now, and the top.
And once it's all dried,
I can then colour match
the new pieces to match the old,
and then get it over to Steve.
Thousands of pairs of shoes have
passed through the talented hands
of cobbler Dean,
but he's been tested
by these little lace-ups.
So now I'm happy with the uppers,
I can move on to the sole.
It's really just a case of sanding
it until it's nice and smooth
and reasonably clean,
and then I can wax it.
Even with a mere few strokes
of sandpaper,
it's cleaning up already.
The lovely details
from that old repair.
Those little wooden pegs there.
The heads of the pins
kind of shining through.
And it's really nice to see
all those details.
The wax is going on really nice.
And it's soaking up so quickly.
This leather's so dry,
it's never had any moisture.
It's been quite humbling,
working on these shoes.
It's been an honour to be involved
in it and preserve these
for Nechama and Shia.
These shoes have survived for
over 80 years, but bear the marks
of persecution
and difficult new beginnings.
For Nechama and her daughter, Shia,
they represent their family's story
and the fight for survival
in a post-war world.
Hello? Hello.
You all right? Hi, Tim.
Nice to see you again.
Yeah. And you.
How are you both feeling?
Wonderful.
Yeah? I know I'll be happier
when I see them.
I'm excited. Are you excited?
I'm nervous and excited. Yeah.
Are you ready? Mm-hm.
Do the honours? Yeah.
Wow! Wow!
Wow!
I thought I wouldn't cry,
but I'm going to cry!
It's... Wow!
Wow!
Wow...
It's lovely.
Beautiful, Dean. Really beautiful.
It fills my heart with happiness,
I must say.
I wish my parents could see them.
Yeah.
My mother, I can imagine how happy
and proud she was when she put
those shoes on me.
She came from a very tiny
village in Poland... Yeah.
..and I have a photo of her,
about age of six or seven,
standing with classmates,
and she was barefoot.
And I'm sure she was so happy
that she could afford
to give me my first shoes
when I was one year old, so...
..you have made an old lady
very happy.
Good. Bless you.
This is, for me,
really love personified.
Love of my grandparents
to their child.
Love and resilience,
and coming together.
All in this tiny thing.
JAY CHUCKLES
It's quite something.
Well, we know you brought
them in a little box,
and you're going to have them
on display, so.... Yes.
Oh, wow! ..we thought we'd
make you one. Oh, wow!
Much nicer box! Fantastic.
THEY LAUGH
Can display them properly, then.
Now it's a museums item.
It is, yeah. Yeah.
Couldn't be happier.
It's been an honour to work
on them, so... Thank you.
..I hope you can enjoy them...
Thank you so much.
..and the generations after you
can enjoy them, too.
I'm really touched.
Thank you.
You want to take the shoes, Mum?
Yes! Yeah! Gladly!
It's like a treasure to me, really.
Maybe it sounds funny, but it's
a real treasure. No, not at all.
It's not funny, no. We understand.
Well, you take care now. Thank you
so much. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
She's happy.
She couldn't stop smiling.
This is what you do, man!
Eh?
OK.
It feels nice to imagine
how my mother put my shoes
on my tiny feet.
I will keep them as long as I live,
and then I hope my daughter
will take over and keep them
and pass them on to grandchildren,
and so it will go on and on.
It's not just about us.
It's not just about the shoes.
I think it holds something
much bigger.
Small shoes, big history.
It's been radio silence
over on Mark's bench as he focuses
on pinpointing the fault
in the salon Russian wireless.
I've given the radio a real
thorough inspection, visually now,
and there's no other faults
I can locate, apart from one.
Still got to change the battery
connector because it won't
work without that, and when that's
done, we'll have a go
and see what happens.
Out with the old,
in with the new.
The live and the neutral wires
now connected
in there.
The next thing I've got to do
here is the ferrite rod.
That also has been broken
and needs to be joined together.
Fortunately, with ferrite,
you can actually glue it together.
You don't have to replace it.
So, to do that, I'm using
a contact adhesive.
I'll push that in, make it nice
and tight for a minute.
That should be now fairly strong,
which it is.
I'll see if I can find
a radio station.
RADIO STATIC
Hmm.
Right. The radio,
though I've done some of the fixes,
there's still some issues,
as you could probably hear.
So it's a bit of a tricky one.
What I'm hearing is the transistor
breaking down.
The transistor, which I think
is possible culprit -
so I can assume - I'm going to
physically remove it
from the printed circuit board.
So...
Right, that's the transistor out.
Found an equivalent to what
I think is the equivalent
to this type of transistor.
And proof is in the pudding.
So what I want to do is just
carefully just fit it in.
So, that's like that,
and that's like that.
Drum roll.
What's going to happen?
RADIO STATIC
It's still the same.
Background noise is still there.
That's not the culprit.
But there is one other possible.
So we'll bring the next
suspect in, please.
I need to now remove
that transistor out.
Right, OK. Put that in.
See what happens.
CRACKLING
Oh... That's better.
A little bit of background noise.
So that's definitely an improvement
by quite a way.
Karl's going to be over the moon
when this is presented back to him
and he's hearing it for the first
time since he's - what,
18 or something?
That'll be amazing.
It's finally game, set and match
on the model-clock repair.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, that's heavy!
That does look amazing.
You've done such great job.
How many matchsticks did you use?
Between 400 to 500. Wow!
So how's the mechanism?
I had to give it
a complete overhaul.
It was quite worn in places.
Well, it looks striking.
Let's hope that it sounds
striking, too. Ah, very good.
Thank you. Well done, Steve.
Will really has made
a great job of this.
So much patience.
The mechanism's all ready.
Now I'm just going to pop it in.
I love this stage of getting
a clock together.
I just need to get
the hands on there.
This is going to make it
look fantastic.
Very happy with that.
I'm just going to pop
the pendulum on now.
CLOCK CHIMES AND TICKS
The tick is everything.
The sounds are everything.
I now need to just do a few more
adjustments and then I can pop
the top on and then it'll be ready
to hand back to Charlotte.
Can't wait.
Taking over a year to complete,
and crafted
from over 5,000 matchsticks,
this replica was built by a talented
model enthusiast and artist
to celebrate the late
Queen's coronation.
OK, and then just twist
it around. Like that?
Oh, amazing. Yeah? Brilliant. OK.
For Charlotte, the clock
is a reminder of time spent
with her beloved nan.
Hello. Hi. Hi, there.
Hi, there. Welcome back to the barn.
Thank you. Thank you.
Are you quite excited?
Yeah, I'm really excited.
I'm very looking forward to hearing
the sound of it and the actual clock
and all that stuff,
but everything, really.
We'll see what it looks like.
So, has there been, like, an empty
space there since it's been here?
Yeah, there's actually, like, a
little, like, square of what it was.
The space is there... Yeah.
..you just need the clock.
We've got it all designed out.
I think we've held you in suspense
for too long now.
I think we'll have to have a look.
Yes, please! You ready? Definitely.
SHE GASPS
Wow!
Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh!
It even has hands, as well!
Oh, my gosh! Thank you!
THEY CHUCKLE
It's beautiful.
Just going to take the hands around.
CLOCK CHIMES
QUIETLY: Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
It's kind of like a flashback back
to my nan's flat in Dunstable,
when I'd be sitting there with my
little bowl of custard and bananas.
SHE LAUGHS
It's like I've got just
a large piece of my nan back
because I just have so many memories
to do with her and this clock,
and it's just nice having this back.
I think she'd probably want
to give you guys big hugs.
She'd be so grateful.
Thanks for coming down...
Thank you so much.
Thank you for all your time
doing it, as well.
You're very welcome. It's been
a real pleasure, hasn't it?
Definitely. Well, obviously,
this is a very big item... Yes!
..and quite fragile in places,
so Steve and I are going to wrap
it up and send it over to you.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Bye. Bye now. Bye.
Well done. Well done, you.
Airwaves aficionado Mark
is preparing to give
the vintage radio its fine tuning.
What I've got to do now is get
all this back into the case,
which is quite precarious.
There's a couple of little minor
things yet still to do,
a little bit of a clean, and I can't
wait to give it back to Karl.
This radio once provided the backing
track to the buzz of a pioneering
London hair salon of the 1970s.
RADIO CRACKLES
Oh!
Hi, Jay. Have you fixed it?
Yes. You sure?
MARK LAUGHS
Yeah! Because we've got so much
interference in the barn,
receiving a signal from outside
into here is quite a task.
OK. I'm using a tablet... Yeah.
..with the music which I've already
had downloaded. OK. It's then going
through this little box,
which is like a transmitter.
So when Karl's got this home...
Yeah. ..he won't need all of this.
No, he'll be able to receive
radio stations... Oh, happy days.
Hairstylist Karl has returned with
his brothers,
Duncan and Cordell,
all keen to see this little legacy
of their family business.
Here we go. Oh, we've got more!
Hang on. Whoa!
LAUGHTER
I didn't know you were going to
bring backup! What's going on?
So, all brothers, yeah?
All brothers, yeah.
You guys remember this radio,
as well, do you? Sure, sure.
Yeah? Sure, sure. Fond memories?
Oh, very fond.
I mean, I used to love to go
around to the shop after school.
Yeah, yeah. And I used to
actually laugh at it
because I've been in my barber's
and they've got this big system...
Yeah, yeah. ..blasting. I go to
my dad's shop and he's got this
poxy little radio playing,
and it's like...
THEY LAUGH
So the radio is quite important to
you guys, then? Sure is. Yeah?
So what are you hoping
is underneath it?
I know you want the radio, but
what do you want it to be doing?
A working radio.
THEY LAUGH
All right. They didn't say that
at the time. Did they not?
THEY LAUGH
OK. You ready to show them?
As ready as I'll ever be.
You've got to be ready -
we've got three of them now!
THEY LAUGH
Wow! Oh! Amazing. Wow!
A lot cleaner, a lot tidier.
Now for the big question.
You don't even want to...?
THEY LAUGH
No question,
you just want to hear it?
I want to hear it working before
I touch it! It looks good.
It looks good. We want to know if
it works. OK. It looks amazing.
Proof's in the pudding, isn't it?
So we'll turn this on.
RADIO CRACKLES
Sound. Oh, gosh. Yeah.
MUSIC PLAYS
Oh, wow.
That's incredible!
THEY SING ALONG WITH MUSIC
Can see Dad now, huh?
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Wow, that's amazing. Brilliant.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Absolutely. Wow! Brilliant. Wow!
It's amazing. Wow! Wow!
That's amazing. Yeah.
The picture is Dad,
doing his...singing along
to that same track,
so, yeah, very emotional.
One of his favourite songs there.
Yeah. Yeah? Definitely.
So, a little bit of him still in
there. Oh, 100%. Absolutely. 100%.
Yeah. I think that's the most
important part,
just to hear it again and remember
the sounds and where it used to be
and... I mean, this is really taking
us back. What are you going to do
with it? Is it going back into a
shop? I think I'm going to have it
on display in my salon now,
because it'd be great to sort of
have something of his present.
What do you think Dad would make
of it now? Oh... He'd be amazed.
Yeah? I think he'd be...
Yeah. He'd be shocked that we
still even have it. Absolutely.
CROSSTALK
Yeah, I would imagine that he
would've thought this was...
Long gone. ..thrown away somewhere.
Long gone, long gone.
All right, well, the radio's yours
now. OK. It's yours to take home.
That's great. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you, guys.
Take care now. All the best.
Bye-bye. See you soon. Bye. Bye-bye.
It's an absolutely great feeling
to have the radio back and working.
Great memories of Dad and times
in the salon with both my parents
and my brothers.
The fact that we've lost Dad,
it's like he was here again,
he's present again, and that just
means the world. Yeah, that's true.
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