The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 7, Episode 12 - Episode #7.12 - full transcript

Welcome to The Repair Shop,

where precious but faded
treasures...

This is bad.

I don't think I've ever seen a chair
quite so broken as this.

..are restored
to their former glory.

That's lovely. Isn't it?
That is lovely, isn't it?

Furniture restorer Jade Blades...

Bringing history back to life

is what makes The Repair Shop
so special.

..and a dream team
of expert craftspeople...

Amazing.



It's a bit like brain surgery.

Go on!

..come together to work their magic.

Yahoo!

When you look at something that
looks so hopeless, like this,

it makes me even more
determined to get it back.

That's teamwork.

Employing heritage craft skills,
passed down the generations...

It is a privilege to be able
to do something for somebody

that means so much to them.

..preserving irreplaceable
heirlooms...

To bring those pieces back to life

is just the most wonderful thing,
and I'd like to do it forever.

..the team will restore the items...



Whoa!

..the memories...

I'm so happy to see it!

..and unlock
the stories that they hold.

SHE LAUGHS DELIGHTEDLY

That's made it all worthwhile.

Aww...

In The Repair Shop today,

silver sorcery, as Brenton
restores a 70-year-old trophy...

It never ceases to amaze me

how putting a silver plate
on a piece of copper

can make it look so beautiful.

..and the joy of freewheeling.

I remember the first
time I got my own bike,

it was like having wings,

you know, you would just
disappear off down the road.

..as Tim rebuilds a beloved bike.

Such a magic feeling.

But first, an item to test
the mettle of Dominic Chinea.

Here we are. Right, I'm ready, Jay.
Ready? What's coming?

A metal toy. OK.

I always feel a bit nervous
at this point. No, I love it.

THEY LAUGH

Belonging to Hannah Chaney
and mum Linda, from the Wirral,

it's a family favourite
that's going nowhere fast.

Wow.

Hello. Hello. How are you doing?

Hello. Hi!

What?!

LAUGHTER

I wasn't expecting that.
I was not expecting that!

This will be a challenge
for you, Dom.

What... What is it?

This is Sammy Snail.

I think he's around 1948, 1950s,
Mobo Walking Snail.

So it's a ride-on kid's toy.
Oh, so you ride it?

Oh, you ride this? Yep, you ride it.
You just push it down, see?

SNAIL CLATTERS

It's very noisy.

CLATTERING

OK.

Stay!

LAUGHTER

I'm... I'm just blown away.

That's mad!

So where did you get
Sammy Snail from?

It was a playgroup that had closed
down and my sister-in-law gave it me

for my children.

Right. And we've just kept it
all this time, which is 45 years,

at least. It's been in
the family for 45 years? Yes.

I've got three older brothers
and one younger brother,

and we'd all be, like,
released into the garden... Yeah.

..and we always did races on bikes,
and last person out got the snail,

cos it was always the slowest...
The slowest. The slowest.

..and, being the only girl,
it was normally me.

Oh! I think we all have funny
memories of being on the snail.

It's just one toy that
everybody has played with.

Oh, bless you.

I'm surprised it's survived that
long, actually. Yeah.

Yeah. And for how many children?
Five children have had to go on...

Yes, and eight older grandchildren
have all had to go on Sammy Snail,

yes. That's a lot of people!

And most of them are boys,
so they're quite...

OK. ..rough with him.

OK.
And I've got two younger ones now.

It'd be nice if Jet and Drew
could play on him,

like all the other grandchildren,

cos I think these probably will be
the last grandchildren, maybe, now.

How old are they?
Ten months and three. Oh, OK.

I mean, for the little ones,
he's got... He's got eyes,

but you can't see them, can you?
Yeah. Exactly.

There's no friendly face,

and he really isn't that good
for young ones, is he?

No. No. He's dangerous,
with the metal.

If you have a look closely,

he has actually got quite a lot
of detail to him.

He's got reins, and he's got
an almost comical '50s smiley face.

Oh, is it?
I guess, when this was new,

I bet it looked gleaming, bright,
shiny, like a kid's toy should.

Yeah. Yeah. What was his colour like
when you first got him?

Underneath - you'll see he's
yellow and red underneath.

Halfway through his life,
I found a couple of spray cans.

Oh, did you?

But I didn't do... So that's why
he's this colour at the moment.

So what would you like Dom
to do to this, then?

Just to bring it back to life. OK.

So he's got a nice, happy face,

and he looks more like a snail.

It's probably the most interesting
toy I've ever seen, I must say.

Thank you for bringing him in.

We'll look after him. Thank you.
Thank you. You take care now.

Thank you now. Bye-bye.
Take care. Bye.

Sammy Snail now represents us
playing outside all the time.

You know, even though
we're all different ages,

we always played together. Yeah.

It just represents how we spent
most of our childhood,

outside in the garden.

Now, that is a fun toy. Yeah.
I wasn't expecting a giant snail!

I'm going to say, though, things
are going to get worse for him

before they get better.

Really? The rust of the body
is actually hiding quite a lot

of dings and dents and creases.
I mean, look at the seat there.

See how dented all that is?
Yeah, that is dented, yeah.

Obviously, a paint job. Yes, please.
Got to put a face on there.

Of course, yeah. Yeah? Yeah.
That's what I like to hear.

No worries.

Sammy is one of the most obscure
things I think I've ever worked on.

It's brilliant. I love it.

I can't believe that,
mechanically, it's OK.

It's a bit clunky, but it's working
like it should,

which is really good news.

My main focus for this restoration
is just to make sure that Sammy

is safe to ride again.

The way Sammy was made
in the factory

would have been in two halves,

pressed in big machines,
and then welded together.

To be able to do the best repair
I can is to actually

split him back in half again, then I
can tackle each half on the bench,

and then try and weld them
back together again.

First of all, I'm going to have to
take all the mechanism inside out,

which looks like it's riveted on,

but they're a single-use thing.

Once they're on, they're on,

and you have to drill the head off
to actually remove them.

Never really wanted to be a vet.

Probably for the best.

Oh, come on, Sammy.

There we go.

From heavy metal
to some once-elegant silverware.

Anne-Marie Davis
from the West Midlands is hoping

that Brenton's silversmithing skills
can restore the glitz and glamour

to a once-prized possession.

Hello, there. Hello.

So what have you brought in
for us today?

I have brought you a very old,
battered trophy.

Oh, right.

It was a rosebowl... Yep.

..which, those clipped over the top,

and it was won by my parents
in 1949.

Lovely. What did they win it for?

Ballroom dancing.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Oh, OK. Did they do a lot
of ballroom dancing?

Yes, they were professional
ballroom dancers.

Where would we see them dancing?

Well, they danced on programmes in
those days called the Dancing Club,

and they also used to dance
on Come Dancing.

I do remember that. Yeah, I do. Yes.

They actually appeared in a film
with Laurence Olivier

and Marilyn Monroe.

Oh, really?

The Prince And The Showgirl.

Really? Yep.

Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe.

It's not bad, is it? Wow!

Is that how they met,
through their love of dance?

Yes, yeah, my dad was actually
a part-time teacher

at the dance school that my mum
used to go to with her brothers.

Once my dad realised what
a brilliant dancer my mum was,

she became his permanent partner.

Ah, how lovely.
Very sweet, very sweet.

This was the year
before they got married.

So they got married in 1950.

They had a lot more trophies
and medals,

particularly over the years,
but this is the last one.

Oh, gosh.

I don't think we've got any more
in the family at all,

so this is the important one!

Yeah. Wow.

And did they continue to dance
all the way through their lives?

They did.
They travelled all over the world,

and, er, wherever they went,
they danced. Wow.

So, I mean, I can remember parties
in West Africa, and in Israel,

where, when they took the dance
floor, the place would clear...

Really? ..and people would just
stand back and watch them dance.

Fantastic.

And what were your first
memories of this trophy?

Well, I used to get the job
of cleaning it,

and I can actually remember it
being filled with flowers... Yeah.

..and I can remember it being bright
and shiny and beautiful-looking.

But, obviously, over the years, it's
just got more and more tarnished.

The copper's coming through.

It would be nice to see it
lovely and shiny again.

It's be amazing. Yeah.

And you'll be putting roses in it?

I will. Yellow ones for Mum,
and red ones for Dad,

cos they were their favourites.

Really? Yeah.
Oh, that's really lovely.

I hope to be able to do it justice,

and, erm, we'll be in touch
when it's...when it's done.

Thank you. Lovely. OK. OK, bye-bye.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

It's a symbol of their
love of dancing,

and that love of dancing never,
ever went away -

in all the 60-odd years
that they were together,

they continued just with
that love of dance,

so that is a really good reminder of
how they spent their life together.

Well, that's one thing I'm never
going to have. What's that?

A trophy for dancing.

Not known for your dancing skills?

No, no, not really.

I think it's been so well-loved,

which is not a bad thing,

that a lot of the silver plating
has come off. Oh, that's plating.

So we will polish it, replate it.

The wire bit for holding
the flowers, erm,

has some bits of wire on there.

I'm going to make
some nice silver clips,

so that goes in there then,
and then looks nice... Brilliant.

..to go on there. That'll be lovely.

I'm going to go and see
Will over there,

so I'll let him sort this out... OK.

and Anne-Marie hopefully will be
amazed when she sees it.

Lovely. OK. Cheers, then.

Will. Hey, Brenton.
A little job for you.

Oh, what's this? That's Anne-Marie's
trophy base... Right.

..and I'd like it to look really
good, and that is a bit scruffy.

This doesn't look so amazing
at the moment. It doesn't.

So do you want me to just polish it
up, get rid of these scratches...

Please. Anything on the base?

Baize, please. Bit of baize. Yep.
I can do that. No worries.

Thank you very much.
That's all right.

This has been looked after,
but well loved,

and eventually silver plate
does wear out,

and this has just started
to happen,

so it's come to me just in time.

So, as you can see, this dirt
is coming off quite nicely,

and the parts where the plate
isn't worn away...

..are remarkably good.

This is lovely, here.

Silver will always tarnish
if it's kept in the atmosphere.

Pollution, open fires
causes the silver to go black.

That's why silver sometimes
isn't popular,

because it does need maintaining,

and I'm really pleased,
the way it's going.

I'm just going to carry on
and finish this off,

and it'll all look lovely,
ready for silver plating.

In the outdoor workshop,

Dom's overhaul of Sammy the Snail
is rolling along nicely.

I love the basic engineering
behind Sammy's mechanism.

I mean, this is it - it's literally
three pieces of bent metal,

and that makes a toy.

The only issue that the mechanism's
got is the rust,

so when it's dragging along
the grass and the wet mud,

these two bottom bars are the bits
that have suffered the most.

I need to remove that rust.

It's going to start to eat into
the steel tubes

and cause structural damage,

so I need to sandblast all
the pieces, paint it red again,

put it all back together.

Sandblasting uses a jet
of compressed air and sand

to pummel away the old paint and
rust, leaving behind clean metal.

The body and shell get the same
treatment, and blasting away

the spray paint on the surface
reveals something wonderful.

I've had to stop halfway
through, cos I was like,

Oh, my God, look at this!
It's incredible.

You can see underneath this
overpaint, the original paint job

for Sammy, these blue reins
and all these little red bits

of detail, the orange
highlights there.

The more and more
I'm looking around,

there's blue around the back here.

I'll make notes of all of this,
so when I come to the repaint,

I know exactly what he looked like.

It's brilliant. A brilliant find.

An already busy Repair Shop
welcomes a new arrival.

Susan Trocha is here to see
bike restorer Tim Dunn.

Hello. Hello. How are you doing?
I'm good, thank you.

Good on you.
So this lovely bike is yours, then?

Not so lovely, but, yes.

Well, it's still got two wheels,
handlebar, a seat. Kind of original.

Yeah. So where did you get it from?

My dad bought it me
for my tenth or 11th birthday,

I can't quite remember.

Quite a big bike for a ten-
or 11-year-old, isn't it?

Yeah, I had it right down and I had
to wait till I was at least 11

till I could get on it.

So he was thinking ahead.
Yeah, yeah.

It's a bike you grew into.
Definitely.

Yeah, yeah. All right.
What's your dad's name? Ray.

He passed away when I was 14.

Unfortunately, my dad was very ill.

OK. He wasn't well.
He was mentally unwell.

So when he bought me that,
actually he wasn't working.

He hadn't been working since
I was about four or five.

Yeah, so I've kept it always,
cos, erm,

it's the only thing he bought me.
I'm going to cry. Oh, bless you.

So how did you guys cope with that?

My mum did a brilliant job
at just looking after us all,

and we just grew up loving him,
and him loving us,

and it being how it was, yeah.

Fantastic. And she remembers the
bike, then, yeah? Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah. But, actually,
the bike was from my dad,

so he saved up his money -
which was very little -

and bought us the bike,
so it wasn't a joint thing,

it was very much something
he wanted to give us.

It sounds really important
for him to do that, then.

He was brilliant.
He was an engineer himself,

so he had a workshop in the garden,

and he built things
and he mended things.

He wasn't well enough to work, but
he was well enough to support us

in any ways that
he could support us,

which was mostly through
anything mechanical.

Yeah, and a push-bike
is one of those.

Which is why it would be nice
to have it mended, for him,

and what his love was,
and what his skills were.

OK, so what is wrong with it?

Cos, to me, it doesn't look
like anything's wrong with it.

It seems... I think it's all there.

Yeah. I'm not convinced
any of it works.

So, erm, the steering
only turns partially.

Is there a story behind
why the front forks

have got a bend in the top?

I didn't even know that.

I mean, I used it from
the age of 11 to 30,

so it would have had a few knocks
in its time, but I don't know.

Is it missing anything else
that you can remember?

I think it had tyres with a white
rim around the edge of the tyres.

It came with a, erm...
It didn't have a traditional bell.

It came with a horn that you...
Oh, OK.

And I never, ever had a bell
on this bike.

You had a horn, yeah.

It had a dynamo that fell off.

Do you want a dynamo
back on it again?

I really would love a dynamo.

If he's able to fix it,
are you going to ride it?

Yeah - well, not me, but I'm going
give it to my daughter.

So, I have a 13-year-old daughter,
who's nearly 14 -

so she's the age I was
when my dad died,

so I thought it would be nice
to give it to her.

And we live in Hackney, so it
would be really trendy in Hackney.

It would be. I need to get it out

the shed and back on
the Hackney streets.

Yeah. It needs to be back
on the road again.

She's never met - obviously,
never met my dad,

so there are few tangible links,
obviously, so... Yeah. Yeah.

..so it'd be nice to hand it on.

What's your daughter's name? Amelia.

Amelia. Yeah.

Hopefully we're going to be able
to get your daughter cycling

around Hackney on this,
aren't we, Tim? I hope so, yeah.

Yeah? Yeah, that's the plan! Yeah.

And maybe it might bring
back some good memories.

Yeah? Thank you. That'd be
wonderful. Right, you take care now.

Bye-bye. See you soon. Bye-bye.

I'm really excited about leaving
the bike.

I think my daughter Amelia
will love it.

The date of my daughter becoming 14
has kind of touched me quite a lot

recently, remembering myself
at the same age.

For me, the bike symbolises
freedom and, you know,

I can pass it on to her
and give her that freedom.

There's a lot of work to do
on this one, isn't there?

The front forks really worry me,
because they've bent,

so they need straightening out.
OK. Forks.

And she also mentioned dynamo -
the lights.

That's obviously disappeared
over a period of time,

and we can see if we can find one of
those. Yeah, we'll get that back.

Yeah, I'm really looking
forward to getting on with it.

It's going to be a good,
good little job.

You're not the only one.
I can't wait to see this fixed up.

All right. OK, cool.

Well, I don't really know
where to start with this.

Erm, the wheels have got
a little bit of a buckle in,

so what I may do is rebuild
the wheels,

and then I can rebuild them
with brand-new spokes.

Erm, there's absolutely loads to do
on this bike,

but the first main job
is to get it all apart.

This is always a tricky one.

If you're not careful,

you can end up hitting yourself
in the face with a saddle.

Ah! Just like that.

While Brenton attends
to the damaged rose mesh

of the ballroom-dancing trophy,

his partner in crime Will has been
busy prepping the woodwork.

I don't know anything about ballroom
dancing, but I do know

about polishing, and the polishing
on this is chipped, flaking off,

and it looks really dull.

So I'm giving it a light sand over
now, taking up any loose pieces

of polish, keying up the surface,

and then we're going to brush on
some nice, new, black, fresh polish.

In this pot here, I have a mixture
of black shellac polish,

and some black oxide pigment.

If you put on too much at once,
that first coat won't dry properly,

so you need to put on nice
thin coats,

wait for it to dry and build up
that nice depth of polish.

This wireframe is meant
to sit at the top of the bowl,

so I'm going to design some tabs
which hook over the bowl

and will keep it in
the correct position,

because at the moment it just
falls down inside it,

and it's not going to hold
any roses at all down there.

OK. That's great.

I'll make three of those and then
that will get, finally, folded over

and soldered on to that,
and then I can silver-plate it.

That first coat of polish
is now dry.

The pigment has done a really good
job at covering over

those nasty chips and the scratches.
It's all one uniform colour now.

I'm going to put on a really thin
coat of polish.

That is then going to
bring out the nice shine.

Once that's completely dry,
I'll put on some green baize,

and then it's back over to Brenton.

I'm now going to start
silver-plating this.

This is the good bit.

This is where the copper goes back
to silver colour, and it always...

..always is exciting
to see that transformation.

I'm just pouring some silver-plating
solution into the bowl,

and when I put an electrical
current through this wand,

the silver atoms are attracted
to the copper, making it silver.

So you've got to make a connection
with this negative,

and then the positive has
the silver salts on this wand,

and I'm just going to...
It's a magic wand!

..going to put this on here.

Look at that. That is fantastic.

The copper is going silver-coloured.

It never ceases to amaze me

how putting a silver plate
on a polished piece of copper

can make it look so beautiful.

More metal magic
on Sammy the Snail.

Dom's sandblasting
has done the trick.

It's looking good. All the rust
in the paint is gone.

I'm actually just left
with a bare metal.

My favourite little bit,
on his reins, here at the front,

"Made in England"
stamped into it.

I love finding little details
like that.

All right. That is enough admiring
of Sammy's outer shell.

I now need to start
bashing out these dents.

I'm going to really try
with my hammers and dollies

just to smooth out the two sides,

and then try and weld them
back together again.

I'm using my TIG welder for this,
heating up both pieces of metal

so they become molten, and then
I've got my little filler rod -

I can just dip that in the
little puddle that it's made.

Once that cools,
it all goes nice and hard

and both pieces are joined together.

So I'm going to work over this
whole seam, all the way round,

and then we'll be ready for paint.

This gorgeous yellow colour
is a really accurate match

to the original that I found
on the inside of Sammy

and, mixed with the other colours
of Sammy's wild paint job,

he's going to look brilliant.

OK, that's the paint
all in the gun.

Let's stick my mask on,
then we're ready to paint.

Bike maestro Tim
has been deconstructing

the vintage two-wheeler,

and he can now set about tackling
the many repairs.

I've had a close look
at the wheels on the bike.

The spokes are OK, but the nipple
here, which is the spoke adjuster,

is actually so badly rusted

that it's better to replace
the whole lot in one go.

It's going to be safer for Amelia
to ride with new spokes.

She'll look a lot cooler,
riding round Hackney.

I remember the first time
I got my own bike.

It was like having wings,

and you would just disappear
off down the road,

and it was just such a magic,
magic feeling.

But now I've got to put
this back together again!

It's all in bits.

So this tool here is a spoke shear.

Basically, it just cuts the spoke,

and it allows me to do it
as quickly as possible.

So we've got 36 holes in the hub,
36 holes in the rim, and 36 spokes.

All of those have to correspond
into a lacing pattern.

The spokes cross three times.

As you start to go round it,

it starts to become apparent,
as to the pattern.

OK, so that's the wheel built.
I just need to true it up,

to make it round, so as Susan's not
going down the road like this.

Erm, once it's true,
I can fit the tyres

and then it's ready to
put back on the bike.

I'm really pleased with that.
That's come out well.

So one of the major problems
with Susan's bike

is that the front forks are bent.

I've got to reverse that bend,
and the only way to do that

is to mount it in the vice
and then put a tube over the top,

here, and then just give it
a good heave-ho,

and that should rectify that bend.

It's quite a pronounced bend,

so I'm a bit worried about
how it's going to go.

That went well!

No, it hasn't moved at all.

So, erm, it's broken the vice grip.

I think I'm going to have to
tighten this up a lot more

to stop it from moving.

I need it to be solid.

That's pretty good. I'm very
pleased with that, actually.

I could go a lot further with it,
but I'm also mindful of the fact

that I can go too far, and then
that starts to damage the tube.

Those can now go
back in Susan's bike,

and then I can start
building the rest of it.

Thanks to the faithful restoration

of Sammy the Snail's
snazzy paint work,

he's almost back to his
original, psychedelic self.

I'm so pleased Sammy is back
to looking his best,

and what a paint job he's got now.

It's all worked out
really, really well.

He's looking cheery again.

Inside of him is painted
nice and yellow, as well,

so that's all protected.

All that's left to do now
is put him back on his wheels.

Over the decades,
thick rust on the paint job

meant Sammy the Snail's Technicolour
charm had all but disappeared,

and he was no longer safe to ride.

Now Hannah's returned to collect
the beloved toy on behalf of her mum

and her brothers, who played with
Sammy more than 30 years ago.

Our family have done nothing
but talk about Sammy Snail!

But it's been nice, because my
brothers have started talking

about playing in the garden
and what we used to do as children,

and we're so much older now,
and it'll just be great

to have those memories,

to be able to relay them
to my children, as well.

Hiya. Hello. How are you doing?

Hello, again. You all right?

Yes, I'm very good.

I am excited for you
to see Sammy... OK.

..cos Dom has worked
really, really hard.

When he works hard, he pulls
some magic out of that hat.

What are you hoping
is under there?

Just something that my little boy
Drew, or my nephew,

can play on again, so that I know my
mum will be in the garden with them,

playing with it, and feel safe.

Do you want to have a look? Yes!

Yes, please!

Oh, my gosh!

Oh, my... Wow!

Hopefully that's a good wow?
That's amazing!

Oh, my goodness! I genuinely...

Oh, wow!

I'm lost for words. Yeah?
Lost for words is good.

We love that.

Oh, I love the face!

He's got, like, a personality!
He has.

Yeah. Oh, that's amazing!

I'm just blown away! It's, like,
are you sure it's Sammy Snail?

Do you think Mum's going to like it?
Yes, she's going to be blubbing.

Ah! That's good! Ah...

It's yours to take now.

I'm sad to see him go! I know.

Yeah. I know.
But we can't have him, Dom.

Honestly, he's fantastic.
Thank you so much.

What a top job. Oh, thank you.
It's brilliant.

I'm glad you like it.
Come on, Sammy.

Thank you.

OK. Enjoy. Take care.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

I felt so overwhelmed
at how amazing he looked,

and it really did make me
think of my childhood again,

and just to see him now restored,
and to take him back home,

it's so exciting.

I just can't believe we get
so excited over a metal snail!

Inside the barn,

dance-trophy duo Will and Brenton
have nearly completed their mission.

Hi, Brenton. Oh, my word.
Look at that. All polished.

And I put some green baize
on the bottom. Beautiful!

Absolutely love it.

It's going to look fantastic
with the trophy on there.

Thank you so much. No worries.

Thanks.

That looks good, Brenton.

Wow, they're going to be great!

Are you any good
at flower-arranging?

Not the best,
but Suzie did offer to help.

OK, Suze? Yeah?

Do you mind helping us
with some flower arranging?

Oh, no, I'd be happy to.

Yeah? Yeah. That's fantastic.

Ah, it's going to look gorgeous.

The professional ballroom-dancing
trophy was awarded to sweethearts

Jack and Lily, who tripped the light
fantastic over 70 years ago.

Their daughter, Anne-Marie, is eager
to see if her parents' prize

is ready to take centre stage
once again.

I'm really excited

now that I've come back
to pick up my trophy today.

I can't wait to see
what it looks like.

I'm hoping that Brenton
has been able to restore it

to its former glory.

I'm hoping it looks like it did on
the day that my mum and dad won it

because, for me,
that would be just perfect.

Hello. Hello, Anne-Marie.
How are you doing?

I'm very well, thank you. Good.

Hi, Anne-Marie. Hi, Brenton.
Nice to see you again.

Nice to see you. I'm so excited!

You're excited?

So excited!

Hopefully, fingers crossed,
Brenton's done a good job.

I'm sure he has. Go on, B, show her.

Oh, my...

Oh, that's wonderful,

absolutely wonderful.

And the roses, as well -
yellow for Mum, red for Dad.

Fabulous.

"Jack Taylor & Lily Pope" - perfect.

That's exactly how it used to look,

exactly how it used to look.

I can remember it looking like that,
and Mum putting flowers in it...

Yeah? ..which is
absolutely incredible.

So I think Mum would be
absolutely delighted

to see it looking like that again,

so thank you so, so much.

It's absolutely perfect.

I can't believe it.

So we've done them proud, then?

Oh, you've definitely done
them proud. Yeah?

Thank you so, so much.

And I think it looks great
with the flowers in, as well,

doesn't it? It does.
It does, it sets it off.

Well, it's a rosebowl, isn't it?

It is a rosebowl.
That's what it's for. Yeah.

So now I would love to make sure
that I keep the roses going.

Yeah. Yes, please.

But it's yours to take home now,
Anne-Marie.

Thank you so, so much. OK?

Oh, I can't wait to take it home.

Let me get the door for you.
That's perfect. Thank you, Brenton.

Bye-bye. Bye.

Oh, look at that.
It's gorgeous, isn't it?

Isn't it perfect?

Take care.

Well done, Brent, eh? Good one.

The ballroom trophy looks like
it did when I was a little girl.

It reminds me of how glamorous
my parents were.

You tend to forget, because they
grow older, and you grow older,

but they were - they were
very glamorous young dancers

in their day.

It's as Mum would have
loved to have seen it -

full of the colours of the roses
that she and Dad both loved,

so it was lovely to see it looking
as she would have seen it,

many years ago.

One last metal miracle is
taking place.

Tim has spent hours lovingly
restoring the classic bike,

and it's almost ready
to be returned to its owner.

I'm really, really pleased with it.

The whitewall tyres look
absolutely fantastic on it,

but one thing that Susan said to me
was the fact that it originally had

a dynamo, and I've managed
to source a period dynamo for it.

I'm hoping it's all going to fit
together and it's all going to work.

So, it's...

It's an old-fashioned way of
lighting your bike, and that rubs

on the tyre, and that basically
produces electricity,

and then, hopefully,

it should provide Susan with some
nice lighting down the road.

OK, so that's all the dynamo fitted.

We've got to test it now,
so see if it works.

Erm, I'm hoping it will.

So, we've got a rear light.
That's shining lovely and bright,

and we've got a front light.
I'm well chuffed!

That's brilliant.

Susan's bike was gifted
by her father,

who passed away when she
was in her early teens.

Now she's returned, hoping to pass
it on to her own daughter, Amelia.

I'm really excited to finally
have the bike and have a part

of my grandad because my mum always
talks about him and her childhood,

especially with the bike.

In a month's time, she's 14,
and I was 14 when he passed away,

so I think it's really special for
us just to kind of mark that point.

She's got very little to...to have

that was my father's
that I can pass on.

How are you doing? Hi. Hello.

Hello, Amelia. How you doing?
Hi, I'm good, thank you.

All right.
Do you remember the bike?

I remember it being
completely broken.

OK.

Yeah, I can vouch for that.

HE CHUCKLES

Are you ready?

Mm.

Tim? OK. Do the honours, sir.

Right. Here we go.

You ready?

Wow! Look at that dynamo!

And the horn!

I had a horn exactly like that.

I've never seen it looks so shiny,

and look at the white stripe,
Amelia - look.

It's exactly how I remember it.

Wow, thank you ever so much.

It's absolutely amazing.
TIM: It's been a pleasure.

I can't believe the shine.

It's been a long road,
but it's... It's come out

very, very well.
I'm very pleased with it.

I'm very, very touched.
Thank you so much.

Good. Glad you're happy.

Is it taking you back, then, Susan?

Yeah, I... I'm just remembering
cycling for miles along the seafront

where I grew up. Yeah.

My dad was of the era that you
just mended everything... Yeah.

..and you just did it up.

I think he'd be delighted
because it meant a lot to him.

Amelia, this was given to your mum
by your grandad,

and now it's going to be
given to you.

To be able to cycle this around
the streets and show it off...

TIM: Yeah.
..it would be absolutely amazing.

It's raining cats and dogs
out there, but I think

we should still give it a ride,
shouldn't we?

So who's going to do the honours?
Amelia is going to ride it.

OK, well, we've got a helmet
down there,

erm, if you get the bike and then
we'll meet you outside.

TIM: Go for it.

Oh-ho! Now that is super cool.

How does that feel?

She looks really fantastic on it.
Look at her. She does.

TIM: Oh, that dynamo works,
doesn't it?

Look at that little glow. Oh!

Now that is a pretty picture,
isn't it? Wow.

TIM: Oh, it's fantastic.

Well done.

I love it. It just looks fantastic
on her. The bike suits her.

It's just lovely to see it
all working. Oh, brilliant.

It means a lot to me that
this bike used to be my mum's.

I don't have anything else
from my grandad,

and it's so important to be
riding around on a bike

which has gone back so far
and it's so special.

I think Tim's done a fantastic job,

and that's why I wanted it mended -
both to honour my father,

but also to honour the bike.

It was a very special gift,
and it's...

It's now looking as it was.

Join us next time,
uncovering history...

It's really all pointing to the
painting being from the 1660s.

..and recovering memories...
Gosh! It's amazing.

..in The Repair Shop.