The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 7, Episode 2 - Episode #7.2 - 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 is lovely. It is.
That's lovely, isn't it?

Furniture restorer Jay 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.

That's made it all worthwhile.

In the Repair Shop today,

Mark and Dom team up to revive
a worn-out kitchen mixer.

The motor!
The motor itself.

Have you rebuilt it? It's all good?

Yeah, that's why I'm here.

Because if it goes wrong,
we go out together.

I've got everything crossed.

And it's risky business
with Brenton...

It makes me very, very nervous.

..as he reconstructs a
delicate piece of silver.

This has survived 40 years,

and I could end its life
in a few seconds.

But first, Jody Musgrave
has travelled from Barnsley,

carrying a casualty
of a devastating event.

She's hoping the Bear Ladies, Julie
and Amanda, will work their wonders

in bringing it back to
its former furry glory.

Hello, hi. Hello.
Welcome to the Repair Shop.

That's a pretty box.
That is a pretty box, isn't it?

It's pink, as well.

Something a bit less attractive
in the box, I think.

Less att...? Oh.
Oh. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

I have here an old friend of mine.
Oh, my goodness.

What's his name?
He's called Sad Sack.

So, I've had him since
I was a little baby.

Who gave him to you?
My mum.

I had quite a lot of toys,
teddy bears,

but he's the one that
came everywhere with me.

Wow.

He came on a lot of family holidays
with me as a child. Yeah.

He had his own little passport
that I made and coloured in.

He always sort of stayed
with me, to be honest.

When I met my husband, Christian,
he moved in with us.

He was there when we brought both
of our children home from hospital

for the first time. Wow. Wow.

Have your own children
played with him?

My little boy, Noah, has.

How old's Noah?
Noah's five.

And, also, he's been a source
of comfort to him, too.

He's taken him to bed when he's
a bit upset about something.

So, yes, he's always been there.

Well, he is part of the family now,
isn't he?

A kind of elderly relative,
probably!

He's quite crispy on this side.
What's happened to him?

He's very, very crispy.

Last May, we suffered a house fire.

It was a very bad fire, and...

..we lost pretty much everything.

The house was left
just a shell, really.

Nobody was hurt? Nobody was hurt.
We were out at the time, thankfully.

Right. And I got a phone call
from one of the neighbours,

and they said, basically,
burglar alarm's going off.

I went round the corner,
let myself in,

and found the house on fire.

It was just filled with smoke...
Oh, my goodness.

..so I got out. Yeah.

From me being in there,
within about five minutes,

it had just all gone up.

So, is that the only
thing you've got left?

Yes, he's...he's the only thing.

Wow. Whoa.

So, what would you like
Julie and Amanda to do?

Just anything that you can, really.
OK.

We'll save what we can, but there
are parts we're not going to be

able to save, you know,
that we can't do anything with.

We know how much he
means to you, and to Noah,

so we'll put our thinking caps on

and really see what
we can come up with.

Thank you so much.
You're welcome.

I really appreciate it.
Bye-bye, Jody.

Bye-bye. Bye.

Following the fire, he is one of
the only things that we have left

from the house, and he was probably
the most important thing, really,

in a way, that was saved.

I just know he's in the best place

and that he'll be very
well looked after.

That must have been such a
shocking experience for Jody.

Yeah, watching your house burn down.

Unbelievable.

But are you going to be able
to do something with it?

Cos that is gone. A lot of this is
not going to be able to be saved.

OK. But because this side is so
much better, we will be able to

sort of take patterns to
replicate it again on that side.

OK. Got to go all out for
this one, yeah? Absolutely.

Yeah. Thanks, Jay.

Aw... OK.
Come on, then.

We are so lucky to have this
half to go by. Definitely.

If we can mirror it, it's the only
way we're going to be able to do it.

I propose that I carefully
take him apart... Yep.

..while you make a start
on his dungarees. OK.

So, I think a nice new pair
of dungarees to set him off.

Nice new pair of dungarees.

Next, an assignment for metalwork
maestro Dominic Chinea.

There you are. Come on, then, Jay.
What have you got for me this time?

I'll tell you what,
you're going to love this one.

Just you wait and see.
OK. Wait and see.

Sisters-in-law Becky and Alison
have joined forces to bring in

a symbolic piece of family history,

and they're hoping Dom can
whip it back into shape.

Hello. Hi. Hi!

I'm Jay. And you are?
I'm Becky. And Alison.

What's happened to your leg?
How come you're on crutches?

Oh, I had a little fall.
It was only a little one.

But, yeah, I've fractured
two bones in my ankle.

Well, put that down.
It looks quite heavy.

Yes, it is. Right!

So, I know what this is.
Can you tell us about it?

This was a mixer that my mother had.

She was a baker.
What's Mum's name?

Her name was Ada. OK.

She sadly passed away nine
years ago. Sorry to hear that.

This was a mixer that she used
all the way through her life.

Did she work professionally
or was this at home?

Yeah, a bit of both, really.

Ada was in catering college,
so we think she got it

as quite an investment piece
for work and for home.

What year was that?

Early '70s, I'd say.

She was one of the only women
in the catering college.

So, since Ada left catering
college, she's had this?

Yeah. Did she go on to be a chef?

She was a baker in our local
restaurant all through her life.

She stayed in the one place,
and she was happy,

and worked there until she died.
For her whole life? Yeah.

ALISON: She was predominantly
a pastry chef.

So, like, pies, cakes... Ooh.

..pastries, choux buns,
cream horns. Loads.

Hold on. She used to bake at
a restaurant. What about at home?

Didn't she bake at home?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

When you came in for your tea,
there was, like, a beautiful

home-cooked meal on the table,
and in the background

she'd be baking. And the sound
of the mixer, we kind of grew up

just knowing that
to be normal, really.

Yeah, she was always busy.

Your mum passed away nine years ago.

That must have been quite
an impact on the family.

Definitely, yeah.

It was very sudden.
She was only 56.

Had been working in
the day absolutely fine,

hadn't felt unwell.... Right.

..came home, and was just stocking
some logs up for the log burner,

and she had a brain aneurysm.
Oh, you're kidding...

And they couldn't save her,
and it was...

Yeah, just to be so
healthy and active,

and then suddenly gone like that
was a huge blow to us, wasn't it?

It hit us for a while. Yeah.

Hopefully, we can fill that
void with getting her mixer

back in that kitchen.
That'd be brilliant.

So, has it got into this condition
over the last nine years?

It was very battered and had things
missing when she was using it.

We've never used it, not since
she passed away nine years ago.

The wiring is a little bit dodgy.

We plugged it in to see if it
worked, and it went round...

Oh, that's good. ..but there was
a little bit of magic smoke.

When you plug stuff in, it's not
meant to create magic smoke.

Not magic, no!

We don't like magic smoke here.

Yeah!

What would you like Dom to do to it?

Erm, make it safe.

No more magic smoke, yeah?

No magic smoke.

And then... It's just so rusty.

But, obviously, it doesn't
need to be NEW new.

Don't mind a bit of rustic charm
about it to kind of show its age.

I think that's quite nice. OK.

At the same time,
you want to be able to use it

and actually eat the
food out of it, though.

Yeah. Be a bit more food safe.

It'll be like having my mum back
as part of the house again.

There's definitely a place
in the kitchen it can go,

where it's like having a
bit of her back with us.

You know, a bit of family history.

Well, I can see that this is a
very special mixer for you guys,

and we're hopefully going
to get it working.

Dom? I hope so.
OK. Lose that magic smoke.

THEY LAUGH

Thank you very much.
Thank you.

You take care now.
Lovely to see you.

The mixer is everything
about my mum.

It's about that home baking,
about that feeling as a family.

It'd just be nice to be able
to use it and have that back.

We'll be looking forward for it
to be pride of place again.

It's clearly been well used,
hasn't it? Yeah.

It's made a lot of cakes, which
doesn't fill me with confidence

for the mechanism inside.

I think what needs to happen
is the electrics, first of all,

because they mentioned
about that magic smoke.

I don't like magic smoke. It doesn't
fill me with... No, I know.

It's not good. I'm going to
have to speak to Mark

and see if he could do something
about that.

But, the outside...
It's tricky, isn't it?

It is a tricky one, because it looks
like it's all flaking off.

Look at it. Don't want any of that
going into the cake.

Won't be a good mixture. First
things first, I'll get it apart,

then we can assess the inside and
I'll do something with the outside.

I'm sure we'll get it looking nice.

Yeah, and also I'm going to find
them a bowl.

I'll try and find one of those.

We best get repairing, then, yeah?
Oh, yeah.

Fingers crossed it'll be
a piece of cake.

This is a tricky one.

Structurally, this is all OK,
but I need to think

of a solution for this flaky
old paint to some way stabilise it

and protect it.

It's going to be an
interesting challenge.

The first thing I've got to try
and tackle is to get it apart.

As Dom settles down
to his dismantling...

..inside the barn, Julie is
piecing together the cleaned patches

of the fire-damaged dog.

I'm quite pleased with how
he's come up.

We want to hang on to as much
of his original material

as is possible.

I have made the decision
to discard these pieces.

These are very crispy.

There's no way that washing them
is going to bring them back.

So I've got all the body parts here
- mustn't forget his tail -

and I'm going to give those
to Amanda.

There's his body.
Thank you very much.

It looks more like a jigsaw
puzzle at the moment. Yes!

You don't have many bits.
Well...

..you said I could do the head!

I'm not sure if that's actually
a good thing

because I lost half his face
and an ear.

Looking at the face there, you're
not going to have hardly any of him.

Thing is, if we replace it all,
it's not going to be his head.

Start by trimming the fur down and
see what it looks like underneath,

and we'll work from there.

And I'll let you have a bit of this
for his foot pads. Fantastic.

But unfortunately, there was
nothing to salvage,

so you'll have to create his feet.
Make it up as I go along.

Well, you'll do it. OK.

Good luck.

We collect pieces of fur
wherever we can.

Some of it is vintage,
some of it is new.

But because we're always faced
with different challenges,

we have to have a good supply
in store.

Looking at a piece that I've got of
his arm, it could be a possibility.

I'd have to trim that down.

May be a bit bright.

That's quite a nice match.

I'm liking the colours I've
got here.

I think with a bit of trimming,

we can do something with this,
definitely.

Believe it or not, this is actually
Jody's dog's head.

I've managed to attach his forehead
to his sort of jowly bits.

This is the original ear,

which we've managed to save,
which is wonderful.

It did have some scorch marks on it,

but I think we've got away
with trimming those down.

Fortunately, most of the damage
is on one side of his body,

so we were able to accurately
replicate the pieces.

So that's the original piece.

I've got a nice, accurate
template now so I can transfer

that onto the fabric and make
him another leg.

So this is it, the moment.

I'm pretty sure I've got it all
back together sensibly,

but it was a little bit
of a puzzle,

so I'm going to turn it through now

and see if we get...

..some sort of replica
of Jody's dog.

I'm quite pleased with that,
actually.

Wow.

So, Jody's dog had plastic safety
eyes and she said they used

to be brown and black, but
something's happened during

the fire that's meant it's really
difficult to see any difference

between the black pupil and the
brown around the edge.

So I am going to give him
some new eyes.

This is a box I have full of just my
brown and black safety eyes.

That's quite sweet, actually.

As one item starts to come together,
another is just arriving.

Retired police inspector
Trevor Fleming

has brought in a treasured reminder
of a much-loved NHS hero.

It's in need of its own
intensive care.

Hello, how you doing? Hello, Jay.
You all right?

Yes, fine, thank you.

So, what have you got for us?

I've got this. Wow.
This is my mother's nurse's buckle.

Brenton, do you mind joining us?

Brenton, meet Trevor. Hi, there.
How are you? All right.

What kind of buckle is that?
This is a nurse's buckle.

Mum spent 40 years nursing.

She would have been given
this buckle when she qualified

by her father.

So he was quite proud that his
daughter qualified as a nurse?

Oh, yes, he would have been. Yeah.

He was very, very proud of her.

What's your mum's name? Rosemary.

She started nursing when she was 18,

and so, late '50s, early '60s.

In those days, the nurses would wear
a kind of fabric belt

with this kind of very
elaborate buckle.

And, yeah, she wore it her
whole career.

Nursing was a vocation.

It was... It was who she was.
Yeah.

And I remember this buckle
because when you're a child

and your mum comes home from work,
this is kind of... The first thing

you see. ..almost in front
of your face, isn't it? Yeah!

And I remember Christmas Days
spent in the ward,

they'd be carving a turkey, and
there'd be a big table laid out

with the roast dinner. Yeah.

So that was the kind of person
she was.

And she was very, very proud
of what she did.

She dedicated 40 years
of her life to it.

And then, unfortunately, she died
two years after she retired.

Oh, sorry to hear that. Um...

Yeah, so, I got this when she died.

And unfortunately for Brenton,

this has suffered its 40 years!

Oh, dear. It's missing a few bits.

You can see it's actually
got a large chunk missing.

And then if I turn it over,

the piece that actually holds
the belt is now loose,

so you wouldn't be able to put
a belt into there.

Right. So why do you want to get
it repaired now, then?

I've got a 15-year-old daughter,
Olivia,

and she is talking about going
into nursing.

No way. Really?

Yeah, she wants to follow
her grandmother. Good on her.

You know, I can honour my mum
and then I can pass it on to Olivia.

So you want to do
what your grandad did?

Going to pass it on to your
daughter. Yes.

Yeah. Cool, man. That's all right.

And it would be nice if it was...
Serviceable. ..serviceable.

I can see that this buckle
means a lot to you.

It does. Yeah. So we're going to do
everything we can

to get this looking its best
for Olivia.

Thank you very much. Thank you.
You take care now.

OK, thank you. Bye-bye.

Mum would be proud of the fact
that I've kept it.

She was immensely proud of the
buckle throughout her whole nursing

career, so she'd be delighted that I
brought it down to be repaired.

There's so many memories wrapped
up in that belt.

I know, 40 years of them.

So what have you got to do
to it, then?

The first thing to do is to
polish them up

and have a look and see how
they come up.

I've got to recreate
that broken part

the same as that -
solder it onto there. Yeah.

And then I'm going to need some
elasticated material

that's going to be sewn onto this
to make it back into a belt again.

So once you've got it secure,
I'll let Sonnaz know

and then she can get that all belted
up and get it ready for Olivia.

Well done. All right? Thanks.

Nurses were given these silver
belt buckles historically

as a celebration for passing
their nursing exams.

It looks like it's silver,
but there's no hallmark on it,

which is surprising.

This side has been in the
wars a bit.

This part here that holds
the webbing, it's going to fall off,

so I'm just going to take
that out of my way.

There you go. Then I can solder
the whole thing on

when I've repaired the side here.

The first thing I'm going to do
is to polish it.

The actual metal's in really
good condition,

it's not badly scratched and not
really badly tarnished.

So, look at the dirt on there -
that's silver oxide and dirt,

and that compared to the side
I haven't polished -

that's going to be really nice
when it's all done.

I just need to polish the other side
and then I can tackle the design

of the missing decorative edge.

Meanwhile, outside, Dom has
completely dismantled the worn-out

food mixer, and he's hoping
expert sparkie Mark Stuckey

has a recipe for fixing
the electrics.

Mark, hey. How's it going?

Fine. Well, it was fine until now.
What have you got there?

I'll tell you what -
I am glad to see you!

I've got this mixer in pieces.
What have you done?

I know!

This part - am I right in thinking
that's the motor?

That's the motor, yeah.

Becky and Alison said that they
tried to turn it on

and there was some magic smoke.
Uh-oh.

So, good luck with that.

Intriguing. Right,
thanks very much.

Good luck.

Got a sneaking suspicion that the
gearbox is going to be at fault.

That should all be spinning
nice and free,

and that would be putting too much
strain on the motor,

causing things to break down.

So, the motor side of things
is Mark's problem now.

Hopefully he's going to sort
all that out.

And I'm just about to have a look

at the state of the inside
of the gearbox.

There's grease in here, and that's
all dried out and gone quite hard.

Considering how much it's been used,

all of these gears are in really
good condition.

I can't see any damage at all.

I do, however, need to remove
all of this old, hard grease

to replace it with some
nice, new stuff.

This is the heart of the mixer.

Without this, nothing's
going to work.

I've got to sort of take it
totally apart

so I can look at everything
to make sure.

Do we need to address anything
before we reassemble it?

Clean it. Re-lubricate it.

Then, after that, we can feel
comfortable that when we turn

the power on to it, that it should
do what it's expected to do

and not cause any other problems.

After spending so long degreasing
it all and cleaning it all,

I'm now covering it all back in
grease again, but this is nice,

brand-new grease. Need to be very
thorough whilst I'm doing this

to make sure I get this grease
in everywhere it needs to be

because this is a completely
sealed unit.

So no dirt or water or bits of cake

will ever be able to get
inside this gearbox.

That means that whatever I put
in it now

is going to be staying in
there for a long time.

Right, that's it.
Both pieces back together.

Quick spin, just... Cor, yeah.

That spins a lot, lot better.

That's really, really satisfying!

It's time now for me to try
and tackle the paintwork.

The white paint on Ada's mixer,
on the bodywork of it,

these dings and dents and chips
are what make it so special.

All I'm doing, first of all,
is painting this clear lacquer

over the whole surface.

It's a lacquer, so Becky and Alison
are going to be able to use it,

wipe it down. It's going to be
a nice, hard, clear finish,

so this is the perfect
coating for that.

I'm going to use very fine sandpaper
to clean the computator,

where the carbon brushes
have been working away.

There's no direct evidence to
identify why the motor was smoking.

They do smoke occasionally due to
the carbon, gets stuck in the area,

it heats up. So if I don't clean it,

it could cause inefficiency
of the motor.

When you're reassembling something,
you've got to make sure

that you've got nothing left over,
because that's always a concern -

when you find out you've got
more screws left over

than you had to start with.

You're thinking, "Hmm, I wonder if
they were important."

That on there...

It's all back together,
all looking superb.

Now I'll take it over to Dom
and we can give it a try-out.

Hi, Dom. Hey, Mark.
You OK? Yeah.

The motor! The motor itself.

Have you rebuilt it? Is it all good?
Yeah, I've rebuilt it.

I've done static tests,
nothing dynamic.

I...turned on. Right.

That's why I'm here.

Because if it goes wrong,
we go out together! I see!

You've not plugged it in
and tested it? No, no, no.

Tell you what, I'll clamp it.
Got a clamp here. Shall I...?

Yeah, if you'd clamp it...

That all right if I clamp it to the
bench? That'd be superb.

Well, I've got everything crossed.
OK.

MOTOR WHIRS

Whoa!

Cor.

WHIRRING SPEEDS UP

SLOWS DOWN

Brilliant. It works.

Well done. Yee-hee!

THEY LAUGH

Spot-on. You're happy?
It's all yours now.

Thank you. Thanks, Dom.

Julie and Amanda are also closing
in on their repair -

putting a happier Sad Dog
back together again.

Julie. Yeah?

Well done! Do you want this?
Are you ready? Yeah, I am.

Woo-woo-woo!

OK, there you go, then. So excited.

Thank you. I'll have him back when
he's ready

because I want to make sure
his trousers fit him.

This is such an exciting time,

sort of a culmination of all
the work that we've been doing,

but the proof is when we
actually hand him back.

The scorched toy dog was the only
thing that owner Jody

was able to save from her family's
recent house fire.

Now, she's returned with her son
Noah, in the hope that her precious

childhood friend will be fit
for cuddles once again.

He was a huge part of my childhood
growing up.

I don't really remember a time
when I didn't have him.

It'll be lovely to bring Sad Dog
home after the fire.

Won't it? Hm, yep.

Hello. Hi. Welcome back.

Thank you.
And who have we got here?

Noah. Noah.

And why are you here today?

Er... To pick up Sad Dog.

Very crispy, wasn't he?

How are things with the situation
at the house now?

We actually moved back home
two days ago. Really?

So this is quite a timely... It is.

It just feels like a new start,
really.

So shall we have a look?

Yes. Are you ready?

Yeah. OK.

NOAH GASPS

Gosh.

Oh, gosh.

How have you done that?
Both of you?

Would you like to hold him?
That's amazing.

Look at him.

That's made it all worthwhile.

Thank you so much.

Oh, it's just lovely to see him.

What amazing things they
do here, eh?

I think somebody
might have claimed him.

LAUGHTER

Oh, gosh. We're all gone!

Sorry. No, you don't have
to be sorry. Not at all.

It's just so lovely to see
how much he loves him.

We know how much you loved
him and it, you know... Yeah.

What we've done is brought all
that back for you.

It's just amazing.

Thank you so much for bringing
him for us to do.

It's been an absolute honour
to work on him.

Thank you.

Thank you both, too. So much.

Are you going to take him
home, then, Noah?

We're going to take him home.
Don't let him go. Take care of him.

OK. Thank you so much.
Bye, Jody.

Bye-bye. Bye! Bye!

To go from the condition
that he was in to how he is now,

it's amazing.

I think, really,
it is a new start.

How exciting is that?

Very exciting!

Back in the barn, Brenton has made
a sterling effort,

renewing the sparkle to the
ornate belt buckle.

His next task is to fabricate
a whole new fragment

of missing silver.

I've now got a picture of
the undamaged side of the belt

and I've overlaid the damaged side
so I can see the pattern

of the part I've got to make.

I'm going to cut this piece
of paper out

and stick it to a piece of silver.

I will then put that on some pitch,

which is sticky and holds the metal,
so I can then work on it.

The block of pine resin, known as
chasers pitch, will grip the metal

when it's heated up, so Brenton
can emboss the silver

without causing any unwanted
splits or cracks.

You don't need to hit it too hard.
This is very thin silver,

and all you're trying to do is to
get the mark

to come through to the other side.

You can see here the lines
that have come through.

I can turn the silver over and I'm
not going to knock the relief

back up towards the front.

I've hammered both sides
of this roughly to shape.

I now need to make it line up
with the broken part of the buckle.

So I'm just going to draw a line
around here

and then cut my new piece
of silver.

So as long as I stay that side
of the black marks,

I'll be all right.

So, now that's cut I've got
to file that down

so that it absolutely
fits perfectly.

When I started working on this
belt buckle,

I was convinced it was pure silver.

But having filed it and worked on it
a bit,

I'm a bit concerned
it might be a silver alloy

and that might have a lower melting
temperature than pure silver.

That means I might melt it
when I'm soldering it.

I've got a little piece of
the belt buckle

and I'm just going to see
whether it melts with my torch.

If it melts, it means I can't solder
it with silver solder.

OK, that's just started to melt now,
so that shouldn't have done that.

I'm glad I followed my instinct,
because that was going to be

a disaster waiting to happen.

I'm going to use a lower
melting temperature solder

to solder it together.

It still makes me very,
very nervous.

This belt buckle has survived
40 years of service,

and I could end its life
in a few seconds,

so I've got to be really careful.

This flame is making that red hot,
but it's not quite hot enough

and the solder's worked really well.

I'm quite happy with that.
It's looking quite nice.

It's the first time it's been a
whole buckle

for an awfully long time.

So I've got to snip this little bit
off the outside

and hopefully it'll be done then.

As Brenton endeavours to conceal
his complex repair,

Dom has made a virtue of the old
mixer's characteristic

scrapes and scratches.

Now that it's nice and dry and hard,
that has gone so well,

I'm over the moon, really.

Everything else has cleaned
up really, really nicely.

Everything's repaired,

so now I've just got to put
it all back together.

Brilliant. God, it's so nice to see
it all back together again.

I've just got a few last screws

and then it'll be ready
for a test run.

Wow, you got it all back
together now? Right, Jay...

Is it working now? This is it.

Is it working? I'm hopeful.

What I've got for you is the bowl
that locks into the base of that.

That's absolutely brilliant. Thank
you. You can bake me a cake now.

Well, we need to test it properly,
don't we? Dom, I eat cakes.

I don't make cakes.
I've never made a cake.

This is going to be a first.

I've got enough here so we can make
Victoria sponge.

I'll do one layer,
you can do the other layer.

Come on, Jay. Look at that.

Wow. That's good.

That's it. It's done.

And just in time, as Becky
and Alison have returned,

hoping to be reunited with their
late mother's trusty utensil

that once formed the beating heart
of their family home.

I've got kind of a warm feeling
that it's going to be returned

to the kitchen and being used

and something that we can share
as a family.

We've got a space for it and
it'll just be really...

It's really exciting to have
that back where it kind of belongs.

He's definitely had his
work cut out, I feel,

if he's got it working. Yeah!

Hello! Hi! How are we doing?

We're good, thanks, yeah.
Lovely to see you again.

No cast. No, the cast is off.

She's still a bit wobbly,
but that's quite normal.

LAUGHTER

So, how are you feeling?

It's quite nerve-racking.
God bless you.

Nerve-racking, but quite exciting.
Yeah, definitely.

I'm quite intrigued to see what's
under the blanket.

Do you want to see it, yeah?

Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Oh, that is just what we wanted.

It's still got all its kind of
well-loved-ness. Yeah.

That's something with my mum
as well,

that she... We didn't always have
things that were brand-new

and bright and shiny.

The things had age about them
and they were well loved. Yeah.

I like that it's still Mum's mixer,
definitely.

After hearing how much it's
been used

and it's been such a part
of your family... Yeah.

..I couldn't sand all that off
and remove all of that.

And every one of these bumps...
It's the original.

..is the bumps that my mum would
have done, so...

It's good to keep them in.
Yeah, I didn't do any of them!

That was all...

LAUGHTER

We'll be able to tell if you did!

There's one more test to do,
really, isn't there?

You're happy with the look of it.
Yeah. Does it work?

Does it go round?
Do you want to see if it goes?

Yeah. Yeah, let's do it. Come on.
Want to see it?

We have been busy baking,
so we've made Victoria sponge.

I'm impressed. We would like you to
mix up the cream,

if that's all right, in there.
Definitely.

Yeah, we can definitely...

Are you ready? Go for it.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, help yourselves.

Apprehensive.

MIXER WHIRS

Oh, brilliant. That's great.

That is brilliant.

Nice seeing it working again?
Yeah, really good.

It's been about ten years since
we've seen it working.

Yeah, it's perfect.

Fab.

That does look nice, that.

Oh, someone's been making
some nice sponges. Have we?

So, the real test...
Yeah, this is it.

That is really nice. Mm.

Thanks for coming.
Thank you both.

Yeah, it looks amazing.

Thank you so much.
You've done an amazing job. Yeah.

Do you need us to take that cake
as well? No, no, no, no, no, no!

This is staying here.
You're going to make your own.

LAUGHTER

Take care!

Thank you very much. No problem.
Bye-bye.

Jay, save some for me. No.

I'm really pleased that Dom's
kind of kept all those bashes

in there from my mum's baking.
It still looks like Mum's mixer.

To be able to take the mixer home
and have something that she loved

and prided herself on
back in the kitchen

I think is going to be amazing.

The elegant belt buckle has also
been nursed back to a full recovery,

thanks to Brenton.

With a last lick of polish, it's
almost ready to be discharged.

That's looking really good, now.

I've just got to get the fabric
done by Sonnaz

and then Trevor can come
and collect it.

Sonnaz. Brenton. Hiya.

I've got Trevor's mother's
nurse's belt buckle here.

Yes, that's a mouthful. It is.

And it needs a belt. OK.

Isn't that beautiful?
Lovely, isn't it?

I don't think I've ever seen one
quite as ornate as this.

So if I just wrap it round that loop
and sew it... That'd be great.

..on both sides? Yeah. Great.
Leave it with me. OK, thanks.

So, I've got a modern nurse's
belt here

and I'm quite simply going to take
the old buckles off

so that I can sew these beautiful
new buckles back on.

The intricate buckle belonged
to Trevor's mother, Rosemary,

who was gifted it by her own
proud dad.

Today, Trevor has returned
with his daughter, Olivia,

who's nursing a dream of following
in her grandmother's footsteps.

I'm feeling quite excited about it.
I don't know about Olivia.

Yeah, I'm excited. Nervous a bit,
but very excited to see it.

Hello. Hello. All right?
Yeah, I'm good, thank you.

Hi, Trevor. Hi, again.
Who've you brought with you?

This is Olivia, my daughter.
Welcome to the barn.

How are you feeling, Trev?
Very excited, yes. Yeah?

Yeah, I couldn't wait to come back
and see what Brenton had done to it.

So, Olivia, have you ever met your
grandmother? Did you meet her?

No, I didn't meet her. Has Dad
told you any stories about her?

Just that she devoted her life to
being a nurse. Right.

And she would do anything
for other people.

And she was really loving
and caring. Aw, bless.

I'm so proud of her.

All those years she dedicated
her life to nursing.

She was a mother, a wife
and a nurse, you know,

and this buckle, Brenton,
is part of that history.

It's part of what she did.

Do you want to see it? I'd love to.
Come and do the honours, Brenton.

Go on. Yeah? Yeah. Thank you, sir.

Wow. That is amazing.

Blimey.

Yeah, I can remember that as a
child, seeing it like that.

It's beautiful.

It's amazing. How you've got
it to that, I don't know.

I can't even see where you've made
the repairs.

That is just stunning work,
and a belt with it as well.

Yeah. That's courtesy of Sonnaz.

Thank you very much.
Nearly as good as new!

And now it's going to Olivia.

Her nan has inspired her to
become a nurse.

And I'm going to pass the buckle
to her.

That's nice.

Wow. Yeah, great.

Thank you.

Aw, bless. That's fantastic. Aw.

It's a lovely touch with the belt
being there as well,

and that's the colour I remember
as well -

that kind of dark blue. Dark blue.

Yeah, it looks very nice on you.
It does.

Now all you've got to do is train up
to be a nurse, now! I know!

LAUGHTER

You've got the uniform!
I've got to actually do it now!

We wish you luck. Thank you.

Well, thank you for bringing
the belt in.

We've really enjoyed it. And to hear
the future that it's going to have

is absolutely brilliant.
It's wonderful.

Thank you so much, Brenton.
Thanks for the smiles.

They've been well worth it.

Take care. Bye! Bye.
Bye-bye.

That's all right, innit?
Yeah, really nice.

I saw it, and immediately
I was taken back to my childhood,

and remembering my mum coming home
with that buckle on.

When Dad gave it to me,
I was shocked.

I didn't think that I was going
to get it, and then trying it on,

I just felt very privileged

because I know how much it meant to
my nan and my dad.

I think now it's back
as it was given to her,

it is a tribute to her and all
her years of service

and the amount she gave to the NHS.

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