The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 7, Episode 20 - Episode #7.20 - 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. Isn't it?
That is 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 for ever.

..the team will restore the items...

Wow!

..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...
It's really fiddly work.

..Will gets his wires crossed...

More have popped out.
It's really frustrating.

..on the restoration
of an antique aviary...

Whenever I move this chain inwards,
everything else around it

pulls back out.

..and it's seconds out for Suzie.

I'm going to thread a piece
of leather through the holes

to act as a backing.

..as she uses some
inventive techniques

to fix a boxing bag
that's on the ropes.

It's all inside the bag.

So I'm working blindly,

but perseverance is everything.

But first, Karine Boyd has brought
along a musical memento

for the attention
of silversmith Brenton West.

Hello, there.
Hi, there. I'm Brendan. I'm Karine.

What have you got in the box?

I've got a little trophy there.

It looks like it's been
in the wars. Oh, dear.

It was won by my mother in 1955
for a singing competition.

OK. Lanarkshire Crooning
Championship, Coatbridge Town Hall,

won by Karine Ferguson,
which is my mum. Wow.

Crooning.

Crooning, yeah. Your mum was
a crooner? A crooner. OK!

A singer. A singer.

I didn't realise that at the time
and I was like, "What's that, Dad?"

You know? "What's a crooner?"

It's a singer, I suppose from
the era of the Frank Sinatras

and a lounge-room style.

OK. So how did your parents meet?

They lived on the same street.

Families knew one another,

and they attended the All Saints
Concert Party one night,

and my mum was singing there.

Dad said he heard
this fantastic big voice

and there was a little lady on the
stage, and he couldn't believe

this voice had come out of such
a dainty little woman.

Is this is the only trophy
that she won?

Or is she a big star?

I think, locally, she was certainly,
you know, well known.

It's the only one that I know of,

but I believe she did go

on the Carroll Levis Show in 1956.

That was the kind of X Factor
of the day.

And she got through to the finals
in Skegness.

I think, as she got older,
she kind of lost confidence.

I think she was really paranoid
and conscious that her voice

wasn't what it was,

and if it wasn't what it was,
she didn't want to do it.

Unfortunately, she developed
vascular dementia in her mid-60s

and she had it for 11 years
till she passed away.

She sounds like a mum you could
be quite proud of, actually. Yeah.

I don't think you realise, you know,
some of the sacrifices.

I mean, obviously, she sacrificed
what was maybe the makings

of a really good career to have
a family and a husband.

So, did you know that existed
when you were a child?

Do you remember it?

I think it was in their bedroom
with my mum's sewing kit in it,

so it always had needles
and threads in the top.

Can I have a look, then, please?

Yeah, of course.

Crumbs!

I don't suppose you've got
the other handle, have you? No.

We had a really good look
round the cupboard for it,

that it came out of,
and I couldn't see it anywhere.

If you guys can help with it,
it would be fantastic

because it's just a little something
that we can remember her by.

Definitely. We'll try and make it
beautiful in memory of your mother.

Thank you. That would be fantastic.

Lovely to meet you. You, too.

See you again. Bye-bye.

The trophy represents a little piece
of Mum, and keeping her with us.

For my dad, it's just something
that he can look at and remember,

you know, the good times
when they were young -

fun and carefree.

It will be nice to have it back
and keep the memory alive.

I just sat down and had a look at
Karine's mum's amazing trophy.

It's very bent and, of course,
it's lost its other handle.

The jobs I've got to do
are to give it a good polish,

just so I can see if there's
any dents that I can't spot

through the dirt.

I've got to make a new handle
for it and attach it.

And I've got to get these dents
out of the rim at the top.

Then I've got to silver-plate it.

This is going to be pretty tricky,
but I think I can handle it.

So I'm cleaning the cup up
before I do any work to it,

but because this is so dirty,
I'm using a brass polish,

which is more aggressive.

And the reason I'm able
to use the brass polish on this

is because I will be
re-silver-plating this at the end.

Let's have a little polish, just to
see what the shine's like there.

So under all of that dirt there,
there is a little bit of a shine,

so it's encouraging.

Hoping to get the shine back
on her own faded treasure -

Sarah Dewey, accompanied
by daughter Abby.

They've got an ornate
and unusual curio

for the attention
of woodwork expert Will Kirk.

Wow. Look at that! Hello.

Hi. How are you doing?

Good, thanks.

That is a bird cage.
That IS a bird cage.

That's unbelievably impressive.
Where did you get it from?

Well, it belonged to
my birth father, George.

He had it in his hall in his house
and he offered it to me.

Did I hear right, you said
"birth father"?

Yeah. I was adopted as a baby.
Oh, OK.

And when I started to
have my own kids,

I decided to try and look
for my birth parents.

I found the names of my parents
and that my father was French.

He was from Monaco.

He was a musician - a drummer -

who used to play in the South of
France at the Hotel Provencal

in Juan-les-Pins. He played
with Duke Ellington,

Frank Sinatra. Really?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

All the film stars,
all the politicians,

everybody would hang out there.

So how did your biological
parents meet? My mother -

she was a nanny and she worked
for quite a wealthy family

and they stayed
in the Hotel Provencal.

It was a holiday romance, I think.

OK! And, anyway, to cut
long story short,

I got a relative who is a French
speaker to write a letter to him,

and he was over the moon
because he had two sons

and he'd always wanted a daughter.

So he was really, really excited.
To meet you? Yeah.

So him and his wife came to London,
and he and I spent the day

just talking and catching
up about his life and my life.

He obviously felt really bad that,
you know, he hadn't

supported my mum, but he said
he had no idea. She had written

a letter to him at the hotel
where they met, and he never got it

because he was sent off
to the war in Algeria.

Oh. She just assumed that
he wasn't interested

and moved on with her life.
You know, she had me.

And, you know, at that time,
it was very hard for a young girl

to keep a baby. Yeah.

After we met, and I used to go
and visit, this used to take

pride of place in his hallway,
and I always admired it.

And then one day he asked me
if I would like to have it.

So I said yes,

but I had to bring it home
on the Eurostar and the Tube.

Yeah! So it got a little bit damaged
on the way. I'm not surprised.

Which is why it's here.
How long have you had this?

15 years, something like that.

I didn't know at the time
that he was quite ill,

because he hadn't told me,

but his wife called me
and said he's not very well

and, unfortunately, he passed away.

That was hard, because I felt I'd
just got to meet him and just,

you know, and then... At least
we had some time together.

And he got to meet his daughter.
Yes. Just what he wanted.

Yes, exactly.

He was very proud to have a
daughter, finally.

Abby, you got to meet him.

I did. I do remember him really well
because he was such a character.

Yeah. So I do have really,
really fond memories of him.

He was a very special man.
Yeah. Yeah.

Have you ever worked
on a birdcage before?

Never... Actually, once,
but it was very small.

This looks like the Taj Mahal. Yes!
It is quite something.

Do you remember there being a tray
in the bottom of that?

Because surely if the birds
are in there now

and they do their business...
There is a little slot.

Oh, yeah. So I think there must have
been,

but not as long as I've had it.

And I can't even remember
how the base came off.

There was a base,
rather than just the frame.

It wasn't quite as in bad
condition as it is now.

So if Will's able to fix it,
what are you going to do?

I don't know. I did have a plant
in there at one point,

which is probably why
the base got damaged from the water.

I've never seen
a birdcage like this.

I can't wait to see
what this young man does to it.

Thank you so much.
All right. Thank you very much.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

The birdcage symbolises to me
the feeling that I used to get

when I used to visit George.

The feeling of warmth and love

that came from that house -
I want to recreate that in my house

so that when I come
through the front door,

it'll be in the hallway, and it'll
remind me of him every time.

Sarah's dad George had some real
style, I must admit. Look at that.

It's wonderful.

Yeah. Once I get to take the top
off, I can work out how to tackle

all these wires poking up.

And then... The base.

I think there would have been
a wooden panel

and a tray on the top. Yeah.

So rather than putting a permanent
base on there, it would be nice

for Sarah to be able to put plants
and things in the inside.

So I might try to rejig this

so it's still a birdcage,
but it has a new function of

holding plants...
It's a plant cage! Exactly.

I like the sound of that. Exactly.

Let's get it to your bench. Lovely.

The finial on the top
there is in good working order.

However, it looks like the piece
in the inside has been replaced

at some point. That was made
of MDF, by the looks of it.

So I'd like to replace that, and
this piece up here - that also needs

to be replaced because it seems
to be cracking apart.

This has been held together
by some screws on the inside.

So I'm just going to see
if I can unscrew that panel.

Now, I'm hoping, once this panel
comes off, the whole top isn't

going to burst apart
like a jack-in-the-box.

HE SIGHS

There we are. Now that that's off,
I can see there's quite a lot

of damage to the top there.

All these bits of wires
need to be put back into place.

Before I can do that, I'm going
to turn up two new pieces of wood.

It's taken Brenton hours of patient
polishing to get the 1950s

crooning trophy free of tarnish.

Now he can turn his attention
to its misshapen contours.

I need to straighten up the bowl
of the cup, and I've noticed

that just under the handle that's
left, there's a great big dent

and I can't get that dent out
with the handle there.

So I'm going to cut this handle off,
knock the dent out

and then I'm going to solder
the handle back on.

That's my best way of doing,
I think.

To get these dents out of here,
I'm going to use a stake,

which I've got here, and that gets
placed on the right part

of the curve, and hopefully
I can bash these dents out,

but this stake
now needs to go in a vice.

So that's got most of the dents out,
and I'm quite happy with that,

and we're coming some way
to repairing Karine's memories.

I've got to make a mould
for the handle.

So this is a casting sand, which is
very, very fine and slightly sticky,

so all the detail in an item
should be transferred

onto the new casting
that you're making.

Now I've just got to push
the handle into this sand to create

the first half of the mould.

So we put some more sand on top,
and hopefully I'll be able to get

the old handle out in a minute,
and we'll have a mould.

This is now ready for me to pour
the molten metal into.

This metal gets to over 1,000
degrees at its melting point,

and it's quite nerve-racking,
so we'll see what happens.

It seems to be melting quite well.

I've got to keep that hot
as I pour it.

Right. Just let that cool down a bit

and see if we've got
a handle in there.

Wow! That looks absolutely amazing.

When I've cleaned that up, I don't
think Karine's going to be able to

tell the difference between the
one I've made, and her original.

I've got to solder the handles
back onto the trophy now.

I'm just going to get a little bit
of solder onto this handle

before I put it on,
just to give me a helping hand.

Get that in position...

That solder's now gone hard
and I can now let go of that,

and it's there.

This is the handle I made,
and it'll be nice to see it

on the trophy, and to see both
handles at the same time,

which it hasn't had
for an awfully long time.

Outside, another hopeful visitor.

Danny Munden from Bristol

has brought a family heirloom
that bears the scars of a lifetime

of use by an incredible man with
an extraordinary life story.

Leather expert Suzie Fletcher

will be preserving
his cherished artefact.

Here he is. How are we doing?
Very well, sir.

And yourself? I'm good.
Hello. Hello.

You look like
you've come to do an operation!

That's a doctor's bag!

So is it the bag or is there
something in the bag?

So my grandfather was a boxer.

He was a very successful boxer.

And that was his boxing kitbag.

Oh, was it? Yeah, yeah.

I'm looking at the size of it
and I'm thinking, like, boxing kit.

I thought there was a lot
more kit... So did I!

I mean, that wouldn't hold
very much, would it? No.

I don't think it would
even hold his gloves.

I don't know whether the gloves
stayed on the outside.

OK. What's his name?
Len Munden. Len Munden.

Did he go up through the ranks?
Yeah. What weight was he?

He was a cruiserweight.
Cruiserweight. He was ranked fifth?

Yeah, ranked fifth. He was good.

So, boxed up until '39. Right.

And then, the outbreak of war,
he said he wouldn't fight again

until he came back, because
he signed up with the RAF.

I'm with you.

He joined up with the first tranche
of parachute instructors.

Jumping out of a plane? Teaching
people how to jump out of a plane.

Absolutely. The early
formation of the Paras.

So, after the war, he came back.
Did he continue boxing then?

No. No.

In '43, he lost his left arm.
He lost his left arm?

Yeah. The parachute instructors were
on their way to a swimming place

in Haifa.
They were going to the beach

and they got sideswiped in
the back of their truck. Yeah.

And his arm was out of the truck

and it took it off just
above the elbow.

Obviously, he didn't
continue boxing, did he?

Couldn't box.

He had four kids to feed,
another one on the way,

so he kind of worked out what
he would actually be able to do

that carried itself,
so he decided on coaches.

Coaches? Coaches. Yeah.
What, driver? Yeah. Yeah.

So the wheel
on the coaches was flat. OK.

So he was able to trap the wheel
with his knee, move his hand across

and move it around. One arm and the
knees holding the steering wheel?

That's quality, innit?
Yeah. As a kid,

we didn't think that having
a missing arm was a problem

because our grandfather
could do everything.

It sounds like your grandfather
was a really inspirational geezer.

Yes. Really smart. Where was this
bag, then? When he's driving

on the buses?
This was his lunch bag.

Dad used it as a kid to take his
rugby kit... Your dad used that?

Yeah. My dad used it to
take his rugby kit in. Right.

What would you like Suzie
to make it look like?

It's a tough one. Brand-new - no -
because all those scuffs and scags

and the patina on it, that's its
life. That's its history.

Mm-hm. Yeah.

So where this has been...
There's a hole down here.

Some of the stitching
and the seams are coming apart.

The inside is...used. Tired.

Used, shall we say?

Yeah. That's more than tired.
That's been used!

It needs to be refreshed
and brought back to life

because it's got my grandfather's
spirit in it. Yeah.

Danny, thank you for bringing
this in and telling us

wonderful stories
about your grandfather.

I can't wait to get started.
You take care now.

Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

The bag, it's given me another
connection to my grandfather, Len,

and it was that connection
to him and the memories that I have

and just bring them back up so
that they don't get forgotten,

because memories fade.

It's just keeping them alive.

I'm just going to start
with the cleaning,

using the good old faithful
saddle soap,

and this will help to
start opening the pores,

removing the dirt, but also
feeding some natural greases

back into the leather.

Oh, already I can see...

This will be the finished colour
if everything goes well.

So it's that beautiful
horse-chestnut look.

I just need to carry on cleaning
and then I can start

with the conditioning process.

In his quest to renovate
the ornamental birdcage,

Will has been crafting
a replacement top hub,

allowing the cage to be safely
suspended once again.

Right. So that's all glued up.

I'll leave that to dry. Whilst
it's drying, I'm going to start

tackling the damaged wire work
to the top of the birdcage.

All the wires that come up
to the top are held in place

with one wire that goes round
the middle, almost like a chain.

Lots of them have popped out of
that chain and they're pinging up,

so I'm going to go round now,
feed them back through.

It's really fiddly work.

It's almost as if,
when you move one...

..it forces two out.

Ohh... It's fiddly.
Please don't pop out.

More have popped out.

It's really frustrating.

Whenever I move this chain inwards,

everything else around it
pulls back out.

It's really tricky.

Right, there's one,
but it's taken me ages.

Only one, two, three, four...

Eight more to do.

Finally, all the wiring is back
where it should be.

The trickiest part is actually
going to be sandwiching that wire

between these two pieces of wood.

I almost have to have a really long
right arm in order to sort of

hold this up from the inside
and screw it together,

so I'm going to have to use
lots of clamps

in a very creative way to help me,
almost as a third arm.

That's in place for now.

It's really tricky, because
I need the screws on the inside

to line up perfectly.

That's the last screw in.
Now onto the base.

And this is really rotten.

What I need to do is clear out all
the joints, re-glue everything

to get a nice solid structure,
and then stick on a nice new top

for the base. That will
give it a nice foundation

for the top of the cage to sit on.

While Will's working on the base,
metalwork expert Dominic Chinea

has been called upon
to protect the birdcage

from any future water damage.

I'm using a sheet of aluminium
for the tray for the birdcage.

It's nice and light.
It won't go rusty.

It's the perfect material.

Now I've just snipped out
these corner pieces,

all I need to do is fold
up these four edges to make

that into a tray.

There we have it.
All the feet are now glued on.

I'm going to leave that to dry

and turn my attention
to the rest of the cage.

I need to polish up the woodwork,
I need to colour-match

those new turned pieces of wood.

The repair of the
1950s crooning trophy

has reached a very special stage.

Brenton's preparing to carry out
some metal magic.

I've got the trophy,
with its two handles back on,

polished up and ready for
silver-plating,

and I'm going to electroplate it.

That is a method of using
an electric current to make

the silver atoms jump
from a liquid onto the cup.

So I'm just putting some of
this silver-plating solution

onto my wand.

This is connected up to
the positive on my power supply.

So as I'm going over
the handle that I made,

I'm covering the bronze material
with atoms of silver,

and it's making it the same colour
as the rest of the cup.

That's looking nice and shiny
and nice and silver now.

This cup represents the
once-glittering singing career

of Karine's mum,
but had lost its sparkle.

Today, she's returned
to collect the trophy,

now worthy of taking
centre stage once again.

It'll be really exciting
to receive the trophy today

and take it back home

and put it in its rightful place,

because it's one of the few

items remaining of the past.

It's going to be fantastic
to see it completed

and it'll just be really exciting
to get hold of it.

Hello, there. Hi, there. Hello,
Karine. How are you doing?

Good, thank you.
Yeah OK? Yeah.

How are you feeling?
Yeah. Nervous. Excited.

You shouldn't be nervous.

What are you hoping
to see underneath there?

Something a bit cleaner

and straighter than when
I brought it in.

Well, hopefully, Brenton's done
Mum proud and done you proud.

Ready? Yeah, I think so.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

It's stunning.

It's just like new.

It's how she would have seen it
on the day she got it.

This is how she would
have remembered it.

She wouldn't have liked it
the way it was,

and now it's just how it
always should have been.

I know what it means to you,
so it's been a pleasure doing it.

Oh, it's going to be pride
of place. It really is.

It's just unbelievable.

So good. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Oh, it's just stunning.

Absolutely stunning.

It deserved to be repaired.
Oh, thank you so much.

I really appreciate
the effort and time

you've put into
making it good again.

I'm looking look forward to
taking it back home to the family

and sharing it with them.

That's what we like to hear.

Well, you take care now.
Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye.

She was made up.
Yeah. Well done, you.

It's a really nice way to remember
her. You know, she's no longer

with us, but she is - in the form
of a nice new shiny trophy.

I'm just looking forward to getting
home and sharing it with the family

and have a celebration just
to commemorate Mum and her life,

and it's a fantastic way
for her to be remembered.

With the exterior of the boxing bag
looking knockout once more,

Suzie can turn her attention
to the interior.

The inside of this bag
is really very grimy.

It was used for boxing
equipment initially,

and then used for rugby equipment.

And having had a boyfriend
that played rugby, I know

what the kit is like
at the end of a match.

So it's not surprising
it is pretty grimy.

Where this bag has been damp

through sport equipment,

it's got some mould growing on it.

So I'm just using a damp flannel.

This detergent I'm using actually
has a fungicide in it,

so it'll make sure that
nothing nasty grows back...

..once it's been cleaned.

The lining actually has a few holes
in it where various things

have been pushed against it,
and also, the pockets have been

pulled away.
I need to sew these holes up

and then I can start
reattaching the pockets.

Now I've got the lining repaired,

I can now start to fix the outside.

We've just got here

a couple of holes in the leather,
and this is where

this mechanism has been resting
against it,

because the leather
has had weight on it.

What I'm going to do is thread

a piece of leather through the holes

to act as a backing,

and then I can start adding
the leather filler on top

once it's dry.

The problem I'm having is getting
the leather in place, and it's all

inside the bag.

I'm working quite blindly, but...

..perseverance is everything.

Once that's glued, I can start
the filling process.

Now that I've got the filler in
the hole here, I now need to go

ahead and dye it and blend it
into the surrounding colours.

I'm going to start with
a premade oil dye in mahogany,

and then I can add any blending
around the edges if I need to,

once this has dried.

OK.

I've got a lot of little areas now

that need to be touched up.

I think once I've got that done,

it's really going to add that final
finish to this great bag.

Will has rebuilt the base

and revamped the coop
of the ornamental bird cage,

but devising how to connect the two
halves is a bit of a brainteaser.

I'm trying to work out
how to attach these two.

I think I might have
come up with a plan -

I'm going to have four of these
pegs attached to the base.

They will then slot
into the top like that.

All you then need to do
is pop a pin in either side

and that will lock
everything into place.

So, quite simple.

It doesn't detract from the rest
of the bird cage

and it'll be strong enough to keep
them together whilst hanging high.

DRILL WHIRS

That fits like a glove.

Now, if I've got all my
measurements right,

once I've got all these pins
in place, I'm hoping...

..this should take the weight.

Right, let's see.

Amazing.

Will, that looks awesome.
Cheers, mate. Nice job.

Hopefully that will fit just
in the bottom. Ah, the tray!

Wonderful. Thanks a lot.

Let's see if it fits
first before you walk away.

THEY LAUGH

Look at that. Tailor-made.

Well done. Brilliant. Cheers, buddy.

BIRDSONG

After 40 years of separation,

Sarah's late birth father, George,

gave her this ornamental bird cage,

but time took its toll
on the delicate wire work

and the wooden frame.

Now she's returned
to The Repair Shop

to collect her cherished memento.

I have had some time to think
about a lot of the memories

that I have of time
spent with George

and the visits that I had
to stay with him in Paris.

I think we'll all be looking
forward to putting it back

in its rightful place,
looking wonderful.

Hi. How you doing, Sarah,
you all right? Yes, thank you.

Nice to see you. You, too.

What are you hoping to see
underneath the blanket?

I'm hoping to see it
with its handle fixed

and its tray fixed,

and all the metal work
without the dents,

and just looking like it was
when I first saw it.

I'm just trying to tick
those things off in my head!

Will, I think we should do
her the honours. Yeah? Yeah.

Shall we have a look? Yes, please.

Oh, wow.

Oh, I like the little blossom
you've put in there.

That's amazing.

Oh, it's brilliant.

Oh, and a tray, as well -
that's great.

I love it.

I just have that image of it sitting
in my birth father's hallway. Yeah.

The whole house had
so much atmosphere,

always warm and inviting,

so this kind of is part of that.

So hopefully I'll take a little bit
of that back to my house.

Cos every house needs that -
warm and inviting. Yeah.

So, every time I look at it,
it'll remind me of him,

and I'll be proud of it now instead
of a little bit embarrassed!

THEY LAUGH

Fantastic.

It's been a pleasure,
having this in.

Thank you so much for doing that.

It's fantastic.

I really appreciate it. Thank you.

It's a pleasure. Take care.

Take care. Bye-bye.

The memories that I have of my time
with George,

even though it was
quite a short time,

are very important to me.

I think we had an instant
connection.

So, when I talk about the bird cage,
or I look at it,

it does take me back to...
to that time.

And, erm...

He was a very special man.

Suzie's done a champion job
on the boxing bag.

All it needs now is a final
conditioning and buff up.

So, my goal here is....

..to give the leather a really
revived, refresh look...

..whilst maintaining the story which
these marks and scuffs tell.

This boxing bag -
over 80 years old -

holds fond memories for owner Danny,

having seen his grandfather
through the many incarnations

of his extraordinary life.

He's returned to the barn

in the hope that Suzie
has been able to preserve it.

Getting my grandfather's bag
restored,

it's a big step,
both backwards and forwards.

Looking back into
my family's history

and bringing a memory back to life.

I'm hoping Suzie's
brought new life to it,

not taken away too much of the
scuffs and the story of its life,

but just...

..made it more usable again.

Hello. Hello.

Nice to see you again.
Nice to see you, hi.

How are you? Very well.

More importantly,
how are you feeling?

I'm quite excited.
I'm really excited.

I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve,
to be honest.

Just want to get
in there now, yeah?

Yeah, actually! I do.

Absolutely. Well, let's see
if Suzie's fulfilled.

You ready? I am, please. OK.

Wow!

That is incredible.

That is magnificent.

Oh, wow!

Wow!

Oh, you've done
such a beautiful job on it.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's magnificent.

Look at that, you old man!

To have it working, to have it
in such beautiful condition again

without it looking brand-new.

I can see the work that's gone
into it, and the artistry

to bring it back and leave
the tale of the bag there. Hm.

And it would look like it would have
done when he was fighting with it.

To see it in a condition that
my grandfather would have...

It's just...

It's that reconnection.

Just because it's... It's...

Yeah, it's something of him.

Yeah. Yeah.

To continue the journey
through the family. Yeah.

Well, talking of journeys,

the bag's ready to go on one.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome. Thank you.

All right. You take care. Thank you.

Cheerio. Bye-bye.

OK, I'll take it

and I'm going to show my grandad's
bag off to anybody who will spare

the time to sit down and listen
to the stories with me.

You're looking down at
it and thinking,

"Wow, that looks tidy, now."

He would be really proud.

Join us next time as our barn
full of talented artisans...

I'm really interested to see how
you're going to repair this one.

So am I!

..bring history back to life...

Ha, ha! Oh, my God!

..in The Repair Shop.