The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 7, Episode 24 - Episode #7.24 - 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 returned
to their former glory.

That is lovely.
It is it 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!



..coming together
to work their magic.

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...

Whoa! ..the memories....

I'm so happy to see it.

..and unlock
the stories that they hold.



It's made it all worthwhile.

Aw.

In The Repair Shop today...

Good.

That didn't break.

Unsettled weather for Steve

as he grapples with
a badly bashed barometer.

The main frame is quite bent,
so that must have been quite a fall.

While Dom helps
stained-glass buff Matt

illuminate an act
of wartime heroism.

That looks absolutely exquisite.

Really happy with that.

But first, Somerset sisters Daisy
and Indiana Perry

with some fading souvenirs
of a life on the open road.

Their dream is that
master saddler Susie Fletcher

can help them go the extra distance.

Hello. Hi. Hi there.

What have we got here?

So we've brought in
Dad's saddlebags.

They're meant to be
for a horse. Yeah.

He's always had them
on the motorbikes.

Oh, right, OK.

Since the '80s when he won them
at a raffle. What's his name?

Your dad? Mark? Mark.

Yeah, he's done tens
of thousands of miles with them.

Mum and Dad of bikers, aren't they?

OK. Oh, good. Lovely.
Early '90s, it was.

They did a trip
from Land's End to John O'Groats.

Lovely. Bike each. Wow.

With these saddle bags and not
really much else with them,

and they just managed
to cram in there.

Sounds like a dream.

Sounds like a dream, yeah.

Both myself and Dom
ride bikes. Really?

So we can really understand
the passion.

I've never ridden anything
like that. That's a long way. Yeah.

And does your dad go out
on his bike regularly?

He's not got many years
potentially left of riding a bike.

Ten years ago, he had a serious
motorbike accident, which left him

with a frontal lobe brain injury.

He's still able to ride his bike.

So yeah, he's still safe to go out
on his bike and make decisions,

probably because of his experience,
his skills.

That muscle memory is there.

He's still a really safe rider.

The brain injury is sort of
leading him down

the early onset dementia track.

So we really want them to be
repaired so that he can get out

and use them again before
he can't do that life any more,

whether that is his whole life.

Yeah, definitely.
It's a precious time.

The time you got left to ride this
bike. Exactly. Every day counts.

Yeah. Absolutely.

So what exactly is wrong with them?

There's obviously a big burn hole
underneath from where they were

sat on the exhaust.

And then here, to be honest I'm not
really sure what's under here

because I don't know, don't want
to take it off. No, please don't!

And this is... The straps
all need a lot of attention.

Yeah. It would just be amazing
for him to have them restored

to their former glory.

The way that he's been affected
with his brain injury

would defeat a lot of people.

And, but... Yeah, the fact
that he's still strong in his...

Absolutely. Yeah.

So he's really excited, which is why
we just want him to keep

riding his bikes as long as he can,
because that's him.

The day he can't ride his bike
is going to be a bad day.

Yeah. That's really nice
of you to do this.

Both of you off your own back.
They're in safe hands, I promise.

Yeah, I look forward to getting
started with them.

Really lovely to meet you both.
Thank you, and you.

Bye-bye. All the best.

We're getting the bags prepared
for dad, because as his memory goes,

it's always something
he'll be able to cherish.

He'll remember specific
rides and good times.

We've been his world,
and he is our whole world.

It's time to get it sorted for him.

Yeah.

These saddlebags
are absolutely amazing.

I love them.

These are the classic US
Cavalry design saddlebags.

Those are two of my personal loves,
horses and motorbikes, so I feel

a really strong connection
to these, and the journey

that they've had is really,
really incredible.

I think the first thing I need to do
is investigate and see what's

going on under here.

Mark has used some epoxy
as well as the tape...

..so I'm just going to remove
the tape from the epoxy.

Try and keep
the surface leather intact.

Oh, well done. Oh, nice.

The damage here is significant,
there's no question about it.

However, all the original leather
is still there, and I can go ahead

and remove this flap from the bags
and line it and get it all nicely

repaired and usable again.

And while I've got the flap off,

I can actually make up
some replacement straps.

Once I've done that, I can start
moving onto that gusset

where it's been burned through.

But before I get to any
of that, I just need to get

all this old epoxy off.

The barn's next visitor
is Ben from Hampshire.

He's hoping the mechanical know-how
of Steve Fletcher can restore

the memory
of halcyon childhood holidays.

Good morning. Hi. You all right?
Good to see you. Likewise.

That's nice. What is that, Ben?

This is, I believe,
a 1940s, 1950s parameter.

Well, you're not old enough
to have that brand-new. I'm not.

Who did it belong to?
This belonged to my grandfather,

and he'd be able to predict
what the weather was going to be.

Magic when I was a kid.

And I inherited this
in 2009 when he passed away. Right.

I grew up going down
to my grandfather's house

for summer holidays,
Easter holidays.

They lived
down by the coast in Dorset.

Yeah. And summer
holidays in Britain,

actually, the weather was very much
instrumental about whether we could

do something exciting for the day or
something a bit dull.

Yeah. He would tap on the glass
in the morning

and that would determine
good day, bad day.

Do we go to the beach or not?

Me and my brother desperate to go
to the beach every day,

looking, waiting for that
tap on the glass,

waiting to hear it's a good day.
Yeah. And off we'd go.

I think that's a great memory
to have, tapping on the glass

to see whether you're going
to the beach or not.

Yeah, but it was always two taps,

and my father has the same memory
when he was a child of his father

tapping the same two taps
on the glass.

There's a little domed
glass front to it. Yeah.

With a couple of needles
that were set into the centre

of the glass,

and they would swing around the rim

to show the direction
of the atmospheric pressure.

OK, if it's high pressure,
beach time, yeah? Yes.

OK. That's what we're looking for.
High pressure.

Cool, I like the sound of that.
Excellent.

Was it working when you got it?
I think so.

Oh, you think so?

So, well, so I've never really known

if my grandfather was very clever
at telling a good story

and saying this is
what the weather's going to be,
having just watched the TV,

or if it genuinely could predict
the weather. Right.

I'd like to think it could predict
the weather,

and I would love to be able to carry
on with my own children. Yeah.

Are you going to do what your
grandfather did with your children,

tell them a story about
what the weather is like and stuff?
Absolutely.

Having watched the news first, yes.

Absolutely.

And what's happened to it? It looks
as if it's been in the wars.

Had better days, yeah.
So, it had a bit of an accident.

It was mounted on the wall
in the kitchen. Right.

It fell off the wall,
hit the tiled floor,

smashed to pieces. Oh.

And how would you like it to look?

It's a lovely-looking piece,
and if it could be polished up

and look shiny,
that would be brilliant,

but actually,
if it could be functional,

that's the most important thing
to me.

Ben, thank you for bringing this in.
I'm sure Steve's going to be able

to do some it with it.
I can try my best.

Very best of luck to you.
All right. Thank you.

You take care. Bye, now.
Take care. Thank you. Bye-bye.

My grandfather was
a really special man,

so when the barometer broke,

I was really upset,
I was really devastated.

I really want to get this
barometer fixed,

because it means I can pass
on something to my children

that I had as really fond memories
from my own grandfather

when I was a child.

With these barometers,

the main part inside
is the vacuum chamber.

It's the part of the mechanism
that makes the hand move

to the correct pressure.

And if the vacuum chamber
has punctured,

then I'm going to be up against it
trying to get a replacement.

So I'm going to try
and take this apart now.

And fingers crossed.

Right, I'm just going to prise
the bezel off the front,

which should release everything.

And then the dial should pop off.

And inside, I can see
that this mechanism is quite bent,

but the vacuum chamber is intact,
which is great news.

So, this is the vacuum chamber,
here.

When the pressure gets high,

the vacuum chamber
is pushed together more

and the hand will then turn
round to the high position

on the dial.

I'm really relieved
that the chamber's intact.

That makes my life a lot easier.

I just need to straighten
all those bent parts.

The main frame is quite badly bent,
so that must have been quite a fall.

And first of all, I must
just take this glass out

and order another one.

On her workbench, Suzie's taken
apart the leather saddlebags

that were on the road to nowhere.

She can now embark on
her first task -

reinforcing the badly torn flap.

This was the flap
with most damage over time.

It literally just tore
in several places.

So, what I want to do is
line the flap

with this pigskin

and that's going to give it
its strength and structure back.

What I need to do is to stain it.

This is the sort of dye
that is permanent

and you generally want
to put on two or three layers

so that you don't show any marks.

You don't want it to look
really streaky or anything.

So, I generally
go on a diagonal first.

Leather comes in
so many different colours

that if you have a neutral leather
that you're able to dye down,

it gives you much more flexibility,
and your options are endless.

I just need to let that dry.

So, this is going to be
the tricky part here.

I've got to try and wrangle
that leather in

that's stretched and disfigured

and to get it to look
as attractive as possible.

I just need to let that fully cure

and then I can trim it up,
ready to sew together.

In the meantime,
I've got to address the straps.

Several of these straps
are broken or in fact missing,

and those that remain are
in pretty poor condition.

I figured probably the best thing
is to replace all of them.

I've got this leather here, which
is actually a pretty close match

to what the original colour was.

And I can then,
once they're made up,

tone them down to try and match
these years of use

and all the elements
it's been exposed to.

So, I just need to cut this strap
to length.

There we go.

Now I've got the straps
held in place,

I can now just tack the flap
back into position

ready for me to start sewing.

After this one,
I have the other side to sew on,

and that'll be the flaps
back in position...

..and it will start looking like
saddlebags again.

Next, a family heirloom
with a heroic history.

Jonathan Schonfeld hopes
Matt Nickels' stained glass wizardry

can help its story live on.

Hello there! Hello.

I'm Dom. And I'm Matt.
And I'm Jonathan.

Jonathan, it's a pleasure
to meet you.

This beautiful window
must belong to you, then.

It does belong to me.
It's got quite a history to it. OK.

There's a name here - Rachel Leah.

Rachel Leah is my grandmother.

She came to England in 1989
from Vienna with her husband Victor.

He was invited to come to London
to become the rabbi,

the leader of a community,
and he decided to start a school.

So what was Rachel's involvement
in all of this?

She'd be organising events,
helping the poor and needy.

And she wasn't frightened
to put her foot down

and to say this needs doing
and that needs doing.

It sounds like
both of them together

were just an unstoppable force.
Oh, yes. She was forceful.

A very forceful person indeed.
Yeah.

Do you think this was
above their front door?

It was over the front door. OK.

So, the window, when my grandparents
moved into the house,

he decided, out of respect for his
wife, to have her name put there.

That's really nice.

But, unfortunately,
Victor passed away

as a result of septicaemia,
blood poisoning. Oh, goodness.

So, my grandmother, Rachel Leah,
decided he would be succeeded

by my father Solomon.

He built up the school,
and led the community. Right.

In 1938, he was contacted by a
colleague who then lived in Vienna.

He says, Austria's been taken
over by the Nazis,

we've got major problems here.

You've got a school, take some
children and educate them in London.

And his first refugee children came.

My father got the visas.

My father organised transport, met
them at Liverpool Street station,

brought them to his mother's house.

And when you came to the house,
the hall light would have been on,

and it was just over the front door.

You would have seen
all the stained glass.

That warm glow of just like,
yeah, we're home, we're safe now.

And my father either slept
in the attic on an armchair

or another story goes in his car,

because there just wasn't room
for him. Wasn't space.

As far as we know,
a total of about 800 or 900

were brought from Germany,
from Austria.

And if they hadn't been brought,
they wouldn't have survived the war.

It's an incredible achievement,
isn't it... It really is, isn't it?

..to save so many lives.

So Rachel - without her -

this wouldn't have really happened,
would it? No, no.

I got married,
and our first child was a girl.

I called this first daughter
Rachel Leah. Ah.

So I'd like to give it
to the younger Rachel Leah

to remind her,
and tell her children,

"This is the person
I was named after."

Amazing. An incredible history
to this beautiful window.

What do you reckon?

I mean, what's your expectation?

I suppose, to revive the lettering
so that the lettering can be read

and to repair where it's defective
and clean it up.

I mean, you know more about
stained glass windows than I do.

I think I can do something to it,
but we'll have to see.

You are the answer to my prayers.

Thank you so much
for bringing it in to us.

Yeah, thank you very much, Jonathan.

Thank you both very much.

Lovely to meet you.
Cheerio. Bye-bye. See you later.

The window, to me, represents
the passing of generations.

So, to pass it on to our daughter
who is named after this lady,

to remind her where she comes from

and then, if she works very hard,

she'll be able to achieve
a lot herself.

Rachel Leah's window is
really, really impressive.

The glass is all original -

which is absolutely lovely to see on
a window that's over 100 years old.

So, to start with,
there's a lot of dirt

on the surface of this glass,

and it's a very meticulous
and careful process of cleaning.

Once I've done that,

I'm going to then take the windows
out of their frames.

That way, it means
I'm going to better be able

to access any of the damaged glass

and also, I'll get a real sense
of the structure of the window.

What I need to do first is I need
to clean the Rachel Leah lettering.

I'm using
a very dilute mix of acetone

because I know that
that's not going to damage it.

Hopefully, I'll be able to take
some of the varnish off

and some of the dirt off
which is causing the discoloration.

I can just about see remnants
of gold paint over the top of it

so there is the possibility that

this was actually painted gold
at some point.

And actually, I can see
- when it's wet -

that the gold underneath
is really shining.

Fingers crossed
it's going to come up nicely.

Inside the barn, Steve is
tackling the 1940s barometer

that is very under the weather
after a catastrophic fall.

The bent outer bezel
needs straightening.

Good. That didn't break,

But his most challenging repair
will be the mangled inner mechanism.

First of all, the shaft

that holds in place
the weather predicting needle

is badly misaligned.

I need to bring
these two parts together

to stop this shaft from
going up and down like that.

And it could sort of go up so high
that it would come out of its pivot.

I think I will just try
and straighten

this bottom bar up here first,

then I'll straighten
the top one afterwards.

If this snaps now,
I'm in real trouble because

I can't repair the bar because
it's made up of a composite metal.

That is actually straightening up,
all right, which is a relief.

I'll just do it a little bit more
and just...do you know what,

whenever I do something
a little bit more,

there's always a chance
that it's going to break, then,

and I think, should I do it a little
bit more or should I just leave it?

But I'm going to risk it.

OK, that's actually worked.

I'm just going to now
bend that top plate down.

I don't usually work on barometers

but there are very similar parts
to clocks in certain ways,

and I'm quite comfortable
working on them

because they are actually
quite simple mechanisms.

I'm going to now realign the rack,

and the rack is this device here?

I think the bash that it had
completely put it out of alignment.

This rack here actually drives
into this little pin in here

and it's at the wrong place
at the moment.

So, I'm just going to lift it out of
the way slightly and move it over...

..and put it back there.

That's looking nice and even now.

So, hopefully, this is all
going to work absolutely fine now.

I'm just going to move
the part of the mechanism

that is altered by the pressure
going up and down.

And what that does is just move
that rack one way or another.

And because the rack
is driving the wheel...

..that actually is connected
to this shaft here,

and that's where
the hand sits on there.

So, as it turns, the hand
will go over one way or another.

So, it will just then show you
where the air pressure is.

Good.

I'm just going to pop the hand on.

Now I've got the hand on,
I'll leave it overnight.

I know that the atmospheric pressure
is going to go up tonight

and the hand should go
around clockwise.

And that will just indicate
that it is - fingers crossed -

working fine.

On Suzie's bench,

the leather saddlebags
are almost ready for the road.

Her final job is mending the area

that fell victim to the fierce heat
of the bike's exhaust.

So, I'm sewing this patch on the
wrong way round to begin with

right up against
this piece of piping here

so that, when it folds back,

it's going to look like it's part
of that original seam work there.

So, in this instance,
I'm actually working blind.

once you get started...

..it generally moves along
quite quickly.

OK, so, I've got that stitched,

and now I can just trim off
this excess leather here.

There we go. Beautiful.

That's exactly what I wanted.

I'm really, really happy
with how this has come out.

Just need to do
a final clean and condition.

These tattered saddlebags ventured
far and wide with an intrepid owner

before an accident saw
his biking days numbered.

Sisters Daisy and Indiana
are determined their dad Mike

can take his precious bags
on board again

while he's still able to ride.

I'm feeling like
excited and nervous... Yeah.

..and I just can't...

can't even comprehend
how they're going to look.

It's really important to Dad,

and to give these back to him
restored and to be used again,

it's going to be really special.

Hello. Hey!

Good to see you both again.

And you. Yes, good to see you.

Looking forward to seeing
what we've been able to do?

Yes. Cannot wait, can we?
So much, we're so excited. Yeah.

What are you hoping is
underneath that blanket, then?

Even if they sort of... A little bit
of time reversed on them,

the repairs, no hole at the bottom.
Less masking tape! Yeah. Yes.

Oh, come on, Suzie, show them. OK.

Oh, wow. My God, they're like
a completely different colour.

Oh, wow, they look amazing.
They do.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my gosh, they've got no...

They've got... There's no glue,
no masking tape!

No, that's... It's all gone!

They've got no holes.

The big hole in the bottom now
has gone as well.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You could never
tell. It's completely gone.

They look incredible.
They look incredible.

Thank you so much. Yeah, they do.

They are amazing.

You can see how much hard work
and effort you've put into them.

I cannot thank you enough.
It means so much.

Honestly, I've loved every minute.

Dad is going to be so happy,
isn't he? Yeah. Yeah.

I think the memories are just going
to flood back, aren't they?

Absolutely. Yeah.

He's going to love them.
Yeah. He's going to be so happy.

That's how we remember him -
being happy on the bike with these,

on adventures, and I think he'll
feel like he can do that again.

It's been really important to us.
Yeah.

Yeah, I cannot wait to see him
as happy as we are. I cannot wait.

Thank you so much for your help.

Bless you. Yeah.

It means the world to us.
Yeah, it really does.

I can see, I really can't see,
so...it's lovely.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Take care. See you later. Bye. Bye.

They look amazing.
I'm beaming, I'm so happy.

The connection that
it's going to give Dad.

His long-term memory is
the one thing that he's still got.

For him to just go back in time
to when he got them

and the adventures
that him and Mum had

together at the beginning,

he's going to remember them
like they were yesterday.

I hope that he'll go on adventures
again, because he still can,

and I'm hoping it will spur him on,
won't it? Yeah, absolutely.

In the outdoor workshop,

Matt has finished cleaning the
100-year-old stained glass window,

and he's ready for the next stage
of the restoration.

So now is the exciting part

where I get to take the window
out of the frame.

I need to make sure that,
as I'm doing this,

I'm not putting any pressure
downwards onto the lead or the glass

because, obviously,
if I'm doing that,

then I'm going to risk breaking it.

I really want the frame to be in
as good condition as I possibly can.

Hopefully, Dom's going to be able
to help me out with this one.

There we go.

This is very exciting.

Can't wait to start work on this
window now it's out of the frame.

Hey, Dom. Matt, how's it going?
How's it going?

Well, I've got this for you.

Wow. OK, you've got the glass out.
Yeah, I've got the glass out.

But...if you're able
to just take the putty out,

and then, just give it
a new lick of paint.

That should be fine,
I can chip all that out of there,

give that a good sand down.
The big question is what colour?

It's black on the other side -
which was the front of the window.

If this is going to be maybe put
on a wall or something like that,

so maybe just keep it black.
Keep it all black.

All the same colour, yeah,
I think so. Nice. Yeah. Classic.

OK. All right. Cool, brilliant.
Thanks, Dom. Thanks, mate.

Structurally, it actually looks OK.

The real bulk of the work here
is going to be stripping this back

to reveal this
beautiful wooden frame.

It's under there.
I just need to find it.

My weapon of choice is a heat gun.

GUN WHIRS

Oh.

Look at this.

I can see
all the beautiful carved details

that are hidden underneath
all those layers of paint.

This is going to look beautiful
once I get all this out the way.

Starting to really get
a feel for these windows

now that they're
a little bit cleaner.

The shapes are really
starting to stand out

in all the patterned glass.

Fortunately for me,
none of this textured glass here

has got any cracks in.

Now, first of all,
I've got these two pieces of glass

which are badly cracked.

It's really coming out, so, I'm
going to have to put a new piece in

that going to be nice and secure.

Now what I'm doing is carefully
scoring the lead at the joint,

and I'll be able to
easily peel the lead back

and then reveal these gaps.

And I'm going to be able
to cut pieces of new glass

that are going to fit really snugly
within the heart of the lead.

Now, fortunately, I've managed
to match this light violet glass

and also this kind of bluey green.

It's quite a unique colour.

So, I'm going to cut the new pieces.

Hopefully it's going
to break perfectly.

Great. Now, that's all in line
with the glass at the end.

Now I just need to get started
on the next one.

Bingo!

All I need to do now is
put the perimeter led on

and then start soldering the window
back together.

Right, here we go.

This is going really nicely.
Very happy with that.

Do you know what -
sometimes the simplest things

are the most rewarding,

just stripping back
all the old layers of paint

and revealing this beautiful frame
in its raw wooden state.

I'm so pleased how
this has come out.

It does leave me with
a little dilemma now, though.

I know Matt has asked me
to paint this black,

but this looks so nice,
I don't want to paint it.

I might just stain it down
ever so slightly,

give it an oil, and just leave it
in this beautiful original wood.

I mean, that is what
it would have looked like

so I quite fancy
putting it back like that.

I think Matt will be OK with it.

I mean, how could you not?
Look at that.

On Steve's workbench,
it's a high pressure moment

as he discovers
if the newly restored barometer

is now responding to the weather.

Oh, that's really good.

The needle has moved round
overnight

which means that the mechanism
is working

and I can get everything
back together.

Brilliant.

Good.

So, that's the setting lever.

I'm just going to pop the movement
back into the case.

I checked earlier
for the atmospheric pressure,

so I've put it in the correct place.

Good.

Now, this just pushes on
friction tight.

GENTLE THUD

It's almost there.

I've just got to be
very, very careful

that I'm not going
to break the glass.

STEVE EXHALES

That looks really good.

I'm very happy with that.
Ben's going to be so happy,

especially when he comes up
and gives it

a little...tap.

GENTLE TAP

For Ben, watching his grandfather
consult this barometer

signalled good times ahead.

Now he's back at the barn
with his son

hoping to pass on those traditions.

Since dropping the barometer off
here,

I've been thinking
a lot about my grandfather

and lots of really happy memories
from when I was a child,

enjoying summer holidays with him.

Hi! How are you doing, Ben?
Hi, good to see you again.

Are you all right?
Yeah, very good to see you.

Who have we got here?
This is my son Nathan.

Nathan, has dad told you
about this barometer?

Yeah, he's really excited.

Are you excited? Yeah, I am.

My dad has really fond memories
of this. I have fond memories. Yeah.

It would be lovely for
my son to have some memories of it

and then to pass it on
to future generations.

I think that's really important.
That is very important.

Do you want to see it?
Yes, please. All right.

Are you ready? Yes, please, yeah.

Oh, wow. Wow.

Wow.

Wow. That's fantastic.

Oh, that's so good.
Oh, that is brilliant.

Thanks. Thank you so much.

It's a real pleasure.

That's the dream. That's fantastic.

You'll know when to go down
to the beach now.

Yeah!

LAUGHTER

Oh, thank you so much. It's
bringing back a lot of memories.

That's great. Yeah.

I've never really met
my great grandfather,

and it's very nice to have something
in the house that was his.

Yeah, it's a nice thought. Yeah.

Ben, this is yours to take home now.
Thank you so much.

That's all right. And thank you so
much, Steve, I really appreciate it.

You're more than welcome.
Thank you. Enjoy it.

Take care, Nathan. Thanks, Steve.
Bye-bye now. Bye. Bye.

Absolutely thrilled. Yeah,
really, really happy with that.

I couldn't be happier. It's perfect,
exactly as I remember it. Yeah.

Especially my great grandfather
would be thrilled

and really happy
to see the thing working.

Giving the double tap on the glass
brought back so many memories

of when my grandfather used to do
that, in such a unique little way.

It was wonderful to be able
to emulate that again.

Things are definitely looking sunny
for Matt

whose work at the stained glass
window is almost done.

But the frame
Dom's been toiling away on

has yet to be reunited
with the newly restored panels.

Now, Matt... Oh.

It's finished but...

You know what, once I sanded
back all that old paint...

Yeah. ..and revealed this beautiful
woodwork underneath,

I just couldn't bring myself
to paint it black.

I just hope you agree.

That is really beautiful.

Definitely the right decision.
That looks fantastic.

Thanks very much. This is
looking brilliant. Thank you.

Almost ready to go in the frame.

Thanks, Dom. All right, mate.
Lovely.

Ooh, that looks
absolutely exquisite.

Really happy with that.

The light is dancing off
all of those patterns.

Absolutely magical.

The final thing that I have to do
is put this conservation varnish

over the Rachel Leah lettering.

What this is going to do is
it's going to protect the lettering

and also it's going to add
a little bit of a shine to it.

Fantastic.

This once vibrant window

welcomed countless Jewish refugees
from Europe

as they stepped into the safety
of Rachel Leah's home.

But at 100 years old, it had become
lustreless and cracked.

Jonathan hopes
it's now fit to pass on

to his daughter named after the
matriarch of his remarkable family.

I often reflect on our family
and what they've done.

My grandmother's window
makes me think of my father

who was obviously guided
and brought up by my grandmother,

and I'm looking forward
to see how it's come out.

Jonathan, hello! Hello, Dom.
Welcome back.

Hi there, Jonathan. Hello, Matt.

How have you been? The expectation
has been building! Oh...

..I can only imagine. And I'm
intrigued to know how it's come out.

Well, do you want to see?

I'd love to see it, please.

I'll do the honours.

Ooh.

Goodness gracious me,
that is impressive.

Ooh.

That is really impressive, Matt.
Thanks very much.

I wanted to keep as much
of the original as I could.

Well, the glass is shiny

and of course,
there are no broken bits at all.

The lettering is there,
clearly readable.

Yeah. Well, I'm glad you think that.

And the frame has been
polished beautifully.

I'm glad you like it. I'm relieved.
Yeah.

Really first-class job.

It's lovely. It really is lovely.

It is a nice representation

of all of the hard work
that your father did.

It reminds me of him,
and much of the rescue work

that he managed to do
before and after the war.

What do you think Rachel's
going to say when she sees it?

I think she's going to be
very impressed.

She can put it in her own house,
and this will go in the conservatory

so that the sunlight can
shine through the coloured glass.

It's going to look outstanding.

This brings her great grandmother
to life.

It's an important window, isn't it?

This is where it all started.

Excellent. Really good, gentlemen.

Well, Jonathan, thank you so much
for bringing this window in.

It's been such a pleasure
working on it.

I'm most grateful to you, gentlemen.
Thanks very much indeed.

We'll get it packaged up
and bring it out for you.

Lovely. Cheerio. Bye-bye.

Having seen the work
that's been done to the window,

I really feel elated.

The restored window reflects
what Rachel Leah stood for.

It's got a young freshness to it
that she certainly had.

It's been worth waiting for.

Join us again...

You're really "saddling" me
with a huge job here! Ugh!

Oh, no, I'm not!

THEY CHUCKLE

..for more transformations
of treasures

passed down the generations.

SHARP GASP

Oh!

Oh! Amazing!

..in The Repair Shop.