The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 7, Episode 30 - Episode #7.30 - 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, isn't it?
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! Ha-ha-ha!

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-ho-ho-ho!

..the memories...
I'm so happy to see it!

..and unlock the stories
that they hold.

WOMAN GASPS IN DELIGHT



That's made it all worthwhile.

Oh!

BIRDSONG

In The Repair Shop today...

The needle gods are looking down
on me.

I've got it done first time. Yes!

Dizzy delights for Suzie and Dom,

restoring some rare Victorian
road skates.

Oh, yes! Look at that!

Once that's all nickel-plated,

they are going to look like
they've been there forever.

While Brenton gets to grips with
an ornate Middle Eastern tea set.

Comparing it to the original spoon.

And apart from the colour,
I can't tell the difference.

I think we're going to have
an identical spoon here.

BIRDSONG

First, an item
with a military pedigree

that's been honoured
through the generations.

Luke Browning from Somerset
hopes furniture restorer Will Kirk

could make it fit for inspection.

Hello! All right? How you doing?

Now, that looks old.

THEY LAUGH

What is this?

This is a standard issue
Victorian British Army trunk.

It belonged to
my great-great-grandfather,
Sidney Tuffrey,

in the late 19th century, when
he was serving in the army. Yeah.

His name's on the front, just about.
Oh, cool.

How much do you know about Sidney?

I know he was born in 1865,

conscripted in the army
at the age of 18.

So in the early, what, 1880s? Yeah.

Sidney did his time in Ireland
and South Africa, in the Boer War.

And then his son was enlisted
in the First World War.

It would have been his
at some point. Yeah.

But unfortunately,
he was sadly killed.

Sidney moved in with
my grandparents,

lived with my nan,
who he was very close to.

It was then left to my grandparents.

My grandad served
in the Second World War.

And they would now like to give it
to me.

I've just been accepted
to go to Sandhurst.

So there's like four generations
of military history in our family,

so seems right that it should,
you know, get restored.

This has been through so much,

I'm really surprised
it's actually... Yeah.

..structurally in one piece.

Yeah. It's done three wars,
two world wars

and 150-odd years.

I think it's doing all right.

It's not bad. Yeah.

THEY CHUCKLE

How do you want this to look?

So I'd really like a nice,
sympathetic restoration to it.

Like, repairs to the metalwork and
some of the damage to the woodwork.

It'd be really nice to think to have
a replaced lock on the front.

Sidney actually lost the key

and then just prized it open
and snapped it off.

The paint on the front, where
it says his name and everything,

if that could be brought back out...
A bit brighter. ..that'd be great.

Now, I'm sure this has a historical
importance to the whole family,

but what does this mean
to you personally?

When I was a kid, I was always
that kid that was out playing army.

You know?

JAY CHUCKLES

And what I want to go on to do
in the army is very personal to me.

And I'm really, really close
to my grandparents.

They live just up the road
and I just love them to bits.

And, you know, having grown up
listening to my grandad

telling me all the stories
of his days in the war,

that's like looking at a piece
of that history. Yeah.

It will always just mean the world
to me.

Well, it's absolutely brilliant
to have this in here.

Thank you. Looks like you've got
some work to do, Will.

Yes, it does. Yeah. Thank you, Luke,
for bringing this in.

Cheers. We'll see you soon.
All right. Thanks. Take care.

See you. Bye-bye.

I've been really inspired by
my grandparents,

the lives that they've led
and who they are as people,

the stories that they tell me.

And for my nan, that chest, it's the
connection she has with her grandad.

And that chest represents everything
that they mean to me.

I really like this.

It has been through so much,
so many wars,

but it's still pretty much
in one piece.

I think that is partly because
there's so much

heavy-duty metalwork on here
keeping it all intact.

The outside of the chest looks like
it could do with a bit of a clean.

The metalwork is also really rusty,
as well.

But I'm going to treat this as
sort of sympathetic restoration.

I'm not going to go at it with
a sander and some fresh paint.

Before I tackle any of this
paintwork and the rusty metal,

I think I'm going to take
the lock out

so I can tackle
that damaged woodwork.

Jay said you've got a lock for me
to look at.

Yes. Um...I've got a lock
from this lovely chest here.

It's missing...is it called
the keeper, the keep?

Yes, yeah. Keeper.
So ideally, a new one of those,

and maybe a key, as well, for that.

This looks a really good quality
lot. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers, Steve.

Next, another precious
family heirloom.

Belonging to Londoner
Roxana Shirazi,

it provides a special connection
to her Iranian roots.

Hello. Hello. How are you doing?

Good, thank you. How are you?
I'm very good.

What have you got in there?

This is my great-grandmother's
Persian tea set.

It looks like it's silver.
It is silver, yeah.

OK. Brenton, if you don't mind
joining us?

This item should certainly be
silversmith Brenton West's
cup of tea.

Hiya. Hi. Nice to meet you.

And this is a tea set, you said?
That's correct, yeah.

It's at least 80 years old.

We don't know how much older
it is than that.

These are the sort of cups. You'd
have glass in there that would...

Um...these would hold those. Yeah.

These are your lovely little
teaspoons. Stirring up, yeah.

And then this would be for
a nice piece of cake.

Oh, yes, please,
I'll have some cake!

Persians are renowned
for their tea and cakes,

kind of like British people.

And my great-grandmother had this,

and she passed them down to
her four sons,

one of them being my grandfather.

And I used to love going to visit
my family in Iran.

Right. And that's the first time
I really saw these.

I think one of the reasons
I fell in love with this,

with it being my grandfather's, is,

he was very much into sort of
history and culture.

And the design that these are
based on

is something called Persepolis.

And he used to take us there
all the time.

So I would go and actually see
these amazing ruins

and he'd tell us these, like,
amazing stories,

and then I'd come and sort of see
the designs.

As a child, I just really loved
seeing the craftsmanship.

You appreciate how these
were actually made

and the amount of time and effort
in each little etching

that someone's done in that silver.
Right.

You don't see these things
in England.

You know, you'd have a mug
for your tea. Yeah.

So when I would go there
and see this, it just felt like
there was a magic to it.

It was always, always exciting
when the tea came out.

So, you remember your grandfather
quite well, then?

He actually taught me, also,
how to drink tea.

He would get a sugar cube... Yeah?

..and he would dip it in the tea
first to, like, moisten it,

and then he'd put it in his mouth

and he'd hold the sugar cube
and, like, sip his tea.

Right.
So, how come you've got these now?

My grandfather passed away, like,
about 13, 14 years ago now.

And I think my mum cherished these
even more, obviously, after that.

And then, when I got married
a couple of years ago,

they were on our Persian
ceremony table that we have.

And then, at the end of
the ceremony, my mum said,

"By the way, the set's
one of my gifts to you guys.
You can have that."

That's nice. That is proper nice.

What would you like Brenton
to do to it?

There is a spoon missing,
so I don't know if there's any way
to have another spoon? Yeah.

And, um...one of the pieces
has sort of snapped off, as well.

Off the cup? Yeah, off the base.

I don't know if there's any way
to clean them up

and to look as good as they can

and last as long as they can.

Why is it important to get it
repaired now?

My husband and I are going to be
moving into our own home soon,

and I'd really like for this to be
in a better condition

so that we can use it,

and for my children to come and be
in awe of.

Yeah. You can tell them
the stories. Exactly.

I've got the tea, just nothing
really nice to serve it in.

Yeah. Brenton, what do you reckon?

I think I can make them look
really nice for you. Thank you.

Thank you for bringing these in.

Thanks, guys. See you soon. OK.
You take care. Bye. Bye-bye. Bye.

All my time growing up,

I remember it being shiny
and sparkly and used.

However, when my mum inherited it,

it became more of an artefact
in a display cabinet.

And I would really love to sort of
bring it back to life

and pass it on to my children
and continue that legacy, I guess.

I'm just looking at Roxana's
Persian tea set here

and the most amazing, intricate
detail on the tea cup holders.

I've got to find some glass cups
to go in there.

The broken cup, I have to solder
a piece on to the bottom of that.

We've only got five spoons

and Roxana said it'd be nice
if we had six.

So I'm going to try and make
one of those.

As usual, with all of the jobs
that I do that come in,

I like to clean them up first,
I like to polish first.

I'm going to make a start now
on this tray

and see what it looks like
polished up.

On the other side of the barn,

Will's working out how the 1880s
military chest might polish up.

Well, the main bit of damage
to the chest

is the area where the lock
used to be.

It's been busted open and
it's split out lots of wood.

I think this is made of pine,

and I've found a lovely bit
of old pine here,

so I'm going to cut this up
with a band saw

to make a new piece for the chest.

I can use this almost as a template
that I can draw around.

And that line is the line
that I want to cut away

to remove all that waste wood,

and I can glue in this new piece.

That is a really nice, snug fit.

Well, that's all clamped up now.
I'm going to leave that to dry.

And once it has,
then I can start cleaning.

I think the first thing I'm going
to do is I'm going to just see

if I've got a key
amongst my collection of keys

that will fit this
and make this lock work.

Because that will save me
a lot, a lot of trouble.

Hopefully, there will be one key
amongst all of them that will fit.

I've collected these keys
through the years.

And I've built up this collection
now that is just so, so useful.

Let's start off with these first.

I know roughly what sort of shape
I'm looking for.

I love these old keys!

You wonder what a key like that
must have opened up.

Cos that's a really ancient key.

That's really near,

so I'll put that there
to give me a reference.

That's another very-near key.

In fact, it is just locking it,

so it's almost there,
which is great news.

I'm trying to get this lock open,

and it's causing me
a bit of difficulty.

This screw probably hasn't been
undone since the lock was made,

so it's probably
really, really tight.

This was the very first tool
I ever bought.

I think I was about nine or ten.

I was so proud of that
and I've still got it.

Yeah, it just isn't going to move
at all.

It's been welded together by rust.

I really haven't got
any other alternative

but just to cut the screw off.

So a little bit more work
than I thought.

Oh, my goodness!

Absolutely full of insects.

That's incredible.

There's absolutely no way
that this would work properly
with all of this in here.

It's just like...almost like
papier-mache.

I wonder where in the world
these insects started nesting here?

There's masses of it!

This chest has clean back
really nicely,

and it's primed ready
for polishing and painting.

I'm going to apply a really thin
coat of shellac polish now.

Now that that surface is wet,
you can see the lovely black.

And as I go over the writing,

you see the lettering
starting to pop out, as well.

It's absolutely wonderful.

I'll apply this to the rest of
the chest, and once I've done that,

then I can get on with
the colour-matching.

With the lock now free of
its mysterious creepy-crawlies,

Steve can turn to crafting
a replacement keeper

to hold the bolt in place.

I've now made the plate,
I just need now to turn a...

a round piece
on the end of this bar,

which will turn into one of
these bits that go on here.

Right, that's shaped up beautifully.

That's lovely. It works so well.
It's very satisfying.

I've done all the colouring in

on all the dark areas
and the metalwork,

I'm finally getting on to
the fiddly work,

and that is the writing
on the front.

Now, I need to be really careful
with this.

It's the first thing
that you're going to see.

So I need to make sure
that I stay within the lines

and keep it nice and crisp.

BIRDSONG

The barn's next visitor
is Graham Stanley from Yorkshire,

with an item holding happy memories
of a carefree youth.

He hopes Dominic Chinea's
metalwork skills,

and the leather expertise
of Suzie Fletcher,

can help revive them.

Hello, there. Hi, there. Hi, there.

You OK? I'm good, thank you.

What have you brought for us?
Well, here we are.

They're in a bit of a state.

Goodness me! OK. Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Oh. Can we take them out?
This looks interesting!

Of course. Please.
I'm straight in there!

What on earth...?
I've honestly got no idea. Right.

Well, they're called
Ritter road skates.

They're not roller skates?
And they're roller skates, yes.

How do you use them?
I'm just looking at...

Right, OK. Well, I mean,
I used old football boots

and you attach the football boot
on with these...

Oh, into there. ..with these levers.
Sure.

And that hooks into the heel.

These go up the leg.

These had straps around
so that they go just below the knee.

Right. And off you go.

Invented in 1760,
these precursors to the roller skate

became quite the thing
in the late 19th century,

with skating previously restricted
to the ice.

And with Ritter skates clocking up
more than 15 miles an hour
on the flat,

they'd have provided a fun, if
risky, alternative to the bicycle.

How did you get them?

They belonged to my grandfather,

and I gather that he bought them
at an auction

in sort of early 1900s.

Oh, OK. And at about the age of 14,

I was a bit of a roller-skater
at the time. Yeah.

I said, you know,
"Let me have a go on them".

So, 14 years old?
Yes. Daredevil, clearly.

Well, my parents and I lived
at the bottom of the village,

my grandparents lived at the top
of the village.

On a hill, was it, the village?
Well, slight hill.

And my mother was very concerned
about me

because I could go much faster
on these

than I could on the skates
that my friends were wearing.

I'm not surprised. Yeah.
So, what happened, then?

After them being used quite
regularly, by the sounds of it...

Yes. How did they end up looking...?

Well, one of the slats broke

and my father did repair it,
but it didn't last very long.

Ah! And the next time it broke,

I think that was when the time
on them finished.

OK. Right. Yeah.
And so, they've just, er...

Well, they've deteriorated,
haven't they? Yeah. Yeah.

And very embarrassingly so,
to be honest.

Aw! Yeah. It's not nice
seeing them like this.

No, it isn't.
Cos my grandfather, you know,

he was very much my father figure,
because it was the war...

Oh, OK. ..and my father was fighting
in France,

so my mother and I went to live with
my grandparents.

I called him Pop. Pop. Yes.

He was the gentlest of men

and the kindest of men
and the nicest of men.

Aw. Yeah. Bless him.

We did all sorts of things together

and I loved him dearly.

And if I saw them back
in their original state,

it would remind me every day

of what a wonderful man he was
to me.

We need to get him looking smart,
don't we? I think so, yes.

That would be wonderful.
We're both itching to get started.

Oh, you are? Well...
Yeah, definitely.

I'm absolutely delighted. Fantastic.

Thank you. Bye. All right,
you take care. See you later.

My grandfather is never far
from my thoughts.

If they could wave a magic wand
and restore them

to what they once looked like
when they were manufactured,

then that would be
a very, very special thing.

These brilliant little skates
are going to look fantastic

once I've finished. I can't wait.

They're going to need some work,
obviously.

I'm going to need to make me
some new leather straps.

Hopefully, Suzie has got enough
information here that she'll

be able to make me a pair that look
just as the originals would have.

The woodwork, er...they do have
these...or should have,

these four splints.

These are what actually hold
your leg in place

when you're hurtling down the hills.

I'm going to make a couple of
new ones of those.

So at this stage,
worryingly, for myself,

I'm not entirely sure which process
I'm going to use

to strip this rust off.

They're quite fragile and I need
to be really, really careful.

So all I can do, really,
is start to take them apart

and just see how it goes.

Looking decidedly shinier
on Brenton's workbench

is the Persian tea set

passed down through three
generations of one family.

Well, that's lots of elbow grease
gone into that.

All the hard work has paid off,
I think.

He's made some minor fixes,
but now comes the tricky one,

crafting a replica
of the missing teaspoon,

with all its intricate detail.

So I'm going to make this spoon
in two pieces.

I'm going to cast this piece here,

and this part here, I'm going to
fabricate from a sheet of silver.

Um...so the first bit I'm going
to make is the two figures,

which I'm going to cast
in a special casting sand.

This is very, very fine sand

that's mixed with oil,

and the oil keeps it in position.

So I've started to push the sand
in here and it stays,
it doesn't fall out.

So you can get really, really fine
detail

because it's such fine sand.

So...

I now need to put sand on top of it.

However, if I just put sand
straight on top of this,

it'll get stuck together,
so I need to put a barrier.

So I'm going to put some
white powder, which is plaster.

You can use chalk, any fine, dusty
sort of substance.

Some more sand.

Now I hope I can separate these

and have a mould which will work.

I've got to get this out of here.

It's working.

I'll take this outside

and we'll pour some hot metal
into it and see what happens.

This is silver.
It's 850-odd degrees.

And I'm going to pour it
into the mould now.

So let's have a look and see
what that looks like.

Wow, that's come out really nicely.

That's a copy of the handle
of the spoon.

I've just got to let that cool down
a bit cos that's still really hot,

and then I can start to clean
that up,

make the rest of the spoon
and solder the two halves together.

I filed the casting
and I'm comparing it

to the original spoon
that Roxana brought in.

And apart from the colour,
I can't tell the difference.

I've just got to make the spoon part
and solder this on

and I think we're going to have
an identical spoon here.

To shape this part
to match the others,

Brenton has crafted
something special.

I've got a piece of cherry
from my garden,

and I've scooped a spoon shape
out of it,

which hopefully will help to support
the edges

as I bash it in the middle.

That looks quite good to me. I'm now
going to start smoothing that out

with a planishing hammer
in my little vice here.

One spoon soldered up.

Just got to polish that up
and it'll look just like the others.

On Will's workbench,

the restoration of the military
chest is almost complete.

Lovely! That looks just the part.

Steve has made the keeper
from scratch.

These are slightly tricky to fit

because if it's slightly out
and not aligned,

the lid won't shut properly.

Now, there's a really handy trick

when it comes to lining these things
up.

You could use some tape
to lightly tack the keeper

on to the inside of the lid.

And you shut the lid...push down
a bit.

And when you open it up, perfect!

Now, that is exactly the position
that this needs to be screwed in,

and this will fit like a glove.

When it arrived at the barn,

Corporal Sidney Tuffrey's
wooden chest was in a sorry state

after serving three generations
of soldiers.

Now it's been restored.

Sidney's great-great-grandson
and Sandhurst recruit, Luke,

has returned to give it
its first inspection.

Today is a really important day
for us as a family
to get the chest back.

I can't wait to see
how it's turned out.

I've been looking forward
to this day for a long time.
I'm really, really excited.

There he is. Hey, there, Luke.
Hiya, Will.

Nice to see you. Nice to see you.

Hello, Luke, I'm Steve.
Hiya. Nice to meet you.

Have you thought more
about the chest?

I have. I'm really looking forward
to seeing how it's come out.

It's like my most-prized possession.
I love it to bits.

Yeah, I'm sure.
I think we should have a look.

LUKE EXHALES

Oh-ho!

Oh!

Oh, man! That...

I don't even know what to say.
It's just...

LUKE EXHALES

I didn't think I could just be
any more proud of it.

How did you do it?
I mean, it's just like...

The finish on the top,
you can properly read what it says
on the front.

The man himself meant the world
to my grandparents

and still got some sort of
connection to him, you know?

So, yeah, I can't wait to show them
that. They're going to be chuffed.

Just the more I'm looking at it, the
more, like, detail coming out of it.

It's just incredible.

What a job!

THEY CHUCKLE

I mean, that's just amazing!

Well, if you have a look inside...

Just open up.

New key. That'll be Steve.

Thanks very much.

Yeah, it's a good, strong lock now.
Would you like to try it?

Yeah, why not?

There you go.

Are you going to take this
to Sandhurst with you?

If they'll let me have it,
it's coming.

THEY CHUCKLE

Oh, thank you so much!

I'm so pleased.
Your reaction to this,

it's just heart-warming, isn't it?
It is. Yeah.

Yeah. Thanks.
I'm going to take it home.

Right, I'll get the door for you.
Thank you.

Thanks a lot. Cheers.

Even in my head, how I pictured
it was going to come out,

it just looks so much better
than I ever dreamt it could.

Just seems like it's ready
to continue its legacy.

I know my grandparents are going
to have the exact same thought.

They're going to just be over
the moon with how it's come out.

In the outdoor workshop,
Dom still has a way to go

with the Victorian skates.

He's finished dismantling them

and now he can start planning
how to safely remove the rust.

There's evidence here
that they were painted white.

That's the newest layer of paint.
That's on the top.

I need to kind of dig back through.

There's bits of flaky black paint.

Now I can see underneath

the first original layer was nickel.

This is really good news

because that means I can now safely
sandblast these,

remove all of these layers of paint
over the top

and then get them re-nickel-plated.

They are going to look beautiful.
I can't wait!

Well, I've got these straps that
Dom's taken off the road skates.

It's really important that we keep
things as close to the original

as possible whenever we're working
on one of these unusual jobs.

In order to get these two straps
made,

I need to start cutting
some leather.

And thankfully, I've got the leather
exactly to match this.

I've got all the pieces of the road
skates sandblasted and stripped.

All those layers of paint
have now gone.

And thankfully,
all the rust has gone

and left me with some nice,
solid pieces of metal.

But even better than that,
the blasting process

has revealed an absolute gem.

Here, it's got the Ritter patent,
which is brilliant.

And actually, it's even still got
the address.

The Road Skate Company,
271 Oxford Street, London.

How cool is that?

I've actually managed to find
some pictures

of another pair of
these road skates,

and there's a part that's missing.

There should be two little bars that
hold the front of the shoe in place.

They should be fairly
straightforward to make.

I'm going to bend them around,
up and over

so they've got that little hook over
the top, and bolt them in place.

Oh, yes! Look at that!

I love it when a plan
comes together!

Once that's all nickel-plated,

they are just going to look like
they've been there for ever.

The fun's going to begin
with the sewing of these straps,

because they're very tiny stitches.

And you want to make sure that
your thread is not overly thick,

but it has to be strong.

Challenge number one
is threading these tiny needles.

I used to work for a lovely master

who used to have me thread
his needles.

And I used to laugh at him
and he'd say,

"One day,
you will have this problem, too".

And he was absolutely right.

The needle gods are looking down
on me,

I've got it done first time. Yes!

SHE CHUCKLES

Now all of the steel parts
of the skates

have gone off to be nickel-plated,

I'm trying to make the best use of
time and getting on with the wheels.

It's a really good sign
that they're spinning,

but that sounds horrible.

It's like metal-on-metal
grinding sound.

But the good news is,
they're designed to be serviced,

and that will sound
a lot, lot better.

The ball bearings, even, don't look
too bad. It's just very dry.

I'll give everything a really
good, thorough clean,

polish everything back up,

and it just needs
a bit of a grease in there.

I've got 11 stitches to the inch.

And they originally used
white thread,

so I've done the same.

But the trouble with white thread
on brown leather is

it will show up if I do
any bad stitches.

So this is going to be quite a test.

Brilliant.
That's all the stitching done,

it's nice and strong.
I just need to pop some holes in

and they'll be ready
to give back to Dom.

BIRDSONG

Brenton is on course for the end
of his project, the Persian tea set.

But his cup doesn't runneth over
quite yet.

I've got some new glasses to put
with these Persian tea cup holders.

Unfortunately, all the glasses
are the same size

and all the cup holders,
a different size.

So some of them slip straight in
beautifully

and some don't fit in at all.

There's maybe an eight millimetre
difference.

So I'm going to have to grind
this larger piece

away from the bottom of
some of these glasses

to get them to go into
their holders.

That fits really nicely now.

I've got a couple of other ones
that I need to grind down,

and then this will be ready
to go back to Roxana.

For Roxana, this intricate tea set
evokes happy memories

of childhood visits
to her grandparents in Iran.

But years of use had taken a toll.

Her wish is for it to be
a centrepiece

at her own family gatherings.

I'm hoping that the tea set
looks similar

to what it may have looked like
when it was first made.

I haven't used it myself
since I was really little.

So looking forward to seeing
how it looks

and hopefully, I can use it
and pass it on, as well.

Hello. How you doing?
I'm good, thanks.

Hi, Roxana. Hi!

I'm so excited!

I was just about to ask you.

THEY LAUGH

Yeah. Why are you excited?

Just so excited to see
what it looks like.

I just can't wait to
hopefully be able to use it.

I just want to show it to you,
really. Are you ready for this?

Oh! As ready as I'll ever be.

OK.

Oh...my...God!

Oh, my God!

Oh!

EMOTIONAL: I didn't think I'd cry.
How funny!

Wow! Oh, my God!

Oh, wow! Thank you so much!

WHISPERS: Oh, wow!

Oh, my God, you've got teacups
in there.

That's so amazing!

Cos you can really, really see

the detail of, like, each etching
on it now.

Have a little look in there.

Wow!

And the question is,
which one's the new spoon?

That's the challenge.

THEY CHUCKLE

No, I can't tell.

No, I really couldn't tell. Huh!

THEY LAUGH

That's the idea.

That's amazing!

So, what's the family going to think
of it now?

One of the first people I'm going
to tell is my grandmother in Iran.

And I think she's just going to
be...she's going to be blown away.

Definitely going to invite
my parents over

and make some really nice
Iranian tea and get some cakes

and just host, as my...as my culture
has taught me to!

Yeah. Yeah.

So, seeing as you're talking
about tea, do you want to have
a cup of tea?

Because we've got some tea brewed.
I'd love some.

Very cool teapot.

There you go.

The way your grandfather used to do
it. I was just going to say,

he used to just dip it in
to get it wet, and then...

Mm. And he drinks the tea
through the sugar. Wow!

Mm! Lovely.

That is so cool.

I did not think I'd be having
a cup of tea in this...

THEY LAUGH

That is so cool!

It's just nostalgic, just connecting
to, like, something that

I held as a child
and I drank from as a child,

and now I can drink from it again.
Yeah.

And hopefully, my children will...

I'm going to impart it into them
whether they like it or not...

THEY LAUGH
..but I'm sure hopefully they will
love it just as much as I do...

Yeah. ..and, um...want to carry it
on.

Yeah. I just can't thank you enough.
It's this young man.

Thank you so, so much.
It's been great. Unbelievable.

We'll get this wrapped up,
then bring it out to you.

Excellent. Thank you so much, guys.

No problem. Thanks. You take care.
Bye. Bye. Bye-bye.

It was really nice to be able
to drink tea

in the same way that my grandfather
used to do it.

It just... Yeah, it just all brought
so many fond memories back.

I'm just... Yeah, super, super...
Just touched. Really touched.

Dom is on a roll
with the restoration

of the 19th-century road skates.

His last major task is crafting
replacements

for the all-important supports
for the wearer's legs.

I've got the shape roughly sanded
into my little wooden,

upright splints.
They're looking good.

Time to drill
the holes in the bottom.

How you doing, Dom? Jay, you OK?
Very good.

How's it going?
God, what's in the box?

I've got straps that Suzie's done.
Oh! Oh, amazing!

Oh, let me have a look!
Those are nice, aren't they?

These are just incredible!

Yeah? I couldn't be happier.

I'm going to make you even more
happier. Oh, stop it! Why?

Look what I've got back from
the nickel-plater's. Look at that.

Is that all right?
Absolutely perfect.

So that nickel just gives
such a nice... Yeah.

..coating, a nice finish. Yeah.

Doesn't it look brilliant?
Yeah, it does.

Leave that with me and I'll get
these all together. Bless you.

Amazing. Thanks, Jay!

And there we go. The road skates
are ready for action!

Having provided hours of perilous
fun for Graham as a teenager,

these charming Victorian
contraptions fell into disrepair.

Unfit to honour the memory
of his beloved grandfather Pop.

250 miles away in Yorkshire,

at the home of Graham
and wife Janet,

a special delivery has arrived.

Every time I looked at the skates,

I always thought of my grandfather.

There are such fond memories
of spending all the time with him,

and the skates
are one of those memories.

Are you ready, then? The moment!

The moment!

JANET CHUCKLES

Oh!

Oh! Oh, goodness me!
Oh, they're stunning!

Absolutely stunning!

Aren't they? And boots, as well!

Oh! Goodness gracious!

It's...it's really a miracle,
isn't it?

They were just totally dilapidated.
Look at this beautiful wood.

I know. I think this is just
as they came out of the factory.

Just look at that. That's amazing.
Look at that. Yeah.

Over 100 years old.

Yeah.

And look at the stitch in it.
It's so... Yes, I know.

They're just incredible,
aren't they?

Don't they just look
absolutely wonderful? Yeah.

It's great.

I'm so proud of them.

So proud of them.

It reminds me of a wonderful man

who lived a long life

and who looked after me very well

and introduced me to many,
many things.

He would have been overwhelmed
by these.

Very similar to the way I am,
as well.

Aw, that's nice. That's lovely.

Mm. They're fab.

I just wish I was 15 again.

And you could have a ride.
And I'd give it a go.

THEY LAUGH

Join us next time, as more worn-out
treasures are coaxed back to life...

I'm quite pleased, really!

..to delight future generations...

Wow! Just look at her dance!

..in The Repair Shop.