04x10 - Wicker Chair

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Welcome to The Repair Shop,

where much-loved but broken
treasures...

This is amazing.
It is absolutely brilliant.

..are brought back to life.

Welcome to my universe.

It's pretty marvellous.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

It's so nice
that we can be part of

that kind of history
to just keep things going.

..and a dream team

of some of the country's
most skilled crafts people...

I'm having a lot of fun,

and I'm really liking
the end result.

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..bring their talents to bear
on beloved pieces of family history.

Look at that! I'm liking what I see.
Yes.

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Utilising expertise passed
down the generations...

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the old-fashioned way. All right.

..transforming priceless pieces
of family history...

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..The Repair Shop team will
resurrect the items...

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..the memories...

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..and the stories behind them.

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the tears in my eyes.

This is a very emotional job to do,
but incredibly worthwhile.

CHEERING

In The Repair Shop today,

history brought to life with a trio
of extraordinary objects.

A cherished symbol of a wartime
love story...

I can feel the memories
she feels from it.

The scissor marks are still on
the photograph

from whoever cut them
and put them in the locket.

..and a weird and wonderful
timepiece

stops clock-guru Steve
in his tracks.

When I pick it up, it should tick
and move around, and it's not.

But first, Jamie Woods is hoping
resident upholsterer

Sonnaz Nooranvary can revamp
a family treasure

with an intriguing history.

You must be Jamie.
Yeah. Nice to meet you.

I'm Jay. Hi. Sonnaz.
Nice to meet you.

So now you're here, we can
have a look at this, can't we?

Yes.
OK.

So this is my old theatre chair.

Ah, amazing.

So, how long have you had this?

Well, my parents bought it about
20 years ago from a car-boot sale,

and it's always been in bits.

So your parents bought this,
and it was apart like this as well?

Yes. Yeah.

So their intentions was to do, what?
What were they going to do with it?

They wanted to do it up and use
it as a chair... Themselves.

Yeah. They just didn't get around to
doing it, four kids, and never...

They've been busy...
They never had the chance. OK.

So I've taken it on.

So what are your memories
of this as a child?

Well, I've always kind
of remembered it being...

It was always stuck up in the corner
of our attic,

but we were never allowed
to sit on it,

which I think kind of made me
more interested in it,

the fact we weren't allowed to
go near it.

But, yeah, I've always just...

I've always been interested
in it

and wanted to sit in it just,
I think, because I wasn't allowed.

Because you can't.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

So, then , this as well, what's...?

So in the back of...

This is the back of the chair

and I'm assuming this is where you'd
keep programmes or... Yeah.

..from when it was a theatre.
Yeah.

And I found these in the back.

So these are old bingo cards
from Derby Hippodrome.

So I think that's where the chair's
from, potentially.

Saying that it's a theatre chair...
Yeah.

..in my mind, sprung images
of an acting theatre.

Yeah. OK, right.
Not a bingo hall. Right.

Well, I think Derby Hippodrome
was used as a cinema... All sorts.

..a theatre, and a bingo hall
before it closed.

It's closed down permanently now,
and I think they're demolishing it.

They're demolishing it?
Yeah, so... Shame.

Yeah. It'd be quite nice to have
something back to its former glory.

Yeah. I mean, ideally,
that's how I'd love to see it.

Preserving a bit of the Hippodrome.
Exactly. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that'll be lovely,
really nice.

So, in your mind's eye,
how do you see this being restored?

I like the fabric,
and I'd love to see it kind of

as authentic as possible,

but I'm open to whatever
you guys want to do to it,

to be honest.

And, well, and missing an arm.

Yeah. Missing an arm rest as well,
yeah, on this one.

Well, Jamie, leave it with us.
Thank you very much.

We'll get it sorted.
I look forward to seeing it.

ALL: Thank you.

Mm.

Fascinating.

I'm feeling mixed emotions
about leaving the chair behind,

but I know Sonnaz is going to
do a great job.

I've always really loved the chair,
and I've seen it for 20-odd years,

and never been able to sit in it.

So to have it,

and the possibility of it getting
made up again into a real chair

is so exciting to me.

That's nice, isn't it? Lovely.
You like this chair, don't you?

I do really like this chair. Yeah.
I can't stop touching the velvet.

I like the story, I like the fact

that there's these old tickets
in the back.

It hasn't been re-covered before,
has it? No.

So it's all original.
Yeah. Brilliant.

So I'll be the first person
to reupholster it,

which is really nice.

But before Sonnaz can begin work
on the upholstery,

the chair needs to be deconstructed,

so Jay's calling on metal expert
Dominic Chinea.

How-do, Dom?
Hey, Jay, are you all right?

I thought I'd pay you a visit
with a job.

What have you got there?

Right. These belong to Jamie.

OK. That's got metal
underneath there. Yeah.

And this is...

..what the chair sits into.

What I thought, seeing as you're
such a wizard with the metal,

I want you to deal with this.

I mean, I don't know if that's
going to clean up.

Well, you're the specialist on this,

so, personally speaking,
whatever you suggest... Repaint.

I would like it to be, like,
look new. Shiny. Yeah.

Cos if that's going to go new...
Fine. .. why not?

Leave it with me. No problem.
Yeah? Yeah.

Thanks, Dom. All right, mate.
Thanks a lot.

As work gets under way
on the theatre chair,

another arrival at The Repair Shop.

Susan Scholes from Oldham
brings a fragile piece

needing the expert attention
of silversmith Brenton West.

Hi, there. Hi. You must be Susan.

Brenton. Nice to meet you.
How are you? Very good.

Good. What have you brought?

If I can open it.

I wrapped it carefully.
It is my grandmother's locket.

Oh, wow.

So, these people in here, who...?

Yeah. That's my grandad, Ernest,
and that's my grandmother, Lydia.

He was a bus driver.
Her father worked in a bar,

and we think he'd frequent the pub
so he could see her

and arrange dates with her.
Did he buy this for her, or...?

He was in the First World w*r,

so we believe he bought it some time
when he was based in France.

They married in 1918.

OK, so they were going out
with each other during the w*r.

Yeah, they mean an awful lot to me,
although I never ever met them,

and they both died very early.

Grandmother Lydia,
she was only 47 when she died,

left four children, and my mother
was only 13 when she died.

Susan's grandfather Ernest died
just a year after his wife,

leaving behind the locket
as a testament to their love.

There's a lot of history behind it.

It's a little bit battered,
unfortunately!

These little things are bent,
and I can't get them in,

but the photographs are on as well.

There's no actual clasp on it.

I'm not sure if there has been
a clasp there.

There seems to be some
indentation...

I would have thought there would
have been something there. Yeah.

I just think it's such a sentimental
and memorable thing to have.

To me, it's such an important part
of life,

it's your history,
it's where you're from.

And, yeah, it just means an awful
lot to have that, as you can see.

To know that she wore this
and he gave it to her.

Exactly.

But it's just a very, very, very
important part of jewellery for me,

it's something that I'll always
treasure. It means so much.

Yeah. And I'm looking forward
to wearing it. OK.

And I'll be showing it off.

Well, I will do my best to repair it
for you.

Well, that would be great.
Thank you so much.

Nice to see you.
Yeah, and you.

Thank you very much.
OK, cheerio, bye. Bye.

I look back and just think
about their history,

what they went through,

and I think it was
a very special possession.

That's the sentimental part of it,
and it means a lot to me.

I feel quite excited.

I think, when I wear it,
it's just going to feel

as though they're really
close to me.

And maybe they are.

WOOD PIDGEON COOS

First up, I've got to remove
these bezel wires.

And these are a little bit bent,
so I've got to straighten those up.

Next, we've got to get
the photos out.

Again, we know that these
come out quite easily,

because Grandfather was already out
when it was given to me.

Lockets have been used for centuries
to hold scent, locks of hair,

and even human ashes.

When worn by soldiers in the
trenches and loved-ones back home,

they were affectionately known as
sweetheart jewellery.

Ernest would have given this
to Lydia,

and she'd have been wearing it,

worrying about him in the trenches.

She didn't know if he was
coming home or not.

A simple way, in those days,
people showed love to each other,

they had a locket
with each other's photographs.

And then when it was closed,

they were virtually touching
each other,

so it's a nice thing to work on.

I can feel the memory
she feels from it,

especially having taken
those two photographs out.

The scissor marks are still
on the photograph

from whoever cut them
and put them in the locket.

Meanwhile, Dom is taking apart
the Derby Hippodrome theatre chair.

The old metalwork has been
stripped back clean and primed,

and he can now hand back the seat
base, ready for Sonnaz to work on.

Hey, Sonnaz, are you OK?
Dom. Good, thank you. You?

How are you getting on? Yeah, good.
Theatre chair base for you. Lovely.

I've taken off all of the
steel work. Brilliant.

Hope there's no horrors in there.
It looks OK to me.

Where have we got to with the metal?

That's all stripped, primed,
ready to paint. Primed?

So we just need.... Yeah.
Jamie was keen on the gold.

How are we doing? I've just
been looking for you outside.

I'm hiding in here.

And I nicked some of your metal,
and I'm glad you guys are together,

because we've got to paint.

Jamie said that he wanted it
to be gold, if possible.

Yeah. Yeah.
I've got two bits of gold.

See what you guys think,
and which colour we should go for.

I've got a sample of fabric ready.
Very good.

Well, it's a little bit brighter,

but it's got this sort
of antique-y look to it,

which I quite liked, so...

And that one is... Oh, that's nice.

It goes on nice, doesn't it?

That's amazing, isn't it,
with just one coat?

I do like that.

Yeah.
This one isn't so bad, actually.

Oh, it's a slightly...

..golder gold, if that can happen.

I'll tell you what we'll do -
stick that fabric in the middle.

Oh, yeah. Good one.

It's hard to choose, isn't it?
It is, isn't it?

I really like that one.
Yeah, there's a depth to that one.

Well, I think that's actually

the closest one to the original
colour as well,

which is quite a nice touch.
Oh, is it?

All right, happy days.
Great. That's the colour.

Dom, that's what we've got to paint
it... Fine. ..so I'll give you that.

Yeah. Great. I'm sure you can
work with that. Thank you, Jay.

So you've got the base.
Got the base.

Got the fabric. Got the fabric.
Strip the chair, and rebuild it.

Cool. Thank you. No problem.

With the shade of gold decided upon,

Dom is straight out to his workshop
to apply it to the chair frame.

They're going to look great.

It's going to look really nice
in Jamie's studio.

Back inside the barn, Sonnaz can
begin work on the seat base.

The fabric's attached by these
old traditional pins,

so it's simply a case of
lifting them all out one by one.

The challenge is
some of them are actually...

..quite tight in the wood.
There's a...

..an old label on the inside here

and it says,
"Nottingham Shopfitting Company,"

and it was made in Long Eaton,

which was basically,
for a long while,

the centre of the universe for any
furniture-making and upholstery.

Because this is part of the frame,

and it's obviously been put
in there the very first time

that it was re-covered, I'm actually
going to leave it in there,

because I think it's quite
a lovely thing.

And next stage is
prepping it for upholstery.

Meanwhile, Dom is turning
his attention

to the wooden elements
of the chair.

I'm missing an armrest.

Thankfully, I've got one.

You can see it's got some really
nice patina, nice wear on it.

I want to keep all of that,

and just basically try and replicate
that onto the other side.

So we've sourced this beautiful
piece, big old piece of hardwood,

which is going to be perfect
for the armrest.

And there's plenty of wood left
for Dom

to also recreate the wooden feet

that allow the chair to free-stand.

That's great.

It's worked out really well.
I'm super chuffed with these.

Sonnaz, meanwhile,
begins work on the seat.

27 inches square.

The final step is two layers of foam
to create a comfortable seat.

So I'm glueing it on
with a contact adhesive.

What that means is
both surfaces have to be glued

in order for it to glue
once it's made contact.

There's only one opportunity
to get this right.

Once it's made contact,
it's made contact.

First corner on.

Back corner.

You can see straight away,
actually,

that the foam starts to create
this dome,

and that lovely plumpness.

Thankfully, that went well
first time.

The seat base is now ready
for its fabric covering.

I've got this beautiful
antique-looking velvet.

Just checking to see if
there's a particular pile

on the velvet.

We always make sure that,

say you were to stroke the velvet
on a chair,

the pile runs from top to bottom
and from back to front,

so that when you actually sit
on it and then stand up from it,

you're not fighting against
the pile.

It's actually going with you.

So that's the seat base finished.

It's all tacked off,
and the cover fits beautifully,

and I think that's quite lovely.

Outside, more visitors seeking help.

Michael Mount and his granddaughter,
Maisie,

have arrived at The Repair Shop.

How are we doing? Are you all right?
Hello!

And you are...?
Nice to see you. Mike.

All right, Mike? Hello!
And Maisie. Maisie.

They've brought in a rare
and fascinating timepiece

for clock expert Steve Fletcher.

Steve, if you don't mind joining me.

Hello.

I'm Steve. Hello, Steve.

I'm Mike.

Hello, Mike. I'm Maisie.

Hello, Maisie. Nice to meet you.

JAY: And what is it?

Well, it's magic, really.
Unwrap that, Maisie.

So, Steve, have you seen
one of these before,

cos I'm a little bit lost as to
how does this work?

Yeah, I've seen it.

I've worked on a few of them.

Explain it to me, please,
if you can.

So, once a week,

you place it at the top of
this inclined-plane. Yeah.

And it takes a whole week
to go down.

It doesn't roll quickly down,

because there's a big weight
that hangs underneath.

And as this rolls round,

the weight actually drives
the mechanism as it rolls. Right.

Wow. Of course, it won't work
if it just slides down!

It's supposed to take seven days
to get there. It is.

Yeah. It takes about half a minute.
Yeah.

So... But it's not supposed to slide
down there like that, is it?

No.

So what I believe is

that this has gone very hard,
hasn't it?

So the ridges don't dig into it.
Mm.

Tell me a bit about the clock,
and how you came about it.

Well, there were 500 made,
apparently, by Dents.

1979, my dad bought it.

From them on, it sat with pride
of place in his house,

and then I acquired it from my mum
when she passed on.

One day...

..it'll go to Maisie.

So, Maisie, have you ever seen
this clock working?

Um, no. And I always see it
when I go and do my homework

at their house, and I've
always wanted to see it work.

Fantastic.

It hasn't had any knocks or bumps
at all?

Um, you said it fell down
the stairs.

Well, I do know that,
after my dad died,

my mum had it up in pride of place

on a ledge along the top of
the landing by the stairs.

And I think she stumbled
and gave it a knock,

and it did actually go
down the stairs,

but it's so well made...

THEY LAUGH

..that it didn't actually
do any damage.

Right, OK.

So when's the last time
you saw this working then?

Mm.

I don't know. Must be years now.

We just see it as an ornament
until Maisie saw it.

She doesn't approve of it
just being an ornament.

Exactly right.
Well done.

We want it to be working, don't we?
Yeah.

So what you would like us to do
is to get it working

in the way it should be working.
Is that right, Maisie?

Yeah.

Steve, can you do it?
Yep.

Wow. Simple as that.
It's going to be done, Maisie.

That's wonderful.
Thank you for bringing it in.

Thank you, Steve.
All right.

Thank you.

I'm very optimistic
that it's going to be working,

and Maisie's going to enjoy
watching it work, aren't you?

Yeah!

I'm very excited, because I think
he'll do a very good job,

and I can't wait to see it.

But you know you can fix this,
right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I've worked on them before.

I've never worked on one
that is such good quality. Right.

And I think I don't want to do
too much to it,

because I think if I were to polish
it all up, make it gleam,

it's not going to be the same clock.
No, it won't be the same.

I'll do a bit to the dial,
because that's really dull,

and you can't really see the time.

Yeah, and that's leather.
It IS leather, yeah.

So it would be wise to get Suzie
involved in that, do you think?

Yeah, absolutely.

All right, let's get it to
your bench, then. OK. Let's do this.

This clock is a reproduction
of a clock

that was made in the 17th century,

but it's not a new concept.

In fact, Galileo did some
experiments...

..with inclined planes,
and making water clocks.

It's the same principle

that it takes a certain amount
of time

to roll down an inclined plane
like this.

When I push it over and put
some weight against it,

as if it's rolling down the slope,

I can hear the clock ticking,
so I know there's life there,

and it'll probably need
a jolly good overhaul.

I think, here, the main issue
isn't the clock itself,

it's the actual leather
is the problem,

because without the serrations being
able to dig in to the surface,

because it's so hard,
it's not going to work at all,

so we need to get this sorted out.

It's over to Steve's sister,
master saddle maker Suzie.

Oh, my word,
what have you got there?

I need some help.

Right. I've got this
inclined-plane clock,

and I've got a problem
with the leather with it.

Those teeth...

..are supposed to grip on
to the leather,

and it just slides down
at the moment.

Oh, my goodness! Do you see?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Instead of... They're not very
sharp, are they? No.

It should be just enough
to grip on to the leather.

This is really, really slippy,
isn't it?

I think perhaps
this has been polished.

Yes. Furniture polish, perhaps.
Yeah.

Yeah, it's very slick.

Can you soften it?

Yeah, definitely, definitely can.

I would imagine this is going
to bounce back.

OK, I'll let you get on with that.
OK. Brilliant.

Thank you very much.

And I'll get on with the
clock movement. No problem.

Out in the metal workshop,

Brenton is deconstructing
the antique brass locket

for repair and cleaning.

So now I've just got to get
the jewel off here.

So there's some little tabs in here

which I'm flicking up,
and, hopefully,

when they're all flicked up,

the jewel will pop out
of its little hole.

And there we go.

And that's the first time
that's seen the light of day

for 100 years, probably.

I'm just going to straighten up
the insides of this locket

so that, hopefully,
it will click again.

OK. Let's see if it will click now.

Whoa! Look at that.

It doesn't fall open now,

so we know the photographs
will stay in there safely.

I'm just going to now
give it a polish.

The cotton and the abrasive
are basically doing

what your hand would do
if you had a cloth,

but they're doing it
1,000 times faster,

which makes it a lot more effective.

OK, so that's the difference
between polished and not polished.

On something like this,
you've got to be quite careful

you don't polish
all the detail away,

because there's nice sharp edges
on it,

and you could soon
make those edges round

by just holding it for too long.

So it's just a gentle polish,

and watching the whole time
what we're doing.

Nice to leave those little dents
and scratches in it.

They all have a little story
to tell,

and you certainly wouldn't want
to take those out.

And we're going to put some
rouge compound on that,

and the rouge is the same rouge
that ladies used to polish

their nails with in Victorian times,

and also used to do a little bit
of rouge on the cheeks

to give them a bit of a blush.

This is giving it a final
really bright polish, it's...

It literally burnishes
the surface of the brass.

Shiny, so it really, really
makes it shine.

OK, so I'm happy now
that this is polished

and ready to be put back together.

OK, so I've just got to make sure

the star goes back through
its little hole,

which it does. And then I've just
got to spread the legs out wide.

We get one go at this,
and none of the legs are broken off,

which is good news.

And that's the star back in place,

fitted onto the front
of the locket.

Upholsterer Sonnaz is nearing
the end of her historic renovation

of a vintage folding chair,

a relic from a British theatre
now facing demolition.

Her final task before reassembly
is to upholster the back,

using the same rich green velvet
she used on the base.

I'm going to finish the edge
off with tacks,

because that's
how it was originally done,

and I think it's actually quite
a nice look

to have tacks still on there.

Last tack.

Now that's done,
I can assemble the chair.

Steve.

Just give me a hand... Do you want
me to hold it? Yes, please.

If you could just hold that there
for me, Steve. Yeah.

That really does look the part,
though. It really does.

Yeah, cool.
Thank you.

Really happy with that.
I can't wait for Jamie to get here.

This chair seated thousands
of enthralled cinema-, bingo-

and theatre-goers in its heyday.

But when Jamie Woods brought
it in to The Repair Shop,

it was broken and threadbare,
with a distinct lack of sparkle.

But now he's back, hoping to see it
take centre-stage once again.

I'm very excited to be back
and to see the chair.

I've always wanted to
sit in the chair

ever since I was a child.
It's always been in our attic,

and we were never allowed
to sit in it,

so to finally be able to use it
and to sit in it

would just mean everything to me.

So I'm excited to be back
to see how it looks.

Hi! How are you doing?

How are we doing, Jamie?
Are you all right?

How are you doing?
Yeah, good to see you both, yeah.

And you.
Don't be shy! Step forward.

Do you remember what the chair was
like when you brought it in?

I do, I do.

It was a bit of a sorry state,
wasn't it?

Yeah. A bit worse for wear.
And in pieces. And in pieces! Yeah.

OK.

Do you want to see it, then?
Yeah, I'd love to.

Shall we show him? Yeah.
I think you've waited long enough.

I'm very excited.

Wow! Oh!

Oh, my God. I...

That is crazy.

I can't believe it's the same chair.

You said it's crazy -
is it crazy good?

Yeah. Crazy good! OK.

That's... That's amazing.

I don't know how you guys
have done that. Wow.

Can I touch it?
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

It's yours now,
to do whatever you want with it.

It's got the new armrest as well.

I'm so impressed.

Oh, good!

Honestly, it's...
Oh, that's really sweet.

You know, this is what
I've always wanted for it,

to be back to its original glory,
and that's exactly what it is.

Would you like to sit in it?
I'd love to.

Is it comfortable?
It's really comfortable. Oh, good.

I've always wanted to sit in it.
I've never been able to before.

20 years of longing to sit in it.
Thank you.

You seem speechless.
I am, I am.

It's just...
It's been a long time coming.

Right. And it's just... Yeah.

Yeah, it's gone beyond what
I thought it could look like.

So, I'm just thrilled.
Thank you so much.

Well, thank you...
Thank you, both. Thanks again.

And we'll get it sent back to you.
Thank you so much.

All right. That's great.
Thank you. We'll see you.

I'm totally blown away
with how the chair looks.

It's beyond anything I could
have ever imagined

it looking like.

Obviously, I've thought about
how it would look for so long now,

and it's just exceeded
all my expectations,

so I'm thrilled.
I'm so happy with how it looks.

To see it fully realised as a chair
that you can sit in,

is just, it's incredible.

It's just gone beyond what I ever
thought it could look like.

I'm thrilled.

Sonnaz may be flushed
with the triumph of her renovation,

but Steve is just beginning
his work.

This feels and looks like
such a good quality clock,

so I'm hoping that it's going
to come apart quite easily.

And there we have it.

So you can see here,
this is the heavy weight

that actually keeps the clock
upright,

and stops it from rolling
down the slope.

So, once I've taken all these bits
and pieces off,

this is actually a normal clock
that I can clean through.

It is just lovely, lovely quality.

When I take a clock apart like this,

I'm taking a mental photograph
of all the parts.

The more you do it,
the easier it gets

to remember where everything goes.

Steve soaks the pieces of the clock

in ammonia-based
clock-cleaning fluid,

and scrubs each one to remove
years of dust and oil.

The whole of the mechanism actually
was quite dirty,

so it really needed
a thorough good clean through.

It's coming up really well.

I've actually found
a badly bent tooth,

and I didn't expect to see that
in this clock at all,

because, usually, you'll get
badly bent teeth like this

when there's a mainspring in a
clock, and the mainspring breaks.

But in this clock,
there's no mainspring,

so I wasn't expecting this at all.

And then I remembered
Maisie saying

to her very embarrassed grandfather

about someone dropping it
down the stairs.

That's the only way that this tooth
could have bent this way.

And I'm sure that's the reason

why this clock had stopped
in the first place.

The bouncing down the stairs,

I don't think did it any good
whatsoever.

I used this. It's tapered.

And I can work out exactly
how far the teeth should be apart

by checking it in between
all the good teeth.

And then when I get round
to the bent tooth,

I can move the bent tooth

until it fits in with the
right place on the taper,

so that I know I've got the spacing
completely right.

There we go.

With the broken tooth repaired,
Steve tests the mechanism.

It's ticking away...

..really well, so I'm very confident
that, when I get it into the case,

and Suzie's done the leather for me,
that it's going to work

absolutely spot on.

Very happy with that.

While Steve works on
the clock itself,

his sister, Suzie,
tackles its leather stand.

A lot of the issue with the clock
not being able to grip

is it has years of...

..furniture polish on it.

It's very slick, and it's got some
bunching of dust on it as well.

So, just very gently with the cotton
wool bud, just circular motions,

nothing aggressive,
just remove that build-up

of furniture polish and...

..embedded dirt.

Once those layers of polish
have been removed,

Suzie can replenish the leather.

This leather dressing
that I'm using,

it is made to feed the leather,

put back some of the oils
that it loses in day-to-day life.

It's definitely got some
grip forming.

With the leather restoration
well under way,

Steve is rebuilding the clock.

I'm just about to reassemble
the final part of this clock.

I'm just going back
to my memory banks

to try and remember
how I took it apart.

I think I know how.
HE CHUCKLES

The clock, at this stage,
when I pick it up, should...

..tick and move around,
and it's not.

That's working all right there.

Right. I think I've cracked it.

The roller bearing
has to be a certain way round...

Oh, no, it's still binding.

Steve may have hit a snag,

but outside, Brenton
is having more success

with the renovation of
the century-old locket.

It's time to fit the photographs.

I've got these old pictures,
which are lovely,

and have all of the memories,
but they're not the best quality.

And Sue has given me
some new pictures

which I'm going to put
into the locket for her.

Having Lydia and Ernest
with these new photographs

back in the locket, I think, will
be fantastic. Put this bezel in.

Then Lydia, she goes in.

There we go.

And there they are, reunited,

in their beautiful little locket,

Ernest and Lydia.

When the 100-year-old brass locket
was brought into the workshop,

its pieces were ill-fitting
and tarnished,

the photos faded and worn.

Now repaired, restored and polished
to perfection,

the sweetheart jewellery is complete
once again,

just in time for owner Susan

to collect her grandparents'
love token.

I didn't sleep well, actually,
last night, thinking about it.

It means an awful lot to me,
so, yes, it's going to be...

Um, yes.

Can't really say,
because I am getting emotional now.

It means an awful lot to me,

because the locket was worn
by my grandmother,

and my grandfather, Ernest,
bought it,

so there's a lot of sentimental
value involved.

Hi.
Hi, again, Sue.

How are you, Brenton?
Very good. How are you? I'm OK.

Good.
Yeah. Excited.

Excited? Very, yes.

OK. You can open the box, then.

Oh, wow!

Oh, wow! That's amazing.

It looks...

Hasn't it come up lovely?
Yeah.

SHE GASPS

How do you like that?
That's amazing!

SHE SOBS

Oh!

Thank you. It's gorgeous.

Oh, it's going to give me
so much pleasure, wearing that.

Thank you.
I'm really pleased.

Sorry.
That's what we do it for.

Nothing to be sorry about!

Nothing to be sorry about.
Emotional wreck. No, that's good.

I think my grandad Ernest
would be so proud of it.

I'm sure my grandmother would.

I just need to choose something
really nice to wear it with.

We've actually got another
little thing for you.

So we got you a silver chain for it.

Oh, really?

SHE SOBS

This is so thoughtful.

Wow!
There you go!

How does that look?
That's amazing!

It's so lovely!

It looks fabulous, doesn't it?
It does, it looks really good.

Thank you so much.

It's a pleasure. It really has been
a pleasure doing that. Good.

Cos I know what it means to you,
so that's great.

I shall put it safe.

Cheers, thank you. OK, then.
Thank you.

Cheerio.
Bye-bye.

Too emotional at the moment,

receiving this locket,
I'm just bursting.

As you can see, it's just amazing.

Absolutely amazing.

I just can't wait to
show it to people

and just say,
"That was my grandad, Ernest,

"and my grandmother, Lydia".

Yeah, they would...

They would be over the moon,
I'm sure.

It's literally blown me away.
I love it.

Absolutely love it.

The inclined-plane clock
had left Steve stumped,

but further investigation
has revealed the solution.

HE EXHALES

I've just sussed out
what I'm doing wrong here.

This weight, I've put on the wrong
way round, there's a cut-out here.

And the cut-out is supposed to be
at this end, here.

Sometimes, a problem like this
is just staring you in the face.

Feels so much better.

TICKING

Fantastic.

Good.

That's what should have happened
in the first place!

And, just in the nick of time,
Michael and his granddaughter Maisie

make their way back into
The Repair Shop.

I'm sure it'll look a lot better
than it did

when we brought it in,

and, in fact, it wasn't working
when we brought it in,

so, hopefully,
that'll be all fixed, too.

I'm really excited to see it work
for the first time.

Really, really excited.

Hello.

Hello. Nice to see you again.

Hello. How are you doing, Maisie?

So, it's a first for
The Repair Shop

to work on a clock like this,
isn't it?

Yeah.

We've never done one
of these before. Yeah.

So, um...

You look quite anxious.
Are you all right?

I'm very optimistic.

I'm very optimistic.
I've got a lot of confidence.

OK. Let's show them?
Let's show them.

Oh!

Oh, that's so...

..much better. Beautiful.

Can I hear a tick?

If you put your ear close enough.
A bit closer.

TICKING

Listen to that, Maisie.

Your clock is working.

Wonderful.

So what does it feel like
to have it working now?

Amazing! Yeah? Yeah.

What did you manage to do with that,
then?

Suzie's worked very, very hard

on removing all the layers
and layers of polish...

Polish, was it?
..that was on there.

It's wonderful. It's lovely.

So it's gripping absolutely fine.

Did you have to do anything
to the clock inside?

Yes. Oh!
I was going to ask Maisie, actually.

I think you said that
it may have been dropped.

Yes.

Right.

The evidence inside gave it away.

What did you find, then?

We found quite a badly bent tooth.

Oh. So well done, Maisie,
for spilling the beans.

Do you know?
This clock is such good quality.

Everything about it is absolutely...
Really? ..beautiful.

So where is it going to sit now,
then?

Back where it was for the moment,
in the study.

Got pride of place there,

and if Maisie continues
to do her homework there,

she can enjoy it while it's with me,

and then, one day,
it'll be with her.

Maisie, you're going to be
responsible now for winding it up.

How do you feel
about that responsibility?

I think I'm going to be good at it.

Are you going to be very careful?

Yes.
Do you want to practise?

Lovely job. Thank you so much.

You're very, very welcome.
Thank you!

You're more than welcome, Maisie,

and I'm glad you're going to enjoy
it and be able to hear it ticking.

Well, I'm absolutely delighted.
He's done a wonderful job.

It's very good to hear it tick.
It hasn't ticked for a long while.

It's very pleasing, very pleasing.

I'm really happy that
we came to get it fixed.

I'm really excited to put it back
in pride of place

where it should be.

Join us next time,
as more cherished heirlooms...

I can see it in your eyes.

As soon as we start talking about
this, you just light up. Oh, yes.

..are given a new lease of life...

SHE GASPS

..in The Repair Shop.