04x12 - Shop Front Clock

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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...

So nice that we can be part of
history to just keep things going.

..and a dream team of some
of the country's most skilled

craftspeople...

I'm having a lot fun and
I'm really liking the end result.

Sounds like teamwork.

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

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

It's working. You beauty!

..utilising expertise passed down
the generations...

I'm going to teach you how to do it
the old-fashioned way.

..transforming priceless pieces
of family history.

Oh, my goodness me!

The Repair Shop team
will resurrect the items...

Oh, gosh!

..the memories...

I'm going to have to hug you.

..and the stories behind them.

Look at that.

Thank you so much.

Can't see it, because
there's tears in my eyes.

This is a very emotional job to do,

but incredibly worthwhile.

CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

In The Repair Shop today,

an upholstery collaboration
lands Jay in the doghouse...

I CAN teach a new dog a new trick.

Yes. I think that's a compliment.
Just stop there.

Stop talking. Stop there.

..while Brenton's feeling
the heat trying to solder

an ornate metal box
without a soldering iron.

This makes me very nervous,
doing this -

keeping this under control without

it disappearing into
a pile of molten metal.

First through the doors today,
Caroline Olsen from Surrey.

Hello. Hi! How are you doing?
I'm Jay.

Hi, I'm Caroline. Hi, Caroline.
Lovely to meet you.

Likewise. I'm Steve. Hi, Steve.

She's got a colossal challenge
for The Repair Shop's

horologist Steve Fletcher.

Nice thing. It is.
Beautiful clock. Yeah.

Tell us a bit about it.

Well, it's the clock
that was on the front

of my father's newsagent's shop.

It was there from when
he bought it in the mid-'70s

and he closed it in 2000.

So, the clock was taken down
and given to me by my dad

for me to fix it.

OK.

And guess what -
it didn't get fixed.

So, it got put away and a number
of things happened

and then, unfortunately, my father
died in December last year

and...so I decided that, actually,
I needed to get it fixed.

It was a really important part
of my life when I was there.

Did you work at the shop, then?
Yeah, I did.

Yeah, I worked at the shop
for five or six years.

But it was really, really busy
and it was quite a big feature

in the village, but there were two
newsagents in the village

and there was a definite divide
between who went to my dad's shop...

OK. ..and who went
to the other shop. Right.

My dad was a real character.

If you've seen Open All Hours,
I'm sure the guy who wrote that

came in and saw my dad and thought,
"That's Arkwright,"

from Open All Hours,
so he was a real character

and you either... Like Marmite,
you either loved him or...

..you went to the other newsagent's.

So, how do you feel looking
at the clock now

in its present condition?

There's lots of memories
tied up with where it was...

..and my time there.

Some good times,
some pivotal times.

That's where, you know,
I met my husband,

his parents lived
in the village as well,

but, also, the shop isn't there
any more at all, so...

..and neither is my dad, so...

..it means a lot to me.

So, lots of mixed feelings,
lots mixed feelings. Yes. Yeah.

And what would you like us
to do to it?

What I would like, if at all
possible, is for it to be

got working again, but possibly
to change into a battery,

rather than the electric,
so I can hang it up safely. Yes.

I'm not sure whether that...how
feasible that is,

but depending on what you think,

I don't really want the face
renovated too much,

because I quite like it.

I don't, you know... That's it.
Absolutely.

I think it's lovely
and I think there's

some work for others
in the team here.

I'm leaving it in very capable
hands, so thank you very much indeed

for your time. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.

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

I think my dad would be really
pleased that I've found somebody

that can fix the clock. It's part
of the family history,

something that meant so much
to him, because the shop

was really important to him
and he was very proud of it,

and it will be something
that I can pass on

to my granddaughter, hopefully.

We've got to get it
looking good, haven't we? Yes.

And the face, she doesn't want
anything done. No, she doesn't.

The main thing is to get it working,
though. It is.

That's what she wants. Yeah.

Going to be a team effort, this one.
It is, yeah.

We could admire this all day.
We could. It's got to go up to

your bench, though. OK, come on.
Bring it over, then.

The back has just
come off incredibly easy.

Um...

..you've got the electrical lead
there.

This dial is in shocking
condition, really,

and Caroline is desperate
to keep it as it is,

because this is how
she remembers it

and it does look fantastic,

but the paint is all curling off

and, certainly, if you just brushed
it with a very light paintbrush,

it would just wipe off, everything
would just fall off,

so I've got to be really,
really careful.

I'll just pop this over here now
and I'll take this case over to Dom

and see what he thinks.

What's all this?
A very rusty clock case.

Oh, my word. It's obviously been
outside somewhere for a long time.

Yeah. But you see there's
this rubber ring that runs round

in that little groove there

for the glass. The glass pushes
there. Supposed to waterproof it,

but I don't think it did
a very good job!

Is it doable? Everything's doable.
Everything's doable.

Yeah. Can I leave it with you?
Yes, please. Yeah.

Good. Fantastic.

Tricky thing with this fix is
that there's lots of different

curves and tapers and bends
and stuff like that

and this...I'm a bit worried
about this thick black paint,

what that's hiding. I'll take...
Strip it down completely

to the bare metal

and then I think I'm going to
have to get it sandblasted,

which would just remove
all of the paint, all of the rust,

everything, and just leave me
with the bare metal

and really show me
what I'm dealing with.

The next visitor here to consult
the Repair Shop team is Mick Glozier

from Colchester, in Essex.

Good morning. Lovely to see you.

And you. I'm Sonnaz. I'm Mick.
Nice to meet you.

Shall we see what's in the back
of your... Yes, you can do. ..car?

There is one chair and all the parts
that go with it. Lovely.

Upholsterer Sonnaz Nooranvary is
the expert tasked with

putting the spring back
into this family heirloom.

What...have we got here?

Well, this is actually
a barber's chair. OK.

It was my grandfather's...
Your grandfather's chair?

..who had a shop in Wivenhoe, in
Essex... Right. ..from 1902, 1903.

He was a hairdresser.
My father took over the business

when he got too old to do it
and run the hairdressing side.

When I was born in 1948,
he was running the shop himself

and Dad used to work seven days
a week in the shop

till he died in '79.

In 1979, I took it home,
put it in the garage

and it's been moved around my house
ever since,

because I desperately wanted
to put it back to rights.

I stripped it down
and sanded it all down,

but that's as far as I got,
about six, seven years ago,

and it's sat in my dining room
ever since. Like this? Like this.

That on top of that,
on top of that...

Has it really? ..thinking, "I must
do something with it one day."

I mean, what are all these bits? OK.

I've never seen anything
like it before.

Well, that's the neck rest
that sits in there

and then this piece screws
on there, that sits on there.

Oh, I see! That's screwed to that

and if you want to lower
or higher the neck rest,

this, and that piece, allows you
to tilt the back down for cutting,

when they used to do shaves
with cut-throat razors. Yep.

And as a young boy, I used
to have... They used to put a board

across here, so that you could sit
on the board, put your feet

on the chair, so you were high
enough to be able to cut your hair.

How sweet. So, you sat
on this chair as a child?

I've got so many friends who I went
to school with,

always said, "Oh, yes.

"Mum always took me to Tilf's
for me haircut

"and I had to sit on the board."

Really? So, it's the legend of
the... It was, oh, yes.

I mean, even when I wasn't having
my hair cut,

if I went round to see Dad
or walked in the shop,

I'd go and sit in the chair.
This one? Yeah.

Got a lot of memories.
A lot, a lot of memories.

Obviously, the chair's very dear
to you. You wanted to have a go

yourself, so you started. You've
taken the wood back beautifully,

you've stripped
all the upholstery off... Yeah.

..and then thought, "Maybe it's
a bit too big a project."

Well, I was going to have a go,
but I don't want to ruin it.

That's the biggest answer. Yeah.
I mean, I would have had a go,

but if I'd have ruined it,
I'd have felt really bad. Yeah.

I didn't want to do that.
Yeah, yeah.

All the upholstery is in there,
if you want to have a look at it,

that originally was there.
Rexine. Yes, that is rexine.

So, I'll have a hunt around
for something similar to this.

Yes, that's fine.

The best you can do. This is
probably my most treasured heirloom.

I wouldn't have kept it in a garage,
in a dining room,

for the last 30 years. Yeah.
Means an awful lot to me.

He's... He's my dad.

You know, that's Dad. Yeah.

If you're happy to leave it with
me... I will leave it with you

with pleasure.
We'll see what we can do

and we'll be in contact
when it's ready.

Thank you very much indeed.
My pleasure. Thank you.

All right. Thank you.
Goodbye. Take care.

I spent three weekends stripping
it down, scraping it, sanding it,

getting it into the condition it was
in, and I was desperate to try

and reupholster it and do
all the bits that needed doing.

But it's a skilled job
and I'm not that skilled.

I would be so pleased to have it
back as I remember it,

so I can sit in it and enjoy it and
remember my dad and my grandad.

I've never seen a chair like this
before, so it's going to be

a really fun project
to get my head around.

I'm going to put
all the component parts on,

so that I can see
how it actually works.

We know that this mechanism connects
this beautifully carved headrest

to the back of the chair.

Look at that!

So that... Somebody's having a wet
shave, they can tilt their head

on that back and it will support it

and you adjust it
with this thing of beauty.

That is so cool.

It's like a flat-pack piece
of furniture, but much better
quality

with no instructions.

But, luckily, that's my favourite
way of assembling.

Quite like the voyage of discovery.

I'm a bit of a nerd
like that, really.

Ah, I've just figured out
where this goes.

Between there!

The handle to hold on to...

..to move the back.

Push it forward.

I am thrilled that I've got
it all together so I can start

sanding down and waxing
the woodwork.

Outside, in his quest to restore
the newsagent's clock,

Dom has just received
an important delivery.

OK, so, this is the main body
of the clock back from sandblasting.

This is a nerve-racking moment.

Hopefully, it won't be too bad.

So, now it's all been completely
stripped, all the paint,

from sandblasting it,
that strips all that away.

Anything loose, anything that's
just not solid metal any more

gets blasted away.

Unfortunately...

..it's blasted away,
it's taken away so much,

because it was so rusty, so thin.

Now I'm left with just...

This is littered with holes,

it's really bad,
all the way round this bottom edge.

HE GROANS

Oh, my. This is...

There's a lot more work to do
on here than I'd hoped.

Dom must remove all the crumbling
sections of metal

before cutting out new pieces
to slot in.

Just really light pressure.

I could just manipulate it
with my hands.

It does help rolling it over
this solid steel bar.

There we go.

Yeah, that's good.

Meanwhile, inside the barn, Steve
is beginning work on converting

the clock to run off
a battery-powered quartz movement

instead of the mains.

Caroline really wanted a quartz
clock so that she could put it

high up on the wall
and leave it all alone.

Some of these quartz movements
are high-torque.

That means they've got a lot
of power to drive larger hands.

Problem with that is if there's
any weight to the hands,

the actual spindle sags down,
like this one is sagging down.

The trouble with that is that
they might work for a little while,

but then they just stop.

So, I'm going to try modifying
this and put a little sleeve

in here, just to support the hand.

I'm hoping this is going to work.
I've never done it before.

Right. Let's see how that fits.

So, that's fitting in there really
quite nicely and it's actually

supporting the shaft,
so I'm hoping that this is actually

improved enough,
so that it goes on for years.

I need to tackle the main bit.

It's this lip that runs around
the inside here, between metal

and the glass.

This is the worst bit of rot
and it's quite a tricky repair.

Dom cuts out the old damaged section
of the rim,

then cuts a new piece.

OK. OK. So, now I've got
my replacement little bead,

now I need to start welding it in.
I'll start at one end, constantly

checking that it's staying round.

It looks good. I'm really pleased
how that's coming on.

But I can double-check.

So, I've drawn this, I've drawn
this circle on the bench.

This is exactly what it used to be
before I cut all the metal out.

That looks absolutely bang-on.

I don't really have any allowance
for being wrong, basically.

If it starts to end up being an egg
shape or slightly straight

on one end, the glass
just won't fit,

so it had to be right.

And it is. It's now time
to put the primer on,

which is going to be grey.

A quick sand
for a super smooth surface.

Then, the final glossy coat
of black paint.

That's fantastic. Honestly,
the black's gone on much better

than I was actually expecting.
I just need to now let this dry

as quick as possible
and then take it in to Steve.

The huge clock housing
may be taking shape,

but an altogether more delicate item
has just arrived at the Repair Shop.

Nicola and John Davis from Cardiff
have brought a cherished possession

which has been in Nicola's
family for generations.

Silversmith Brenton West
is expecting them.

Hi, I'm Brenton. Nicola. Nice
to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Hello, I'm John.
Hi, John. Nice to meet you.

What have you got? So, I've got...

..my dad's silver...

..antimony box,
which isn't very silver any more.

OK. And the hinge is broken.

I'm going to have to put the old
glasses on for this, I think.

And it used to be lovely
and silvery,

but now it's gone that sort
of dark gunmetal colour.

It's a lovely thing, isn't it?

So, how did you get it?

Well, it originally belonged
to my maternal grandad... OK.

and he... So, that was about 1890
and he used to use it for cigars.

So, it's a long time.
120, 130 years. Yes.

And then, when he passed away,
went to my mum, and my dad

used to use it every day for,
like, money, receipts

and just general things
and that was always my...

It was my dad's box. OK.

And then, a week before he died,

he said to me, "Is there anything
you'd like of mine when I go?",

not thinking he was ever going to
go... Right. ..and I said,

"Just your box, Dad,"

and, a week later, he died.
No way. Yeah.

So, it's really special to me.

He was a softie.

I absolutely miss him every day.

I know how close my wife
was to her father.

And I think this is one piece
that reminds her of him

every single day.

So, how did it get broken?

I don't know.

I think it might have been broken
when they moved house. OK.

This is very, very brittle,
this metal, so, if it was dropped,

it would break so easily. Yeah.

And also, if that hinge was opened
too far back, it also...

Just one time too far back
would snap it.

So, I don't know
whether this was ever fixed.

I think it would have been because
it would have been glued

to itself and to the box,
giving the box its strength.

Leave it with me and I'll give you
a shout when it's ready.

Thank you very much.
Lovely to meet you.

Thank you very much.
Pleasure to meet you. Cheerio. Bye.

Be lovely to see it back together

and my dad, if he was alive,
he would love it, because he looked

after it for years
and years and years,

and it would be lovely
just to pass it on to my son now

in the same way that I saw it
as a child.

It is a very important item
of this family.

I mean, I'd basically given up hope
of ever seeing it

in one piece again.

This delicately carved
19th-century box is made

from a metal called antimony.

In its powdered state, antimony
was used by the ancient Egyptians

as an eyeliner, but in its metal
form, it can be more challenging.

Got to tell you a story about
one of these boxes. Oh, right. OK.

When I was about 18 or 19,
a girlfriend of mine,

she brought her boss's box in.

It was just like this...
Yeah. ..and the hinge was broken,

so, I thought, "That's easy enough,
I'll just solder up."

I put my gas torch on there... Yeah.

..it all just went, "Bleurgh."
The whole box? The whole box

just melted, all over one side
just melted. Oh, dear.

I was in a bit of, er, bother.

Oh, dear. Am I going to have to
think about this quite carefully,

how I'm going to do it?
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

I'll come up with something.
Yeah. Good luck.

Don't put too much heat on it.
I'll try not to. Thank you.

Nicola's box here, the most
difficult part to repair is

these hinges.

These little bits here are tube
and they alternate,

so you would have...

..one on the lid, one on the box,
and they're all on the lid,

so that's why it's come away

from the base of the box.

So, the wood is filthy.

It's nice, thick wood,
so what I need to do is to sand it,

glue it back together,
fit it back in the box

and that will give the box
a lot of strength.

The other problem we've got
with the box, Nicola said the side

of the box was split.

Actually, it's the end of the box,

as well as the side of the box,
and that side as well,

so the box is falling to bits.

So, there's lots of soldering
to do.

On the other side of the barn,
Sonnaz is giving the waxed wood

of the barber's chair
a final buff.

Hi, Jay, Ah! Fabric. Brilliant.
Thank you very much. Is that cool?

Yeah, brill.

This looks amazing now. Thank you.

So, fabric's come
at the right time, then.

The perfect time, in fact. OK.

Power's on, ten more staples,
are you OK...? I think I can manage.

And have you got a hammer?
I do, yeah.

I'm ready for you, Jay.
I've got everything prepped.

That's what I like to hear.

You're using staples
in the same sort of format as tacks,

actually, isn't it,
what you're doing?

That's right. Because it's three
and then two with tacks.

Why, how do you do it? Whereas
I go to town with my stapling

and I put quite a lot in.

Did you run out of staples quite
quickly? Quite quickly, yeah.

But I get a really good fixing.
Well, so, do I get

a really good fixing? Yeah. Look,
look, look. I think I go for...

TWANG
..that sound. Yeah.

Are you going to start jamming?

Should start jamming,
shouldn't we, eh?

Doesn't sound like any band I...
SHE LAUGHS

It's a new band. It's the new band.

How to get sound? Let me hear
if you've got it. Oh, yeah.

I used to play bass guitar,
you know. Did you? Yeah!

Oh, what, so you know the sound that
you're going for, then. Pretty much.

TWANG
No, that does sound good.

That sounds better than mine.
Is it too tight?

No, that sounds better.
It's all right.

I like it. Three?
I do like the three.

I'm going to do a bit of yours.
Go for it.

See! I CAN teach a new dog
a new trick.

SHE LAUGHS
Yeah. You like that one, Steve.

I think that's a compliment.

I think he's trying to be nice!

Not sure.

Normally, they say... What it is,
they normally say that us old-timers

can't teach the young ones anything.

Stop there. Stop talking.
Stop there.

With the webbing tightly stretched
across the chair base,

Sonnaz can begin to layer the seat
with comfortable foam padding.

The reason I'm gluing it, and not
stapling it, is because it's already

got quite a lot of holes in it and
I don't really want to add to that,

and I much prefer the finish
with the glue.

It's really satisfying.

Now I've got my foam
and my wadding done,

I can cover it,

which is the most exciting part.

In order to get this lovely
and tight, I need to put some

initial fixing staples down,
so they're my holding staples,

then I can fill in around.

If I don't get it even, I will
have what's called a tack drag,

and that's where you've got visible
tension in one area and not another.

This here is a really good example
of tack-dragging.

So, there's a line here where
that tension is tight,

then tension is tight through there

and it's not so tight through here.

And if I was to put tension through
there, even just with my fingers,

that centre bit all evens out
and those lines disappear.

So, that's what I'm aiming for
all the way around.

While Sonnaz perfects
the upholstery, Steve takes a break

from the newsagent's clock
to lend a hand

and give the metalwork
a going over.

Just need to clean these pieces up
for Sonnaz's barber's chair.

I've just soaked them for a little
while in the clock-cleaning fluid.

This is always useful
for all sorts of things.

And then I can pop them
over to Sonnaz to put back

on the chair.

The way that this chair is finished
originally was

with a binding like this
and brass studs,

so I'm recreating that finish again

and I've got this fine point
to sort of create.

So, what I've actually got to do
is heat it,

heat up the break, because
it's a vinyl and that will allow it

to sort of form the shape
that I want it to.

Just heating that up a little bit.

I can see straight away
the movement in the binding.

Stick that down and that's sitting
nice and flat.

Hi, Steve. Hi.
I've cleaned these bits up.

Oh, wow. Excellent.
They've come out better.

They're not perfect. But not being
perfect is even better, actually.

Better that they're not
absolutely brand-new.

Yeah, that's what I thought,
actually. Fantastic.

Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.

Lovely. OK. Thank you.

His good deed on
the barber's chair done,

Steve returns to the newsagent's
clock that hung outside

a family business for decades.

The next job is I've got to put
the mechanism on the dial

and this is quite a worrying job

for me, because the paintwork

on the dial is all curling up.

I'm just putting that spacer on.

I'm popping that over there.

This is a really nice job to do,

because this clock reminds
Caroline so much of a time

when her father was running
the newsagent's.

It's going to look absolutely
fantastic up on the wall.

Good.

For the final delicate assembly,

Steve has called in reinforcements.

Because the paint's loose,

I need you to help as I'm putting it
onto these bits.

So, that's got
to go on smoothly,

otherwise it's just vibrating.

I'm going to start your side,
David, all right? Yep.

Hang on. Let me get hands
in the right position.

Plop. Is that it?
I've got this one in, yeah.

You've got to hold the thread
so that it's actually not touching

the holes in the dial.

Easy.

You know what...

..we've done it. Hang on.

Yeah, that's perfect.

Thanks, guys. OK.

You're welcome.

Thank you very much. No problem.

When the clock arrived
at the Repair Shop,

it hadn't worked for years.

But Steve and Dom's combined efforts
have ensured

it's ticking once again

and the once-battered case
is as good as new.

It's now time for the clock
to return to Surrey to be reunited

with newsagent's daughter Caroline.

It's really important to me,
because it represents that time

that I spent at the shop, but also
because my father died a year ago

and, actually, tomorrow is
the first anniversary of his death,

so it's quite
an emotional thing, so...

..yeah, it's very important.

Caroline's son, Dan, and childhood
friend Pat have joined her

for the big moment.

OK. Are we ready for this?

Are we ready for this?
One, two, three.

Oh, wow!

That is brilliant.

Isn't that lovely?

They've done an amazing job
with that.

I'm really pleased with it,

and I think Grandfather,
I think he'd be really pleased

about the clock looking so good.

It's the anniversary
of his death tomorrow.

It's quite spooky how that's worked
out, actually, but...

So, we've got one more job
to do, Dan.

At last. It's taken a long time,
but it's worth it.

Yeah? It is, definitely.

Fantastic.

Thank you very much for your help,
Danny. That's all right.

Back at the Repair Shop,
and Brendan's tightly tying in

the loose sides
of the ornamental box

in preparation for soldering
them back together.

This makes me very nervous,
doing this,

so I'm going to have a go
with a hot-air g*n,

rather than with my soldering torch.

The hot-air g*n is
a paint-stripping g*n

and it does get really, really hot,

but not as intense
and as hot as a flame.

But it's a way of keeping
this under control without

it disappearing into
a pile of molten metal.

Now, what I've got here is
a temperature probe,

and try sticking some solder on it
and see what happens.

What I've got to be careful of now
is not heating this up too much.

That is actually spot on.

That is absolutely brilliant.

Let that cool down.

Sigh of relief there.

So, next thing I've got to do,
before I make the hinges for this,

is to clean up this box properly.

Get all this white polish off it.

I think I'm just going to use soap
and water and a scrubbing brush.

Polishing antimony is not
recommended as it can release

harmful chemicals, but soap and
water is enough to begin revealing

the box's beauty.

I'm seeing all sorts of detail
I couldn't see before.

Where the white powder had sort of
gone into the corners

and the crevices,
it was taking the detail away.

The detail that's showing
on this is absolutely incredible.

Absolutely transforming it,
just doing this.

So, I've got to make some knuckles,

which are these little tubes

which hinges are made from,
and I'll cut to that line,

so I need to make six of these
and then I'm going to tape them

into the box in position

and make sure that it all works.

If you're hanging a door or any sort
of hinge, most hinges have

an odd number of knuckles.

There's four there, the three
there, which is seven.

You always put the larger number
on the bigger item.

So, if you're hanging a door
in the house, you put the four

on the door frame
and the three on the door.

It's good practice to put the more
knuckles on the bigger part.

I'm just putting little tiny bits
of solder on which, when I heat up,

hopefully, will melt and run
behind the brass bits

and attach them in place.

All four of those are now soldered
on. I can let that cool down.

As soon as that's cooled down,
I'll take the wire off

and I'll try this lid,
which I've wired up, in place

and, if these still line up
with those, I can solder this.

If these don't line up with those,
I might have to move

these ones about a little bit.

So, let this cool down, take
the wire off and try the lid on.

While Brendan waits
for the metal box to cool,

Sonnaz is ready to start
reassembling her assignment -

the wooden barber's chair.

It's really lovely to be able
to start pulling the chair together

and finishing it off now.

I'm on the home straight.

I can't wait for Mick to see it
all together

and see what his reaction
is going to be.

The chair has played a part
in Mick's family for decades.

First, in his father and
grandfather's barber shop.

And more recently, in Mick's home.

The chair is really important
to me, because it was used

by my grandfather,
was used by my father

and I used to have
my hair cut in it.

To see it again, put back together,

going to be absolutely wonderful.

Hi. Hi. How are you?

Very well, thank you so much.
And you? Good, thank you.

Nice to see you. Very pleased
to see you. How are you feeling?

Excited. Yeah. Nervous.

So, shall I not delay you
any longer?

Yes, please.

Oh, that is fantastic!

That is absolutely fantastic.

Isn't that beautiful?

That's how I remember it.

Oh, that is...

Thank you so much. My pleasure.

Thank you so much.

You've done a fantastic job, Sonnaz.

Thank you very much indeed.
My pleasure.

Memories that you wouldn't believe.

Where does it take you back to?

It takes me back to the high street
in Wivenhoe, mid-'60s...

..when I used to spend a lot of time
just sitting in the chair.

Oh, I mean, look at it.

I don't know how you've managed it,
but it's beautiful.

I love it to bits.

It all works as...
Oh, yes, I'm sure it does!

So, that will go back.
Go to sleep in that.

So, you can... That's your
chill-out... Yes, the chill-out!

..part of the day.

That's midday.

And that's first thing
in the morning with a cup of tea.

Beautiful, isn't it?
Oh, it's going to be lovely.

What do you think your father and
grandfather would think about it,

looking at it now? My dad would be
over the moon. Would he?

Yeah. He was very proud of his
hairdressing chair. Was he? Yes.

I'd quite like it myself, Mick.

Do you want to sit in it?
Can I? Absolutely, yes!

I'm interested to see how you...

..think it feels.

Just like I remember it.

You see the way I sit,
just as I remember it.

Elbows on the sit...on the arms.
Yeah, I could sit here all day.

You see, the good thing is a cup
sits on there nicely. Ah!

In-built design feature.

My dad used to do that
quite regularly. Did he?

Yeah, a cup of tea on the arm.

Can I give you a hug?

You can. Of course you can.

Thank you.

No worries. Beautiful. No worries.

So, if you're OK to give me a hand,
we can take it out to your car.

Yes, that would be excellent.
Thank you.

I am feeling absolutely fantastic.

Sonnaz has done
an absolute fabulous job.

It looks absolutely lovely.

It means so much to get that back.

It's just like a dream come true.

And I can't wait to get it
in the back of my lounge,

sit down and have a nice cup of tea.

Brenton is also nearing
the end of his restoration

of the ornate 19th-century box.

Jay!

Here we are. Remember that
brass tube you got me? Yeah.

Stuck it on. I've soldered it
on there... Yeah.

..and, hopefully, I can get a pin
up the middle of that

and that will become a hinge.

Hopefully, that will...

..go through all of those...

..come out the other end.

There we go. Is that it? Maybe?

There it goes.

That's gone through there
and you've got a hinge.

Let's have a look.
Yeah, it's got a hinge now.

So, what else have you got left
to do on this one?

So, all I've got to do... Yeah?
..is put the wood in there...

Right. ..and that's it.
Give it back to Nicola.

I'll let her know it's ready.
Brilliant. Cheers. Cheers.

So, I'll just leave that to set now.

The hinge works, the box works.

Really pleased the way
it's worked out

and I can't wait to see Nicola's
face when I give it back to her.

Nicola and John have returned
to the Repair Shop eager to see

how Brendan has gone on
with the restoration

of her late father's beloved box.

I just hope it looks like it used
to look when I was a girl,

not the horrible sad state it was
when we brought it in.

It will just be lovely to have it
back in the house.

Hello. Hiya. How are you? Nice to
meet you. Likewise. Nicola. Jay.

Hello, Jay. Nice to meet you.
John. How are you? Hi, John.

Nice to see you again.
Nice to meet you again.

So, you looking forward to this?

Absolutely. Very much so.

How have you felt
since you've left it here?

It's been very strange.
It's been really weird.

It sounds stupid, doesn't it...
Really weird. ..it just being a box?

But it's quite a big thing, really.

So, what are you hoping
is underneath this cloth?

I hope that it's my dad's
silver antimony box... OK!

You're not the only one!

..and that you managed
to fix the hinge.

You did it, then? Of course.

Oh, wow.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

Wow. That's amazing. Fantastic.

Oh, my gosh.

It just...

It looks like it's brand-new.

Oh, thank you so much.

Oh.

Gosh, I didn't expect it to look
like that. No. I really didn't.

It's amazing.

Did it take much to do or...?

Lots of work.

Lots of work!

Yeah. It's nice to be able
to save something like that.

Yeah, and you can actually
see the picture on it now.

You couldn't really see it before.
Really nice, isn't it? I know.

It's lovely.

I'm so thrilled.

I just want to say thank you.
Thank you so much.

Thank you, Brenton. That's
fantastic.

It's been a pleasure to do it.
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you.
You take care now. Thanks. Bye.

He's just done the most superb
job with it.

You would never even
think it'd been broken.

It's amazing. I'm just amazed.

He's gone beyond our wildest
dreams, hasn't he? I know. Yeah.

I would more than anything love
for my dad to be here as well

to see it, but I'm just really happy
that it's...

..that it looks like it does
like when I was a little girl

and that's what... It will always
remind me of my dad.

Join us next time as wood...

..metal...

..and fur...

..are brought back to life...

Wow!

Absolutely superb. Superb!

..in the Repair Shop.