05x03 - Military Drum

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Welcome to The Repair Shop, where
precious but faded treasures...

It's in a bit of a sorry state.

..are restored
to their former glory.

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

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...
Now the fun begins. I know!

It's so nice that we can be part of
that history, to just keep things
going.

..and a dream team of
expert craftspeople...

Looks absolutely amazing.

Wicked! You really start to see the
thought that went into making it.

..come together to
work their magic...

Teamwork.
BOTH: Absolutely!

Yes! Beautiful.

..employing heritage craft skills
passed down the generations.

Whoo!

It's my duty to make sure that this
all goes back in working order.

..preserving irreplaceable
heirlooms...

It's absolutely amazing.
It really is.

It's like keeping a bit of our
family history alive.

..the team will restore the items...

SHE GASPS

..the memories...

Yes! Yes!
HE LAUGHS

..and unlock
the stories that they hold.

Bye!

It's touched my heart. It's amazing.

In The Repair Shop today...

It always makes me nervous
when things arrive in a bag of bits!

THEY LAUGH

..metalwork specialist Dom is
faced with a bicycle sidecar

that's hit the end of the road...

It's definitely going to be an
interesting one to work on. Yeah.

..whilst percussion expert Pete
gives his fellow craftsmen

their marching orders.

DRUM ROLL

Thank you, sir! Right.

But today's first visitor is Claire
from North Ayrshire in Scotland.

Right. How are you doing? I'm Jay.

Hi, Jay. I'm Claire. All right,
Claire? Hi, Claire. I'm Will.

Have you got something for us
in the boot? Yes, I have.

Ooh! That's... Let's get it into the
barn. Let's go!

Claire's hoping that antiques
restoration expert Will

can piece together the parts of
a treasured family heirloom.

Can we take this out? Please do.

It's in bits. It is in bits.
In lots of bits.

HE LAUGHS

So what have we got here, then?

It is a Victorian sewing stand

that belonged to my
great-grandmother.

OK. It was given to her on
her wedding day on July 15th 1874.

1874. 1874. And I know that
because there's an inscription

on here and it says,
"Presented to Miss Mole."

Yeah. What a lovely gift. Yeah,
that is. I know. It's stunning.

Amazing. It's so beautiful.

You can't see, but on the top of the
lid are the most beautiful...

Oh, my God! Look at that!
..paintings.

Isn't that lovely, Jay?
That is nice.

What is it made of, Will?
Cos it looks like a mixture.

It looks like it's made of
papier mache. Ah, right.

So why is it in such a state?
What's happened to it?

Two years ago... Right.

..I was at home, heard this huge
crash upstairs. OK.

A painting had worn through the wire
that it was hanging from,

and it fell directly
on top of the stand underneath. Ah.

This was... This is the result.
Yeah. This is the result.

I was very careful in making
sure that I picked up every

tiny little piece.

So how is this in your possession?

I was really, really lucky
to have inherited it.

I'm the youngest of eight
children. OK. Eight children? Yes!

I was living at home, so
I was the last one left. Yes.

And my father said to me,

"All your sisters and brothers
have had things from the home.

"Is there anything
that you'd like to have?"

Yeah, yeah. And I said,
"The sewing stand.

"I'd love to have the sewing stand."

And it's a link to my dad.

So when you see this, this is what
that's a link to - to dad. Yeah.

All my brothers and sisters would
have been equally happy to have got
it as well.

Yeah, yeah. And that's why I feel so
responsible. Right.

And I haven't told them.

Whoa! You haven't told them
it's like this? They don't know
anything about it. No.

Are they going to know? Are you
going to let them know that it was
broken?

I'll have to let them know. Yeah.

Well, it depends whether
I can do it up first!

The stand itself -
is that quite sound?

I think that twists tight like that.
Yeah.

If it can be fixed, that will be
a huge relief to me... OK.

..and release me of that guilt that
I've been feeling.

But it will mean that I can hand
it down to my own children. Right.

She's come to the right place,
hasn't she, Will?

Yep, just there's lots of pieces,
isn't there?

Piece it all together in my head -
it's going to be a challenge,

but it'll be a pleasure to work on.

Thank you.
Thank you for bringing it in.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. See you very soon.
Not too soon, but soon enough! Bye.

Bye. Bye. Take care now.
Bye-bye. Bye.

You all right, yeah? Yeah.
Do you want to sit down?

I think I need a chair.

There's a lot of work here, Jay.
That's a lot, eh?

I am anxious that it might not
be able to be put back together
again,

because it is so badly damaged.

Hopefully it will be all right.

Otherwise, I'm just going
to have to confess to my siblings

that it is irreparable
for evermore.

And being the youngest, I'm sure
that they'd find it in their hearts

to forgive me.

But I would never be able
to forgive myself.

Well, once again, I'm faced
with a boxful of pieces of wood,

so there's nothing new there to me.

And it's sort of like a jigsaw
without that sort of pretty
picture to match it up to.

So I'm not sure exactly what I have.

I don't even know, what the sort
of shape is.

Even putting that together,
it's a bit of a tricky shape.

It appears that quite a lot
of this stand

has been glued together
with hot pearl glue.

So that's what I'm going to use
to stick this back together.

And I need to make sure that I glue
it right the first time round,

because there's no room for error.

Next to arrive at the workshop are
Chrissy Spooner and husband Steve

from Ware in Hertfordshire.

Hi. Hello. You OK? I'm Dom.
Hi, I'm Chrissy.

Chrissy, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.

What have you brought along?

Wow! Amazing.

I'll take this bit. Maybe you can
get the boot. That be great.

They'd like expert metalworker Dom
to roll back the years

and restore some fond family
memories.

OK. Where do we start?
What is it, first of all, I guess?

It's a sidecar for a push-bike.

OK. We've had it 35, 40 years.
40 years. Yeah.

40 years ago, when our first child
was born, we didn't have a vehicle
or anything. Sure.

We had push-bikes,
and we had a tandem. Brilliant!

And the shop that sold the tandem,
they said, "Oh, I've got something
you might be interested in,"

and took us to the basement, and in
there was this old sidecar.

I think you fell in love with it,
didn't you?

I fell in love with it straight
away. I thought, "Wow, how unusual."

It was like a little silver rocket.
This was attached to your tandem?

It attaches to the tandem. To our
tandem. With your child inside.
Yeah.

Where we live, there's a beautiful
sort of canal river,

so we used to ride along there
and then pull up and have a picnic.

And we were sort of well-known
for it.

The people with the sidecar
on the push-bike!

So, yeah... We used to have great
fun, actually.

So it's done quite a few miles,
then?

It has, yes. It has, because we've
got three children and all
three of them have been in it.

They've all had a go. OK.
They've all had a go in it.

So had it been sort of hidden away
for quite a long time?

Well, this is 40 now. Yeah.
It's just been in the shed.

It's a bit of a sorry state
at the moment.

I see lots of sort of sign writing
things... Is this you?

I think these are what I've put
on it. Yeah?

Yeah, that bit's me. Yeah.

It did have a leather hood
that went over the top.

Oh, right. Press studs on.

But it all shrunk.

Must be a bit sad to see
it like this now.

It really is, yeah. I know.
When I looked at it, I thought,
"Is it doable?"

It's quite far gone. It's in quite
a bad state, isn't it? It is.

I believe this is all the
connecting brackets.

It always makes me nervous when
things arrive in a bag of bits!
Yeah!

So what exactly would you like me
to try and do to this?

It would be fantastic to see it
how we first saw it. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, we've got six grandchildren.
OK.

And our younger three
would actually fit in it.

So you'd like to be able to attach
it to the bike and use it as...

And take the grandchildren
down the canal -

the river, like we'd used to
with our kids, have a picnic. OK.

If it's possible. If possible, yeah!
I don't know if it's too far gone.

It's an interesting one. There's so
many different elements -

the metalwork and nuts and bolts of
the suspension,

getting all that working is one
thing. Yeah. Yeah.

The hood and the leather-work and
the vinyl,

and it looks like the structure is
made of wood.

It's definitely going
to be an interesting one to work on.

Yeah. Thank you very much for
bringing it in.

It's lovely to meet you both. Lovely
to meet you. Thank you very much.

Lovely to meet you. Thank you.
Thank you. Bye-bye.

The sidecar is important
because it was our only means

of transport - when we were
teenagers, really -

when we first got together.

The sidecar is part of the family.

It's moved from house to house
with us.

We've never parted with it,
so it means a lot to us.

I'm just hoping it will look
like that beautiful little silver

rocket that we had 40 years ago.

Be fantastic, won't it? Yeah.
Be wonderful. Be really good. Yeah.

This is going to test me
in a few different ways.

I've got a lot of metalwork.
It is rusty and it is rotten,

but that's not a big concern
at the moment.

The whole body of the sidecar
is wooden and it's wrapped in vinyl.

It's starts to give way
on the front.

I think I'm going to have to strip
that vinyl off.

It's going to be an interesting
journey, this one.

Made by Thomas Watson in the 1930s,

the sidecar's design was intended
for a modern lady cyclist to travel

with her child.

Although its adventures out on
the open road may be behind it,

Dom's keen to preserve this
charming contraption.

I do really enjoy this part
of the process, uncovering

all of the little hidden
secrets that it's got.

So you can see really well here
that that part I've just uncovered,

this super-bright metallic
silver, is what it would

have originally looked like.

This will be invaluable, really,
to colour match.

Trying to colour match this is
useless, because it's so many
different stained colours.

The good news is the wood
really doesn't look that bad at all.

The condition of the vinyl
is a lot worse

than I was originally expecting.

Yeah, I don't have any regrets
in taking the vinyl off at all.

At his workbench,
Will is attempting to piece together

the 3D jigsaw puzzle of splintered
sewing box parts.

The top of the sewing stand is such
a funny shape that it's been really
tricky to stick back together.

If it had had right angles,
you could get clamps on there,

but because it's almost like
a pyramid shape,

I've had to screw these blocks
of wood on the table

to make this jig shape to kind of
keep everything in place.

It's important that I make sure
everything is aligned perfectly,

because if it isn't, when I screw it
to the top of the sewing stand,

the lid can actually appear sort
of twisted or warped.

I really enjoyed jigsaw puzzles
when I was a child.

It's almost like an adult jigsaw
or a jigsaw puzzle

for furniture restorers!

Everything is in place.

What I'm going to do now
is use some hot pearl glue.

Once I've done that, I'll put a
tiny bit of weight just on the top,

just to bring everything
back in place as perfectly

as it has done now.

I'm going to leave that for a few
hours now to dry,

and then have a look at this base.

The fact that it has sheared -

there's a lot more surface that both
parts can bond onto.

So hopefully,
that should be a blessing.

And the good thing is, is that this
papier mache is quite porous.

So the glue will soak it in and
really bind those two pieces
together.

Had to work quite quickly, because
the hot glue, once you take it out
of the hot pot,

it starts to want to cure,

and then it sort of turns into this
rubbery jelly.

I'm going to leave that to dry and
then start working away
with the lid.

With the lid of the sewing box dry,

Will can set about carefully filling
in its many holes and damaged joins.

The great thing about this is
it's so fine that when you sand

it back, it's really smooth
and creates a really good surface

for painting onto and lacquer work.

I've got some black furniture
polish here, and I've got

some black pigment.

I'm just going to slowly mix the two
to try to get to the same sort

of colour and depth
that is on the surface here.

It's such a beautiful,
beautiful item.

You can really appreciate
all the detail

that's gone into all the painting
and the craftsmanship there.

So it's quite nice to be another
craftsman working on such

a beautiful piece.

Next visitor in need of some
expert help

is Tim Richards from Bristol.

He's brought a piece of military
history for the attention

of Pete Woods, who's been making and
repairing drums for over 60 years.

How are we doing? Tim. I'm Jay.

Jay. I'm Pete. Hello, Pete.

So tell us about this.
What is it?

This is a drum my grandfather had.

Whoa! It's rolling to me.

Yeah. A drum roll, to start with!
Drum roll! Oi, I like it!

Don't want more dents, do we? No!
THEY LAUGH

He left home in 1902 at 13 and
joined the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

What, he went to...he went to the
w*r?

He went to the w*r. At 13...?
13 years of age.

OK. Yeah. Right.

He couldn't be a soldier because of
his age, but he could be
a drummer boy.

What was his role, then? He just
plays the drums? Just played a drum.

I've looked at it and I can't
really find what they did.

Drums were originally used
for sending messages

across the b*ttlefield. Oh, was it?
And then the bugle took over.

But then, you wanted music to march
your troops backwards and forwards.
So they'll march...

It was for keeping them in time.
Yeah. In time.

So that's what your grandad
was doing, then? Yeah.

With this drum! So it must have
been very special. Mmm.

Yeah, definitely.

He had it all through
the First and Second World w*r,

and it's still with him when he died
in '57, '58.

Once a drummer, always a drummer,
you see. Yeah.

Yeah. Right until the end. I would
have thought so, yeah. Yeah.

So have you ever heard this played?
Only by me.

Only by you. Only by me! And that's
the damage you caused?

And that's the damage I caused,
yeah! Right!

What did you hit it with to do that?

I'm not 100%. It might have been
a spoon.

So yes. I think I cried.
I was only about six.

I was like, "What have I done?"

So was your grandad alive
when you did this damage? Yes.

What did he think?
He didn't blink an eyelid.

What makes me remember him is
obviously, because I'd damaged it,

that's my thoughts of him then
and his chilled-out attitude to it.

He was quite a character, yeah.
But a laid-back character.

But a laid-back character.

Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

So kind of stating the obvious,

but what would you like us
to do to it?

It's over 100 years old. Yeah.

As you can see, it's a bit dented.

I don't know if it was meant
to be a real shiny copper,

with skins on. Right.

If somehow Pete could...

Repair it? ..repair it.

I think it needs, um,
repairing, mate, yeah!

Some real tender...

Not to put too delicate...

..tender loving care,
I think it needs.

Would you like it to be played?

Are you going to play it
after, or...? Jay.

I... No, I get it. Yeah.
You're not that great, are you?

No, I'm not. I'm not! Right!

And hopefully, if I leave it to the
grandson,

or they're old enough to know
better... OK! ..than what I did,

because I was pretty young
when I did it. OK.

So you want it playable,
and looking tiptop?

Best as what can be done.

We'll have to give it a go, then.
All right, we'll give it a go.

Thank you for bringing it in.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

My grandad was a drummer boy at 13.

I look at my grandson -
he's 15 now,

and you think,
"I just can't imagine it."

If Pete can restore that to anywhere
close to its original state,

it would be...it would be amazing.

What do you think of that, then?

Well, it needs a bit of work done on
it, mate.

Just a bit. Yeah. Eh?
THEY LAUGH

Tim's owned up to that one.

But that! That one's been well
worked on.

It's never easy, but... OK. ..we can
do it. That's what I like to hear.

Let's get it to your bench so you
can start working on it.

And I can get on with it, yeah?
Yeah, all right.

The shell is quite badly dented.

So we've got to take all the dents
out of that.

The two heads - well, they're both
gone. Both had it.

So here I've found new ones
on there.

But the first job will be stripping
down the hoops

after we've taken a colour
sample, of course,

so we get some paint of the same
colour to put back on them.

That looks like the one.

Metalworker Don has finished
stripping the vinyl cover

from the sidecar's frame and has now
moved on to something that is much

more his area of expertise.

So this is the main...I guess the
main chassis of the sidecar.

The paint is worn and all chipped
through,

and you can see where the paint's
chipped off.

It's revealed the bare metal, which
has then started to go rusty.

So I need to strip this back,
treat the rust

and then repaint it to preserve it.

So I'm just stripping the paint
off of the mudguard part,

and the more I'm uncovering,
the more sort of, like, rust

and pitted holes that I'm sort of
discovering.

Now I already had quite a long list
of jobs to do on this sidecar,

and now the list is unfortunately
just getting longer and longer.

I've cut out the rotten areas.

I'll use that as a little template -
make a new piece.

Once I've welded that in and painted
this black, hopefully

you'll never know
that I've been there.

I'm going to stick this first
piece on.

With structural and cosmetic repairs
on the Victorian sewing stand

nearing completion,

woodworker Will now faces his
biggest challenge.

As the inside of the sewing box
is so badly damaged,

he'll need to completely replace
the original silk lining.

It's all quite simple, making
a template, wrapping it with fabric,

and sticking it in - he says!

I want to use as much of the
original pieces of the sewing stand
as I can,

and I'm not sure if the wadding
that was in there is fluffy enough.

It still feels quite flat.

So I'm adding a bit more new wadding
onto the top bit

to plump it out a bit more.

That's wonderful.

I'm happy that first piece is in,
but I'm still nervous,

because it means there's more of
a surface for the glue to touch,

so one down, a few more to go.

I'm absolutely sweating, and I think
part of the reason is the hot glue
pot was making me sweat.

The other half is just the nerves!

Feel like Indiana Jones
when he's about to remove

the stone really quickly!

Second piece in.

Absolutely sweating - and not
a drop of glue

on any nice new fabric.

So I'm winning!

There's a brass plaque just on
the front of the sewing stand.

You can't really see too much
of the detail now,

because it's quite dirty.

I don't want it to look
brand-new, shiny brass.

I'm just going to try to take some
of that surface dirt off.

Soft wire wool will just slowly take
away some of that dirt on the top.

I might actually add a little bit
of methylated spirits
to the wire wool.

That's so much better.
So now I can see what it says.

It says, "Presented to
Miss Mole, July 15th, 1874."

So it's really nice that you can see
Claire's great-grandmother's name
now.

This has been a real challenge, and
it's quite nice to see it now

all together once more,
and I really hope that Claire's

going to be happy with the job.

Owner Claire's sewing stand had been
in the family for nearly

a century and a half when it was
damaged - seemingly beyond repair.

Claire kept her siblings
in the dark about the breakage,

but having finally confessed,
she's brought sister Jill

and daughter Annie along today,

hoping Will has achieved
the impossible.

As I was taking it out when we
arrived here, I was thinking,

"He's never going to be able to
fix this."

So fingers crossed he will have been
able to do it.

She didn't fess up to us
until she'd been here!

THEY LAUGH

Which is probably a good thing!

Hello. Hello.

Oh, there's three of you!

Yes, I've brought some of my family
with me.

Nice to see you again. Hi, Will.
Nice to see you again.

And you are...? Jill. Jill, nice
to meet you.

And...? Annie. Annie. Nice to meet
you.

My daughter and my sister.
And your sister. Yeah.

Lovely to have you here.
I'm really nervous.

Right. Are you ready to have a look?
Yes, please.

It's fantastic.
That is just amazing!

How on earth have you done that?

How have you done that?

You're so clever.

You are so clever.

Oh, thank you so much! It's OK!

It's just a brilliant thing!

It is. Wow!

That's such a good job.

Look at it! Can I touch it?

Yeah, please do, yeah, please do.
Can I lift the lid? You can
lift up the lid.

Thank you.

SHE GASPS

Oh, my gosh!

Look at the inside! Yeah!

You worked out where all the bits
went! Oh, that is incredible.

Oh, and look - the inscription to
Bertha as well on the front there.

I just cannot believe what a job
you've done.

Do people hug you when...when...

I don't mind having a bit of a...

Fantastic! There you go!

Thank you so much. There you go!

Thank you so much. That's all right.
That's OK. It is beautiful.

So is this going to be yours at some
point? Yeah, at some point, yeah.
At some point.

Do you do any needlework
yourself at the moment?

Um, maybe I'll have to get into it.

I can't describe how I feel.

It's just filled me with great joy.

So thank you so much.

It's been an absolute pleasure.
An absolute pleasure.

Well, my work here's done and it's
over to you and the future
generations

to make sure everyone takes care of
it. Yes, we promise.

Thank you. It's OK. Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.

I can breathe a sigh of relief
that it's all fixed and beautiful.

It is, it's fantastic, because it
just looks as it looked before.

And it brings all those memories of
our childhood,

and to be able to now hand it on,
it's going to be looked

after and cherished for
a lot longer.

Veteran percussion expert Pete has
stripped the paint from the hoops

of the 117-year-old military drum

and is tending to its many
battle scars.

I used to play drums.

And when I left school,
I got the chance to become

an apprentice drum maker.

I walked into a workshop
when I was 16 years old.

There was no electric
power tools at all.

Everything was done by hand.

And so it's a tradition
passed through,

and it's just nice to keep it going.

But there is one element
of the drum-building tradition

that requires someone else's
expertise.

Hello, Suzie. OK, what do you need?
I'm repairing a drum. OK.

And it's got leather braces on it.

I just happen to have these
in the workshop. OK.

Yes. So we need ten of them, please.

Oh, so I can use this as a pattern.
Lovely, lovely, lovely. OK.

And one more thing. What?

It's a marching drum.
Tim hasn't got a strap to hold it.

I wonder if you could just,
you know, in your spare time,

just sort of cobble me up one,
please? Be my pleasure.

That's great. Thanks very much,
mate. You're welcome. Thank you.

I'm just going to tie off
the ends here.

There we go.

Nine more to go.

The next job, then, is to get rid
of a lot of these dents.

So, at the moment,
I'm just Fl*ttening it out.

It's just a question now
of taking your time,

and making sure
you watch what you're doing.

Now all we've got to do
is polish it up...

..and see what it really looks like
when it's all nice and shiny.

Suzie is beginning work
on the drum's bespoke leather strap.

What I'll use here
is my plough gauge,

to cut a strip of leather
the same width.

And with polishing complete,

Pete can move on to the next phase
of the repairs -

replacing the skins
damaged by owner Tim

as an enthusiastic young drummer.

If we don't get this right, the rest
of the drum won't work properly.

Been done for centuries
and centuries, this job.

What's called lapping,
which is using this tool

to push the skins round the flesh
hoops and get them onto the drum.

This is a good bit,

cos we know the drum's
starting to come together now.

LIGHT THUDS

Sounding like a drum at last.

DEEP THUDS

Dom is making steady progress
with his complex project,

having completed repairs
on the rusted chassis

of the long-neglected sidecar.

Fantastic. That's the first coat
of primer done.

So after all of the prep
of the sanding and scraping back,

this is the moment now
when all of the hard work pays off.

A nice final coat of satin black
just will finish the job nicely.

OK. Perfect.

That's gone on really well.
I'll now leave that to dry,

then it will almost be ready
for reassembly.

The next job
on Dom's extensive to-do list

is to replace the sidecar's
perished vinyl cover.

So this is the fabric
for the sidecar.

It's a fantastic match
to the original.

It's a simple task now of just
laying the original pieces on,

templating round them
and just cutting them out.

That's it. That's great.
That's the first piece.

That's one of the long side panels.

Once we get this vinyl attached,

it's going to completely
transform the sidecar.

You can see the original vinyl
was faded so much,

just from dirt and grime
and just faded with the sun.

Can't wait to see it all shining
silver again, as it should be.

I think I'm realising now

how actually quite intricate
these shapes are.

Making me a little bit anxious
about putting it on,

but I think I'm going to get Jay
to help me, so we should be OK.

You're masking up. Almost there.

Now it's the scary bit.
No, it's not scary.

We've got four hands on this,
so it should be all right. Yeah.

In order to glue the vinyl evenly
onto the large wooden surface,

Dom has chosen to use
a wide web adhesive...

Look at these tools, eh?
Yeah, this is proper.

Not too much. Not too much?

DOM CHUCKLES

Now that...! It's good, isn't it?

Woohoo!

..giving Jay a chance
to release his inner Spider-Man.

THEY LAUGH

We've got one chance. One chance.

There's no peeling it back
and getting an air bubble out. No.

None of that. OK. Well,
I'm glad you're here. All right.

We've got a bit of play here.
See the blue line on the back? Yeah.

Oh, you ain't given me much,
have you, eh?!

DOM LAUGHS

All right. Hold on. Here we go.

Nice.

Oh, oh! Watch out.
Just a little twist there.

Just.

One down, six to go, eh?
Look at that! Just like that.

I said this was the difficult one.
Yeah, this is the tricky one, innit?

You know what?
That's a blinding job.

I was just the assistant there.
Don't be silly. Don't be silly.

Dom is nearing the finish line
of his epic restoration.

Now, it's all about
the finishing touches.

The final bit of trim
will cover up all those nail holes,

and just it finish off
really nicely.

At his workbench,
after hours of painstaking repairs,

Pete is ready to rebuild
the many elements

of the First World w*r
military drum.

How you doing, Pete?
All right, mate? All right.

Haven't heard no sound
coming out of you. What's going on?

I'd like to hear... Bop-bop-bop!
..something. Yeah. Don't worry.

Two more screws to go
and we're there, mate.

Suzie's done a blinding job
on this belt. That's a lovely belt.

Give it a bit of tightening.
Tighten it.

Oh, is that what the leather's for?
That's what they're for.

Yeah, they're tightening the rope...

HE TAPS
..tightening the head.

Can you play the drums? A bit.

All right.
Let's hear a professional.

Thank you, sir.

Tim is going to be made up
when he sees that.

I'm telling you. I don't even think
he's expecting anything like that.

When owner Tim brought
his grandfather's century-old drum

in for repair, it had been silent
for decades with broken heads,

a dented shell
and battered paintwork.

But percussion master Pete Woods

has put the beat back
into Tim's prized possession,

and he's back to collect it
with grandson Jacob.

Hello. You all right?

Yeah. Sound, mate. All right?
Yeah. Very good.

All right, Pete? Hi.
This is Jacob, my grandson.

Right. This is it, innit?
How you feeling?

Er...apprehensive. Knowing what it
looked like when I bought it in,

it was... You know, the skins were -
pfft! - gone, weren't they, Pete?

Shall we let him see?

I think it's time to let him
have a look, innit, mate? OK.

Ready?

Wow!

That is...

It's all right, innit?

"It's all right"!
THEY LAUGH

Yeah, you can touch it.
It's all dry? Yeah. That is...

That is something to behold, innit?
That is...

Awe-inspiring. Yeah? Yeah.

Can you imagine your great-grandad
walking off to w*r, playing it...

..playing it properly?

I would have thought
he'd be looking down now

and saying,
"That's what I took to w*r." Right.

I'd probably saying, "Try
and keep it as it is now." Yeah.

The original hoops.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Original rope.

Oh, that was the original, was it?

Suzie made some lovely braces
for it. Oh, yeah.

And she's done something else
for you.

It would've been worn
with a strap on the side.

So if you put that over you...

Oh, that's... That's the hook?

You sure you're you going to let me
loose on something like this?

Yep. Yeah, yeah.

There we go. That's a start, innit?

That's fantastic.

Pete, again, thank you very much.
A pleasure. And again, Pete.

Thanks, mate. Brilliant.
Thank you very much.

That's all right. Pleasure.
All right. Yeah. You take care now.

Cheers. Thank you very much.
Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

That blew my mind away.

My grandad was playing that in 1902,
and that is what it looked like.

As it was before,

it probably wouldn't have lasted
another year or two.

Now it will definitely be able

to be passed on to me
and maybe my kids and their kids.

To have it back to as it should be,
I think, is absolutely brilliant.

Phenomenal.

The fix of the 1930s sidecar
is nearing completion,

but there's just one important
addition left...

BIKE BELL PINGS

..before it's ready to return
to owners Chrissy and Steve.

Got Chrissy's bike.
Beautiful, isn't it?

Shall we try to fit it now?
Yeah, definitely.

You all right to give us a hand,
yeah?

I tell you what, mate...
Isn't it good?

No, you've done it, mate.
You've done it. Well done.

That makes you want to be
a kid again. I want to get in there.

That is like... How cool is that?

It's ready for...
It's more than cool, man!

This is like adventure time,
isn't it? Yeah.

You could go in there
and you're just on your travels.

Imagine being a kid
sitting in there, just feeling...

I just want a steering wheel
in there. Chrissy and Steve,

I'm proper jealous now. Yeah. I am.
I want one of these.

I'm chuffed.
The roof just tops it off. Yeah.

The windows, the trim... Yeah.
Come on! It's awesome. Come on!

Looking forward to seeing this.
Yeah, same here.

The push-bike sidecar
was once a source of adventure

for Chrissy, Steve
and their three children.

But after the youngest
outgrew the car,

it was left rotting in the shed
for decades.

They've now returned
with two of their grandchildren

to see if the sidecar
will lead another life on the road

with the next generation
of the Spooner family.

These two are obviously
too big for it now,

but we've got six grandchildren
all together,

and I think that the youngest three
will probably still fit in it.

That's why it was important
to do it now,

because we may not
have the opportunity later on.

I'm worried that maybe he hasn't
been able to do something to it,

cos it was in such a state -

I wouldn't be surprised
if he couldn't get it going again.

Hello. Hiya.

I'm Jay. And you are? Evie. Evie.

Hi, Evie. I'm Dom. I'm Zack.
Zack? Hello, Zack. Hi, Dom.

So how are you guys feeling? A bit
nervous. A bit nervous, yeah? Yeah.

So what are you hoping to see
underneath the blanket?

I'm hoping the sidecar
will be as it was 40 years ago.

All right. Hopefully.

And attached to the bike. But
I'm not sure you're going to do it,

because it was in a terrible state.

Shall we show them?
Yeah, let's show them.

Exciting!

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Wow! That's amazing!

Takes us back, don't it?
Yeah, that's just... You all right?

I've just got a flashback.
Have you? Yeah.

Of what? Of my kids being in it.

That's just amazing.

That's really nice. You OK? Yeah.

Yeah. It's a good memory, then?
It's a really, really good memory.

Yeah. It's took me back 40 years.

Well done. Thank you so much.
So thank you. Oh, you're welcome.

Can I say thank you?
Of course you can.

Thank you so much.
Oh, you're so welcome.

That must have took so much work.

Oh, look, it's got
a little window bit!

Oh, my goodness! Look!

Oh, that's just amazing.

Can I have a little look inside?
Course you can. Yeah, pop it back.

EVIE: It's so cute.
Oh, my God, it... Oh, look!

That's so cool.

STEVE: Oh, that's just...
It's blown me away, that has.

Has it? Yeah. Amazing.

SHE SNIFFS
Thank you so much.

You're welcome. Thank you so much.
You're so welcome.

It means...
It means an awful lot to us.

When I saw the sidecar, it just
brought this big emotion back.

It was like reminiscing back
40 years. It just...

Like a flashback. It was amazing.

EVIE: The sidecar looks so good.
It's amazing, isn't it? Yeah.

Can you imagine your mummy was
in that when she was little? Yeah.

Ready? Yep.

Oh, my God!
THEY LAUGH

Look at this.

Here she comes. Here she comes.

Well done!
BIKE BELL PINGS

It's really smooth. It is.
It's wonderful.

I love it! It's just like...

I'm looking forward
to having the grandkids in it.

Yeah? Yeah, it's amazing.

Thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you, thank you. OK?

STEVE: Thank you.
Thank you.

It's actually been quite emotional.

Quite emotional to see it.

And then Dom's done such
a brilliant job.

See you later!

Time just passes so quickly,
you never really get that time back.

And now we've got the opportunity
to get that time back

and put the grandchildren in it
and reminisce.

And for our children's
children's children. Yeah.

Well done, Dom. Well done, Dom.
Well done, Dom.

That was a good job done.

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