03x06 - Art Deco Lamp

[bunniefuu]

Welcome to The Repair Shop,
where cherished family heirlooms

are brought back to life.

This is the workshop of dreams!

Home to furniture restorer
Jay Blades.

Nowadays, everybody spends a fortune
on stuff that once it's broken,

they just bin it.

But everybody has something that
means too much to be thrown away,

and that's where we come in.

Working alongside Jay will be

some of the country's
leading craftspeople.

Every piece has its own story.

It's amazing to think that some of
my work becomes part of that story.

I've always played with things,
I've always repaired things,

and I just love it.

There is a real pleasure in bringing
people's pieces back to life again.

Each with their own unique set
of skills...

Right tool for the right job!

..they will resurrect, revive...

Come on, man!

..and rejuvenate...

..treasured possessions

and irreplaceable pieces
of family history.

Wow! She's fantastic!

Bringing both the objects...

Oh! This is what I remember.

..and the memories that they hold...
Wow!

..back to life.
Oh, my God!

In The Repair Shop today...

Where do you think it is now?
I don't want to say!

We've got to keep this clean,
Steve, yeah?

..a team effort to repair
an Art Deco treasure...

Come on, man. I'm going to break
this string! Are you pulling hard?

I'm pulling proper hard, mate.

..and Will wins plaudits
for his latest project.

Will, I knew you were good,
but this is marvellous!

But first, Kate Franklin
from Eastbourne needs help

with a cherished possession.

Hello!
Hello. How are you doing?

Oop! All right?

Now, what is... Oh, this is glass.
Matt, when you're ready, sir?

Stained-glass master craftsman
Matt Nickels

has worked on many historic
British buildings,

including the Houses of Parliament.

What a beautiful window. What's
the story behind this one, then?

This is something my mother gave me.

It was found by her in the back yard
of the shop that she worked in,

in Worthing.

I've always had a passionate
interest in nature and wildlife.

And I think it was just something
that was so unique that she

instantly knew that I would be
really interested in it.

And, um, we've loved it ever since.

She's gone now... Right. ..but it
means a lot to me in that sense.

It is really unique.

I mean, sometimes, you see pieces
that have got one or two bits

of kind of painted glass in them,
with just kind of...

So, these panels are painted?
Yes, yeah. Yes.

I love the images,
they're fantastic,

really beautiful illustrations,
really playful...

They are, aren't they?

I mean, I don't know how old
it's likely to be.

Is there any sort of date on it?
I would say it's late Victorian.

Really? That kind of era.

I wonder if... It could almost have
been done for children.

Well, it feels a bit like
Alice In Wonderland,

you've got a bit of Beatrix Potter
in there...

Yeah! It's nice.

So, where does this live at home?
Do you have this on display?

It's on the wall at the bottom
of the stairs.

And we love it.

My husband was able to sort of
frame it up carefully.

So, Kate,
what would you like us to do?

Well, the main thing I would like

is to see if we could get
this repaired.

I'm getting really worried about you
keeping going over that -

don't cut yourself! All right?

No, I won't.
Right, so we want that bit fixed.

There are quite a few little bits
broken and cracked. Yeah.

I think we can maybe paint that bit
and put it back together.

You fire it in the kiln once you've
painted it. You fire it in a kiln?

Yeah. Cor blimey! All right.
So, it's a big job, then?

Well, a big job for a little piece,
yeah.

OK, right!

It would be lovely to be able
to look at it in its, you know,

complete state, really.

Having the light shining through it,
which we've never been able

to do, because it's in
quite a fragile state.

Leave it with us.
We'll get Matt on the case.

Once it's fully restored,

and hopefully some light
shining through it... Yeah.

..we'll get back in contact
with you, OK? Thank you, Jay.

You take care now. Thank you both.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye now.

When your parents have gone,

the things that they gave you
mean more and more.

I think it would be lovely to see if
we can get it fixed up properly,

after all these years.

It's just something...

..exceptional and unique, really.

Now... Careful with that.

That really is nice, isn't it?

It's a shame it hasn't got
light behind it.

I think these will just really lift
with a bit of light. Yeah.

I'm really surprised, actually,
they haven't taken the backing off.

Yeah, it's just been like that
for ages.

So, you'll be able
to repair the green,

do a little bit of
painting there...?

I might try and paint the whole
thing, see how that goes.

Really, the whole thing?
Yeah, give it a go. All right.

Really looking forward to seeing
what's underneath.

Take this back off...

Matt works on a light box,

so that every flaw and crack
is illuminated.

So, what I'm doing here is
I'm going to make a rubbing -

very important to make
a good rubbing, because

when you're putting
the window back together,

these are the lines
that you work with.

While work gets under way inside...

..outside, another member of
the Repair Shop team is awaiting

the arrival of his next project.

So, what's in the boot? This is it.

This is the sea chest. Lovely.

Helping Will in
with this precious cargo

is Nigel Bolderson from Yorkshire
and his wife, Margaret.

Right. The chest! The chest!

Well, basically, it's been in
the family quite a long time

and it's had a bit of a hard life,
as you can see.

How long has this been in
the family for?

It belonged to his grandfather,
a Henry Herbert Bolderson...

Right, Henry Herbert Bolderson.
Henry Herbert.

Basically, this was his sea chest.

He passed out as a merchant seaman
from Trinity House in Hull,

went on the Merchant Orient Line
to China... OK.

..and basically,
we think he had it made there.

He was there in 1918, 1919.

Something like that. Right.
So, it's nearly 100 years...old,

it's been in the Bolderson family,
anyway.

We now have a son,
Daniel James Bolderson,

we want this for him, we want this
to be his next heirloom.

So, what is missing?

Is there anything missing,
is anything inside...?

Just these little orange plugs -
do you know why they're painted?

That has been screwed on there
at some point.

So obviously, the top has...
had been glued in the beginning,

because you wouldn't be able to get
one board big enough,

and that has split,
and in order to keep them together,

somebody has put supports
on the inside,

and they've filled over the top,

and they've made it a bit of
a feature with a bit of orange.

That would make the most amount
of sense.

What would this mean to you,
to have this restored?

Well, it enables it to keep going
on and on, through the family.

It's most important for the son.

It would be a treasure
to have that restored

and in a shape to pass on to him.

No pressure!
THEY LAUGH

It's quite a sentimental object
for me, the chest.

It's been part of his family,
it's now part of our family,

I want it to be as perfect
as it possibly can be,

cos that's how important it is,
for us and for our son.

Will wastes no time in getting
acquainted with his new assignment.

This chest is full of surprises.

Just looking on the inside here,
you can actually see there's

a ridge going round the centre,
and I think that used to have

a divider there, which means that
there might have been a drawer

on the bottom and a storage
space on the top.

What's puzzling me is what's behind
these copper panels on the front.

If I unscrew here...

Ah-ha!

That's really interesting.

That looks like it used
to have a handle.

If this is the hole for a handle,

then it's more likely
this used to be a drawer.

Hold on a second...

What do you know?

That was definitely a drawer.

That fits like a glove.

So, if the side handles were
actually the front drawer handles,

what were the original fittings
on the side of the sea chest?

Actually, looking on here now,

there might have been
a block on there

with a rope Beckett handle.

So, there's a possibility that would
have had a rope handle

and these were on the front.

Oh!

How many nails have they used
on this board?!

And glue.

Oh, that's really lethal.

Right, so that's out.

Ah-ha!

They've even left the original
lock on the back.

I think it's still nailed in
from the side,

so I might have they use
a little hacksaw

to cut those nails off,
get that drawer front out,

then I can get stuck into making
a new drawer.

There's more deconstruction
happening outside,

on the Victorian
stained-glass panel.

Matt is breaking the window down
into its individual panes,

and that means removing
all the original leading.

You do worry sometimes,
because you're dealing with these,

and obviously, if you just get
a tiny little nip into the edge

of the glass, then that's going
to cause it all to crack.

So, you do have to be
really careful.

Using the rubbing as a template,
he must place all 81 fragile panes

of glass in the correct position,
like a stained-glass jigsaw.

You can really notice the amount
of cracks in the inner border here,

and this is one of the ones
that's worst affected by

kind of old age and just
general cracking.

Back on the light box, the real
damage starts to become clear.

The inner border here
is not painted,

it's very nice classic kind of
Victorian cathedral rolled glass,

but it's quite badly damaged.

Unfortunately,
the only way of getting this glass

is through finding another
older window,

which you then have to take apart
and use those pieces,

and unfortunately,
I don't have a window that matches.

You have to make a decision
as to whether you are going to

replace it with new glass

that's not necessarily
going to be the same tint.

To help make the decision about
whether the new glass will be

a good match, Matt cuts some
pieces as a comparison.

There is a slight difference
in greens.

Is the colour difference enough
to sway the decision?

Perhaps Repair Shop foreman Jay
can help.

To me, in my humble opinion... Yeah?

..that looks different than that.
It does.

I've really been having
a bit of a...

Oh, it's a difficult decision
to make with this.

They're both the same type of glass,
but the tint's not the same.

And it's a difficult one.

The thing is,
I could replace all of it,

but there'd just be this thing
possibly my conscience, I think...

That's what I like to hear!
..but I do like this colour.

You're the specialist
and, in my humble opinion... Yeah?

..no, yes. Yup?

OK. If I could just
leave you with that -

no, yes.

Entirely up to me! Thanks, Jay.

The decision is
to keep the old glass.

It's important for the integrity
of the window to have it there.

There are, unfortunately,

going to be a lot of extra
lead lines on the inner border,

but as it's a border and it's there
to frame the rest of the window,

hopefully, just a few extra
lead lines aren't going to make

too much difference.

Matt may be moving ahead
with his repair,

but new items are arriving
every day.

Hello?

Hello, ladies. Hello!
How are we doing?

Tricia and her husband Julius
are next in line.

Ready and waiting
are clockmaker Steve

and ceramics expert Kirsten,

who will be joining forces
on this latest assignment.

Right, what have we got here?
We have a rather elderly lady.

She's an Art Deco lamp,

and she broke her leg.

Ohh!

I see broken things all the time,
but I feel for you.

It's so upsetting, isn't it?

I would have thought a lot of these
lamps break at this point. Mmm.

Because it is very vulnerable,
isn't it?

So, tell me, how did you break it?

She was knocked off a book shelf,
by me.

You must have been devastated.

I was really, really, very sad.

Aw!

That's not the original shade.

The original one was a golden flame.

How old is the lamp?

Well, she was a wedding present
to my parents,

and then she sat on the newel post
in their house,

I remember from when I was four,
halfway up the stairs,

and she was the first thing

that you saw when you came
into the house. Oh, lovely.

When they died and I sold the house,
she came with me,

and has been lit and standing
ever since.

And we're missing her
at the moment, aren't we?

When I used to take my children
to stay with their grandparents

in the summer,
they enjoyed going to Scotland,

because they could always see
"The Lady",

and she had no clothes on!

THEY LAUGH

So, it'll be a part of their life,
as well. It will.

Yes, it will go to one of them.
Or the grandson.

She's been part of my life
since I was four,

and it would be great to have her
back, if you could mend her.

What a lovely story.
It is a good story.

I love the fact that she's just been
lit for years and years. Yeah.

When she fell off the bookcase,

Julius knows how I felt about it,
don't you, love?

Well, I was there when it happened,

and nobody else can tell just how
heartbroken Tricia was.

It would be just amazing to see her
back in place with her lamp on.

That looks quite tricky to me. Yeah.

You've got an awful lot of
weight on a very small...

It is very, very heavy.

Yes, goodness.

Certainly, welding it
is out of the question... OK.

..and then the problem
with rewiring it,

getting the wire all
the way up the tube... Yes.

..all the way upper body and down
her arm, here. That could... Yeah!

That could be quite difficult.
Yes! Absolutely.

Kirsten's skills will be called
upon to work on the lamp, too,

but first it's over to Steve
to reinforce the broken leg.

I've just finished
making the steel tube.

This piece of steel, I've turned up
to the right diameter,

so, the right size to actually slip
into the ankle and up the leg,

and drilled a hole ready
for the wire to go through.

so, hopefully that's going
to fit inside now,

and then the next job is to glue it.

Kirsten?

Could you give me a hand, please?
Yeah, sure.

Ah!
I'm a bit nervous about gluing this.

You're used to gluing stuff...
Yeah, absolutely.

..and I'm not used to
doing this at all.

The tube fits in there
really, really well,

so, I've got to put some glue on
there, push it in there,

put some glue and there,

and because it all wriggles
around a bit,

I need to do it in one,
and do it quickly. OK.

We've only got one go at this. Yeah.

Got it? Yep, ready.

Blimey,
the weight of responsibility.

Well, the thing is, if it all goes
wrong now, I can blame you.

And the foot points that way.

Right. I'm ready.

So, are we ready to go?

Yeah. OK.

I'm sure you'll do an amazing job.

I have huge, huge trust in you.

Right... You got it? Yeah.

Foot round the right way?

Ha, ha.

I think that's fine.

To assist Will in returning
the sea chest to its former glory,

Jay has sent out a mayday
for some specialist help.

Not another sea chest. No, no...

Jay, I haven't even finished
the first one!

Give me a chance to speak!
Slow down.

So, you asked me for
a rope specialist... Yeah.

..and a sea chest specialist.

Will, meet Des. Des, meet Will.

Hi, Des. Hi, Will.
Nice to meet you, mate.

Ah. So, this is what we've got.

Des Pawson has a lifelong passion
for all things maritime,

and is an expert
in sailors' ropework.

What you think?

It's... It's camphor wood, yeah?

So, I mean, that's Far East, China,
or somewhere like that. Right, yeah.

Um... That fits in with the story.

What's this at the front, here?
So, there...

What's gone on here?
There would have been a drawer.

Ah, So it had a drawer at
the bottom?

Originally - or, actually,

I think that it had actually been
commissioned to have drawer,

because the dovetail joints only
go down so far. Oh, right. Yeah.

I would say - I mean, it's not an
ordinary seaman's chest, is it?

It must be in officer's
chest of some sort.

You know, the officer -
captain, even.

A captain. Yeah, so...

I've been informed that a member of
the family had been a captain...

Right. ..and this had possibly
been made for him.

I think it would be nice to make
some rope handles for the sides.

So, you think that this
may have had rope handles.

I think this may have had
rope handles,

because I realised that these
handles, that WERE on the side...

OK. ..actually belonged
to the drawer front.

I mean, there's not a lot of oomph
in there, is there?

No, there's not a lot of oomph
in there. Not really,

when you get that full of gear.

You want me to make a pair
of handles, rope handles...

Rope handles,
and I can make the cleats. Yeah.

And the cleat's a wooden thing,
isn't it?

Yeah. Have a look in there, Jay.

There's something there -
it's a bit fancy, but...

That, yeah? Yeah.
Well, that's kind of...

Do you want me to make
something...?! Whoa!

Not quite as fancy as that.
I don't think...

I mean, this is really rather
an extraordinary piece

that I've had for long time,

but a piece of wood that's got
a groove in it, rather than a hole,

a groove in it like that... Yeah.

..so that the rope will go
through there...

Like that. Like that.

Do I have to make them before
you make yours? No.

Is it like a chicken and the egg?
No, no.

It's... I'll do the rope bit...
Yeah.

..and when you're ready, you can
do the cleats. I can do the cleats.

You can just shave a bit off,
if you need to. OK.

Complex ropework is an important
part of maritime history.

Made by sailors during idle hours
aboard long voyages,

the often intricate designs
adorned furniture and clothing,

as well as having practical uses
like towropes and fenders.

Now, let's see how they look
side by side.

They're about the same.

Every time I try to do them,
I check one against the other

so they keep on as a matching pair.

Although they're going to
be either end of the chest,

they still will want to be as near
a twin set as possible.

While Des focuses on the ropework,

Will's working on
recreating the drawer

which was originally
at the bottom of the chest.

Are you all right, Will?
Do you want a hand? Ah, perfect.

If you get that mallet and give it
a little light tap in the middle...

..and on that side.

Yep.

Perfect.
Sterling job, sir. Sterling.

Sterling job.

Going to stick that on here.

I picked up a tip when I was...

..in university. Right.

That is, with the drawer like this,
like an old chest of drawers...

Yeah. ..the chances of the inside
being square is very unlikely.

Right.
So, if you're fixing a drawer,

or if you're making a new drawer,

it's always best to glue it,
tape it up,

and put it into the space whilst
it's still malleable. Yeah.

Then, once it's dried, we should
have perfect fitting drawer. Yeah.

He says!

Right, Jay, the moment of truth.

I've got faith in you. Faith? Yeah.

So...

Here we go.

What I want... Cool.

So...!

Leave it to dry,
and will see if it's...

Well, it's not going to stick in
there, anyway, is it?

It's not going to stick in there,

but it should dry in the right
shape that I need.

How are you getting on?

Well, virtually finished,
virtually finished.

I've just got the ends to trim.
Virtually finished. Yeah, yeah.

So, I mean...

They'll just fit here.

They...
So, as the cleat goes on here...

You've done a great job. I have a
very slight confession to make. And?

I haven't actually made
the cleats yet. Oh!

I know!

But... Yeah.

At least my rope handles are there
for you to make the cleats.

So, the whole chicken and the egg
thing, you got the egg,

I'm going to go and be a...
Chicken maker. A chicken maker.

A chicken maker. Yep. Brilliant.

Spurred on by Des,

Will's getting down to
the business of cleat making,

and he' adding his own
special nautical touch.

I've carved the cleats.

Given it a bit of a sand,
made it look quite old, ish,

so it doesn't look too, too new.

I'm just about to screw this on,

so, I'm so close -
but still sort of quite far away.

Stained glass expert Matt

has reached a challenging point
in his project -

replacing the glass portrait of the
fish, by painting an exact replica.

So, what I'm doing now
is mixing the paint.

Different mixes can involve
different oils.

This is powder paint and I've mixed
this with gum arabic and water.

You can use vinegar.

Some people, I've heard, in medieval
times, used to use urine,

but you'll be happy to know
I'm not using that today.

When you're painting, you want to
be able to do one fluid line.

It's just practice, really.

When it's fired in the kiln,

you never know exactly how
the glass is going to behave.

Sometimes it doesn't really take,

but you've just got to hope
it comes out right,

and just kind of guess
how it's going to work.

Very excited about this.

Putting the paintwork in the kiln.

Carefully does it.

You never know exactly
how it's going to come out,

so fingers crossed it's
going to be all right.

Just give it a quick wipe.

Ooh. It's lovely.

Looking great.

Pop that on the window.

You've done it.

I have indeed. Yeah, yeah.

So... Oh, well done. Yeah.

But I'm not actually going to
use the whole thing.

I've decided that I'm going to...

..just replace this piece,
rather than the whole lot.

You're going to...

..basically cut that small
section... Yeah.

..and put it into there.

I am indeed, yeah. You're...
Sounds a bit crazy, doesn't it?

Well, I sort of understand, though,

because you keeping the integrity
of the whole thing.

That's the thing. But you're
going to cut that section out?

Cos I know how glass
is difficult to cut.

I'm going to have to risk it.

I'm gobsmacked you're
going to do that.

So what happens if you're cutting
this and it suddenly goes, "Dink!"

goes the wrong way and...?
Well, hopefully that won't happen.

Hopefully that won't happen!

Well, good luck. Thanks, Steve.

So, what I've carefully done

is I've drawn here

exactly where to cut,

so, I'm going to give it a go.

Fingers crossed.

All right, next one.

Fingers crossed.

Again.

Let's have a look... Cool.

I'm just going to use these
to help me break it along there.

There we go.

Final little bit to go.

There we go.

Let's have a look.

Fingers crossed...

It's pretty good. Colours are
a great match, it's a good fit.

That's bang on.

Using copper foil, Matt carefully
fuses the four pieces together...

Want to be able to do this
in just one fluid line.

..and re-leads the entire panel.

I can't wait to see Kate's face
when she sees this,

because it hasn't really seen
the light of day yet.

It's had a white board behind it,

and it hasn't really
been able to shine.

Do you want to have a quick look
at this? I'd love to!

That looks absolutely amazing.

Oh, my word. Beautiful.

Love that border.

Yeah. Amazing. Amazing.

Across the workshop, another repair
is making good progress.

This really fits very, very well.
I'm very pleased.

There's only a small,
small crack there, now.

Yeah. I saw that.

It's going to be quite tricky

with this sort of pattern, now,
I think, but... Yeah. Yeah.

..yeah, I'll certainly give it a go.

The big challenge of any repair
is making it invisible,

and this is proving to be quite
a test for Kirsten's palette.

So, my lady's nearly done.

I've just been retouching
the little area along her ankle

where Steve joined her.

The colour's been quite tricky to do

cos there's a sort of
patina on this. Erm...

But I'm hoping that actually
that's blended in quite nicely

and she looks nice for Tricia again.

There she is. What do you think?

Oh, fantastic. Is that OK?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's brilliant.
Thank you. You're welcome.

Now Steve needs to rewire the lamp,

and it's a tricky task.

I've got to thread this wire up
through her leg, through her body

and then at that angle it's got
to go up there through her arm...

Really? ..and then change angle
again and come out.

How are you going to do that?

What I've done is I've got this
really strong cotton. OK.

Really strong. You can't break that.

And what I've done is I've tied
a little weight to it. Yeah?

So I'm now going to just pop
that in there and hopefully,

it's going to go all the way
through.

So you're trying to push it
to get down her arm.

The weight should just take it down.

Where do you think it is now?
I don't want to say.

We've got to keep this clean,
Steve, yeah? Seriously!

Should be there now.

Oh, there it is. Steady on!

There we go. Wow.

All right, so now what you're
going to do is stick that to that

and pull it through, yeah? Yeah.

Just need to tie the line
onto the wire.

Hopefully that's going to
pull up quite easily.

OK, go on, then. Pull. I'm ready.

Are you pulling? I'm there.
Come on, man.

I'm going to break this string.
Are you pulling hard?

I'm pulling proper hard, mate.

Come on, come on, come on.

There we go. Wahey! That's it.

That was easy, wasn't it?

Well done.

Meanwhile, Will has uncovered
yet another hidden feature

on the sea chest.

You have these awful brackets here
and I was trying to work out

what they are, why they're there,

what this crack going down
the centre of the lid is.

On closer inspection on the top
of the sea chest,

I can actually see that
there are three marks there.

I think they could be hinge marks,
so originally,

this top was possibly hinged.

It's another...

Just another piece of work
on this list.

This sea chest just keeps on,
you know,

unveiling so many hidden secrets.

But I definitely think that it'll
be worthwhile once I've finished.

Will has got a vast amount
to do on the chest

and very little time to do it.

They're literally coming in
in just over an hour,

so I'm running out of time and I
really hoped that these brackets

would come off a lot easier
than they are,

but I think persistence
will pay off.

I do know how to use a file,

but I'm just trying to make it
look old so...

I do know that's how you file.

This is just a bit of ageing.

Nigel and Margaret are back
to collect their treasured chest

which sailed across the China seas
with Nigel's grandfather.

I must say, I'm feeling
a bit nervous this time.

I think it's nervous excitement.

Years and years of not being loved.

It needed TLC - tender loving care.

It's something that we'll hand down
to our son and that will be

four generations of Boldersons
who will have owned the sea chest.

You all right?
Nice to see you again. And you.

Nice to see you.

JAY: You haven't seen it yet
and you've given him a hug.

So, what are you expecting to see
underneath here?

I'm expecting to see something
which was past its best

being brought back
to its former glory.

Going to show her? Yeah, go on.

I'll let you take it off. OK.

Oh, my goodness!

Wow. Oh!

Well, I knew you were good,

but this is marvellous.

When we last looked at the lid,

there were wooden brackets
on the inside.

Yes, yeah. With the red bits on.

With the orange bits
and everything else.

But there was this line going across
here and these holes

and everything else,

so I realised that actually,
hinges used to go in there.

Right. OK. So you could actually
open it like this.

Oh, wow! Wow.

Wow, look at that. This is stunning.

You've got all the grains
coming out and everything.

I think you'll notice that this
actually used to be

just one big empty space,
whereas now you've got this here.

Something underneath.

In the drawer.

I'll let you open up the drawer.
Can I? If there is a drawer.

Ta-dah, ta-dah!

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

And I've actually used
near enough all the wood

that was actually inside there
to make the new drawer.

Where did you find the pattern,
the ideas for these?

Well, the handles -
that was interesting as well.

So we actually had
an expert come in.

His name was Des and Des has been
making ropes for over 60 years.

Uh-huh. And he made these
rope handles. He made the ropes?

He made the rope handles
which are called beckets

and I made the wooden part
called a cleat.

What do you think? Well, I think
it's absolutely stunning.

MARGARET: Yeah, stunning.

I don't know if you've noticed,
on the top, something that wasn't

actually there in the beginning
but it's just an added touch.

The initials.
Henry Herbert Bolderson.

So, your son's going to get this?

He's going to have this.
He wants it. After a while.

We're going to keep it for a while.
LAUGHTER

So, has Will done
the family proud, then?

NIGEL: Absolutely.

Henry Herbert would be
thrilled to bits.

It's something that, you know,
was part of him

and it's still carrying on.
How good is that?

It's brilliant. And it's still
within the family as well.

Yeah, mm-hm.

Really, really, really pleased
with that. That's excellent.

Now I look at it and
I'm just in awe. In absolute awe.

It's a work of art now.
It's a work of art.

Yeah, those rope handles as well
really finish that off.

That's a stunning finish to it,
that is.

It probably won't have as rough
a time in the future

as it's had in the past because
sailing the China seas,

South China Seas for 10, 15 years
like it did.

It's rebuilt now and ready to go
again, so that's brilliant.

Stained glass expert Matt
has been painstakingly repairing

a Victorian painted window panel,

but needs help with
the wooden frame.

Matt, you've done
a great job with that.

Oh, thanks very much, Will.

If they hang it up against
the window... Yeah.

..then this side here's going to be
visible from the outside,

so I was wondering if you'd be able
to sand that down, stain it.

It would be nice to have the back
looking just as good as the front.

Yeah. If you take the glass for now
so I can get sanding

and then I'll give you a shout
for the glass. Great. Brilliant.

This is the really fun part.

This is when you start
to get really messy,

so all of the other stages
you're very precise,

you're very kind of clean cut with
what you're doing, whereas this...

You get this leaded light cement
and you splodge it on.

Matt uses leaded light cement

to fix all 81 pieces of glass
securely into position.

When it sets,
it's going to set rock-hard...

..and what this is doing is this
is drawing the moisture up.

A final thorough buff and shine

before it's put back
into its newly stained frame.

Time for Kate to be reunited with
the painted glass window panel

that her late mother
salvaged for her.

Feeling a little bit nervous,
a little bit excited,

and looking forward to seeing
the window again...

..and thinking about my mum.

Before, one of the illustrations
had some substantial damage to it.

It's had a backing on it
all these years and a frame

which we put it in to stabilise it,

so we've never actually
had it displayed

with the light coming through it.

Ah. Hi, there, Kate.
Morning, Matt. All right.

Nice to see you.
Nice to see you, yes. All right.

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

Ooh!

Oh, fantastic.

That's amazing.

The more you look at them,
the more things you see.

Like this little caterpillar here.

Yeah. They are real things,

but slightly fantastical
a lot of them, aren't they? Mm.

It does feel a lot like
an illustration from a book,

doesn't it? It does, yes.

So what I've done to this window
is I've taken it all apart.

Will helped with the frame.

It's really nicely polished...
Oh, yes. ..as well.

It's looking very smart. Yeah,
it's looking really nice, isn't it?

Lovely, isn't it?
Yeah, it's great.

He's done a really good job.

I can't believe that you had
a board behind there for so long.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

It was actually back to front.

This is the front side
and it was originally actually

the other way round.

So we've had it the wrong way round
all these years?

You have, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

It's really nice that you
kept this original panel

rather than replacing it completely.

That's amazing.

So, if your mother could see this
hanging up against the window

with the light shining
through it...

I think she'd be really
chuffed that she's...

A, that she rescued it
in the first place. Yeah.

Because she knew
how much I'd like it.

And she'd be really pleased
to see it in this restored state.

She'd be tickled pink.

I've just been fascinated by
the process and it's a shame my mum

couldn't be here to see it.

Yeah, it's a super job.

It means a lot to me.

I've got...fired up
about it, really.

I might see if I can find out
what its history might be,

so I think there's work
to be done there.

With the owners due back to
collect the Art Deco lamp,

Jay's checking the repair
is running to plan.

This is the glass cover
for the Deco lady lamp.

This wasn't the original cover and
Tricia showed us some photographs

and the original one was actually

this sort of yellow colour.
Oh, was it?

So we thought it would be a nice
touch if we could actually

give it back to her...
That is a nice touch.

So, this is all dried up
and everything's...

Yeah, yeah. ..ready to rock and
roll? Yeah, it's all done, actually.

So I can take this over
to Steve now? Yeah.

Thank you. All right.
Cheers, then, Jay. See you later.

Look what I've got, Steve.

That looks really good. Yeah?

That looks absolutely fantastic.
This is meant to be like a flame.

Yeah. So she's holding the flame up?
A bit like the Olympic torch, then.

Yeah, exactly, yeah.

Don't turn it too fast.
It's not screwed on.

It might fall over, yeah?
You'd be in trouble then.

I'd be in trouble with everybody,

but we've got to get this fixed.
We've got to get there, Steve.

I'm there. It's all about
getting there. I'm there.

Destination, that's it.
That's what I like to hear.

Tricia and Julius have returned
to collect the lady with the lamp

that lit their family
home for decades.

I keep being told that I'm looking
worried, but I'm really hoping that

she'll be standing up straight and
holding her lamp as she did before.

Hello, how are you?

Fine, thank you, Steve.

Look at this.

So, are we excited? Very.

That's putting it mildly.

Right, here we go.

Oh, my...

Oh, how... There we go.

She is just...beautiful.

I'm just going to turn it on.

Oh, wow!

Julius said it was going
to be like Christmas.

And it's better. Ah, bless! Oh!

How did you do it?

I did drill into her leg one way
and then the other way

and then I turned up a steel tube,
glued it in.

Then Kirsten filled
the little crack that was there

and then coloured it in.

And she also coloured the...

She has a new shade.

It is just...

It's a beautiful job.

Every bit as good
as we hoped, Steve.

Oh, good. Thank you so much.

No, it's been an absolute
pleasure to do,

so...thank you for bringing her in.
Tricia's happy again.

LAUGHTER

It was like Christmas morning.

She is just beautiful.
And the shade was white,

It's now a beautiful golden colour

which actually enhances the bronze

so, all in all,
she's pretty perfect.

She is a part of my childhood,

she's a part of my life with
my parents before I left home

and she continued my relationship
with them after they were gone,

so she's very much part of my life,

Julius's life and will be
my children's life one day.

Join us next time as more
treasured possessions are revived

and their precious memories
restored...

..in The Repair Shop.