04x13 - Leather Pouffe

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Welcome to The Repair Shop,

where much-loved but
broken treasures...

This is amazing.
It is absolutely brilliant.

..are brought back to life.

Welcome to my universe.

It's pretty marvellous.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

It's so nice that we can be part of
that history,

to just keep things going.

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

I'm having a lot of 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.

Is this 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.

Oh, thank you so much.

I 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,

a little plane with a big history.

To someone who doesn't know
the story behind it,

you know, it's just a small
wooden plane.

Little do they actually know that
this was made between bombing raids.

While Brenton and Suzie...

It's a bit of origami, isn't it?
It is exactly like origami!

..put the shine back into
a stunning silver purse.

You'd normally be turning it
over and over

to get a perfect finish on it.

There is no chance of me
doing that to this.

It's got to be absolutely spot on
straight from the punt.

The first visitor to The Repair Shop
is Lou Cringle from Manchester.

She needs help rescuing
a prized possession

with an intriguing history.

How are you doing? I'm Jay.

Very well, thanks. I'm Lou.
Nice to meet you.

Hi, Lou. I'm Suzie.

Lovely to meet you. You too.

So, what's in the bag?

Well, this is a very, very

well-loved well-worn,

leather pouffe, or dumpty,

as I have been reminded we used to
call it when we were children.

It belonged to my grandma, Muriel,

who sadly passed away a couple
of Christmases ago.

But this object was in my
grandma's living room

for as long as I can remember.

We think, from talking to my mum,
my aunties,

that she brought it back.

She was stationed in Egypt
in the w*r - she was a Wren -

and so as we understand it, this is
a sort of souvenir of that time.

Right.

The Women's Royal Naval Service
was originally formed in 1917

to release more Navy servicemen
for front line duties.

By 1943 there were 74,000 Wrens
in the UK and overseas,

and they played a major role
in planning and organising naval

operations during World w*r II.

This was probably one of her
greatest adventures

that she went on, and this was a
little memento that she brought back

from that time when she travelled.

What are your earliest memories
of it?

I'd say my earliest memory is of me
and my younger brother jumping off

and doing kind of commando roles.

I think that's quite telling of what
grandma was like

because at grandma's house, you can
do anything. Yeah. Yes!

It was like jumped on,
it was thrown around,

everyone sat on it
and ate their tea.

It's just an old leather pouffe

but it's just such a part
of our memories of our grandma.

It sounds like it. Sounds like it's
part of the family.

Yeah, it is!

Why do you want this restored now?

Well, my grandma Muriel would
have been 100 years old,

so she's been very kind of
front-of-mind.

Well, she's always front-of-mind,
but particularly at this time.

I mean she was your kind of
archetypal grandma,

as in she used to read us
Enid Blyton stories

and she knitted and she cooked.

You know, you think back, imagine
grandma sitting in her chair,

knitting, chatting to us,
and this is here,

and to have it back as it used to be
or a semblance of what it used to be

would just be really, really...

Well, I can't even imagine.

What is it you would like me
to attempt to do?

Well, in an ideal world, I'd love
it to be used like we used it.

I'd love my daughter to be
jumping off it and sitting on it
eating her tea.

It would be lovely to have
it strong enough

to be part of the furniture again,

and when all the family gets
together, it's there.

And Suzie I'm just amazed
that you've even...

JAY AND SUZIE CHUCKLE
..considered taking it on!

I mean, I thought there was
something living in it at one point!

Probably is. Yeah, probably.

A mouse. Give it a shake and
there'll be a little mouse.

I mean, I promise there isn't!
I don't think there actually is!

Well, we'll wait and see. Exactly.
Something might pop out.

This is going to be quite the
challenge, I make no bones about it.

You have set me the ultimate
challenge! Oh, my goodness.

OK. And I assure you I will do
everything in my powers

to achieve what you want.
And that's all I ask.

That is all I ask, and that
will be wonderful, I'm sure.

But fingers crossed.
I'm going to need it! OK.

We'll be in touch when it's ready.
Thank you. See you!

I think my biggest misapprehension
is simply that Suzie'll call

and say, "I'm so sorry, Lou,
we couldn't fix it

"and it's in a little bag."

But I'm just so excited to see it,

and I just want it to live on
and to keep going

and to be there for another
generation, really.

You were quite quiet. You all right?

THEY LAUGH

I'm in a state of shock and panic.

Oh, my word!

What am I going to do here?
It is a big job.

It's a huge job, but...

lovely story. Yeah.

Love Muriel, the grandmother.

She sounds like the best
grandmother ever.

Yeah. And I completely get why Lou
would like us

to put this back into
usable condition.

Yeah. And it is going to be used.

Is it cool? You can do it?

Have to!

That's what I like to hear. OK.

Let's get it over to your bench,
then. All right.

This is such a lovely design

and there are 110 separate pieces.

I'm going to basically take every
single part apart

and line the back of them

to give them that strength
and integrity back.

First thing I need to do is to
remove the stuffing on the inside

which is a type of coconut hair.

So, just going to put a mask on

because I think there
might be a little bit of dust.

Ready for surgery.

Here we go.

Nice big stitches here,

so it should be easy enough.

Let's see if I can start
pulling this out.

Think of all the years that
it's had people sitting on it,

it's really compressed
all those fibres.

There we go.

There we have our first layer.

It'd be nice if it all comes
out in layers like that.

Nothing's living in it.

That's good.

It's great.

Suzie's facing a huge challenge

but the next visitor has something
a little more pocket sized.

Jonathan Owen, from Rye in Sussex,
has brought in a prized possession

with an incredible w*r story
behind it.

Hi there.

I'm Will.

Hi, Will. Nice to meet you.

I've got an old model Spitfire
that was given to me by my father.

I inherited it from him.

He died earlier this year,
and he was given it by his brother,

who is ten or 11 years older
than him. Yep.

My Uncle Reggie,
he was a b*mber boy.

He used to fly Lancasters
during the Second World w*r.

Lancaster b*mber? Really?! Yeah.

His younger brother, my dad,

was quite in awe of his
older brother,

and during the gaps between
the missions,

he would carve him
this model aircraft.

Sadly, my uncle got shot down
on his 19th mission in 1943.

The items were returned

after Reggie was found,
reported missing,

and wrapped was this model
Spitfire...

Um.

..that Reggie had done
for his younger brother.

So it's the first he knew about it.

Apparently my uncle had time,
according to one of the survivors,

he had plenty of time to jump,
but he didn't.

He went back to save the guy
who was injured in the c*ck,

um, and went down with the plane.

So it's quite important
that, you know... Yeah.

..I, you know, look after this,
and it's an important piece.

It was left at my grandmother's
house.

So although it was my dad's,
he left it with his parents.

They had a sideboard which was
effectively like a shrine to Reggie.

So, on the shrine was this plane,

and as a... You know, because it was
like a toy to me,

my dad said, "Look after that,"

he said, "Because when I die,
you'll look after this."

Sadly I didn't do a very good job,
because, um,

my dad had been dead a few days
and as my mum was handing it to me

I dropped it.

There's quite a lot of
responsibility

that I felt with this piece

and I felt I'd fallen at the first
fence, really,

because, you know, my dad told me

that although my uncle was k*lled at
21, his story must live on,

and I felt in an instant
I'd dropped the story.

Uh...

Sorry.

Yeah, so I'm...

I've probably got to get that wing
back on, one way or another,

so I can then, you know,
keep the story going.

So, yeah, I felt...

I felt quite bad.

I know it's lot of responsibility
for you, Will, but...

Well, I'll say one thing -

it looks like it has been dropped
before at some point... Yeah.

..and someone has tried
to stick it back on,

so I wouldn't totally
blame yourself.

Oh, that's very good of you, Will.

Um, I'm...

That is wonderful work,

and he must've painted himself
as well, then.

Yeah, the whole thing.

It's been difficult to move on
with this

because I felt so bad, you know.

And so it would be amazing if you
could do anything with it, Will.

I'll see what I can do
for you. Lovely.

Thanks, Will. Thanks very much for
bringing it down.

Cheerio. Bye-bye.

I feel that I've let my dad
and my uncle down

because it's on my shoulders to keep
it for future generations,

just to hand down and, er...

So it's important that I...

That I get it back to its former
glory, really.

Quite charming, actually, to know
that Uncle Reggie made this

for Edward between bombing raids.

When you think about the environment
that Uncle Reggie was in,

it's a pretty good job.

So, what I want to do is a real
sympathetic restoration.

I don't want to repaint this
because it sort of takes away

the fact that Reggie
had painted this

and I kind of want to keep it as
close to as it looked originally.

At some point it looks like the
back tail there has broken

so I'll just try to glue that back
together. It's quite wobbly.

As you can see, it's just come
off with my fingers.

The first thing I'm going to do

is clean off some of this
old glue and...

..find out if I can get
a better fit.

Sometimes, when things
like this break,

instead of cleaning
out the old glue,

people put in new glue
on the old glue

and then it sort of just builds up

and it will never be as strong
as it would be

if you sort of take it all back
down to the wood

and glue and clamp it up again.

Across the barn, with all the
stuffing removed from the pouffe,

Suzie can assess the condition
of the leather exterior.

These are all the side panels,
have been taken apart.

It's Like a flower,

just opening all the petals.

I'm looking to save most
of these individual pieces.

I just have to remove them,
line them to reinforce them,

and then sew them back.

But, my goodness,

there is an awful lot to do here.

I know how much this means
to Lou and her family.

This is such an important piece.

I'd rather take the time that's
needed to do a really good job

so I'm trying to make sure
I get every stitch.

I decided to...

..number all the individual pieces

so there's no question as to how
they were joined together.

And as I'm taking each
section apart

I'm putting them into a box,

and they are in number order
as well.

To help the leather last
another 70 years,

Suzie is going to line every
individual piece

with a supportive backing.

I'm using the pigskin leather
because of its strength

and flexibility without
being too bulky.

This is my contact cement,

and I love this stuff
because when it dries,

it remains really flexible.

And the reason why I'm going
to this trouble

is so the kids can jump on it,

they can kick it around
the living room.

Lou and her family can continue to
enjoy the pouffe

for many, many, many more
years to come.

I have a very, very, very
long way to go

before I'm really in control
of the situation,

but I'll tell you now,

when - not if, but when -
I get this done,

you're going to see the biggest
grin on the planet

because I will be so happy.

With the pieces now strengthened
by their backing,

Suzie can work on improving
the condition of the leather.

So, I'm going to just dab
on the saddle soap

rather than drag the cloth
across it,

Which would create a little bit
more damage.

It's just going to give it a nice
little bit of food,

help flatten everything down in a
non-greasy, oily way.

Now all I need to do is let all that
saddle soap absorb back in

and repeat the process.

Any segments that are too far gone
to line and condition

will be replaced.

But Suzie wants to keep as many of
the original leather pieces

as possible.

So now comes the fun time of
stitching all the pieces together.

So I'm just going to start
with joining number one and two.

Between each patch is a new piece
of folded leather.

I'll have to insert a layer
of piping.

Then pop it in the clams.

And I'm going to be sewing
this by hand

as it originally was done.

I'm using two needles

and this is double hand stitching,

which just creates a very solid,
secure join

of the old and the layers
of leather.

That's the final stitch.

Time to see what we've got.

Just open that up
and we see that piping.

That's the piping I've just put in,

joining the two pieces together.

That's looking really nice.

So, that's two pieces sewn together.

So I think I have my work cut
out for me today.

Next into The Repair Shop
is June Gooney from Sheffield.

She's got a family treasure
that needs the Midas touch

of silversmith Brenton West.

Hi, I'm Brenton.

Hello, I'm June.

Nice to meet you. What have you
brought me?

I've brought you my mother's
silver purse.

Aah.

Lovely. It's a little bit battered.

Tell me...

..about the purse.

It belonged to my mother.

Her name's Marjorie Anderson.

She was born in 1926.

The mother I remember was always
really happy, smiling.

I was only 22 when she died

and I think we just got to the stage
where we were becoming friends

rather than just mother and
daughter.

And so this...
She left this to you or...?

After Mum died, my dad gave me
everything of my mother's

because he couldn't bear
to look at anything.

It was so upsetting for him.

And I can remember it
from being a child.

I don't know where
she got it from

but I just remember it
always being there.

But other than that I don't really
know anything about it.

I noticed there's some items
in here.

That is a 1900 Victoria crown

and I've always been told that

that was my grandfather's
first week's wages.

Why didn't he spend it?

I don't know! I would've...
THEY LAUGH

I don't think I should be allowed
to look after that. Thank you.

And I noticed something else here.
What else is...?

That's my mum's wedding ring.
Oh, wow.

So that's very precious to me.

Again, I don't think I should be
looking after that either

so maybe I'll give you that as well.
Thank you. OK.

I will make sure I keep that
somewhere safe until it gets it...

OK, yeah. That's brilliant.
That's its vault... OK.

..that I keep it in. OK.
So, tell me, June,

what's the problem with
this lovely silver purse?

Well, as you can see,
it's all very dented,

both sides of it, actually,
quite badly.

And inside as well,
the leather is...

I don't know if it's torn or come
unglued but that's not...

It's a bit perished, isn't it?
It is, yeah. Yeah. OK.

It's certainly, erm,

going to be a challenge.
JUNE LAUGHS

I'd be amazed if you can
do anything with it, actually.

I've never done anything
because I didn't think

it could be repaired. No.

And if we can repair it...

Wow.

I'm assuming my mother saw it
as it was and to see it...

see something that she saw
would be just amazing.

My mother was very special to me.

She was very...

..very caring and unselfish,
she didn't do anything for herself.

Right. She would do things
for other people

and she never wanted
anything for herself.

Well, let's do this for her,
shall we? Yeah. Yeah.

That would be lovely. OK. Brilliant.

Thank you very much. OK.
Thank you.

To have the purse repaired
would be so special.

Just something I could do for her
because I didn't get the chance

to do anything for her cos
I was quite young when she died,

so this is my chance now
to do something for her.

While Brenton assesses
the silver purse,

it's chocks away for Will on the
repair of the model Spitfire.

I've decided to glue the wing

and the tail back on with
quite a quick setting glue.

It's a two part glue that
you mix together.

It's incredibly strong.

My only worry with this is
it's quite a tricky thing

to clamp together.

It's not as easy as clamping
together two flat pieces of wood,

you can get the clamps on there.

Because of the shape of the wing,
you can't sort of clamp it there

because too much pressure
will flex that.

So what I might have to do is
glue it on and hold it in place

with my hands for five minutes.

And that's also the reason why I am
using this quick drying glue

because I need to hold it with my
hands and I can't be here overnight

with some wood glue, so I'm going
to go for the wing first.

So I mixed up enough glue there
that I could do the tail as well

as the wing, but I can't
really hold that in place.

Sometimes I wish I was born
with four arms

because then I could do jobs
like that all at the same time.

But it's not worth rushing into.

We'll wait for this to dry
then I'll move onto the tail.

Now that the wing and the tail

have been glued on, erm...

..I'm going to turn my attention
to that propeller.

It looks like it's missing a blade.

It would've had three blades
originally and, erm, sadly,

only two now.

I'm going to, hopefully, trace round
one of these blades here,

cut it out of this really
thin bit of metal

and I should have a lovely
three-bladed propeller again.

So I roughly cut out the outline

of the missing propeller blade
on the saw,

but the metal is so fine there's
only so much that you can do

before risking cutting off a finger
or breaking the metal.

I'm going to refine it
now with some files.

So I've put some glue on there,

I'm just going to get a clamp
on to flatten it.

Make sure that the new piece
of metal and the old propeller

have a really nice bond.

That amount of pressure from the
clamps should be just enough...

..to glue those
two pieces together.

With his repairs done, Will must now
blend in his handiwork with paint.

No day is the same
at the Repair Shop,

it's quite nice cos everything
has a different story behind it

and where it was made
and what it means to people.

And this is one of those pieces
where if there's someone

who doesn't know the history
and the story behind it, you know,

it's just a small, wooden plane.

Little do they actually know that
this was made between bombing raids.

And, unfortunately...

..Reggie didn't come home,

so this being one of the things
that did come home

makes it even more important
to restore and to keep for...

..Jonathan's family
and for future generations.

Suzie's overcome the huge challenge
of repairing the leather pouffe.

First backing and conditioning
piles of individual pieces,

then hand sewing over 300 seams.

Just got to join the last
two pieces together,

which is really quite exciting
for me.

I have to admit that there was
the odd occasion where it seemed

like it was going to be the
never ending journey here.

And...

..I feel that this was
the right thing to do,

taking all the pieces apart.

Just going to cut off this tab
here.

OK, that is the wall...

..sewn together.

So it's now ready for me
to join the top to it and, er,

really, it's going to start coming
together and creating that form

of the original pouffe, which I am
really, really excited about now.

I just want to get going on it.

With the exterior leather
shell intact,

Suzie can begin to stuff it
tightly with coconut hair.

While I'm doing this, I'm noticing
how much weight Dumpty's putting on.

It's getting heavier and heavier.

I want to make sure
this goes on for years.

With the final seams sewn shut,
this once ragged and deflated pouffe

is now ready to be presented
to owner Lou.

The dumpty means an awful lot to me

because it was such a part
of my childhood.

To me, it's really representative
of my grandma

and I think now that
she's no longer here,

it's just a really important thing
to bring back to life

and have a little piece of her
living room

and that kind of happiness
in my living room, basically.

Hello, Lou. Hello. It's great to see
you again. Lovely to see you.

Hello, Jay. How you doing, Lou? You
all right? Yeah, I'm very excited.

Are you? I'm very excited.

I'm so glad you're still
talking to me.

THEY LAUGH

Hm, just. Just about.

So what sort of condition was
Dumpty in when you left him here?

Oh, my goodness,

it just looked like it had been
through the wars,

through the wars,
so it was an absolute state.

So, what are you hoping for, then?

I think anything would be an
improvement here, to be honest.

Well, let's hope that I've been
able to deliver, shall we?

Oh, my goodness. Ready? Yes.
OK, let's go.

Oh, my...

..goodness!

How on Earth?

It looks about twice
the height as well.

Oh, that's absolutely incredible.

Oh, my heart is pounding.

Thank you. That is
absolutely amazing.

Well done. I didn't think it was
going to be anything like that!

That's so beautiful.

Beautiful. Because you were
wishing that you could use it...

Yes. ..again. Yes. I only replaced
what I absolutely had to. Yes.

This is sturdy. I mean,
this can take children.

Yeah, yeah. This has been
given the Suzie treatment,

so this is strong enough.

I am over the moon.

This is... Oh, this is wonderful.
This is wonderful.

You can take that to your
home with you now. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you.
Thanks, Lou. Thank you, Suzie.

Thanks for bringing it in.
It's absolutely beautiful.

See you! OK, bye-bye. See ya.

Well done, you, eh? Yeah. Good job.

I'm so happy.

I'm so happy and so pleased
and excited to get it home.

Whenever the family are around
and inevitably the children,

it will be there
and the centre of things

and that is exactly what I wanted.

I just wanted it to
have another life.

So I am overjoyed, I'm overjoyed.

As items return home
from the workshop,

other repairs are just beginning.

Brenton has been puzzling
over the silver purse.

How we doing? Bit of an issue.

This leather in this purse
of June's,

I've got to get this out of here.

It might be needed as a pattern.

I'm a bit worried I'm going
to tear it, getting it out.

All right, cos we want to work to
the silver. Let's have a butchers.

All right. Well, you know,
this is a job for Suzie, isn't it?

I think it is, isn't it?
Cor, blimey, that's delicate.

Thin, isn't it? Suze? Mm.

Have a look at this.

Have a look.
Oh, isn't that beautiful?

Will it have been glued
in there, Suzie?

I think it's one of those things,
is you start taking it apart...

Right. ..you sort out
how they did it.

It's incredible, the folds
and creases in it.

It's a bit of origami, isn't it?
It is exactly like origami!

Oh, my goodness, I haven't
done origami for years.

OK, well, I'll get that taken care
of for you. Thanks.

All right, cheers.

No rest for the wicked.

Suzie's back on duty.

A concern of mine is I have never
done anything like this before.

But, thankfully, this leather's
in really good overall condition

for me to use it as a pattern.

So the first thing I need to do
is to try and ease it out,

making sure that
I don't tear the leather.

I want to keep this leather intact.

Aha...

I've found this other layer
underneath here.

This, this is really helpful.

The leather has been glued
around this very fine cardboard

that's created the shape...

..and gives me a little bit of hope
here in being able to replicate it.

This is fantastic.

So, anyway, got the leather removed,

I can now give this back to Brenton

and let him get this case sorted out

and I'll make a start
on replacing the leather.

So now I've got two halves,

these are really, really thin,
they weigh nothing.

I need to knock the dents out.

Tempting just to get the hammer
and just knock the dents out,

but this silver is really brittle.

So what I need to do is
to anneal it.

Annealing is the process
in which silver is heated

and cooled to alter its structure.

This makes it more malleable
and easier to work with.

So, this is called pitch,
it's made from tree resin.

The reason I'm putting
these two items onto the pitch

is the pitch is soft enough...

..to let me knock the dents out
but hard enough to support it.

So it's like a hand cradling it
from behind

and stopping the dents
getting too big.

So now I've got to warm
the pitch up,

so that it will receive
these two items.

I'm now knocking the dents
from the inside outwards

that's being supported by the pitch.

So I'm just gently
tapping away at it

and watching the metal
very slowly moving.

And you're normally
turning it over, over, over,

hitting each side to
get a perfect finish on it.

There is no chance of me
doing that to this,

so it's got to be absolute spot-on,

straight from the punt.

While Brenton gingerly taps away
at the exterior,

Suzie is puzzling over the
complicated folded leather interior.

I've taken it apart and I'm going
to use the pieces as a pattern.

This is very, very clever...

..once you figure out how
everything goes together.

All my little marks that I've made
knocking the dent out

are showing and what I've got to do
is very gently smooth those over.

My other problem is that
there are engraved lines,

and if I start tapping
on the engraved lines,

the engraved lines will go away.

So I'm really carefully staying
between the lines as I'm tapping.

Yes, that's looking quite nice.

That's the, erm,

the big dents that were along the
bottom have all gone now and, erm...

..the two halves of that
are looking quite good.

So I've just got to put the pin back
in the hinge and give that to Suzie.

Two halves go together like that.

Need both pairs of glasses on.

So hopefully it'll line up.

That'll go in the bit,
that'll be quite tight

so I'll need a pair of
parallel pliers to push it in.

OK, so that is
functioning properly.

Clicks shut,

and I'll give this to Suzie so she
can put the leather back in for me.

Gosh, is that what I think it is?
What do you think it is?

I think it might be my
leather lining for my purse.

You're absolutely right. Look at it.
Oh, wow. That is amazing.

I'll be very pleased if it fits.

Well, I've bashed all the dents out
so there's lots of room for it now.

You've made some extra room. It
opens all the way out like that,

so you can work in there. Yeah.

I'll put the chain on right
at the end. OK. OK.

All right, brilliant. I will...
Thank you so much. I will guard it.

Thank you. OK, thanks. OK.

It's been a tricky mission
but Will has managed to get

the model Spitfire rebuilt
and ready for action.

The plane is all back together now.

However, I thought it would be a
really nice touch to make a stand

for this. So, I'll measure
out some brass,

cut it out and start assembling it.

Well, that's all done now.

I'm really pleased that I decided
to make this stand for it.

It looks it's flying once again.

Very happy.

But Will's primary concern
is whether owner Jonathan

will approve of his handiwork.

Quite excited
but a bit nervous as well.

The fact that my dad had
looked after it carefully

for that many years and I'd had it
three minutes and dropped it.

So even if it just goes back
to how it was before I dropped it,

I'd be delighted.

I was so upset that I put it in
a box and put it in the drawer,

so, hopefully, at last I'll be able
to actually put the Spitfire out,

just like my dad had done
for 70, 80 years.

Hi there. Hiya.

Nice to have you back. Yeah. Good to
see you. How you doing, Jonathan?

Yeah, good. So, how are you feeling?

Er, a bit weird.

Nervous. Nervous. Yeah. Yeah.

Take a deep breath. OK, I will.

Oh, wow!

Can I...? Yes, of course,
it's yours.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Oh, Will, you've...

HE EXHALES

And you've done the propeller
as well. Oh, God.

Sorry. That's all right.

My dad would be so pleased.

I love... And you've kept
the integrity of it.

I was slightly scared
that, you know...

..the possibility that
you could've painted it all,

but it just looks...

Oh, I'm so grateful.

I'm so grateful. Thank you so much.
That's all right.

It was a pleasure to work on.

And I love what you've done here
because the stand is just so good

and it can have pride
of place in the house now.

So, how do you feel seeing
it in its current state now?

I can sort of move on a bit.

I-I, you know, I mean...

I dropped it and
it really bothered me.

But, obviously, I know the
story behind it, you know,

I've told my kids
the story behind it

and, you know, Reggie
died at 21 but, hopefully,

his story will live for
a long time with this.

So, thank you. Thank you so much.

It's all right. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.

Well done.

Yeah. Thank you, Jay.

Yeah. And it's over to you.
Be very careful.

Thank you. Thanks, Jonathan.
I will be. This time!

It's just fantastic, wonderful.

My dad, God rest his soul,
would be delighted.

I don't know what Reggie
would be thinking,

I don't think Reggie
ever thought that...

..this plane that he carved out
would be going down the generations,

but a fantastic job.

I feel so happy.

The plane's back in action.

Erm, it's not landed,
it's not broken,

it hasn't crashed,
it's back in action.

Work on the silver purse
is also nearing completion,

as Suzie reattaches
the folded leather insert

to the exquisite outer shell.

Lovely. I'm really,
really pleased with that.

I've never done one of these before.

I think that's going to do
a lovely job of keeping

the treasures safe and sound.

Got a present for you.

Oh, I know what you've got.
I can't wait.

All right to open it? Yeah, please.

Cor, blimey, look at that!

That's fantastic.

June is going to be absolutely...

..over the moon with that.

She's going to be so pleased. Good.

It's proper again, isn't it? Yes.

So I've just got to put the chain
back on, we can give it back to her.

OK. Excellent. I'll let you
get on with it. Thank you!

June has returned to reunite the
purse with her treasured keepsakes.

When I brought the purse in,
it was quite battered,

it was very dull looking.

The inside - all the
leather was torn.

It really wasn't in a
very good state at all.

If I could wave a magic wand,

the purse would look how it looked
when my mum first had it.

She's been out of my life a long
time, so this is something

that's bringing her back
into my life again.

June. Hello, Brenton.
Lovely to see you again.

Nice to see you.
Really excited about this.

So, do you want to have a look

and see if we've managed
to do anything?

Oh, my goodness.

Sorry.

I wasn't going to do this. Wow.

Can I? Of course you can.

SOFTLY: That is beautiful.

That just doesn't look
like the same purse.

Oh!

Wow.

That is just unbelievable.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Thank you. It's all right.

My dad couldn't talk about her

and other than one friend, I've had
no-one to speak to about her.

So now this has brought her back
into my life again...

..and, oh, she would just love it.

Absolutely love it.

Can I put its contents back in,
please? Of course you can.

Felt lost without it. Yeah.

I've got separate compartments
for them now.

There we are, all back together
again. It's lovely.

Well, it's been a pleasure to do,

and I did have a bit of help
with the leather from Suzie,

who's excellent at
that sort of thing.

And between us, we've...

..done your mother proud, I think.

Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah.

I can't stop looking at it.

Well, I'm glad you're pleased.

I'll get that packed into
a little box for you.

Thank you.

My mum would be amazed to see
what's been done to the purse.

She never wanted anything
for herself,

it was always for everyone else,
and this is for her.

She's very special
and she deserved it.

When I put the wedding ring
and the coin back inside,

it was like reuniting my mum
again with the purse.

It was, it was just
such a fantastic feeling.

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I'm in awe of you, mate.

Thank you very much.
You're more than welcome, sir.

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I'm going to have to hug you.

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