05x37 - 18th Century French Clock

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In The Repair Shop today...

It's one of those
sort of tricky ones,

you have to sort of lift it
at the same time.

..electronics wizard Mark gets
a vintage radiogram playing again,

with a little help
from his friends...

Like that. There we go.

..while Brenton's recreating
an arsenal of miniature tools

for an 18th century
botanist's microscope.

Now, I've just got to fold this
in half,

and I'll have a nice little pair
of tweezers.

But first, a rare
and thrilling assignment

for clock connoisseur
Steve Fletcher.

Hello. I'm Steve. Hi, Steve, pleased
to meet you. You, too.

Andy Kronk has brought
a family heirloom

handed down to him
by a much-loved relative,

but as yet, has very little idea

just how significant
this timepiece is.

HE GROANS

Oh, that looks heavy.
It is quite heavy.

Come on into the barn.
OK, thank you.

Right.

This is a lovely clock.

Really, really nice clock.

Where did you get it from?
During the w*r,

my grandad was in a heavily
bombed Blitz area of London...

Right. ..and the locals put
their treasured possessions

in the local church crypt.

Shortly after the w*r, he went back,

and there wasn't anything left.

All his possessions had gone,

and the only thing that was left
was this clock in the corner.

It didn't have hands on it.

The vicar said...
Well, I think he felt guilty,

cos he had no possessions left,

and it was the only thing left
in the church crypt.

He took it home, and I don't think
his wife was very happy,

and the only thing they had
was a dusty old clock...

Right.
..which didn't work.

Well, I must say that I think
he did very well out of it,

because this is
an exceptionally good clock.

When I was a child,
I used to go to visit them.

He lived quite near Old Kent Road,
and, as a child,

he used to drag me down
Old Kent Road.

He was this character.
Right, OK.

And it was, "Don't touch the clock!

"Whatever you do,
don't touch the clock."

If it got through the Blitz,

survived this long through that sort
of hardship... Yeah.

..I think it's only fair
it should carry on. Absolutely.

I don't really know much about
how old it actually is.

I know it's French... Yeah.
..and it's old and it's very heavy!

I'd love to know
a little bit more about it.

It is one of the top clocks.

Julien Beliard was a very,
very good maker.

You can see it was made
in the late 18th century,

and it is a very
special clock indeed.

What happened after your grandfather
had it?

My grandad was 98 when he died.

It was the only thing my dad
was left, basically. Right.

He put the hands on it, and it was
on the dining room table,

and he used to always set it
just before dinner time,

and he always said
it used to be right twice a day,

if nothing else,
cos it didn't work.

I don't think the pendulum's
original, either.

It brings a lot of thoughts
and memories back,

since my dad's died as well.

So, it was special to
your grandfather, your father,

and now yourself?
Yes, yes.

I can't wait to have a look
at the mechanism.

Thank you, Steve.
Right, bye-bye now.

I'm very apprehensive
leaving my clock behind.

It's never been out of my possession
since I've had it.

I'd love Steve to be able to
get it running again,

so I can actually
tell the time with it.

Just going to start
dismantling this clock.

Very excited, because I'm sure I'm
going to find all sorts of things.

HE CHUCKLES

It's not the original pendulum.

It's even got a 2p piece
stuck to it.

This part at the end of the
minute hand has been added,

so I'm going to have to make
something that's more appropriate.

The dial I can give to Kirsten,

and I'm sure she'll do a lovely job
at filling this,

where it's all cracked
along the top there.

There's a lot of pressure when
you're doing a clock like this,

because it is quite an important
clock, and I need to get it right.

Outside, the next hopeful visitor.

Anne-Marie Salmon from London
is hoping electronics expert

Mark Stuckey can bring an important
piece of her childhood back to life.

Hello there. Hi. I'm Will.
Hi. Anne-Marie. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. And I'm Mark.
Nice to meet you.

What have we got here?
OK.

This is a radiogram
from around the 1960s,

I think. A radiogram? Yes.

It's a radio,
and it's got a gramophone.

Radio gram.

Though we don't call them
gramophones, of course, today,

we call them record players.
Shall we have a look inside?

Because I've never actually
seen in one of these.

So, if we can...
Do they just open up like that.

Yeah.
Oh, my gosh!

Is that a radio? Yeah.
Well, that's what it was like once!

WILL CHUCKLES

And inside the other one is the...

..turntable. Oh, my word.

How did this come into
your possession?

It belonged to my mum and dad,

and it's been in Birmingham since
the 1960s, roughly, I imagine.

My dad passed away two years ago,

and my mum passed away
earlier this year,

and we had to clear the house.
There's seven of us altogether.

I'm the youngest.
No-one had space for it.

And I just... I couldn't see it
go out into the street, or...

Mm.
I just couldn't.

It's a bittersweet thing,
because it's in my possession

because they're no longer here. Yes.
So that's... Yeah.

What's your earliest memory of this?

It's sitting on my dad's lap
and listening to Bright Eyes

from Watership Down, and crying.

That's kind of like
the only memory I have of it,

so I don't know if it broke
not much long after that. Mm.

One of my sisters thinks she might
have turned the knob too far

on the radio tuner side, and that
might be what broke the radio side,

and my dad decided he would
try and put a new turntable in.

SHE GIGGLES

So, that's not the original one,
then?

I think... I believe that that's not
the original... Yes.

..and I think that's why
the turntable broke.

Yeah, I think we need to do
something about that drastically.

Yes, we need to change that. Yeah.

So, between you, your father,
and your sister,

you've done a really good job,
haven't you?

So, what does this symbolise
to you?

To me, this is family, really,

and we're quite a close-knit,
big family.

I remember Sunday mornings...

Waking up to music in our house
was just normal.

Mum was in the kitchen, cooking rice
and peas. Dad would be downstairs,

he'd put some music on, so music
was always a big focal point,

so to have this back...
Would be brilliant.

..working would be pretty great.
Like a family member back home?

Yes, yeah, yeah.
Yes.

We'll look after your family
for you. Yes, please do! Indeed.

Thank you for coming down...
OK.

..and then it'll be over to Mark
to get it sorted out,

and we'll let you know
when you can come pick it up.

Thank you very much.

OK. Bye. See you soon.
Safe journey. Bye-bye.

To me, it looks like it can't
be fixed, so, I'm hoping...

SHE LAUGHS

..that he can somehow
pull it out of the bag,

but, yeah, definitely it's going to
be emotional, just to hear anything,

even if it's crackling from the
radio, cos it can't even tune,

just anything to hear coming out of
it again, would be great.

How're you doing, Mark?
Yeah. I'm glad you've arrived.

I do love these.

I used to have one of these when
I was growing up. Oh, really?

These are, um... You know, this was
the music centre, this was.

So, what have we got to do?

Well, the first thing we've got
to do, if you open this up,

we've got a record player,
which is all totally now damaged.

Yeah. So, that's going to have
to be replaced.

You can't do anything to it?

No, because it's missing the arm,

it's not the right age,
it's an earlier model. Right.

We shall at least try to get
it sympathetically

to the rest of the unit
for the period.

That's probably about another
ten years earlier

than what was in here originally.

Ta-da!

Right, what I think we should do
is...

Flip it over. Yeah.
There we go. Right. OK. Ready?

Good!
Whoa!

Let's see what we got.

There's a speaker missing here.

Yeah, look.
Oh, yeah, one speaker,

and also that's been pulled
and damaged.

That loud speaker's no good, either.

Whoa, I remember,
when we was playing this at home,

the bass was just beautiful.
Yeah.

My mum would play it and then it was
just...it was time to party!

Have a dance! Wow.

What did the neighbours think?
They joined in, mate!

We loved it! Wow! Yeah.

What about in there?

Well, I've got to take
the main amplifier out.

OK.

And... It should start to loosen...

It's one of the sort of tricky ones,

you have to sort of lift it
at the same time.

Yeah, lift it with me. Like that.
There we go.

You're going to get this all tested
and plugged up and stuff like that?

Yeah, I will sort of go through it,

and see what actually needs to
be done and replaced.

We're going to need some bits
from another one to complete this,

so it's a lot of work to do
on this one.

All right. The record player?

If you could perhaps sort of
do your wanders and look around

and search for one more appropriate,
would be handy.

OK. Thanks very much. No problem,
Mark. All right. See you soon. Yeah.

On the other side of the barn,
horologist Steve

is facing an immense challenge
with the 18th century French clock.

One of the biggest undertakings
is creating a new minute hand.

I've drawn a diagram
of the end part.

I'm making it from here upwards.

I've tried to make it as intricate
as the hour hand.

I've inscribed it
on to this piece of brass,

and I'm going to join it up
with the minute hand,

which will go about like that.

And I'm going to now cut it out,

which is going to take me...
probably a couple of hours.

I've even had to put
a third pair of glasses on.

How we doing, Kirst? Oh, good.
You all right? Yeah, I'm good.

What you got?
I've got this little clock face...

Wow. That's...
..from Steve.

That's a beauty, isn't it?
It is, isn't it?

Just these bits here...
Oh, yeah, OK.

..where it's got loss of ceramic.
Yep.

So I was wondering if you could
help us out.

Yeah, with pleasure.
Yeah, that's absolutely fine.

I can get that sorted for you.
All right, cool.

I'll leave it with you. Yeah,
cheers, thanks, Jay. No problem.

I'm almost there, once
I've actually done all the sawing,

then it'll be ready
to get it engraved.

God, this is difficult!

What's happened is that some of
the actual enamel has chipped away,

and it's revealing
the copper backing,

and because this is just
such a dark surface,

I'm actually going to retouch that
with a little bit of white paint,

and then I'm going to fill on top
of that surface,

and it just gives a better finish.

With the delicate hands
cut and shaped,

they now need to be embellished
to match the ornate style

of the rest of the clock,

and engraver James Neville
is the man for the job.

James, I wonder if I can call upon
your skills.

I've got this minute hand,

and if you could improve that one
to make it look like the hour hand,

that would be marvellous.

Erm...

Yep, I should be able to do that
for you.

Thank you very much.

So, I set this into a plastic
that is malleable

when it's hot, and it contracts
and can hold the piece,

so I can do some low relief carving,
to match the original.

There we are.
That's the dial completed.

I'm hoping that that's going to be
up to Steve's very high standards.

At the moment, I'm going through all
of the pivots and polishing them up.

This is one that's slightly rough,
so I've got to put it in the lathe,

and use a pivot file
to smooth it off.

Excellent.

These are quite fine pivots
in this clock.

Good. That's another one.

Done. I just need to re-bush the
hole that this goes in now.

This bush is going in there nicely.

So I just need to tap that in now
and then finish it off,

and that will be a bush completed.

Arriving next at the barn,
another feat of antique engineering.

Sisters Julie Welsh and
Helen Branford from Yorkshire

have brought a scientific marvel

that kept them entertained
for hours as children,

for the expert attention
of Brenton West.

Hello. Hello. How are we doing?
All right.

I'm Jay. Hi, Jay. My name's Julie.
All right, Julie.

Helen. Hi, Helen. Julie. Hello.

OK, so what have you got in the box,
then, Julie?

In the box is a
botanical field microscope.

What does it do?

It's something that you would
just easily put in your pocket,

and take out to look at primarily
botanical things under there,

but, as children,
we just put all sorts

of interesting things underneath.
So, how come you've got this, then?

It's something that belonged
to our grandparents.

We would spend
all our summer holidays

with our grandparents
in Tiverton,

and this would be something
we'd be looking forward to using.

They had an orchard,
and they had chickens,

and they grew their own veg.
These were your grandparents? Yes.

And what were their names?
Cecil and Millicent.

OK, so tell us about them.

What kind of people were they?
Lovely. Lovely.

Just very homely, caring, funny...

..Grandad was very humorous.

There are great photos
where he's sat in a pram,

pretending to be a baby,
and Granny's pushing him.

He did silly things
when his photo was being taken.

And he was, for an elderly man,
quite comical,

and we always went to stay with them
with great anticipation.

You know, we loved it. It was just
an idyllic childhood, really.

Nice time, yeah.
You know, magical, really.

We used to have a bit of a...
We used to walk up the lane...

We'd see who could find the most
different varieties of flowers.

Then you look at them through...

Then we'd look at them through that.
The magnification on that,

it's amazing, but there was
a separate lens

that you could just pick up
and look at things without the box,

but there's three little tools
that should be in there... OK.

..that have all disappeared.
This is the one that needs...

Because every time that falls over,
it's scary, isn't it? Right.

And then also there's just
a tiny bit of damage on the top,

where it's just split, but
obviously, all the knocks and things

are part... Of its life, yeah.
..just part of it,

but the actual thing when you hold
it is... Lovely, just really nice.

So, you would like this
to be usable? Oh, yes.

That's what it's made for.

That's what you guys had, adventure
with it, you remember using it.

Absolutely. Well, thank you for
bringing it in. You take care now.

OK. Thank you very much. Bye-bye.
Thank you.

The microscope is very symbolic
of our childhood,

and our grandparents, Cecil and
Millicent, were wonderful people,

and we will never forget them,

and we looked after them
and cared for them until they died,

so they'd be...
They would be thrilled. Yeah.

I've seen little pocket microscopes,
but I've never seen anything

as sort of intricate and beautiful
as this, and I can't...

..can't wait to get it working
properly for Julie and Helen.

It says on here, with regard
to the tools that were mentioned,

"The forceps, the needle
and the knife are indispensable,"

and if they're indispensable,
then they need to be here,

so I will supply
some new tools for it.

I can also see that there's
a missing piece of wood here.

Now, Julie said that there
was another magnifying glass

that went in there, so I'm going to
see what I can find out

about these magnifying glasses
that went with these boxes.

This part falls back,

but I will find out the proper way
that's meant to be attached.

So, I'm just going to do
a bit of research,

and then I can start work on this.

Instruments like these are known
as Withering-type microscopes,

after doctor and botanist
William Withering.

He developed various models,
beginning in the late 1700s,

a period when botany was becoming
a highly fashionable pastime.

I found this lovely old drawing
of the botanical box,

and I can see that there was a chain

that went from the bottom
of the box

up to the bottom of this tower,
which holds the magnifying glass.

Now, there is a slit in the velvet,

and there is a hole,
where clearly something went before,

so I've made a piece of wire
with a loop on it,

with some chain on it, and I'm now
going to put that in there,

in its original hole.

All right, so I'm going to
hook that, hopefully, over there.

OK, that's hooked on there nicely,

and that will now stop that
falling over when you open the box.

There could be a windier time...

Bring it beside us. There we go.

In his quest to source a turntable
of the appropriate vintage

for the 1960s radiogram...
Easy.

..Jay's gone one better and managed
to track down a whole unit

that's the same make and age.

How you doing, Mark?

MARK CHUCKLES

What have you got there?!

You wanted a unit, didn't you?
OK.

So, this is the spare parts
we wanted? Yes.

So that's taking out the speakers,
the record player... Yes, yeah.

So you can take whatever you need
from here,

and then put it in that one.

Looking at it straight away,
that's sitting horizontal,

this sat vertically. There may be
some fitting changes as well.

Well, that's something to talk to
Will about with that one. Yes. OK.

Thanks. All right.

So you unplug that.

That should now...

..come out.

But now I can take the speakers
out of this frame.

Finally, the record player.

You may feel that we're changing
so many pieces and parts of this

that it's not going
to be the same at all.

Well, in many ways,
that's not the case,

because we're replacing all the
components from that period,

from the 1970s, so when this is
all put back together,

and we hear it playing,
it'll be exactly the same sound,

the same feeling, as you would have
experienced at the time.

Meanwhile, Will has been
customising the interior

to refit the radio and amplifier.

Cool, so they're in.

Right.

Easy does it.
Right, OK.

Going, going... Yep.
Nice and flush?

OK. Done. So we're happy?
We are happy. Brilliant.

Well, I'll leave that
with you, then.

Well... Well... There's one
other problem. Go on.

The record player!

Ta-da!
Oh, what's that?

It has to be fitted into this area

and secured exactly the same way
as the radio.

So I'm wondering if perhaps
you could find a way to do this,

because we've got springs
like suspension,

and this has to float a little bit.

What I'm going to do is
have a think about it,

and work out my plan of action.
OK, that would be superb. Yeah?

It's been horology heaven for Steve,

overhauling a unique timepiece
crafted two centuries ago

by highly respected clockmaker
Julien Beliard.

I'm just going to
gold leaf these hands now,

and it's quite nice when you get to
the finishing stages

of a clock like this
that's taken so long to do.

I'm just going to put
some of this gold size on.

And gold size is like a glue.

So I'm just going to pop this
clock hand onto the gold now...

..and rub it all over.

So, that's absolutely lovely. I've
got a nice matching pair of hands.

They look really good.
Very, very happy with that.

The hands have gone on very well,
and look great.

I'm ready to put the mechanism
into the clock now.

I've done so much to this clock,

and I've really been looking forward
to this part.

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed
that it will all tick.

CLOCK TICKS

Fantastic.

It's a very, very satisfying tick,
as well.

Just need to put the top on.

The finial that was on there isn't
an original to the clock at all,

and it's out of proportion,

so I've actually sourced
another finial.

It's always worth going
the extra mile.

I need to put it on test now
for a little while,

make sure everything's
functioning right,

and then I can let Andy know,

and I'm really excited to see
his reaction. Really excited.

Owner Andy's grandfather was gifted
the clock as compensation

for losing all his possessions
after the Second World w*r.

Now he's back to see if Steve's
managed to get it ticking again.

I've never seen it working.

My dad tried getting it working,
and it never happened,

and it was the one thing
I really wanted to get done.

Hi, Andy. How you doing?
Hi, Steve.

I'm great, thank you.
Good.

I'm so excited to see
what's been done. OK.

I'm going to let you see it now.

I'm lost for words.

Does it... Does it chime?
It does. Oh, no!

I'm just going to...
I'll strike it for you.

CLOCK CHIMES

The differences is...

Lost for words.

I've stripped the movement down
completely.

There had been some really,
really strange repairs

I've never seen in my life before.

I'm a little bit amazed
to be standing here

actually seeing it working.

Thank you, Steve. OK. Thank you
so much for bringing it in.

Thank you.

When Steve said about some of
the botched repairs in the past,

I couldn't help bringing
a smile to my face,

cos I know they were probably
my grandad's

and my dad's attempts to mend it.

If they're up there,
smiling down on me,

I think they'd be very proud to see
the clock working again now.

Silversmith Brenton
may be making headway

with the inner workings
of the 18th century microscope,

but his skills do not extend
to the wooden case.

Luckily, Will hasn't started work
yet on the radiogram turntable.

Hi, Will.
Hey, Brenton.

I've got this lovely
botanical microscope.

That's really cool, isn't it?
Clever, isn't it?

Unfortunately, there's a piece
of wood missing,

and you can see the little line
where it went.

A little magnifying glass
goes in there. OK.

Could you possibly make me a piece
that fits in there?

It looks quite fiddly.
Very fiddly,

and there's one other tiny,
tiny little thing. Right.

The top's got a bit of a crack
in it.

Ah, there's a split there.
And a little line there.

Is there anything you can do
with that? Leave it with me.

Thank you very much. No worries. OK.

Will's first challenge is to make
an authentic-looking replacement

for the wooden lens holder.

The good thing is that there's
a tiny speck that's left over,

which will give me an idea of
exactly what this shape used to be.

What I want to do now is turn up
a new piece out of this chunky piece

of wood here, and slowly making
that shape that I need to replace.

In order to create a semicircle
to replicate the original,

Will needs to turn a perfect ring
that can later be halved.

It's actually quite a delicate
piece,

so I really need to make sure
I don't put on too much pressure,

cos there's a high chance
I could break it.

At his bench, Brenton's making
a start on recreating the tiny

missing tools. From the original
drawing, I can see a pair

of tweezers, a little prodder,
and a little scalpel,

so I'm just going to make
the tweezers first of all,

and they're going to
be made out of brass.

OK, that's that little bit
coming out.

So now I've just got to fold
this in half, and then saw the other

side out, and I'll have a nice
little pair of tweezers.

It's quite easy to
get carried away with this,

so you always have to stay focused.

Once you've taken it off,
you can't put it back on.

Please don't break.
Please don't break.

Lovely. So, all I need to do now is

get that ring
off this piece of wood,

cut it in half,
and stick it back into the box.

So that's the little poking tool.

I just need to put my little
knife blade into the other handle,

and we'll have all the tools done.

And there we have a little scalpel,
so that's the three tools made.

I think they look great, they look
just like the ones in the drawing.

Right, I'm going to tackle
that split on the top of the box.

I've got some wax sticks here,

and these are a furniture restorer's
best friend.

They are really good for filling in
scratches and gouges in wood,

and pretty much visibly remove
any dents and scrapes.

So to do this, I'm going to use
a soldering iron to heat up the wax,

melt that into the crack, and then
I can sort of blend it all in.

Right. I'm going to leave that
to fully set now, and once it has,

I can clean off the excess wax,
give the box a buff,

and then I can glue in
that new piece of moulding.

Ah! All done. Fantastic! No worries.
Thank you, Will. Ta-ra.

His work on the microscope
may be done and dusted,

but Will is still in demand.

The 1960s radiogram...
Look at that!

..needs its replacement turntable
supported safely inside.

Hi, Will. How's it going?
Not bad at all.

So I had a bit of a brainwave.
Mm-hm. This is the old shelf...

Yeah.
..from the donor radiogram,

but it's slightly too narrow,
and it doesn't really fit properly.

I thought if I take a side panel off
the donor radiogram... Good idea.

..use that as a template,
cut that out.

Now, this is cut to size,
so now this should fit in there,

snug as a bug.
And it looks like the same colour.

And it's the same colour.
What a great idea!

There, you see.
Yeah, that should be quite smart.

Whilst you're here,
cos I've just finished cutting that,

then if you'd do the honour
of holding that... OK.

That goes under the back.
Mind your fingers, it should just...

Look at that, balanced perfect,
floating nicely.

Good suspension on that one, sir.
Lovely. Yeah.

And this is just going to...

If I put my hand just to
take some of it... There you go.

Yeah, ready when you are.

Yeah. Got it?
Yeah, I've got it. Yeah, good.

Ah, look at that, eh?
There we are! Excellent.

For owner Anne-Marie,
her late parents' radiogram provided

the soundtrack to family life,
but it had been silent for decades.

Now she's back to see if Mark's
managed to get it playing again.

My memory of having music every
Sunday is something that

would be great to bring back into
my own house with the radiogram.

Hello, Anne Marie.
Hi! Nice to have you back.

Hello. Nice to see you.
Yeah, good to see you both.

This has got great memories for you,
hasn't it?

Yes.
This is why you've kept it.

Yeah, it was a centrepiece
of the household and was played

up until it was destroyed a little
bit by my brothers and sisters.

Shall we see what it looks like now?
Yes.

I'm quite nervous, actually!
You're quite nervous?

That makes two of us!

Right, let's have a look.
Ready... OK.

Oh, my God!

Shall we have a look on the inside?

Oh...

Oh, my gosh!

It looks really good!

Wow!

Would you like to hear it?
Yeah, I'd love to!

So, it's been a while
since you last heard this play.

Oh, gosh, yeah, yeah,
I would have probably been about...

I don't know, ten or something
maybe.

Doo-doo...

MUSIC STARTS

# Is it a kind of a dream... #
Oh, wow!

That's amazing! That is really good!

# Floating out on the tide

# There's a fog along... #
Lucky I've got tissue in my pocket!

I think I'm... It's really amazing!

# A strange glow in the sky... #

What kind of memories does this
bring back for you? It's... It's...

I can't really explain it.
This is what I remember it playing.

Yeah, it just resonates a really
sort of strong memory...

That's good.
..of family and that sort of stuff.

It really does.

# Bright eyes, burning like fire

# Bright eyes

# How can you close and fail?

MUSIC STOPS

So, what do you think your parents
would say now that

this is all back working again?
They would actually love it.

If they were here,
they would play it.

They would actually play it,
so that's what I've got to do,

I've got to play it. It'll be
like they're in my living room,

dancing around, cos that's what
they would have been doing.

Well, thank you so much for bringing
this down. Thank you so much.

You guys have done an amazing job.

It's been fun, believe me!

LAUGHTER

Thank you so much. You're really
welcome. See you soon, bye-bye.

Bye.
Bye.

I kind of had no hope, and Mark's...
Yeah, he's brought it back to life.

I can see it where it was
in my mum and dad's living room,

and it's weird that it's now
going to be in my living room.

Gives you like a little shiver.

On a mission to replace
all the accessories from the

18th century botanist's microscope,

Brenton is attempting to make
the additional magnifying lens.

So I've got some loops
that I bought

that are used for looking at
jewellery and small items,

and I've taken the magnifying glass
out of one, and I've now got to make

an appropriate holder,
so I've got a piece of brass here,

and I'm just going to bend this
roughly into a circle.

That's good, so I'm now going to
solder that together.

Right, lovely.

I'll push one of these rings in
first.

That stops the magnifying glass
falling out.

Magnifying glass in.

Another one of these rings.

It's absolutely perfect.

Sisters Julie and Helen
have happy memories of

time with their grandparents, using
the microscope to explore nature.

Now they're back to collect it,

in order to pass it on
to their grandchildren.

I'm really excited to see
the botanical microscope working,

and for it to be a memory
of our grandparents that, you know,

can be carried forward.

We haven't used it for a long time,
just cos of the damage it had, and

to have it repaired in its natural
state again would just be amazing.

Hello! Hello.
Hello, there. How are you doing?

Hi, Jay. You all right? Fine, thank
you. Yes. Hello, Brenton. Hi there.

Hi. Hello. Hello.
How are you doing?

We've been so excited, haven't we,
for the last two weeks?

I have actually not slept. Listen...
Yeah. We should just show them.

Oh, wow!

Oh, look at that!

That's absolutely fantastic.

Perfect. You can't see a single
scratch on it, can you? No.

And it's so shiny. I don't think
we've ever polished it.

LAUGHTER

Wow!

Are you going to...? Who's going
to open it? It's yours. Yeah.

Do you want to do it? No, no, no.
You must do it. Ooh!

You must do it, cos...
Oh!

Oh, my goodness!

Wow! Oh, my goodness!
And it doesn't fall over!

Wow! Look at that! That is amazing!

Oh, crikey! I was intrigued
how you were going to do this.

We found an old drawing of it,
and there's a chain in the

original drawing that held it up,
so we put a chain on there.

And then what's in here?
Are these little...?

Um, also with the drawing were
pictures of other tools.

There were three, weren't there?
There's a little knife and a poker.

Yeah. And a little magnifying glass,
so you've got all of those things.

Brenton's made all of those tools,
haven't you?

Yes, I've made that, yeah.
Wow!

They're just perfect.
Absolutely amazing! Well done!

You are very, very...
He's very clever, isn't he? Yeah.

I've got a little seed here,
and I'll put that on there,

and you can have a look
and see what you think.

Oh, yeah! Wow!

Really strong microscope, isn't it?
It is. Gosh. That's amazing!

Excellent.
So, are you going to use this now?

Yes, we're going to use it.
I'll probably look after it. Right.

And then pass it on to the girls
when they're a bit older, I think.

OK.
Yeah. Yeah.

Words can't explain how happy
we are. Bless you.

There you go. OK?
Thank you very much. OK.

Thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you, Jay. Thank you, Brenton.

A handshake. Cor blimey! OK.
That's amazing! That's incredible!

It was really good fun
working on it. Thank you very much.

Take care now. Yes, take care.
Bye. Bye-bye. Thank you, bye.

Sad to see that go, actually.

Millicent and Cecil would have loved
the fact that four generations down,

these young children will be using
it after us, which is lovely.

It's just thrilling.

I'm just so looking forward
to using it with the little ones.

Join us again,
as colour is revived...

I absolutely love doing this!

..and sound is restored...

Oh, yeah. It's... It's working.
Yes, that's excellent.

Yeah! That's very good! Well done!
..in The Repair Shop.