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Welcome to The Repair Shop,

where precious but faded treasures...

There's an awful lot of work to do here.

Things will definitely have to get worse before they get better.

..are restored to their former glory.

Look at that!

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

Bringing history back to life

is what makes The Repair Shop so special.

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

Solid as a rock.

It's actually quite miraculous, to be honest!

..coming together to work their magic.

Look at that! Tailor-made.

Just got to keep calm and carry on.

OK, here we go.

It's going to look great.

Employing heritage craft skills passed down the generations.

This is how it was, so this is how it will be again.

Preserving irreplaceable heirlooms.

Some object can have so much emotional attachment to the family,

and that's what pushes me to want to get it right.

The team will restore the items...

Oh! ..the memories...

So that's the link between you, your grandad...

..and now my son.

..and unlock the stories that they hold.

I'm just blown away!

I'm flying!

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In The Repair Shop today, a '60s icon...

There's actually 88 keys,

so it really is patience that wins over on this.

..gets its groove back.

I've got quite a way ahead of me, so wish me luck!

A bit of silver powder down there.

Steve cooks up a plan...

This is normal cooking cream of tartar.

..alchemising silver from brass...

This just stabilises the silver and brightens it slightly.

..and a freedom fighter's diary

is preserved for the next generation.

I get an immense amount of pleasure working on something like this,

because it's so unique. It's sort of survived. It's a survivor.

But first, a very special mission.

Hayley Fellows and her mum Wendy

are putting their trust in cobbler Dean Westmoreland.

Hi there. Hello! Are you OK?

I'm good, thank you. Good. I'm Dom.

I'm Hayley. Hayley. I'm Wendy.

Brilliant. What have we got today?

Yeah, please show us! Come on.

They look amazing. What are they, motorbike boots?

Yes, so my dad, Mike, rode speedway, sort of the mid-'70s.

What kind of racing is it?

I've always explained that it's riding around on a track

without any brakes, and you stop it by using these boots. Ah, right!

So these are literally the brakes.

So that's why they're so special.

That's some skill, is that. Yes, exactly. Yes.

His parents bought the boots for him, which was a struggle

for them in that time, because they didn't have very much money.

It was a complete surprise.

And even now, when he talks about it and when we've asked questions

about them, he gets very emotional.

So when did Mike start racing?

He started professionally racing in 1975.

And how long did he race for?

Right up until 1978. Brilliant.

Has he not come down with you, then? He hasn't. My dad,

in the end of November, was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

He did receive some treatment, but the tumour was just too aggressive

and it had grown despite the treatment.

It didn't work. Yeah, it didn't... Didn't work.

OK. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

At that point, we were told that he probably had weeks left to live

and we all decided that he would stay at home

and that's where he'll... He'll be until he passes away. Yeah.

He's a fantastic husband.

He really is, and he's a very special man.

I wish I could meet him.

He really wanted to be here. Yeah. He really did.

I guess that really means time with him now has just become

a whole lot more precious. Yeah. Very, very.

I imagine. Every day is a blessing, every single day. Yeah.

When I sat him down and said to him,

"Do you have anything on your bucket list?"

And by that point, I'd had my son Harrison,

so he had said, "I would love to give the boots to Harrison.

"They mean so much to me,

"but I would like to look into getting them restored."

What do you reckon, Dean?

I think it's telling how much they meant to him

by the fact that they were on his bucket list.

Do you mind if I have a look? Yeah. Is that OK?

Wow. They look like they've... Proper boots, them! Look at them!

The feel heavy, don't they? Yeah, they do. Yeah.

You've got that steel plate on. That's on the left foot...

That's right! You don't lift your foot off the whole time,

just skidding around. That's right, yeah! Yes!

But when he initially explained what the boots looked like,

he would say they were blue,

and everybody would walk past and say, "Yeah, that's Mike."

"There's Mike. There he is." "They're Mike's boots. That's Mike."

Yeah.

So would you like them looking how they did

when he was in his prime? Yeah, yeah.

Like a full restoration? Can you even do that?

They look so far gone! I think with the quality of boot,

I think they should come up pretty well.

Yeah. Lovely. Because he's so poorly,

there is a really strong possibility

that Dad might not be able to see the boots.

But for us as a family, they...

Because they mean so much to him, they mean so much to us.

We've got to make sure we get these back to Mike as soon as we can.

I'll get cracking. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

Lovely. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

Brilliant. Nice to meet you both. See you later. See you later.

The speedway boots mean so much to us because

we're not going to have Dad for that much longer,

but we can still keep his memory alive

by knowing that we've got the boots and the story behind the boots.

This will always be part of our family history,

and that is so, so important to us.

They look in such bad condition. What can you do?

You seem quite confident that you can get them looking shiny again.

It'll be a challenge, but I think... I think we can do it.

If the rest of the boots are going to look new

like they were in the '70s,

do you reckon I should give that bottom steel plate

a bit of a... Bit of a polish?

If you can do that, yeah. We better get going.

I'll take this outside. Thanks. Yeah. Get cracking, yeah? Nice one.

So we're removing the metalwork, we're replacing the zips,

we'll condition and clean the leather,

and then we can re-dye it and get some nice colour back in there.

So there is quite a lot of work.

I'm just taking the zip out now,

and the skill really

is getting the zip out without damaging the boot.

And I think we're nearly there with this now.

Just one last stitch...

Yeah!

But that's only half the job.

So, we've got the same thing to do again on the other boot.

Next, a job for master of all things keyboard David Burville.

Dave, have a look at this. Crikey!

Wow, look at that.

Shiny, shiny!

Johnny Green from London

has brought a musical heirloom in dire need of a tune-up.

All right? Hello there! How you doing? Hi.

Now, you must be in a band or something, is it?

Is that what this is here?

Well, it's actually my dad's. OK.

He got it when he was 16 from my grandparents.

It was a birthday present.

It's a birthday present! Cor. Yeah.

My dad was a keen pianist

and played the organ in a couple of bands

when he was younger.

So this makes a very distinctive sound, then?

Yeah, yeah. Bands have used this, then? Oh, all sorts! I mean,

Beatles, they used them... Really?!

One of the most, probably, recognisable is The Monkees'

I'm A Believer. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah!

That's right. Yeah, yeah.

So this is... This is like the bee's knees.

So your dad was in a band, yeah?

Yes. So he was very into this, sort of, this psychedelic rock.

Had this sort of long hair.

Course he did!

He was probably committed, then, yeah? Oh, yes. Oh, yes!

Yeah, he played this until it broke some time in the '70s, I think.

He never found out what was wrong with it.

It's just got a few keys that aren't working.

So he's tried to get this repaired or something, and...?

It travelled with him to every house, every one-bedroom flat...

THEY LAUGH

He always promised to fix it, but...

My mum says, it's sort of an ongoing joke,

because he'd always say, "Oh, I'll get to fix it."

So this went everywhere? Yeah.

Since his 16th birthday, he never parted with this?

Yeah, well, not really! OK! Yeah.

He obviously felt very strongly about it. Wow.

Yeah. Unfortunately, he passed away in August last year.

Oh, sorry to hear that. So he never got to...

Never got to fix it, unfortunately. Yeah.

So your intention is to get this finally repaired for him?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's his legacy. It was his passion.

He... I mean, some of my earliest memories of him

was around the piano. He was always playing boogie-woogie and blues,

and he actually taught me how to play piano when I was much younger.

And are you hoping for this to be playable? You want...? Yes.

Yeah, oh, yeah. I mean,

I've got a newborn daughter who's four months old.

Unfortunately, my dad obviously never met... Never got to meet her.

But I'm hoping that the musical gene passes through

another generation and she's able to take this on from me. Yeah, yeah.

Take this on. Got to get this...

No pressure! None whatsoever! THEY LAUGH

If Dave's able to get this working, how do you think it's going to feel,

like, retracing your dad's footsteps?

Because you've never heard this, never played it.

Yeah. It's... I mean, I think it's going to be quite...

Quite an emotional experience. knowing that he's used this

and been able to... Been playing this when he was 16.

It's going to be a very great experience. Course it will.

Course it will. Yeah. Johnny, thank you for bringing this in

and hopefully, going to get it working.

Yeah, it's going to be an interesting challenge, for sure.

Take care now. All right? Thank you. Thanks. Cheers. All right.

My dad was my role model.

He drove my passion for music.

It's infectious!

My dad never got to meet my daughter.

I think being able to have this organ,

have it working and letting her play with it,

it brings them closer together.

Yes, it's part of him that she can...

She can hold and she can relate to.

It's a nice thing John is doing in memory of his dad, isn't it?

Yeah, really lovely. But that is a lot of electrics in there.

Do you do electrics? Not like this!

Get Mark on the case of that, then. I reckon so, yeah.

There's a lot of damage with springs and keys and all that sort of thing,

so... Yeah. These are all broken. Oh!

Yeah! No, I didn't break it!

HE LAUGHS

Well, I'll leave it with you, let you get familiar. Great. Lovely.

All right? Cheers!

So the first thing that I've got to do

is to disassemble and actually get down to the electronic parts,

so that I can give that to Mark.

Then I've got to get the keyboards out,

which are unfortunately quite badly damaged,

so I can start to do some cosmetic work

and actually get the keyboard in a playable situation.

So, yeah, quite a lot of work!

Having removed the broken old zips from the speedway boots,

Dean's called upon an old friend to help sew in the new ones.

So this machine is my baby, really.

It's 106 years old, and I use it on a daily basis.

Still stitches beautifully despite its age.

They're a beautiful thing.

A feat of engineering, I think.

Slow and steady's really important at this stage.

It's the complete opposite of what Mike would be doing,

speeding around the track at ridiculous speeds.

It's just sort of seeing all of these scrapes, all these scars

from Mike literally sliding around that racetrack.

I just love it! There's so much history

and happy memories and excitement in this piece of metal, you know?

I've got this solution here,

which I'm just going to submerge this boot in,

and it's going to remove and neutralise all of that rust.

It's just a simple case of submerging it in there.

So now I'm ready for the acrylic paint.

Now, the original colour is neither navy nor royal.

It's kind of somewhere in between.

So I've mixed them to come up with this really nice rich,

sort of deep royal blue, which I'm happy with.

And I think it's of the era.

This is acrylic paint for leather.

It's flexible once it's dried,

so it won't crack, and it's waterproof as well.

So when Mike was racing, these will have been really bold colours,

and it's so satisfying to see it change from this

to this bold blue.

Well, it's quite clear that this metal has definitely

been in here for long enough.

I mean, look at the swampy black colour

that the solution has turned.

Oh, yes!

Oh, I love this stuff.

Look at that! The rust has all been completely removed.

That is... I mean, just look at that.

All that really needs now is a good little clean-up

with some wire wool just to burnish up the surface and then,

most importantly, an oil, which is going to stop it

from going rusty again, and that is ready to go back on that boot.

Brilliant.

I'm really happy with the colour. I think that '70s sort of vibe

is coming through with the white and the blue,

really rich blue.

So originally it had blue stitching around here, decorative stitch,

so I'm going to copy that,

just going over the original stitches in a nice blue.

So, sometimes this quest for authenticity and detail

can make things a little bit difficult.

But I think when you're working on things with such a story

and such heritage behind it, it's really important to keep that.

Preserving heritage is also the watchword of horologist

Steve Fletcher, as he prepares for the next challenge.

It's a grandfather clock.

Why's it in bits?

Laying claim to this intriguing pile of bits

is Suzanne Payne from Shropshire.

Hello. Hello. How are you doing?

Very well, thank you.

What can you tell us about this clock, and why is it so many pieces?

My father took early retirement and always sort of tinkered with clocks

and decided that he wanted to make a clock for my father-in-law.

My dad would source all the mechanism

and all the bits and pieces, really, before the internet,

and it was all through catalogues, etc. Right!

And in his retirement,

my father-in-law was going to make the case.

So it was a proper collaboration, between the two of them.

A proper collaboration between the two of them.

So why did your father want to make something for your father-in-law?

Did they get on? They got on fabulously well.

We went on holidays together.

Yeah, they were very good friends, both of them,

and they'd known each other since I'd known my husband, Ian.

He had come to one of my twin brother's birthday parties

when he was a tiny tot. OK. Yes. Yeah, we were childhood sweethearts,

so... Awww! So, the family... The two families knew each other?

Yes, they did. My father made the mechanism.

Yeah. And then, very sadly, my father-in-law died suddenly,

so my father said to my husband,

"I'll carry on making the mechanism

"for you and Suzanne, if you can source the case."

And we said, "Yep, that would be absolutely fabulous."

And then, sadly, my father died.

So it was left then to myself and my husband Ian

to finish the clock off,

and then Ian made all of the bottom of the case,

and then, sadly, Ian died...

..in a traffic accident nearly three years ago,

and he was 49 years old.

The loss of Ian was devastating.

I'll never get over that, I don't think.

And I miss him every day, completely, all the time.

Bless him. Yeah.

I'd give everything back to have him back by my side, desperately so.

And so it's left to me now, the clock,

and I would dearly, dearly like it to be finished. I can see that.

Yes, yeah.

We have got to get this going and together and looking good. Yes.

This is so important.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a bit more than just a clock.

It's brought the three of them sort of together, and that's what I like.

And then I'm hopefully going to get it finished.

It's going to make me think of my father, my father-in-law,

my darling husband, and to have it there completed,

it'll just bring a smile to my face

and remind me every time I walk in of the three chaps.

Desperately so. Yes, yeah.

I want to get this repaired for you ASAP.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Take care. You too. ALL: Bye-bye.

The clock is a tribute, really, to the three men in my life.

I feel very important that it should be finished,

and it's up to me to get it finished

and to get it back up and running again, definitely.

I can see this is an amalgamation of lots of different clocks.

Originally, this chapter ring would have been silvered,

so I think I'll resilver that.

The teeth on all the wheels are quite rough,

so I'll need to polish those up.

So I think the first thing I'm going to do is just...

I'm going to strip the whole thing down, clean it all

and then make sure that each individual part

is working correctly.

The 1960s electric organ has been passed into the expert hands

of wiring guru Mark Stuckey.

This keyboard, like all things, can look quite complicated.

It's loads of the same type of boards.

These individual boards literally are notes,

and each board is specific to a note.

So this one here is the key of C,

and then we have dividers along here,

so it will be the same C,

but an octave lower or an octave higher.

I am randomly going to take a couple of these boards out

and I will do some of what we call static tests.

Here we go.

Yeah, the tester uses a set frequency.

It puts in a known voltage to a known current.

It then sees what comes out the other side, if you like.

And that's come up at 40,

and the reading on the case says

it should be in the order of 39.

So one difference in, what, 60 years is pretty good.

I'll carry on working my way along all these boards

and get an idea as to how many may be good.

That will then give me the probability of success.

There appears to be probably six, seven, maybe eight keys

that are in pretty poor condition.

So the keys are all broken at a particular point,

and that is where the key hinges.

I'm going to make some little wooden ends.

Those will fit into this little dimple on the back and I can glue

and screw those. That will take the mechanical force required.

We just offer it up...

We've got a nice square shoulder

and the lines are almost seamless.

All I've got to do is cut that down to the correct length,

paint them black and match them in.

So, then, that... Not a bad match.

Get them glued and screwed in,

and then hopefully we can get the keyboard back together.

Right. I've tested now all the boards,

and the conclusion is, out of all these boards here,

only two are actually functioning correctly.

So I will take all those faulty boards out,

replace what I believe is the suspect components,

which in this case will be capacitors, change them,

put them back in, and then hopefully,

if I get it right, we'll be online.

The oscillator and all the other sections

now seem to be working perfectly well.

That means one down, only 11 more to go.

Now, I've got the electronic organ back from Mark,

and the first step is to put the keys back into the key frame.

This is quite a fiddly job, because they're sprung

with these little tiny springs which hook on at the back.

It's a bit of a laborious task, this.

There's actually 88 keys in this instrument,

and so it's... It really is patience that wins over on this.

So I've got quite a way ahead of me, so wish me luck!

The chequered flag is in sight for Dean's restoration

of the speedway boots.

This has been one heck of a ride

to get these looking like they do now.

So the final flourish now is to put this metal shoe on,

which Dan's done a great job of cleaning up.

And I think it's really in keeping with the boot now.

I think these are a fitting tribute to Mike's racing days.

Hopefully, they'll be a centre point for Wendy and Hayley's stories

when they tell Harrison as he grows up.

These boots helped speedway champ Mike skid his way to victory

around the tracks during the 1970s.

Fixing them was on Mike's bucket list

after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

But it's fallen to wife Wendy and daughter Hayley

to collect them today.

We're excited to see the boots. Obviously going to be very difficult

for us because, unfortunately, my husband Mike passed away.

Sorry.

OK? Yeah.

I think it will actually help me get through these next few weeks

or few months and possibly a few years,

so I'm really, really excited.

We knew that he was very poorly

and it would be likely that he wouldn't see them,

so it's made it more special for us as a family to have them.

Hello! Hello.

How are you doing? Not too bad, thank you.

Hello, are you all right? BOTH: Hello.

Sorry to hear that Mike's passed away, from all of us.

Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Have you been thinking about the boots since you've dropped them off?

We have. Even though, at the end,

he wasn't actually able to understand what was going on,

we still talked to him, and I'm absolutely sure

that he understood and was equally as excited as we are today.

I'm glad to hear. And it was on his bucket list.

It was. So, yeah, it was a...

It's a tick off and it was something that my dad really wanted.

So I'm just very excited.

Shall I do the honours? Yes, please, Dean, please.

THEY BOTH GASP

They're like brand-new!

They're fantastic.

Thank you.

Absolutely beautiful.

How did you do this?!

It was a challenge, but...

It's the colour he always talked about. The colour!

This is his blue colour. The bright colour. Yes!

Thank you. You're welcome.

Oh, Mike. If you could see these now,

you'd be absolutely thrilled.

TEARFULLY: Really, really lovely. Thank you so, so much.

I can't believe that.

They are still Mike's boots, aren't they? They are.

They are! They're still Mike's boots.

Even this bit here, look. Yeah.

Look at all that!

Unbelievable.

Absolutely unbelievable.

I tell you, the first thing Harrison will do is put them on!

THEY LAUGH

And his...

His legs would come to there! Yeah!

THEY LAUGH

Yeah.

And I think whenever I'm having a little moment,

I'll just go and get them and I'll just look at them.

And although it's a really, really sad time for us,

this is also happy memories.

They really are absolutely beautiful. They are brilliant.

Absolutely fantastic. I couldn't have wished for anything better.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you. You take one and I'll take the other,

because they're quite heavy. Ta-ta. Bye-bye.

I feel... It's a little bit bittersweet.

I really wish more than anything that my dad was here.

I wish that he could see them.

I wish that he had been the one to see that cover being taken off.

We did it. We did it for him. Yeah.

Good old Mike. Yeah.

As precious memories are carefully carried home,

more projects are arriving.

Jasmine Asher from Preston is hoping metal expert Brenton West

can revive treasured belongings salvaged from her past.

Hello! Hello! How are you doing?

I'm doing good. How are you doing? I'm very good. I'm Jay. And you are?

Hi, Jay. I'm Jasmine. All right, Jasmine.

So what have we got in the bag?

This is my grandfather's writing slate and diary.

What's a writing slate?

He would have this on his lap and he would write on it.

So something to lean on? That's right.

In those days, we didn't have any tables and chairs.

We were all traditionally sitting on the floor for everything.

So where was this house? This was in India.

I was always fascinated by it,

because he would not let any one of us touch it.

OK! And I would...

THEY LAUGH

..and I would steal it when he wouldn't be around

to do my homework! OK! Right!

So it has always had very fond memories of him.

We had a very, very close connection.

I was his favourite grandchild.

Do you miss him? Very much. Very much.

And it's a diary as well? That's right. That's his diary.

He's recorded all the major events that has happened in his life -

births, deaths, any major occurrences in the family,

and everything is recorded in this.

It starts in 1936...

Whoa! Wow! ..and goes on to '89.

He was quite well-known in his community.

He was a very ardent follower of Mahatma Gandhi

and his ideologies about non-violence.

He was also a member of

Mahatma Gandhi's close circuit team. OK.

And he was a freedom fighter himself,

fighting towards the freedom of India from the British Raj.

And he would have obviously wrote those kind of historical things

down in these diaries. Yes, that's right.

So how come you've got these two items?

When he passed away, we were rummaging through some of

the other old things. I found this diary in there. Wow.

My brother found about 103 fully written diaries.

And where are they? They've all been disposed of. Whoa!

So this is the only record that you have

of your grandfather writing? That's right, yeah.

How would you like us to restore the diary?

If it can be bound, and I'm terrified to straighten

these dog ears over here,

because I'm scared it might fall off in some way.

And then the writing slate.

Originally, it was a beautiful metallic pink

with not a scratch on it! OK.

But at least if all this damage can be straightened out,

and I'm hoping that if it can be restored,

I can then carry on to record everything. So write in the diary?

That's right. Yes, I hope so.

Jasmine, can't thank you enough for bringing this in.

I'll leave it in your care now.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Take care now. Bye. Bye-bye.

Having the diary and the slate restored is my tribute

to my grandfather and his memory, so I'm very much hoping

that they will get passed on to the next generation

and the generation after, and the legacy lives on.

That is an amazing story.

It was. I'm just amazed he kept every detail of the family,

and wrote it all down. I've got a plan for this diary.

I'll get Chris to bind it all up and make sure it's nice and safe.

Great. Absolutely beautiful.

That, I believe, is yours. Thank you very much.

I love this colouring on here. It looks nice, doesn't it? Yeah.

I think we'll leave a few of the marks on it

because it's part of its life, isn't it? Yeah. It's part of

its history. Yeah. Jasmine will like that. Nice one. OK. Cool.

This is an amazing writing slate.

It is just a scrap of aluminium,

but the history, where it came from,

I find astounding.

It needs to be protected and looked after

and it can go on through the family.

First, I'm going to bend these corners straight

with a pair of parallel pliers.

I have got to be very careful with this aluminium,

because it will have age-hardened and might be brittle.

So I'm keeping a really good eye,

see if any little cracks appear.

Tasked with completing the project dreamt up by three family members,

Steve is assessing the grandfather clock.

I've got all the parts clean enough

so I can see exactly what I need to work on.

Nearly all the teeth are really, really rough,

but they're just not the correct shape at all.

In clockmaking, it's important

that you get the correct shape of a tooth,

because the teeth are supposed to roll round each other like that,

and at the moment, they're just rough against each other,

and it's just not going to work like that.

So I'm going to try my best

to file up all these teeth to the correct form.

Because you have to be so, so gentle,

because you have to make sure that you don't take too much off.

So you have to just check after every stroke of the file.

There's about 100 teeth in this wheel,

so I've really got my work cut out.

Steve may be a dab hand with the gears and cogs,

but tackling the wooden case falls to The Repair Shop's wood whiz

Will Kirk.

This is a lovely clock case.

Ian has done such a great job with the base of this.

It's really solid, really sturdy.

It needs to be polished up to match the rest of the casing.

But before I can start polishing that, I really need to make sure

that surface is nice and smooth.

The smoother the surface, the better it takes the polish and the stain.

I'm now going to resilver some of the dial parts,

and silvering is basically

putting on a silver powder onto the clean brass.

It leaves just a very fine layer of silver on it.

Put a bit of silver powder down there.

Just start rubbing it on.

And as I rub it, the silver then comes out of the powder

and sticks to the brass.

This is taking really...

..very well on here.

Now I need to just swill it off quickly.

If I don't, it'll start going pink.

Just going to clean that off there

before I put some cream of tartar on it.

This is normal cooking cream of tartar.

This just stabilises the silver and brightens it slightly.

You can see there the difference in the colours.

Lovely.

So I'm going to now start on the big chaptering

and see how I get on with this.

I've just mixed up some pigment and some stains

with some shellac polish.

Just starting to go over the base in a really light wash.

If I put too much colour in the polish all at once,

there's a high chance it can look really artificial,

so nice, thin coats to really build up

that lovely colour is where it's at.

All right, this is the moment of truth.

You always test a longcase clock like this before getting it back

into the case, just in case there are any issues.

That's great. I'm so pleased there's power getting through

and it's ticking away like this.

I need to test it for a little while

before getting the dial and hands back on,

then I can get it back over to the case once Will has revived it.

Also at the fine tuning stage, David.

At long last, the electronic organ going back together,

and we found out that this one was actually a very early model,

and subsequently, it used a really pioneering circuit board

which are no longer available.

There is no modern equivalent.

We decided to call in an old work colleague of myself,

so he's gone over it,

and so, between the three of us,

we've managed to actually get the thing back up and running.

So the last thing left is to pop the covers back on

and give it a nice little buff up,

and then it's ready to go back to Johnny and hear that first tune.

I can't wait.

Johnny's father played this instrument for decades

before passing it on to his son.

He's brought his wife Tori and daughter Ava

to share the experience.

I'm hoping that, most importantly today, that David's able to make it

create a sound and to sound like it would have done

back in the day in the '60s.

It'd be great to be able to teach Ava how to play it

and hopefully pass it on to her eventually in the future.

Hello! Hello! How you doing, Johnny?

Doing all right, thanks. How you doing?

You didn't tell me you was bringing anybody!

Yes, today I've brought my wife Tori and my daughter Ava with me.

Aw! Hello.

Hi!

So, how are you feeling, Johnny?

I'm shaking! You're shaking!

I'm excited, I'm nervous, everything.

I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

It's nice, because it's something that his dad played

when he was younger, and so it'll be nice to bring back part of his dad,

which would be... Yeah! I know! You excited as well?!

You ready to see it?

I think so. Yeah? Dave, you want to do us the honours?

Here we go. Here we go.

TORI: It looks great!

How does it feel?

I... Words can't describe it.

HE SNIFFS

You OK?

He'd love it.

He would.

I can see it means a lot to you, Johnny. Yeah?

You've done him proud, for def.

If he was here, he would have been absolutely ecstatic to... Yeah.

Can I...? Yeah! Go for it.

HE PLAYS I'M A BELIEVER

It's fantastic! Isn't it?! Oh, it's fantastic, really!

Brilliant. Well done, Johnny, well done. Honestly, I...

It's just absolutely phenomenal to...

To be able to play, and obviously, I mean, to be able to keep that...

The passion for music going through the family.

Oh, bless her.

Yeah, do you want to play?

Aw, wow.

SHE PLAYS

Oh!

THEY LAUGH

Good girl! Well done. Yeah! Well done.

I think the both of you are going to be fighting over it. Yeah!

I mean, I can't thank you enough.

It has been an honour,

because it was an iconic instrument.

No, really appreciate it. All right? Thanks very much. Thank you.

DAVID: You're very welcome. All the best. You take care.

Bye-bye.

He was happy, wasn't he? Yeah.

To be able to play the instrument and to hear it, finally, it was...

..really something special.

It's such a fantastic way to be able to celebrate his life

by being able to play his...

This musical instrument that he used to own.

It's fantastic. It's unbelievable.

You can't... Can't describe it.

Brenton's efforts to straighten the corners

of the Indian writing slate have paid off.

Now he can clean the tarnished metal.

So I've got some degreaser here that's not very aggressive,

and it should take any sort of grime and grease out of the board.

That's cleaning quite nicely. You can see how dirty it is.

It keeps me fit, anyway!

With Brenton in charge of the slate,

expert bookbinder Chris Shaw

has taken possession of the tattered diary.

Well, I'm really impressed that the little pamphlet's survived.

It's truly amazing, considering there's no protection.

There is some slight damage around the edge.

The corners have been bumped, which isn't a surprise.

By wrapping it around with some new endpapers and a board,

it'll give it huge strength.

I'm going to start using the Japanese tissue to repair the paper.

I'm going to place this over the holes, and when it's dry,

I can then sew through it...

..and it won't tear.

You can say it sort of just blends in amazingly to the paper.

I don't want to cover up the text.

So now I've mended this one page,

I have to go through the whole pamphlet

and mend every single rip,

so that at the end, it'll all be nice and strong.

So all the pages are repaired.

Yes, I'm going to choose some endpapers now.

And the endpapers wrap around the book and protect it.

This nice sort of tanny-brown colour goes with the paper.

So I'm just going to cut the paper down to a rough size.

This is the first process, bookbinding-wise, that I learned,

you know, 40 years ago.

As long as you can bind this, you can bind any book,

so it's a real stepping stone.

To actually stick the boards on,

I'm going to use a slightly heavier weight of paper.

It just will give added strength.

They look about right.

So I'm going to sew all of these together next.

There, that's finished.

So I'm really happy with that.

To spend a bit of time and effort recreating a lovely binding

that's going to protect it, I just think it's so worthwhile.

I get an immense amount of pleasure working on something like this,

because it's so unique, it's sort of survived. It's a survivor.

With the stately casework restored by Will

and his sparkling mechanism running like a dream,

Steve can rebuild the handmade grandfather clock.

This is the best part of doing any repair or restoration to a clock.

Seeing what it looks like when it's all together.

Just going to swing the pendulum there.

CLOCK TICKS

That's great. Got that lovely, lovely tick.

It's like a heartbeat.

I'm so pleased with that.

And this will be the first time that Suzanne has seen this completed,

so I know that this will mean so much to her.

The clock was a collaboration between three men

who meant the world to Suzanne,

but they never got to complete the project.

Now she's returned, determined that their legacy be fulfilled.

I'm thinking today is going to be an extra special day,

because to see the clock working and to think about the people it's made

so much difference to in my life, like my father-in-law, my father,

and Ian, my husband, as well.

It's all of their work in that clock

and I just can't wait to see it finished.

How you doing, Suzanne? Hello. You all right?

I'm very well, thank you, Jay. How are you? Very good. Good, good.

Hello. Hello, Steve. How are you? I'm good, thank you.

I can't wait to see it! It's really, really exciting.

It's going to be a bit emotional, I think,

but, yeah, it'll be great to see it.

So it wasn't working. It wasn't working.

The bottom wasn't finished. No.

And it just needed, like, an overall... It did.

It needed a lot of TLC, definitely.

OK. You ready? I think so!

Oh, gosh.

SHE GASPS

Oh, guys. Gosh. That is amazing.

Oh, Steve, thank you so much.

Oh, gosh, guys, that is out of this world.

Oh, I can't believe it. Oh, wow! Gosh, look at the bottom.

Oh, gosh.

Gosh, look at the... the...

..the second hand going.

SHE GASPS

CLOCK TICKS

You hear that? I can!

Wow!

Gosh, that's such a soft sound as well, isn't it?

Because you've never heard it work, you know? No, I never have.

Does it chime as well, Steve, or not, or...? It does.

Does it?! Yes.

CLOCK CHIMES, SUZANNE GASPS

Wow!

Oh, that's amazing, isn't it?

Will did all the casework. Did he do all the casework?

Yeah. Wow! Gosh.

So the three men, if they was able to see this now,

what do you think they would think of it?

I think they'd be sort of quite proud, really, I hope.

Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah. I think so.

To see it sort of finished and in its glory now.

Ian would be overwhelmed by this, actually.

He wouldn't be able to believe it.

He'd have thought it was absolutely amazing. Yeah.

Myself and Ian would have been married for 30 years

in September of this year.

So this is extra special, for it to come back to me,

and obviously, it'll be there on that anniversary.

Perhaps we could even have a little party around it to celebrate.

Yes! That might be an idea. Yeah.

It's something I can remember him for the rest of my life,

for him, really, in the clock.

Thank you for bringing this in.

Thank you so much. It's been very, very special.

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

The clock, now it's finished,

is sort of the next chapter in my life carrying on.

Throughout the rest of my life,

I will never forget my father-in-law,

my father or my husband, Ian.

I miss Ian every day.

And every time I come in and out of the house, which is my forever home,

it will signify those three special people in my life,

and especially Ian.

In Chris's capable hands,

it's a very important date for the Indian family diary.

Now the exciting bit is the covering paper,

and luckily, I found some vintage Indian paper,

which I'm really pleased with, because it's two-tone colour to it.

The motif, it's a famous paisley

which does come from Kashmir originally.

I'm working relatively quickly, because you don't want the paper

to absorb too much of the glue and start wrinkling.

And then the tricky bit now is to tuck it in.

So now I just need to mould it into the shape.

I'm really happy with that.

Just need to leave that to dry, and while that's drying,

I think I'm going to make another little booklet exactly the same,

so they can carry on the family tradition and write in it.

For Jasmine, the writing slate and diary

encapsulated her freedom-fighting grandfather

and his passion for recording life's events.

Now she's returned to the barn

in the hope of continuing the tradition with her own diary.

I had always been very attached to that slate, because I've always

seen my grandfather using it on his lap to write.

It was special for my grandfather,

along with the diary, and therefore it's special for me.

I can't wait to see what magic they have done.

Hello! Hello. How are you doing? Not bad. How are you guys doing?

Very good. Hello there. Hi there.

How are you feeling? Excited.

Yeah? Really excited.

I just want to hold it in my hands. And the notebook. Well...

Yes. ..the sheets of paper that you left us. It was just...

Yes. ..a bit in tatters as well, wasn't it? That's right, yeah.

Ready? Yep.

Oh, my God!

Can I? Yes, you can!

Oh, God!

This is beautiful!

I can't believe you guys have managed to do this.

It's amazing, it's gone smooth as well, and the colour is there.

It had quite a lot of dirt and things on it... Yes.

..which cleaned off. Yes.

It brings back so many memories. But most important of all,

when my grandfather passed away, I didn't see him.

I couldn't say goodbye to him. Right.

So I'll be holding this in my hand

like I'm holding my grandfather's hand.

I'm ever so grateful to you all.

Oh, wow!

All the dog-ears have gone!

JAY CHUCKLES

That's courtesy of Chris.

He's bound it and just made sure it's a bit more presentable.

Yeah! It's amazing.

Oh, I can't tell you how excited I am.

And I'm so happy!

It's beautiful.

I'll be able to use it now. Yes.

Just like your grandfather did. Just like Grandfather did. Yes.

We wanted you to keep the tradition going,

what your grandfather started. Yes.

Christopher has also made an empty one there.

Oh, my God!

This is brilliant!

What a surprise!

Oh, thank you! Continue that tradition.

It will go on, yes.

It is very important. Thank you for bringing it in,

and hopefully this helps you to keep the family's tradition going.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

No problem. Bye-bye. OK. Bye! You take care. Bye-bye.

The slate, I couldn't have asked for more.

My grandfather would have been so proud to see it,

and for it to be repaired at the level that it has been,

it's amazing, absolutely amazing.

History is very important.

The diary will be continued. Everything will be noted.

I'm never going to let it go for as long as I'm alive.

It's going to be with me. It's not going anywhere.

Join us next time, as more history is uncovered...

That is gorgeous.

..and memories brought to life...

SHE GASPS

Oh, wow!

..in The Repair Shop.

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