04x26 - Vintage Horse Racing Game

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Welcome to the Repair Shop, where
much-loved but broken treasures...

This is amazing.
It's 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 kind of history,

to just keep things going.

..and a dream team
of some of the country's

most skilled crafts people...

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.

It's working.

You beauty!

...utilising expertise passed down
the generations...

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

..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.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, thank you so much!

Can't see it because of the tears
in my eyes!

This is a very emotional job to do,
but incredibly worthwhile.

LAUGHTER AND CHEERS

In the Repair Shop today,
meticulous craftsmanship...

When I'm cutting the glass,
accuracy is really key.

..to restore some stunning
stained glass.

Anything that's, you know, a mil
off, that's not really acceptable.

While the race is on...

Roll up, roll up! Here we go.

..to bring a 1920s game
of romping back to life.

CHEERING

Come on!

Yay! Yes!

Come on!

But first, raring to meet the Repair
Shop's first customers of the day,

Jay and Dom.

Julia Keegan from Salford...

Hi, I'm Julia. I'm Jay.

..and her 93-year-old mum, Dora...

How are you?

Thank you, very well, thank you.

..have brought along something
that's been part of their family

for a very long time.

What is it, first of all?

Well, it's seat from a tram...
OK.

..when Salford gave up their trams
and changed them into buses in 1947.

So, this is over 70 years old?
Yes.

And the people who had worked
on the trams

were allowed to have some of the
rolling stock if they wanted it.

OK.

And the man who lived next door
to my mother and father

was an inspector on the trams.
OK.

So, he said to my mother
and father,

"I can have a tram seat,
if I want - would you one?"

My mother and father said yes,

and they put it in their
front garden,

and used it an awful lot.
Loved it! Yeah.

And then my father died, and my
mother found great comfort in this,

because she used to sit on it
and as people passed by,

they'd talk and chat to her...
Oh, that's nice.

..and stop her being lonely. Yeah.

And she loved that tram seat.

We had it in our front garden
till she died

and the house was emptied. Right.

And Julia... Well, I...

..chose this tram seat as one of the
things for a memento

she wanted to keep,
because we all loved it. Yeah.

Well, you used to play on it...
Yeah, we used to play on it.

..when you were quite small,
didn't you?

Yeah, because the fun thing
about it is that it goes

backwards and forwards.

So, why does it do that, though?
Why does it do that, Mum?

THEY LAUGH

The trams, the Salford tram,
drives from the front

and from the back.

So, this was made to go that way.
OK.

So, that you were sitting the way
of the travel.

Yeah, facing the right way.

And that's the...
That is very clever!

...one bit that's
really survived! Yes, it is!

Yeah, it is, yeah.

That's original wood under there.

This is the original tram wood?
Yeah.

And this is obviously the original
bit and that is the original bit,

and these others I have
replaced over the years. OK.

Inexpertly! It was wood colour!

It was wood, before? Varnished wood.

And what about the
actual metal work?

What colour would that
have been on the tram?

It was just sort of,
what I'd call rusty red.

So, when you look at the seat now...
Yeah?

..what does it remind you of?

It's my roots, really. Yeah.

Part of my roots. Yeah.

And part of Salford's roots
growing up there.

When I went to school... Yeah?
..I longed to come home on a tram.

My spending money for a week
was two old pennies

that I could spend on that tram
or I can spend on sweets.

Well, what did you spend it on,
then? The tram!

That's really, I'd say,
how much I loved trams.

Aw, happy memories!
Yes, it is, indeed.

And it'd bring
those memories back.

So, what would you like us
to do to it, then?

What would you like to see?

If it looks like the tram
I used to ride on... Yeah?

..that'd be lovely!
That'd be lovely!

What was the number of the tram?
81. 81! OK.

From Salford to Deansgate.

So, if you leave this with us...
Yes?

..we, hopefully, are going to get
this back to the way

that you remember it. Is that OK?

That's be lovely!
Thank you.

Thank you very much, indeed.

Nice to meet you. Thank you so much.
Thank you, goodbye.

Thank you. We'll see you soon.
See you soon. OK.

Take care now.

It's sheer nostalgia,
just riding on the trams.

It'll be absolutely lovely to see
it in working order again.

I've tried very hard to keep
it in one piece,

but failed a little bit.

And I'd love for Mum to have it back
and to sit on it properly again.

So, I'm getting a chance now to have
a first proper look

at this tram seat.

Bones of it underneath.

This is where you start to see
the full extent of the damage.

And, I mean, it's like
there's lots of previous repairs.

It's worse than I was hoping.

It's been so many different colours.

There's brown, there's bits of green
under there.

There's also... It's obviously been
painted over so many times.

Bits like this scare me quite a lot.

So, this should be a piece of wood.

You can see I think it's...
I think it's a filler

or expanding foam
or something rubbery.

This side's not as bad,
but it's still... Look.

It's completely crumbling.

To be able to get this
structurally solid,

like sound enough to be able
to sit on it again,

is going to be a huge job.

A lot of woodwork,
a lot of metal work.

It's going to be quite a long road.

While Dom continues to dismantle
the tram seat, two more visitors

are hoping for some
expert intervention. How we doing?

Retired school teacher
Judy Hollingshead

and her husband, Kim.

How are you? Hi, Jay, I'm fine.
Come on in. Hi there, I'm Matt.

They've brought in a
cherished memento for stained glass

craftsman Matt Nickels.

Right. Wow! Oh, right.
These look really interesting.

Couple of nice bits. Could you
tell us the history about this

and how you've got it? Yeah.

These are three glass panels...

Right. ..which were in a door
in this school. OK.

And I started teaching there
in the mid '60s.

They were in a corridor... Right.
..and I just loved them. Every time

I went through them, I just would
look at them. When they're clean,

you can see through them
and they're beautiful.

In the mid '70s, the school
amalgamated with another school

and they did a lot
of demolition, really.

So these were going
to get thrown out?

These were going
to get thrown out, yes. OK.

So I said to the headmaster,
"Could I have them?" cos I'd always

loved them, and I would be
heartbroken if they'd been smashed

up and just thrown away,
and he said yes, so I got them.

And then where have they been since
you've got them?

Have they been at home,
on display, or...?

Yes, well, they were on display
for a while, weren't they, when we

had them... Yes, but... ..against
a window. ..a bit vulnerable. Yes.

We decided to pack them up, because
they were getting a bit knocked.

So, how long have they been
packed away now?

Oh! 14 years? Wow! At least.

Yes. Do you have all of those
that are missing? No.

Oh, you don't. Some of it was
done when they were going

to be put into the skip.

It's as if there's a little sliver
there missing. Yes, and the corner.

On there. Mmm. OK.

Why are these important to you,
then?

I think it's because I've known them
for 50 years, I suppose. Right.

And I've always loved these.
They were important to her.

They're still important to her.
They're still important.

And she's very proud
of them in her own way. Yeah.

You'd think she painted them
herself.
THEY LAUGH

There's just quite a lot
of history in the fabric

of these as well, I think.

And combined with your
experience of working at the school,

it'd be really nice to bring
them back to life again. It would.

Very precious thing. Yes, they are.

Well, we are going to do our
best here and get these looking

as beautiful as they did
when they were back in the school,

cos they must have been a treat.

Yes. Well, we'll leave
the miracles to you, shall we?

All right. Thank you for bringing
it in. Nice to meet you, Matt.

Brilliant. Thank you.

You guys take care now.
Thank you, and you.

The glass is very important to me
because it was a part of my life

when I was teaching and I loved it,

and the children were wonderful,

and it would be so lovely
to see them back

to their beautiful beginnings.

What a lovely story. No, it was.
That's nice, innit? Yeah. Eh?

It's not just their story as well,

it's the whole kind of history
of it. Yeah.

You've got the building,
you've got the kind of heritage

of that, and then you've also got
Judy's experience there. Yeah.

It sounds like you can't wait
to get going on these ones.

Yeah, I really can't.
Are these going to be easy?

Well...not too easy. Cos you're
going to make stuff up

as well, aren't you?

Yeah, I'm going to try and keep
as much of the original as possible,

but there are a few missing pieces.
That bit there, I'm going to have to

find a new bit of glass
that matches the tint

and then I'm going
to paint a new bit. OK.

So that's going to be the difficult
part. It's going to be more

than difficult, it's going
to be very tricky, Matt.

It is going to be quite tricky,
yeah. OK. Have fun. Thanks, Jay.

So, these windows, they've
definitely seen better days,

but all's not lost.
They're not in too bad a condition.

This panel's the real
difficult one to deal with.

There's a lot of missing pieces,
and also just the general

LED matrix is falling apart,

so I think it's just
about salvageable.

With the glass illuminated, Matt can
begin finding a colour match for the

missing pieces.

I've got a large collection
of samples here, and a lot

of very, very subtly different
green tints.

When glass is produced now, the
colours can be a bit more precise,

whereas when this was made in the
Victorian era, it might not

have been quite as specific
a method used.

I'm looking for
a particular green tint.

It's quite bluey.

It's got a bit of
turquoise in there.

It's a bit of an appley tint.

So this is actually the one
I'm going to go for.

Got a quite a nice match
for the pattern that runs

through the glass, and also
you've got these little air bubbles

that are really nice.

Outside in the metal workshop,
Dom is searching for a colour match

of his own -

the original red
colour on the tram seat frame -

as he dismantles it,
ready for sandblasting.

All right, Dom?
You got that metal ready?

Well, I'm almost there.
It's coming apart. OK.

If you don't mind giving us a hand.
All right, cool.

You OK? You got it? Yeah, yeah,
I've got it. Here we go.

And you haven't been able
to find that colour yet, have you?

The red... The red.
No, not yet. I haven't... I thought

it would have been there. I was kind
of hoping there'd be some there.

Yeah. There's little bit there.
Look at that.

Yeah, that's it.

As well as the metalwork,
Dom also has the challenge

of the crumbling wooden seat.
This is my worry.

These bits, I think they're the only

bits of the original wood left,
really. OK. That all used to be

one piece, but, look, it's...

How much was taken... Yeah.

There we go. Easy. Yeah, that's the
way to do it.
THEY LAUGH

Because that wood's no good anyway,
is it? No, no.

Oh, look at that. It's coming. Ooh!

Yeah, that's gone.
That's had it, hasn't it?

I'm going to sort of get my head
around how this is held together.

We're obviously going to have
to start making new pieces.

No problem, I'm with you.
All these bits can be stripped out.

No problem. Thanks, Jay.
See you soon.

With nothing salvageable from the
wooden seat, Dom will have to craft

one from scratch.

So, I've got this beautiful
old piece of American pitch pine,

which is a really slow-growing,
dense old bit of wood, which is

perfect for the base of the
tram seat. It's actually very, very

similar to what this would have been
made from originally.

And now I just need to play a bit
of a quick game of Tetris and try

and make sure that I can get all
of the pieces, all of the components

that I need out of this one
piece of wood.

The bit I'm working on now is
definitely the

most tricky piece to remake.

It's got curves in all sorts
of directions. Got this little ledge

for the slats to sit on. And most
importantly, the main feature

of the chair is where the
backrest would come through this

point and hinge there.

These are the two end stops for it.

So it's really, really important
that I'm accurate

as I can be when remaking
this piece.

The next visitor to
the Repair Shop is Antonia Hockton.

She's brought along something
from her father's childhood

for the attention of Steve Fletcher.

Hello. Hello. I'm Steve.
Pleased to meet you, Steve.

Hi. Hi. This is a racing game,

my dad's racing game when he was
little boy. Oh, right, OK.

Him and his brother, and he passed
it on to me some years back,

but it's seen better days,
I'm afraid.

But the horses, these little horses,

some are missing tails and things,

and there's a sort of old repairs.

And this, it sort of works on
an action with mechanical...

Oh, really?

...and then this kind of goes
along, but it...

We haven't played
it for years. Do you know what?

You say it's mechanical, and what...

And you've got horses and...
How... Where's the mechanics?

So, this little handle
goes into here. Yeah.

And the box is at one end
and the track goes along,

and as you turn that,
it sort of makes an action

of the... Right, because it's
under tension. Oh, yes!

Got a sort of action like...

..like this. Yes, yeah. Exactly.

This is the end line, and that goes
around and goes in, and you sort of

race towards the box.

Yes. I would think this was probably
their most special toy.

The fact of how battered it is,

I think it shows how much
enjoyment they got from it.

Yeah, absolutely.

He tells me they betted
with buttons. Oh, right, OK.

Yeah, that was the currency
of the time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Actually, you've picked
the one which was my dad's.

My dad always had that one,
and he called that one

Donald Duck. How old is it?

I don't know the actual date,
but it must be '40s.

So, can you tell me
what you'd like me to do?

I would love you to be able to
get it back so that we could

have a proper race.

We very rarely got to play it
when I was a kid, cos my dad, um...

..worked an awful lot, and so he was
very rarely home to play with this.

Right, OK. One of the things which
would be really lovely is to be able

to play it with him. You can take
yourself back and be a kid again.

Exactly. Actually,
that's not very hard.
THEY LAUGH

What are your real memories of it?

I think the sound of the mechanism
as you turn the handle. Right.

It definitely has a sense of the
horses' hooves on the grass. Yeah.

That is a really important
element of the game.

Yeah. I do like the age of it.

So I do like the fact that it
doesn't look pristine, because it is

a memory of my dad's childhood. Yes.

I mean, this is going to be a fun
thing to work on.
SHE LAUGHS

Sorry. And quite a challenge,
really, because there's so many

different variants here
that I don't know...

..quite how to get it right, but...
So that...

I trust you.
..will be the challenge.

I'll, I'll have a go. Great.
So, thank you very much.

Thank you very much. All right.
Thank you.

All right, bye-bye now. Bye.

I really hope that Steve is able
to bring the game back to life

so that we can play it again
as a family and have the same

enjoyment that my dad
had when he was a child.

It's been in the family a long time,
and it's really important to my dad

particularly, and then to me.
It's part of our heritage.

This is a really nice game.

The actual main racecourse
is fairly rotten.

The racehorses aren't too bad.

I think there's a couple of tails
missing and a couple of legs broken.

This one has had a broken leg
at some point and it's been

repaired, so I'm going to
improve on that.

Let's hope that when
I repair it, it'll have hours

and hours more enjoyment.

I must make sure that Donald Duck
is the fastest one.
HE CHUCKLES

How we doing, Dom? Hey, Jay. You OK?

Yeah. Got these back
from the... Cor!

Is that what you've done?!
This is it, yeah.
THEY LAUGH

Wow! Let me tell you something -
you are... It's cool, isn't it?

..one clever bunny. It's good.
It's getting there. It's been...

Anyway, let me see this metal.

So I got these back
from the sand blasters.

The only one I'm a little bit
suspect about is this one here.

Oh, yeah. This is kind of the worst
case. The sandblasting process just

takes away anything that's a little
bit fragile - paint, primers,

filler, silica,

and all of the previous repairs.
But then that also means it takes

away any fragile bits of metal.

But what we can do, or what YOU
could do - is probably cut it along

there and use that as a template
to make a better one of these.

That's what we're going
to have to do.

There's no way you're going
to be able to sit on that.

It would just...
There's nothing left.

No, no way, there's nothing left
there. Yeah, I was sort of just

over the hill with this,
feeling in a really good place.

That's kind of cropped up
a new problem.

Well, if you need any help, I'm
here, yeah? Good. Thank you. OK?

Thanks, Jay. Have fun.

The steelwork on the tram seat
legs would have been made

in a big factory on
huge machines, which obviously

we don't have here.

So I'm using a different technique
to achieve the same end goal.

Putting these little relief
cuts in, heating up this back edge,

and then I'll just bend that around
and that'll give me the curve

that I need for
the base of the feet.

I'm relieved and really pleased how
that's worked out.

I couldn't be happier.

Can't wait to get painting them.

Back inside the barn, stained glass
specialist Matt is racing ahead

with his repair.

He's cutting the new glass
to replace the missing pieces

of the panels.

I need my glass cutter for cutting.
It's oil-filled,

and when it presses down,
the oil then lubricates the tip.

When I'm cutting the glass,
accuracy is really key.

Anything that's, you know, a mil
off, that's not really acceptable.

It's got to fit in
absolutely perfectly.

So, I've got a nice clean cut there.

And fingers crossed...

..it's going to be a nice fit,
which it is. That's great.

Glass is a fantastic medium
to be working with.

There's nothing quite like it,
but it can misbehave sometimes,

and it's sometimes a bit
brittle and difficult to work with.

So, when you tap the bottom,
you don't want to do it too hard,

but you can...

And this just helps the cut
run along

where you want it to. Got a
really nice, fine point on the end.

We'll just see how this all fits.

I can see that there's a little bit
jutting out there,

so I'm just going to use
a grinder to take that off.

Cool. That's it.

With the missing glass pieces cut
out, Matt can now paint them to slot

into the original design.

So, the painting is one of
my favourite parts of working

with stained glass.

You've got to have a very steady
hand to do this nicely,

so it just means you've got to
really put yourself in a calm frame

of mind, and it's very peaceful.

You really need to put yourself
in the mind-set

of the original painter. So, for
these pieces, there's quite a kind

of fluid, loose method of painting
with nice kind of motions.

With the design outlined, Matt needs
to add the bright yellow detail.

For that, he uses silver stain -
a technique that was first used

on glass in the 1300s.

When this fires in the kiln,

the stain then seeps
into the glass when it reaches

a certain temperature, and when it
comes out again, instead

of being this grey colour,
it's this beautiful lemon yellow.

So, this is the
really exciting part,

but also the slightly worrying part.

I'm going to put these
in the kiln now.

Fingers crossed, they're going
to come out how I want.

So, the tracing paint has
come out really nicely.

I can see that's the
right colour, but...

the silver stain, it goes
on is a grey powder but I need to

rub that off, and that's going
to hopefully reveal the nice

lemon colour underneath.

There's always a tiny bit
of apprehension when you're going

to do this, because you never know
exactly how things are going to come

out the kiln. If it's not quite
right, then it's actually back

to square one.

So, I'm really happy with this.

With the lost shard recreated,
Matt can now fix it into the panel.

He's using a
conservator's approach -

copper-bonding the new slivers

to the remaining original glass
in a visible join.

It's an honest repair.

It's reversible and you're making
your piece stand out as something

that's part of the history
of the window,

but it's not going to pretend
that it's part of the original.

Just securing it in place while I do
the soldering.

What you want to ideally do
is just have one smooth pass.

I'm really happy with that.

With the panel whole again,

Matt must now get it back
into the original leadwork.

So, this is a particularly
fiddly part.

I really need to be very careful
with this.

You've really got to know how much
pressure you can put on the glass

without it breaking. Gradually do
it bit by bit and just see

which bit works.

And lead allows me a little bit of
wiggle room,

but you still can't bend it too
much, because once it's stretched,

it doesn't want to go back.

Fingers crossed,
this bit's going to...

..just about fit in now.

There we go. Just slotting it in.

The stained glass panel
is back together.

And outside, Dom's about to do
the same with all the elements

of the 1930s tram seat.

It should go together quite
straightforward, quite easily.

It's just like a big jigsaw now.
All the numbers have just got

to match up, the right screws
in the right places,

and it should all go together
quite well.

I can totally see why Dora
loves this chair.

I think I'm a bit jealous,
to be honest, myself.

It's just beautiful. It's such
a clever little thing

that's so simple.
It just needs one final touch.

As a girl, 93-year-old Dora
was so bewitched by the trams

she used to save all her pocket
money to spend on riding them.

Now she's back to see if Dom
has managed to recreate the magic

of her childhood.

When we brought it in, it didn't
look like a tram seat any more,

because it was so old
and so dilapidated.

And it made me so sad to see it,
when it had been so beautiful.

I'm hoping that it's going to look
like it did when I first used

to ride on those trams.

Hello! Hello. Hiya. Hello. How we
doing? Lovely to see you again.

Oh, nice to see you. You OK?

Lovely to see you. Good to see you.
Thank you. Likewise.

THEY LAUGH
You excited?

Very excited! I'm nervous.
THEY LAUGH

I'm nervous for you. I've got
every confidence. Here you go.

Good. OK? Come on. Shall we do it?
Yeah, go on. We going to do it?

You ready? You ready for this?
Yes.

THEY GASP
Oh!

That takes me back to the
'30s and the '40s.

That's just like it was
outside Grandma's house.

Yeah. That's what I remember.
Dominic, thank you so much!

You're welcome. That's lovely!

Oh, that is absolutely beautiful!

And look - 81!

I can't believe it.

It's so beautiful! So lovely.

And the feet are mended! Oh, look!

Oh, thank you so much!
That is such wonderful work.

It really is. Thank you.

I want it put on the floor
so I can sit on it.

Go on. Course you can. Please.

Oh, that's lovely!
Thank you so much!

Where is he? Where is he?

I've not sat on it yet. Bless.

Oh!

Well, thank you for all that
hard work, which...

It must have been a labour of love.

It was, honestly, it really was.
It's been good fun.

Oh! I'm glad you like it.
Oh, I...

I absolutely adore it. Yeah.

Oh, now I will do the pulling it
back and forward. Yeah.

So, the tram's going back
now, taking...
LAUGHTER

Yes. Oh, that's lovely.

You've made an old lady very happy.
Aw, bless!

Well done, mate, well done.
Cheers, Jay. Yeah, well done.

We're amazed. Speechless. Beyond...

My mum's very rarely speechless!
THEY LAUGH

Beyond my expectations,
it really is.

I never, ever expected to see
it brought back to life

in my lifetime, and here it is -
there, ready for me to sit

on all again. And I do...

So grateful to Dominic
for making it so perfect.

Thank you so much!

It's really, really lovely. I'm glad
you like it. Now I see it,

I realise it's been more work than I
even thought it was going to be.

Oh, don't. And I know it,
and it's perfect work.

That's it. It's beautiful.
Thank you, thank you. Thank you.

I'm glad you like it. Oh, I love it.

I'll remember you forever.
Oh, bless! Thank you.

I enjoyed that tram ride then,

and I'll enjoy sitting on it now
and pretending it's a tram again.

It was really, really lovely.

Over on his workbench,
Steve is on a journey of his own,

tinkering with the worn mechanics
of the vintage racing game.

This is the mechanism.
It's a very simple mechanism.

Got a cam here that, when the
handle's turned, it pulls this

lever back then lets it go.

And that gives it the action
that we need to make the horses go.

But it's been really well used.

This must have had hours
and hours of enjoyment,

because this bearing
is completely worn out.

So, what I'm going to do is,
I'm going to put a sleeve

in here, a bush in here, to actually
support this centrally again.

This tool I've had ever
since I started in clock-making.

A broach is a five-sided,
tapered cutting tool.

The beauty of using a tool
like this, you can just take such

a fine amount off. Good.

So, that's really tight
in there now.

CLICKING

I'm sure that's the sound
that Antonia remembers.

Sort of sounds like horses.

Well, that's good for another
100, years I'd say.

The central mechanism may be fixed,
but Steve needs help with the other

worn elements of the game.

He's hoping The Repair Shop's
resident upholsterer can help

with the track. Sonnaz. Hi, Steve.

Are you able to make a new one
of these? Oh, my goodness!

So, this is a racing game,
horse-racing game. Oh!

Basically, there's a machine... Yep.
..that you wind... Yep.

and it does this, it goes...

Goodness me! Right.
But you can see all of this.

Yeah. It's absolutely rotten.

It looks like a wax linen. Yeah.
Or something, a wax something.

Presumably the wax is for it to...
the horses to slide...

I think so, yeah, yeah.

I can do all the riveting there.

OK. I'll find a similar type
of fabric and stitch it in

the cream again,
as per the original.

No probs. And then we can...
Can we play with it before

it goes back, or...
Yeah, definitely.

Absolutely. I bet I'll win.

Oh, I bet I win!
THEY LAUGH

With Sonnaz on track
to run up a replica racecourse,

Steve turns his attention
to the runners and riders.

It's quite nice to work in a...

.. a material that
I'm not used to working in.

So, lead is quite malleable.

It's quite easy to shape up
into the shape of a tail.

I just need to...

engrave some...

hair on it as well.

I've got a piece of fabric here
with virtually the same coating

and feeling as the original.

Hopefully... I'm pretty confident
it will work.

I'm just going to drill a hole
in the backside of the horse.

Takes me back to when I was training
to be a vet.

HE CHUCKLES

Then pop some super glue...

..in there.

Ba-da! Oh, well done, you. Ready?

Yeah, yeah. Complete with
the finishing line. Hey!

Well done! That's excellent!

Cor, that's going to be great!

This racing game, known as Escalado,
was introduced in 1928

and was the best-selling toy
that year.

It's nice that an old-fashioned game
like this is used, rather than games

where you just press buttons.

But does this vintage favourite
still hold its appeal today?

And does it work?

Only one way to find out.

Guys?

Roll up, roll up, here we go.

OK. Who's going to have what?

Purple! Purple. White.

On your marks, get set... Go!

Oh.

THEY GIGGLE
Come on!

SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

THEY SHOUT EXCITEDLY

CHEERING

Brilliant.

You've got it working. Well done.

What a great game, isn't it?

Yeah. It is.

So, let's get this ready
for Antonio and Adam, yeah.

Absolutely. Well done.

Things are rather more serene
over on Matt's bench.

Wow. One of the things I've always
wanted to ask is -

how do you know you've got a stained
glass the right way round?

Because that, I can feel...
Yeah. ..the hand painting on there.

Where does that go?
That's a good question.

Outside or inside or...? So, you'd
have the painting on the inside

but the staining is actually
done on the other side,

so the exterior side.

Quite often, actually,
when you do take apart a window,

so you see old windows,

there are often one or two pieces
the wrong way round. Oh, is it?

Yeah. Is that because
someone's repaired it

and put it round the wrong way?
Could be like that.

Or just, you know, if they're...

In the Victorian era
when these would've been made,

they would've just had loads
of these squares made up.

And then just one accidentally would
have got flipped over.

So, is it possible...
Could you make a frame for this?

Yeah. I'll try and make
three frames, one for each of them.

Brilliant. It'll finish them
off nicely, I think.

Matt, you've done a blinding job.

Thanks so much. As always.

Cheers, thanks. Nice one.

With the exquisite Victorian
panels complete,

Judy and Kim make their way
back to the Repair Shop.

Oh, I'm very excited.

I can't wait, actually,
to see them again.

When I brought the glass in,
it was in a very poor state

and it was very mucky looking.

I'm hoping that they'll be
in some sort of state

where I can actually hang
them up in the window.

I just would like to see Judy's face
when she sees the glass.

How're we doing? Hello, Jay.

All right?

Hiya, you two. Hello, Matt. Hiya.

So, how are you feeling?

Err...apprehensive.

Hopeful.

Well, hopefully,
you should be impressed,

I think, just a little bit.

Ready? Shall we show them? OK.

THEY GASP

Goodness me. Oh!

They're wonderful.

Oh, good heavens.

Do you know,
it's my birthday today.

No! And this has made me very happy

because it's the best present
I could possibly have.

Oh, brilliant. Oh.

I can't believe it.

Fabulous.

I'm shaking so much,
I daren't touch them!

So, I felt that the memories
to you were so important

that I've tried to keep as much
of the original as possible.

Where there was the
two pieces missing,

I've painted those
two pieces there... Really?

..so those are new.

I've managed to keep as much of the
original lead as possible as well.

Kind of like a jigsaw puzzle,
pieced it all back together.

So, an easy job, then!

Not.

THEY LAUGH

And you framed them as well.

It finishes it off nicely,
doesn't it? It does.

Because they were all sort
of rickety before.

Absolutely glorious, to be honest.
They are glorious.

And the sun will come through
and it'll...

Oh. Ooh!

Well... Oh, I can't
thank you enough.

I'm really glad you guys are happy
with them. Yes.

Happy birthday, darling.

Thank you. Yeah, happy birthday.

Oh, I'm so, so happy.

It's just wonderful.

I don't know how he did it

but the colours are so much brighter
than they were.

It took me right back to
when I was at my school

and walking along the corridor.

It was wonderful.

Now we'll be able to display
them properly

with the light shining through
them again.

And to see her face...

..was the greatest pleasure.

With a little help from Sonnaz
and some thorough testing,

the racing game is ready to return
to Antonia.

She's back at the Repair Shop
to reclaim her treasured toy.

This time I've got my dad
with me, John.

I used to play with that game
when I was eight.

Yeah, it was a long time ago,

so it hasn't been working
for quite a long time,

so we've fingers crossed.

Nervous? Always before a race,
you know!

To be able to play again
at home together,

that would be the dream.
Really special.

Hello. Hello, how are you?

I'm fine. I'm John.

This is my dad.

Oh, this is Dad? This is Dad, yeah.
You all right? Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. OK, so there's
no pressure then!

You played this game such a lot.

You must have played it for hours
and hours and hours. Oh, yeah.

Yes. Used to get all the family
round, betting on the horses.

Oh, really? Yeah. With buttons.

OK. Well, we won't keep you
in suspense any longer.

OK.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, wow! Look at that.

That is brilliant. That's amazing.

Gosh. Wow!

That's great. They've got
the character... Yeah.

..and everything, still.

But that just looks so much more
possible to play it now, you know?

It looks like it's
all going to work.

Are we going to get the opportunity?

We've got to get the buttons out,
haven't you?

Yeah, yeah, sorry!

Got to spread the buttons around.

I want Donald Duck. OK.

You've gone straight in
for Donald Duck.

I'm going for the orange one.
I like the orange one.

I'll go for Brown Bess.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I'm going to go
for Lady Godiva, then.

OK.

You ready? Yeah. OK.

Oh, gosh! Come on, Donald Duck!

Go on! Come on!

Whoa, whoa.

There we go, there we go.

Come on, Donald Duck!

Oh, no!

Look at Donald Duck! Come on.

Come on. Come on, Donald Duck!

Go on, go on, go on.

Here we go, Look, look, look.

SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

CHEERS AND LAUGHTER

Well done. Well done, John.
Well done.

You take all the buttons? No.

The best horse won!

Was that the sound you remember?

Yeah, yeah! Sounds smoother
than I remember!

They were a lot more clunky!

Well, do enjoy it.

Yeah. We've enjoyed it.

Yeah. So, there we are.

Well, he chose to take it, go on.

My daughter can take it!

Do have fun.

Thanks. Take care.

Thank you. Bye. Bye.

So amazed with what they've been
able to do.

They've done a great job,
haven't they?

Yes, it's going to be
lovely playing with it. Yeah.

Shame to see that one go!

Yeah. We could've had hours of fun
with that!

Well, it was really lovely
to play with my dad.

I think that's the special part
of having this game repaired,

to bring back that time
we can have together.

You seem to win them all, Dad.

No, I picked the best horse!

Join us next time...

If this was his favourite one,

we better make sure we do a really
good job on it then, hadn't we?

..for more miraculous
restorations...

GASPS

That's amazing!

..in The Repair Shop.