05x24 - Art Deco Chiming Clock

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..are restored
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that they hold.

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In The Repair Shop today,
Julie and Amanda

make a familiar diagnosis...

When the stuffing drops, Old Bear
Syndrome, really nasty condition.

..on a battered,
but beloved old friend.

Got another one. Go on, then!

Pawsonality Disorder!
THEY GIGGLE

And an unusual wedding album
requires the kid glove treatment

from Brenton...
They'll be very, very frail.

These slides are 60 years old.

Yeah. You don't have to knock
them very hard to break them,

I can assure you of that.

But the barn's first arrival
is Claire Collier from Cambridge.

She's brought along a sweet reminder
of her childhood for the attention

of clock restorer Steve Fletcher.

Hello. Hello. How are you doing?
I'm Jay. Nice to meet you.

And you are? I'm Claire.
I'm Steve. Hi, Steve.

Sounds like a clock in there.
It does. It's a good guess.

Right, OK. Tell us about it.

This belonged
to my great-grandmother, Mabel.

This clock would sit
on her mantelpiece.

And when we were kids,
she had a vase on the top.

You see the ring marks
where she's left the water damage.

Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. And we would
go upstairs, put our pyjamas on,

get ready for bed.

And she would always point
to the clock.

And behind the vase on the clock,
every single time we came downstairs

was a pair of chocolate
eclair sweets. Yeah, yeah.

There were always two.
One for me, one for my sister.

And it was her way of being naughty.

We'd already brushed our teeth.
Oh, I see.

We knew it was naughty.

And I kept the secret
until ten years ago.

My parents had no idea
that she was doing it!

And my mum was delighted
when I told her this story.

She thought it was very her!
Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah.

You can have that later!
I will definitely have these later!

Both of them! Yeah, I'll have
both of them! That is Jay!

Can you remember it
ticking and striking? Yeah.

It has a beautiful five bell chime.

So it chimes on every quarter
of an hour and you always knew

what time it was even
if you weren't in the room. Yeah.

So, yeah, it was a lovely sound.

Where's this clock been since then?

Sadly, just on a shelf in my hall.

And it's sat there for nearly
25 years. Oh, my word. Right.

My grandfather gave it to me
when him and my grandmother

were getting older.

So has it not been working
in that 25 years?

It was broken when he gave it to me.

So I'm really hoping
that's what you guys can do for me

and that I can hear
that chime again.

To me, it's happy memories
of my childhood and the naughtiness

of my great-grandmother Mabel.
Naughty 90-year-old!

Naughty 90s!

It's an ambition. You know,
hopefully I can get to that as well.

I'm very excited about working
on this.

I'm sure we'll be able to do
something.

Well, Claire, thank you
for bringing it in. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you very much. And I
know I'm leaving it in good hands.

The best hands. Yes. Goodbye.
Goodbye. Bye-bye.

I'm really hoping Steve
can get my clock working again.

That's, to me,
the most important part.

If they can get the case looking
nice and all the wood shiny again,

then even better.

So what's wrong with it?

I can see that the movement
is very, very dirty,

so I've got to look into that and
see what's wrong with the mechanism.

Right. The case, I will have to hand
that over to Will, I think.

Yeah. I think you'll have
to encourage him...

Put a couple of sweets in there.

So do you need to get the mechanism
out first before Will can do that?

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. OK.

Just let me know and then I'll take
it over to Will. Perfect. OK.

All right. Thank you.

What I need to do is get
the mechanism out,

have a look at it and see
what I've got to do to it.

There we go. These are
really nice Art Deco form hands.

Very nice.

This is the gong unit.

So...

CHIMING

That's the sound that I need
to get the clock making,

the sound that Claire remembers.

Hoping it's just that it needs
a jolly good clean.

This is a very, very dirty clock.

You can see a build-up
of really sticky gungy oil.

It's absolutely filthy.

I'm just going to use this pair
of modified pliers.

There's a small slot filed in one
side here so that I can actually fit

it underneath this unit here,

press on the top here and it
actually pulls this off cleanly.

It's very, very silly, but it's so
satisfying when I just click,

and it comes off.
It gives me a real satisfaction.

Right. I'm going to put this
in the clock cleaning fluid.

Good.

Next, John McMuldroch
from Liverpool.

He's hoping bear repair duo

Julie Tatchell and Amanda
Middleditch... Hello!

..can restore a furry friend
with huge sentimental value.

My name's Julie. Hi. And I'm Amanda.

So what have we got in here?

My mum's teddy bear.
Oh, look!

Aw! My mum got given it when she
was a baby, when she was born.

So if this is your mum's bear,
how come you have him,

and you've brought him
to us today?

Erm, my mum passed away two years
ago with ovarian cancer.

OK. Right.
She was a big part of my life.

She really was.

So can you tell us a little bit
more about your mum?

Joan was her name.

She was a carer. Really? Yeah.

She was a big charity sort of
person, used to raise money

for the MS Society,
which is what I suffer with.

OK. Right.
She did this teddy bears' picnic.

What it was, was my mum dressed
up as Rupert The Bear. Oh, wow!

Spent the day marching round,
seeing kids and stuff like that.

At the end of the day,
she took off her helmet

and it looked
like she'd just had a shower.

She'd sweated that much.
It was the middle of summer.

Oh, my goodness.
But she just giggled her head off.

Nothing like that would,
you know, faze her.

Oh, she sounds wonderful.
Oh, she was. She really was.

Sounds like you were very close.
Very close.

She's was my mum. Yeah.

And one of the last things
that she did,

because she was always
thinking about me,

was in her funeral, she wanted
people to not bring flowers

and stuff like that. She wanted
donations to the MS Society.

That shook me up, to realise that
she was still thinking of me, then.

So he was obviously very special
to your mum? Yes.

It's always lived on the edge
of her bed.

And now he's yours to treasure?
Yeah. So I'd like to...

I know she's not here,
but give something back to her.

Yeah.

I would just like to see it roughly,
as far as you can,

back the way it was. Yeah.
Did you play with him during

your childhood? Yeah, I did.
Yeah.

That's probably half the problem,
why his legs have fallen apart!

He gets loved to bits!
Absolutely!

Yeah, that's a fair way
of putting it!

So what does he symbolise to you?

Something that my mum used to hold,
and love.

It's something that's there,
that's still my mum.

That you can hug as well.
Yeah, I can.

It would be an absolute honour
to do it for you,

and for her memory as well.

Yeah. We'll try not to keep
you apart for too long.

I hope not! Thank you so much
for bringing him.

Yeah, we'll let you know
when he's ready. Brilliant.

Thank you. Thank you very much.
Take care, John. Bye-bye.

My mum got the teddy bear
when she was a baby.

It was her best friend
when she was younger.

Best friend when she was older.
Best friend when she passed away.

It will be a big tribute to my mum
that it's getting done.

I do hope it will do her proud.

How are you doing, ladies?
Hiya. Hi, Jay.

How are you getting on
with John's bear?

Oh, you haven't got very far, have
you? No, we haven't even started!

We're deciding what's the best
course of action.

What are you going to do?
Because his hands, feet...

Yeah, there's quite a lot to do.

The other thing we have to do is,
this is Rexine, we can't buy that.

So we're going to have to make some.
You're going to make your own?

Yeah, we are, yeah.
And that was on the hands

and also on the feet as well?
Yes, yeah.

Can you hear that clunking inside?
Yeah, he's lost his growl?

He's lost his growl there.
You're learning so much!

I've learned from the best,
haven't I? Yeah.

OK, so do you guys need me
to get you anything?

You will need to get us
some of the cotton material

that we need to make the Rexine.
OK.

And dark brown acrylic paint.

All right. Sounds like you guys
have got it under control.

Yeah, absolutely. All right!
Thanks, Jay. No problem.

It was lovely to hear John talking
about his mum Joan there, wasn't it?

They obviously had a really close
relationship. I think so.

And the amazing work
she did fundraising.

Oh, he's got a mixture of
wood wool and kapok in there.

So we're going to pull all this out.

So here comes his growler.

Fabulous. Oh, dear! We're not going
to be able to mend that one.

What we hear is no longer the sound
of the growler as the air's

pushed through the reed,
but we can get replicas for this.

So I think this is a case
of let's get him all apart

and then we'll be able to clean him.

Already cleaning up are the parts
of the Art Deco chiming clock

on which a rebellious old lady
would hide sweets

for her great-grandchildren.

When I'm going through
each piece and cleaning it,

I can actually give it
a quick inspection as well.

So there's an advantage
of handling each piece.

But clock cleaning fluid
won't help with the wooden case.

That will need the craftsmanship
of Will.

All right, Will. Hey, Steve.
Oh, a nice clear bench. Well done!

Good timing. Look at this,
a lovely Art Deco clock case.

Look at that! Lovely.
Look at the inlay! I know.

What would you like me to do, Steve?
If you could work your magic on it?

It's very dull and there's not much
life in it. Is it a clean and
a polish?

Yes. And... And?! Claire always
remembers her great-grandmother

hiding a chocolate eclair
on top of the clock. OK.

I wonder whether you could do
something to go on top?

OK. Whilst I'm cleaning, I'm sure
I can come up with something.

Leave it with me. OK. Cheers.

So this clock needs a thorough
clean and a good polishing.

I've got a cleaning solution
here that I've made up.

You can see that the dirt that's
sitting on the surface is obscuring

the lovely grain of the wood.

I'm going to use a shellac polish
to sort of build up

that lovely depth again.

Just a quick clean
and a thin coat of polish.

You can already see
the lovely difference.

I'm going to leave that to set,
probably put on five or six coats.

Once that's completely dry,
then I can think about making

some sweets.

I've now cleaned up this clock

and it's come up beautifully well,
actually.

What I'm now going to do
is polishing all the pivots

of each wheel.
These are quite rough,

so I need to pop them in the
lathe, polish them up,

so that the clock should work
really efficiently.

It's really important
to have a nice smooth surface,

because if it's rough, what it will
do is just wear the bearing out

straight away again.

So there we are.

This pivot goes into this pivot hole
here and it's really, really loose.

And what I need to do
is pop new bushes in,

which are basically a little circle
of brass so that the pivot

will actually sit into the hole
nice and snuggly.

I love this old tool.
This is quite an accurate cutter.

And what it does is open up the hole
to a slightly, slightly smaller hole

than the diameter of the bush.

But actually, when I push the bush
in it, it'll actually hold it

really, really tight.

So I'll just put it
into position there

and then I just push it in
like that.

And there we are.

This pivot should be nice and snug.

Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Just another 20 holes to do!

Paying homage to naughty
great-grandmother Mabel,

Will's dreamed up a design for a
sweet topping for the clock's case.

Well, I've glued up a piece
of walnut and two pieces of oak.

Once I've turned it up,
it's going to end up looking like

the shape of a twisted sweet.

My work on the lathe finished,
all I need to do now is carve in

that final bit of detail.

It's looking more and more and
more like a chocolate sweet.

And with a brush and polish
on there, that's going to give

that nice sort of candy wrapper
effect.

When I get it all
back together again,

you know you're on the final run
and I can't wait to get the chimes

all working nicely
so that Claire can hear them again.

Sounds evoke loads of memories
and the sound of the chimes

of this clock are going to remind
Claire of her great-grandmother.

And I know she hasn't heard
the chimes for a long time now,

so I can't wait for her
to listen to them.

Hey, Steve.
Oh, doesn't that look good?

Lovely, right? You've made
a stunning job of that.

Thank you so much.
I've actually turned up

two chocolate eclairs there.
Wow, they're brilliant!

Oh, my goodness. That is amazing.

You are very clever.
Ah, thank you.

Look at that.

And I can't wait to hear it working.
I know. Yeah, me too.

Thank you. No worries, buddy.

Next into the barn is Angela Hodge
from Rochester,

with a treasure trove of memories.

Hello. Hello.
She's hoping silversmith

and vintage camera enthusiast
Brenton West

can restore their magic.
So what have we got here?

This is my mum and dad's wedding
viewer, of their actual wedding day.

They got married in 1958.
Instead of an album,

they had slides done instead.

So all these pictures
are all of the wedding, then?

They're all of Mum and Dad's
wedding. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow, that's quite cool.

Hold on, why is there two pictures,
then?

Because it's like a 3D effect.
You just pop the slides in there.

The two pictures become one picture.
Right.

And you feel like you're actually
in the room with them.

It's that good.
Considering it's 60-year-old.

So tell us about your mum and dad,
then? What kind of people were they?

Lovely. Yeah.
The perfect mum and dad.

Yeah. They really were. And my mum
used to work in a canteen

and my dad used
to be a bingo caller in Whitstable.

No way! Yeah. So most of my
Saturdays were spent at the bingo.

Unfortunately, Dad passed away
when he was 58.

So my mum had, like,
nearly 30 years on her own.

Wow. So, yeah.
This is all I've got of the wedding.

It just means everything to me,
as you can imagine.

Those are really important.
So these are really important.

There's about eight slides,
I think, in total.

Wow. What's actually wrong with it,
then?

Normally, you just press
that button and it all lights up.

But it hasn't got a battery.
It hasn't got a bulb.

Some of the slides round the edges
are all worn away.

One of the slides has actually
got a crack going across here.

That's just tape over it,
holding it together?

Perhaps my dad would have done,
taped it up!

So how come you want
to get this repaired now, then?

Originally, I wanted it repaired
for my mum.

She suffered with dementia. Right.
With the dementia,

she used to pull hundreds
of cupboards out

and just leave them
on the floor, everything.

And this was amongst it.

Oh, so how long was it in
the cupboard, then, do you know?

Oh, it's probably been in the
cupboard for a good 20, 30 years.

Yeah.

So how did Mum feel
when she saw this again, then?

Well, she just wanted
to see it straight away.

"Oh, that's my wedding viewer,
have you seen this?" Yeah, yeah.

So she sat down and got it out
and had a look

and the smile on her face
just to see her wedding day...

Yeah, yeah.
..you know, was amazing.

Unfortunately, she passed away
in August. Oh, sorry to hear that.

So I want to do it now
for my granddaughter. OK.

She used to call my mum GG. Why did
she call her GG, what's that?

Great Gran - GG. It was GG, so...

To be able to have that memory
of her, as she used to be,

would be amazing. To hand this
down to my little granddaughter

when she's old enough
to appreciate it...

Yeah. ..will be just lovely.

That's nice. Angela,
thank you for bringing it in.

Thank you very much.
Thank you. Thank you.

Bye-bye. You take care now.
Bye-bye.

It's more than a viewer to me now,
because it's memories

of my mum and dad.

To see it actually working properly,
absolutely magical that will be.

Well, this is a really nice
3D viewer. It is.

I've never seen one like this
before.

I can't wait to see these pictures
through it.

So what have you got to do to get
this working then?

OK, so I've got to see
whether the wiring is OK.

Get the bulb and battery in it.
Yeah.

And these, replace the glass
on some of them.

And this tape is deteriorating
and gone all sticky.

I've got to get that off
and replace that.

And at the same time, be really,
really careful

because these slides
are 60 years old. Yeah.

And they'll be very, very frail.
What thickness is that?

I think that's one mil glass.
That is so thin

and very, very hard
to get hold of.

So if you could find me some
of that, you'd be a hero.

All right. No problem. Well,
I'll go on and look out for that

one mil glass. OK. And then,
I'll let you get on with this.

OK. All right, see you soon.

3D or stereo photos,
invented in the 1800s,

resurfaced as a household craze
in the 1950s, when 3D movies

started to be shown at the pictures.

Working with this vintage machine
and its unique slides

is right up Brenton's street.

It's a fascinating way
of looking at a picture.

It brings a picture to life.

It would have been a novelty
in 1958.

And I can see why they opted
for it.

The slides need a lot of work
doing to them to clean them up.

And I'm going to start on that now.

Now that the tape is off
of this side of this one,

I've got some degreaser here.

It's a very mild solvent
and I'm just going to gently

wipe off the residue of the glue.

I've got the other seven to do
and then we can start

to put these back together.

On their workbench, in the quest
to repair a beloved bear,

Amanda and Julie have fully
dismantled his battered body

and are giving the 65-year-old
fur pieces a thorough clean.

So we'll just leave him to soak. OK?
Yeah, definitely.

While Ted's bits are in the bath,
Amanda can craft him

some replacement paw pads.

When we took Ted apart, we were able
to salvage just one little piece

of old Rexine.
Rexine was a fake leather,

especially to use on teddy bear
paws and feet.

Sadly, there isn't really
any call for Rexine nowadays,

and we can't get it any more.
I think it was replaced

with vinyl and things like that.

So we still try and recreate
that sort of vintage look

with our home-made Rexine.

And to do this, I'm mixing
acrylic paint with PVA glue.

What I've got to do now is coat
the surface of this cotton fabric

so that we can make
new paw pads for Ted.

We basically just paint it on,
really, work it into the fibres.

I think there's a possibility I may
just have to darken it slightly,

but it's not a bad match.

What we're doing here
is we're finding all the weak areas.

We'll put an internal lining just
onto these weak areas like this.

So I've done a little paw pad
on the end there,

just so that when we attach the new
Rexine piece on the other side,

we've got something strong
to sew it to.

There are parts, especially
around the nose here,

that need supporting, but we don't
want them to be too thick and bulky.

So I'm going to use something here,
it's called a silk crepe lining

and it just supports it
and allows you to stitch into it.

So I'm going to turn
his head in the wrong way,

lay it over the top.

When we stuff the nose again,
it'll hold its shape.

So tiny, tiny little stitches
like that.

And, yeah, he's going to look
a real handsome chappie, I think!

I'm really pleased with the way
that this piece of Rexine

has turned out.

I'm really enjoying doing
this work for John.

He was just so enthusiastic
about his mother when he came in

and it just gives that extra sort
of meaning to what we're doing

for him here now.

Got the heel in.

And then I just have to work my way
around with all the other pins

until I'm happy
that it's set and square.

His head is all nicely stuffed

and he's looking a little bit

more like a bear again now.

I can pop his mouth stitch in now
and we'll be able to start seeing

what his face should look like.

This is my favourite
part of the job,

is actually putting the face back,
giving him his personality

and, yeah,
bringing him to life again.

We've got names that we give
certain jobs.

If their stuffing's gone a bit
flat, we kind of call it "beartox",

because we're kind of puffing
them up a bit!

We have Old Bear Syndrome.
We have Old Bear Syndrome...

When everything heads south.
Yes! When the stuffing drops.

Old Bear Syndrome,
really nasty condition.

Got another one. Go on, then.
Pawsonality Disorder!

THEY GIGGLE

Oh, dear!
And I've got the eyes here.

All I've got to do is push
this long needle through

to the back of his head like that.

And then I'm pulling these threads
so that the eyes sink into the head

and cause like a bit of
an eye socket, really.

It's looking really sweet.
Yeah, really pleased.

How are you doing, ladies,
all right? Hi, Jay.

Let's have a look.
Oh, bless him!

He looks good, doesn't he?
He does, yeah.

You always do a blinding job.
Oh, thank you. Thank you, Jay.

He's waiting on his...
GROWL

..new favourite bit -
new growler! Lovely!

Aw, that is quality!
That's going in in a minute.

So, it is getting cold out there,
what do you reckon,

shall I get him a little something?
Little scarf maybe?

Instead of a ribbon?

Instead of a ribbon? I do like the
idea of a scarf instead of a ribbon.

All right, I'll be back.

Across the barn,
Steve is hoping the Art Deco clock

has got its voice back.

He's now reassembled
the chiming mechanism

that's been silent
for over a quarter of a century.

CHIMING
Now, that sounds nice.

It's lovely, isn't it? Yeah!
Absolutely lovely.

So I've put new leathers
in the hammers as well.

So that's made them nice and soft.
And that's what gives it

that rich sound? Yes.

So when it's inside a clock,
it's going to sound even louder?

Oh, yes. Yes.

You haven't got much more
to do on this, have you?

I've just got to put the mechanism
back into the case,

and then it's done. I can't wait
for Claire to hear that.

I'll let her know she can come
and pick it up. OK. Cheers, Steve.

Claire's returned to the barn
to collect the clock

that holds happy memories
of her mischievous great-grandmother

who would hide sweets
for her at bedtime.

Most importantly for me
with the clock is to hear it again.

Oh, that would be so good.

Hello. Hello! Nice to see you again.
And you.

Right. So, are you excited
to see it? Yes, I am.

I'm very excited to see it.
Right.

I will let you have a look.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my goodness.

That looks amazing.

I will just swing the pendulum
as well.

The wooden sweeties.

So Will has done the case and made
these sweets to put on top for you.

They're fantastic.
You can't eat them!

No, I don't want to,
they're absolutely beautiful.

I know that you are very excited
to hear the chimes.

It was the sound in the house,
the mixture of the chimes

of the clock and just laughter
and happiness in the house.

Would you like to hear the chimes?
Yes, please!

CHIMING

Oh!

That's the sound I remember.

That sounds so lovely.

Aw, thank you so much.
You're very welcome.

Many, many happy memories
will be replayed every time

I hear it. Fantastic.

Right, if you'd like to take
the sweets,

I'll pop it out to the car with you.
Thank you.

I feel quite emotional.
I didn't think I would.

It looks beautiful
and it's so nice to hear it again.

That sound is ingrained
in my memory from my childhood.

That clock is going to keep
those memories alive,

now I can hear it again.

Inside the barn, the 3D slides
that formed a 1950s wedding album

are now free of all the old
sticky tape from previous repairs.

Brenton will need even steadier
hands for his next task,

replacing the broken glass.

Jay's managed to get me some one
millimetre glass.

It's half the thickness
of greenhouse glass.

You don't have to knock them
very hard to break them,

I can assure you of that.

And now I've got
to stick these together.

Unfortunately, most tapes aren't
archival and the glue deteriorates

and you get a mess.

I'm going to use an archival tape.

It's a bookbinding tape.

I make photographs which are sealed
behind glass similar to this.

And they have to last for a long,
long time.

And I don't want any air getting
in there contaminating them.

So this is the tape I use.

There's no acid in it.

And it doesn't leave
that sticky residue.

It won't fall to bits.

The slides are looking really nice.
And now I've got to fix

the slide viewer
and we can see what we've got.

I found a bulb that will fit
in this bulb holder.

The battery that fits in here
is an old type of bicycle battery

and this is one of them
that I've managed to get hold of.

I've noticed in here
there is a wire that's come off

that's meant to be soldered
to this contact.

So I'm just going to re-solder that
and hopefully this will work then.

It's really important
that the things

that you're soldering are clean,
so I've got a fibreglass pen here

and I'm going to use that
to clean the terminal

before I solder it.

So this is the gas soldering iron
and it just heats the tip up,

so I'm not going to set fire to this
like I would if it was a flame.

Right. Get that going.

So that's soldered on there really
well, now I can put the battery in

and see if it works.

On the opposite workbench,
the beloved 1950s' teddy

that supported a loving mother
in her lifetime of fundraising

is in fine fettle.

We've almost finished Ted now,
which is quite exciting.

So I'm just going to pop...
GROWL

Excuse me! I'm just going
to put the growler in

and then I've just got to pop
some more stuffing in there.

I'm really looking forward
to showing John his bear again.

And I'm hoping that he's going to be
everything that he wants him to be.

Are you ready to go over to Julie?
GROWL

There you go, then.
Was that a yes? I think it was!

It's just absolutely wonderful
to get to this point where we know

the last few stitches,
and then that'll be him done.

Yeah. Oh, perfect timing!
And look what I've got for you.

Oh, that's amazing!
Yeah, that is perfect.

Do you want to put it on?
Of course I do!

Oh, very stylish!
Absolutely fabulous.

Is that all right?
Yeah, I think that's great!

He looks the part. So how much
more have you got left to do?

He's done! He's done? You've just
done the finishing touch!

Oh, wow. Let's have a look.

GROWL
And he's talking to me!

I tell you what he's saying to me.
What?

He wants John to come
and pick him up. Yeah. Absolutely.

So I'll let him know. Absolutely.
Yes, Jay. All right?

And thank you. Thank you. Right.

Eager to be reunited with the bear

that was his late mother's
lifetime companion, John.

I've missed the teddy bear,
to be honest,

I never thought I would, but
the teddy bear is important to me

because it's part of my mum.

I'm looking forward to getting
it back, I really am.

Hiya. Hello, John, welcome back.
Lovely to see you again.

Lovely to see you again.
How are you feeling?

Anxious! OK. And what are you
hoping to see under here?

A bear with legs and with pads!
Yeah.

Are we ready? Shall we do it, then?
Are you ready? Yes.

My God! He's got a smile!

And he's got pads.
And he's got legs!

Phew! Oh, my God.

He's gorgeous.

If you give him a little tip...
GROWL

THEY LAUGH
He's a bit shy!

That's a bit nervous, isn't it?
Try again.

GROWL

He had a growler in his tummy.

GROWL

But that's how he would
have sounded. Really? Yeah.

My mum would have listened to that.
Yes, she would.

Oh, it's unbelievable.

I think he's pleased to see you.

Yeah. I'm pleased to see him.

Bless him. Bless him.

I'm over the moon with it,
I really am. Thank you.

Thank you very much.
It's an absolute pleasure.

And lovely to meet you as well.
Lovely to meet you, too.

And bye-bye! Rupert! Behave!
Come on, Rupert, let's go.

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

GROWL

He's still chatting!

I'm over the moon
to have the teddy bear back.

I really am.

As soon as I heard its growl,
I could feel my mum.

And...I'm blown away.

It's hard to say it in words,
really.

I'm happy.
I'm really, really happy.

The 1950s 3D viewer is almost
up and running.

But first Brenton needs to adapt
the bicycle light battery

he hopes can power
the new light bulb.

Now, this battery has two terminals
on the top that would hit

this piece of wood here.

These need to be bent around
like that.

so that they hit the two contacts
that are on the sides here.

That should work.

He says...

OK, that's in there now.
Just need to put a bulb in

and see if this works.

Well, there we go! So that works.
That's lovely.

I'm just going to put
this lid back on.

Now I can test it with a slide.

Wow.

I'm seeing Angela's parents
getting into their wedding car

on their wedding day.

It's almost like
I'm standing by them.

It's absolutely incredible.

Can't wait for Angela to see it.

Hoping to enjoy the photographs
of her late parents' special day,

Angela's brought granddaughter
Elsie, who used to love

spending time with her great-granny.

Elsie calls her GG. Don't you?

I'm really hoping that Brenton's
been able to repair it for me.

To see my mum and dad brought back
to life after 18 years

of not seeing it together,
would be amazing.

Hello. Hi there.

There we go, darling.
How are we doing? Hello.

I'm fine, thank you. How are you?
This is Elsie. Hello, Elsie.

Do you want to say hi?
Oh, she's gone a bit shy.

Shy today. How are you feeling?
Excited. Are you?

Very excited to see it.

Because you said to me
that it's like you're there. Yeah.

Really? It is that good?
Yeah. Well, it was!

OK.

Well, hopefully you will like it.

Oh, wow.

Look at the slides!

I've never seen them look like that!
No? No.

Oh, they look wonderful.
Thank you so much. That's all right.

But the real test is going to be
in actually looking through it.

Shall I have a look?
Yeah. Oh, I'm excited.

I've been looking forward
to this moment!

Oh, wow.

That's my favourite one as well.

Getting in the car, in the rain.

Oh, wow.

It's amazing. It's brought
Mum and Dad back to life.

It makes you quite...

SNIFFS

I'm very proud to be their daughter.
Yeah?

Yeah. So this just,
it brings my mum and dad back

to what I remember all them
years ago when I was a child.

Oh, wow. That is proper 3D!

I want one of these now! I know!

It's just amazing.
Can I look at another one?

Of course you can!
Is that all right? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, wow.

So is it nice to have these kind
of memories of Mum, then?

It's lovely. Yeah. Mum never had
an album, she only had this.

And it's just so special.

She would have loved
to have seen it like this.

To sit down on a chair,
cup of tea, get the viewer out

and just reminisce of the old days,
of her beautiful wedding day

to her lovely husband.

You know, they had so many happy
years together.

And the pictures are really
beautiful in there. Yeah.

It's as if you are in there.
Definitely.

I can now just get that out
whenever I feel like it

and have a look.

There you go. Lovely. Thank you
so much. It's been a pleasure.

Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for bringing it.

Thank you, Elsie. Nice to meet you.

Oh, she's really shy!
She's never shy! Right!

Are you? There you are. Lovely.
Thank you. Thank you very much.

Bye-bye. You take care now.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye!

Bye-bye!

It was fantastic seeing
the 3D effect again.

Yeah, I feel like I've got
Mum and Dad back, which is lovely.

Seeing Mum, she looked absolutely
stunning, and so did my dad.

Looked so handsome on that day,
just as I remember them.

When Elsie gets a little bit older,
I'm going to hand it down to her,

so she's got memories of her GG.

Join us next time...

..as the barn's
gifted craftspeople...

Loving it! Oh, look at that!

Yeah! That's it!

..work their magic
on cherished keepsakes...

CHIRPING
That's the bit I remember!

..in The Repair Shop.