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The Repair Shop Season 15 Episode 1
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00:00Hello. Here you go.
00:02A dream team of master craftspeople.
00:05This is quite a project.
00:07It's huge, yeah.
00:08Under one roof.
00:09Do you want a cup of tea?
00:10Oh.
00:11Together.
00:12Look at the colour.
00:14Absolutely amazing.
00:15Teamwork.
00:16They can repair anything.
00:18If someone's made it, then I can fix it.
00:20It's not bad.
00:21This is quite the conundrum.
00:23Ka-ching.
00:24Transforming the fade in.
00:26This is major.
00:27It's just rotten.
00:28I don't think you've ever seen a wheel that bad.
00:30Back to fantastic.
00:35Is this another same table?
00:36I'm going to have to give you a hug.
00:38Reigniting the stories they hold.
00:41I'm going to have this smile on my face for a long time.
00:47Welcome to the Repair Show.
00:58Good morning, Pete.
01:00Morning, Pete.
01:01Morning, ladies.
01:02We did a good food this morning.
01:19Did you have a nice weekend?
01:20Yes, I did, yes.
01:21Did you?
01:22Yeah, very good, thank you.
01:38Amid the barn's bustling morning activity, a new item is being wheeled in for the attention of cycle expert Tim Gunn.
01:47Now, I know that you fix bikes, but do you actually cycle bikes as well?
01:50Yeah.
01:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:52When I can, I mountain bike, racing bike, and I also ride a penny farming as well.
01:56Do you?
01:57Yeah.
01:58Rob Walker and his sons Mark, Adam and Nick have brought a career first for Tim, from a sporting pursuit played by three generations.
02:08There we go.
02:09Wow.
02:10Hello.
02:11Hello.
02:12Come in.
02:13Come in.
02:15You must be the walkers.
02:16Hello.
02:17Hi.
02:18Okay.
02:19So is this all your bike?
02:20Do you share this bike or?
02:21No.
02:22No.
02:23This is the one walker that isn't here today.
02:27We lost Jonathan a few years back, but this was his bike.
02:31And Jonathan is?
02:32Our brother.
02:33We called him Joe.
02:34Joe.
02:35Right.
02:36Now, I also see a kind of croquet mallet.
02:40Is that croquet?
02:41No.
02:42Polo mallet.
02:43It's bicycle polo.
02:44Bicycle?
02:45That's a thing.
02:46Bicycle polo.
02:47Really?
02:48Yes.
02:49It is.
02:50Really?
02:51Yeah.
02:52So our grandfather started playing before the war.
02:53He was the founder of the local cycling club, Soleil Cycling Club.
02:56And he made a polo pitch on the farm where we all grew up.
02:59And that was the home of Soleil Cycling Club polo team.
03:02Before the war, up until the late 60s, it was a big sport.
03:06The bike is just like nothing else you're going to ride.
03:09Yeah.
03:10No brakes.
03:1114 years of age, I got my first bike.
03:14And I got into the first team when I was 16.
03:17You saw your dad and his team play and get really good.
03:20Yes.
03:21And then we saw dad's team play and get really good.
03:23And then we started playing from there.
03:25So what level did you play at then?
03:27We all played internationally.
03:28It was the best thing ever.
03:29And then we'd go down to London and play for a thing called the George Break.
03:32We'd won it a few times together as a family.
03:34You must have been over the moon to know that your boys are really into the same sport as well.
03:38It was a real pleasure that they played with me and Joe was amongst them.
03:45Unfortunately, we lost Joe in a motorcycle accident in 2015.
03:49How old was Joe when he passed away?
03:5142.
03:52That's quite young.
03:53Yeah, really young.
03:54Yeah.
03:55Really young.
03:56He packed an awful lot in there.
03:57Really?
03:58He was a talented skier.
03:59He went skydiving in Australia, race bikes and track raced.
04:03We all miss him a hell of a lot.
04:04So, you know, to see his bike sort of looked after would be amazing.
04:10So, what would you like me to do to the bike?
04:14All of the damage is caused by mallets, balls and other bikes hitting the wheels, hitting the frame.
04:20I think the wheels need a lot of attention.
04:22The spokes have been ripped out.
04:24And then there's the mallet, the head, it's bamboo.
04:26They tended to get painted every year.
04:28The frame, he's got his name.
04:31Yeah, I was going to say it's got his name.
04:33So, we want to keep that.
04:34Yep.
04:35If Tim gets this working, are you going to give us a demonstration?
04:37Of course.
04:38Yeah, we'll dust off the other bikes and we'll give you a demonstration.
04:42Yeah, that sounds like a brilliant idea.
04:44Lovely to meet you guys.
04:45You too.
04:46And we'll see you very soon.
04:47Okay.
04:48All right.
04:53It's going to be a bit of a job, but it's going to be fun to work on.
04:56I'm really looking forward to it.
04:57Yeah.
04:58This is a first for me.
04:59This woodwork needs a bit of TRC.
05:00So, I'll take that.
05:01Yep.
05:02And I'll leave you with the bike.
05:03Okay.
05:04All right.
05:05Good luck.
05:06I've never come across a Polo bike itself.
05:10I've heard of the sport, but I've never actually seen one of the bikes in the flesh.
05:27And I don't think I've ever seen a wheel that bad.
05:30So, I think almost definitely the wheels need to be rebuilt.
05:34The paintwork, it's nice that it's got Joe's name on the top here, and I just want to try and preserve that in some way.
05:42First of all, the bike's got to come apart.
05:45So, as I can assess everything and then see what other little problems that I find as I go along.
05:50Next, Janaki Ohalpen, with a precious link to her Sri Lankan heritage.
06:04In need of ceramics expert, Kirsten Ramsey.
06:20Hi there.
06:21Hi there.
06:22Welcome.
06:23Nice to meet you.
06:24All right then, what have you brought?
06:27So, I have a ceramic statue of Agatha.
06:31A statue that's been in the family for at least 70 years.
06:35I know that my grandma Nancy had this statue and she gifted it to my mum, Leela, when my mum was 18 in 1960.
06:45And it was around that time that my mum decided to leave the family home on the south coast of Sri Lanka.
06:51And she wanted to start a new life for herself in the big city in Colombo,
06:54which actually was quite unusual for that culture and that generation, for a young woman to leave the sort of family home and not be married.
07:02So, she was a bit of an adventurer then, your mum.
07:05There was a real adventurous streak to her.
07:08She was given an opportunity with quite a large, wealthy Sri Lankan family to become a live-in nanny for their youngest child until they decided that they were going to emigrate to the UK.
07:20Right.
07:21So, mum, do you want to come over for a year or two, help us settle into life in the UK?
07:26And she jumped at the opportunity and the statue followed her.
07:29Oh, wow.
07:30Yeah.
07:31So, the family settled in West London and they wanted to redecorate the house.
07:36And my dad was one of the decorators.
07:39Wow.
07:40They dated for about a year and then they got married and then that's when they decided to settle in the UK.
07:46Wow.
07:47She was born in 1974.
07:48What a lovely story.
07:50Did she manage to keep in contact with her own family?
07:54They very much stayed in touch but once she moved to the UK she never saw her mum and dad again.
08:00Oh, really?
08:01Yeah.
08:02I think times were hard for mum, you know, with a young family in terms of material possessions and so travelling abroad to see family was just not something that we did.
08:11Gosh, that's hard.
08:12Yeah, it's quite sad.
08:13So, I never knew my grandma.
08:14Yeah.
08:15So, do you remember this when you were growing up?
08:17Yeah, it was a constant in the house.
08:20My mum was a devout Buddhist.
08:21Yeah.
08:22She would worship pretty much on a daily basis.
08:25She had like a brass oil burner and she'd burn that when she was praying.
08:30The statue was the sort of centrepiece of her shrine at home.
08:33I think when she was dying she always felt like she wasn't leaving enough behind for us.
08:38Mm.
08:39But I wish she knew how much of a legacy she's left just in the way she raised us and the values that she instilled in us.
08:45And the statue is so important to me because it's a symbol of mum's journey.
08:50She was just wonderful.
08:52And what I really want is for my daughter to inherit the statue at some point in the future.
08:58Mm-hmm.
08:59So, can I ask what's happened to the Buddha?
09:01Yeah.
09:02You can see the base has sort of chipped away and I don't know if it has toppled over maybe.
09:07There's a lot of damage to the fingers, which actually the gesture is quite an important part of the statue.
09:14Yes.
09:15So, every statue of a Buddha has a different mudra, which effectively is a hand gesture.
09:21Okay.
09:22This particular one, that hand that is like that, that symbolises the transmission of knowledge.
09:29Oh.
09:30And then there's more recent damage to the wheel at the back, but I never saw it looking brand new.
09:35Yeah.
09:36So, something that's quite sympathetic really.
09:38Yeah.
09:39It would mean the world because, you know, it's just a constant reminder really of mum's life.
09:44Thank you so much for bringing this in.
09:48I think it's beautiful.
09:50Thank you so much.
09:51My absolute pleasure.
09:53I'll be in touch.
09:55Bye.
09:56Bye.
09:57Bye.
09:58Bye.
09:59Bye.
10:00Bye.
10:01Bye.
10:02Bye.
10:03Bye.
10:04Bye.
10:05Bye.
10:06Bye.
10:07Bye.
10:08Bye.
10:09Bye.
10:10Bye.
10:11Bye.
10:12Bye.
10:13Bye.
10:15Janakie's mother's faith was really important to her, and this Buddha was very much a part of her worship.
10:19And as part of that she's lit candles and you can see the soot from the flame.
10:28I'm going to see if I can just improve the look of it slightly.
10:31The fingers need making up and also this wheel at the back need bonding and filling and then there's the retouching.
10:40It also would have had a base at some point and I need to make up a plaster section and adhere it to the base.
10:50I'm going to start off with cleaning that surface dirt that's built up over the years of use.
10:58I can see that there's a little bit of dirt on that cotton wool swab so that's a good start.
11:23There we go.
11:25Outside Tim has stripped down the polo bag and is ready to tackle its mangled front wheel.
11:33The spokes are so badly damaged I've literally got to cut them out which is a bit of a shame but I can salvage the hub and the rim and I'm just trying to salvage a spoke.
11:43So now that's free I can pull that spoke out.
11:48I know it looks a bit bent and a bit twisted but if I straighten that out now that gives me the exact length that I need.
11:53I've made a note of the fact that the spokes cross three times so I know that that's how I need to build the wheel when I come to rebuild it.
12:01When Tim knocks the polo bike into shape, Will is cracking on with the wonky mallet.
12:19I've sanded the old crispy paint off of the polo mallet. It's nice and smooth now. The rest of this however is really quite bent.
12:25I've never really straightened bamboo before but if you add some steam you can actually make it supple enough to straighten it out.
12:31So I've got a wallpaper steamer here and I'm going to kind of create a mini steam room.
12:41Once the steam has softened the bamboo strands on the inside it, we're gonna kind of create a mini steam room.
12:55Once the steam has softened the bamboo strands on the inside, it becomes quite flexible,
13:03I then need to clamp it flat, leave it to dry, and once it has, it should dry in that
13:08sort of shape or that position that you clamped it into.
13:11I'll put the gloves on so it won't burn my fingers.
13:20Whoa! That's really flexible, which is great. Right, I'm going to pop that into my jig now.
13:31The bamboo's going to start to harden up again, so I need to work really quickly here.
13:38Fingers crossed this works.
13:40Do you know what? This woodworking business is quite hard work. Don't tell Will that.
13:55It's looking lovely and shiny anyway. It's coming so well.
13:59It's not bad. That's not bad at all. That is flat.
14:15Right, time to get painting. The key thing here is to make sure that this really ties in well
14:22with the work that Tim is doing on the bike.
14:24It's not bad at all.
14:46Having cleaned up the Buddha figure and sealed the break edges of the plaster, Kirsten can
14:51begin making it whole again.
14:54There is a texture to the surface, and now that it's been consolidated, it's quite stable.
15:02So the pieces should lock together beautifully once they're in the correct position.
15:09That's gone together really beautifully. The joins are really nice and tight together.
15:19I'm now going to make up the tips of the fingers that are missing.
15:25It's important to get this hand gesture correct.
15:30I'm using a two part epoxy paste.
15:36Now it's always quite interesting to look at the other hand if you've got both hands.
15:42And these are really rather lovely, long, elegant fingers.
15:47So I'm going to try and recreate that shape.
15:51That's really taking shape now.
16:02And I'm now just going to smooth the surface.
16:07And then I'm just going to leave this to harden off.
16:12Next, a story from the golden age of cinema.
16:26Sisters Georgie Thurston and Lydia Patel need upholsterer Sonaz Nooranvari's help
16:32to honour the memory of two family idols who played a starring role in their lives.
16:38Hello. Hi. Come in. Hi.
16:44What do we have here?
16:46So these are cinema seats, which have come from our great aunt and uncle's cinema,
16:50which they built in the 1940s.
16:52Then Knighton in Powys, which is in Wales, just on the English border.
16:55Wow. So they built a cinema themselves.
16:58Yeah. That's quite an undertaking.
17:00And what was your great uncle's name?
17:02William Brown. Our uncle built us.
17:05And Enid was our great aunt.
17:07Great aunt, but more like a grandma to us, really.
17:10So you were quite close.
17:12Really close, yeah.
17:13They didn't have any children of their own.
17:15And they were like grandparents to us, really.
17:18So how did your great uncle get into cinema?
17:21So he was always interested in films and photography from quite a young age,
17:25as was his brother.
17:26So they set up a travelling cinema, which travelled around all the local little towns.
17:30Wow.
17:31And when they had enough money, they bought a plot of land and applied for a licence to build a cinema.
17:38The condition of that licence was that they weren't allowed to take skilled labourers away,
17:41because obviously the country was fixing itself after the war.
17:45So Bill and his brother Jim essentially built the cinema by hand.
17:50That is incredible, isn't it?
17:52It was an amazing feat and such a lovely thing to have in the community.
17:56Nightingham is quite a sleepy kind of Welsh border town.
17:59I don't think there were any cinemas nearby.
18:02And people used to travel from quite a long way away to come and watch films there.
18:06It opened in 1947 and there's a huge queue of people outside.
18:10I think there was Great Expectations, Les Mis, The Invisible Man,
18:14and just all the films that were popular at the time were on that kind of opening week.
18:19Does the cinema still exist?
18:21It had a few kind of different lives, I suppose.
18:23So it was the cinema and a dance hall, and then later on it became a supermarket.
18:28And then in the 90s it was demolished and they built a house there.
18:32Did you ever see it as a cinema?
18:34No.
18:35So you never saw these chairs?
18:38No, we'd never seen them. They were stored under the house.
18:41In a tiny cubby hole. We were out this big, crawling under the foundations of the house.
18:45So they're obviously not in great condition.
18:48Very dusty, very rusty, very worn.
18:51There's some cigarette burns and things in places.
18:53I noticed that, yeah.
18:55They need some love.
18:57To see them restored to how they were would be amazing.
19:01Part of their legacy and part of our history of our family, I suppose.
19:05I'm really looking forward to working on them for you.
19:08We can't wait to see what they look like, thank you.
19:10Bye.
19:11Bye, see you again.
19:12Bye.
19:13Bye.
19:14Bye.
19:15Bye.
19:16Bye, bye.
19:17Bye.
19:18Bye.
19:19Bye.
19:20Bye.
19:21Bye.
19:22Bye.
19:23These are such lovely, classic looking cinema chairs.
19:31these are such lovely classic looking cinema chairs the amount of wear just goes to show
19:42how popular the cinema must have been i'm loving the tone of the fabric so i think i'm gonna find
19:51something that actually is quite close the metal work is in dire need of some tlc so i'm gonna ask
19:57dom if he can help me out on that too all the panels are screwed onto metal plates so first
20:06things first i'm going to have to detach the upholstered pieces from the metal plates before
20:11i can get to unpicking the fabric and seeing what's underneath that cover this will be the first time
20:17that these screws have probably ever been undone and it feels like it too
20:21oh well first of all the dust the level of dust has definitely never been re-upholstered before
20:30as i peel that back there wow yes they've used additional padding and then this insulated layer
20:51which protects the padding from the spring top is actually made of of wool a remarkable
20:59fire retardant material given that people used to smoke in this cinema it's quite good to have
21:06this insulated layer now i know what i'm working with i'm starting to put a plan of attack together
21:11tim has been dealing with decades of damage inflicted on the polo pitch but now the bikes hit another obstacle
21:33while i was disassembling joe's polo bike i took the front forks out and the top steering assembly
21:43basically fell apart in my hands without this assembly the bike effectively wouldn't have any
21:49steering i'm going to put these two collars into my little jig and see if i can repair it
21:55and what i'm going to attempt to do is braising which is basically melting brass very similar to
22:02welding but weld just joins two pieces of metal together whereas this actually flows like water
22:08and goes into all of the little joints and the nooks and crannies and i'm hoping touch wood that that
22:14will work
22:27i think that's got it that's worked really well once i take it off the jig and it's cooled down
22:34i can just run a file through there and clean some of that excess brass off
22:38and then that's ready to go back on the bike
22:40with the cinema seat stripped sonas has called on dom's help
23:05to return the stardust to these symbols of the silver screen
23:09what have you got there son as a tiny mattress
23:13it looks like it doesn't it
23:15these are the seat springs for these cinema chairs the metal work does need your attention
23:22it's very old very dusty and cobwebby
23:27just how i like it
23:28exactly and a little bit of rust there for you too
23:31okay um i do need an outside though
23:33i'll give you a hand
23:34perfect thank you
23:35all right
23:37that's it
23:38okay
23:39just one piece
23:41is that it
23:43you're above
23:48oh thank you mate
23:50lovely
23:50wonderful
23:51cheers
23:51happy drinking
23:52i've got some polishing compound on some very very fine wire wool and i'm just going to gently work over the surface
24:10hopefully this will remove all the dirt and leave me with that nice shiny beautiful original paint
24:17i'm starting to rebuild the upholstery on the seats now which is very exciting
24:34i've kept the original padding as a reference and i'm able to reuse the insulator that was originally on the seats which i'm really pleased about
24:43i'm using a mattress needle and some twine to stitch the insulator to the mesh top
24:54one of the key things i need to be really mindful of is not over padding the seat base
25:00because when it flips up it needs to flip up fully and i have to make sure i get that absolutely right
25:07i think that's probably almost there in terms of the shape
25:26kirsten's been busy making a wax impression of the buddha statue's crumbled base
25:33i now need to make a mould of this piece
25:39then cast a plaster version that i can then apply onto the base
25:45what i'm trying to do is press it quite closely because i'm really trying to get the shape as well as i possibly can
25:53once this has gone completely hard i can then remove the wax and then i'm ready to cast the plaster
26:01striving to reclaim another piece of family history as saunas and dawn as their combined effort on
26:28the pair of cinema chairs continues i'm going to try and tackle this rusty area at the bottom
26:34i'm going to use a wire wheel on my angle grinder to remove all of that rust and flaky paint and dirt
26:39and leave me with hopefully a nice clean solid metal shiny finish
26:43and I'll take a little bit of it
26:54and that's why i throw it away
26:56and i'm gonna do it
27:00it's so good
27:04so
27:04That is looking good. That's ready for a prime and some shiny new paint. Looking good.
27:34Tim has found himself in unfamiliar territory, reassembling the bespoke wheels of the old polo
27:48bike. I'm used to smoking wheels in a different way, you know, as a normal bicycle wheel, but
27:54this is completely different. The front wheel is used as a racket during bicycle polo, so
28:00I'm attempting to thread this wire in between the spokes with the general objective to turn
28:09the front wheel into a block so as the ball does not go through the wheel.
28:13The front wheel has sustained so much damage, but I was determined to save the rim. I mean,
28:35I'm really pleased to be able to see it back on the bike and the front forks in and now
28:43you can see the whole lot spin beautifully. That looks pretty cool. And I'm so looking
28:50forward to handing it back to Joe's family.
28:58This bike and mallet came to the barn bearing the scars of an uncompromising sport.
29:05Tim. Great job, mate. It was great, didn't it? I've done the mallet. That's just fantastic.
29:12Okay. Now let's get this covered up. Okay.
29:14Now the Walker family has returned, hoping to pay tribute to their much-missed teammate, who
29:25used to ride into battle alongside them.
29:28Here we are. Welcome back, guys. Good to see you again. How are you doing?
29:33You look so smiley. We're always smiling. Now, when you were last here, you wheeled in quite
29:41a sort of used, worn bike, right? I remember the mallet wasn't in too good health either.
29:49No. No. So, we're very hopeful. Yeah. Right, Tim, come on. Let's go.
29:57Oh, my gosh. I can't believe we're doing this. Oh, wow. Ready? Yes.
30:00Oh, my gosh. Look at the rims. Oh, that's wonderful. Absolutely perfect. That is amazing.
30:11And I love what you've done on the front wheel as well with the wire. That's exactly how
30:15it should be. Yeah. Is it? The ball-stopping wheel. Yeah.
30:17Yeah. Well, there we are. And the mallet as well. You've done the mallet.
30:20I could almost visualise him on it. Yeah. Joe sitting here on this bike, smiling. Absolutely
30:25fantastic. Brilliant. Yeah. Wherever it goes, it'll be looked after.
30:29So would you actually take this out then? Oh, yeah, probably. So there is a full set.
30:35Could you give us a demo outside? We'd love to. We'd love to. Yeah, absolutely.
30:38Well, if you take the bike. It's lovely because it's brought the boys back together again with
30:47a single purpose, to commemorate Joe through his bike, but equally to have their memories
30:54about the polo that we used to play. Oh.
30:57Oh. All right, let's do play.
31:04Having an opportunity to be able to go and hit some balls made me actually feel quite young
31:09again for about two and a half minutes. Nice job, guys. It looks like you're only playing
31:17just yesterday. I think we've got another few games in us yet after today. Wherever that
31:23bike is, it'll be pride of place. And it's a happy memory of Joe. And that's really important
31:28for us. That's a nice bit of brass, Pete. Sorry, did I make you jump? Yes. Sorry.
31:50Have you polished that all up? No. It's got the patina on it. It's got that used look.
31:57Yes. Yeah, like you and I. That's it. Yeah.
32:05In the barn, Kirsten must channel zen-like delicacy for her newly cast piece for the Buddha statue.
32:15The plaster should be hard enough now to actually remove from the silicone mould. It's always
32:21a little bit nerve-wracking because sometimes when you try and get things out, they can get
32:27broken. It's these ends that are really vulnerable, so I have to go quite carefully.
32:34So that's come out, and I can now see how it fits onto the base. That looks pretty good,
32:47actually. I'm using a ready-made adhesive, and this is something that's suitable for use on
32:59plastic and slightly softer bodied materials. And I'm just going to leave that now. I can
33:07then think about consolidating that base so that I've got a good surface to retouch onto.
33:14Mark? Yes. When you're not here, do you have any personal projects you're working on at home?
33:22Loads, but I guess one at the moment, my most recent, is sort of developing a larger cinema.
33:27A cinema? Yes. I'll bring the popcorn and I'll send the invites around.
33:31Also in the mood for a matinee, Sonaz is making sure the cinema chairs are ready for their closer.
33:41I've cut this super luxurious, beautiful velvet, and I'm getting to the really, really exciting
33:48part now of actually applying it to the pieces. I'm mimicking the techniques used when they were
33:56first upholstered, because it wouldn't feel right to use a staple gun on these precious pieces.
34:10Particularly with velvet, you've got to make sure that the pile is running the right way,
34:13so the pile goes from back to front, so when you smooth it, it feels soft in a direction towards the front of the seat.
34:21This looks perfect.
34:50Perfect. I'm so pleased. Love the shape of the padding and how that velvet looks on the seat,
34:56so I'm going to work on the other base and then I'll move on to the arms.
35:00I'm going to work on the other base and then I'll move on to the arms.
35:07Kirsten is ensuring all her plaster repairs to the Buddha figure appear in keeping with his age.
35:13The base, I would say, is now complete. And now that's done I can
35:21start the base.
35:23The base, I would say, is now complete.
35:25And now that's done, I can start to do these final retouchings.
35:31There's a lot of areas where the paint has worn away and I've made some minor fills.
35:41I'm just dabbing with the hairs, the tips of the paintbrush.
35:47It allows each dot to carry a slightly different colour and that gets that lovely blended effect.
35:53I'm just going to get into the zone and work my way around all of these last few areas to retouch.
36:09And then it's going to be ready to return to Janaki.
36:25For Janaki's mother, the Buddha figure was a precious link to the Sri Lankan homeland she could not return to.
36:32But broken into pieces, it needed numerous repairs.
36:38Now Janaki hopes for a more secure future for the treasure that connects her to her late mum.
36:47Hi. Nice to see you again.
36:50Welcome back. Thank you. How are you?
36:53Very well. And actually quite emotional.
36:55OK. I think not having the statue there.
36:57I've thought about mum a lot.
36:59So is this the first time you've actually not had Buddha?
37:03Literally the first time in my lifetime that it's not been in the same house as me.
37:09Are you ready to see it?
37:11Yeah. OK.
37:12Yeah.
37:13Oh, that's amazing.
37:21Wow.
37:22That's incredible.
37:27And it's got a base again.
37:36Thank you so much.
37:38And the fingers.
37:40You'd never have thought that they weren't there at one point.
37:43That's incredible, Kish.
37:44And thank you so much.
37:46I think mum would be really, really proud.
37:51Proud of the fact that it means a lot to me.
37:54Mm-hm.
37:55Yeah, she'd be really proud.
37:57And chuffed to see this looking like it does.
38:01I'm really pleased that you're happy with it.
38:04I can hand it over with pride now.
38:06Good.
38:07Yeah, it's amazing.
38:08I hope it inspires my daughter as well to be a bit courageous and adventurous like her grandma was as well.
38:14Thank you so much.
38:15It's been an absolute pleasure and lovely to meet you.
38:17You too.
38:18Thanks very much.
38:19Bye.
38:24I think looking at the statue as it looks now really took me back to my childhood and lots of great memories of mum.
38:33It feels quite emotional to know that at some point I'm going to pass this on to my daughter because she never knew her grandma.
38:39She never knew my mum.
38:40And this feels like a tangible thing that I can hand over.
38:45And hopefully it will remind her of her childhood and her mum as well in the process.
39:03As one family keepsake is on its way home.
39:13Nice.
39:14Saunas and Dom's chairs from the family built cinema are almost ready for their big screen comeback.
39:22Right, here we go.
39:23This is armrest number three.
39:25Yep. Last one.
39:26This is it.
39:27Well done.
39:28OK.
39:30Ready?
39:31Yes.
39:32That should just slot in place.
39:33OK.
39:34Good.
39:35You get your end in first.
39:36OK.
39:37I'm in.
39:38In.
39:39Yeah.
39:40That's it.
39:41I've got all this.
39:42I've got it on this edge.
39:44I'll hold it where you want.
39:45Yeah.
39:46That's it.
39:47That's good.
39:48Where you've got it is perfect.
39:49OK.
39:50So I think that's as far as it needs to go.
39:51Right.
39:52OK.
39:53I can't wait to see what Georgie and Lydia think.
39:55Well done.
39:56After years in storage, these 1940s cinema chairs had lost the Hollywood sparkle that they'd
40:05brought to a small town in Wales for decades.
40:08And every cinema needs a slide?
40:10Yeah.
40:11Perfect.
40:12Last finishing touches.
40:13Now sisters Georgie and Lydia are hoping the chairs are back to their blockbuster best
40:22to honour their film fanatic great aunt and uncle, Edith and Bill.
40:27Hello.
40:28Hello.
40:29Hi.
40:30Welcome back.
40:31Hi.
40:32Yeah.
40:33Good thanks.
40:34It's amazing.
40:35Well we've both been a bit inspired by your cinema chairs and created your own little
40:39cinema for you.
40:40It's amazing.
40:41It's amazing.
40:42I hope you like it.
40:44I love all the films that they were showing as well.
40:45That's it.
40:46I hope we've chosen well.
40:47Yeah.
40:48So being the new custodians really for some of the chairs from the cinema, how does that
40:52feel?
40:53Exciting.
40:54Exciting.
40:55I hope we've been adored to their former glory and we'll get to see that because we
40:58never did.
40:59Ready?
41:00Yeah.
41:05Oh my goodness.
41:06They look like brand new.
41:07They look amazing.
41:08Look at the colour.
41:09Wow.
41:10I didn't realise they were ever that bright.
41:12Even the brown colour is.
41:13Yeah.
41:14You didn't see that before.
41:15No.
41:16And Dom played a massive part in making sure that the chairs got to the state that they're
41:21in now.
41:23So I couldn't have done it without Dom.
41:24I think it's just a little bit.
41:25Yeah.
41:26Yeah.
41:27Yeah.
41:28Yeah.
41:29Yeah.
41:30We'd love to.
41:31Take a seat.
41:32Come on.
41:35Oh, this is the real test, isn't it?
41:37Oh, wow.
41:38Goodness.
41:39They're comfy.
41:40Very comfy.
41:41Wow.
41:42You can stay seated.
41:43Stay seated.
41:44The film's about to start.
41:45The curtain police on us.
41:46Yep.
41:47Yeah.
41:48Let me go get the others.
41:49I'll get some stools.
41:50Come on then.
41:52Oh, this looks nice.
41:53Come on in.
41:54Welcome to the cinema.
41:55Hey, hi there.
41:56Hey.
41:57Hi.
41:58Hello.
41:59Hello there.
42:00Okay, everyone's sitting comfortably.
42:02Yes.
42:03Yep.
42:04The film's about to start.
42:05What?
42:12Are you going to pictures this afternoon?
42:14Yes.
42:15How extraordinary so am I.
42:16It's just so nice to see them as they would have been in the cinema.
42:22They've done an incredible job.
42:23They really have.
42:24Try pulling your eyelid down as far as it'll go.
42:26And then blowing your nose.
42:28I think that Bill and Nina would be delighted if they knew that we'd bought the chairs here
42:33and taken the time and effort to restore them.
42:35Just a nice little homage, I guess, to the cinema and to that history of our family.
42:47If you have a treasured possession that's seen better days and you think the team can help,
42:52please get in touch at bbc.co.uk slash take part and join us in the repair shop.
43:03Tell us again one of the best friends and some happy guests to see them before the festival.
43:07See you soon.
43:08Well, thank you.
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