The Repair Shop Season 15 Episode 1

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00:00Oh dear.

00:01Bringing the broken.

00:03I don't know where to start with this.

00:05Back to life.

00:06Wow.

00:08It's stunning.

00:10Wow, fantastic!

00:13I think it's just amazing.

00:16Yay!

00:17Welcome to the Repair Show.

00:30Today, joining the cobbler, the shaker, and the table leg maker, Steve Fletcher is admiring the barn's first assignment.

00:41No cheer, come and have a look at this.

00:45Wow, this is something.

00:47It is, isn't it?

00:48I love things like this.

00:51This miniature marvel comes courtesy of ex-coal miner John Wiltshire from Hollywell in North Wales.

01:00Hello, sir.

01:01Hello.

01:03So, John, this is an amazing model.

01:06It sure is, it sure is.

01:08It was built by my grandfather in 1904.

01:13It's amazing. What is it?

01:14Well, this model is a model of a coal mine.

01:17When you turn the handle, all these used to turn, and them shafts would go up and down.

01:24So where was the handle then?

01:26It was just there. Can you see a little hole?

01:27I can see a little hole, yes.

01:29Oh, my word.

01:29There was, like, a crank.

01:31Yeah.

01:31It went over there, and it was housed over here.

01:33Yes.

01:34John, what was your grandfather's name?

01:37His name was John Joseph Wiltshire.

01:40So why did he make it?

01:42Because he hurt his back, and he couldn't go down the pit anymore.

01:46In them days, it was very dangerous, yeah.

01:49Very, very bad conditions, you know.

01:51There was accidents all the time.

01:53And so he just took to making models.

01:57Did you end up going down the mines?

01:59I did, sir, yes.

02:00I did.

02:01I went down the mine in the very, very early 70s to 1994.

02:06That's a long time.

02:08Yeah.

02:09Was it scary?

02:10No.

02:11It's dark.

02:12It's dirty.

02:14But I just loved the camaraderie.

02:17You're watching your mates back, you know.

02:19I think that's when I realised it.

02:21I'd coldest in my veins, you know.

02:24Tell me a bit about your grandfather.

02:26What was he like?

02:27Oh, he was a lovely old boy to me.

02:30He used to tell me stories.

02:32I always remember that.

02:35Fantastic fella.

02:37When I was told that he was coming to me in the will,

02:41I was elated, you know, really.

02:43It's an honour, isn't it, to have this?

02:46I run a little museum.

02:48I am all sorts of mining artefacts.

02:50And, of course, this little beauty was pride of place.

02:54And was it working then?

02:55It was working, yeah.

02:56It was working fine.

02:58But then it started sticking, you see.

03:01I went to a model maker.

03:03This guy says, we'll fix it for you.

03:05Yeah.

03:06So when I went to pick it up,

03:07the mechanism had gone.

03:10When you turned, you know, gone.

03:12That's very unfortunate.

03:13Oh, flippin' that guy.

03:15I guess because this is a one-off,

03:18your grandfather wouldn't have done drawings of the mechanism.

03:22He would have just done it as he went along.

03:24No, that's what he'd do, you know.

03:26Oh, Steve, he'd be so brilliant.

03:28My brain is whirring at the moment,

03:30just thinking about the cages going up and down.

03:33But I'm probably going to have to sleep on that one.

03:36What is the plan for the model if I can get it all working?

03:39It will go in pride of faith in my museum

03:44to keep all the memories of mining alive, you know.

03:48And this will be, you know, the crown on it.

03:51I'll see what I can do.

03:53Thank you so much for bringing it in.

03:55See you, my dear.

03:56See you soon.

03:57Bye-bye.

03:57See you again.

03:58Thank you very much.

04:05Steve, where on earth are you going to start with this?

04:08Do you know what?

04:08I've no idea.

04:09I've got to try and get my head into John's grandfather's head

04:14to work out what sort of mechanism it would have had.

04:17Well, there's certainly a lot to do with the paint surface

04:20and just getting this cleaned up a little bit, actually,

04:23but not too much.

04:24Let me know when you want me to come in

04:26and do the work on the surface.

04:28Might be somewhere.

04:29Well, OK.

04:41This is incredible.

04:45I'm slightly worried because I've got to design

04:50and make a complete new mechanism underneath

04:54that's going to drive everything.

04:56I've got to turn that motion of turning the handle

05:01to raise and lower the cages.

05:05Yeah, there's a lot to think about here, actually.

05:14As Steve minds his imagination,

05:17Will Kirk is awaiting the arrival of Sarah Kelly

05:20and her daughter, Laura.

05:24Something, isn't it?

05:25Yeah, thanks.

05:25They've come from Belfast

05:27with an earloom that inspired a family vocation.

05:33Hi there.

05:34Hello.

05:34Welcome to the barn.

05:35Thank you very much.

05:37This is lovely.

05:39This is a writing box, right?

05:41It is.

05:41As far as I know, it's a Victorian writing box.

05:43So if these panels sort of sit like that...

05:46That's right.

05:47And then this is the surface that you write your letters on.

05:50Yeah, that's right.

05:50It belonged to my grandmother.

05:54She was given it by...

05:56It would have been her fiancé, I think, at the time.

05:58Okay.

05:58My grandfather.

06:00I know he gave it to her before we were married

06:02because he put her name on it.

06:04So Dolly McCormick was my grandmother.

06:07My grandmother died in 59.

06:11My mum had it all her life until she died, and she died in 1993.

06:15Was your mum quite a writer then?

06:17Yeah.

06:17My mum was known as Kay Kennedy.

06:19She left school when she was only 14,

06:21went on to become a journalist,

06:24really just through force of character,

06:27which sums my mum up.

06:29And then she worked her way up to becoming an editor

06:34of one of the papers called The Ulster Star.

06:37And she was one of the first woman editors in Northern Ireland,

06:42which I'm very proud of.

06:44That's amazing.

06:45It was amazing.

06:46And she was quite an exceptional woman.

06:49Yeah.

06:49She did very hard-hitting news stories

06:52at a difficult time in Northern Ireland.

06:55She was right on the front doing that.

06:57But she also met all sorts of celebrities.

07:01Did she?

07:01Yeah.

07:02She got to know Johnny Cash quite well.

07:03Yeah.

07:04Roger Moore, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Bee Gees,

07:10you name it.

07:11She was well-respected and well-admired.

07:14What she achieved for a woman with very little formal education

07:18who just really had a love of words.

07:22Granny really was a trailblazer,

07:24and so it's really important for me to say that

07:26and to talk about Kay Kennedy

07:28because she broke so many boundaries.

07:32I'm a journalist because my grandmother was a journalist.

07:35She would have brought me into the offices

07:36whenever I was, like, a toddler.

07:38My grandmother was definitely my hero.

07:41Being the writing box,

07:42it's all about that link to the craft of words

07:44and to, you know, to tell in those stories.

07:47But in its current condition, it doesn't really do justice.

07:49Exactly.

07:50Yeah, I mean, it's a bit of a sad wreck at the moment,

07:53and it would be really nice if it's not quite so sad.

07:56Yeah.

07:56Looking.

07:57The fact that it's a writing box,

07:59and writing is so important in our family,

08:02this sort of encapsulates that.

08:05You know, linking back through all of those generations

08:07of, you know, my family and the women in my family

08:10keeps that legacy alive.

08:13Yeah.

08:14I'm going to take very good care of this

08:15and get it worthy of a journalist again.

08:18Thank you so much.

08:19I'll see you very soon.

08:20Bye-bye.

08:21Bye.

08:21I've got to devise a mechanism

08:36that makes the cages go up and down,

08:39alternately, like this.

08:40Oh, God, that's complicated, isn't it?

08:42I thought about rack and pinion,

08:45and I don't know what your mind would come up with,

08:47because you're very mechanical.

08:49I'd go with cams,

08:50but, again, it's distances, travelling,

08:55and all this sort of thing, yeah.

09:06Now, this is a great box.

09:09It's a real shame that this is in the condition that it's in.

09:11It doesn't really reflect Kay's work,

09:13and she sounded like a real powerhouse

09:15in the world of journalism.

09:17You've got two compartments,

09:18one at the top, one at the bottom,

09:19and it would have been held together

09:21by sort of one piece of leather on the inside,

09:24but I'm hoping Chris can have a look at that.

09:28This box gives you the illusion

09:30that it's made out of solid walnut.

09:32There's actually pine on the core on the inside,

09:34and a very thin amount of wood will be veneered onto the surface.

09:39When it gets damaged around the edges,

09:41it looks not very nice.

09:43I'm going to start off by removing the surface dirt and residue.

09:46The solution is made up of a bit of turps,

09:53a bit of meth,

09:54and a few other ingredients.

10:00Well, it's cleaning up really well.

10:02Once I've finished the other side of the box,

10:04then I can start on the repairs.

10:05While Lucia begins restoring the paintwork

10:23of the model mine...

10:25The thing with acrylic paints,

10:27you have to move really quickly

10:28because they dry really quickly.

10:29Steve has been racking his brains

10:33on how to create the missing mechanics.

10:37I think I've now come up with a plan

10:40of how to drive all of the mine,

10:43and I've split it into two different sections.

10:46I've got this crank arm that I've made.

10:49We'll have various pulleys on,

10:51and that's going to drive the grinding wheel,

10:55saw bench, and the air pump as well.

10:58Now, the tricky bit then comes in stage two

11:01for the lifts and cages.

11:04To start with, what I'm going to do

11:05is just fit the pulleys onto this shaft,

11:10which is the same sort of pulley

11:11as I see used in my construction set

11:16when I was a kid.

11:17So I just need to now pop the pulley belt into place.

11:21I've got a mirror in there

11:23just to help me see what I'm doing.

11:26Otherwise, I'm just feeling in the dark

11:27a bit.

11:34Good.

11:35It's gone on really well.

11:36Let's see if it works.

11:41Brilliant.

11:42I'm really chuffed with that.

11:57All working absolutely as it should do.

12:00But that is the simple part of this repair.

12:05I've now got to turn my attention

12:06to getting the lifts to work.

12:08I'm now working on the part of the mechanism

12:33that will drive the winding wheels

12:35to lift the cages up and down.

12:38One of the things that makes this mechanism

12:40not straightforward is that I'm turning

12:42a sort of radial movement

12:45into an up-and-down movement.

12:48I'm just going to make this crank arm.

12:52I'm just going to make this crank arm.

12:53If someone turns the handle

13:22the crank handle turns this little wheel here

13:24which then turns this big wheel

13:28and moves the rack one way or the other

13:31and I'm really hoping that my final calculations are correct

13:36so that there's the right amount of up and down movement for the cages.

13:42If not, then I'm in a spot of bother I think.

13:52Did you ever have a favourite toy as a kid?

13:56I have a little pig, he's called Porky.

13:59Oh, Porky Pig.

14:00And he had a little girlfriend called Porkat.

14:02Oh, I love that.

14:05Here to see plastics and toy restorer Charlotte Abbott

14:09is Jackie Harris from Barrow & Fonnes

14:12with her beloved family treasure.

14:15Hello.

14:19So who do we have here?

14:20This is Rosebud.

14:22She belonged to my mum.

14:23She's about 75 years old we think

14:25and given to my mum when she first went to live with her adoptive parents.

14:30Gosh.

14:31What was your mum's name?

14:32My mum was called Myra.

14:34She died in 2016 so nearly nine years ago.

14:37Mum lost her dad when she was about seven

14:39and then her mum, when she was about nine

14:42her mum had a brain tumour and knew that she was really poorly

14:46so she tried to find a home for all the nine children before she died.

14:50Oh my goodness.

14:52Nine.

14:53Yeah, seven of the children went to live in Ireland with an aunt there

14:56and then my mum and my mum's sister, my auntie Mary

14:59lived in Barrow with families that she knew that could look after them.

15:04Wow.

15:05So overnight my mum lost a mum, a siblings and a home.

15:10That is just tragic, isn't it?

15:12It is really tragic, yeah.

15:14Wow.

15:15I mean she'd never met the family before.

15:17Yeah.

15:18Before she went to live with them.

15:20But I also know that she was loved there.

15:22Yeah.

15:22And she was happy there.

15:24So my mum was really, really lucky to have that family.

15:26She was looked after like their own, yeah.

15:29And what were her parents like?

15:31So your grandparents, what were they like?

15:33Yeah, Violet and Walter, they were lovely.

15:35They just loved my mum.

15:36Yeah.

15:36And obviously they wanted to get a doll.

15:39Yeah.

15:41It's a lovely welcome gift, really.

15:42She'd never had a doll before.

15:44Oh.

15:45So she really treasured Rosebud.

15:48Yeah.

15:49For her whole life, obviously.

15:50Oh yeah, she did, yeah.

15:51And when she was really poorly, the week before she died,

15:53she just asked that me and my sister would look after Rosebud for her.

15:56Oh, wow.

15:56So.

15:57What was Myra like as a mum?

15:59She was a really loving mum.

16:00It was a lovely family home that my mum created really because she'd lost her own

16:05and we were her world, yeah.

16:06My dad and my sister and me, yeah.

16:08Best mum ever, yeah.

16:09Oh, that is lovely.

16:11What do you think when you look at Rosebud?

16:13Oh, I think of my mum straight away.

16:15Do you?

16:15Absolutely, yeah.

16:16She was a real support for my mum and she always used to sleep with her and even when

16:21she got married, she took her to a new home with my dad and then she just sat on this little

16:25brick of chair in my mum and dad's bedroom and that's where she's sat since I've known

16:29her.

16:30I mean, I know she's been loved so much that she's fallen apart.

16:34Yeah.

16:35Has she always been in this condition as you can remember?

16:37As long as I can remember.

16:39Yeah, I've never known her with any legs.

16:40And my dad was married to a mum in 1965 and he said that she never had legs then either.

16:47What would you like me to do?

16:49Legs, hopefully.

16:50Yeah.

16:50Be a really wonderful thing to have back.

16:53A head.

16:54Hmm.

16:55Secure as well.

16:56The head's been taped on.

16:58All her hair's quite matted and there's not much hair.

17:00I'd love to see how my mum had first received her.

17:04But she's still got a gorgeous face.

17:06She does.

17:06She's still got a rosebud lips.

17:07The rosebud lips, yeah.

17:08Yeah, which is how she got her name from her rosebud lips.

17:11Oh.

17:12And the lovely blue eyes.

17:13And what's the plan for Rosebud if she's restored?

17:15Well, she'll go back to my dad's little wicker chair in his bedroom and then she'll get

17:20passed on through the generations as a family heirloom and the story will be told.

17:26Rosebud has a very safe hand.

17:28I know you'll take really good care of her.

17:31Thanks for looking after her.

17:32No worries.

17:33Bye.

17:47You can tell that she's been wearing something that's been sleeveless because her body is

17:54this lovely shade of peach, whereas her arms are faded quite substantially.

17:57So it would be nice to get her to call her back to how she was.

18:02Oh, bless her.

18:03She's lost most of her hair as well.

18:05What is left is pretty matted.

18:08I need to make her a new wig.

18:09That is going to be the hard bit, is just making two completely brand new legs.

18:17I don't know what they looked like, but I think before I tackle this, I'm just going

18:22to start taking her apart so I can see how much repair is needed.

18:26The safe is really stuck.

18:39I'm inclined to think that it is a ceramic composition.

18:43I'm going to start rebuilding this missing piece.

18:47As Charlotte works on Rosebud's broken body, Will's already stripped the writer's box back

19:11to its bare bones.

19:12It might look quite dull at the moment, but once I've finished all my woodwork, I'm going

19:17to spruce it up with some French polish.

19:19The cleaning has really brought out the areas of damaged veneer.

19:24My plan is to remove the damaged areas and replace them with a fresh section of veneer.

19:29This is actually off in the old writing box as well.

19:32I always keep spare bits of veneer in case I need them.

19:35It's time for me to remove this old glue and old bits of wood, easily with this very small

19:41chisel here.

19:42That's why I have so many different chisels, because they all have a purpose.

19:48I'm going to start off by cutting a bit of a curved shape to blend in well with the grain

19:53and the pattern in the wood.

19:55You want it to sort of end up blending in with the surrounding area.

19:58You don't want it to stick out like a sore thumb.

19:59That is a really good fit.

20:04Right, all I need to do now is cut that section out and stick it on the box.

20:26That's now glued in place.

20:28I'm going to let that fully dry.

20:30Once it has, I can trim off the excess veneer and move on to the next patch.

20:50Well, that looks perfect to me.

20:52The only thing that doesn't look perfect at the moment is the leather.

20:55So, I'm going to speak to Chris and see if he can help.

20:58Hey, Chris.

21:04Oh, my goodness.

21:06Slight bit of damage there.

21:07To say the least.

21:08It's really important to keep as much of this leather as possible, because that's where

21:12the history is.

21:13That tooling is absolutely lovely.

21:16Do you think you could try to replicate that?

21:19I'll give it a go.

21:20Brilliant.

21:20Thanks, Chris.

21:21Thanks a lot, mate.

21:21Lucia is applying her fine art finesse, bringing a miner's miniature world back to life.

21:34Steve's done a great job making these cages that go up and down and through the hole in the floor of the model.

21:41And now it's my responsibility to make them look original, old parts.

21:47I'm happy with the colour match.

21:51It's just the actual surface finish.

21:53It just needs a bit more distressing.

21:56Might get a hammer and bash it a bit.

21:59Horrify, Steve.

22:00I've sketched out the dimensions of what I think Rosebud's leg would have roughly looked like.

22:20Having seen a lot of dolls over the years, you start to get a sense for how they probably would have looked.

22:26The next stage in this is I'm going to make a framework out of wire mesh.

22:29And this allows me to make Rosebud's leg quite hollow and nice and light, like her arms and a torso are.

22:37It does seem to be perfect shape.

22:39It's just a rough template.

22:45So this is a two-part poxie putty.

22:50You get the two equal parts of it mixed together.

22:54And after a couple of hours, they go hard.

22:55So the first layer is going to just cover everything and then the next layer I can go in and sculpt all the nicer details.

23:04I'm going to use this dowel as, like, a point that I can push against.

23:10When I was younger, I used to love playing with clay.

23:19I would, I'd really like making food.

23:22So I'd make, like, three-course meals out of clay.

23:24I'd, like, roll loads of little peas and I'd make little paskis.

23:29Always been into sculpting and making things like this.

23:32And I'd love it.

23:37If you don't either, if you don't have any fingers maybe or not.

23:38Orling, other than the other areas.

23:43You just stayed towards the edge.

23:44I'd love it.

23:50I'd love it.

23:56I'd love it.

23:59I'd love it.

24:00I'd love it.

24:01all these bits and bobs are working but then the cages are going to go up and down as well

24:08how do you work that one out then

24:11you are just enjoying yourself far too much

24:18I'm going to put in a nice little rounded heel

24:36I'm again using a two-part epoxy

24:48I'm just using a little sculpting tool

24:51I actually have a weird collection of things that aren't really sculpting tools that I use

24:57like I've got a metal chopstick that I think is great

25:00the ends of pencils and paintbrushes and things like that

25:05my ears really start to look like a leg

25:16I just need to leave to cure

25:19and then next up is making the satin leg

25:22applying his bookbinder's art to a writer's box

25:37Chris sits about repairing the torn leather interior

25:41the problem with this box is this joint

25:45it's very badly warped

25:47when you close it the gap just gets bigger and bigger

25:51the leather is getting pulled and that's why it's broken along there

25:55I would like to put some supporting cloth and a new piece of leather

25:59and eventually stick the original down

26:01the problem I've got is will it rip once I've put the cloth in place and the leather

26:08and I won't know that until I get to that point

26:12it's always a nice feeling doing collaborations

26:28and it's a really traditional

26:30when it comes to writing boxes for a cabinet maker like Will to team up with a bookbinder

26:36goodness

26:39it's raining out there cats and dogs

26:41immersive experience

26:50it really is

26:51wow I am so pleased I'm in here not out there

26:57so that's the leather in place I'm really happy with that

27:07now I just need to leave to dry

27:09and then I can see whether it's going to work or not

27:11and if it doesn't well I'll have to come up with a plan B

27:15oh my god

27:16oh my god

27:17oh my god

27:18oh my god

27:19oh my god

27:20oh my god

27:21now it's the moment of truth

27:29is it going to split when I close

27:31and all my hard work

27:33so far will be wasted

27:34it didn't

27:57what a relief

27:59so now I know Laura and Sarah can open and close this

28:03with ease

28:05it's all as the young people would say gravy

28:07so now I can start sticking the original leather down

28:11and then I can start thinking about retouching and retooling the missing pieces

28:33so I'm really happy all the original now has been stuck down and dry

28:43and now I need to retool and put back in the missing bits of gold

28:49this is 22 or 23 carat gold

28:52I've had some tools made of the exact pattern

28:55and to do that I've taken a rub in and you send it off to a fantastic company

29:00that can reproduce the tool for me to re-gold the missing area

29:05so the gold's now in place

29:12and now I'm going to tool it with a hot tool

29:14so that looks really good

29:40I just need to do it to the other side

29:43and then I can blend the old and new leather together

29:46it's taken hours of mind-bending pondering

30:05planning and production

30:07but Steve's vision for the model mind

30:10is about to be realised

30:12I've got all of the pieces of the mechanism made

30:18so I'm just going to assemble it all

30:21oil it all

30:22and then it's all going to be ready to pop into the mine

30:25and fingers crossed

30:27hopefully it'll all work

30:29I've really enjoyed doing all of this so far

30:33actually having to reinvent

30:36what I thought John's grandfather may have put in

30:39I'm just going to connect one of the lines up

30:57to see whether it all works

30:58and lifts one of the cages

31:00that's coming up

31:08all right

31:08that's going down there

31:09oh that's really good

31:14that's working absolutely true

31:17everything is working exactly as it should do

31:22I just need to get the other three cages in place now

31:26and yeah I can play with it a bit longer then

31:30once the prize exhibit in a mining museum

31:38this detailed model of a working pit

31:42had fallen into disrepair

31:44and the internal mechanism had been lost

31:47for John

31:50the model is a reminder

31:52of his enduring connection

31:53to the tradition of mining

31:55but most poignantly

31:57to his grandfather

31:58who crafted it

32:00hello John

32:02hello

32:02I wonder what you've got to do

32:04how are you feeling about being here today John

32:08I'm excited to hear you

32:10and I'm looking forward to what Stephen has

32:14worked his magic on you

32:15have you done any magic Steve?

32:17have you done some magic as well

32:19what are you hoping to see?

32:24if I get them things working there

32:26it'll come to life again then you know

32:29and what will that mean to you?

32:32I mean the world

32:33yeah I mean the world to me

32:36would you like to see it?

32:39oh yes please sir

32:40oh my god

32:59Steve

33:06Steve

33:08Steve

33:09he all come out

33:10oh we'll have to go now

33:11which is well as well

33:13thank you very much

33:15from the bottom of my heart

33:16absolutely praise

33:19oh my god

33:27Steve

33:30he's a brilliant mate

33:32absolutely brilliant

33:34is this how you remember it?

33:37is this how you remember it?

33:38better than I remember it

33:39you know

33:40absolutely fabulous

33:43Lucia has done all the painting work

33:47that has needed to be done

33:48thank you my dear

33:49oh it's been an absolute treat

33:52you've done a fantastic job

33:55I mean this is made in 1904

33:58and I bet it'll be going now

34:00for another 120 years

34:02this has been an absolute honour

34:05to work on

34:06not just for you

34:08but for all of the mining community

34:10thank you so much

34:12I am feeling ecstatic

34:18to tell you the truth

34:19what a job that they've done on that

34:21brought all the memories

34:23flooding back you know

34:24my grandad would be so proud

34:27he's going from here

34:29straight to the museum

34:31the community would be

34:33very very very pleased

34:35yes to see

34:36this thing that was

34:38created in 1904

34:40I'm still going

34:41oh it's brilliant

34:43from mines to megastructures

35:01Tilly Newnham has a mighty piece

35:04of British engineering history

35:05for the attention of paper conservator

35:08Angelina Bacallaro

35:10hi there

35:14hello

35:14welcome welcome

35:16please take a seat

35:17thank you

35:18what did you get

35:19that's interesting

35:20so this is a drawing

35:22it's an original engineering drawing

35:23of a design for the Humber Bridge

35:25my god this is amazing

35:28is this all drawn by pencil

35:31I believe so

35:32wow

35:32so tell us a bit more about it

35:34so this was a drawing

35:35that was owned by my grandfather

35:37but it actually dates back to 1930

35:39what was your grandad's name

35:41Bernard Wax

35:42the detailing's absolutely amazing

35:44was this drawn by like an artist or

35:46no it was drawn by

35:47Sir Ralph Freeman Senior

35:49he was a civil engineer

35:51in the trade of building bridges

35:52he was commissioned to come up

35:54with a design

35:54either for a bridge

35:56or a tunnel

35:56to cross the Humber estuary

35:59linking the industrial heartlands

36:04of Lincolnshire

36:04to the docks at Hull and beyond

36:07with a bridge

36:07took decades of planning

36:10and building

36:11but this original multi-span design

36:14was never realised

36:1630 years later

36:17government decided

36:19they wanted to potentially invest again

36:20so my grandfather was approached

36:22and he was given this drawing

36:24by the firm

36:24as a

36:25here's some inspiration

36:27here's what we designed previously

36:28so how long did it take

36:30for the bridge to be built?

36:32so it actually took 10 years in the end

36:33and was opened finally in 1981

36:35the Queen attended to open it

36:38with Prince Philip

36:39wow

36:39we have pictures of my grandfather

36:41meeting her

36:42and eventually he was awarded an OBE

36:44for his contribution

36:45with the bridge

36:46that's amazing

36:47and is Grandpa still with us?

36:49no I'm afraid he died in 1990

36:51he's just fondly remembered

36:53our family generally view

36:55the bridge as that legacy

36:56that stands of his

36:57that keeps us connected to him

36:59yeah I bet

37:00we call it Grandad's Bridge

37:01do you?

37:02yeah

37:02so if we drive under it

37:03we say hello Grandad

37:04oh my god that's so sweet

37:05I took my daughter to see it

37:07about 4-5 years ago

37:08it's quite sweet

37:09so I've got pictures of me

37:10at a similar age to her

37:12in front of the bridge

37:12so it's a very emotional connection

37:14for us to Grandad's Bridge

37:16it's part of the story

37:18of how he came to build

37:19the bridge he did

37:20it's something we will always cherish

37:22as a family

37:23and want others to know as well

37:25because we're so proud of

37:26what he achieved

37:27it's a one of a kind

37:29I can't wait to get my hands on it

37:31thank you

37:32we really appreciate it

37:33we'll see you very soon

37:34I am so amazed

37:51by how much detail

37:54this drawing has in it

37:55however there are quite a few issues

37:57on the paper itself

37:58first and most obvious

38:01is this difference of colour

38:03the middle side actually

38:04is much lighter

38:05than both of the edges

38:07something that is quite interesting

38:10is all of these losses

38:12this is a very very typical damage

38:15caused by silverfish

38:16silverfish are not fish

38:19they are little insects

38:21that live in the damp dark places

38:23in your home

38:24and they love eating paper

38:26these really small black dots

38:30on this side of the paper

38:31some bug

38:34has left their droppings on it

38:37which is lovely

38:37we call this frass

38:39I love the name

38:40I don't like how it looks

38:42it needs to be removed

38:43Rosebud

38:55a 75 year old doll

38:57is heading for a fresh new look

39:00as Charlotte addresses

39:01those tresses

39:03I don't want to glue the hair

39:05directly to her head

39:07that wasn't how her wig was originally

39:09there was fabric there

39:10and the hair was sewn to that

39:12so I'm going to be following that process

39:13let's see if this fits

39:17I managed to clean

39:19Rosebud's hair

39:22and there is some of it here

39:24that is in good enough condition

39:25that I can integrate this into the wig

39:27looking at Rosebud's original wig

39:30I can tell what style of hair she had

39:31she's got the parting

39:33kind of running all the way along

39:34but no hair was here

39:36this tells me that she had a hairstyle

39:38that would have come down like this

39:40and then had been in little plaques

39:42I managed to source

39:45some really good replacement hair

39:47this is sewn together

39:48and then I can then sew that

39:50onto the wig cap

39:51it's great to be able to

39:54take Rosebud back to how she was originally

39:57because Jackie has never seen her

39:59with beautiful pigtails

40:00well

40:18job done

40:19yes

40:20no

40:21what kind of trickery is this

40:25and it opens

40:26so I feel like a child on Christmas day

40:28and it's not even my box

40:30no

40:30this is unbelievable

40:32how have you drawn those two together

40:34well

40:35if I told you I'd have to kill you

40:36oh god

40:37don't do that

40:37I'm still needed to polish the box

40:40yeah

40:40and it's going to look great

40:41I think it will

40:42thanks for having

40:43have fun

40:43cheers

40:43it's been dirty work for Angelina

40:53cleaning the creepy crawly calling cards

40:56from the rare engineering plans

40:59this looks really much fresher now

41:03and especially now that

41:05all of the frass has gone from this side

41:07unfortunately there's quite a bit of tape

41:09it creates stains

41:12that are sometimes impossible to remove

41:15the best way to tackle tapes like this

41:19is to use a little bit of heat

41:21reactivating the adhesive on the tape

41:25oh there we go

41:29fantastic

41:30it's all very moving

41:31ah

41:36woof

41:37done

41:38once I remove

41:47as much of the residue as possible

41:50then I will start preparing the drawing for washing

41:53I am washing the

42:21the Humber Bridge drawing

42:23it's so yellow and so discoloured

42:26it might look quite scary

42:28that I'm introducing water to paper

42:31but paper is surprisingly strong

42:34if it's not handled too much

42:36and should allow any discolouration to be absorbed through it

42:40and allow the drawing to start cleaning

42:43well I think this is already a really really good sign

42:49that the blotting paper is starting to work

42:51and it's allowing the discolouration to come through

42:54I've got to paint quite a lot of limbs so I'm going to make quite a lot of paint

43:12making this kind of flesh tome

43:14it's mainly a balance between red and yellow

43:18sometimes with a little bit of blue to kind of cool it down

43:22and matching to her face because

43:25well that's the bit of rosewood that Jackie remembers

43:28so it makes sense that the rest of it would be the same colour as well

43:31Chris and Will are rewriting the future of a writer's box

43:47that once belonged to Kay Kennedy

43:49one of Northern Ireland's pioneering female newspaper editors

43:53I'm now applying a really thin coat of shellac polish

44:00to show off that beautiful walnut

44:01and I'm also going to add an extra little touch

44:04so Kay's name lifts on in the box

44:06the once tattered and battered writer's box

44:16has inspired four generations of women

44:19from original owner Dolly

44:21through trailblazing reporter Kay Kennedy

44:24to Sarah and journalist daughter Laura

44:27this box continues to inspire

44:31Hi there, come in, come in

44:35Hello

44:35Lovely to see you both again

44:37It's lovely to see you too

44:38Kay was a very important lady in both your lives

44:41She was an absolute trailblazer

44:43and she deserves to be remembered

44:45with the kind of reverence

44:48that she deserved and she earned

44:50in her lifetime

44:51Are you ready to take a look?

44:53I think so

44:54Yeah

44:54Okay, here we go

44:56Oh my goodness

45:00Oh, it's beautiful Will

45:05It's absolutely beautiful

45:07I want to get it open

45:11I'm like, yeah, let me open it

45:13I'm like, yeah, let me open it

45:14I'm like, yeah, let me open it

45:14Okay, here we go

45:15Oh

45:17Oh

45:18Oh, wow

45:19Absolutely gorgeous

45:23Absolutely beautiful

45:24This is the original, isn't it?

45:26Uh-huh

45:26It looks like it's healed

45:29Yeah

45:29It's healed itself, doesn't it?

45:30I cannot take all the credit

45:32Chris, our bookbinder

45:33He's actually retained the original surface

45:36But he's somehow managed to, as you say, heal

45:39Yeah

45:40The join line

45:41It's really beautiful

45:42It's such a lovely tribute

45:43Yeah

45:44Well, I know that as people pass away

45:46keeping their name going

45:48it's important for you

45:49Yeah

45:49Oh

45:54Oh, that's lovely

45:57Oh, that's so lovely

45:59Oh, that was so thoughtful

46:01Well, as you know, I was like

46:03say her name, say her name

46:04And there she is

46:06Kay Kennedy

46:06and she's so important

46:07And that's just such a beautiful

46:10way of honouring her

46:11It's been great to be able to keep

46:14Kay's name alive

46:15Thank you

46:16Thank you so much, Will

46:17It's a pleasure

46:17Right, it's over to you

46:18Absolutely beautiful

46:19Thank you

46:22Thank you so much

46:23Bye-bye

46:23Bye

46:24I'm feeling very happy

46:31I'm feeling proud of my family

46:33both past and present

46:34It's important that people should know

46:37who Kay Kennedy was

46:38She was right there

46:40in the forefront

46:40as well as covering

46:43some of the hardest times

46:44in Northern Irish history

46:45and I think that we should

46:47honour powerful

46:48Irish women

46:49and for there to be one of those

46:51in my family

46:51I've got to champion her name

46:53and keep that flame alive

46:55With the Humber Bridge plans

47:15now clean and bright

47:17Angelina can tackle the tears

47:20I am using wheat starch paste

47:24It has really good age properties

47:26It will not discolour

47:28and it will not break down

47:29over the years

47:30This repair tissue

47:40has very, very long fibres

47:43and it makes it extra strong

47:45I will just trace

47:48the shape of the repair

47:50with my water pen

47:52So all I need to do

48:00is just apply it on

48:02Beautiful

48:04Don't worry

48:24I'm not making breakfast

48:25I just finished

48:27with the support

48:28of all of the tears

48:29and all of the losses

48:30and now I'm thinking

48:31the best way

48:32to do my infills

48:33Cellulose powder

48:35is like

48:36powdered paper

48:37that when it's mixed

48:39with some methicelulose

48:41or an adhesive

48:42it creates a paste

48:44and it will effectively dry

48:46just like paper

48:47However

48:48this is so white

48:50right now

48:50and if I want to avoid

48:52retouching too much

48:53I think

48:54the best way to do it

48:55is toast it

48:57Toasting

48:58the cellulose

48:59will help it

49:00become a little bit browner

49:02It's pretty much

49:03like toasting bread

49:04This is starting

49:06to get brown now

49:07This is lovely

49:08All I need to do

49:11is just allow it

49:11for a few minutes

49:12to cool

49:12and then mix it

49:13with my methyl cellulose

49:15and apply it

49:16on my losses

49:16This is very exciting

49:18Looks a little bit darker

49:25but as it dries

49:27it should lighten up

49:29What I need to do

49:32is just continue

49:33working my way

49:34through all of the rest

49:35of the losses

49:36and then hopefully

49:37at the end

49:37we will have a much more

49:39unified image

49:40of the Hummer Bridge

49:41With Rosebud's head

50:03shoulders

50:04knees

50:05and toes

50:06all painstakingly

50:07restored

50:08Charlotte's ready

50:09to bring her

50:10back to life

50:11I've got this

50:12really long

50:13string of elastic

50:14really nice

50:15and boiling

50:16The tension

50:27all looks great

50:28inside

50:28but I think

50:29the final test

50:30is

50:30can she sit up

50:32Oh

50:34well she can

50:35just getting her

50:36back together

50:37again is

50:37amazing

50:38Yeah

50:40To be honest

50:41I'm a bit

50:41overwhelmed myself

50:42Jackie has never

50:43seen Rosebud

50:44in one piece

50:45and it's just

50:46going to be so

50:46wonderful

50:46for her to

50:47experience Rosebud

50:48like her mum did

50:49I need to

50:50fit her a wig

50:51and then I'll

50:52dress her

50:52in some kind of

50:53period appropriate

50:53clothing

50:54Rosebud

51:05was gifted

51:05to nine-year-old

51:07orphan Myra

51:08by her newly

51:09adoptive parents

51:10over 75 years

51:12ago

51:12Hoping to see

51:15her mother's

51:16childhood

51:16companion

51:17Hall again

51:18Jackie is back

51:19accompanied

51:20by her dad

51:21Ron

51:22Hello

51:24Hello

51:26Hi

51:27Lovely to meet

51:29you

51:30How are you

51:31feeling?

51:32Excited

51:32Yeah

51:33Emotional

51:34Yes

51:35She sits in

51:36a wicker chair

51:37in our bedroom

51:38next to Teddy

51:39and Teddy's lonely

51:40So what are you

51:43hoping that I've

51:43done?

51:44Giving her her

51:45legs back

51:45That would be

51:47a big thing

51:47for me

51:47and just

51:48just to see

51:49how my mum

51:50first saw her

51:51on the day

51:51that she was

51:51given to her

51:52Are you ready?

51:55Shall we do it?

51:55Please

51:56Oh

52:03Oh

52:05Oh

52:06Hard to recognise her

52:12Oh my gosh

52:13Look

52:14Oh she's amazing

52:15Look at her hair

52:16What are you

52:17Oh

52:19Oh look at her dad

52:20Hey look at her

52:21These feet

52:21Yeah Alexa

52:22And she's sitting up

52:25like we've never

52:26seen her sitting up

52:26Oh

52:28Oh look at her dad

52:31Yeah

52:32Oh

52:33We can move her legs

52:34and everything

52:35How did he do that?

52:37You are so clever

52:38Yeah

52:39Yeah

52:39Holding Rosebud now

52:43What's going through

52:44your mind?

52:46My mum holding her

52:47Yeah just my mum's

52:49face when she

52:49first saw her

52:50and just

52:51she was comforted

52:52by her didn't she?

52:53Oh my mum would be

52:54absolutely over the moon

52:55Charlotte

52:56Thank you

52:56I wish she was here

52:59Oh yeah

53:00She looks brilliant

53:02doesn't she dad?

53:02She's got

53:03A million dollars

53:05Honestly

53:06Thank you Charlotte

53:07Rosebud symbolises

53:16my mum's

53:16and family's story

53:18that we just want

53:19to be able to pass on

53:20and tell

53:20forever

53:21and now we can do that

53:23now we've got Rosebud

53:24in one piece

53:24Myra

53:27would never have

53:28expected to see

53:29a hole again

53:30so

53:31today's quite a big

53:33depth

53:33which

53:33you know

53:35I find

53:36quite touching

53:37Yeah

53:38The Humber crossing

53:48drawing is no study

53:50but the repairs

53:51have left some gaps

53:52to bridge

53:53I'm going

53:55super

53:56super soft

53:57with the pencil

53:57because I don't

53:59want it to be

54:00a very very

54:01distinct

54:02and sharp line

54:03There we go

54:05first line in

54:06Tilly is

54:08incredibly proud

54:09of her grandfather

54:10so now

54:12the drawing

54:12has been

54:13conserved

54:13and treated

54:14the family

54:15will be able

54:16to appreciate it

54:17without having

54:18to take a trip

54:19up to Hall

54:19to just see

54:20the real thing

54:21The Humber Bridge

54:27may have been

54:28a triumph

54:29of British

54:29engineering

54:30built to last

54:32but these

54:33original plans

54:34were showing

54:34all of their

54:3595 years

54:37Oh Angie

54:41Do you like it?

54:43That is amazing

54:44Where's the rip?

54:47Where indeed?

54:48You're clever

54:49aren't you?

54:52For Tilly

54:53the drawing

54:54is a reminder

54:55of her grandfather

54:56his achievements

54:57and the

54:58Proud family

54:59legacy

54:59they still

55:00celebrate

55:01generations

55:02later

55:02Hello

55:04Hi again

55:04Welcome back

55:05Hi

55:05Good to see you

55:06Have you been

55:08excited to come back?

55:09Yeah I have

55:10I'm so intrigued

55:11to see

55:11how it's looking

55:12now

55:13We really cherish

55:14the memory

55:14of my grandfather

55:16it's just part

55:17of the whole

55:18story of how

55:19the Humber Bridge

55:19came to be

55:20and it's something

55:20we're so proud

55:21of as a family

55:22Would you like

55:24to see what

55:24I've done to it

55:25then?

55:25Love to

55:26Oh right

55:26Wow

55:34That's amazing

55:36It looks so

55:39beautiful

55:39I'm really glad

55:41So lovely

55:41It looks loved

55:46Wow

55:49What do you think

55:54of when you look

55:55at the drawing?

55:57To build a bridge

55:57it blows my mind

55:58and you know

55:59it's still standing

55:59how incredible

56:01is that to have

56:02achieved this

56:02and that's always

56:04been a real source

56:05of inspiration

56:05my parents

56:07will be over

56:08the moon

56:08to see it

56:09Thank you so much

56:11like this means

56:12so much to us

56:12so thank you

56:13for all your

56:13work on it

56:14Let me give you

56:16a hand

56:16Let's go

56:19Okay

56:20I'm feeling so

56:25impressed with

56:25the final outcome

56:26It's really nice

56:28to have another

56:28connection to my

56:29grandfather

56:30It can continue

56:32to be appreciated

56:33by our family

56:33and stay part

56:35of that pride

56:37that we have

56:37in the bridge

56:38If you have

56:47a treasured

56:48possession

56:48that's seen

56:49better days

56:50and you think

56:50the team can help

56:51please get in touch

56:53at bbc.co.uk

56:55slash

56:56take part

56:56and join us

56:58in the repair shop

56:59The End

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