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00:01Here at the Repair Shop,
00:03countless treasures have been brought back to life.
00:08That reveal so much about who we are
00:12and where we're from.
00:15But there's so much more out there
00:17that's not yet made it to the barn.
00:20This is amazing.
00:22So the team are hitting the road.
00:24I just love getting up close and personal with the objects.
00:27And we're going to get a glimpse into some amazing heritage crafts.
00:31Yes. I cannot wait.
00:34On a unique adventure.
00:36Oh, yes.
00:37This is terrifying.
00:39To join forces with expert craftspeople.
00:43Whoa!
00:44If we don't point these joints, moisture's going to penetrate.
00:47On their most ambitious restorations yet.
00:50To think every day you come up, this is your office.
00:52Wow! It's big!
00:54Keeping heritage crafts alive.
00:56Keep going, keep going.
00:58It's getting hot in there.
01:00On precious restorations around the country.
01:03I can't even imagine what it looks like.
01:06Wow!
01:07There's a legacy here that needs to be protected.
01:14We're off to Birmingham.
01:15I know.
01:16Yeah.
01:16Road trip.
01:17Whoop, whoop.
01:18On today's travels, Dom and Will are heading to the Midlands.
01:23You call this a jewel, as I'm flaking this paper.
01:26Yeah.
01:26Doesn't look very much like a jewel at the moment.
01:29Ringing in the changes, restoring a telephone box.
01:32I've been absolutely itching to do that crown.
01:36I love.
01:37A pair of secateurs tell an astonishing story.
01:41Nothing would defeat him.
01:43If he could do it, he would do it.
01:45And a fan maker reveals her secrets.
01:49You're almost there though, Will.
01:50If there's a will, there's a way.
01:52You've got all the lions, haven't you, today?
01:57Situated at the heart of England,
01:59and the second largest city in the UK,
02:04Birmingham was a medieval market town
02:06before becoming a manufacturing powerhouse
02:09in the Industrial Revolution.
02:12Today, with a population of nearly 1.2 million people,
02:16it's a major commercial and cultural centre.
02:22You know how we need to start every road trip?
02:24How?
02:25With some snacks.
02:26Oh, you bring snacks?
02:27I bought you some breakfast.
02:28Oh, Dom, pastry.
02:31Thanks, buddy.
02:31Yeah, I didn't get the coffee.
02:33We'll have to get one on the way.
02:34Yeah.
02:35Well, today, I'm going to help Rupert
02:36fix up an old telephone box.
02:40I love that old classic design of, like, the red phone box.
02:43You can see it a mile away.
02:44Yeah.
02:45And there's something quite nostalgic about it,
02:47very British.
02:53Will's come to the Birmingham suburb of Harbourn,
02:56south-west of the city centre.
03:00Look at this.
03:01This is lovely.
03:02Slightly flaky, but what an iconic piece.
03:06Tell me a bit more about it.
03:07So this is Harbourn's last remaining phone box,
03:10and we really want to try and hold on to it and do something special with it.
03:14Keen to see the phone box saved is local resident and teacher, Rupert Conway.
03:19For me, they're just really pretty.
03:21It's an iconic bit of British street furniture.
03:24We're known around the world for these things, and I think we sort of neglect them a little bit.
03:29And I presume it hasn't been used for quite a long time.
03:32It's been in this state for, I would say, as long as I can remember.
03:35It had a phone box in it until about a year ago, and it was in a dire state then.
03:39So BT have been allowing people, communities, to adopt them,
03:43as long as they have the backing of a charity.
03:45And then we were able to adopt it for the nominal fee of a pound.
03:48I'm a local resident, just live a couple of minutes up the road.
03:51We're a great city, loads of things going on,
03:53but sometimes we don't do ourselves justice,
03:55and a lot of our heritage we seem to just forget.
03:57And I think this is something like a bit of a jewel in our community.
04:00You call this a jewel?
04:02Yeah.
04:03As I'm flaking this paint off.
04:04It doesn't look very much like a jewel at the moment.
04:06Give it time, and with your wonderful expertise,
04:08we'll get it back to its original form.
04:11The classic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott,
04:16the architect who created Battersea Power Station.
04:21The first was installed in London in 1926,
04:25and the basic shape remained largely unchanged until the late 1960s.
04:30Oh, hello there. How are you? All right.
04:33Harbourn's box is a Model K6, the most popular,
04:38introduced in 1936.
04:41What is the plan for the phone box?
04:43Is it to actually have it as a working phone box again?
04:45The plan really is to repurpose it as a defibrillator.
04:48What exactly is a defib?
04:50Is that what they sort of use to restart someone's heart?
04:53Yeah, so it's a medical device that's placed somewhere in a public space,
04:56but they're really accessible.
04:58They're really easy to use.
05:00I mean, it makes sense to have it housed in such an iconic thing like this.
05:05And once it's restored, I mean, if you need one and someone says,
05:09go to the phone box, you know where to go to.
05:11Perfect place. Intersection with lots of traffic,
05:14lots of different types of people, elderly people.
05:16I think it's a really good opportunity to make something that is redundant,
05:20to make it relevant again.
05:22Well, I absolutely love the phone box,
05:23and your passion and drive to having this restored is absolutely amazing.
05:28Can't wait to get started.
05:29But where to start on such a big project?
05:33To answer that, Will's phoned a friend,
05:36specialist restorer Liam Carr.
05:39What do you think?
05:40Yeah, it's looking a bit worse for wear.
05:44Are you being very polite?
05:45I mean, like, the paint is just flaking all over the place.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Yeah, the weather's got to this one.
05:51Have you restored a phone box before?
05:52We have, yes.
05:53I think we're coming close to about 80 we've done up and down the UK now.
05:5780?
05:58Yes.
05:58Yeah, our company specialises in British heritage,
06:00so it's K6 phone boxes and church restorations that we do.
06:04So this is a normal day's work for you?
06:06It is, yes.
06:08Two of them we've done with telephones in,
06:10and the rest of them go to food banks, defibrillators,
06:14bookshops, art galleries.
06:15It's interesting that you say that,
06:17because Rupert wants this to turn into a defib station.
06:20It's ideal housing for a defib, life-saving equipment.
06:24What is the plan with this, then?
06:26First stage, we'll remove the glass,
06:28and then we'll lightly sand this paintwork down,
06:30remove the flaky paint.
06:32What about the door?
06:33Not...
06:34Oh, gosh, that's heavy.
06:35Yeah.
06:36Yeah, the outside is a hardwood frame,
06:38and then it's got a cast insert.
06:40We'll keep the cast insert, but we'll replace the hardwood frame,
06:43so it'll last a lot of years.
06:44Yeah?
06:45Yeah.
06:47It's...
06:47Can you help me put this back out?
06:48Yeah.
06:54We want this to be like a big red beacon.
06:57Is there a specific type of red colour?
06:59Because they all look exactly the same, don't they?
07:01They do, yeah.
07:02They're a BT red, what the original BT used,
07:04and it's called a current red.
07:06Current red?
07:06Yeah.
07:08But Will's getting ahead of himself.
07:11There's a lot of hard work to be done
07:13before the paintbrushes come out.
07:17As the site is made safe,
07:20he's making a clean sweep of things.
07:24Oh, that's perfect.
07:25We're all nice and clean here now.
07:27Right, what's next?
07:28Erm, we'll start to remove the glass, I think.
07:30Is that a case of just...
07:32No, I'll knock the pins out from the inside
07:34and then if you could gently push it towards me.
07:36So I'll be on this side?
07:38Yep.
07:38You got tools?
07:38I have, yep.
07:39Alright, let's go.
07:40First, I couldn't put my glasses on.
07:46Ready?
07:47Perfect.
07:48Alright, let's do this.
07:53So that's the bottom?
07:55Yeah.
07:55We'll just try and remove this for him.
08:02Oh, look.
08:03Look at that.
08:04Shall I take it out?
08:05Yeah, we'll put it out
08:07and we'll push it your way.
08:09Oh.
08:10Perfect.
08:13Oh.
08:16That's pretty good.
08:17Right, so that's one down.
08:18How many more to go?
08:19That's quite a few.
08:20Yeah, we'll just work our way down.
08:22Oh, look, I can push it with my hands.
08:24Yeah.
08:25These ones are all the plastic ones now.
08:27Oh, I see.
08:28It's a bit easier.
08:28They used to repair them
08:29with a plastic polyglazing.
08:31It's just a cheaper option than repairing the glass.
08:39Well.
08:41Got it?
08:41Yeah, I've got that one.
08:43Oh, I'm getting the hang of this.
08:52As Will and Liam strip the phone box back to bare essentials,
09:00out on the road, Dom is in search of a time-worn treasure,
09:05a possession with a personal connection,
09:08in need of care from the expert team in the barn.
09:14Brenda Meehan and daughter Catherine Barrett are from Teesside in the north-east of England.
09:20And what they're bringing to Dom may be small in size, but tells the story of a giant of a
09:27man.
09:27What have you brought in for us today?
09:30Well, these belonged to my dad.
09:33They were his garden secateurs.
09:35Okay.
09:36And he passed them on to me, because we were both left-handed.
09:39But unlike me, my dad wasn't born left-handed.
09:43Okay.
09:44He sadly lost his arm during the war.
09:47So, what was dad's name?
09:49Dad was called Ivor, Ivor Custer.
09:52Gardening was his hobby, along with breeding budgerigars.
09:55Yeah.
09:56And he had an allotment and group prize croissants.
10:00Wow, so gardening was a big part of his life by the sounds of it.
10:03Yes, absolutely.
10:04But gardening was a later chapter in Ivor's life, because this story begins in the Second World War.
10:12He went to France, started in 1940.
10:14Obviously pushed back to Dunkirk, as they were.
10:17Yeah.
10:18It was a Dunkirk evacuee, 19.
10:2119?
10:22But he made it back okay?
10:24Well, yes, made it back, and then they were shipped out again to North Africa.
10:27Wow.
10:28In 1942, he was seriously injured.
10:31He'd had a shell injury.
10:33Okay.
10:33Oh, my God.
10:34So, that had nearly killed him.
10:36But then, he applied to join the newly formed paratroopers.
10:40I think after everything that he'd been through, to then volunteer,
10:43to, like, throw himself out of a plane, as well, on top of everything else.
10:46It's incredibly brave.
10:47I can't really get my head around it, to be honest.
10:50The paratroop regiments were essential to the battle plans for D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, in 1944.
10:59He went to his barracks to train for D-Day, and, er, he was reading a letter from a mum
11:06in his barracks, and somebody shouted his name and threw what they thought was a dud grenade at him.
11:14Right.
11:15When my dad looked up and caught it, it blew his arm off.
11:19No.
11:19Yes.
11:21So, it wasn't a dud grenade?
11:22No.
11:23And it exploded in his hands?
11:25Yeah.
11:25He lost teeth and shrapnel in his face, and...
11:29Oh, that sounds horrible.
11:30So, obviously, he didn't make D-Day, but most of the friends in his section didn't come back from D
11:39-Day, and he always carried tremendous guilt that he didn't get to go.
11:46My mum and dad had only been married a month when he lost his hand, and she hadn't seen him.
11:51And the wedding photograph is the last photograph he had with two hands.
11:56So, because of that grenade that he caught, he ended up losing part of his arm?
11:59Yes.
11:59Yeah, from below the elbow.
12:01Yeah.
12:02Oh, bless him.
12:03But it never stopped him.
12:05Yeah.
12:06So, what happened next?
12:07He went and got his job back in the steelworks, and eventually became foreman.
12:12Yeah, senior foreman.
12:13This is amazing.
12:15I mean...
12:15Sheer determination.
12:17Yeah.
12:17Grit.
12:18And, I mean, he drove cars.
12:20Nothing would defeat him.
12:22If he could do it, he would do it.
12:24And for his family, nothing was too much trouble.
12:27He'd do anything for any of his family.
12:29So, where do these secretaires fit into that amazing life that your father had?
12:33Well, my dad loved gardening, and it was his solace, his passion.
12:38He could sit in his greenhouse for hours, and he'd prick out tiny little seeds into little,
12:44tiny little white cups, and see them grow.
12:48And he just became brilliant at it, really.
12:52Not bad.
12:52And taught us all.
12:54Good.
12:55And Catherine.
12:55Yeah, he knew, like, if he went for a walk, he knew what every single plant was.
12:59Really?
12:59Yeah.
13:00Can I take a look?
13:01Yes, absolutely.
13:02I can tell that they were, like, good quality.
13:04Yeah, they're sturdy, aren't they?
13:06Yeah.
13:06Look at that blade.
13:07What have you done to those?
13:09That is some wear and tear.
13:11They're not supposed to be serrated.
13:13No, they're not.
13:13I know.
13:14Well loved and well used.
13:16But I just loved feeling them and knowing that they were his, and his hand had been on
13:22them.
13:22What do you mean by that?
13:24I love gardening.
13:25He loved gardening.
13:26You know, it's a proper physical connection.
13:28So, is it important for you, then, that these get repaired?
13:30Oh, yeah, definitely, yeah.
13:32I think it's just so wonderful to be able to, like, tell my grandad's story through these
13:37secateurs.
13:38So, are these something that you see on the wall as a display piece, or is the dream to
13:43actually take them out into the garden?
13:45The dream is to take them into the garden, but...
13:47If that's possible.
13:49If that's possible.
13:50But if not, then I would like them to look, at least look nice.
13:54A lovely memory of an amazing man.
13:56Yeah.
13:57This is going to be an interesting challenge for Jonathan.
14:00I can't wait to see what he's going to say, especially when he sees these blades.
14:04Yeah.
14:05Yeah.
14:11Also facing a challenge...
14:13Look at that!
14:14And not a single broken panel.
14:16Are Will and Liam restoring the Birmingham phone box?
14:20How far back are we sanding these?
14:22We're literally just removing the flaky paint and sanding to key for the undercoat.
14:26Masks on and a very light sand.
14:28Perfect.
14:34Oh, yeah.
14:36This is just flaking away.
14:46Oh, my God.
14:51Oh, my God.
14:53This is looking really good.
14:54It's good.
14:55No, no, isn't it?
14:57Now, I realise the more flaky paint that I take off, it kind of reveals areas of damage.
15:02That's right, yeah.
15:03It probably needs to be filled.
15:04Yeah, you're usually fine then.
15:06But it's really coming along.
15:08On the flatter, less fiddly surfaces, Liam is using an orbital sander, speeding up the process, so that painting can
15:17start.
15:19And for that, he's brought in back up.
15:23Because it's a family firm, there's Uncle Richard on the filling and Brother Daniel on the prep, making it ready
15:34for the undercoat.
15:36I found out a fun fact.
15:39Telephone boxes were painted red because of a competition in 1924.
15:43Do you know that?
15:44Yes.
15:45You didn't know that.
15:46Rich, did you know that?
15:47I didn't know that.
15:47Did you?
15:48I did.
15:49OK, what about you?
15:50Did you know that?
15:50I did.
15:51Ah, of course you did.
15:54You got any fun facts, Liam?
15:56Yeah, every kiosk is stamped of where it was built.
15:59Really?
16:00Yeah, just on the back.
16:01Yeah, have a look at this.
16:03Let's have a look.
16:04Let's have a look.
16:05Oh, yeah.
16:05Yeah.
16:06Was it C?
16:07Glasgow, that one.
16:09What founder is that, Rich?
16:11Saracen, innit?
16:12Saracen.
16:15I think we're making really good progress.
16:17We are, yeah.
16:18It's coming along nicely, isn't it?
16:20After we've done the prime and undercoat, we'll give it another very, very light sand.
16:24And then after the sanding, is that when that big bright red topcoat goes on?
16:28The bright red topcoat will go on and then finally we can get onto glass and rehanging the door.
16:33I've been absolutely itching to do that crown.
16:38There we go.
16:40Oh, yes.
16:42Oh, yes.
16:42That's lovely.
16:54At the barn, another team of skilled craftspeople are taking care of the nation's heritage.
17:03Among them, Jonathan Reid, a master putter or scissor maker.
17:10Dom's brought me this pair of secateurs that belong to Brenda's father, Ivor.
17:16But in the state they're in at the moment, they might struggle to cut through anything.
17:23Wear and tear or rust has created all these notches and gaps along the blade's edge.
17:29Secateurs are supposed to open themselves up with some form of spring mechanism.
17:35Now, clearly this one isn't working.
17:38Normally what you'd find on a pair of secateurs would be a volute spring,
17:43which is one that pushes the shanks apart.
17:49But on this pair, the spring is on the inside of the secateurs.
17:55So the first thing I'll need to do is disassemble them.
18:08So immediately we can see what the problem is with that spring.
18:13It's completely rusted and it's compressed.
18:16So when they were unlocked again, the spring no longer expanded.
18:25There's actually a second spring in here.
18:28What I think's happened is there's been an attempt to repair these in the past.
18:34So a second spring has just been put in there when the first spring stopped working.
18:41Unfortunately, this spring is beyond repair.
18:44So I'm just going to have to replace it.
18:47I have a few springs myself, but they're just a bit too short.
18:57Which I think means I'm going to have to ask Steve and see if he's got any springs that might
19:03fit in here.
19:06Steve, I've got this pair of secateurs and the spring's broken so they won't open anymore.
19:12I was hoping that you had a replacement.
19:14Well, have a look in my magic spares drawer.
19:25It's quite a thick spring, isn't it?
19:27Yeah.
19:28That's doing a lot of work.
19:29Yeah.
19:32I'll tell you what, I'll make them.
19:34Brilliant.
19:35So can I leave this with you?
19:36Yeah, of course.
19:37Yeah, no, absolutely.
19:38Thank you so much.
19:39I'll pop it over in a minute.
19:40Oh.
20:10Steve's made me this spring which looks good but I'll have to see if it works now
20:19it fits okay
20:27I'm really impressed with that I mean it feels great it's smooth there's enough
20:32resistance it's opening all by itself Steve's done a really good job with that
20:38spring now I just need to disassemble them again to focus on the handles Brenda said
20:47she wanted these looking good as new so it's a case of removing that old paint and repainting them
20:56now I can already see that the paint is starting to peel away so I should be able to get
21:02a majority
21:03of it off with a knife
21:16now that I've removed all of that old paint I'm just roughing the surface so the new paint combined
21:23a bit better all right I'm really happy with that finish so it's time to start painting
21:46elsewhere Will's taking a break from restoration duties he's stepping out to discover another
21:53chapter in Britain's crafting heritage on a suitably warm day he's meeting someone to
22:00help him cool off expert fan maker Victoria Adjoko oh my god look at that perfect weather to learn how
22:09to make a fan absolutely follow me come on then fans can be traced back 3 000 years but became
22:17popular
22:18in europe in europe in the early 18th century highly decorated and associated with seduction and romance
22:26but in recent times the art of fan making became endangered until revived by enthusiasts like Victoria
22:36so we have three main components with the folding fan the paper the pleaters and the frame so what do
22:46we
22:46start off with then we've got some colorful paper here yes we want to use a paper that's no more
22:51thicker
22:52than 160 gsm like a bit of paper you put in your printer that's right that's right just so it
22:58allows and
22:59enables us to make the folds quite easily the pleater works as a template to mold the creases into the
23:06paper
23:07right so that goes on there like that yes okay so now we take all the pleats yeah you're gonna
23:18go all
23:18the way to the edge of the table that's it yeah so your thumb and your forefinger yeah like that
23:25perfect and the other three fingers will push away keep it like that so that's just the first
23:31and then you're going to bring the fold up like that and then slide everything towards you till
23:39the next fold yeah so bring it to there here yeah that's it so then you bring the next one
23:45like that
23:46like that that's it leaves the full finger down i know you're almost there though will if there's a
23:53will there's a way you've got all the lines haven't you today but it's will who's got to get his
24:00lines
24:00together bring the fold up that's it like that to make perfect crisp creases are we going down yep
24:08yes this is the last bit now right bringing it all over like that well done well done and there's
24:16my fan
24:17well not quite will's fan is still inside the pleaters should we take a look yes go for it take
24:25this off
24:30and voila well done and what we can do is make sure flip it the other eyes see
24:42ah there we are that worked really well that's pretty straightforward once pretty straightforward
24:48once you know the secrets you see that's it that's it next is time for the fan to be glued
24:55to the frame
24:56made from thin strips of wood which first need a light sanding you start that side i'll start outside
25:03and we'll see who gets to the middle faster three two one go begin
25:10why are we sanding these for it enables the glue to adhere better to the paper so we're likely keying
25:17the surface then absolutely it's coming off quite easily actually yeah i presume that you don't take
25:26it below the line that's right so i'll say you've gone in deeper enough there yeah maybe just a little
25:30bit more at the bottom yeah you know you are a really really good natural teacher have you taught
25:37fan making or what's your background in family making well my background is in drama theater
25:43and i just fell in love with it from there they're just beautiful they just carry so much history like
25:48the georgian period the regency era and obviously there's the language of the fan as well the language
25:54of the fan it's basically a subtle language used with gestures of the fan itself right and it was
26:03usually um used in social settings mostly for women as a flirtatious uh way to find a suitor
26:11mm-hmm i say no more um have you you used the fan in the past to find yourself a
26:17suitor
26:19yeah i've been on the spot there i don't know frame prepared time now to attach the paper so here
26:31we
26:31have our glue okay so what we want to have is our leaf pattern side is down yeah so we
26:38take our glue
26:40spread it along across then we put the stick on the first fold right here
26:48then we turn this over okay then it's the next guard stick so you do the two outer sticks first
26:56yes
27:05so it's the next one on the top yes okay we'll bring it around to see where we begin good
27:12see look i'm a quick man there you're getting into it i love the confidence that's it
27:21great thank you flip back over yes next top one that's it is this something you could see yourself
27:30doing again i can get a picture of myself put onto a fan and give it to dom he would
27:36love that you see
27:37that's the idea okay well that's his birthday present sorted out last one there we go sometimes
27:44this can be quite tricky it is getting it right janelle amara are we on yes yes
27:52and i presume we're there now yes moment of truth i'm excited oh yes okay here we go
28:02oh that's that oh yes oh i can cool down now please do you like it yes do you know
28:11what you've just
28:13made another fan i have in me yeah thank you do you know i love your passion for your craft
28:21it's
28:22absolutely amazing um thank you for handing some of those skills over to me as well it's been a
28:27pleasure oh nice and cool now in the barn
28:39jonathan's next job is to restore the blades of brenda secateurs i suspect that there's been an attempt to
28:48sharpen the insides of these blades meaning this blade is potentially thinner than it once was
28:54so i have to be careful when i'm grinding that rust away i want to minimize the amount of material
28:59i'm
28:59taking off this blade as the more i take off the thinner it'll get so the first thing i'm going
29:04to do
29:05is flat grind the outside blade on a sharpening stone
29:27even after only a few passes that's looking miles better i've gotten rid of most of that rust so i'm
29:34going to carry on with this for a while and then move on to the inside blade
30:03i'm already quite happy with that because you can tell
30:06from how even that grind is that i'm taking height down in the right spot as i slowly work my
30:14way
30:14towards the front of the blade
30:21i've still got a bit of grinding on this inside blade to do but once i've done that
30:25it's just a matter of putting a blade's edge on there
30:40i'm going to be using a circular grindstone to put this edge on
30:43and it moves slow enough that i won't be introducing any heat to the blade which could affect its hardness
31:04can you see how all
31:07of the burrs are just really inconsistent and falling off
31:12once it's all the way back and it's past those lines of warping that burr will be really consistent
31:19and you'll just see the metal curl up onto the underside of the blade
31:33these secateurs mean a lot to brenda because they represent the resilience of a dad ivor
31:41they've been an absolute joy to work on i'm really pleased with these blades and this paint they're
31:47already looking brand new i just need to get both halves together
32:02in birmingham with will out of town liam's working a solo shift getting ready to paint all sanded and
32:12primed just ready for the top coat the red that we're using is the iconic current red which would
32:18have been used by bt it's very important that we use this color of red because if the shade's off
32:24it doesn't look like the iconic british phone boxes that you used to see them
32:33while most of the restoration is done on site liam has taken the door to his workshop
32:40to be sanded painted then brought back to birmingham on time
32:47to start putting the telephone box back together we're back here at the birmingham phone box and
32:54we're about to start installing the glazing we're going to replace this with all toughened glazing so
32:59there won't be a mixture of perspex and toughened glass it'll all be made to measure bespoke glazing
33:33that's all the glazing is finished now and it's ready for its defibrillator unit which will benefit the whole community
33:45at the barn jonathan's expert restoration is complete
33:52it's time for brenda and catherine to be reunited with the secateurs that belong to a much-loved father
34:00and grandfather welcome to the barn yeah nice to see you again how have you been feeling since
34:08leaving me with the secateurs excited really sort of wanting to see what you've been able to do
34:14if you've been able to fix them completely or just enough so that they look better jonathan has worked
34:22on these he's a scissor blade expert he's so talented but that really was a big if because
34:27they were in they were in a bad way quite a state yeah they looked as though they had teeth
34:34hadn't uh treat them well really these have been used and yeah worn out yeah worked into the ground
34:42yes yeah i would just really like my mom to be able to use them again because i think it
34:46just gives that
34:47connection from one generation to the next and i think we'll all be planting a lot more roses
34:52if that's the case yes i hope so yeah come around and shape them all teach you yeah exactly exactly
34:59okay are you both ready to see them yeah no no yeah you ready
35:11wow oh my goodness they look brand new
35:19you're speechless i am yeah i am wow that's i can't believe that incredible i promise you
35:26every bit of them are still your dad's they are amazing they look great don't they fabulous fabulous
35:35didn't think i'd cry yeah where do you think where where's that emotion coming from i think just
35:42seeing them like that and knowing they were like that when dad bought them and you know the
35:50just thinking of him really and how special he was i know we all loved him we did yeah we
35:58still do
35:58it's amazing what these things can do isn't it just bringing memories it's the memories that's it
36:04it's just i can i pick them up of course you can we need to test them out now look
36:13at that you need
36:14to be careful they're very sharp oh they're amazing jonathan has he's completely stripped them down
36:21taking them completely apart they are the same blades he has spent a long time grinding them down
36:27reshaping them straightening them up and polishing them and sharpening them so they are really sharp
36:32now dad would be so pleased i know he would what do you think he'd say look after them yeah
36:39we have one chance that's it yeah yeah that's it look after them they'd be treasured absolutely
36:44treasured that is bear the best deal so uh jonathan says if you keep them clean keep them dry yeah
36:49and oil them every now and then yes stop them going rusty yeah yeah that's the best way to look
36:53after
36:54them stick i'm overwhelmed to be honest i'm just just thinking of of dad and how i used to come
37:03and
37:03do my roses with those secateurs and taught me how to use them but uh yeah happy memories very happy
37:12memories i'll let you take them home then thank you thank you so much thank you both it's been lovely
37:16to
37:17meet you both you can carry them i can't take my eyes off them i can see myself in them
37:25they're that
37:25shiny they're amazing i'm absolutely thrilled for my mom you can see how overwhelmed and how happy she
37:33is and it's just wonderful that they've been able to be repaired to this kind of standard it's way beyond
37:40what we expected my dad faced such adversity in his life and he overcame it and he passed that on
37:50to
37:50us that nothing is too difficult you just have to keep trying and keep believing that you can do it
37:57and you will i can't wait to start using them and having that feeling of pruning the roses with them
38:07and to do it the first time is going to be amazing as brenda takes her father's treasured secateurs
38:15back home to teesside will's on his way to birmingham to add the finishing touches to the harbourn phone
38:23box i'm really excited to be back in birmingham and i'm on my way to see liam it's great to
38:29restore
38:30something so iconic to british history but it's really lovely that rupert and the community wants to
38:36take this one step further hey you've been busy it's getting there isn't it just checking that's
38:49not wet paint no definitely not wet amazing i can see that a mile away literally it's like a beacon
38:55that's it now for the most important part the defib that's it yeah i've got it in the box there
39:02oh let's have a look rupert's dream for the phone box is to install a defibrillator look at that
39:09a device that can restore a heart's natural rhythm in case of cardiac arrest right let's get this
39:16fitted then it's a potential lifesaver and one that will be available to the whole community
39:23how does this work you phone a number yeah there's a sign that we need to put on um and
39:29they'll phone
39:29the number get the cord and be able to access the defibrillator wonderful great job with the
39:36defibrillator in place and the door back on there's just one thing left to do right let's get this
39:44covered up before the community turn up yeah you've got that perfect i'll get the steps and i'll do the
39:49top it's brilliant got it restoring harbourn's phone box has taken a real community effort
40:02i'm excited can you see the big veil oh isn't it looking good so rupert and his family friends and
40:12neighbors are all keen to see will and the team's handiwork hi hi good to see you really excited to
40:22have so many people here today really supportive and really enthusiastic and excited to see what
40:27happens next i'm feeling a bit anxious now i'm ready for the phone box reveal there seems to be a
40:33lot of
40:34people in the community coming to have a look at it well i mean this is an incredibly important phone
40:39box because not only is it a great piece of british history but it could also save a life
40:44it's a very very exciting day are you ready to see it yeah yeah
40:59what do you think stunning
41:01very well done yeah amazing thank you so much well don't thank us it's this gentleman here who
41:07started it all so well done it's absolutely stunning the best in the best in birmingham the best in the
41:13uk that's right yeah you want to come and take a closer look rupert do you want to come and
41:17check it
41:17out yeah should we wow isn't that beautiful and the insignia at the top gorgeous i painted that did you
41:27this is a big event for the people of harbourn and it's even attracted the attention of their mp
41:33preet cowgill so when rupert contacted me now it's been nearly two years um telling me about this
41:40project that he'd adopted this scheme i was so so excited but the signs of fibrillation when the crown
41:47was called i mean wow proud to be grummy proud to see this restored in all of its glory
41:55also here is belle lake of the community heartbeat trust who helps groups throughout britain install
42:02defibrillators so the renovation of the phone box is just so fantastic we build a network of
42:10the defibrillators around the uk we know that defibrillators from our scheme have saved lives
42:16so to have one in such a built-up area is amazing
42:23we was very proud when the blanket came off and we seen rupert's face and all the community stood
42:28behind him i feel brilliant now that it's all finished blown away by it's really beautiful all
42:35the little details that i hadn't even appreciated before really come to the fore the crown all the
42:41pain work it looks absolutely stunning what i really like is that the phone box has got that history
42:47behind it but also more importantly it has that unit inside i really hope that the people of power
42:53born feel safer in the knowledge that that unit is there hopefully they'll never have to use it but if
42:58they do they know where to find it if you'd like to see more fantastic fixes and restorations search bbc
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