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00:00A workshop full of wonders.
00:03I heard the word watch.
00:05Home to experts and time-honoured crafts.
00:09There you go, that's a good sound.
00:11Together repairing treasured pieces of the past.
00:15Oh, I like that. That is really good.
00:19Wow, look at that.
00:20Wow, look at that.
00:23Quite proud of that.
00:24And unlocking their stories.
00:27I'm completely blown away by this.
00:30Oh, dear.
00:31Bringing the broken...
00:33I don't know where to start with this.
00:35...back to life.
00:36Wow.
00:38Stunning.
00:40Wow, fantastic!
00:43I think it's just amazing.
00:46Yeah!
00:47Welcome to the Repair Shop.
00:58Glorious, isn't it?
01:00Good job.
01:00Quite mysterious with the fog.
01:02Yeah.
01:03It's beautiful.
01:04Come on, start another day.
01:05Yep.
01:10First up, a rock and roll relic that bears all the scars of an exceptional career.
01:16Oh, look at this.
01:17Yeah.
01:18Bit of a rare beast, I think.
01:19Is it?
01:20Yeah.
01:21Yeah.
01:21Very nice, though.
01:22Yeah.
01:23Definitely had a hard life.
01:23Well used.
01:25Well used.
01:26For Toby from Berkshire, this isn't just an instrument, it's the sound of his hero.
01:32And he's hoping organ specialist David Burville can make it sing.
01:37Hi there.
01:38Hello.
01:39Yeah.
01:40This is really nice.
01:41Tell us a bit more about it.
01:43Well, this used to belong to Dave Greenfield, who was the keyboard player of the Stranglers.
01:48No way.
01:48Yeah.
01:49Wow.
01:49What the hell?
01:49This is the actual keyboard.
01:51He recorded all the big hits, No More Heroes.
01:54Like the grip, the Stranglers?
01:55The Stranglers.
01:56Yeah, it's called a Hone Assemblette, and this is the one.
01:59It's a bit of history here.
02:01Hugely.
02:01We toured with it for hundreds and hundreds of gigs, hence all of these battle scars.
02:06Every mark on here tells a story.
02:08You say No More Heroes, but he sounded like a massive hero to you.
02:11100%.
02:12Yeah.
02:12He's my hero.
02:14I'm a keyboard player myself, and Dave inspired me to play the keyboards.
02:18I remember when I first heard the Stranglers, I was about 11.
02:22I was at school, and a mate had a cassette, and as soon as I heard it, I was like,
02:26wow.
02:26Correct.
02:27And I actually did have some success in a band called Rialto.
02:31I was on Top of the Pops and TFI Friday.
02:34So did you ever actually get to meet Dave?
02:36I did.
02:37I met him at an after-show party on one of their tours.
02:41My band at the time had just been dropped by a record label, and Dave signed a napkin that
02:47said to Toby, don't give up the keyboards.
02:51Yeah, it's quite dispiriting when you get your lucky break, and then it falls away from you.
02:56So yeah, it was hugely motivating for me.
03:00Dave passed in 2020.
03:03Oh no, did he really?
03:04Yeah.
03:05And he was lost, so.
03:06Did they stay together, or?
03:08Well, this is an interesting part of the story, because I got a phone call a few months after
03:17Dave's passing, being invited to join the band.
03:20No, you didn't.
03:21Yeah.
03:21Really?
03:22And I am now the keyboard player in the Stranglers.
03:24Are you?
03:24Yeah.
03:25You kept that quiet.
03:26The pinch-me moments just keep coming, you know what I mean?
03:28I kept in contact.
03:30I knew the management.
03:32They knew I was a massive fan of Dave, and I could play all the parts.
03:35I remember that first moment where JJ started his bass up and did the beginning of No More Heroes,
03:41which is like a classic riff.
03:43Hairs on the back of my neck just went up, and it's like, wow.
03:45What an honour for you to be playing with the rest of the guys.
03:49I feel very privileged, and, you know, to go from fan to the band, and as a consequence
03:56of being the keyboard player in the Stranglers, I was presented with his original keyboard.
04:01This is a real one-of-a-kind unique thing to work on.
04:04Oh, it's massive.
04:05Absolutely massive.
04:06What would you like me to do to it?
04:09Well, I would love to have it in working order so I can play it.
04:13You've never heard this work before?
04:15I mean, I've heard it historically on records, but, no, I've never heard this keyboard working
04:20because, unfortunately, it's broken.
04:23But I would like to sort of try and preserve the character because there's a lot of history.
04:28Yeah.
04:28And I can't think of anyone better to do that, so, you know, thank you very much.
04:32Pleasure.
04:32We'll see you soon.
04:33Yeah.
04:33Thanks a lot.
04:37This is amazing!
04:39I know.
04:39Absolutely unbelievable.
04:41History before us.
04:43There's a lot that needs to do, Dave.
04:44Yeah.
04:45First of all, lift to the bench.
04:47Yes, please.
04:57As a kid, I remember listening to records of the Stranglers.
05:02So, I'm really privileged to be able to work on this instrument.
05:07The little things which are actually producing the sound are effectively accordion reeds.
05:14This little plastic thing with the rubber piece on the end of it is actually the plucker, and that literally
05:21plucks the end of the reed, giving you a nice note.
05:28Unfortunately, the rubber is literally rotting.
05:31It's degrading.
05:32So, that needs replacing.
05:34Now, the reeds are connected via two wires to a circuit board.
05:41I'm going to ask Mark if he can see whether he can get it working again.
05:46I'm going to get the keys back to how they were when Dave was actually playing them.
05:52Toby's really keen on keeping the patina of the case, but I think the first thing I've got to do
05:58is to get this reed unit out.
06:00Then I can get the keyboard out, and then I can see what I'm working with.
06:19Strutting into the barn next are school sweethearts Roland and Jackie, bearing some iconic footwear for the attention of shoemaker
06:28Dean Westmoreland.
06:31Hello, hello.
06:33Nice to meet you.
06:35Right, look at these beauties.
06:36They are incredible, aren't they?
06:39These are some wild shoes.
06:40These are the shoes that got the girl.
06:42Are they?
06:43Yes.
06:45Back in 1975.
06:47We were at school together in the same class.
06:49I was 14.
06:50I was 15.
06:51Because, yeah, there was about nine months between us.
06:54It was a very attractive girl at school, and all the boys were after her.
06:58I felt I had to go on with her.
06:59And try and get her, even though you rejected me a few times because of my height.
07:03Well, Roland was the cheeky chappy, always making everybody laugh.
07:07And his twinkly blue eyes, that's what attracted me.
07:12And I just wished he was taller.
07:15One day me and my mate went up to London.
07:17No, you bumped off school.
07:19I bumped off school, right.
07:20Went down to Carnaby Street, saw this shoe shop.
07:23And these were in the window, and they really stood out.
07:25And I just thought, I've got to get these.
07:27This is going to get the girl.
07:29It's going to give me some height.
07:30And then you wore them to the disco.
07:32I thought I was the bee's knees.
07:34What was that like, to see Roland for the first time?
07:37About Charlie.
07:38But taller, yeah.
07:39It was really funny, because they used to wear really wide-legged trousers.
07:43And obviously, the trousers went over the shoes.
07:46So he looked like he was growing out of the ground when he was walking in.
07:50Everything he did made me laugh.
07:52And just so long as he was taller than me, I looked up to kiss him.
07:57And you've been together ever since?
07:58No, we split up when we were 16.
08:01Okay.
08:02And went our separate ways.
08:04I think it was 1993.
08:05My marriage had finished, and his marriage had finished.
08:08And we were set up by one of our friends.
08:10Were you?
08:11To re-meet.
08:13And went from there.
08:14I knew there was still a connection there.
08:17So you still had the hots for each other, right?
08:18Yeah.
08:19Must have.
08:19You did, because I'll never stop thinking about you.
08:22Aww.
08:23It was destiny.
08:25Yeah.
08:25We've been together now for 34 years.
08:28Must have been soulmates.
08:29Yeah.
08:30Giant wedge soulmates.
08:33I'm amazed that despite the fact you went your separate ways, you kept the shoes.
08:38They've been with you everywhere, haven't they?
08:40Absolutely.
08:41A few fancy dress parties where they've come out.
08:43Yeah.
08:43And I've got through the evening in them.
08:45Yeah.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Where is the damage on these and what caused it?
08:49The damage on this one is down the side.
08:51I must have been doing a lot of left-footed moves.
08:55I did put a bit of gaffer tape on them to sort of try and repair myself.
08:59Not the G word.
08:59That old trick.
09:00Yeah.
09:00Yeah.
09:01They've been scuffed a lot.
09:03You've just got lots of happy memories from them.
09:05They're precious to me.
09:06They're like gold to me.
09:07Yeah.
09:08It's just our history.
09:10If Dean is able to repair these, what is the plan?
09:13We could look for a dish.
09:14We could go back in time, yeah.
09:16Oh, no.
09:17Yeah.
09:17And re-enact that first moment.
09:20You've got to remember how old you are now, Roland.
09:22That would be amazing, wouldn't it?
09:24Yeah.
09:24Thank you so much for bringing these incredible shoes in.
09:28See you.
09:29Bye.
09:33I could see you in some wedges.
09:35I don't need the height, do I?
09:36No, you don't.
09:49I've worked on platforms before, but nothing at a five-inch height.
09:54The design is so unique.
09:56Hopefully I can get them to a state which Roland remembers when he first bought them.
10:00You can see that they've been well-danced in.
10:03I'd like to try and remove some of this scuffing on the leather.
10:08There is clearly this huge tear in the side.
10:12What I'm going to have to do is remove the upper from the platform.
10:16And that'll allow me to get in and fix that tear properly.
10:19Now, there are many ways to repair a tear in a shoe.
10:23Gaffer tape wouldn't be my first choice.
10:25When it's been taken off, it's left a lot of heavy residue on the leather.
10:30So, before I approach the repairs, I would like to remove some of this from the surface.
10:35This is a leather-specific alcohol cleaner.
10:39So, it's designed to lift grime and dirt away without damaging the structure of the leather.
10:53That's working really, really well.
10:55It's removing all that adhesive.
10:57I'm not having to put too much pressure on.
11:00I'm going to carry on with the rest of it now and have a think about how I'm going to
11:03repair this huge tear in the side of the shoe.
11:14From the dance floors of the 1970s to the stage now, as David has stripped the keyboard back to its
11:22bare bones.
11:25Well, I've now managed to get all of the parts cleaned so I can actually start to put the reeds
11:32back in the block.
11:35The reed's all nice and shiny and fortunately, no cracking, no fracturing.
11:40Now, when the reed vibrates, it's actually moving up and down next to this little pickup.
11:47So, the tongue flapping up and down next to it, that's creating a very weak magnetic field.
11:53That's then transferred along the brass strip to the amplifier.
11:58This is really tricky, actually lining everything up.
12:02The pickup has got to be so close to the tongue, but I need just the finest of gap so
12:11that if the metal expands,
12:13then it won't start to rub and actually interfere with the note.
12:26So, that's seven reeds installed.
12:28I've just got 54 more to go.
12:31I think I might need a cup of tea.
12:41Hi Mark.
12:42Hi.
12:42So, this is the electronics from the keyboard from the Strangler.
12:46Really?
12:47Yeah.
12:47Oh, crikey.
12:48I remember them.
12:49Yeah.
12:49Look at that.
12:51Strangler's hair.
12:53There's a few in there.
12:54Could be worth a fortune.
12:55Could be, couldn't it?
12:56Okay, leave it with me.
12:57Lovely.
12:58Thank you mate.
12:58I'll see if I can work it out.
12:59Cheers.
13:04I'm using a multimeter and in effect, I just want to see if current is flowing from one part
13:10of the component to the other.
13:12And then that will give me a level of confidence to think that it's generally okay.
13:20All the components seem to be functional apart from one.
13:26And that is this little blighter here.
13:28This light bulb is using a circuit in a very special way.
13:32It actually allows the sound to pass through so you can actually hear it.
13:36In fact, this little part of the board here, this coil, is like an oscillator, which means
13:42it's doing this.
13:42In this case, for a keyboard, and that will be going, pulsing at the same time.
13:49That pulsation then emits light to this device here, which is a light dependent resistor.
13:56And that light dependent resistor allows that signal to be amplified.
14:01You can hear it.
14:02The bulb's blown till it's completely silent.
14:08What I'm going to do is replace that bulb, and at the same time, rewire some of these cables as
14:13well.
14:21Next, mother and daughter Khalida and Nadia from Portsmouth are hoping bookbinder Chris
14:28has the recipe for success to restore a collection that is close to their hearts.
14:34Hi there.
14:35Hello.
14:36Welcome.
14:36What have you brought in?
14:38So we brought in my parents' cookery book from the 1980s.
14:43So your parents' cookery book, did they actually make this?
14:46Yes, they did.
14:47So you must be an amazing cook then?
14:49Yes.
14:50Yes.
14:52That's the right arm.
14:53She is amazing, yes.
14:55They came from Pakistan, India, to Portsmouth in 1976.
15:01The people were so nice, they never let us feel that we are foreigners.
15:06And then they decided to run an Indian cookery school.
15:08Was there quite a big Asian community in Portsmouth?
15:11No.
15:12Oh, right.
15:12So the sort of Indian cuisine was quite new for a lot of people then?
15:17Yes, it was, yeah.
15:19English food is generally not very spicy.
15:23Our neighbour, they like our cooking.
15:25They were very enthusiastic to cook as well at that time.
15:28So we thought there's a market for it and then the people love it.
15:32That's where she then got the idea of finding the cookery school.
15:36Mum and Dad put a tiny article apparently in the local news.
15:39I was really over the moon.
15:41About 70 people turned up.
15:4270 people?
15:43Yeah.
15:44That must have been amazing for you to have such a big turnout.
15:46Yeah, for Mum and Dad it was massive.
15:49So was your father a cook as well?
15:50Yes, he was, yeah.
15:52Mum and Dad ran it together.
15:53So they would do their cookery class and then people would be dancing, having Bollywoods after.
15:58Really?
15:58Having a little party after, like socialising, wearing Mum's saris.
16:03Oh, wow.
16:04Really?
16:04Yeah.
16:05And the sitar music as well.
16:07Oh, lovely.
16:08Yeah.
16:09And you would have seen all this take place as a child?
16:12Yeah.
16:12It was so nice to see communities come together and see people cook together and see Mum and Dad happy
16:18doing their thing.
16:18Now, this cookbook, was that for you to teach people?
16:30I think Mum and Dad only made about 60 copies.
16:34It was Dad's idea, wasn't it?
16:35All of Mum and Dad's favourite foods are in there.
16:39And pictures in there of how to make a samosa.
16:41Oh, wow.
16:42Got chapattis, got samosas.
16:45How can we not do this now?
16:46I'm so hungry.
16:47Oh, I can see that it's been well used.
16:49Yeah.
16:50How long have you had this copy of the book for?
16:52So, I found it in 2017.
16:56Was it lost?
16:56Yes.
16:57I was around about eight or nine years old.
16:59We're about to move and Mum said to me,
17:01Nadia, we've lost the cookery books.
17:03It's our love, it's our heart.
17:05And then 30 years later, through a random conversation with a work colleague of mine,
17:09I managed to find the book.
17:11She just so happened to say to me,
17:12Nadia, I think my dad was on this course.
17:14The following day, she then gave me this book.
17:1830 years later.
17:19Wow.
17:19I was so emotional.
17:20What about this book is so important to you?
17:22So, Dad passed.
17:24Oh, no.
17:24In September of last year.
17:27So, that's why it's important for us as a family to get that restored,
17:31because it's even more special.
17:32So, what would you like me to do?
17:34The pages, they need fixing.
17:37It's tatty, it's torn, it's ripped.
17:39You can see I've sellotaped it.
17:41The fact that it falls apart, the stains.
17:44Aren't the stains part of the book?
17:46They are.
17:46Absolutely, they are.
17:48It's preserving some of the old in there as well.
17:51They are very vulnerable books.
17:52I'm surprised it actually has lasted.
17:54I hope that you can restore it into a good quality book that we can now pass it on.
18:00It will be like a wish come true.
18:02Well, I hope I can too.
18:05Bye-bye.
18:05Bye.
18:06See you soon.
18:07Bye.
18:10What an amazing book.
18:12It certainly is.
18:13I'm really looking forward to looking at the curries.
18:24For a small book, there's an awful lot wrong with it.
18:28There's the two T's, Tapes and Tears.
18:30There's some staining and the outer cover needs some help.
18:36First thing I've got to do is dismantle before I do any form of repairs.
18:41So, I'm just going to get a scalpel and then I can start removing the tape.
18:52My dog would love this field.
18:54Have you got a dog?
18:54Yeah.
18:55A little whippet.
18:56Oh, I'd love to get a whippet.
18:57They've got really thin legs.
18:58Very, very quick.
19:00Yeah.
19:00So, if they nick your shoe, they're off.
19:02Dean has spruced up the 50-year-old platforms and is preparing to tackle the gaping split
19:08to the side of the left shoe.
19:11With all that adhesive having been removed, I can see where the leather should fold under
19:16the insole.
19:19To get into it, I feel the best way to do it is to try and remove the upper from
19:24the
19:24platform.
19:25That will allow me to get in and get that leather back to where it should be.
19:31Most glues of this kind are heat activated.
19:34I'm just going to delicately apply some heat to the heat gun now and see if that pulls away.
19:45So nerve-wracking is this.
19:47If I pull too hard and I bend the front too much before the back, I could tear that insole.
19:54So there's a real fear that I caused so much more damage to this shoe.
20:04Now I'm going to really damage the shoe if I try and prise that away.
20:08The good thing is I've managed to peel the upper back beyond the tear.
20:13So I'm confident I can work in there.
20:16First thing I'd like to do is to approach this tear here around the toe.
20:21I can see that there's a stiffener under there and that forms the shape of the toe and stops
20:26it collapsing.
20:28So there's something to bond to.
20:30But for strength, I'd like to get a little piece of leather behind there and glue it all
20:35together.
20:36It should be nice and secure.
20:40I'm going to put this in reverse side facing out.
20:43If I were to use the grain side, it's not as porous and the glue really wouldn't soak in.
20:48I wouldn't get a good bond.
20:49I'm going to use my neoprene adhesive.
20:52It's flexible.
20:53It's waterproof.
20:55But above all, it's very, very strong.
21:10I've got to get this in reasonably quick because as soon as it starts to go tacky, I'm not going
21:16to get much movement in it.
21:21I'm going to quite fiddle it.
21:24That's actually really nice.
21:26It's closed together.
21:27Now that patch is glued in, I can move on to repairing this allowance where it's torn.
21:33The allowance on a shoe is where there is an extra part of the pattern that has to be folded
21:40under.
21:40If you had no allowance, there would be no way of attaching this upper to the insole.
21:46I'm going to use exactly the same process.
21:49Take this small piece of leather and use some glue to hold it in place against the original leather.
21:55Then I'm going to sew it all together and I can fold that leather over and tuck it under and
22:04it will be almost invisible and allow me to glue it back to the platform.
22:23Every note on the strangler's keyboard depends on a tiny piece of rubber no bigger than a thumbnail.
22:30And David's got 61 to make.
22:34So these would have been moulded originally and I've now got to try and recreate them.
22:39And you can see that this is quite a complicated shape.
22:43You've got this V groove in the middle, which is the hinge.
22:46Then you've got the slope at the top, which plucks the reed.
22:50These need to be really accurately made in order for the notes to play all consistently.
22:56I'm going to use a sheet of 2mm thick rubber and I've made a little tool and it just uses
23:06a scalpel blade.
23:07So I can run this along a ruler and cut those angles to recreate one long strip, which I can
23:15then cut off into sections.
23:22That's cut a really nice angled edge.
23:26That is the plucking edge.
23:29The groove needs two individual cuts, hopefully enough to get a nice hinge effect.
23:54So that actually looks really quite good.
23:58Nice and flexible and I've got a nice straight plucking edge.
24:03I can now cut all the individual pluckers from this length.
24:15That should fit nicely into the holder.
24:20And that does actually look like it's going to do what it's supposed to do.
24:24So that's really nice.
24:26So now that can actually be mounted in.
24:28Then it's just a case of getting the rest of them done.
24:40Chrissie's assignment is repairing the pages of the Indian cookbook.
24:44But he's finding their contents a delightful distraction.
24:48It's fascinating.
24:50So she's saying that Indian desserts are traditionally eaten on special occasions.
24:56Unlike England, where almost every dinner is followed by a sweet dish like trifles, custards, etc.
25:03How nice. Two cultures meet in through a cookbook.
25:07There's a huge amount of tape that needs to be removed.
25:10It's just, where do you start?
25:11Oh, boiled rice. I'll start with boiled rice.
25:14I'm going to use a bit of acetone.
25:16Over time, sticky tape can make the paper go translucent.
25:20It can also discolor the paper.
25:22What I'm trying to do is degrade and get it to release.
25:27Oh, whoopee.
25:28The offending article's off.
25:30There doesn't seem to be any residue or anything left behind, which is fantastic.
25:35Now I've just got to go through the rest of the recipe book and get rid of all the other
25:39sticky tape.
25:55So all the tape has been removed and now I have to turn my attention to any tears.
26:00The major one is around the kofta curry.
26:05I've got to align some words up and then apply a piece of washi paper.
26:11And the washi paper is a plant-based traditional Japanese paper and its characteristic is very, very fine.
26:20And you can see as I tear it, these beautiful little fibers sort of like spread out like fingers.
26:27When I paste it, it'll go invisible.
26:30Whereas if you had a straight line, you'd have a straight edge.
26:34I'm going to run a bit of paste all the way along this edge.
26:38Then I can line up all the letters and that will just hold it in place long enough for me
26:44to paste the tissue paper into place.
26:47So all the words are lining up. It's looking good.
26:51So I'm going to start pasting it into place.
26:54This is a Weech starch adhesive.
26:57And you can see straight away it's going transparent.
27:00I'm really happy with that.
27:02Now I'm going to put it in between two bits of silicone paper and then leave it to dry.
27:22Nadia would like these stains which are quite heavy around certain pages to try and be lessened.
27:28So I've got a warm bath and I hope by leaving it to soak for a while that some of
27:34these stains will come out.
27:36I've done a little test on the ink to make sure that's stable in water.
27:40So the only thing I'm hoping that isn't stable is the stain.
27:46It's now just going to sit in there like a paper spa and hopefully the stain job will come out.
27:59With the inner mechanics restored and the wiring back in place, it's time to find out if this keyboard still
28:07has a voice.
28:09Oh, Mark!
28:10Hi.
28:10How are you getting on?
28:11There was a little bit to do.
28:13It's funny enough, I know it sounds daft having to change a bulb.
28:16Really?
28:16But the bulb is part of electronic circuitry.
28:19Ah.
28:19So in theory, it should work.
28:21It should actually work.
28:22Wow.
28:23Shall we test it?
28:24Yeah.
28:24Yeah, I'm really excited.
28:25Look, I'm not nervous at all.
28:28Right, let's put this in first.
28:30Yeah.
28:30I'll turn that on.
28:32Yeah.
28:32So that light bulb's on.
28:33Yep.
28:34It's good.
28:34Now, if you hit the switch there, that's a vibrato and it should actually then flash.
28:39Well, it's looking promising.
28:40It is.
28:41Right.
28:41Well, we'll see what it does.
28:42Okay.
28:44Anyone.
28:44King of C.
28:46Oh!
28:50That's amazing, isn't it?
28:50It's brilliant, isn't it?
28:51Hey!
28:55So I've just got the keys to put in it now and then it's almost ready to play.
28:58I can't wait to hear it.
28:59Ah, it's going to be great.
29:00Thank you, Mark.
29:00You're welcome.
29:08With the components of the keyboard working in harmony, Dean is also one step closer
29:15to completing his repair of the platform shoes.
29:20I'm going to use this handy little piece of wood just to keep that open
29:24while I can feed some glue in.
29:26That patch I've added to create the new allowance is really coming into play now.
29:37So I should be able to fold this allowance over.
29:39Now, if I push on the leather there, I can feel the edge of the insole and I can use
29:44that as a guide.
29:51I can't see a great deal, so a lot of this is by feel.
30:00Now, considering these came to me with a huge gash up the side of there, that's really quite fulfilling to
30:06see it come back together.
30:07Once that's cured, I can glue the whole shoe back to the platform.
30:12And then I can get some colour back on this black and that should really make these pop.
30:26Before the curtain rises, David is adding one last note to seal in the marks and memories that make this
30:33a unique piece of rock history.
30:36Well, at last, the keyboard is back together.
30:39This has been such a wonderful project to work on.
30:42What I do want to do is just give this case a nice coat of shellac polish.
30:47This will help to seal in all of that patina and it would give that a nice protective coat.
30:56So, it does give a nice sheen and it will actually bring back that beautiful golden brown.
31:07Great, so I've just got that to do on the rest of the case and then it'll be stage ready.
31:19When the keyboard arrived, this rock and roll relic was silent and powerless to perform.
31:27Very nice, David.
31:29Come up all right, isn't it?
31:30Oh, beautiful.
31:31Have you been up my polish?
31:32Maybe a little bit.
31:35Now, Toby has returned, eager to hear the unique sound that set him on his path and to play the
31:42keys once touched by his hero.
31:49Hiya, Toby.
31:50Hello.
31:51How are you doing?
31:52Not sure.
31:54That's quite a big day for you, isn't it?
31:56It is.
31:56To have the actual keyboard that Dave played and recorded most of the hits on, and it's actually under this
32:05and here.
32:05Yeah, I am surprisingly nervous, actually.
32:09You know, I've never heard it played, only on records.
32:13A bit itching to listen to, aren't you?
32:14Can we get on with it?
32:16Would you like to see what David's done for you?
32:18I'd love to, yeah.
32:19Right.
32:20Here we go.
32:24Ooh.
32:28Wow.
32:31I'm a bit speechless, actually.
32:34I mean, that's incredible because we had a conversation about preserving the character and not just making it like a
32:41brand new one, and you've done that perfectly.
32:44Yeah.
32:46I'm speechless, sorry.
32:48We know David has done a great job with the casework, but we've come to listen to some music.
32:54Okay.
32:54Right?
32:56Do you want to hear this play?
32:57I'd love to, yeah.
33:01Okay, the moment of truth.
33:12That's the sound.
33:13That's the sound.
33:13That's the sound.
33:14That was really good.
33:18I learnt No More Heroes when I was a teenager.
33:20It's the iconic song you associate with this instrument.
33:23Mm-hmm.
33:24He recorded all those iconic songs and played it live on these keys.
33:32That's amazing, isn't it?
33:33Can we get an encore, please?
33:48Hey!
33:51It's been a real honour to have us in the barn, and also fantastic to have a member of the
33:57Stranglers come and play for us, so thank you.
33:59Guys, I can't thank you enough.
34:00What you've done here is incredible.
34:02It's blown my mind here.
34:06It was beautiful to play.
34:08It's really silky smooth.
34:09It plays like a new keyboard.
34:13But he's kept all the character, all the marks, and I'd like to think David would approve.
34:22Thanks, David.
34:22Take care, David.
34:23All the best.
34:24Take care.
34:24Goodbye, mate.
34:31Awesome.
34:32Good job, mate.
34:32Well done.
34:48Have you finished restoring your motorbike?
34:50I have, and I'm enjoying it on these lovely, warm days.
34:53I bet.
34:56Here to add fuel to Silversmith Brenton's love of motor vehicles is Andrew Cotton from Hertfordshire.
35:04Hello there.
35:05Hello.
35:06Hello.
35:07Oh dear.
35:09I thought you might be a bit worried about this one.
35:10Oh dear.
35:10What have we got here?
35:12Is it a sculpture?
35:12No, it's a motor racing trophy.
35:15No, it's a motor racing trophy.
35:15My father, Michael Cotton, won it in 1965 on the Tulip Rally.
35:19What is the Tulip Rally?
35:21It's a rally that took place over multiple days, and it was something like 1600 miles.
35:26Wow.
35:27And they started off in Nordwijk in Holland, and they drove down past all the major circuits
35:31in Europe through Belgium and Germany.
35:33It's basically a race from point to point, but you have road sections and then you have special stages.
35:40We had a friend, and they used to do some amateur competitions together.
35:44My father was the navigator, and then he also did some driving because obviously there were endurance events.
35:48And so you had to keep up the speed.
35:50So one of them would sleep and the other one would drive, and then they'd swap over.
35:53So did your dad race in many rallies, or was this the only one?
35:58No, he did the Tulip Rally in 63, 64 and 65.
36:02He won it on the third attempt.
36:03Correct.
36:03They got better and better.
36:05That's one way of looking at it.
36:06The other way is that this one was slightly chaotic because in 1965 they had the heaviest snowfall for about
36:1240 years.
36:13And some of the leaders had to retire from the rally because they got stuck in snow, and others crashed.
36:18But he won it.
36:21Yes.
36:21That's in the record books.
36:23Yes, exactly.
36:23That's all you need to know.
36:25We're talking with a motorsport buff here.
36:28Oh right, okay.
36:29I've only done one rally, and I caught the car up in front of me, and then crashed into him.
36:35No.
36:35That was the end of my rally.
36:37He really enjoyed the competition, and he treated it like a holiday away from a regular world.
36:45What was his normal world then?
36:47His normal world was a journalist.
36:49He'd started going to Formula One races in 1950.
36:52Yeah.
36:52He was in love with the competition.
36:53So he was a motor racing journalist.
36:55Yeah.
36:55Wow, what a job.
36:56Did it rub off on you?
36:57Yes.
36:58I followed him into journalism.
37:00Have you?
37:01So I've been a journalist since 1995, yeah.
37:02Did you ever work with your father in journalism?
37:05Yes.
37:06Primarily, I remember Le Mans, because it always fell on Father's Day.
37:09And so we used to sit next to each other and I'd give him a card, wish him a happy
37:12Father's Day.
37:13And you know, going to a race with your father, it was incredible.
37:18There's a lot of your dad wrapped up in that trophy, isn't there?
37:21It's an embodiment of who he was.
37:24It's a bit tragic then, that his only trophy is broken.
37:28Yeah, that was me.
37:31When I was young, I used to play with it, so I used to pull back the leaves and bend
37:36it all out, but it ultimately broke.
37:38So I'm afraid all the metal is quite fragile.
37:42And what's prompted you to try and get this repaired now?
37:45I wanted to do it while he was still alive, and there's a kind of an apology to him.
37:50But unfortunately, life didn't pan out that way and he died last year.
37:55But I still think it would be a wonderful thing to do and a nice memory to have something that
38:00he had won.
38:01That would be really special.
38:02Yeah.
38:03Thank you for bringing this amazing trophy.
38:06Thank you very much.
38:07Bye.
38:11Have you seen one of these trophies before?
38:14I've seen pictures of them, but I haven't seen one of these in the flesh.
38:16You're in your element, aren't you?
38:17Absolutely.
38:18Oh, I'm so pleased for you.
38:19Can't wait to get started.
38:32This is a lovely trophy that Andrew brought in.
38:35I love motorsport and to see this historic rally trophy is really, really good.
38:42Hopefully I can save it so that his father's memory can continue.
38:46This trophy is handmade silver.
38:49I can prove it's silver because there's this hallmark on here which makes it official.
38:54There's a few things I need to address.
38:55This has been held together with, it looks like, poster adhesive, sticky stuff.
39:01It's had tape on it which has tarnished the silver.
39:05And Andrew played with this as a child.
39:08He says that he peeled back the petals and I can see that they are quite frail now.
39:14So they need to be strengthened and held together.
39:18The leaves have got some ripples in them to give them life and I've got to establish what is dent
39:27and what is a ripple that's meant to be there.
39:30Then these need to be attached back together and then the whole thing needs a really good polish before I
39:35give it back to Andrew.
39:36The first thing I'm going to do is to take the base apart.
39:43There we go.
39:45Lovely.
39:48I reckon you could pull these off.
39:51Do you?
39:51Yeah.
39:53What size are you?
39:54A six and a half or a seven I could fit into.
39:57These are actually a seven.
39:58Are they?
39:59That's Cinderella.
40:01We'll have to see what happens when the clock strikes twelve.
40:04It's only no pumpkin.
40:06To ensure the cookbook's fairy tale can continue, Chris has been rustling up a plan.
40:13So the pages now have all been washed so I can concentrate on the front covers.
40:19They're not too bad but the big problem with it is there is no spine.
40:25The outside cover is just an A4 piece of paper folded in half and wrapped around the recipe book.
40:33So it's very, very simple but that poses problems in itself is the fact that it creates the pages being
40:41pushed forward which makes these outer pages very vulnerable.
40:45So when you're thumbing through they could split, they could get dirty.
40:49So I'm going to move the cover slightly to the right, protecting it for the future and visually it looks
40:58like a proper book.
41:00So the problem I have is constructing a spine that's going to be wrapped around beautifully without it sticking out.
41:10And to do that I just need some paper that I feel has the right tone and I'm going to
41:15cut it in this sort of shape.
41:30And then that fits on there and it's a bit of a funny shape because I have to cut it
41:36in because of these nicks here.
41:39Now I'm just going to glue this section and I'm using a PVA, it's not going to make the paper
41:48too wet and it's flexible.
41:50So it's all glued.
41:56So I'm really happy with that.
41:58Now I can start wrapping it around and gluing the back on.
42:19The 50 year old platform shoes are whole again and almost dance floor ready.
42:25The upper has bonded really well to the platform.
42:29The patch that I've put in on the allowance to fold under is almost invisible.
42:36There are a lot of scuffs on the black leather and I'd just like to add some colour back in
42:40and give it some real contrast against that off-white design.
42:44This cream will also nourish the leather and help preserve them for many years to come.
42:50It's been a really enjoyable experience working on these and I'm kind of understanding now why they jumped out at
42:57Roland.
42:58It's certainly a fantastic pair of shoes.
43:01Black polish is absorbing really well.
43:03Once I'm happy, I can give the whole shoes a nice shine, get some new laces in and they'll be
43:09ready to go back to Roland.
43:18These platforms helped Roland to win over his taller teenage crush, Jackie, on the dance floor.
43:27They've grown on me, I think I'd wear them now.
43:29Would you?
43:30I think so, yeah.
43:31I love that.
43:33The couple have returned, hoping to see their two worn to wear shoes back to their 70s best.
43:47Hello, hello.
43:48Hi.
43:48Hello.
43:49How are you both feeling?
43:51Excited.
43:52Yeah, very much so.
43:53What's going through your minds?
43:54I think to see them back as they were when I first bought them.
43:59Take you right back to being 15.
44:01Take me right back to being 15, yeah.
44:03Yeah.
44:03My younger dancing days and I'm trying to get a girlfriend.
44:09And you ended up with me.
44:10Exactly.
44:12The woman you wanted, right?
44:13The girl wanted, yeah.
44:15Would you like to see them?
44:16Absolutely.
44:17Yeah.
44:17You ready?
44:18Yeah.
44:23Oh, my word.
44:25Oh, look.
44:27It's amazing.
44:28They are.
44:31They're fantastic, yeah.
44:34Oh, they're lovely.
44:38Can't even see where you've repaired them.
44:41Takes me back to when I first bought them.
44:43Yeah.
44:43Looking at them in the window, they were all shiny and just exactly like that and thought
44:47I've got to have those shoes.
44:48Just takes me right back to the disco.
44:50All that dancing we used to do.
44:52Who knows how I used to dance in those though.
44:55I don't know how you're waltzing them.
44:56Well, I'm dancing them.
44:58Out of everything in our life, I think these are the main Roland and Jackie moment.
45:04Yeah.
45:04You have to try them on.
45:06I'll try them on, but don't get me to dance though, will you?
45:08Oh, that's why I'll dunk in them.
45:12Oh, here we go.
45:13Here we go.
45:14Already I can see the height.
45:16Here we go.
45:17Look at that.
45:17Look at you.
45:19They look good on.
45:20I love it.
45:21They really look good.
45:22And you're taller.
45:23Yeah.
45:25That's so nice.
45:26Look at that.
45:27Brilliant.
45:28I feel good because I'm that much taller now.
45:30And that is the purpose of me buying these.
45:33I feel like a new moon.
45:34I can't believe it.
45:35It's funny to see you taller than me.
45:37Oh, fantastic.
45:38I'm so over the moon with these.
45:40Thank you so much.
45:41You're very welcome.
45:43Are you going to wear them home?
45:44Absolutely.
45:46Got them on now.
45:47Might even not take them off.
45:49Bye.
45:50We've just got to find a disco now.
45:53They look so good.
45:54I'm going to miss them.
45:55Yeah, I want them back.
46:00I didn't think you'll see the day where I'll be wearing these again.
46:03And look at the height of me.
46:05Look at me.
46:06I'm right up there.
46:07Fantastic.
46:09It just brings back all the memories of school and disco.
46:12Watching you walk over to me.
46:14Doing the moves.
46:16Yeah.
46:17Being taller than me.
46:18I mean, I'll do the moves now though, wouldn't I?
46:21No.
46:31Can you remember what your first job was?
46:33You know, I started in organ building and I've always done organ building.
46:37Are you kidding?
46:38What about you?
46:38I always had Saturday jobs and my first one was in a shoe shop.
46:42Not painted shoes.
46:43Not painted shoes.
46:47On his repair to the Tulip Rally Trophy,
46:51Brenton now needs to tackle some of the more challenging bends.
46:55Whenever I got to remove a dent from something,
46:58I look at what I'm going to hit it with
47:01and what I'm going to hit it on
47:03because it needs to be supported by something.
47:06And I'm just trying to find things that fit into it.
47:09And I'm just going to try my hammer handles
47:11because they've got a quite nice colour to them.
47:13And it seems to fit pretty well.
47:15So I'm going to knock this dent out,
47:17holding the hammer handle tightly against it
47:20using a flat, polished, clenishing hammer.
47:29Actually, it's come out really well.
47:31I have got some dents along the back here.
47:34I don't know how they would have got there.
47:36They don't look like fold marks
47:38or when this leaf may have been folded back.
47:41So I'm going to try and get those dents out as well.
47:44And I've got some doming punches.
47:46These come in various sizes.
47:49So I'm just going to try pushing these dents out.
47:55But what I'm doing is burnishing,
47:57pushing the dent out with a polished metal tool.
48:01Now, because this is harder than the silver,
48:03this actually slides over the silver and moves the surface.
48:08It also polishes the silver at the same time.
48:11I believe that this dent here is meant to be here.
48:16This is part of the ripple of the tulip leaf.
48:19And I'm going to leave this one in there.
48:21So I can now turn my attention to the flower and the other leaves.
48:49Andrew said he'd peel the petals back as a child and bend them.
48:54If they were bent one more time, they would actually break.
48:58So I'm going to put a tiny piece of solder holding each petal to each other.
49:04And that will give them a great deal of strength
49:07and there will be no danger of them snapping off.
49:10So the first thing I'm going to do is to wire this together
49:13in the position I want it to be when I solder it.
49:20So I've got one petal held in the position I want it to be.
49:24I apply a little bit of flux.
49:25This keeps the joint clean and helps the solder to flow.
49:45That's absolutely perfect.
49:46The solder has flowed really, really neatly into that joint.
49:50So if those two petals are held together firmly,
49:52I just need to do these two on the other side.
49:55And then I can move on to the base and get the wood cleaned up,
49:58ready to put the flower back in that leaf.
50:18With the repair of the cookbook all sewn up,
50:21Chris has finally succumbed to the temptation of its culinary contents.
50:26Hey, Chris. Hello.
50:29This isn't bookbinding. What's going on?
50:31I was inspired to make samosas.
50:33Oh, so this is from the actual book itself?
50:35Yeah. I took a photocopy.
50:37Because the main thing that I'm looking forward to
50:39is folding and making the samosas.
50:42Like pastry origami.
50:44I like that. Brilliant.
50:58This cookbook celebrates communities sharing food and culture,
51:03but it arrived at the repair shop battered
51:06and unable to serve its purpose.
51:10Lau Kalida and daughter Nadja have returned
51:12to be reunited with this proud piece of their family's past.
51:18Welcome back. Hello. Hiya.
51:20Lovely to see you both again. Hello. And you.
51:23Cannot wait to see what it's going to look like.
51:25I will be really, really excited.
51:27It's like my dream come true.
51:29I never thought this will happen.
51:31There's a lot wrapped up in this book.
51:32It's not just a cookbook.
51:34There's also a bit of family history.
51:36Oh, definitely, yeah. Especially Dad.
51:38So are you ready to see what I've managed to do?
51:41Yes, definitely.
51:42Okay, then.
51:49Oh, wow.
51:57Amazing.
51:59Oh, wow.
52:02You've cleared the pages off.
52:05My God, Nadja.
52:08My, I never thought of it will happen.
52:10No.
52:11Oh, it's amazing.
52:13It is amazing.
52:14Look at that.
52:14Yes.
52:16Oh.
52:17I just wish Dad was here.
52:19You have to give him the book.
52:21It's a new life.
52:22You literally have.
52:23What you have done here is so amazing for our family.
52:26I can never think it can be any better than this.
52:31You have done very, very good job.
52:33While I've been repairing this book, I have been inspired to have a go.
52:38So I'd like to show you what I've made.
52:40Oh, you've actually made something.
52:42Oh, wow.
52:43Oh, my God.
52:44Mum, look.
52:46Oh.
52:48This is amazing.
52:49Taste them first.
52:55Mm.
52:57Mm.
52:58Oh, trust.
52:59Oh, wow.
53:00And the pastry is really good.
53:02Honestly.
53:02Yes.
53:04Literally, my childhood memories come back from looking at this book.
53:08What he's done is he's retained our history and it's just made the journey even more special.
53:14It was easy, but it was down to the fact the instructions were so good.
53:19Oh, I love it.
53:21He followed a recipe that my parents wrote in the 80s.
53:25He brought the history into the physical form through the food.
53:29And that's exactly what this is all about.
53:33And that means so much to me.
53:47Brenton is fast approaching the chequered flag with his repair of the Raleigh trophy, as
53:53he prepares to reunite the wooden base with the racing silverware.
53:58I've polished the wood, looking really good.
54:01I've cleaned up the leaves, ready to be soldered.
54:04I'm going to balance this on here.
54:08It's important when I solder this up to leave the hallmark, which shows the standard of the silver, showing.
54:15I've got that now touching quite tightly along the side of that leaf.
54:20I think originally when the trophy was made, it would have just been soldered at the bottom.
54:25And that's what made it easy to bend those leaves back.
54:35The moment of truth.
54:39And that's the first time this trophy has stood by itself without the help of glue or tape for years
54:46and years.
54:46And it's looking absolutely fabulous.
54:49Nice and secure.
54:51Just brilliant.
54:52I've got to put the plaques back on and then give it a really good polish.
54:58And then it will be beautiful and ready to give back to Andrew.
55:15This 1965 Tulip Rally Trophy was won by Andrew's father, Michael, whose love of motorsport led to a shared passion
55:24between father and son.
55:27Now Andrew is back, hoping Brenton has helped him make amends for the damage he caused to it as a
55:34child.
55:35Hello, hello.
55:36Hello.
55:37How are you?
55:38Very well, how are you?
55:39Excited.
55:40Have you missed it?
55:41Yeah, I have actually.
55:42I keep looking over and it's not there.
55:44It would be lovely to see it repaired and looking as it was when he first won it.
55:49And the fact that I was so young when I broke it means a lot more to me now than
55:52it did at the time.
55:54So really your whole life you've only known it broken.
55:57Yeah.
55:58So it's exciting to see it.
55:59Are you ready?
56:00I am ready.
56:01Yeah.
56:05Oh, wow.
56:07That's beautiful.
56:08I've never seen it look like that.
56:10I touch it.
56:11Of course.
56:12Just don't feel the leaves back.
56:15It's absolutely beautiful.
56:18Yeah, that's magical.
56:20And to think that when he was presented in Holland that he received it like this is wonderful.
56:26I can see why you're so proud of your father.
56:28Yeah.
56:29Proud of him and proud of what he achieved and proud of what this represents.
56:33I think he'd be over the moon.
56:35The fact that it's now back to what it should be.
56:37I think that he'd be really, really proud.
56:39That's beautiful.
56:40And hopefully a bit of a weight lifted from your shoulders.
56:42I always carried the guilt that I'd broken it.
56:44So to have it repaired, it means an awful lot.
56:48More than I realized, I think.
56:49Thank you so much for what you've done with it.
56:51It's an absolute pleasure.
56:52I love working on it.
56:53I appreciate it.
56:54Thank you very much.
56:56Take care, won't you?
56:59It's fantastic to have something in my hands now that really represents my father's achievements.
57:06I am incredibly proud to be his son.
57:08And so it really means a lot.
57:15If you have a treasured possession that's seen better days and you think the team can help,
57:20please get in touch at bbc.co.uk slash take part and join us in the repair shop.
57:42Hope to be.
57:57Welcome back to my channel.
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