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The Repair Shop On The Road S0 Episode 0 Engsub
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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
00:11and 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.
00:25I 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.
00:31I 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.
00:57Keep 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.
01:16I know.
01:16Yeah.
01:17Road trip.
01:18On today's travels, Dom and Will are heading to the Midlands.
01:23You call this a jewel, as I'm flaking this data.
01:26Yeah.
01:26Doesn't look pretty much like a jewel at the moment.
01:29Ringing in the changes, restoring a telephone box.
01:33I'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.
01:53You'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
02:07before 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.
02:32Yeah, 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
02:37fix 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.
02:45Yeah.
02:45And there's something quite nostalgic about it, very 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.
03:03Slightly 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
03:12and do something special with it.
03:14Keen to see the phone box saved
03:16is local resident and teacher, Rupert Conway.
03:20For 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,
03:26and 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.
03:36It had a phone box in it until about a year ago,
03:38and it was in a dire state then.
03:40So 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.
03:58And I think this is something like a bit of a jewel in our community.
04:00You call this a jewel? Yeah.
04:03As I'm flaking this paint off.
04:05Doesn't look very much like a jewel at the moment.
04:07Give it time, and with your wonderful expertise,
04:09we'll get it back to its original form.
04:12The classic red telephone box
04:14was 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
04:28until 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 foam box?
04:43Is it to actually have it as a working foam box again?
04:45The plan really is to repurpose it as a defibrillator.
04:49What 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 foam box, you know where to go to.
05:11Perfect place. Intersection with lots of traffic.
05:14Lots of different types of people, elderly people.
05:17I 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 foam 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.
05:43Are 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 foam 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 foam 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.
06:11The rest of them go to food banks, defibrillators, bookshops, art galleries.
06:16It'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.
06:25What is the plan with this then?
06:26First stage, we'll remove the glass
06:28and then we'll lightly sand this paintwork down, remove the flaky paint.
06:32What about the door?
06:33No.
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.
06:45Yeah?
06:45Yeah.
06:47Can you help me put this back out of me?
06:50Yeah.
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?
07:07Yeah.
07:07Yeah.
07:08But Will's getting ahead of himself.
07:11There's a lot of hard work to be done before the paint brushes come out.
07:17As the site is made safe, he'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?
07:28We'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.
07:37So, I'll be on this side.
07:38Yep.
07:38You got tools?
07:39I have, yep.
07:39All right, let's go.
07:40First, I couldn't put my glasses on.
07:46Ready?
07:47Perfect.
07:48All right, let's do this.
07:53So, that's the bottom?
07:55Yeah.
07:56We'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 and 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 to you.
08:20Yeah, we'll just work our way down.
08:22Oh, look.
08:23I can push it with my hand.
08:24Yeah.
08:25These ones are all the plastic ones now.
08:27Oh, I see.
08:28It's a bit easier.
08:29They used to repair them with a plastic polyglazer.
08:31It's just a cheaper option than repairing the glass.
08:39Hello.
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 in need of care from the expert team in the barn.
09:15Brenda Meehan and daughter Catherine Barrett are from Teesside in the northeast 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.
09:28What 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.
09:40But unlike me, my dad wasn't born left-handed.
09:44Okay.
09:44He sadly lost his arm during the war.
09:47So, what was dad's name?
09:49Dad was called Ivor.
09:51Ivor 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,
10:08because this story begins in the Second World War.
10:12He went to France, start of 1940.
10:15Obviously pushed back to Dunkirk, as they were.
10:18Yeah.
10:18It was a Dunkirk evacuee, 19.
10:2219.
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.
10:34Oh.
10:34So that nearly killed him.
10:36But then he applied to join the newly formed paratroopers.
10:41I think after everything that he'd been through,
10:42to then volunteer to, like, throw himself out of a plane as well,
10:46on top of everything else.
10:47It's incredibly brave.
10:48I can't really get my head around it, to be honest.
10:50The paratroop regiments were essential to the battle plans for D-Day,
10:55the Allied invasion of Europe, in 1944.
11:00He went to his barracks to train for D-Day, and he was reading a letter from a mum in
11:06his barracks,
11:07and somebody shouted his name and threw what they thought was a dud grenade at him.
11:14Right.
11:15And my dad looked up and caught it.
11:17It blew his arm off.
11:19No.
11:20Yes.
11:21So it wasn't a dud grenade?
11:22No.
11:23And it exploded in his hand?
11:25Yeah.
11:25He lost teeth and shrapnel in his face and...
11:28Oh, that sounds horrible.
11:30So, obviously, he didn't make D-Day, but most of the friends in his section
11:38didn't come back from D-Day.
11:40And 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,
11:49and 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.
12:00Yeah, 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 he eventually became foreman.
12:12Yeah, senior foreman.
12:14This is amazing.
12:15I mean...
12:15Sheer determination, grit, and, 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 secateurs fit into that amazing life that your father had?
12:32Well, 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.
12:47And he just became brilliant at it, really.
12:52Love that.
12:52And taught us all.
12:54Good.
12:55And casting out.
12:56Yeah, he knew, like, if he went for a walk, he knew what every single plant was.
12:59Really?
13:00Yeah.
13:00Yeah.
13:00Can I take a look?
13:01Yes, absolutely.
13:02You can tell that they were, like, good quality.
13:04Yeah, they're sturdy, aren't they?
13:06Yeah, yeah.
13:06Look at that blade.
13:08What have you done to those?
13:10That is some wear and tear.
13:11They're not supposed to be serrated.
13:13No, they're not.
13:14I know.
13:15Well 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, and...
13:22What do you mean by that?
13:23I 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?
13:31Oh, yeah.
13:31Definitely, yeah.
13:33I think it's just so wonderful to be able to, like, tell my grandad's story through these secateurs.
13:38Yeah.
13:38So are these something that you see on the wall as a display piece, or is the dream to actually
13:44take them out into the garden?
13:45The dream is to take them into the garden, but...
13:48If 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.
13:58This is going to be an interesting challenge for Jonathan.
14:01I can't wait to see what he's going to say, especially when he sees these blades.
14:04Yeah.
14:05Yeah.
14:12Also facing a challenge...
14:14Look 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.
14:27Masks on and a very light sand.
14:29Perfect.
14:35Oh, yeah.
14:37This is just flaking away.
14:53This is looking really good.
14:55It's good in there now, isn't it?
14:56Yes.
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.
15:07Well...
15:08On the flatter, less fiddly surfaces, Liam is using an orbital sander, speeding up the process,
15:16so that painting can start.
15:20And for that, he's brought in Bagub.
15:24Because it's a family firm, there's Uncle Richard on the filling, and Brother Daniel on the prep,
15:33making it ready for 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, do you know that?
15:47I didn't know that.
15:48Did 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.
16:02Have a look.
16:03Let's have a look.
16:05Oh, yeah.
16:06Yeah.
16:06Was it C?
16:07Glasgow, that one.
16:09What foundry is that, Rich?
16:11Saracen, isn't it?
16:12Saracen.
16:15I think we're making really good progress.
16:17We are, yeah.
16:18It's coming along nicely, isn't it?
16:19After 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.
17:05It's lovely.
17:10Let's see.
17:11this pair of secateurs that belong to Brenda's father Ivor but in the state they're in at the
17:19moment they might struggle to cut through anything wear and tear or rust has created all these notches
17:26and gaps along the blade's edge secateurs are supposed to open themselves up with some form
17:34of spring mechanism now clearly this one isn't working normally what you'd find on a pair of
17:40secateurs would be a volute spring which is one that pushes the shanks apart but on this pair
17:51the spring is on the inside of the secateurs so the first thing I'll need to do is disassemble them
18:08so immediately we can see what the problem is with that spring it's completely rusted and
18:15it's compressed so when they were unlocked again the spring no longer expanded
18:25there's actually a second spring in here what I think's happened is there's been an attempt
18:32to repair these in the past so a second spring has just been put in there when the first spring
18:39stopped working unfortunately this spring is beyond repair so 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 is broken so they won't open anymore
19:12I was hoping that you had a replacement well have a look in my magic spares drawer
19:25it's quite a thick spring isn't it yeah that's doing a lot of work yeah
19:32I'll tell you what I'll make them brilliant so can I leave this with you yeah of course
19:37yeah no absolutely thank you so much I'll pop it over in a minute
20:10I'll pop it over in a minute
20:10Steve's made me this spring which looks good but I'll have to see if it works
20:27I'm really impressed with that I mean it feels great it's smooth there's enough resistance
20:34it's opening all by itself Steve's done a really good job with that spring
20:41now I just need to disassemble them again to focus on the handles
20:47Brenda said she wanted these looking good as new so it's a case of removing that old paint
20:54and repainting them now I can already see that the paint is starting to peel away
21:01so I should be able to get a majority of it off with a knife
21:17now that I've removed all of that old paint I'm just roughing the surface so the new paint combined a
21:24bit better
21:26all right I'm really happy with that finish
21:30so it's time to start painting
21:47elsewhere Will's taking a break from restoration duties
21:51he's stepping out to discover another chapter in Britain's crafting heritage
21:57on a suitably warm day he's meeting someone to help him cool off
22:02expert fan maker Victoria Adjoko
22:06oh my god look at that perfect weather to learn how to make a fan
22:10absolutely follow me come on then
22:12fans can be traced back 3000 years but became popular in Europe in the early 18th century
22:21highly decorated and associated with seduction and romance but in recent times the art of fan making
22:28became endangered until revived by enthusiasts like Victoria
22:36so we have three main components with the folding fan the paper
22:42the pleaters and the frame so what do we start off with then we've got some colorful paper here
22:48yes we want to use a paper that's no more thicker than 160 gsm like a
22:55bit of paper you put in your printer that's right that's right just so it allows and enables us to
23:00make the folds quite easily the pleater works as a template to mold the creases into the paper
23:07right so that goes on there like that yes okay so now we take all the pleats yeah you're gonna
23:18go
23:18all the way to the edge of the table that's it yeah so your thumb and your forefinger yeah like
23:24that
23:25perfect and the other three fingers will push away keep it like that so that's just the first
23:31then you're gonna bring the fold up like that and then slide
23:38everything towards you till the next fold yeah so bring it to there here yeah that's it
23:44so then you bring the fold up like that like that that's it leaves the full finger down i know
23:51you're almost there though will if there's a will there's a way you've got all the lines haven't you
23:56today but it's will who's got to get his lines together bring the fold up that's it like that to
24:04make perfect crisp creases are we going down yep yes this is the last bit there right bringing it all
24:12over like that well done okay and there's my fan well not quite will's fan is still inside the pleaters
24:22should we take a look yes go for it take this off and voila well done and what we can
24:35do is make sure
24:38flip it the other eyes see ah i see there we are that worked really well that's pretty straightforward
24:47once pretty straightforward once you know the secrets that's it that's it next is time for
24:54the fan to be glued to the frame made from thin strips of wood which first need a light sanding
25:01you start that side i'll start outside and we'll see who gets to the middle faster three two one go
25:06begin
25:10why are we sanding these for it um enables the glue to adhere better to the paper so
25:16we're likely keying the surface then absolutely
25:21it's coming off quite easily actually yeah i presume that you don't take it below the line
25:26that's right so i'll say you've gone in deeper enough there yeah maybe just a little bit more at the
25:31bottom yeah you are a really really good natural teacher have you taught fan making or what's your
25:39background in family making well my background is in drama theater and i just fell in love with it from
25:44there they're just beautiful they just carry so much history like the georgian period the regency era
25:51and obviously there's the language of the fan as well the language of the fan it's basically a subtle
25:58language used with gestures of the fan itself right and it was usually um used in social settings
26:06mostly for women as a flirtatious uh way to find a suitor mm-hmm i say no more um have
26:14you
26:15used the fan in the past to find yourself a suitor
26:19i've been on the spot there i don't know
26:26frame prepared time now to attach the paper so here we have our glue
26:32okay so what we want to have is our leaf pattern side is down yeah so we take 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
26:57yes
27:05so it's the next one on the top yes okay we'll bring it around to see where we begin good
27:12so you're looking for quick no no 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 so is this something you could see
27:29yourself doing again i can get a picture of myself put onto a fan and give it to dom he
27:36would
27:36love that you see that's the idea okay well that's his birthday present sorted out last one there
27:43we go sometimes this can be quite tricky it is getting it on 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
28:15i love your passion for your craft it's absolutely amazing um thank you for handing some of those
28:25skills over to me as well it's been a pleasure oh nice and cool now
28:35in the barn
28:39jonathan's next job is to restore the blades of brenda's secateurs i suspect that there's been an
28:46attempt to sharpen the insides of these blades meaning this blade is potentially thinner than it
28:52once was so i have to be careful when i'm grinding that rust away i want to minimize the amount
28:58of
28:59material i'm taking off this blade as the more i take off the thinner it'll get so the first thing
29:04i'm going to do is 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
29:35going 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
30:07from how even that grind is that i'm taking height down in the right spot as i slowly work my
30:14way
30:15towards the front of the blade
30:21still 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 and it moves slow enough that i
30:45won't
30:46be introducing any heat to the blade which could affect its hardness
31:04can you see how all of the burrs are just really inconsistent and falling off once it's all the
31:14way back and it's past those lines of warping that burr will be really consistent and you'll just see
31:19the 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
31:47they're already 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
32:25it doesn't look like the iconic british phone boxes that you're used to seeing
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 they'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
33:53it'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 mum 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 if that's
34:53okay yes i hope so yeah come round and shape them all teach you yeah exactly exactly okay are you
35:00both 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 every
35:27bit of them are still your dad's they are amazing they look great don't they fabulous fabulous didn't
35:36think i'd cry yeah where do you think where where's that emotion coming from i think just seeing them
35:43like that and knowing they were like that when dad bought them and you know they were just thinking
35:52of him really and how especially he was i know we all loved him we did yeah we still do
35:58it's amazing
35:59what these things can do isn't it just bringing memories that it's the memories that's it it's just
36:04i can i pick them up of course you can you need to test them out oh look at that
36:14you need to be careful
36:15they're very sharp oh they're amazing jonathan has he's completely stripped them down taking them
36:22completely apart they are the same blades he has spent a long time grinding them down reshaping them
36:28straightening them up and polishing them and sharpening them so they are really sharp now
36:33dad 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 them stick i'm overwhelmed to be honest i'm just just thinking of of dad and how we used to
37:03come and do my roses with those secateurs and taught me how to use them but uh yeah happy memories
37:11very happy memories i'll let you take them home then thank you thank you so much thank you both it's
37:16lovely to meet you both you can carry them i can't take my eyes off them i can see myself
37:25in them they're
37:25that shiny they're amazing i'm absolutely thrilled for my mom you can see how overwhelmed and how happy
37:33she is and it's just wonderful that they've been able to be repaired to this kind of standard it's way
37:39beyond what we expected my dad faced such adversity in his life and he overcame it and he passed that
37:50on to us that nothing is too difficult you just have to keep trying and keep believing that you can
37:56do 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 back
38:16home to teesside will's on his way to birmingham to add the finishing touches to the harbourn phone box
38:24i'm really excited to be back in birmingham and i'm on my way to see liam
38:28it's great to restore something so iconic to british history but it's really lovely that rupert and
38:36community wants to take this one step further
38:45hey you've been busy it's getting there isn't it just checking that's not wet paint no definitely
38:50not wet amazing i can see that a mile away literally it's like a beacon that's it
38:57now for the most important part the defib that's it yeah i've got it in the box there all right
39:02let's
39:02have a look rupert's dream for the phone box is to install a defibrillator look at that a device that
39:10can restore a heart's natural rhythm in case of cardiac arrest right let's get this fitted then it's
39:17a potential lifesaver and one that will be available to the whole community how does this work you phone
39:25a number yeah there's a sign that we need to put on um and they'll phone the number get the
39:30cord and be
39:31able to access the defibrillator wonderful great job with the defibrillator in place and the door back
39:40on there's just one thing left to do right let's get this covered up before the community turn up
39:46yeah you've got that perfect i'll get the steps not to the top it's brilliant
39:54got it
39:58restoring 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
40:12and neighbours are all keen to see will and the team's handiwork
40:18hi everyone good to see you really excited to have so many people here today really supportive
40:25and really enthusiastic and excited to see what happens next i'm feeling a bit anxious now i'm ready
40:31for the phone box reveal there seems to be a lot of people in the community coming to have a
40:35look at it
40:36well i mean this is an incredibly important phone box because not only is it a great piece of british
40:41history but it could also save a life it's a very very exciting day are you ready to see it
40:47yeah
40:59what do you think stunning very well done yeah amazing thank you so much well don't thank us it's
41:07this gentleman here who started it all so well done it's absolutely stunning the best in the best in
41:13birmingham the best in the uk that's right yeah you want to come and take a closer look rupert do
41:17you want to come and check it out yeah should we should we have a look wow isn't that beautiful
41:23and the insignia at the top gorgeous i painted that did you this is a big event for the people
41:29of
41:29harbourn and it's even attracted the attention of their mp preet cowgill so when rupert contacted me
41:37now it's been nearly two years um telling me about this project that he'd adopted this scheme i was
41:42so so excited but the sign defibrillation when the crown was called i mean wow proud to be for me
41:50proud to see this restored in all of its glory also here is bell lake of the community heartbeat trust
41:59who helps groups throughout britain install defibrillators
42:04so the renovation of the phone box is just so fantastic we build a network of the defibrillators
42:11around the uk we know that defibrillators from our scheme have saved lives so to have one in such a
42:18built-up area is amazing
42:23i 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 have really come to the fore the crown all
42:41the paint work it looks absolutely stunning what i really like is that the phone box it's got that
42:47history behind it but also more importantly it has that unit inside i really hope that the people of
42:53harbourn feel safer in the knowledge that that unit is there hopefully they'll never have to use it
42:58but if they do they know where to find it
43:06if you'd like to see more fantastic fixes and restorations search bbc iplayer for the repair shop on the road
43:30so
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