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00:00a remarkable workshop of wonder this is amazing home to experts of every kind
00:08thank you together they revive beloved belongings oh get an idea of it this is
00:16amazing this is absolutely brilliant bringing both the items this looks like
00:24it's seen much better days and the memories they hold it's it's him you ready yeah i'm ready back to
00:34life
00:38wow it's amazing they are stunning
00:46welcome to the repair shop
00:57it's so mild steve it is i love it this time of year when it's like this absolutely everything's
01:04still going in the garden as well it is hey good morning how you all right look who we've found
01:10i'll get the door for you thank you thanks
01:21first a tale of adventure for sonas and plastic restorer charlotte abbott
01:29hello hello mike webb from bedfordshire has a well-deserved souvenir he's hoping to get back
01:36on track what do we have here this is a trophy presented to me by the rover company on the
01:45successful completion of the first ever crossing of the american continent from north to south by vehicle
01:52what i was in the forces at the time and our regiment was chosen to lead the vehicle part of
01:57the team
01:57they said you can have two of these new vehicles and you can drive them the 18 000 miles from
02:03alaska to cape horn wow 18 000 miles yes just the six of us started off from anchorage in alaska
02:12and we drove down through the american continent and then unfortunately in the middle there is the
02:17darien gap and what is the darien gap well that's a 250 mile area of jungle swamp ravines mountains
02:26and it splits panama from colombia oh wow and normally you would get on a ferry and go from
02:33panama to colombia and then carry on the trip further south but no one had actually taken the
02:39vehicles through the darien gap you were the first ones to go through that first to complete it people
02:44had tried before also when was this this was 1971 72 okay navigating through that forest it was extremely
02:53muddy some days we had to winch the vehicles even the swamp tires weren't capable of taking it through
02:59the mud there's not much of this left now but there was a roof rack here and we had two
03:03aluminium
03:04ladders on the top you put two together over these obstacles oh that got us over so many different
03:11obstacles gosh the amount of determination some days we might only do 25 meters what because when we
03:18i could imagine and the rivers how did you get across the rivers basically if the base of the
03:23river wasn't too good you could put the ladders down and drive over them that was one of the basic
03:28things we really relied on yeah and then we drove the range rovers onto dinghies if the river wasn't
03:33affordable and how old were you at this time i was um a lovely 21 years old oh well i
03:39started 22 when
03:40it finished it was an unbelievable experience wow i bet it really was yeah once we'd rested up a little
03:46bit
03:46the six of us headed south through colombia and down into peru and then into chile we drove across
03:52to tierra del fuego and that is the end of the journey the road ended right there you couldn't
04:00go any further and that's how you knew you'd made it we knew there was nowhere else to go except
04:04back
04:04it took just over six months in all okay so this vehicle is a representation of the exact vehicle that
04:12you guys drove yes it's such an achievement have you had this pride of place in the house it's always
04:17been pride of place um we had a daughter and grandchildren now and it's quite likely that the
04:23little fingers have been opening the doors and dropping the boot well the temptation is too great
04:28isn't it it is yeah obviously there has been a bit of damage done but what would you like me
04:32to do well
04:33ideally what i'd like it to look like is is what it was just before it went into the jungle
04:38i'd be really grateful i can't tell you how brilliant it's been to hear the story of the
04:44adventure and your experiences thank you for bringing this in my pleasure
05:11this trophy bless it i think it's looking probably how the range rovers did look at the very end of
05:16the trip very worn the bones are there but there is a lot missing the roof rack the ladders that
05:24were
05:24just so important for the expedition they've gone and then all the logos that were on the side have
05:30sadly disappeared there's only one left on here one of the seats the back is gone i think this guy
05:37looks like he's been through a swamp himself so it's going to be getting a little car wash as well
05:42i think
05:52next into the barn is julie felix from cornwall with the footwear that helped her soar to dizzy heights
06:01hello hello she's meeting lucia and cobbler dean wow oh wow i have bought my pointe shoes that i wore
06:13on
06:13the stage of the royal opera house and i was britain's first professional black ballerina wow that's pretty
06:22impressive how did you get into ballet in the first place so when i was seven years old my mum
06:28was fed up
06:29of my dancing all around the house and there was a local ballet school around the corner so i went
06:35to
06:36the first lesson and i was absolutely besotted and when i was 12 years old my mum she knew how
06:45desperately
06:46i wanted to make this a career and she got some tickets for the two of us to go to
06:52the royal opera
06:52house in london and she said to me if you work really hard one day you'll be down there on
07:00that
07:00stage so your mum was the fuel behind your fire exactly she put all her efforts and energy into me
07:08and when i went to full-time ballet school those three years were the one of the best times in
07:15my life
07:17in my final year at the ballet school the director asked if i could do a short apprenticeship with
07:23this prestigious london ballet company and i was called in with the director and of course i was
07:31like oh my god i'm gonna get a job i'm gonna get a job however she said because of the
07:36color of your skin
07:37we're not going to be able to offer you a contract because we can't have a brown ballet dancer in
07:45the
07:45lineup of the swans they actually said that yes i was absolutely mortified you would be what did your
07:54mum think my mum said when i went home and told her that i was in floods of tears don't
08:01give up
08:02there's going to be something else and as good fortune has it this ballet company dance theater
08:09of harlem the all-black ballet company came over from new york to do a season at sadler's wells royal
08:15ballet and i was invited to take up a contract with oh what a blessing and i went to new
08:23york oh my
08:24goodness in those days there weren't very many ballet dancers of color so they would have pink satin
08:31pointe shoes so we got our tights dyed to match our skin color and the pointe shoes dyed this is
08:39why
08:39they're tan colored we had to have them sprayed how long were you out in new york it was seven
08:46years
08:46and that's when the ballet company came back to the royal opera house and i was offered my first solo
08:54role no then my mum and dad had the opportunity to actually see me on the opera house stage so
09:02these
09:03were the shoes that i wore when mum and dad came to see me perform on the stage of the
09:09royal opera house
09:11and i said mum you were right i've made it and i'm here it's like a fairy tale isn't it
09:19and right here on
09:21this table these symbolize all the work effort love and devotion from my mother
09:31what would you like dean to do to these tidy them up obviously the materials frayed away from it
09:39they must have faded over time yes if you can preserve them as much as possible i would
09:46so appreciate it i'm looking forward to it thank you so much thank you bye
10:08what an incredible woman julie is how determined she was to make a career out of ballet so it is
10:15a real
10:15honor to be able to get my hands on these very important pointe shoes the side seams are split
10:23now they are a bit patchy in terms of color it's not very uniform all the way around i'm going
10:29to
10:29dye them back to a tone that is closer to julie's skin color the right foot is a lot straighter
10:36than the
10:37left i'm gonna have to have a real think about how i'm gonna reintroduce that arch
10:43now i know i need to remove a lot of this ingrained grime but before i go any further with
10:49that
10:49i'd like to just glue some of these frayed bits of material down to make everything a little bit neater
11:01with the expedition trophy charlotte is taking steps to replace the missing ladders
11:07that sit on the car's roof i've cut some strips of plastic and i'm now going to assemble them into
11:14a ladder shape and chemically weld them together looking at photos of the original cars i can see
11:22the ladders ran from roughly the boot to about halfway in the bonnet
11:28i'm just using a little bit of wax to keep the two pieces of the ladder in place on this
11:35piece of
11:35glass and you're going to start inserting the rungs and i'm just going to keep adding them until
11:44it looks like there's enough of them to attach all these rungs on i'm going to use a chemical welding
11:55solution and what this does is it melts both parts of the plastic and then they melt together and form
12:02one whole piece i've made a little spacer and i'm going to just keep going all the way down the
12:11ladder
12:11and that way i'll get really perfectly evenly spaced rungs
12:25they're all really evenly spaced it's all come together nicely
12:32so i just need to leave that to set and then once that's done i can get cracking on the
12:38other ladder
12:40in order to make them look like metal ladders i'm actually going to be coating them in a thin layer
12:45of metal and then that should make it strong and should be able to last the test of time
13:00i've included all the frayed bits of silk back down i've now got a reasonably flat surface that i can
13:06use the cleaner on and i'm just dabbing it to try and lift the grime out being careful not to
13:15over
13:15saturate i don't want any shrinkage or distortion in the silk what i'm trying to do with this fabric is
13:22prepare it in a way that it will take the dye i'm going to do the same process to the
13:28other shoe
13:28then i can look forward to bending the right shoe to match the arch of the left
13:37from ballet dancing accolades to sporting prowess gail newsham from preston has a tattered book
13:45charting a major turning point in the history of women's football for bookbinder chris
13:53hello hello welcome welcome thank you what have you got there this is the scrapbook compiled by
14:00alfred frankland okay who was manager of the dick curl ladies football team who are the most important
14:07team in the history of women's football wow you can see it's in a bit of a delicate condition set
14:14from
14:141917 it's falling apart and gosh it says 1917 on there yes this relates to the first match
14:24at preston north end oh my word this is right the origin of the dick curl ladies i've never heard
14:30of
14:30that team before they were from a munitions factory dick and kerr were the factory owners at the outbreak
14:36of the first world war most of the men were sent to the front so the women were left in
14:40the factories
14:41keeping the home fires burning yeah and so why football why did they play football football really
14:47became the official sport of the munitions girls almost every factory across the country had a ladies
14:53football team goodness and they they set up this team to raise funds for the wounded soldiers and they
15:00played the first match on christmas day 1917 and why was the dick kerr football team so important then
15:07or were they the first women's team they weren't the first but they were the best
15:13they absolutely were and we have documentary evidence of that wow you can see there that um
15:19that's what they were regarded as and they were really world champions they were yeah they really
15:24were very very famous but throughout 1921 the fa made it increasingly more difficult for women to play
15:31football and on the 5th of december 1921 the fa banned women from using league grounds they said
15:37football was quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged i feel incensed yeah yeah yeah and
15:45the ban lasted for 50 years and effectively changed the course of the women's game forever but the dick
15:50curl ladies this is what makes them special is that they carried on right through to 1965 so the majority
15:57of
15:58their existence was playing against the establishment not giving up no matter what and so did you grow
16:05up knowing about the ladies i grew up near the factory it was just a stone's throw from where i
16:09lived so i was always aware as a child how strange it was because we're not allowed to play yet
16:13there's a
16:14women's team once i realized that these women had been so unfairly treated yeah and the injustice of it
16:21all i just wanted to tell this story in 1991 i met brenda eastwood who played in the first match
16:28after
16:28the second world war and i just had the idea of organize a reunion it was awesome just seeing them
16:34all together and the joy that it gave them made me joyous so how did you get the scrapbook i
16:40went to see
16:41cath latham who was manager of the team and cath gave me the book and it blew me away to
16:47be given what
16:48in my opinion is a very valuable piece of history to be entrusted with that has just been wonderful
16:53and i want to leave as complete a record of these women as i possibly can that legacy needs preserving
17:01chris and that's where you come in oh gosh i'd like you to get it so it can be looked
17:06at without
17:07falling apart um and make it worthy i'll do my best i'm sure you will thank you thank you so
17:15much for
17:15bringing the scrapbook in gail thank you bye bye wow chris yep you really are the perfect person
17:25for this as well aren't you i hope so i will leave you to it thank you very much sanos
17:39i'm in total awe of this scrapbook the dick kerr women's team i never knew anything about and this
17:47is the holy grail of it all what a stroke of luck that it landed with gail
17:54but it is at the point of total collapse the pages are loose lots of the archival pieces inside
18:02are dog-eared and rolled they need attention the pages all come into pieces so it needs re-sewing
18:10and it's got no spine so all of those need to be sorted so i'm going to start dismantling the
18:16book
18:16once the scrapbook has been dismantled i can start doing some paper repair to any of the articles that
18:22needed having fashioned the bespoke metal tool dean can now address the uneven arches of the ballet shoes
18:36they've had to hammer this metal bar into the shape of the arch of the left shoe to kind of
18:42copy the curve
18:43on the arch to the right shoe and now what i'm going to do is wet this leather sole it's
18:49very very
18:49stiff which will allow it to easily form and strap it to this metal bar and let it dry when
18:57i take the
18:57metal bar away it should hold that shape in the arch and it should match the left one
19:22this may seem quite rough to do with these point shoes but you think of what they go through when
19:27they're worn when they're broken in now that is the web being on nice and tight and i can see
19:33that it's followed the shape of that metal bar i'm just going to put some tape on to hold everything
19:39in
19:44now it's just a case of letting that dry and hopefully i've got a lovely arch that stays within that
19:49shoe
19:59outside charlotte is calling on her technical toy know-how to replicate the miniature plastic features
20:06of the expedition four-wheel drive in order to cover my ladders in metal i have painted them with a
20:14conductive paint i'm going to be using an electroplating tank i dissolve a metal salt in this case copper
20:21sulfate into the solution attach both of my ladders with a copper wire and this is going to allow the
20:27current to flow all the way through then i can turn on the power supply so this is sending about
20:370.3 amps
20:38through here and very very slowly the ladders will begin to be covered with a copper surface and then
20:46i'll be able to plate it with nickel and it all beautifully shiny and ready to go back on mike's
20:51car
21:03i'm really hoping this has worked
21:08that's brilliant that's really really good that curve is exactly the same as the other one
21:19you know ballet is about poise and balance and elegance and these shoes just exude that
21:28because i'm wanting to dye these shoes to a brown that julie did when she first got them i'm going
21:34to move on to just splitting this bead that holds the outer and the inner together
21:39so it's really important to me that treat the silk satin on the outside of the shoe separately
21:50preparing to kick off his delicate repairs to the football scrapbook chris has been immersing himself
21:57in the contents it's been a fascinating delve into the women's achievements this article is 1927 this is
22:07after the ban and it says everyone who went to the leicestershire agricultural showground last night to
22:14watch the football came away with one big impression and that was that they'd seen an outside left who
22:20if she'd been a man would have gained international honors just says everything about the ridiculousness
22:28of the ban so on this article the missing bit has come detached and has been carefully squirreled away
22:36in the scrapbook i'm very surprised that this little bit of paper actually survived there's quite a lot
22:43wrong with this but the first thing i'm going to do is remove the sticky tape and to do that
22:48i'm using a
22:49hot iron and i'm just going to press it down and hopefully the sticky tape will get all nice and
22:55sweaty
22:55and then come away you just have to be very careful as you're removing the tape that it doesn't take
23:04any
23:05of the letters up with it offending article off to fix this i'm using a very fine kozo paper i'm
23:17using some
23:17wheat starch paste just to get it into place and it's just a matter of narrowing all up
23:36and because this kozo paper is so very very thin as soon as you paste it it goes transparent
23:45but it's very strong paper
23:58with the ribbons and beading carefully separated from the ballet points dean can now reinstate the
24:05color they were given in new york i am ready to dye these and try and get them back to
24:13a skin tone that
24:14is is closer to what julie had them i'm so nervous this is a point of no return
24:21if i get it too dark i really can't pull it back to being lighter
24:28now that works that color and in fact being darker i think that really enhances the shine
24:34so if i can continue this and get the result like it's looking i'm getting i'll be very very happy
24:43hey chris that's a big old book it's a fantastic women's football team scrapbook did you ever do any
24:49sport well i was never very good but i was always picked first for basketball i was never picked oh
24:55no no i wasn't but as an early age i obviously had the hands ready for bookbinding later on there
25:02you
25:02go you see it was meant to be wasn't it it was
25:09with the plastic car ladders now gleaming with copper like dean charlotte also has to do some
25:17clever color correction as much as i love this gorgeous copper color the original ladders were
25:25a more silver color so it's not really appropriate for the final finish
25:35i'm going to brush plate nickel onto this ladder for that i have my little brush plating pen
25:42this actually has a piece of nickel in here and a sponge that soaked in a nickel solution
25:48this is positively charged i've attached the negative to the piece and as i start to rub
25:57the little sponge on here the nickel wants to go towards the negatively charged ladder as it gets to
26:03the surface of the ladder it reacts and it starts to form a very thin layer of nickel over the
26:09top of
26:10the copper that has just gone so fast and it just looks amazing it's so shiny so silvery it just
26:18looks
26:18like the ladders did originally just really tiny and charlotte is not the only one impressed by her
26:27handiwork that really seriously is impressive if i didn't know that was plastic i'd think it was made
26:33of metal even it sounds like it's metal yeah i think it works really nice for kind of a toy
26:39because
26:39it's lightweight yeah exactly it's so interesting of everybody's different skill sets because if i'd
26:45been asked to make that or brenton had the task of making that i think we'd both be soldering something
26:50together because my mind is spinning chris has been meticulously mending all the frail contents
27:03of the football scrapbook and is now moving on to the next chapter of his repair so all the pages
27:13and
27:13the articles have been repaired it feels like a completely different book and now i can sew the
27:19book together it fell to pieces because there wasn't enough thickness in the spine so to overcome
27:25that i'm going to add these guards and that's just basically a bit of paper and that's going to create
27:31some thickness but it's also guarding the section the original scrapbook from any harm structurally these
27:39tapes are really significant because one side of the tapes gets stuck on the backboard it's on the spine
27:47and then it's on the front board so it links all three bits of the book together
27:54it's coming together really nicely it's going to take me a bit of time though to sew the scrapbook
27:59together but once that's done i can get it ready to reattach the boards
28:11on his bench dean's color correcting attempts on the valley shoe pieces have taken a tumble
28:20the fabric for the beading and ribbons really hasn't gone to plan if i'm honest the color has gone a
28:26lot
28:27darker than i anticipated unfortunately it needs to be a lot closer to that golden brown it's been quite
28:33difficult as well to anticipate because there are so many different materials here and all those
28:38materials have taken this die to different depths so it is a little bit of a conundrum but i'm not
28:44deterred by this i believe i can strip that color back out and get these closer to the color of
28:49that
28:49lovely golden brown on the pointe shoes
28:54whilst dean has to take a step back with the ballet shoes charlotte is plowing on with the rest of
29:02her
29:02repair one of the seat backs was missing from the car so i've used the remaining seat back and i've
29:09made
29:09a mold of that and then i'll be able to cast a new piece to do that i'm going to
29:13be injecting in some
29:14resin this resin goes off quite quickly so i need to work fast
29:27the silicon is just filling up now i'm just gonna roll it around a little bit and try and get
29:35resin
29:35into all the gaps because if you have an air bubble it basically looks like there's a big chunk missing
29:41out of your piece
29:55it's always a bit trepidatious when you're taking something out of a mold for the first time because
30:02it's very easy for an air bubble to kind of settle in there but actually it looks like a chair
30:11that's looking good they've come out really nice and smooth so it matches the remaining one
30:25rebecca i need your help okay please removing the excess dark color from the ballet fabrics
30:32has not gone well for dean who's in need of expert advice from textiles guru rebecca
30:39i have dyed the ballet points a really nice golden brown unfortunately the ribbons and the beading
30:45but it's so far removed from the shade i need and being the queen of fabrics that you are i
30:50wondered
30:51if you could maybe help me of course i'll help you out have you got an idea of what color
30:55you'd like
30:56i have actually okay i'll do some samples and then go from there thank you fingers crossed okay thank you
31:07fast approaching the destination without repair charlotte is adding her specially created additions
31:14to the expedition trophy unfortunately a lot of the logos were from the 1970s and they were very hard
31:24to find so i ended up actually making them myself and they're all absolutely tiny so cutting them out is
31:31quite tricky pop it in the water and on the car i've got a setting solution
31:46i'm going to pop that down into place
31:51and i leave that to dry that's one down i've got 19 more to go and then i can varnish
31:57everything and
32:03reassemble this trophy was awarded to mike webb in 1972 on completion of his groundbreaking expedition
32:12the first successful drive from north to south of the americans it looks absolutely amazing well done you
32:22today mike has returned with daughter natasha in the hope of recapturing treasured memories
32:29from his greatest adventure at the age of just 21. hello again hi lovely to meet you natasha thank you
32:39and you
32:40how are you how are you both feeling very excited at the moment are you i know how special it
32:44is to
32:45my dad um it was a very significant time in his life for once in a lifetime opportunity
32:50should we go for it oh why not do you want to do the honors yeah oh wow
33:08that's amazing can i touch it yeah
33:15it's down me how did you manage this everything looks so realistic and just as it was and the driver's
33:23seat has miraculously reappeared and the ladders here they are they are amazing that's fantastic
33:32oh thank you takes me back yeah does it really does yeah it's been so wonderful delving into the
33:40history of it to try and get it as accurate as possible it's such a beautiful thing to reflect on
33:46as a family together it is definitely you know my children will be thrilled to see it back to its
33:51original condition and it will be lovely for my dad to to sit there with them and and discuss it
33:57with
33:57more oh and regale the tales of the jungle yes i wish we could talk more and hear more of
34:04these stories
34:04but thank you so much for for sharing what you have and and for bringing this in thank you very
34:09much
34:09thank you take care well done charlotte it looked incredible that was a good one that was good one
34:20this is absolutely fantastic work the difference from when i brought it in to what it is now it's
34:26taken it right back to how i remember it and how it should look and it looks proud of itself
34:53next to arrive is fenella haffenden from tavistock
34:58she's counting on david burville's mechanical expertise to resurrect a clockwork treasure from her
35:05childhood hi there hi hello
35:10wow look at that that's not a real bird is it no it isn't it's a beautiful musical bird in
35:20a cage
35:21my grandmother had this in her house in bockash in jersey now when i was a child she used to
35:30bring it
35:30out for our dinner and then she's like i'm going to wind it up so the bird was tweet and
35:38sing
35:39and move its head and tail now because i was born deaf and i couldn't hear for me it was
35:48all about
35:49watching the bird move and i used to think it's a shame i can't hear it you're profoundly deaf yes
35:58i was
35:59born profoundly deaf so for years and years i've always wondered what does this bird sound like
36:07what have i missed out on obviously technology improved and 20 years ago i was offered an opportunity
36:17to have a cochlear implant and it's been the most amazing thing so what happened is the bird will
36:26tweet it winds up you've got a little winding up mechanism at the bottom so if i turn it up
36:33a little
36:34bit so you can hear this bird tweet here but although the birds tweeze a bit it's not the same
36:43for me it's very
36:45bittersweet because now that i can hear i want to hear it but when it's all beautifully done up it's
36:56rather
36:57shabby and i feel that that's something you can help me please it's so priceless i can hear that
37:05he's not he's not singing correctly oh so although he's making a noise it's it's not as it should be
37:14should his cage have been shiny or painted or as a child it was sort of gold it was like
37:22the most
37:24beautiful treasure that you could come across and his feathers were definitely much more colorful i think
37:32when he's fully restored and the sound is restored that would be magical it's been wonderful to meet you
37:40and hear all about this fantastic bird cage thank you so much you're very welcome it's lovely to meet
37:45you we'll see you soon finella thanks a lot bye-bye
38:01well this little guy is absolutely wonderful hopefully i can actually get him back to what he
38:08should be so that he can give a really good performance instantly i can see that his cage
38:17has actually been over painted with gold paint so i'm going to strip all of that and get back to
38:23the
38:23bare brass and buff that up and bring that gold color back to him the clockwork mechanism that operates
38:29him is making noises so that's a good sign but it's not working really efficiently so
38:37it's in need just a good clean degrease it lubricate everything that needs lubricating
38:43my main concern is the little bird typically they would turn their head they would flap their tail
38:50in time with his twitterings so that's not working so i think the first thing i've got to do
38:57is to actually dismantle the cage and then i can see what's going on with the mechanism
39:08while david tries to father mode how to fix the mechanical bird
39:14solving the ballet shoes color conundrum is proving tricky for rebecca and dean
39:22dean how's it gone um it's not gone so well i'm afraid okay it's not the brown you wanted i
39:28don't
39:28know if something's been sprayed onto the fabric it's definitely reacting with something yeah there's
39:33obviously something within this fabric so you got a plan b i know we like to try keep things original
39:38yeah but in a case like this i think it's probably best i make some new yeah but listen thank
39:44you so much
39:44for trying we want to get some green bowler shoes i can serve them great great
39:55chris is deep into his quest to return the dick care lady scrapbook to the top of the league table
40:03all the boards now are repaired the corners along the edge here
40:08all nice and firm and the next thing i need to do is create a spine and i'm using this
40:16bit of leather
40:17which is going to get tucked in underneath the original sides but the problem with it
40:23it's too thick the end needs to be really wafer thin so there's not any vbls any visible book lines
40:30otherwise it could just be really unsightly and to do the thinning on the leather i have to spend a
40:36bit
40:36of time paring it down using a sharp paring knife taking the very edge off the leather
40:43i'm angling the the knife a bit of a jaunty angle because i'm trying to get that
40:50point at the end so i'm taking it down quite a lot
40:57and then i swap to a spokeshave
41:15the pairing now is finished i've wet it the idea of wetting it is i'm going to stretch it over
41:23the
41:24back of the book so that it folds and goes into every nook and cranny and as it dries it's
41:31going to
41:31shrink and dry in the position you leave it
41:46wow looks divine love it it's all these little pleasures you get along the way
41:52now just the other side
42:02with its cage dismantled david can find out why the wind-up bird's movements and sound aren't working
42:10in harmony
42:13so now i can see into the the main mechanism this is really the heart of the whole machine it's
42:21really
42:21really grubby there's a lot of caked grease and that's slowing the mechanism down so i need to give
42:28that a good clean then that will help to actually get it running a bit quicker however i'm looking at
42:34the
42:34bellows first which actually pump air into the little whistle which is actually the bird's tweet
42:42is sounding really breathy
42:48so he's he's not giving a nice even sort of note so i've got to get inside which means stripping
42:56all of
42:56the leather off
43:06so now i can see the internal valves what we've basically got is a little tiny piece of paper
43:16and that is the the valve this is a little bit dark and that's effectively that's
43:26soot and that's where this valve has not been quite sealing properly so what i'm going to do is make
43:34some new paper valves
43:55so
43:55so that's the valve in place and then what i'm going to fit over the top of that is this
44:02little piece of
44:02leather so that limits how far the valve can open so that's one of them done i've just got the
44:09other
44:09one to do and then it's actually ready for testing
44:20unable to dye the original beading to the correct color dean has sourced replacements and the valley
44:27shoes are nearly ready for their uncle this beading just finishes everything off brings everything
44:35together i need to get the ribbon and the elastic on now then the final stage will be to give
44:40that
44:41sole a lovely wax polish and they'll be ready to go back to julie i really hope she's as happy
44:47as i am
44:53dull threadbare and misshapen this pair once saw britain's first black professional ballet dancer
45:00take her long-awaited debut at london's royal opera house julie is back to see if her precious points
45:09are now worthy of display in honor of the mum who encouraged her to break boundaries
45:15and to pursue her dream hi dean nice to see you again julie nice to see you too how have
45:23you been
45:23feeling since leaving the pointe shoes with me it just made me relive the time when i was wearing them
45:32and obviously reliving the time that my mum was around and being able to dance for her are you ready
45:42okay i'm ready
45:48oh
45:55Oh, Dean.
46:02They are stunning.
46:09Oh, Dean, what an incredible job you've done.
46:14I'm just imagining putting my feet in them, doing the ribbons up and especially that particular day when I knew
46:22that mum was going to be in the opera house and watching me perform.
46:28They're just beyond my expectation.
46:32It looks like they could be worn again.
46:34Well, because of that curve now they will stand on their arm.
46:38Yeah, lovely. You've done an amazing job.
46:41I think the colour is just the way it was.
46:45Do you think your mum would be happy?
46:48Happy is an understatement, Dean.
46:51It's incredible what you've done.
46:54Dean, can I give you a curtsy?
46:56I'd like to say thank you.
46:59Thank you so much.
47:01Take care. Thank you very much.
47:03You're welcome.
47:04Bye-bye, Dean.
47:04Bye-bye.
47:05Bye-bye.
47:09Oh, well done, Dean.
47:13It's absolutely amazing.
47:15I had no idea that Dean could make these look like this.
47:22They will just bring back all the memories of wearing these on that day.
47:28So I'd like to say, mum, these are for you.
47:55What is it?
47:56I don't know.
47:57I don't know what it is.
47:58What is it?
47:58I can see it out of the corner.
47:59Is it glue?
48:00It's glue.
48:00It's black.
48:01It's coming off.
48:02There you go.
48:04Do you come all the way in for me to rub that off your nose?
48:08Having rid decades of grime from the clockwork components,
48:12David is ready to see whether the mechanism can bring the little bird back to life.
48:19That's the little bellows in, and I'm just literally connecting up the various little controls.
48:27This is the little plunger.
48:29And this is actually what changes the pitch of the little bird's whistle.
48:36So it's a little bit fiddly.
48:40Next is the connecting rod, which actually drives the little bellows up and down from the crankshaft.
48:47And then, that should now actually work.
48:54Great.
48:59Here we go.
49:11Well, that's fantastic.
49:13His whistle is so much brighter.
49:15I can't believe that.
49:17Sometimes you surprise yourself.
49:19I know that's all working, so now I can move on to the little bird himself.
49:27There's quite a lot to do.
49:29My main concern is his little movements,
49:32because he's got two little wires here,
49:36and one actually moves his head,
49:40and then the other one is supposed to wiggle his tail.
49:44But there's not a lot of movement on his tail.
49:48Ah, here he goes.
49:50So, I can see that his rods are quite rusty.
49:56Now, if they touch each other within his little perch tube,
50:02they could bind.
50:05So, I'm going to clean those off using, like, an emery cloth.
50:09And that just allows me to get as high as I can on the rod itself.
50:20So, now that's looking nice and clean,
50:22that's certainly going to be much, much better.
50:24I can give him a little bit of a clean and a brush up,
50:27and then he should look nice and smart.
50:46As the final whistle nears on his repair of the women's football team scrapbook,
50:52Chris is adding an extra flourish.
50:56This book didn't have a title, but it definitely needs one.
51:00These women have achieved so much,
51:02so I want to really put a statement out there.
51:06Some tool in Dick Kerr, ladies on the spine.
51:10I've stamped that with a hot tool to get this impression.
51:13And then I lay the gold on top,
51:16and then when you wipe the gold away, hopefully it's stuck.
51:20I have really enjoyed working on this scrapbook.
51:25It's a world I really didn't know anything about.
51:27And these women were so resilient, so amazing,
51:33just like Gail with her campaign to get recognition.
51:38It's the first couple of words done, just ladies to go,
51:42and then it's all ready to go back to Gail.
51:46This book of press cuttings celebrates the incredible achievements
51:50of a courageous women's football team.
51:53But collapsing with damage, it was facing relegation.
51:58Its custodian, Gail, has been hoping these unique annals of history
52:03can defy the odds to inspire again,
52:07just like the players are mortalised in its pages.
52:11Hi, Gail.
52:12Hello.
52:13Welcome back to the barn.
52:16How are you?
52:16Oh, um, the X-Factor.
52:18I mean, I know it's going to...
52:19I'm getting emotional already.
52:21I don't know what to expect.
52:23I am so ready to see it.
52:26Are you sure?
52:27Yes.
52:28I am.
52:33Wow.
52:46They've got their name on it.
52:51That's amazing, Chris.
53:02You can turn the page and everything...
53:06Oh, it's fantastic.
53:08They'll be cheering.
53:09Can you not hear them?
53:11I think they're cheering for you, Gail.
53:16It's just beyond anything that I could have ever imagined.
53:19And it's...
53:19Look at that.
53:20Look at that.
53:22Look at that, eh?
53:23That's very nice.
53:24Yeah.
53:26Looking at it now and in the years to come,
53:29there'll be so much joy
53:30that I'll be able to share with other people,
53:34with all the other memorabilia
53:36that I've managed to collect over the years.
53:38Thank you for bringing this scrapbook into us.
53:40I will treasure this for the rest of my days.
53:48Absolutely over the moon.
53:49More than I could have ever hoped for.
53:51It's so important just to preserve the legacy of this team,
53:55from being football's best-kept secret
53:57to people now knowing who the Dick Kerr ladies were.
54:05Having painted and polished its cage,
54:08David is ready to put a brighter little bird back on its perch.
54:14I'm really looking forward to Fenella seeing the little bird again,
54:18but I'm so excited for her to finally hear him,
54:21as he should be heard.
54:22I've just got some little bits to put back on,
54:26put him in his cage,
54:27and then he's actually ready to go back to her.
54:35When it arrived,
54:37the tiny bird that had fluttered and twirled in Fenella's childhood
54:41sat forlorn,
54:43its tweet no longer matched by the magic she remembers.
54:48Now Fenella's back,
54:50hoping to see the bird move and sing in unison,
54:53a moment she's longed for since childhood.
55:02Welcome back.
55:05Oh, I don't know if I'm ready for this.
55:08This is really, really special.
55:11How have you been feeling?
55:14It's time to,
55:15but I'm nervous, you know,
55:18because I don't know what it's going to sound like.
55:20Are you ready to see?
55:21Am I ready?
55:22Are you ready?
55:23I think I'm ready now.
55:25OK.
55:26OK, here we go.
55:32God.
55:35Oh, my God, can I hold you?
55:38Oh, that's so beautiful.
55:41It's like it's brand new.
55:45It's so gold.
55:47Can I wind?
55:49Yeah, yeah.
55:49Are you sure?
55:55Oh, gosh.
56:07Oh, it's so beautiful.
56:12I never, ever imagined
56:15that it would sound like this.
56:17It's a new sound that I've not heard before.
56:21It's just pure heaven.
56:24It is music to my ears.
56:27And how it moves.
56:27It almost looks like it's a real bird singing away.
56:30Yeah, it is.
56:30You have no idea how much it means to me
56:34that you've given me
56:35a missing piece of my sergeant back.
56:39Thank you so much.
56:41You're very welcome.
56:42I'm so grateful.
56:45There we go.
56:48I just cannot believe
56:51how beautifully it restores this bird is.
56:57With somebody who's had no hearing
56:59to be able to hear this,
57:01it fulfills that Mrs. Jigsaw puddle in my life.
57:06It's wonderful.
57:13If you have a treasured possession
57:15that's seen better days
57:17and you think the team can help,
57:19please get in touch at
57:20bbc.co.uk
57:22slash take part
57:24and join us in the repair shop.
57:41We'll see you next time.
57:56We'll see you next time.
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