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in the repair shop today dorm has high

hopes for a mean green cleaning machine

so when we plug that in I want it to

hover off the table float across the

side With a Little Help from Mark there

we go yes that's good good while kon's

Steady Hand is put to the test

reconstructing a tiny te- set it's quite

difficult to get really nice joins on

this you can't rush it and if it's not

right you need to undo it and redo

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it first Jonathan Sparks from Barsha

with a treasured Talisman that's been

through the wars

hello there

hello nice to meet you and you too your

name is I'm John John I'm will I will

what's inside the Box the remnants of a

shoe is a leather shoe yes this might be

one for Susie Susie this job should be a

perfect fit for master Saddler Susie

Fletcher oh my goodness it's tiny it is

Tiny size two I believe baby shoe I'm

sure one time it had a heel and a buckle

but

that's long gone how did you come by

this tiny shoe my grandfather was in the

first old war in France and he spotted

this baby shoe on top of the mud at the

side of the road he put it in his pocket

and he thought when he gets the next

Village you'll look for a mom holding a

baby with a a missing shoe yeah needless

to say at the Village or the town he

didn't find her and he kept it in his

pocket went through the wall

when my dad uh enlisted during the

second world war my granddad came to me

and said listen I've got something I

want you to carry with you you brought

me luck I survived and my dad said what

is it he gave him the shoe and my dad

carried it throughout the second world

war and he was um parachute Battalion so

he did 126 jumps wow 26 jump yeah a lot

of them behind NV lines amazing once my

father passed away in '95 my mom called

me and said is there anything you want

of Dad's I just said just want the shoe

the shoe really and she said what that

Tatty old thing I said yeah and I never

got to meet my grandfather he died

before I was born so I kind of felt it

was a a link to him in a way your

grandfather's name is Hubert Hubert H

okay yeah why now do you want this

little shoe preserved it's it's it's

lived in a safe for last

20 years okay but to take it out now I

mean it's just it doesn't really mean

anything I don't know what it resembles

it's barely a

shoe whatever you're able to

do anything any Improvement of the sorry

state that it's in this is really going

to push me to my limits in being able to

get this back into some sort of

condition but I don't mind a challenge

and I certainly don't mind it when it

carries such a beautiful story for your

family thank you that's very kind thanks

for bringing it down and we will see you

very

soon nice you bye

bye you're going to need a lot of luck s

lots of luck lot luck lots of luck the

little

shoe means more I can than I can

describe it's it's a connection back to

grandfather father and hopefully as it

goes down the generation

they will feel the same way it means an

awful luck to me now I know this is over

100 years old but it's looking more like

a flip flop than a shoe how are you

going to build up that shape again it is

going to be very very difficult to work

with I need to consolidate this leather

which will be making all the fibers a

little bit more stable so they're less

likely to want to break aparts but what

would be really useful is if I had a

form that I could build the shoe on okay

cuz we've got this back missing

and I don't know how to support it other

than to make some sort of form would you

like me to make like a small wooden

child's foot almost yes that would be

amazing I've never made one before if I

can take some measurements

absolutely then I can roughly start

shaping up my block of word lovely okay

well I'll leave that with you you okay

you make a start and then we'll catch up

sounds great lovely thank

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you I can't think of any leather that

I've ever worked on that this bad it is

way for thin but you have to have a leap

of faith you you just have to go for it

what I'm going to do is start with the

consolidating gel so I'm hoping I'm

going to be able to at least give it a

little bit of structure back just gently

dabbing all over the leather once I've

completely covered the leather let it

dry and then I'll be able to hand it

over to Will and he'll be hopefully a

able to make this lovely form that would

be a permanent fixture in the

shoe as Susie Embraces the Monumental

task of getting the little shoe back on

its feet outside another

visitor corser MTA from Bradford has a

rusty Relic from her childhood for the

attention of Dom chinia hi there you

okay hi come in coming hello there wow

and electronics was Mark

Stucky I'm C

nice to meet you I'm dying to see what's

in this box yeah it's quite a large box

it's got to be something

big no still no idea really oh hang on

oh no no okay is it a vacuum cleaner it

is a vacuum cleaner yeah yeah yeah wow

this bit's a little bit heavier oh okay

look at that I have never seen a vacuum

cleaner like that have you yeah I have

they're sort of 1950s 1960s um they

actually collect there are people

collect the different ranges

why on Earth have you brought in a

vacuum cleaner to us today well I used

this as a play toy when I was quite

young so you're talking about when I was

about five so in the early 1980s we grew

up in Halifax few siblings and I think

this particular period was probably the

happiest of my childhood oh we would use

this vacuum it's got quite a nice long

pipe and wire and we turn the vacuum on

pull each other on the vacuum we sit on

here and hold that as a handle and and

and play with it cuz it's got quite a

powerful motor so they they hover a

little little bit Yeah so there's no

wheels it doesn't no it has no wheels no

no cuz it'd be on carpet and you can see

it's quite rounded at the bottom it's so

it's smooth it it's like a yes it just

blows out the bottom and you just drag

that sounds like quite a good fun

childhood yeah it was you don't know

where this came from at that time I know

my dad bought a lot of things you know

they had the catalogs everything was

paid in installments and this was

probably quite a a thing to have at the

time my dad he loves fixing things

always did fixing cars vacuums cleaners

sewing machines but he just hasn't got

the time to do it now sort of cleared

out the the garage and this had been

there 30 years you know because it's

linked to my childhood yeah I thought we

can't we're not going to throw this one

away so what's the plan then if if we're

able to get it working I really want to

pass it on to my daughter oh okay oh

that's nice cuz I know that she's the

kind of person who as long as this is

working it will stay with us and my

daughter's very much like me she's 16

and she loves to reuse things and not

buy brand new so when was the last time

this was working coming up to sort of 40

years what is your expectation of how

this is going to look how is it going to

work it's just about having that that

sound and movement again oh it would be

so nice to it not be rusty and be like

it would have been then all glossy I

love the color I love that color yes I

feel like it deserves to look its best

exactly thank you so much for bringing

this in it's going to be interesting I

think that's the right word actually and

it's lovely to meet you thank you see

you later byebye

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I think the vacuum cleaner is such an

important item to me because it's a

reminder of my childhood this would be

really nice if I could have this back to

its past life it's also something I can

pass on to my daughter and I'm hoping

maybe to my grandchildren one

day I love it I think it's absolutely

brilliant we need to do as much as we

can to get it working again yeah and

looking its best inside there I know

there's going to be some electrics there

going to be a motor a fan things like

that so should I take it first all the

spiders out the way and then if I can

get the motor out I'll bring it to you

that would be brilliant I'll deal with

the Cosmetics the paint and everything

else if you can help me with the

electrics that would be superb that

sounds like a perfect plan good luck

grab the door for me thanks Mark no

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problem oh oh my I mean look at the rust

in there how has this got so

Rusty that's where the bag would sit

well that is the bag this is the filter

I'll have to find a new one of those so

this red part is the next piece I need

to get out the way say fre screws that I

can see hidden underneath all of this

rust and dirt they are what I need to

undo and then I'll be able to remove

this entire top section and gain access

to the

motor oh it's

moving right that is out screw number

one

yes okay one down two to

go right that means

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finally yes it's dirty and it's rust and

it's needs a good old clean and a bit of

a paint but it really doesn't look too

bad I'm so relieved now really all I

need to do is work out how this motor is

attached disconnect some wires and get

this motor unit over to mark

another Dynamic duel making strides

towards reversing the ravages of time

are suszie and

will hi Will hey Susie so I've got the

little shoe treated brilliant and I've

done a drawing so that gives me a really

good idea of what I need to make for you

yeah it'd be really helpful and then I

think I can build the shoe around the

form and um hopefully it's going to look

more of how it originally looked well

leave that with me and I will try to

construct something that's going to help

you out okay okay sounds great thanks

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cool I'm marking

out the sort of rough shape of the shoe

I need to be really careful with this

because it's so easy to remove too much

wood then you have to start again so I'm

going to start cutting on the band saw

get rid of a lot of that waste word then

I can start refining that detail and

that shape on the

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sander well it looks like a little

wooden foot to me but the moment of

truth is to see if it fits the

shoe let's have a

look oh that's nice it's almost there I

just need to do a few final twixs with

some sandpaper a liquor polish then I

can hand over to

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Susie so there's the

mhm that's the form look at that that is

beautiful this is going to make my very

difficult job a lot easier now I can

build the back of the shoe around that

form so grateful thank you you're

welcome can't wait to see when it's

finished brilliant

thanks now I've got this little form I

can get on with repairing this little

shoe and line what's left of the

original leather it's going give it a

lot of strength back rather than try and

maneuver the lining leather inside the

shoe I'm going to wet mold it onto this

little form the beauty of doing a wet

mold like this is that it allows you to

stretch the leather around a

mold and as it

dries it should dry in that shape

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in normal

instances I have time to glue it down

and reposition

things because this is so delicate I

really don't think I have the luxury of

being able to pull the lining off and

repositioning I have absolutely no room

for error at

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all I can just straighten out these

creases here and get a really good bond

to the

glue I'm not going to say it's a huge

success just yet but deep down inside

I've got that

little little fire burning going

think you got it right

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girl so I've got a very very sharp

scalpel knife here and I'm hoping just

with a little bit of pressure it will

cut through the lining leather and I'll

be able to cut these holes out very

accurately so see what happens here

wow that's one whole cap and I've got

one two three more to

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do as one item takes shape another in

need of repair arrives Sue Baler from

Winchester accompanied by granddaughter

Emily has a treasured heirloom requiring

Ceramics restorer ktan Ramsey's delicate

touch hello

hello hi take a seat thank

you lovely to meet you both you what

have you

brought it's my granny's dolls te- set

and Granny was born in 1880 I don't know

when she got it but I expect it's quite

some time ago

what was granny called Granny's called

Annie Annie Banks gosh what a pretty set

I have loved it for ever since I can

remember because I always had lots of

dolls and she would obviously let me

play with it we always were there every

Sunday lunch um it was a close summary

so I loved being around there when I was

three I just said to my mother I want to

go and see Granny's tea set the journey

must have been over a mile I had to go

along a main road is this sorry is this

on your own on my own my goodness fre

yeah so up the drive I go knock on the

door her housekeeper comes to the door

and she says your granny's out and shut

the door no in my face so my mother said

I was still crying when I got home oh

that's so sad which I can well believe

even at 3 it was something that I just

wanted to go and see I would spend hours

playing with my dolls with this te set

talking to my dolls and probably

thinking they were answering me sounds

lovely does

indeed how did this te- set get broken

my granny died when I was in my 20s

which would be about

1959 and uh my aunt who was a spinster

Aunt lived with my granny all her life

so everything stayed in the house as it

was was and then 10 years on the

burglary happened oh Cy and a lot of

items were stolen including this tea set

this possibly was at the top of the bag

and um some of it dropped out and my

sister and mother found it outside my

Granny's house sometime after the

burglary what was the actual damage that

happened can you show me or so I think

this one's probably the worst arage

isn't it yeah so it's quite mashed up on

the side and then got some bits that

been tried to be stuck back together

yeah so they were literally just lying

on bits bit BR pieces I should think it

was my mother that tried to glue things

together again and

so there it all stayed and then when my

aunt died I would be then in my

50s and so finally in its broken state

it came to me and I've now had it 30

years so it's really been a love affair

with it really has yeah Emily where

where do you fit into this story so I've

always been curious about it and then

obviously a couple of years ago granny

told me the story and then I can see how

much she loves it so therefore it means

a lot to me as well what is it that you

would like me to do with the t- set well

if possible I'd love to see what is

there made to look a little bit like it

was originally then that would be

marvelous because I hardly remember

it and um you know if the little jug

could look a little bit better without

great big cing it would just give me the

memories of something I've always LED

yes

yeah I can't wait to have a really good

look at it if you'd like to leave it

with me I will try and do the best that

I can that would be lovely kir thank you

very much it's a great pleasure yeah see

you soon thank

you I think by having the tea service

restored it will make everything

complete for me and just feel things are

as they were be nice to get it fixed and

hopefully one day my children will be a

to play with

it this is such a sweet little tea set I

think it's beautifully decorated and I

can absolutely understand how a small

child would love to have little tea

parties with their dolls and teddies

it's made of Earth andwar and it's got

an underglazed decoration with this

beautiful soft blue pretty much half of

it so six pieces are quite badly damaged

and I'm going to have to try and take

this old adhesive off and tidy up these

joins make up the missing sections and

put the design back in I'm going to try

with the steam cleaner and see if that

just softens this adhesive and I can

make a start trying to get the pieces

apart

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it's also full steam ahead for Mark at

his

bench as he puts the classic vacuum's

earing mortar through its OT

if I just do a little bit of a spray in

here don't need a lot and just Boogle

that there you go one switch while Dom

focuses on giving its body work a much

needed

overhaul now it's really down to me to

try and Tackle all of this rust and

flaky paint I need to strip all this

back there is no way I can save the

original paint remove all of the rust

and then put a nice new coat of fresh

paint on that is as close matched to

possible as the original there's only

one very thin layer of paint over this I

think I'm going to try and chemically

strip it first then I can hand sand and

remove the rust before I paint it

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oh that was satisfying wasn't it all of

that paint just peeling off like that

brilliant you can see all of these

little rusty areas you can see where

there's there's been a chip in the paint

That's exposed the steel underneath the

water has then crept underneath the

paint and the rust has really started to

set in this is the main reason why I had

to remove all of the paint this process

has worked so well I'm going to do the

same thing on all the other metal

painted parts I'll get everything

stripped back to a nice bare metal

finish okay I'm ready to remove the top

cover of the motor I've disconnected all

the wires so tried to do it gently it

doesn't always work that way there we go

yes it did each of these single little

copper strips are connected to this wire

which makes this rotate all this needs

to be cleaned polished the reason why

you do do this CU if you get all debris

in between these little pieces of copper

it can actually short out then the motor

will not rotate properly will not give

you the amount of suction required and

therefore you won't be picking up all

the

dirt things have taken a slight

downwards turn for ca's vacuum cleaner

I've got all the paint stripped off and

I've soaked all the bare metal pieces in

a a removing solution overnight the

areas where it was Rusty has corroded

away and just left me with holes and

when we plug that in for the first time

I want it to hover off the table and

Float across the side and if there's all

these extra holes the motor and the fan

are not going to be working as they were

originally intended to it's going to be

pulling in air from the sides through

these holes so it's really important

that I get all of this sealed up as it

should be so I'm using solder like a

lead

solder once it's on there it becomes

part of the metal so you know it's not

like a filler that's going to break and

crack and chip off it needs to be moled

enough so that it will flow but not too

molten cuz then it will just fall

through the hole this is thankfully

going really well and I'm just working

my way around it's all inside this sort

of circumference of this inner panel so

I'm just methodically working my way

around filling all of the little pin

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holes I I am at the moment reassembling

everything so I can do an electrical

bench test I've done individual tests on

each of the components but until it's

all fitted together and you plug it in

that's the only real time you know for

sure proof is in the

pudding I've connected this unit up this

is called a variac this allows me to

slowly turn the Main's voltage up at a

control level and I've got to gently

hold that here we go that's only at 37

volts

but there we go yes that's good whoa

whoa whoa whoa you go down the other way

yeah no that's good yeah that's great

that actually shows it's fully

functional and when given the

opportunity to have full power that

baby's going to take off that can now go

over to Dom and relief for me I'm glad

to say

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all these bits of the vacuum cleaner are

looking good all the primer done sanded

back ready for the Final Cut of paint I

spent some time to match the color so I

can be sure that the paint that I'm

using is as close as I could possibly

get to the original it's going to look

like the vacuum cleaner that CA

remembers

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also taking her final steps towards

completion is

Susie I've really enjoyed working on

this little

shoe a lot more than I was actually

anticipating because of its condition

really wasn't convinced I would be able

to get to this point but with this

lovely form that will has

made it has really become such a joy to

work on both the strap and the Buckle

are in place just have to punch a few

holes and it'll be ready to give back to

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John with this little lost shoe arrived

at the barn it was in tatters and the

back had worn away a treasured Talisman

carried by his father and grandfather

through two world wars Jonathan has

returned to collect it feeling a little

apprehensive and quite know what to

expect I wasn't quite sure exactly what

she was going to do to it so that

perhaps makes it even more

exciting hello John it's lovely to see

you again how you doing you're all right

very well thank you excited I am truly

excited well I'm excited for you to see

this cuz this is one of the repairs that

I thought was impossible I mean the

condition you brought it in was just

yeah had its fair share of wear and tear

over the years that's for sure but

I'm oh want to see what she's done I'm

sure it's well let's see Susie

okay oh

wow oh man can I pick it up

I'm

speechless oh

dear

oh I reckon

that's that's my grandfather saw sitting

in the mud yes all those years ago I to

thank you it's extraordinary I didn't

think you were going to do any of

this it's just so important

it's the only link we have between my

grandfather who I never met M he passed

on to my dad it's just something

wonderful for the family and it's it

it's a worthless little shoe yeah but to

us it's Priceless it's just

extraordinary and this is just uh my

most treasured position see your face

and you're happy um that means the world

to me you know from the bottom of my

heart I'm forever grateful thank you

Jonathan it's been an honor to have

little Shu in here and for you to honor

your grandfather and your father's

journey in like second and first world

war wow yeah and keep them both safe

well let's get it home safe now let's

get it wrapped up

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okay thank you both thank you so much

pleasure take care byee bye byee

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he was happy unbelievably yeah I'm

feeling completely overwhelmed I'm

speechless I'm lost for

words I think my family would say it's

not possible but it's it's definitely

possible nothing could have prepared me

for this nothing it's it's brilliant

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kton has removed all signs of the

discolored repair from the Victorian

dolls t- head but her work is far from

done I'm going to be using a two-part

epoxy resin to bond the pieces together

it's quite difficult to get really nice

joins on this and that's because the

edges with handling have been worn and

it just makes it a little bit more

difficult to align the

pieces you can't rush it and if it's not

right you need to undo it and redo it

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The Jug was definitely the most

difficult piece to put together the next

stage is to start the color filling

process I'm going to use a piece of wax

that I'm going to place behind and fill

onto it

I'm just going to place it into some

warm

water just need it to be really quite

malleable but not

melting that's great I'm going to be

using an epoxy resin and I'm going to

bulk that with some fumed silica and

some glass Bubbles as well and they're

basically a ner fillers that will enable

me to turn the this runny resin into a

paste to get the best results you really

really need to put the time in getting

this

paste as firm as possible but you get a

really lovely

hard and glaze

like look with it

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this color fill technique to make up the

missing area on the side of the jug has

worked really well giving the piece

stability and a lovely surface now to

put the detail back onto the blue and

white design is a

transfer pattern this particular design

is called cottage and you can see the

little it's almost a a chalet on the

side here I think the most important

factor is to get the blue

correct I've got a ceramic glaze here

and I'm going to go for a powdered

pigment and I'm going to use this little

teapot as a as a

reference these trees that are in this

design I absolutely love they're almost

like Starburst patterns and they're also

quite nice to

recreate just with little dab brush

strokes and I'm confident now that this

quite large area of fill is going to

blend

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in having reunit the newly painted

classic vacuum with the mended mortar

from Mark and scrubbed the gra ridden

attachments clean Dom's readying for

lift off there we go that is lid the

hinge for the lid in

place perfect well this is a Moment of

Truth Now is it going to work here we go

I'm

nervous oh look

w we got lift off here we go

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brilliant oh that is a relief that is so

good I'm really really I'm just chuffed

with that absolutely chuffed you know

what I cannot wait to see ca's face when

we fire this thing up and it's hovering

across the bench in

there this clapped out vintage vacuum

spent three decades rusting away in a

garage a momento of her happy childhood

corses back hoping to see it take flight

once again it's a reminder of simpler

times when it didn't take much to make

you

happy okay here we go me and my sister

playing on that childhood is such a nice

pdv oh oh nice to see you thank you and

excited I am really excited I can't wait

to see the vacuum cleaner I'm just

hoping it's going to look really shiny

and new you want to see it then I

definitely want to see it yeah you ready

yeah wow

that looks fabulous that is amazing I

love the color it is just so shiny you

happy yeah I I can't believe how shiny

the pipe is that is how I remember it

sort of looking when I played with it

it's amazing that it can carry on

another life now indeed to your daughter

what do you think she'll make of it she

would love it she'll absolutely love it

I can't believe you haven't asked us to

turn it on yet I was going to just say

are we going to try it yeah we have to

don't we yeah well that's over to you I

just feel nervous doing it even turning

it on

wow it's amazing isn't it can't believe

that it works it does it hovers look

look how easily that moves it was really

good when you're little and you're

pulling that look how smoothly that

moves that's the movement and that's why

it was so much fun cuz you just drag it

around the house is that how you

remember it Hing like exact hovering

like that that's absolutely amazing

unbelievable it really is I'm so

impressed that's great taking you back

to being a kid is it yeah definitely

need a bigger version I know that you

can actually ride

yeah thank you so much you're so welcome

this has been so much fun for both of us

to work on we will make sure we get it

all boxed up and we'll get it sent back

to you see you later

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bye-bye when I turned it on I just think

the gliding motion of it you remember

exactly that's how it felt when we were

playing with

it I think it's so amazing that this was

such a important part and a fun part of

my childhood and that I can like pass it

on to my daughter and it can sort of

have a New Journey with her and be an

important part of her

life nearly ready to go home is the tiny

te- set with its decorative pattern

restored kton has one final task to

complete

I'm going to retouch over this blue

decoration using a ceramic restoration

glaze it's an acrylic and what it does

is it will draw all of that together and

give a lovely glossy

surface I'm just going to mix a little

bit of water with it

to help it flow onto the surface

well one once this has cured I will go

over the surface with a micr mesh which

is a polishing fabric so I can get it

really really glossy and shiny copying

that glazed surface

beautifully this will be the first time

that Sue will be able to display this

since she's owned it without the t- set

having sections missing and and broken

areas so I can't wait to show it to

her this 18th century dolls T set

inspired many happy hours of childhood

play until it was smashed to Pieces

during a

burglary now Sue's back with

granddaughter Emily hoping to see it

complete

again very

emotional uh it's been 50 years broken

and I really can't believe I might be

seeing it looking right so a little bit

of tration

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hello s hello C hi Emily lovely to see

you again and you

too welcome back thank you are you

looking forward to seeing the tea set

I'm so looking forward to it I just

loved it so much so it's going to bring

back a lot of memories this yeah well

Emily would you be kind enough to

carefully remove the cloth for me

oh my oh my goodness

me oh oh wow oh Emily it's beautiful

isn't it oh isn't that absolutely lovely

that's amazing look at

the person him that was that was just

holes and this was all

glued you can't even tell it's been

smashed

no it's as if it's never been broken no

it really is yeah absolutely this how

you remembered it yeah absolutely lovely

sitting at granny you know that all I

wanted to do was go and play with this

te set and um yeah I'm it's just uh I

don't know I've just loved it so much

always and I hope now might go to a six

Next Generation family hopefully yes

it's absolutely lovely if you're happy I

will pack it up for you and bring it out

thank youever so much been a great

pleasure byebye bye-

bye it was so amazing to see it complete

just hard to get my head around it

really um 50 years of it being

broken unbelievable that now it's so

it's just so exciting so exciting it's

so nice to see part of granny's

childhood and it probably exactly how it

was when you were playing with them B

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
repair /rɪˈpɛər/ B1	verb - to fix or restore something that is damaged
leather /ˈlɛðər/ B1	noun - material made from animal skin
vacuum /ˈvækjuːm/ B1	noun - device that uses suction to clean
solder /ˈsɒldə(r)/ B2	verb - to join metal parts using a metal alloy
consolidate /kənˈsɒlɪdeɪt/ C1	verb - to make something stronger or more solid
rust /rʌst/ B2	noun - a reddish‑brown flaky corrosion on iron
epoxy /ˈiːpɒk.si/ C1	noun - a strong adhesive resin
resin /ˈrɛzɪn/ B2	noun - sticky substance from plants or synthetically made, used in adhesives
heirloom /ˈhɛr.luːm/ C1	noun - valuable object passed down through generations
decades /ˈdɛk.eɪdz/ B2	noun - periods of ten years
buckle /ˈbʌkəl/ B1	noun - fastener with a hinged clasp
strap /stræp/ B1	noun - long narrow piece of material used to hold something
fragile /ˈfrædʒaɪl/ B2	adjective - easily broken or damaged
tiny /ˈtaɪni/ A2	adjective - very small
broken /ˈbrəʊkən/ A2	adjective - damaged, not whole
preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ B2	verb - to keep something in its original condition
assemble /əˈsɛmbl/ B2	verb - to put together parts
paint /peɪnt/ B1	verb - to apply colour with pigment
motor /ˈməʊtər/ B1	noun - machine that converts electricity into mechanical motion
antique /ænˈtiːk/ B2	adjective - old, valuable object from a past era

Key Grammar Structures

• so when we plug that in I want it to hover off the table float across the side

  ➔ Infinitive of purpose ('to hover', 'to float')

  ➔ The infinitive verbs 'to hover' and 'to float' express the purpose of the action 'plug that in'.

• my grandfather was in the first old war in France and he spotted this baby shoe on top of the mud at the side of the road

  ➔ Past simple ('was', 'spotted')

  ➔ The past simple verbs 'was' and 'spotted' describe completed actions in the past.

• I kind of felt it was a a link to him in a way

  ➔ Modal verb ('kind of felt')

  ➔ The modal verb 'kind of felt' expresses uncertainty or approximation in the speaker's emotion.

• whatever you're able to do anything any Improvement of the sorry state that it's in

  ➔ Conditional clause ('whatever you're able to do')

  ➔ The conditional clause 'whatever you're able to do' introduces a condition or possibility.

• I need to consolidate this leather which will be making all the fibers a little bit more stable

  ➔ Future continuous ('will be making')

  ➔ The future continuous 'will be making' describes an action that will be in progress at a specific time in the future.

• I've got this little form I can get on with repairing this little shoe

  ➔ Present perfect ('I've got')

  ➔ The present perfect 'I've got' refers to an action that was completed in the past and has a result in the present.

• I think by having the tea service restored it will make everything complete for me

  ➔ Future simple ('will make')

  ➔ The future simple 'will make' predicts a future action or result.

• I'm going to retouch over this blue decoration using a ceramic restoration glaze

  ➔ Going to future ('I'm going to retouch')

  ➔ The 'going to' future 'I'm going to retouch' expresses a planned future action.