The Repair Shop

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Shining a light on the wonderful treasures to be found in homes across the country.

Enter a workshop filled with expert craftspeople, bringing loved pieces of family history and the memories they hold back to life. A heartwarming antidote to throwaway culture.

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Steven Fletcher

William Kirk

Jay Blades

Robert Pugh

Sandy Watson

Suzie Fletcher

Amanda Middleditch

Julie Tatchell

Tim Gunn

The Repair Shop: 60-Minute Versions: Episode 17

Episode 17

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BBC One - The Repair Shop, 60-Minute Versions, Episode 17

The team restores a bike with a patriotic past and a threadbare teddy on wheels.

The team restores a bike with a patriotic past, a threadbare teddy on wheels, a battered old firefighter's helmet and a remarkable Victorian viewing machine.

Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life.

Vintage bike restorer Tim Gunn brings all his skill to bear on a wartime bicycle once owned and used by a Bletchley Park code breaker. Huw Banister’s mum Rachel rode to and from work every day on this trusty machine, as she strove to crack enemy communications during World War II. But the subsequent years have not been kind to Rachel's bike, which has stood gathering dust for decades. Now in her nineties, Huw would love Rachel to see her beloved bicycle made roadworthy, and to see it ridden once again.

Soft toy restorers Amanda and Julie take on a bear on wheels, much loved by his owner Janet, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a child. Janet used her sturdy friend to learn to walk, and fondly dubbed him 'Wheelie Ted'. But poor old Wheelie Ted is now a shadow of his former self. Worst of all, to save this dilapidated toy from further deterioration, he was sewn into a new cover 60 years ago and has been kept under wraps ever since. Once the cover is removed, Amanda and Julie discover that he is missing his face - and with no eyes, ears or a nose, it is a challenge to give this little bear his smile back.   

It is a family affair as horologist Steve Fletcher recruits fellow expert and sister Suzie to work on a neglected and battered old 19th-century firefighter's helmet.

And woodworker Will Kirk and silversmith Brenton West team up to repair an old Victorian stereoscope that sparked a lifelong obsession.

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