The Repair Shop

S05:E38 - Railway Lamp, House Fire Music Box, Toadstool

Railway Lamp, House Fire Music Box, ToadstoolToday in the Repair Shop, Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life.Woodwork expert Will Kirk is enchanted by a musical jewelry box that miraculously survived a devastating house fire. Pamela Lamb from Devon cherishes this memento, as it belonged to her elder sister, who sadly passed away as a teenager. Pamela still remembers happy times when Vera and her would play with the box and was relieved when against all odds it was salvaged from the house fire. The fire scarred the pretty painted box and the musical mechanism no longer works. Will lovingly cleans and touches up the Venetian scene and repairs the internal compartments. Musical box master Steven Kember comes to the rescue of the small wind up mechanism. He carefully dismantles the tiny workings and by cleaning and servicing them all, manages to restore the dulcet tones. Pamela is over the moon.A team effort is called for to restore a piece of Victorian railway history. Alan Norley brings a lamp, that served his grandfather and father on the railways, for the mechanical mind of Steve Fletcher. The lamp signifies his childhood growing up in a family of proud railwaymen and he hopes that Steve can get it shining bright once more, restoring all those happy memories. Decades of service have left the lamp looking worse for wear, with missing and broken glass panels and tired paintwork. Stained glass expert Matt Nichols employs a clever technique to cast the curved coloured glass pieces called 'slumping' and metal work man Dominic Chinea gives the lamp a total overhaul.And restorers Susie Fletcher, Will Kirk and Kirsten Ramsay also join forces to revive a unique item delivered by Girl Guide leader Anne Wheway. Anne's Brownie troop are the proud custodians of a large, wooden framed, canvas covered toadstool, which is used for Brownie ceremonies. Not much is known about this crumbling curiosity but Anne and many little girls would love the team to give it some tlc. Susie patches the canvas, Will repairs the wooden frame, Kirsten revives the painted pixies and fairy folk on the top and in the process the team unearth the origin and age of this delightful item.