The Repair Shop

S06:E46 - Elijah's Painting, Ana's Doll and Parisian Plate

Today in the Repair Shop, Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life.Painting conservator Lucia Scalisi welcomes a symbolic seascape painting into the barn. Owners Jenny and James sought solace on the Pembrokeshire seashore when they lost their baby son Elijah after only 37 days. For them, this painting of a rocky harbour and rowing boat has come to symbolise the turbulent emotions they've encountered. Working on such a poignant painting is a huge responsibility for Lucia but when the couple returns to see her restoration they are utterly blown away.Bear ladies Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell are tasked with reviving a dislocated doll belonging to Ana who fled to the UK from Bosnia with her parents when she was a child. With mechanical maestro Steve Fletcher getting a head start on the doll's squiffy eye, the ladies turn their attention to making the baby doll more robust and a little less scary.And ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsey revives an earthenware Parisian plate belonging to a family that fled the Nazi invasion of France and subsequently travelled around the globe, always with their precious plate in tow.