The Repair Shop

- Season 2

(2018)

Items restored include a camera that has not taken a photo in over a hundred years, a 20th century wooden screen and a violin that spent WWII in Auschwitz.

The team restore iconic leather sling back Les Arcs chairs, a damaged picture window depicting a colourful boat at sea and a German made toy steam roller from the 1930s.

A broken hand mirror containing the portrait of a mysterious French lady, a murky painting of fog on the River Thames and an 18th-century timepiece are the latest items to be restored.

A very special music box damaged by a bomb during The Blitz, a stuffed toy lamb torn apart by a dog and a treasured pair of fire tongs all receive attention from the team of experts.

An ornate antique tobacco pipe made from a mineral called meerschaum, an early 20th-century record player and radio and a huge ceramic pitcher decorated with an infamous scene from Roman history are restored.

The team of expert antique restorers tackle a rickety, water-damaged rosewood table, an antique French toy steam battleship and a lady's much-loved but threadbare stuffed-toy panda.

A beautiful Japanese Imari bowl that has been smashed to bits, a unique village sign and a replica of an iconic Dennis fire engine provide the latest challenges for the repair shop experts.

Two badly-damaged stained-glass windows rescued from a variety theatre, a clock made from the propeller of a crashed WWI plane and an antique shoe-stretching machine are today's items.

Resident clockmaker Steve tackles an intricate Boulle-work clock that hasn't ticked for over fifteen years. Meanwhile, soft toy restorers Julie and Amanda take on a jumbo-sized project in the shape of a threadbare, but much loved, wheeled elephant. Will, the youngest member of the team, gets the oldest item, a 300 year-old desk to repair and restore.

Whether rare antique or common keepsake, the repair shop team restores those family heirlooms with sentimental value beyond compare.

Gramophone Expert Tim Weeks tackles a portable Peter Pan gramophone that has seen better days. No longer able to spin records, Will Tim be able to fix it so that it can play music once more? Meanwhile Will and Sonnaz take on the repair and restoration of a child's rocking chair and Steve gets an old cash register from 1913 to sort out and make good.

Soft toy restorers Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell take two well-worn teddy bears under their wing. Big Ted and Little Ted have spent nearly a lifetime together. Meanwhile Steven Fletcher deals with a much-loved, steam powered vintage car and Dominic Chinea repairs and restores an old garden ornament in the form of a street lamp.

Steven Fletcher and Will Kirk work together to repair a broken barometer clock. The clock, barometer and thermometer all needing fixing and its wooden case has a missing carving. Meanwhile Lucia Scalisi is given the job of repairing and restoring an old Italian masters scene of the Paris embankment in winter. And New Zealand born bicycle expert Erik von Brommel has an old, battered Tri-ang tricycle to repair and restore.

Resident ceramic expert Kirsten Ramsay takes on a beautiful Majolica Vase, which has met with several accidents over the years; a lid broken into several pieces, damage from a falling painting, and a decorative cherub who has been decapitated. Meanwhile Steve Fletcher resurrects a spaceship bought with a Welsh child's Christmas money while Dom Chinea gets the job of fixing the old pub sign from The Ship Victory in Chester.

Metal expert Brenton West restores a century-old silver mirror that has been passed down the female line of the owner's family. Tim Weeks is asked to repair and restore an old, broken Edison phonograph and Suzie Fletcher deals with and old schoolgirl's writing case.