The Repair Shop - Season 8 (2021)

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. First to arrive is Tom Wenham, with a pair of running shoes used by his grandma when she represented Great Britain at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The bespoke shoes enabled Audrey and her relay teammates to race their way to a silver medal in front of Hitler. Repairing the running shoes is a huge responsibility for the barn's newest recruit, cobbler Dean Westmoreland. Paper conservator Louise Drover is called upon to painstakingly revive a damaged photograph of a ...

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. First, art conservator Lucia Scalisi faces the thrilling task of restoring a rare 17th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I. For owner Howard Bird, the painting is invaluable, as it represents a lifeline between himself and a dear friend who sadly passed away. As Lucia scales away the layers of dark overpaint, she makes a discovery that sheds new light on this historic royal portrait. Wood and metal experts Will and Dom team up to tackle...

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. First up is a unique and challenging commission for bear repair duo Amanda and Julie. Dolls Amy and David are the treasured possessions of 36-year-old Jess Hiles. First given to her when she was five, they have been her constant companions through thick and thin for over 30 years. Now Amy and David are looking their age, with missing limbs and tired bodies. While Jess would like them to be preserved for the future, she would also like one or two additional ...

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. First to arrive is Marcia Bryan, with a precious doll for the attention of toy restorers Julie and Amanda. This dislocated doll serves as a reminder of Marcia's time in a children's home in the 1950s, where she lived with her twin brother from the age of six weeks. As a little girl, Marcia bonded with Diana the Doll as they shared the same skin colour. Decades later, Marcia is moved to tears when she returns to the barn to see that her precious dolly has been ...

Jay Blades and the team bring four 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 a rowing boat has come to symbolise the turbulent emotions they have encountered. Working on such a poignant painting is a huge responsibility for Lucia, but when the couple returns to see her restoration, they...

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. A daunting task has ceramics restorer Kirsten worried. Jayne Marston has brought in her parent's four-foot-high, heavy stone bird bath in the hope Kirsten can preserve it. Wherever Jayne's family moved the bird bath would follow, uprooted and replaced at the new house with great effort by her dad. Jayne's mum made her promise to keep feeding the birds and to keep water in the bath, telling Jayne 'whenever the birds are near so am I'. However, the bird bath is now ...

Jay Blades and the team restore a barber's chair, an Iranian musical instrument, a roulette machine and a carousel horse.

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. First to pay a visit to the barn, and put their trust in master cobbler Dean, are Hayley Fellows and her mother Wendy. They have brought in a pair of speedway racing boots that evoke bittersweet memories. The boots belonged to Mike, who they recently lost to cancer. Having them restored was on his bucket list, and the women are determined to honour that final request. Organ restorer David faces a mammoth task when he takes on a 1960s electric organ. It belonged to ...

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. Londoner Pablo Henderson is first to arrive, with his late father's defunct record turntable. His father arrived in the UK from Jamaica in the 1960s and loved music. The turntable would provide the sweet sounds of reggae music for the huge sound system that Pablo's father set up at neighbourhood parties. Electronics expert Mark gets the dilapidated deck back in tip-top condition once again, while Will crafts an impressive plinth to house it. Andy Matthews and his ...

Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. First through the workshop doors today is Minty Barlow, with a miniature replica house. It was once part of a model village tourist attraction in her home town of Cleethorpes. Her parents saved it when the attraction closed down in the 1970s and relocated it to their garden. There they created a magical world of fantasy and fairies for Minty and her brother. Young Minty was captivated by the fairy house and would love her daughter to see it in its original, ...

Jay and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life. There is an exciting challenge for furniture restorer Sonnaz , when she is given the opportunity to work on an iconic piece of Danish design known as an egg chair. Christine Langton and her daughter Kate deliver an armchair designed by Arne Jacobsen. Husband Maurice loved this chair and sat proudly in it throughout his life. Next to arrive is Nick Wimshurst, with a remarkable item invented by his great-great-grandfather. The instrument has been in Nick's family for over ...