Episode
The Repair Shop: Episode 18
Overview
An eclectic mix of items are given a new lease of life, including two schoolboy scrapbooks made in tribute to Tolkien and a decrepit manicure set that survived the Liverpool Blitz.
Details
- Series
- The Repair Shop
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2023-01-25
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Episode 18 is Episode 18 in Series 11 of The Repair Shop. It aired on 2023-01-25. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 17
Art and industry come to the Repair Shop in the form of two ceramic doves believed to be linked to Picasso, an automaton depicting Victorian tradesfolk and a Welsh miner’s helmet.
Episode 19
The Repair Shop is the current destination for some globetrotting items, including a 200-year-old guitar from Vienna, a trunk that has toured Africa and a vintage pinball machine.
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Episode 16
Jay Blades and the team restore a set of bells that once noisily warned people of a horse’s arrival, a 1930s toy car that comforted a wartime evacuee, and a mid-century chair.
Episode 20
The team tackle three unusual projects, including a chair in which JFK once sat, a Walkman and a Royal Navy hat box filled with romantic love letters.
Episode 15
The team put the spice back into a painted pepper mill, and the teddy bear ladies see double as they fix two wind-up toys gifted to identical twins.
Episode 14
Jay Blades and the team restore a Victorian portrait of a formidable woman, an old-fashioned Middle Eastern heating device known as a brazier and a pottery horse.
Episode 13
Jay Blades and the team transform a mother-of-pearl coin purse, a flamenco guitar and a 1950s London black cab taxi meter.
Episode 12
Three highly sentimental heirlooms are thrown a lifeline, including an old fishing reel and a quirky leather footstool shaped like a pig.
Episode 11
Jay Blades and the team restore a beautifully decorated broken bowl, a miniature silver train spice box and a 1940s handcrafted leather football.
Episode 10
The team restore a pair of football boots, a wooden jack-in-the-box and a lamp.
Episode 9
The team restore a marching drum, a mug and a model windmill made by a much-missed father.
Episode 8
The experts restore a 1960s lawnmower, a sporting trophy and a 40-year-old leather belt.