Memorable Repairs

◆ The oldest item repaired is a rare Lantern Clock from the 1600s. It was believed to have been made by Thomas Loome, one of the world’s most respected clockmakers.

◆ An old GEC radio belonged to widower Albert Thompson. Albert and his late wife Eileen bought the radio together when they first started courting in the 1950s but it had been out of action for years.

◆ The Teddy Bear

Ladies – Amanda

Middleditch and Julie

Tatchell – repaired a teddy bear owned by a lady who was abandoned on a house doorstep as a baby. She was adopted by the homeow wners and the bear was the first gift they bought her.

◆ In series two, a violin was brought in by the niece of the original owner, Rosa. When Rosa was taken to Auschwitz during the war she was spared death when an officer spotted her violin and put her in the camp’s orchestra. It had remained in the family ever since.

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“This is a part of life and for me personally it was a very cathartic moment because I actually hadn’t started grieving until that moment.”

As well as filming the show, Suzie still works as a saddle maker for private clients. She also has her own apprentice to make sure the “old ways”

of leatherwork don’t die out.

“I’m one of the last people who have been taught the old-fashioned ways ys of doing things. If I die without sharing that, it dies with me, so it’s really important I share them.”

The Repair S Shop airs Wednesdays, d 8pm on

BBC One www.myweekly.co.uk