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Jay Blades and the team bring four treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life.

Andrew Denly and his wife Sheila are hoping clockmaker Steve Fletcher can fix a vintage boy鈥檚 toy with big memories attached. The antique toy cannon was handed down to Andrew from his grandfather, who bought it with his pocket money in 1907. Andrew鈥檚 grandfather was his boyhood hero, and his little cannon much treasured, though it hasn鈥檛 fired a shot for over 50 years. Steve has to use all his mechanical ingenuity to get this miniature military piece ready for combat once again.

Stringed instrument restorer Julyan Wallis takes on a beloved banjo that once belonged to Kipper Tranter鈥檚 dear departed friend, Ted. Many years ago, Ted took a young Kipper under his wing, for which Kipper is eternally grateful. The friends shared a love of bluegrass music, regularly playing together, and when Ted died he left his treasured banjo to Kipper. But after decades of use, the 80-year-old Jedson instrument isn鈥檛 in great shape, and Kipper would love it to be repaired so that it can be passed onto another generation of musical talent.

Next to roll into the workshop is Julia Emmett from Berkshire with a pair of vintage roller skates for leather expert Suzie Fletcher. The 1930s skates were one of her father鈥檚 most treasured possessions, but over the leather is now parched and cracked, and the wooden wheels are riddled with holes, courtesy of some hungry woodworm. Suzie must fill each and every tiny hole in the wheels before trying to preserve, revive and refresh the deteriorating leather.

Both Will Kirk and silversmith Brenton West are called upon when David Worssom arrives with a very old and very elaborate wooden salad bowl. This unusual item was presented to David鈥檚 grandfather in the late 1800s during his service in the Boer War. Passing down to his son, David鈥檚 father, the bowl was a familiar fixture in David鈥檚 childhood, always sitting by the front door, ready to receive his father鈥檚 keys and loose change when he walked in the door. Now the bowl has passed down to David, but the various wooden segments are falling apart, held together by just its tarnished silver fretwork. While Brenton tends to the silver, Will must work out how to save the wooden parts.