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00:00Here at The Repair Shop, countless treasures have been brought back to life.
00:07Deep breath.
00:08Oh, gosh.
00:10That reveal so much about who we are.
00:12Happy tears.
00:13And where we're from.
00:15It's perfect.
00:16But there's so much more out there.
00:18Let's do it.
00:19That's not yet made it to the barn.
00:22Beautiful, isn't it?
00:23Absolutely beautiful.
00:24So the team are hitting the road.
00:26This is the perfect opportunity to meet some new people, learn some new skills, and maybe fix a few things on the way.
00:32Yeah, I'm up for that.
00:35On a unique adventure.
00:37Whoa!
00:39We're going to get some looks on the way back to the barn.
00:41To join forces with expert craftspeople.
00:44We're doing 130 hours just hanging on the hazels.
00:48On their most ambitious restorations yet.
00:50They all need replacing.
00:51Yes, hundreds of pieces of stone.
00:53Wow.
00:54Keeping heritage crafts alive.
00:56Good job with friends.
00:57I know, isn't it?
00:58And passing precious skills to future generations.
01:01Is he a good student?
01:02He is, yes.
01:03Does he listen to you?
01:04He does, for the most part.
01:06Sparking restorations across the country.
01:08You're part of the history of this now as well.
01:10The day, Dom and Lucia answer an SOS on board a legendary piece of maritime history.
01:27The oldest ship in Scotland, the third oldest in the world that's still floated.
01:31To help make its replica figurehead, Hall again.
01:35I hope you're good with the sculpt.
01:37I'm very good with the sculpt.
01:38Repairs kick off in a Dundee United Legends keepsake.
01:42This is a symbol of an amazing career and an amazing couple.
01:46And I can understand that you want it to be looking its best.
01:49And puzzle fan and fine art restorer Lucia learns about a landmark wooden jigsaw.
01:56It's quite a feat, isn't it?
01:58Sort of coming across 800-odd pieces of wood in storage.
02:01Dom and Lucia are heading to Dundee, the fourth largest city in Scotland.
02:13Its position on the River Tay and an innovative use of technology to process jute fibre
02:19in the city's many textile mills helped it to become an industrial, trading and shipbuilding powerhouse.
02:27It's also the birthplace of British Marmalade.
02:31Dundee is the home of jam, jute and journalism.
02:36What?
02:37DC Thompson, the home of the Beano and the Dandy.
02:40Wow, I did not know that.
02:41I know, quite an amazing thing really.
02:43Sounds like there's a lot going on in Dundee.
02:44I think a lot going on.
02:46This is going to be a journey of discovery.
02:48Yeah.
02:49Isn't it?
02:49Absolutely.
02:54The waterfront is where past and present combine.
02:57Glittering monoliths of regeneration
02:59sit cheek-by-jowl with reminders of Dundee's maritime history.
03:06RRS Discovery was built here and took Captain Scott to Antarctica.
03:11But it's not the only famous ship in these waters.
03:14This is the Cinderella story of a ship equally loved by the people of Dundee, but in desperate need of help.
03:23I am excited to have a nose around HMS Unicorn.
03:28Beautiful old wooden ship.
03:30Right.
03:31The third oldest ship in the world that's still in the water.
03:35Really?
03:36Yep.
03:36That's something, isn't it?
03:38Exactly.
03:38And I cannot wait to go right down and have a proper look around, a proper nose around.
03:43The figurehead needs a bit of work.
03:45Oh, is that why we're going to look at it?
03:47Exactly.
03:54Unicorn spent much of the 20th century as a naval reserve ship,
03:59with thousands of recruits training on board,
04:02including over 1,500 from the Women's Royal Naval Service.
04:08Well, HMS Unicorn, here we are.
04:12Oh, my word!
04:13A lot of work to be done here, isn't there?
04:16Yeah, I can't do that.
04:17Have you brought some tools with you?
04:19I brought a tape measure.
04:22Isn't that amazing in here?
04:23Yeah.
04:23OK, I'm going to head this way and find Matthew.
04:25I'll find Peter.
04:26You behave up there.
04:29Dom is following Matthew Bellhouse Moran,
04:32director of the HMS Unicorn Museum,
04:34into the bowels of the ship.
04:37Well, you can't be tall, can you?
04:39You can't.
04:39To see the extent of the damage done to its hull
04:44by 200 years of water and weather.
04:48You can see the rot here that runs throughout the hull.
04:52The amount of pressure that must be pushing in on these sides.
04:55This is all structural timber, but it's rotten.
04:57I don't like to dwell on it too much.
04:59OK, sorry.
05:00We've had structural surveys done recently
05:03and they have told us that, for the time being,
05:07the ship will maintain its structure.
05:09But for how much longer, we don't really know.
05:12OK.
05:13But we do have plans to improve the structural strength of the ship.
05:18Yeah.
05:18If this can't be repaired,
05:20is this going to be the end of the Unicorn?
05:23I hope not.
05:24So, we have plans in place for what we want to do long term,
05:27which is to move the ship into a dry dock or a graving dock
05:31so it's out of the water and into a supportive cradle.
05:33OK.
05:34So that if something catastrophic happens to the structure of the ship,
05:38we're not going to sink because we're not in water.
05:40You're not in the water.
05:41We are rapidly trying to fundraise
05:43to try and save the future of the ship.
05:45So, how is that going, the fundraising?
05:47It's going well, the very early stages.
05:49But the size of the ship, I mean, it's four storeys high,
05:55it's 60 metres long.
05:56It is enormous.
05:58We're in the regions of tens of millions of pounds, really.
06:01So, significant sons of mother.
06:04But, of course, you know,
06:06that's why it's so important that people know that we exist.
06:09Yeah.
06:10Spread the word.
06:11Coming down here,
06:12I'm really seeing the extent of the restorations that the ship needs.
06:16This project may be too big for the team to tackle,
06:20but there is something to be done to help kick-start the campaign.
06:24The museum have a portable replica of the ship's figurehead,
06:28used for fundraising.
06:30And it's also in need of repair.
06:34The figurehead is such an important part of it.
06:36It is, and it's, you know, one of the impactful things that people see.
06:40It carries the message.
06:41We're at the very beginning of what we know is going to be a long and difficult task.
06:47And I don't think there's a better way to start it
06:50than a symbolic, achievable repair.
06:53Marking the,
06:54it's our 200th year this year.
06:56Yeah.
06:56It's now or never for the ship.
06:58We've got to pull it all together,
07:00get started and just get it done.
07:01The figureheads are the face of the ship
07:04and the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
07:08Yeah.
07:09It's really important to us.
07:11It's sort of the soul of the ship.
07:15To restore the unicorn's broken ear,
07:19the team have tracked down the craftsmen who made it.
07:23Heraldic sculptor Peter Stuart Blacker.
07:26OK, so what happened to his ear?
07:28Well, he had a bit of an accident, I gather.
07:31OK, so he's one-horned, one-eared unicorn.
07:35Yes, but he's still magic.
07:37Despite some recent health issues,
07:39Peter's passionate about continuing with his work.
07:42I'm just recovering from a stroke.
07:45I'm still able to carve with my right hand,
07:49but I don't have much left hand use yet.
07:52Peter has carved coats of arms, figureheads, statues and crests
07:58in wood and fibreglass,
08:00creating pieces for Parliament, the armed forces and the royal family.
08:05Including this fibreglass replica, which he made in 1993.
08:09Now Peter's brought a wooden carving of an ear to help in casting a replacement.
08:16And is that in there, then?
08:17That's underneath the rubber.
08:19It needs to be split so that we can get it off.
08:23OK.
08:24I hope you're good with the scalpel.
08:26I'm very good with the scalpel.
08:27Let's have a go.
08:28The wooden ear should have formed the perfect rubber mould
08:32to make a brand new one for the figurehead.
08:35Oh, I'm getting the hang of this now.
08:36But only if Lucia is gentle with that knife.
08:40Oh, look at that.
08:42Right, OK.
08:43Oh, that's...
08:44Oh, look at that.
08:47Right, just keep pulling it off.
08:50Oh, look at this.
08:52It's like a dessert.
08:53Oh, look at that.
08:56That now is the easy bit over.
08:59So that's the mould?
09:00The mould will sit into the casing.
09:04OK.
09:05And that's what we fill with epoxy.
09:08Ah, OK.
09:09That actually, to me, looks a very clumsy item,
09:12but it's going to basically look as delicate as this.
09:15Yes.
09:15It's identical to the ear.
09:17That's fantastic.
09:18One to come out.
09:19Yeah.
09:19I have dealt with a few unicorns in my life.
09:25A lot of medieval paintings come up with unicorns in them.
09:28Yes, of course.
09:28So I have seen them.
09:29Yeah, of course you have.
09:30But this one's in three dimensions.
09:33Yes, absolutely.
09:35History is everywhere you look here,
09:38which isn't a surprise when it's been a fixture in Ndi for well over a century,
09:43since arriving from the Royal Dockyard at Chatham in 1873.
09:47This is quite a landmark for the local community here.
09:52It must be.
09:53I mean, you can't miss it.
09:55Yeah.
09:56Something that's really unusual about this ship
09:58is it's been pretty much in the same spot for so long, you know, 150 years.
10:02In the 1870s, the naval reserves in Dundee
10:05were outgrowing their current vessel.
10:07And so unicorn came up
10:09and was outfitted as a training ship for the Royal Naval Reserves,
10:13which was a function it served us for about 100 years.
10:16I've met so many people who said my mum was a wren
10:19and my dad was a reservist and they met on board and, you know...
10:22Of this ship.
10:23On this ship, and that's where they come along.
10:25Thousands of recruits came through here,
10:28really important to the locals as a meeting space,
10:30a communal meeting space,
10:31and just really valuable to them as part of Dundee's heritage.
10:34That is amazing.
10:35So many locals from Dundee have had some kind of connection.
10:38Yeah, so we as a charity want to preserve this ship
10:40in terms of hundreds of years.
10:42It took 1,000 mature oak trees to build a ship of this size.
10:48And somewhere between 90 and 95% of all the wood in the ship
10:51is the wood that was laid down in 1824.
10:57You can only use wood from specially managed forests
11:00cos you grow the trees into the shape of the timbers that you need
11:03for the ship you're planning to build.
11:05You're kidding.
11:05I'm not.
11:06Is that really...
11:07So you would actually train the tree to grow in a kind of curved shape
11:10to match the shape of the ship?
11:12Yeah.
11:14We may not be able to wait for those mighty oaks,
11:17but we can help nurture the green shoots of fundraising
11:19by getting the museum's replica figurehead ship-shape again.
11:25How are you getting on with the work?
11:27I'm glad that you're here.
11:29Why?
11:29Let Peter tell you.
11:31What's going on, Peter?
11:31Well, we want you to remove the broken ear.
11:36To get the remains of the old ear out?
11:37Out, yeah.
11:39Let me have a look.
11:42Let's pass us the knife.
11:43I'll have a little scrape first of all.
11:45Yeah, I think it's got a lot of filler around it, has it, Peter?
11:47Scalpel, Lucia.
11:48Scalpel.
11:49Scalpel, that's it.
11:49Yes, of course.
11:51Up to Dom.
11:55It's quite a strange feeling.
11:57Is it?
11:57Chiselling wire at this, knowing, you know, the importance of it.
12:00It wasn't expected to become a vet.
12:03And thank goodness that you're not.
12:08OK, pass us something a bit more heavy duty.
12:10Oh, OK.
12:16I'll be careful.
12:16Good.
12:21Oh!
12:25Perfect.
12:26Hey, look.
12:28Let's see his brain.
12:29Look.
12:32Once your resin has cured...
12:34Yeah.
12:34..we'll have a replica that you can just trim down,
12:37fit in there, fill the gap.
12:39Yeah.
12:40Then all it needs is some paint.
12:41Well done, thank you.
12:42Hey, you are so welcome.
12:44I think you've got the hard job now.
12:48Being on the road gives the team a chance
12:50to pick up more beloved items to repair.
12:52In the shadow of a dundee landmark, the Tay Bridge,
12:57Dom is meeting Amanda Coppell,
12:59who has something precious that belonged to another city legend.
13:03I have brought my late husband's Scotland Schoolboys International cap.
13:09This goes back to 60 years ago.
13:13Oh, my goodness.
13:14What was your husband's name?
13:15Frankie Coppell.
13:16OK.
13:17He would have been 75 this year, right?
13:20So, he signed for Manchester United as an apprentice when he was 14.
13:25And he was there in 1964 to 69, under Sir Mark Busby.
13:30And he was part of the Manchester United team that won the European Cup.
13:34Really?
13:35And then he became Jim McLean's first signing at Dundee United.
13:40So, how much of that journey were you part of?
13:42Well, we met in Falkirk.
13:45We lived across the road from each other.
13:48And we were 8 and 10 years old.
13:51You were 8 and 10 when you first met?
13:53Yes, when we first met.
13:55And he was coming down his path with a football under his arm.
14:01And he just says, come on, Amanda, I'll teach you how to play football.
14:05And I said, no, I don't want to play football.
14:07I'll get hurt.
14:07And he took my hand, Dom, this wee 10-year-old guy.
14:10And he just said, I'll never let anybody hurt you.
14:14And the rest, as they say, was history.
14:16It's amazing.
14:17Childhood sweethearts.
14:18Childhood sweethearts.
14:20I like to think we were soulmates.
14:23But, unfortunately, he was diagnosed with dementia.
14:27And he passed away in 2014, just after his 65th birthday.
14:33It was a shock.
14:35The day that we had got the diagnosis, he just said, well, dementia, Amanda, I said, sorry.
14:43He says, dementia, Amanda, he says, it's not the end of the world, is it?
14:49I just thought to myself, you're right, Frankie, it's not the end of the world, but it's the end of our world.
14:55And I would have taken him anywhere in the world if I had heard of a cure.
14:59Of course.
15:00I don't doubt that for a second.
15:02Of course you would.
15:05Because he was under 65, Frank's family had to pay for his personal care,
15:11often by selling precious memorabilia from his career.
15:16Amanda campaigned for free personal care for people of all ages.
15:20Frank's law was enacted in 2019, and she could never bear to part with Frankie's prized possession.
15:30It's emotional.
15:31And then, you know, when I look at that recap, I just, maybe it doesn't look much,
15:35but he used to sit and look at it, and, you know, he would say in these lucid moments,
15:41I played football and I got that, you know.
15:44And his eyes would just light up with it, because that was his pride and joy.
15:48This is a symbol of that journey that he had for the rest of his life.
15:51Well, that's right. That's right. And I hope something can be done.
15:56This would have been gold.
15:57Yes, yes. In Scotland, 1964.
16:00That should have been gold as well?
16:02Yes, yes, yes.
16:03I mean, that's the colour it would have.
16:06Bright and vivid. Is this worn from Frankie holding it?
16:09Yes, yes, yes.
16:11Just from Flutting holding it?
16:11I can understand. This is a symbol of an amazing career and an amazing couple,
16:17and I can understand that you want it to be looking its best.
16:20Amanda, thank you so much for trusting us with this beautiful cap.
16:24You're welcome. I'm sure you'll take very good care of it.
16:27I will.
16:29Frankie's cap will now make the journey to the repair shop bound to be restored.
16:34Whilst Peter is busy working on the unicorn and repairing its ear,
16:43I have been asked to come and have a look at a couple of things
16:46that they want to return to display.
16:48I have brought a few supplies and I'm going to see what I can help them with.
16:53The 200-year-old floaty museum is host to a wealth of treasures,
16:59some like the ship itself, a little the worse for wear.
17:03Curator Caitlin has unearthed a couple of relics for Lucia's attention.
17:08We have two pieces of our war memorial carvings.
17:12Unfortunately, just some of the damage and wear and tear,
17:15we haven't been able to fix up ourselves,
17:17so that's what we're hoping you can have a wee look at today for us.
17:20OK.
17:21We know that they date between the two wars,
17:24so between the First and Second World War.
17:26Between the wars, this is reflecting back to the First World War, isn't it?
17:30These wonderful words are definitely to the fallen of the First World War.
17:34Yeah.
17:35They play a very important part in the story of unicorn.
17:37So quite simple but effective ornament, really,
17:42with these very strong, stirring words on them,
17:46so it'd be great to see them back up here in the unicorn, won't it?
17:48OK, so the first thing that I'm going to do is a little test clean.
17:59Let's just see what's going to come off.
18:01This is just taking off all the surface dirt,
18:05and you can see there's no polish coming off there,
18:08which I don't want to do.
18:09So because you can't actually clean everything with saliva,
18:12I've got this cleaning solution,
18:14which is basically water,
18:16and it has a tiny drop of ammonia in it,
18:19and what that does is break the water tension,
18:21so it allows the water to do the cleaning.
18:31So the unicorn has seen lots of, I don't know,
18:34maybe action's the wrong word?
18:36It's trained people for action.
18:38200 years ago, when it was finished being built,
18:40the war it was needed for had ended, the conflict was over.
18:44Yeah.
18:45However, it's been in Dundee training reservists
18:47for over 150 years,
18:49particularly during the First and Second World Wars.
18:52We had the Women's Royal Naval Service, the Wrens,
18:55and they ended up playing a really vital and important part
18:59in the war effort.
19:01The idea was that they could free a man for the fleet,
19:04and so they would come on and learn jobs
19:06like code-breaking and radio operating.
19:09There must have been a great sense of freedom
19:11and independence for the women,
19:13which hadn't been available to them before.
19:15Yes, for a lot of the women,
19:17it was their first opportunity to break out,
19:20do something for themselves
19:22without having to necessarily get permission from anyone else.
19:24Yeah.
19:25For a lot of them, this was their first opportunity
19:28at learning to, for example, drive a car
19:32or getting to work with other women their own age
19:36and get lots more independence.
19:38That's, it's quite amazing.
19:40How far have we come?
19:41Yes, there's still a lot more that we hope to do,
19:44particularly focusing on the role that women played,
19:47not just in the wars,
19:49but more generally in HMS Unicorns history.
19:52Yeah.
19:53Look at this.
19:54Actually, this has cleaned up better than I thought possible.
19:57This has not got anything on the surface
19:59other than having had the dirt taken off.
20:01So I'm going to do a little bit of retouching
20:04just to knock that sort of lighter area out
20:06so it doesn't catch your eye.
20:07I'm only going to do it with watercolour
20:09so it'll be quite matte.
20:11Just literally cover these damages
20:13with a bit of darker colour.
20:14That's all that's happening.
20:16And it means that this watercolour,
20:17if it ever needs to come off,
20:19it can come off quite easily.
20:20You can see it's just sort of staining the wood
20:30a little bit.
20:32Looks great.
20:33OK.
20:42So I've put a little bit of gold
20:44on the little missing bits of lettering
20:46and the letters are starting to read a bit better.
20:49I just need to leave that to driver now.
21:01Lucia's skills have transformed these humble plaques,
21:05revealing their beauty
21:06and ensuring they can continue
21:07to commemorate all those whose naval careers
21:10began right here on the Unicorn.
21:14What do you think?
21:15Well, they look far better
21:16than when we brought them in this morning.
21:18They're definitely looking a lot brighter and shinier,
21:21very much display worthy now.
21:22Oh, good, good, good.
21:24It means a lot to a lot of people, doesn't it?
21:26Yeah, it means a lot,
21:26especially to the people in Dundee.
21:28This is just one part of a very big story.
21:30Yeah, absolutely.
21:35Do you know what's really wonderful about this?
21:37To be able to feel that I've actually contributed
21:40to the history of this ship
21:41and to the items that are on board
21:43and it's just a little thing,
21:45but it's a real privilege to be part of the history.
21:48I've had a great time.
21:52With the memorial plaque shining again
21:54and the repair of the figurehead underway,
21:58Dom and Lucia have a chance to share their experiences
22:01of visiting the historic ship.
22:04HMS Unicorn was mind-blowing.
22:06The water level outside was above our waist,
22:10so we were essentially underwater,
22:12surrounded by, well, the hull of the boat.
22:15All the timber's rotten, the ironwork's rotten.
22:17Imagine the water pressure pushing in on that ship.
22:22Wow.
22:22I quite liked their attitude towards the restoration.
22:27Which is?
22:27A lot of ships like that,
22:28you would think it's going to be back on the water,
22:31so all the rotten timbers get rid of them, replace it.
22:33Yeah.
22:34But then all of the timbers and the ironwork,
22:3795% nearly, is original.
22:40Untouched.
22:41Yeah, that's a really interesting conundrum, though, isn't it?
22:44I really like that whole question about
22:46should we or shouldn't we,
22:47because there's a lot of pros and cons
22:49to each side of the argument,
22:51but you know me,
22:52I'm all for keeping every square centimetre
22:56of original material.
22:57Yes, like that is worth more
22:58than actually having it sea-worthy.
23:01Yeah.
23:02I would have been a bit sad
23:02if I'd gone right down to the bottom
23:04and seen all new timber.
23:06Yeah.
23:06I think may as well make a replica
23:08if you're going to do that.
23:09Exactly.
23:09Yeah.
23:09You need people like Peter,
23:11craftspeople,
23:12to be able to fix the ships.
23:14Yeah.
23:14I appreciate that what Peter's doing
23:16on the figurehead
23:17is a drop in the ocean.
23:19Yeah.
23:19It may only be an ear on a figurehead,
23:22but it's the start of a journey,
23:24a massive journey,
23:25that is going to mean so much
23:26to the local community.
23:27And the United legend Frank's football cap
23:41has made it to the repair shop.
23:44Getting the ball rolling on its renovation
23:45is hatter,
23:46Jayesh Vergara.
23:49Dom has given me this cap
23:51which belonged to Frank.
23:53Frank suffered from dementia
23:55and during that time,
23:58for Frank,
23:58this was his comfort.
24:01And because of handling the gold
24:03and the braiding,
24:04it has completely tarnished.
24:07To revive the gold in the braiding,
24:10I'm going to use needle
24:11and my handy toothbrush.
24:14The reason I'm using dry clean
24:16for the trimming
24:16is because if I use wet clean,
24:19what will happen is
24:20it'll start to run into the fabric
24:21and it will start to affect the colour.
24:23I can see that it's having
24:40a very good effect.
24:43It's bringing out the gold
24:46which is underneath.
24:48The dirt is coming away beautifully.
24:53Perseverance and candy of elbow grease.
24:58I will get this cap
25:00back to the way it was
25:02when this cap was given to Frank.
25:10In Dundee,
25:11the incredible workshop
25:12of heraldic sculptor Peter
25:14hosts a messy mission.
25:17The mould of the ear
25:19he showed Le Chier
25:20aboard HMS Unicorn
25:21is about to be used
25:23by his colleague
25:24also called Peter.
25:26We use silicon
25:27because it reproduces
25:30precisely the every detail
25:32of the original article.
25:35Peter's now mixing
25:36the catalyst
25:37into the epoxy resin
25:40and the actual fiberglass strands
25:42to strengthen it.
25:44So it starts
25:45the hardening process.
25:47It is poured in slowly
25:51so that air
25:52so that air can come out
25:53of the resin
25:54as it goes into the mould
25:56so you don't end up
25:58with air bubbles
25:59in the actual ear.
26:04Once it's gone hard,
26:06we can take the whole thing apart
26:08and hopefully have a perfect year.
26:13While the restoration
26:14of the unicorn
26:15takes another tiny step forward,
26:17Giesch has finished
26:19the first stage
26:20of his work
26:21on Frankie's football cap.
26:27It has come up really well
26:29with the cleaning,
26:30but the thing is
26:31with this type of metal,
26:34once the gold
26:35has tarnished,
26:37even by cleaning
26:38the surface,
26:39unfortunately,
26:40the gold
26:41does not come back
26:43to the way it looked.
26:44So what I'm going to do
26:46is find a perfect match
26:48of paint
26:49and then highlight
26:51the braiding.
26:53The paint I'm using
26:54is acrylic.
26:56When it goes
26:56on a metal surface,
26:57it adheres really well.
27:10I'm not completely
27:11covering the whole braiding.
27:13I'm just touching
27:14the top surface
27:16so it just literally highlights.
27:19I want that texture
27:20of the metalwork
27:22in the braiding
27:22to come through
27:23and still be visible
27:24the way it was
27:26in 1964.
27:35I'm using my left hand
27:38as a support
27:39so I have a better
27:41control over the brush.
27:48The peak
27:49is looking really great
27:50and I'm going to move on
27:51to the rest
27:52of the braiding
27:54and then
27:55a final steam
27:56and the cap
27:57is ready.
28:04Back in Dundee,
28:06Peter is at a crucial stage
28:08of his repair too,
28:10demoulding the replacement ear
28:12for the finger head.
28:14Hallelujah,
28:15it's off now.
28:18So we'll see
28:19has this worked or not.
28:23That's looking pretty good now.
28:30There you go,
28:32one ear ready
28:33for a painting.
28:34We need to remove
28:38the moulding line
28:39which is the brown bit
28:41and that needs
28:42to be sanded.
28:57We use cellulose paint
28:59purely because it dries
29:01very quickly.
29:04I find it
29:05the most relaxing
29:06part of it.
29:09It's not like resin
29:11which is always
29:12a bit of a
29:13stressful moment
29:14if it doesn't
29:16set
29:17or if it runs
29:18or something.
29:21And this is
29:21much more relaxing.
29:26That's it,
29:27one ear
29:27ready to go
29:29back on the unicorn.
29:46At the barn,
29:47Hatter Jayesh
29:48is approaching
29:49the final whistle
29:50on the football
29:51cap fix.
29:52Jayesh.
29:53Hi.
29:54I saw the steam.
29:55Oh, yes.
29:56You know what
29:57that means,
29:57don't you?
29:57Yeah, I do.
29:58That is so beautiful.
30:01The way you've got
30:02the gold
30:02back to being gold.
30:04Yes.
30:04It's radiant.
30:05So what's next?
30:06Well, one final brush
30:08then
30:09we're going to get it
30:11out onto the road
30:11to Amanda.
30:13Stunning.
30:13With footballer Frank's
30:18treasured cap
30:19ready to return,
30:21Dom and Lucia
30:22are heading back
30:23to Dundee.
30:24But that's not all
30:25that they have planned.
30:27You know what else
30:27is in Dundee, Lucia?
30:29Cake.
30:29Better than that.
30:30OK, what?
30:31Certain building.
30:32Oh!
30:33Full of art.
30:34Yes, the V&A.
30:36The V&A.
30:37Of the north.
30:38Yes.
30:38Are you excited
30:39to go there?
30:39I'm very excited.
30:40A beautiful piece
30:42of modern architecture.
30:44Didn't you used
30:44to work there?
30:45I did in London.
30:46It's where I learnt
30:47my trade.
30:48So it's going back
30:49to school for you then?
30:50Well, it is,
30:51but this is a new school.
30:57In fact,
30:58Lucia spent
30:58the first 12 years
30:59of her career
31:00at the Victoria
31:01and Albert Museum
31:02perfecting her craft
31:04as a fine art conservator.
31:06No wonder
31:07it has a special place
31:08in her heart.
31:10This is her first visit
31:13to the V&A's
31:14northern outpost.
31:16It's Scotland's
31:17first design museum
31:18and the jewel
31:19of Dundee's
31:20regenerated waterfront.
31:22It showcases the best
31:24of the country's
31:25arts and crafts,
31:26like the work
31:27of the acclaimed
31:27architect and designer
31:29Charles René McIntosh.
31:32The museum holds
31:33one of his masterpieces,
31:35a tea room
31:36whose painstaking
31:37piece-by-piece
31:38recreation was overseen
31:41by curator
31:41Avison Brough.
31:44This room was designed
31:46by McIntosh in 1907
31:47and completed in 1908.
31:50This is the largest
31:51of his tea rooms.
31:52So why is this
31:53beautiful room here
31:54in Dundee
31:55when it was built
31:56in Glasgow?
31:57Well, McIntosh
31:58is such a significant figure
31:59in the history
32:00of Scottish design.
32:01He had to be
32:02well represented.
32:03and what better way
32:04than to actually
32:05restore one of his
32:06long-lost interiors
32:09so that the public
32:10can actually experience
32:12him in an architectural
32:14sense.
32:18Can we go upstairs?
32:20Yes.
32:21When its original home
32:23was earmarked
32:24for demolition
32:24in the 1970s,
32:26the tea room
32:27was carefully
32:28taken apart
32:28with hundreds
32:30of pieces of wood
32:31numbered and catalogued.
32:33Nearly 50 years later,
32:35the lost masterpiece
32:36was rebuilt
32:36in the museum
32:37by a huge team
32:39of craftspeople
32:40and conservationists.
32:43I've never done
32:44a job like this before.
32:45That's an understatement,
32:48really.
32:50It's quite a feat,
32:52isn't it?
32:52Sort of coming across
32:53800-odd pieces of wood
32:55in storage.
32:58What did it take
32:59to get to this?
33:00Well, it was a considerable
33:01team of expertise
33:03and specialists.
33:04There were clues.
33:05Drawings had been made
33:06in 1971
33:08when the room
33:08was dismantled.
33:10Skills employed
33:11beyond the woodwork.
33:12There was glass.
33:13The glass was blown
33:14in Germany.
33:14You've got stained glass
33:16that was made
33:16in Prestwick.
33:18The replica lamps
33:19had to be made
33:20and hung.
33:21But it's 90%
33:23of the original wood
33:25and 80%
33:27of the original glass.
33:28I get a real feeling
33:30for this
33:30because for five years
33:31of my life
33:32from being a student
33:33and fully trained,
33:34I went to the V&A
33:35and I worked
33:36on a painted room,
33:37an 18th century
33:37painted room
33:39and then to put
33:40that all back
33:41together again.
33:42I mean,
33:42it is no mean feat
33:43and you really
33:45have to understand
33:45your materials
33:46and techniques.
33:47It was a real journey
33:48and it was an emotional
33:49journey for everyone
33:50to see it coming back
33:51and we just learnt
33:52so much in the process.
33:54Sure.
33:55I mean,
33:55it starts off
33:55as a job,
33:56putting the whole thing
33:57together,
33:57but it becomes
33:58a work of love
33:59and passion,
34:00really.
34:01These were really
34:02treasured spaces
34:03of their time
34:05and everyone
34:06has the right
34:07to actually
34:08experience Macintosh.
34:10It has a new life
34:11here.
34:12Yeah,
34:12living history.
34:13Yeah,
34:13yeah.
34:23From the waterfront
34:24to the heart
34:25of the city,
34:26while Lucia
34:27enjoys the V&A,
34:29Dom has time
34:29to deliver
34:30footballer Frankie's
34:31Scotland schoolboys cap.
34:35I'm meeting
34:35Amanda at
34:36Tanner Dice,
34:37Dundee United's
34:38home stadium.
34:40It's where Frankie
34:40spent a lot
34:41of his football years
34:42doing something
34:44that he loved.
34:45So I thought
34:45it's only right
34:46to rearrange
34:47to meet Amanda
34:48there
34:48to give her
34:49Frankie's cap back.
34:51The cap
34:52was awarded
34:53to Amanda's
34:54late husband
34:54at just 14 years old,
34:57kicking off
34:58a brilliant
34:58footballing career,
35:0010 years of it
35:01spent here
35:01at Dundee United.
35:04How are you doing?
35:05I'm doing fine,
35:06thank you.
35:07Just I've been
35:07wondering about it
35:09and I've missed it
35:09as well too.
35:10Has it been strange
35:11not having it at home?
35:12It has been,
35:13yes.
35:14It was so special
35:14to him
35:15and it means a lot
35:16to me.
35:17Does it make it
35:18even more special
35:19being here,
35:20the home of
35:20Dundee United?
35:21Oh, definitely.
35:22It's the home
35:23that Frankie
35:24was Jim McLean's
35:26first signing
35:27in 1972.
35:28There's a lot
35:29of reminders
35:30around here.
35:31Yes,
35:31definitely.
35:32I've seen Frankie's
35:32name on a few
35:33boards.
35:34Yeah,
35:34very good memories.
35:36Good.
35:37What are you
35:37hoping to see
35:38then today?
35:39Well,
35:39I'm hoping to see
35:41it in a better
35:42condition
35:43than I left
35:44because it was
35:46in quite a state.
35:47It had been well
35:47loved,
35:48I think it's fair
35:48to say.
35:49Yes,
35:49it was well
35:50loved and you
35:50could tell it
35:51had been well
35:52loved.
35:53Well,
35:54do you want
35:54to have a look?
35:54Yeah.
35:59Oh,
36:00that's beautiful.
36:02It's absolutely
36:03beautiful,
36:04though.
36:05Because you
36:06could hardly
36:08make that out.
36:09Yeah.
36:10And
36:10it's absolutely
36:14beautiful.
36:15Can I pick it up?
36:16Of course you can.
36:16You know,
36:19considering
36:19this wee
36:20carp
36:21is 60
36:21years old.
36:23It's amazing,
36:24isn't it?
36:24It is.
36:25Takes me
36:26back to
36:271958
36:27when I was
36:29a little girl
36:30of eight years
36:30old
36:31when we first
36:32met.
36:42Do you know
36:43he would be
36:43so proud of it?
36:45He was
36:45always proud
36:46he would be.
36:46He would be
36:47so proud
36:47to have seen
36:48that today.
36:51It's like
36:51getting another
36:52piece of him
36:52back.
36:54Do anything
36:54to see him
36:55standing here
36:56just now.
36:57I would have
36:57loved to have
36:58seen him
36:58being here.
37:00I cannae
37:01thank you
37:01enough,
37:02honestly.
37:02I cannot
37:03thank you
37:03enough.
37:05Well,
37:06I'm very
37:06pleased to say
37:07it's yours
37:07to take home.
37:09It's just,
37:10I cannae
37:11stop looking
37:11at it.
37:12I can see
37:12you can't
37:13take your
37:13eyes off
37:13it.
37:14I know.
37:14thank you
37:16very much
37:16Dom
37:16for everything
37:17and please
37:18pass on
37:19my
37:19grateful
37:19thanks
37:20to
37:20Jayesh.
37:21I will
37:21let Jayesh
37:22know.
37:24What
37:24Jayesh has
37:25been able
37:25to do
37:26with Frankie's
37:27cap
37:28has been
37:28absolutely
37:29amazing.
37:31That wee
37:31cap sat
37:32there
37:32for years
37:33and years.
37:34I'm so
37:35happy,
37:35I'm delighted.
37:36I'm on
37:36cloud nine.
37:38I've stood
37:38on cloud nine.
37:40He's brought
37:40it back
37:41to life.
37:42One of
37:43Dundee's
37:43sporting
37:44legends
37:44now properly
37:45honoured.
37:47Dom's
37:47travelling
37:47just half
37:48a mile
37:48to another
37:49of the
37:50city's
37:50icons,
37:51HMS
37:52Unicorn.
37:55I am
37:56really looking
37:57forward to
37:57stepping aboard
37:58HMS
37:59Unicorn
37:59again and
38:00seeing how
38:00Peter has
38:01got on
38:01with the
38:02Unicorn.
38:03Last time
38:04I was here
38:04I had
38:06one of
38:06Peter's
38:07chisels
38:07and a
38:08big hammer
38:08and I
38:09was
38:09removing
38:10helping to
38:11remove the
38:11old ear.
38:12I hope
38:13that it's
38:13transformed
38:14now and
38:14it's got
38:15two good
38:16matching
38:16ears.
38:17I know
38:18that Peter's
38:18the man
38:18for the
38:19job.
38:19He's so
38:19talented
38:20and a
38:20true
38:20craftsman.
38:22I have
38:22every faith
38:23that the
38:23work he's
38:23done is
38:24going to
38:24be top
38:25notch.
38:29Restoring
38:29HMS
38:30Unicorn is
38:31an epic
38:32project
38:32requiring
38:33millions of
38:34pounds of
38:34fundraising.
38:36Kickstarting
38:37that process
38:37and rallying
38:38the community
38:39is the first
38:40step towards
38:41ensuring the
38:41legacy of
38:43this
38:43extraordinary
38:44ship.
38:45Are you
38:45excited to
38:46see what's
38:46under the
38:46blanket?
38:47See a big
38:48blanket like
38:48that you
38:49can't help
38:49but be
38:49can you?
38:50Yeah.
38:51Now the
38:52unicorn it
38:52was missing
38:53its ear for
38:54quite a while
38:54wasn't it?
38:55Years you
38:56know 10
38:56years at
38:57least I
38:57reckon
38:57yeah.
38:58Yeah this
38:58is proof to
38:59the community
39:00that you
39:01know you're
39:01doing you're
39:02starting the
39:02work is
39:03happening
39:04there's
39:04people here
39:04that are
39:04trying to
39:05save this
39:05beautiful
39:06artefact.
39:07Yeah
39:07exactly
39:07hopefully this
39:09unicorn's head
39:10is going to
39:10be helpful
39:11for you for
39:12raising money
39:13for the rest
39:14of the repairs.
39:15Well exactly
39:15it means a lot
39:16to us to be
39:16able to say
39:17we've started
39:18and this is the
39:18first thing
39:19it's a small
39:20thing but it
39:20is the start.
39:21we've had a few
39:25friends of the
39:25unicorn who are
39:26excited to see
39:27what we've done
39:28so.
39:28OK yeah.
39:36Hi everyone.
39:37Yeah.
39:38Thank you all so
39:39much for coming
39:39down.
39:40Why does this
39:41mean so much
39:41to you?
39:42I'm off the
39:42figurehead.
39:43Yeah.
39:44And I hated to
39:45see your damage.
39:46Oh bless you.
39:47So I'm desperate
39:48to see it repaired.
39:49To see it repaired
39:50finally after all
39:51these years.
39:51Yeah.
39:52OK if you're all
39:53ready can we have a
39:54countdown?
39:54Three, two, one.
40:10Matthew what do
40:11you think?
40:11Oh it's fantastic.
40:13You'd never know
40:13it was damaged.
40:15Thousands of
40:15visitors that
40:16stream through a
40:16year will get to
40:17appreciate it as it
40:18should have been.
40:19I really hope that
40:20this effort has
40:22helped and will
40:22help in the future
40:23to raise the funds
40:24needed to save
40:25this amazing ship.
40:26It's a morale
40:27boost it really is
40:28yeah.
40:28It's a long journey
40:29ahead it's going to
40:30take decades but
40:31start how you mean
40:33to carry on.
40:33Exactly.
40:34Pleased?
40:35Very.
40:36Yes.
40:36It looks like it
40:38should look.
40:39Yeah.
40:40Am I right in
40:40thinking we've got
40:41a special song for
40:42today?
40:42Well we have.
40:43We're going to
40:44sing about the
40:44women of Dundee
40:45because of course
40:46this was a very
40:47important depot for
40:48the Women's Royal
40:49Naval Service.
40:50The Wrens were on
40:51here during the
40:52war and after
40:53the war.
40:54Okay.
40:54So I think we'll
40:56just have a wee go
40:57at the women of
40:58Dundee if that's
40:58alright.
40:59I would love to
41:00hear it.
41:01Now the men
41:02they were not
41:03lazy but the
41:04work was hard to
41:05find.
41:06The parish
41:07and the means
41:08tested to face.
41:10But alas
41:11his hands are
41:12nimble and alas
41:13his wages smar.
41:15So the women
41:15of Dundee
41:17worked in their
41:17place.
41:19When you're doing
41:21the job you
41:22don't realise
41:23that you're
41:23actually doing
41:24something that
41:25people will be
41:26pleased to see.
41:27It's great to get
41:28that recognition.
41:30I'm just so thrilled
41:34that it now
41:36looks as
41:36she should
41:37just utterly
41:39beautiful.
41:43The sea played
41:44such an important
41:44part in Dundee's
41:45history.
41:46It made Dundee
41:47and this ship
41:49has such an
41:50important part to
41:50play in that
41:51and it will
41:51continue.
41:53It was fair
41:54Dundee weaver
41:55that I came.
42:02You can tell that
42:03Peter is a true
42:04craftsman.
42:05He has gone
42:05above and beyond.
42:07Both ears
42:07matching.
42:08They look
42:08brilliant.
42:09Spot on.
42:10You'd never know
42:10that they've been
42:10repaired.
42:11Well done Peter.
42:12Thank you Dundee.
42:17The fundraising
42:19drive to save
42:20HMS Unicorn
42:22has been given
42:23a much needed
42:23boost.
42:25So Dom and
42:25Lucia leave
42:26this historic
42:27city and hit
42:28the road once
42:29more.
42:30We're on an
42:30adventure.
42:31We're going to
42:31know a lot of
42:32miles.
42:32We might, you
42:32know, who knows
42:33what we're going
42:33to come up
42:33again.
42:34We spent so
42:34long, both of
42:35us, sitting at
42:36a workbench.
42:38We don't love
42:38doing it to be
42:39fair.
42:39I do love doing
42:40it and I'm sure
42:41you love doing it.
42:41Yeah I do.
42:42But I've got
42:44clean clothes on.
42:45I've never seen
42:45you look so clean.
42:46I know.
42:46It's because it
42:47never happened
42:48that we're always
42:48covered in paint.
42:50It's nice to be
42:51out though.
42:51It's like freedom
42:52and fresh air.
42:53Freedom.
42:54We're out.
42:55Let's go.
42:55Ha!
42:56A pilot.
43:04A pilot.
43:05A pilot.
43:07A pilot.