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The Repair Shop leaves fans feeling emotional after BBC show shares heartfelt father-son story surrounding a small wooden boat


The heartwarming series returned for its ninth run earlier this month and fans admitted they felt overwhelmed hearing the backstory.

The Repair Shop left viewers in tears as a guest shared a heartwarming father and son story around a small boat model His father, also called Jon, then met his mother and wanted to settle down, so he moved into Clyde shipyards as a shipwright - the creation place of the Queen Mary. Some of the most memorable fixes over the years have included the rocking horse, a Jewish Prayer Book that survived Theresienstadt concentration camp, a grip that was used to travel over on the Windrush ships, and a 2,000-year-old Chinese statue.

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