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Today on the Repair Shop on the Road, the experts lend their skills to a community project, hear the stories behind new treasures to be repaired, and visit a local crafting hero.

Will and Kirsten are in Dumfries and Galloway, in the Scottish Borders, to help with a project close to the hearts of the local community. Firefighter Rodger was one of the first responders to the Lockerbie bombing, and tasked with collecting photographs of the event and its aftermath for a report. Since then, they have lain undisturbed in his attic. Now, he鈥檇 like them collected and preserved in a book for the new memorial centre planned at Tundergarth Kirks.

Meanwhile, it鈥檚 all to play for when Dom picks up a Scotland Schoolboys football cap that holds immense significance for Amanda. It was awarded to her husband Frank, who became a legend at local club Dundee United, playing there for a decade. But after retirement, he suffered from vascular dementia and would cradle the cap often - a reminder of earlier days. Now, the gold brocade is tarnished and the purple fabric faded, so master hatter Jayesh Vaghela has his work cut out to restore it to how it looked when Frank first held it all those years ago.

Dom heads to the Highlands, where he is joined by Inverness-born, traditional building conserver Rich. They make their way to Nairn Museum, where renovations have revealed some unusual wall decorations: artworks painted directly on the bare walls of the museum attic, left behind by Polish soldiers stationed there during the Second World War. Urgent repairs to the roof mean they will be lost forever if they can鈥檛 be removed, but removing century-old plaster is delicate business, so there鈥檚 no guarantee the artworks will survive the process.

Just over the border, in Northumberland, woodworker Will stops by to get some tips and training from marquetry artist and restorer Victoria Walpole. It鈥檚 delicate and sometimes dangerous work, involving small slivers of wood and an extremely sharp saw or scalpel, but in the hands of a master like Victoria can yield stunning results.