The Repair Shop viewers were feeling all kinds of emotions during Wednesday’s episode.
Husband and wife Emese and Luke brought a clay imprint of the footprints of their son David, who died aged just five months.
David, one of twin boys with brother Joshua, was born prematurely in February 2020 and was diagnosed with a rare heart condition just a few months later.
Presenting the cracked footprints within the frame to presenter Jay Blades, Emese said: ‘We did the footprints at the hospital couple a of days before he passed away, so it’s really precious to us.’
Luke added: ‘Those last days are just etched on your heart forever.’
‘It’s going to be genuinely very tricky,’ said restoration expert Kirsten Ramsay.
When Emese and Luke returned, they were left overwhelmed by the hard work that had gone into repairing the frame.
‘Oh it is beautiful,’ she said.
‘This is a reminder of him and a comfort. You’ve done a very, very good job. Thank you.’
‘Just in the last hours, he opened his eyes for us and looked at us, so that is what I think of when looking at his feet,’ Luke added.
There weren’t many dry eyes in the house, as viewers were left tearful as they witnessed the emotional moment.
One viewer wrote on Twitter: ‘What an even more emotional episode of #therepairshop than normal.Well done Kirsten on repairing the cast of baby David’s feet.’
Someone else remarked: ‘Catching up with tonight’s #TheRepairShop. The infants footprints has ruined me.’
‘And once again #TheRepairShop has got me . That repair on that little boys footprints was just beautiful,’ another added.
Elsewhere, Rokeya and her mother Patricia brought in a faded painting, which has been in the family since Patricia’s father had the artwork commissioned in the early 1950s.
The painting depicted the family’s home in Bermuda, which Patricia’s father Edward built for her mother Madree.
The Repair Shop continues on Wednesday at 8pm on BBC One.
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