THE BBC’s Repair Shop television programme is to feature the restoration of part of a model village which once stood in a Dunster garden.

The model village used to be on view decades ago in the garden of Spears Cross, West Street, near Dunster Castle gates.

The models were all made by Llewellyn Pluck, owner of Spears House guest house from 1971 to 1986, which is now a private residence.

Recently, Llewellyn’s granddaughter Sarah Gardner tracked down one of the models, a replica of Culbone Church.

It was in a ‘very sorry state’ of disrepair, and Sarah contacted the BBC television programme ‘The Repair Shop’, which agreed to try to restore it.

Sarah said the result of the work commissioned by the BBC was ‘strictly under wraps’ until the programme is screened at 8 pm on Wednesday (July 30).

But, she said: “It is amazing.”

The post-restoration model will be returning to the village to be put on view in Dunster Museum, together with a small display about the work, possibly from the middle of August.