MORE than 100 hours of restored, unseen footage of London from the past 100 years will be released this month by London’s Screen Archives, thanks to the time and talents of volunteers and archivists.

Footage includes the re-development of Uxbridge town centre, Ruislip-Northwood Coronation procession in 1953 and construction work at Heathrow in 1958.

London’s Screen Archives is a network of organisations with a shared vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film.

Building on a catalogue of 350 hours of footage, this new collection was collated as part of a Heritage Lottery-funded project, London: A Bigger Picture, which targeted 15 outer London boroughs.

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The organisers are now calling for borough people to contribute their own stories to records with an online cataloguing tool called Local Eyes.

For Bill Saunders, 69, pictured, this feature led to a surprising discovery not just about London’s history, but about himself.

Watching Green Islands, a film from made by London County Council to promote the London parks and open spaces , he spotted himself as a child in the film.

Bill said: I had long given up any idea of ever seeing my little part of this film which was captured when I was just six.

You can find out how to get involved on https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/