BBC ONE Scotland will air a documentary this weekend celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge – opened officially by the Queen on 4th September 1964.

The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth, will run for an hour starting 6.55pm on Sunday.

Amateur film-maker Jim Hendry was given access to document the construction of the iconic Scottish landmark across the entire six years of its build but this is the first time the resulting film has been televised.

As well as showcasing Jim’s film, the documentary, produced by TVI Vision, also traces the memories of the people who built the bridge, the biggest of its kind in Europe at the time, as well as those who ran the Forth ferries that stopped running when it opened and those affected by the construction – losing a home or gaining greater access – on either side of the Forth.

Among the contributors is Forth Bridge historian Lillian King, who said, “It absolutely transformed the country, it transformed trade. When you think about the volume of traffic that goes across that bridge and has done since the beginning, people must just have been desperate to get this bridge open.”