Relatives of a bride and groom whose unusual 1931 wedding was broadcast in front of thousands in Trafalgar Square have been reunited with the archived footage.

Audrey Tussler, 67, of Elstead, Surrey, was handed back with the four-minute film of her in-laws’ wedding at Belmont Methodist Church, in which the groom wore a Scout uniform and was flanked by the club’s guard of honour.

The British Film Institute and the London Film Festival chose the film to be shown in Trafalgar Square last year, watched by 8,000 people after Sutton Central Library digitised the film.

Local family historian Barbara Bransgrove and local studies manager Kathleen Shawcross then traced family of the couple – Allen and Sylvia Trussler, who have now died.

Audrey Tussler, 67, and her son Mike, 37, were given their own copy and a private viewing of the film on Saturday at Sutton Central Library.

Mrs Tussler said her husband Kenneth, who died in February aged 74, would have been “overjoyed" to see the archival footage of his parents getting married.

She said: “It is just incredible. It’s a regret he wasn’t here to see it.

“It was quite astonishing to see the film. We didn’t realise it was there all this time; it has come out of the blue.”

According to a news report at the time, Mr Tussler was “cubmaster of the 7th Farnham Troop of the Boy Scouts” and his bride was “associated with the First Belmont Company of the Girls Light Brigade”.

It goes on to describe the wedding as “very pretty”...“in which much interest was taken”.

It said: “The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr Stanley Leonard Willie, presented a charming picture in a long white Georgette dress trimmed with silver, a lace veil and coronet of orange blossom and white satin shoes.

“Her ornament was a gold bangle, the gift of the bridegroom, and she carried a bouquet of white roses and heather.”

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