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A few weeks later, I was helping Bill move out of his old workshop in Shepperton Studios (I used to work just next door), and I came across a biscuit tin full of old photos up on a shelf. I had a quick look and thought some of them looked interesting, so I asked if I could borrow the box and scan some of them, which I did, around hundred (roughly a quarter of them). Bill would never have the time to do this, so he was happy for someone else to get them out there, as they were just going to be boxed up and put into storage. A few days later I came across a second biscuit tin & A4 envelope both packed with photos, so I borrowed these and scanned another hundred or so (again roughly a quarter of the total). Then I found another pile a few days later, and another envelope a few days after that, and then I though I might as well scan his portfolios, so retrieved those from storage. I scanned a total of 438 loose photos and 147 portfolio pages, along with 12 transparency slides, and the majority of the images have never been seen before. I also got copied ten CD-Rs & DVD-Rs containing 1327 digital photos, along with 179 photos copied from Bills camera. They roughly cover a period from Alien in 1979 up to his latest projects for 2014/15. Around 2004, Bill started using a digital camera rather than 35mm SLR, so many of those digital photos have been copied over rather than scanned. The main list of films covered is as follows;

Blake's 7 (1978)
Alien (1979)
Dr Who (Undated)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Dan Dare (Undated)
Day Of The Triffids (1981)
Outland (1981)
Crash (1984)
Roy Chubby Brown's UFO (1993)
Space Precinct (1994)
Nostradamus (1994)
Bugs Series 2 (1996)
The Borrowers (1997)
Masterminds (1997)
Lost In Space (1998)
Red Dwarf Series 8 (1999)
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Wing Commander (1999)
Notting Hill (1999)
Battlefield Earth (2000)
The Parole Officer (2001)
Die Another Day (2002)
Thunderbirds Movie (2004)
Alien Vs Predator (2004)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Casino Royale (2006)
Moon (2009)
Jaime Oliver's Dubai Cooking Show (2009)
Prometheus (2012)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Space Ark - Rough Model (2014)
The Man From UNCLE (2015)
Saurus (Never Made)
The Zone (Never Made)
Dog Star (Never Made)
Red Dwarf Christmas Special (Never Made)
Terry Gilliam's 1884 (Never Made)

There were also a good few odd and unidentified and/or undated photos as well. Every single loose photo available covering Alien, Dr Who, Flash Gordon, Outland, & Red Dwarf was scanned, everything else is a selection of the best photos that were there. Every single portfolio page was scanned too. The films people will probably be most interested in will be from his early days, but there are only a handful of those. This is simply because the photos he's kept from much earlier, only tend to be one or two of a finished model for use in a portfolio, rather than lots of photos taken during the making of each model. It's worth adding that some of the models & props depicted may have been partially or entirely made by others working with/for him, or even made by other people entirely, so I'm not crediting everything here to Bill, they're just Bill's photos.

You can download everything via the website linked below, which I created for Bill. In addition to the photos, you can get test and behind-the-scenes DVD footage, scripts, and Bill's working portfolio.