INVERCLYDE Heritage Hub is appealing for more volunteers to help them rewrite local history for the digital age.

Dedicated recruits are busy working their way through 300 years of archives and updating them for the 21st century.

Every week volunteers typing up council minutes, books, shipping records and other important documents so they can be an online resource.

Both Liz Donald and Hilary MacKenzie are among those who are giving up their own time make sure Inverclyde does not get lost in time.

Thanks to their efforts local history can be found at the tap of a button.

Retired nurse Liz, 59, who is originally from Greenock, said: "I just love local history and I want it to be here for everyone.

"You can find so much out.

"We are working our way through a council minute book from 1789.

"People were concerned about the same things back then - the roads, the litter in the street and flooding!"

Hilary, 66, who is part of the long standing MacKenzie Jewellers family firm, said: "If we don't do it then our history will be lost.

"I have become so familiar with the councillors in the books.

"Now I want to go and find out more about them."

Hilary, who worked as a medical secretary, is passionate about passing on local history to new generations.

She added: "I love hearing about all the old stories. It takes over and we end up following up things, going to the cemetery."

Once a week the pair go along to the hub and work their way through documents alongside other volunteers.

Volunteer co-ordinator Liam Haggarty has around 10 volunteers who come to the hub and type up old records.

He said: "Our volunteers are so enthusiastic and we wouldn't be able to do this without them.

"We would love to have more people involved.

"There will always be a place for the old books.

"But we need to get records digitalised so the public can have greater access to them.

"It is their history and it belongs to them, not the hub."