00:02A collection of historic portrait photographs showing some of London's earliest public
00:06firefighters has been discovered by curators at the London Fire Brigade.
00:11Many images were previously uncatalogued and stored in archives for over a decade.
00:15They were found during a recent inventory of the Brigade's historic collection.
00:20The portraits show firefighters and officers posed in uniform, often holding brass helmets.
00:25Curators say the images help put faces to the service's early history.
00:29The London Fire Brigade says the discovery came during a new archive review.
00:33The service traces its origins to 1865, later becoming the London Fire Brigade in 1904.
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