Fire Brigade Heroes Topical Budget 210-2

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Fire Brigade Heroes Topical Budget 210-2

London’s Screen Archives
Southwark
1915-01-01

At the London Fire Brigade headquarters, based in Southwark, the film opens with a demonstration of fire fighting using relatively new apparatus, including smoke helmets, to combat a blaze. Firemen then line up to receive their medals of bravery from Sir Cyril Jackson, an educationalist and Chairman of the London County Council in 1915.

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