Sheffield retro: Dramatic pictures show how city's brave firefighters have changed over last 60 years

Sheffield’s firefighters look very different today to the way they used to.

And we have put together a gallery of 23 pictures which show the huge changes that we have seen in how the fire service operates over the last 60 years.

For a start firefighter uniforms and safety equipment have changed beyond recognition from what they had in the 1960s.

And the equipment they use has been similarly transformed, with the fire engines now used by South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service very different to those that were used all those decades ago.

And while fire crews were all male in the 60s, 70s and 80s, the 1990s saw women finally joining up as firefighters.

Take a look at the pictures below, some showing crews battling some of Sheffield’s most well known fires, others showing the faces of those who were there to fight the flames.

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