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Central Coast · Fires & bushfires
13 stories in Central Coast's papers
AH that remains of the Ourimbah School of Arts hall is this twisted mass of iron and charcoal, a brick chimney and a tank, into which an axe was swung to get water to fight the flames which were menacing a house only 10ft from the blazing building…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The driver of a goods train blew the engine's whistle for five minutes at Ourimbah shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning, to warn residents that the School of Arts Hall was on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage estimated at approximately £1,000 was caused by a fire which ignited films in the projection box at the Valencia Theatre, Gosford, on Saturday afternoon. A crowd of 350 children…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In pouring rain at 5.45 o'clock yesterday morning af The Entrance, fire partly destroyed a wood and fibre shed containing four trucks, a car and building materials owned by Richard Henry Wain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two firemen dragged a 1-cwt case of blasting powder from the blazing interior of the Brisbane Water County Council's depot at the corner of Watt and Erina Streets, Gosford, last night a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The total loss to the Brisbane Water County Council in the Erina Street depot fire on May 26 was estimated at approximately £500, County Clerk C. R. Thew told councillors at a special…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There was a "hoodoo" on the Brisbane Water County Council, said the chairman (Cr J. A. Brown) after receiving reports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Following police investigations into the cause of fires at Gosford recently a man was charged at Gosford Police Station Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bruce Henry Lea Caton, a 21-year-old electrical mechanic, of Wells Street, East Gosford, was remanded yesterday to appear at Gosford Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, July 25, on charges of maliciously setting fire to two buildings. Bail was fixed at £100. Caton is charged that on June…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"That Bruce Henry Lea Caton maliciously did set fire to the said premises", was the finding of the District Coroner at Gosford…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The fire which destroyed the Brisbane Water County Council's substation and depot at the corner of Watt and Erina Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three officials of the Grand Council of Progress Associations and Kindred Organisations will accept Gosford Shire Council's invitation to attend its next meeting, reports the publicity officer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gosford Fire Brigade had to leave the Citrus Festival procession as it was passing through Mann Street, Gosford, on Saturday morning to fight a fire at East Gosford but returned to take its…
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