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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1901

6 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Fire Brigades Demonstration

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon the Western District Fire Brigades Association held several competitions in Richmond, but owing to the wet weather spectators were not numerous. East Market-street was…

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Richmond Train on Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 4

ON this Friday morning, when Windsor people were waiting to receive the Sydney (papers, news reached them to the effect that the break van and its contents had been burnt. Our reporter was…

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Destructive Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 August 1901 · page 8

EARLY on Sunday morning last a fire occurred at Mr. Brinsley Hall's farm on the Wilberforce road, when two barns and their contents were completely…

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Correspondence. The Fire Brigade (?) to the Editor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 6

SIR—Is it not about [?] the people of Windsor made some more in the direction of resurrecting the local free brigade ? Were a fire to take place in Windsor just now it would doubtless have…

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Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 4

JUST before 7 a.m. on Saturday last the fire bell aroused late sleepers from their slumbers, and soon it was ascertained that the store of Mr W. Moses, senr., was…

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Bush Fires

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 28 December 1901 · page 4

THE bush fire which started in Terry's bush last week devastated miles of country, It seems that the fire was started, accidentally, by a wood cutter who had just boiled his billy, the fiames spreading…

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