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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1911

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

Another Fire Supposed Incendiarism

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 8

A fire broke out in the large hay shed owned by Mr Harry Farlow, of Yarramundi, on Sunday morning week. The fire destroyed the building and its contents…

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Fire at Wiseman's Ferry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 4

A fire occurred at the residence of Mrs Wilson,, of Riversvale, about 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning. A barn and content, consisting of a sulky, dray and harness, and a quantity of maize…

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McKAY'S FIRE

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 10

Too inquiry into the circumstances connected with the destruction by fire of Robert McKay's house at Berkshire Park, which happened on May 11th, was then opened…

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Coroner's Inquiries. Two Demolished Houses. Fernley's Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 10

The Coroner of the Penrith district (Mr A. W. M. Judges) opened an inquiry at Penrith on Tuesday of last week concerning the destruction by fire of a building at Berkshire Park, on May 5,…

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The Cas Tlereagh Fire. Three Men on a Roof

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 August 1911 · page 6

At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions, before Judge Docker, William Henry Forrester, senr., William Forrester, junr., and Frederick Alfred Forrester were…

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