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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1915

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

Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 6

The weatherboard collage in Brabyn-street, owned by Mr. T. M. Masters, and occupied by Mr. Joshua Parkes, was totally destroyed by fire about midnight on Wednesday of…

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Bush Fires

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 4

The heat on Monday made an ideal day for disastrous bush fires, and about midday smoke in black volumes could be seen rising up in various parts of the district. Bush…

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FIRE. (Translation from "Lille War Gazelle," 3rd March, 1915. (This is a weekly newspaper, issued by the Germans in Lille, in German)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 2

As children many of us have played with it; some of us have seen an outbreak of fire. First a small tongue-like flame appears, it grows into a devastating fury of heat. We…

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A Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 August 1915 · page 3

A fire at Messrs. Magrath Bros', woolscouring works af. Emu Plains, on Thursday of last, week lias meant a loss of several hundred pounds to Mr. W. G. Magrath…

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Bush Fires

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 10

On Sunday about midday a bush fire broke tout beyond tho Windsor Grammar School, and as the day was particularly hot and a strong westerly wind flowing, the flames spread…

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