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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1919

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

Some Storm. Thunder and Lightning. and Immense Hail

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

A storm of great violence passed over the coastal areas on Saturday afternoon, and, almost the whole of the Hawkesbury District received a great battering by the…

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Welcome Home at Blacktown Driver Teddy Gale Honored

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 9

There was something bright, novel and exhilirating in the spectacle that was presented at the welcome home to Driver Teddy Gale (son of Mrs. Geo. Waite) at Blacktown…

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The '67 Flood

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 July 1919 · page 5

Last month fifty-two years ago we saw the highest and most disastrous flood on record in the Hawkesbury, when the water rose 64 feet above high water mark. There…

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Disastrous Wind Storm. Fruit Crops Ruined

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 9

The fiercest wind storm that has been experienced, by even the oldest hands, in the Hawkesbury district was that which played so much havoc among the orchards and on…

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