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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
11 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
On Sunday eening the whole sky in the direction of Windermere was illuminated by the ruddy glare of an apparently extensive conflagration, which, seen from the neighbouring heights, caused some alarm to those who bore in mind the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few minutes before twelve o'clock last night, an alarming and destructive fire broke out in a new store occupied by Mr. W. Ellis, at the rear of his grocery establishment in George-street. Just beyond Park-street, and next door to Mr. Crouch's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the memorable riots in 1831, no conflagration has occurred in Bristol equal in extent or fury to a fire which occurred on Saturday, at the sugar refinery of Messrs. Fridge and Tripp. These works consisted of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About a quarter-past ten last night, constable Cook, on duty in Pitt-street North, observed flames issuing from the back of Mr. Kearey'a premises, opposite Dr. Bland's. He immediately gave the alarm of fire, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The most fearful scene that has probably ever occurred within the London Docks since their opening happened on the forenoon of July 26. It was attended with the loss of one life. Between 9 and 10 o'clock some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inhabitants of West Maitland were startled on Tuesday morning with the intelligence that, in the course of the previous night, a house belonging to Mr. Trayhurn had been burnt to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most destructive fire with which Newcastle has over been visited occurred on the morning of Sunday, about two o'clock. It appoars the fire originated in one of the upper bedrooms in Mr. Croft's, Commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting, convened by advertisement, was held at Tuck's Commercial Hotel, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of considering the necessity of forming an efficient fire brigade for the town. There were about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nov. 2[?].—A public meeting was held last evening in the Court house, the Mayor in the chair, "for the purpose of exprcssing in some appropriate manner the general opinion on the exertions of the Fire Brigade and others in suppressing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer collision which occurred on Friday morning last, in the river Hunter, near Raymond Terrace, was, we believe, the most serious that has occurred, in this colony, in its effects on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Previous to the year 1862 the most powerful fire-engines in London were two floating ones, on the river, belonging to the London Fire-engine Establishment; the largest of these was worked by 120 men, and, when well…
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