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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1929

1,104 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 37 of 56

Shops Destroyed Explosion and Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 4

Adjoining shops in the main streets of Minianton, Yorke Peninsula, S.A. occupied by Clark and Virgo, grocers, and T. Lee fruiterer were gutted by…

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Fire Brigades Proposed Appeal Board

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 7

A deputation of members of the Fire Brigades Employees' Association waited upon the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey, M.L.A.), and asked…

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Fire at Belmont. Boarding-house Destroyed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 9

A fire broke out on 22nd inst. in a 20-roomed bearding-house at Belmont. The building was completely gutted…

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Fire at Gloucester Seven Roomed Building Destroyed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 14

A fire broke out in the workshop of Mr. Cecil Sutton, dentist, and destroyed a seven roomed building, and all the contents…

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'Bus on Fire. Panic Among Passengers. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 14

There was great excitement among a number of passengers on a bus at Pyrmont to-day, when a backfire of the engine set fire to the vehicle…

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Store Gutted Fire Follows Burglary. Safe Robbed. Windsor

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 3

Early this morning a two storey brick building used as a produce store at Windson was completely gutted by fire, with all its contents…

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Destroyed by Fire. Manilla Flour Mills. £30,000 Damage. Manilla

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 14

A disastrous fire broke out at one o'clock this morning in the Manilla Flour Milling Co.'s. Ltd.: mill at Manilla. The damage is estimated…

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Great Fire. Billingsgate Fish Market. New Extension Destroyed. London, Aug. 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 12

The biggest fire in the history of Hull, destroyed the London North-Eastern Railway Company's Billingsgate Market extension, which was…

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Mungindi Fire Royal Hotel Destroyed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 2

The Royal Hotel Mungindi was burned to the ground on Sunday night. The fire was discovered by a girl [?] at abaout 12.45 a.m…

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Fire Brigade. Formed at Paxton Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 3

A volunteer fire brigade has been formed at Paxton, under captain (co) J. Lunn, A hose, rool, and other appliances have been installed…

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Eight Incinerated Apartment House Fire Winnipig. Sept.1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 5

In an [?] house fire to-day eight persons lost their lives. ton were injured…

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Just in Time, Fire at Spit Junction, Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 5

A fire was discovered early this morning in a confectionary shop at the Splt Junction. When the fire brigades arrived,…

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Awful Holocaust Tenements Gutted by Fire Eleven Persons Incinerated. London, Sept. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 5

Fire early this morning gutted a block of tenements at Smethwich, near Birmingham, and eleven were killed,…

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Fire in Tenements Eleven Persons Incinerated

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 4

London, Monday.—Fire early this morning gutted a block of tenements at Smethwich, near Birmingham, and 11 were killed, including the father,…

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Shops Destroyed Fire at Narrandera

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 4

Three shops were destroyed and damage estimated at £[?] was caused in a fire at Narra[?] The outbreak started in the fire…

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Wool Burnt, Station Fire Near Bourke

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 3

On Tuesday night, a fire destroyed Toorabale woolscour, which is about 50 miles from Bourke, More than 700 bales of wool, were burnt, The value…

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Cottage Destroyed. Fire Near Cardiff. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 4

A fire broke out last night in a three-roomed weat her board cottage owned and occupied by THomas M Connell, in Fourth-street, Celebreck…

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Lorn Fire Brigade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 4

At the meeting of the, Bolwarra Shire Council on Thursday afternoon a letter was received from the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South…

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Pathetic Side of Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 8

Pathetic features of a fire that razed a cottage in Forbes the other day were that the wife of the occupant, Mrs. Norman Neilson, was ill in hospital,…

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Mungindi Fire Royal Hotel Destro[?]

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 16

The Royal Hotel, Mungindi was burned to the ground on Sunday night. The fire was discovered by a girl employee at about 12.45 a.m…

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