Fire on the Hill
Smoke hovering over The Hill yesterday, and the appearance of the fire brigade, gave some credence to a rumour that one of the homes on The Hill was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
743 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 38
Fire in City Hotel Discovery Made Just in Time Under Kitchen Floor
The discovery of smoke issuing from under the floorboards of the kitchen of the Westminster Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Armidale Fire Open Verdict Recorded Explosion Described Coroner's Tribute to Firemen ARMIDALE
A story of a desperate effort to save a nearby magazine was told by the injured fireman, Captain Maizey, at the inquiry at Armidale to-day into the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Hotel
Smoke issuing from under the floorboards of the kitchen of the Westminster Hotel, Hunter-street, about 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, attracted a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fire Follows Safi Robbery in Factory Desperate Fight with Flames Expert Gang at Broadmeadow £12 Haul, Heavy Damage
When a gang of cracksmen blew open the strongroom in the office adjoining the Commonwealth Oxygen Accessories Ltd. factory in Clydestreet, Broadmeadow, last night, and stole £12, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →False Alarm of Fire
Sparks flying over the premises of the Gloucester State Sawmills last night were responsible for the sounding of the fire alarm. Wickham Brigade answered the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Factory Menaced Fire Follows Burglary Strong Room Door Blown Open
Flames leaping from the premises of the Commonwealth Oxygen and Accessories, Ltd., Clyde-street. Broadmeadow shortly before 2 a.m. yesterday, drew attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tragic Fire Three Trapped by Flames Mother and Children Dead Melbourne
Trapped in a burning farmhouse at Heatherton at 7 a.m. to-day, Mrs. Gladys Brownfield, 35, wife of Irwin Brownfield, a dairyfarmer, and her…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Juvenile Choir at West Wallsend For Home Fires a Punter's Losses £35,000 in Two Years Income Tax Appeal Sydney
West Wallsend Juvenile Choir, which was formed about five weeks ago now has a membership of 60 voices. The following officers to control the choir While Sydney Domain trees are being lopped these boys are busy with their hatchets cutting, the "dead wood" into lengths for the Disastrous losses on racecourses from June, 1927, to July, 1929, were mentioned by Thomas Rees Jones…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lakeside Blaze
Belmont Fire Brigade received an early morning call yesterday. Shortly before 4 a.m., flames were noticed bursting from the combined store and residence occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blaze at Aberdare
An unoccupied four-roomed cottage in Congewai-street. Aberdare, owned by James Bell. Aberdare was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. The cause…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kerosene Found Suspicious Rozelle Fire SYDNEY
An examination of a cottage in Manning-street, Rozelle, after a fire had been put out by firemen revealed that piles of kindling wood and kerosene-soaked…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Carrington Bridge on Fire Fernery Burnt Down
A match thrown down by a passer by, after lighting a cigarette, is blamed for a fire which slightly charred several feet of the decking…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Occupants' Escape Cottage Damaged by Fire SYDNEY
Mr. and Mrs. A. Lepper of Market-street, Randwick, had narrow escapes when their weatherboard cottage caught fire early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Singleton Old Home Destroyed SINGLETON
Shortly after 8 o'clock last night, while a strong westerly wind was blowing, a fire broke out on the roof of the home of Mr. W. W. Waddell, Maitland-road, about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Audacious Intruder Slept in Comfort Before Fire ARMIDALE
With eight members of the family at home an audacious individual entered a private home in Armindale, lit a fire, and spent the night in comfort on the mat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alert Watchman Ship in Dock on Fire Blaze Soon Extinguished Sydney
But for the alertness of Night watchman Thompson, of Mort's Dock, the Burns, Philp island steamer Mataram, of 3000 tons, would probably have been seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallsend Fernery Damaged by Fire
With a high westerly blowing, a summons by the big alarm bell at the station at 2.15 o'clock on Saturday afternoon conjured up to Wallsend firemen the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thieves Surprised Newsagent Opens Fire SYDNEY
Surprising two men at the door of his newsagency in Johnson-street, Annandale, last night, James Lewis Hall drew his pistol and fired two shots at them as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage on Fire Occupants' Hurried Escape SYDNEY
The home of Edgar Mercer, at Granville, was practically destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Mercer, with his wife and son,…
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