Weather at Newcastle Southerly Gale
Fine weather prevailed at Newcastle on Saturday. Yesterday was one of the hottest days experienced here this summer, the maximum shade temperature recorded…
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Floods & storms, 1928
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 19
MAROONED Missing Yachtsman Rescued Capsized by Gale Sydney
With everything against him, Jack Toohey, the fourth member of the crew of the 29 foot open sailing boat, Mischief, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →97 in Shade Newcastle's New Year's Day Heat and Dust Gale Clears Beaches
A sweltering heat which reached a shade temperature of 97 degrees. A 60-mile an hour gale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Midwinter Storms Play Havoc with American Transport Services Disastrous Week End Collisions on Land and Sea Many Casualties Three Trains Crash in Chicago New York
Collisions on land and sea were features of the New Year holiday. Three trains, piled up on each other in Chicago, while three collisions occurred at various points on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thaw Sets in Throughout England Fears of Floods (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
A general thaw has set in throughout England in the New Year, after the country has been snowbound for a week. Experts are unable to say when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOODS Snow-bound England Thaw Breaks London
The Old Year went out in Britain with terrific blizzards, which left the surface of England covered in snow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Floods Roads Impassable Gale in the Channel (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
Floods which are reported from all parts of the country, are regarded, by motorists as being as bad as the previous snowdrifts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Mile Front Gale Fans Bush Fires Homestead End Angered Horses Roasted in Flames MELBOURNE
Fanned by a high northerly gale, a bush fire with a five miles front caused great havOC on the western…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South of England Menaced by Floods an Anxious Night Many English Houses Flooded Frightened Families People Retreat from Thames Valley LONDON
Floods are now general throughout the South of England, miles of country being submerged. The inhabitants of some of the London suburbs spent an anxious night. Extraordinary scenes occurred. Furniture floated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Storm Damage at Singleton Big Hailstones Singleton
Singleton was visited by a violent storm at 5 p.m. yesterday. It was heralded by wind of hurricane force, which blow half the roof off the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods in Britain London
From all parts of the country continue to come reports of damage and difficulties caused by the floods which followed the recent blizzard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UPSTAIRS How London Lives Pursued by Floods London
The River Darent suddenly burst its banks at Dartford, Kent, last night, and to-day there was four feet of water in some of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legal Opinion Railway Responsibility? Cardiff Floods
Legal advice is to be obtained by the Cardiff Town Improvement Committee on the liability of the Railway Commissioners in altering the natural…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in England
As a result of the river Darenth bursting its banks yesterday, some of the streets in Dartford, Kent are four feet under water. No fewer than 200 houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Life in London Topics of the Hour London, November 24. Storms at Westminster
Any disturbance in the House of Commons is always followed by expressions of virtuous indignation and disgust on the one side, and by vigorous…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Vineyards Ruined £3000 Damage by Storm Hail Cuts Tanks Singleton
During the hailstorm at Fordwich, near Broke, damage estimated at £3000 was caused to vine growers and dairymen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in London Thames Overflows Several Lives Lost (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
The River Thames overflowed at Westminster shortly after midnight. From the Tate Gallery to Blackfriars the Embankment is flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Heroine Girl's Gallant Swim Three Rescued London
In the area near the Fulham Theatre a girl named Madge Franckeiss awakened to find the basement filling. She swam to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twenty Towns Swept by Disastrous Floods—-14 Persons Drowned Harrowing Scenes Families Trapped While Asleep Thousands Homeless Floods Cause Havoc in 20 Towns LONDON, Sunday Night
Twelve rivers overflowed in the English comities, Essex, Kent, and Norfolk, during the week-end. The terrible havoc wrought in the Thames district of London, which resulted in 14 deaths and the ejection of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nearly a Flood Carrington Pump Fails
Carrington automatic drainage pump failed yesterday morning. At 8 a.m.. houses in the vicinity of Victoria-street were within a few inches…
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