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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1862

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Destructive Fire in King Street, Sydney

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1862 · page 3

On Sunday morning a destructive fire broke out in the tores of Messrs. J. and E. Row, wholesale chemists, in Bank Court, King street, and which threatened…

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Destructive Fire at Canberra

The Golden Age · Thursday 25 September 1862 · page 2

A disastrous and destructive fire broke out at Canberra last Friday, in the stackyard of Mr. Cavanagh, a tenant of George Campbell's, Esq., of Duntroon,…

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Dreadful Fire in Liverpool, 22 Lives Lost. (From the European Times, September 12)

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1862 · page 3

About two o'clock on Monday morning, the 8th, a fire broke out in the Liverpool workhouse, and before it was extinguished twenty-two lives were lost, principally infants, and the church…

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