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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1908

2,282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 115

Big Fire in the City. Furniture Warehouse Destroyed. £8000 Damage

Evening News · Monday 4 May 1908 · page 4

The most destructive fire that has taken place ia Sydney since the conflagration at Messrs. Edwards, Dunlop, end Company's warehouse in Clarence-street, about two years ago, occurred…

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A Big Fire. in a Victorian Town. Bank and Business Places Gutted. a Woman and £50

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 May 1908 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A most disastrous fire occurred at Sheep-hills, near Warracknabeal, in the north-west of the State, at 3 o'clock this morning, practically demolishing half the main…

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Big Fire in the City Messrs. W. W. Campbell's Furniture Warehouse Damage Over £20,000 Splendid Work by Firemen Origin of the Outbreak Unknown

The Australian Star · Monday 4 May 1908 · page 5

Through some unknown cause fire destroyed the greater part of the furniture warehouse of Messrs. W. W. Campbell and Co., in Clarence and Kent streets, early this…

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Previous Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 7

The firm of W. W. Campbell and Co., Ltd., have on three previous occasions had fires in their premises. These happened on December 12, 1890, February 2, 1893, and April 12,…

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Fires in the Country

Evening News · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 6

FORBES, Tuesday.—Owing to the bursting of a kerosene lamp, the dwelling-house of Mr. Horace Green at Wongagong was destroyed by fire, together with all the contents…

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Sydney's Fire Danger

Weekly Supplement to Building · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 4

The disastrous fire that yesterday destroyed W. W. Campbell and Co.'s warehouse, doing over £20,000 worth of destruction, should call attention to Sydney's fire danger. Superintendent Webb, in his evidence…

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Yesterday's Great City Fire

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 2

CLARENCE-STREET FRONTAGE. KENT-STREET FRONTAGE. TWO VIEWS OF THE BURNED BUILDING…

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Fire Extinguishing Experiments at Ultimo

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon, on a vacant plot of ground in Jones-street, Ultimo, an exhibition of the fire- extinguishing qualities of Messrs. Witney and Hayes's patent…

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Big City Fire. a Warehouse Destroyed. Over £20,000 Damage. the Value of "Fire Doors."

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 8

A disastrous fire occurred at the extensive furniture warehouses of Messrs W. W. Campbell and Co., in Clarence and Kent streets, neat Market-street city, yesterday morning. The…

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Campbell's Fire Mr. Crouch a Heavy Loser

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 7

Mr. F. G. Crouch, the well-known city bowler, when interviewed yesterday by a "Star" reporter, said that he was a heavy loser by the fire. The magnificent store owned…

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Big City Fire. Warehouse Gutted. £8000 Damage. an Awe-inspiring Spectacle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 7

The large warehouse in Clarence and Kent streets, occupied by Messrs. W. W. Campbell and Co., Limited, furniture warehousemen, was the scene of an extensive…

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Bush Fire on Bellevue Hill

Evening News · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 5

There was a blaze, about 10 o'clock last night on vacant land forming part of the Cooper Estate, Victoria-road, Bellevue Hill, owing to the bush, half an acre of which was burnt…

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Fire at Henty

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 7

HENTY, Tuesday.--A fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in a bicycle shop owned by Thos. Keighran, and occupied by W. Klemke. The shop was burned to the ground, nothing…

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Ketch Destroyed by Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 10

The ketch Seale, one of the oldest of the sailing craft belonging to Port Adelaide, was burnt to the keel late on Thursday night, off Torrens Island, ne[?]r to the entrance of the Port Adelaide River. The…

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Fire at a Bakery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 10

Shortly after [?] o'clock this morning a building occupied as a bakery by the Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative Company, was found to be on fire, and though several of…

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A Big City Fire

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 55

A most destructive fire occurred in Sydney on the morning of May 4, when a portion of the furniture warehouse of W. W. Campbell and Company, Limited, extending from Clarence-street…

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Fire at Newcastle. Bakehouse Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--A fire broke out this morning in the bakehouse belonging to the Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative Society, Limited. The baking-room and its contents…

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More Fire Protection for Randwick

Evening News · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 3

In February last Randwick Council forwarded and recommended to the Fire Brigades Board a petition of the residents, asking that provision should be made of fire brigade equipment near the Cross Roads, South Randwick. A reply…

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Fighting Fires Conflagrationiat Messrs. Campbell and Co. Some Interesting Figures

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 1

When a crowd surrounds the firemen and presses around the punting steamers while property and often life are being saved from the names, the public never slops to think…

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Country Fire Brigades Apathy of Some of the Townspeople. Prospects of a Desirable Change

Evening News · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 4

Mr. Alfred Webb, Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, has, at the request of the Government, visited several country fire brigades in various parts of New South Wales in…

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