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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 104

Tenterfield Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 2

TENTERFIELD.--A fire broke out in a stationer's shop in the main street, shortly after midnight on Wednesday. The flames spread with great…

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Cheap Fire-lighters

The Propeller · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 7

Take sheets of newspaper and soak them in cold water for half a day While wet squeeze into tight balls (1 sheet makes a ball), and place in the…

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Tenterfield Fire £2000 Damage Tenterfield

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 1

Fire broke out in a stationer's shop in Main Street shortly after midnight last night. The flames spread with great…

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Petrol Blaze Man Badly Burned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 20

While attending to a motor-car in Phillip Lane, City, yesterday afternoon, A. E. Broue, of Macquarie Street, was severely burned about the face…

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Between Two Fires a Suburban Road Travellers Burnt

Evening News · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 6

Having at last raised the urgency of reconditioning [?] road and sharp-street, which together from the connecting link…

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Fire at Tenterfield. Tenterfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 14

Two shops in Rouse-street were totally destroyed by fire last night. They were situated in the main business portion of the town. The fire was noticed about 1.15 a.m., and the…

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Eight Killed Spanish Train Smash Fire Follows Derailment London

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 1

A Barcelona message states that a train was derailed and caught on fire at Sarria, near Barcelona. Three carriages were overturned…

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Riots in Damascus Balfour Disturbed Gendarmerie Fire in Air to, Repel the Crowds. DAMASCUS

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 April 1925 · page 4

Yesterday opened with ominous quiet. The shops and offices were closed, and crowds thronged the streets, but shortly after mid-day the…

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Mammoth Steel & Iron Works The Broken Hill Pty Ltd at Newcastle Romance of the Steel Industry Where Ravenous Machinery Eats Up Fire

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 April 1925 · page 7

Giant blast furnaces rear themselves in the air. Clouds of coal-dust and smoke drift idly across the sky. Here the clatter of steel…

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Fire on Randwick Racecourse Scratching Tower Burnt Out

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 1

THOUGH the scratching tower in the st. Leger reserve at Randwick racecourse was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday…

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The Big Blaze at Alexandria

Evening News · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 1

Firemen at work puffing out the blase at Alexandria warty to-day, when a box factory was completely gutted…

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Factory Fires Suburban Losses Courageous Constable

Evening News · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 1

Factories at Alexandra and Redfern were gutted by fire to-day. They were the premises of Arthur Brandshaw and Johnson,…

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Fire Brigade Competitions. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 8

At the Western Australia Fire Brigades Association's annual demonstration on Saturday the discipline contest was won by Ballarat Brigade, with 30 points out of a possible…

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Fire at Alexandria. Box Factory Gutted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 7

An outbreak of fire last night gutted Messrs. Douglas and Bradshaw's box factory, and severely damaged an adjoining furniture factory in Monk-lane, Alexandria. The fire…

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Early Morning Fire Heavy Damage Done

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 1

Several thousands pounds worth of damage was done by a fire which broke out shortly after midnight on the premises of Douglas and Bradshaw's…

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Burglary and Fire Thieves at Goulburn GOULBURN

The Sun · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 7

Early on Sunday morning, as Constable Lee was walking down Market-street, he saw a man peeping around the corner of a lane at the…

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Racecourse Fire. Damage at Randwick. Scratching Tower Destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 7

But for its timely discovery by Sergeant Bourke, of the Randwick police division, a fire that broke out on the Randwick Racecourse early yesterday morning would have…

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City Fire Early Morning Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 5

Shortly before one o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in premises at the rear of 407 Kent Street. The building, about 35ft. by 25ft. in dimensions,…

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Big Fire in Kent Street Printers Burnt Out Damage Over £5000

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 1

One of the most dangerous fires the brigades have been called upon to handle within recent months broke out early, this morning in…

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Fire Disturbs Sleep Blaze at St. Leonards Family's Narrow Escape

The Sun · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 17

A shop and a dwelling occupied by Mrs. Ethel Ottaway, fruiterer, Lane Cove-road, St. Leonards, were, with the contents, destroyed by fire at 2…

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