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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1941

1,760 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 88

Gibraltar, Suez, Soon Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--When they met in the Brenner Pass yesterday, Hitler is believed to have ordered…

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Big Stock Loss in City Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

About 100,000 pairs of silk stockings, valued at £15,000-- further supplies of which are almost unprocurable--were…

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Big Loss Of Merchandise In City Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

Chief tragedy, for Sydney women of last night's fire at Buckingham's store, Oxford Street, City, was the total…

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Big Loss Of Merchandise In City Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

Chief tragedy, for Sydney women of last night's fire at Buckingham's store, Oxford Street, City, was the total…

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Boys Explode Stolen Detonators in Fire Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 4

A boy, 14, described today how he and his mates had exploded a large number of stolen detonators by throwing them into a fire. "When the first one I threw…

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Big Loss Of Merchandise In City Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

Chief tragedy, for Sydney women of last night's fire at Buckingham's store, Oxford Street, City, was the total…

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Big Loss Of Merchandise In City Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

Chief tragedy, for Sydney women of last night's fire at Buckingham's store, Oxford Street, City, was the total…

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Stop Press Phone: M2406. Newcastle: B2772 Saboteurs Blamed for Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.--Saboteurs are believed to have started three fires in Norfolk (New York State) factories yesterday…

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Fought Flames Three Hours £30,000 Loss in Big City Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 7

Damage estimated at £30,000--£27,000 to stock, most of which cannot be replaced, and £3000 to the building--was caused by a fire which broke out in the reserved stock store of Buckingham's Ltd.,…

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Big Loss in City Fire 100,000 Pairs of Silk Stockings, Bedding, Drapery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 15

ABOUT 100,000 pairs of silk stockings, valued at £15,000 further supplies of which are almost unprocurable-- Were destroyed last night when fire severely damaged the sock building of Buckingham's, Ltd., Maine and Riley…

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Big Loss in City Fire 100,000 Pairs of Silk Stockings, Bedding, Drapery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 15

ABOUT 100,000 pairs of silk stockings, valued at £15,000 further supplies of which are almost unprocurable-- were destroyed last night when fire severely damaged the stock building of Buckingham's, Ltd., Maine and Rilev…

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Plane Plant Fire. Delay to R.A.F. ORDER. Vancouver Outbreak. VANCOUVER, June 2. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 8

Fire destroyed the administration building and the centre section of the assembly plant at the factory of the Boeing Aircraft of Canada, Ltd.,…

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Fire Destroys Sawmill. Wingham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 8

Fire-fighters fought a hopeless battle against a fire which destroyed the Wingham Sawmilling Company's mill last night. The fire brigade, in spite of a…

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Big Fires in Berlin and Dusseldorf. Attack on Kiel Shipping. London, June 3. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 11

In extensive day and night raids on Monday the R.A.F. caused many fires in industrial buildings in Dusseldorf and large fires in Berlin…

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£30,000 Damage in City Fire. 100,000 Pairs of Stockings Destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 8

It was estimated yesterday that at least £30,000 worth of damage had been done in the fire in the reserve stock store at the rear of…

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"Enemy Ships on Fire Everywhere" Letters of Thanks to Granville W.v.s

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 2

In a letter to the Granville Women's Voluntary Services, Able-Seaman A. McLeod tells of "the battle of the Ionian Sea, the…

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Granville News "Enemy Ships on Fire Everywhere" Letters of Thanks to Granville W.v.s

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 2

In a letter to the Granville Woman's Voluntary Services, Able Seaman A. McLeod tells of "the battle of the Ionian Sea. the…

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Three Die in Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 3

Wednesday (A.A.P.).--Fierce fires, travelling at 20 miles an an hour, have burned 600 square miles of forest 190 miles north of Quebec,…

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Former Fire-chief's Death

The Propeller · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 1

Mr. Thomas P. H. Nance, of Ashfield, who for many years was Chief Officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigades, collapsed and died in the…

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Fire-Fighters Of The R.A.F. In Action

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 16

ASBESTOS SUITS enable R.A.F. fire-fighters to get right up to the blaze. This man is 2 dousing a burning plane with special foam chemical in a test…

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