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Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Huge Losses In Liverpool Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 6

LIVERPOOL, Monday.--Damage estimated at £1,000,000 sterling was caused at the weekend by one of Liverpool's most disastrous fires…

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Huge Losses In Liverpool Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 6

LIVERPOOL, Monday.--Damage estimated at £1,000,000 sterling was caused at the weekend by one of Liverpool's most disastrous fires…

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Huge Losses In Liverpool Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 6

LIVERPOOL, Monday.--Damage estimated at £1,000,000 sterling was caused at the weekend by one of Liverpool's most disastrous fires…

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Huge Losses In Liverpool Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 6

LIVERPOOL, Monday.--Damage estimated at £1,000,000 sterling was caused at the weekend by one of Liverpool's most disastrous fires…

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Huge Losses In Liverpool Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 6

LIVERPOOL, Monday.--Damage estimated at £1,000,000 sterling was caused at the weekend by one of Liverpool's most disastrous fires…

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Suspicion Over Dock-shed Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 3

LONDON, April 14 (A.A.P.).—Recalling the recent series of fires in ships and English ports, officials are investigating the possibility of…

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Shop Gutted by Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 2

FINE work by the local bush brigade prevented a fire in Hill's stock and station shop, Ariah Park, near Temora, from spreading to a terrace…

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Russia Playing with Fire. Says Vansittart

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 17

LONDON, Wednesday.--It was dim cult to reconcile Russia's search for security with her backing of neo nationalism and over-centralisation…

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Russia Playing with Fire. Says Vansittart

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 17

LONDON, Wednesday.--It was difficult to reconcile Russia's search for security with her backing of neonationalism and over-centralisation…

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Fire Brigade's 22 Miles Dash

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 3

TEMORA, Wednesday.—Because it was feared that fire would destroy a block of shops at Ariah Park today, permission was given to the…

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Auctioneers' Premises Gutted in Country Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 April 1946 · page 9

WRECKAGE of large iron auctioneers' premises in Ariah Park (22 miles from Temora), which were gutted by fire on Tuesday…

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Proto Men Fight Mine Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Saturday.--Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…

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Proto Men Fight Mine Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Saturday.-- Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…

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Proto Men Fight Mine Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Saturday.-- Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…

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Proto Men Fight Mine Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Saturday.--Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…

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Fire Raging in Old Colliery Workings

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Fire has broken out at the abandoned workings of Cessnock No. 2 Colliery. Smoke and flames are belching from the workings, which…

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Fight to Control Fire in Colliery

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

While mine employees at Cessnock No. 2 colliery worked today to control an underground fire that has flared up in a disused section of the colliery, the nearby town was blanketed with a thick pall of sooty…

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Rain Causes Fire In Old Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 1

A huge pall of smoke is drifting across the town of Cessnock, and a golf green has disappeared through the one cause…

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Fight to Control Fire in Colliery

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

While mine employees at Cessnock No. 2 colliery worked today to control an underground fire that has flared up in a disused section of the colliery, the nearby town was blanketed with a thick pall of sooty…

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Flames, Smoke Belch at Cessnock Pit Valiant Bid To Subdue Fires

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Saturday.--Cessnock, No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by recent rain, lies over the town. As flames leap high from the subsidences, teams of…

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