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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 139

Fire at Line Factory

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 13

A FIRE broke out on the fifth floor of a building in Pier St., Haymarket, this morning, when a vat of plastic solution burst into flames in…

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Danger Of Fire At University

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3

Students packed into the overcrowded dissecting rooms of Sydney University's Old Medical School declare that the building…

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Fire Dangers At Herne Bay

Tribune · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3

LACK of proper fire equipment at Herne Bay housing camp was a menace to residents, Mr. A. Ogston. Communist candidate for Lakemba in…

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Danger Of Fire At University

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2

Students packed into the overcrowded dissecting rooms of Sydney University's Old Medical School declare that the building…

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100 Girls Rush From Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

More than 100 girls, in their night clothes, escaped from a blowing school early this morning…

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Danger Of Fire At University

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 18

Students packed into the overcrowded dissecting rooms of Sydney University's Old Medical School declare that the building…

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Danger Of Fire At University

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3

Students packed into the overcrowded dissecting rooms of Sydney University's Old Medical School declare that the building…

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Men Fight To Prevent Mine Fire

The Sun · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 5

Men are still working round the clock in a section of the northern mine. Pacific, to prevent an outbreak of fire…

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Unsolved Mystery of Fire at College Midnight Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

POLICE and fire brigade officials say they are mystified over the origin of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this…

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Police Baffled Over Fire at College Three Explosions Before Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

POLICE and fire brigade officials say they are mystified over the origin of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this morning. The outbreak, which caused a hurried exodus of…

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Police Baffled Over Fire at College Three Explosions Before Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

POLICE and fire brigade officials say they are mystified over the origin of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this morning. The outbreak, which caused a hurried exodus of…

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Police Baffled Over Fire at College Three Explosions Before Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

POLICE and fire brigade officials say they are mystified over the origin of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this morning. The outbreak, which caused a hurried exodus of…

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Police Baffled Over Fire at College Three Explosions Before Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

POLICE and fire brigade officials say they are mystified over the origin of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this morning. The outbreak, which caused a hurried exodus of…

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Police Baffled Over Fire at College Three Explosions Before Outbreak

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

POLICE and fire brigade officials say they are mystified over the origin of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this morning. The outbreak, which caused a hurried exodus of…

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Girls Throw Out Clothes As £10,000 Fire Sweeps Methodist Ladies' College

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

A fire, which started in the science laboratory, swept through a wing of the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood early this morning, and caused damage estimated at £ 10,000…

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Bushfire Puts Well-Known Stud Out of Show

The Land · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 26

THE usual exhibits from the well-known Red Poll Stud of Major C. W. T. Elsworth, of "Yammatree," Bethungra, will be missing from this year's Easter…

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Fire Aftermath

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 1

As a result of the fire at the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, early yesterday morning, all boarders have been boarded out for the week-end…

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Fire Outbreak in Annandale Shed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 6

Brigades from Stanmore and Leichhardt attended when a fire broke out in a converted bedroom in a small brick shed…

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Fire at College

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

Sir,—We wish to thank hundreds of helpers in the recent catastrophe that befell the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood…

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Fire Engine Strikes Tram

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

A fire engine on its way to Navy House, Grosvenor Street, burst a tyre and crashed into a tram outside the Hotel Australia…

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