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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 113

Passengers in Lift Fire Calm Of Woman Driver Praised 100 Feet Descent As Flames Lick Doorway

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 7

FIVE passengers, and a woman driver, had a nightmare experience in a blazing lift 100 feet up in a city building this morning. WOMEN passengers screamed…

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Passengers in Lift Fire Calm Of Woman Driver Praised 100 Feet Descent As Flames Lick Doorway

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 7

FIVE passengers, and a woman driver, had a nightmare experience in a blazing lift 100 feet up in a city building this morning. WOMEN passengers screamed…

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Passengers in Lift Fire Calm Of Woman Driver Praised 100 Feet Descent As Flames Lick Doorway

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 7

FIVE passengers, and a woman driver, had a nightmare experience in a blazing lift 100 feet up in a city building this morning. WOMEN passengers screamed…

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Passengers in Lift Fire Calm Of Woman Driver Praised 100 Feet Descent As Flames Lick Doorway

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 7

FIVE passengers, and a woman driver, had a nightmare experience in a blazing lift 100 feet up in a city building this morning. WOMEN passengers screamed…

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Passengers in Lift Fire Calm Of Woman Driver Praised 100 Feet Descent As Lames Lick Doorway

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 7

FIVE passengers, and a woman driver, had a nightmare experience in a blazing lift 100 feet up in a city building this morning. WOMEN passengers screamed…

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Fire Razes Country Golf House

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

SMOULDERING RUINS of the £15,000 Wentworth Falls Golf Club House gutted by fire at 3 a.m. today. Two maids trapped in an attic had narrow escapes as the 20-room wooden structure blazed fiercely. The staff and some guests…

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Fire Razes Country Golf House

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

SMOULDERING RUINS of the £15,000 Wentworth Falls Golf Club House gutted by fire at 3 a.m. today. Two maids trapped in an attic bad narrow escapes as the 20-room wooden structure blazed fiercely. The staff and some guests…

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Fire Razes Country Golf House

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

SMOULDERING RUINS of the £15,000 Wentworth Falls Golf Club House gutted by fire at 3 a.m. today. Two maids trapped in an attic had narrow escapes as the 20-room wooden structure blazed fiercely. The staff and some guests…

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Fire Razes Country Golf House

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

SCOULDERING RUINS of the £I5,100 Wentworth Falls Golf Club House gutted by fire at 3 a.m. today. Two maids trapped in an attic had narrow escapes as the 20-room wooden structure blazed fiercely. The staff and some guests…

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Fire Razes Country Golf House

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

SMOULDERING RUINS of the £15,000 Wentworth Falls Golf Club House gutted by fire at 3 a.m. today. Two maids trapped in an attic had narrow escapes as the 20-rooms Wooden structure blazed fiercely. The staff and some guests…

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Guests Face Danger in Golf Club Fire

The Sun · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

Twenty guests and 10 members of the staff fled in their night attire from the Wentworth Falls golf club and guesthouse when if was…

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Tin Plate Fire Loss

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 3

Huge quantity of tin plate, stored in a Federal Government Store, has been damaged by fire. It was in the same store where…

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Fire at David Jones

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 3

EMPLOYEES in the wool section of David Jones' Elizabeth St. store had to work by lamp light this morning…

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Fire at David Jones

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 3

EMPLOYEES in the wool section of David Jones' Elizabeth St. store had to work by lamp light this morning…

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Fire at David Jones

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 3

EMPLOYEES in the wool section of David Jones' Elizabeth St. store had to work by lamp light this morniner…

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Fire at David Jones

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 3

EMPLOYEES in the wool section of David Jones' Elizabeth St. store had to work by lamp light this morning…

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Fire at David Jones

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 3

EMPLOYEES in the wool of David Jones' Elizabeth St. store had to work by lamp light this mornine…

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Fire Brigade Men Win Victimisation Fight

Tribune · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 6

HOBART.—Fire Brigade employees successfully fought the victimisation of their union secretary, Communist…

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Lost Clubs in Fire Won Title

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 8

KATOOMBA, Saturday.-- The clubhouse fire at Went worth Falls Golf Course yesterday did not prevent the final…

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Lost Clubs in Fire Won Title

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 10

KATOOMBA, Saturday.--The clubhouse . fire at Wjent- worth Falls Golf Course yesterday did not prevent the final '…

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