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Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 113

Couple Lose Home in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

MRS. MARY PARKER (25), at her home in Ingram Rd., Waitara, where she and her…

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Couple Lose Home in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

MRS. MARY PARKER (25), at her home in Ingram Rd., Waitara, where she and her…

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Couple Lose Home in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

MRS. MARY PARKER (25), at her home in Ingram Rd., Waitara, where she and her…

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Couple Lose Home in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

MRS. MARY PARKER (25), at her home in Ingram Rd., Waitara, where she and her…

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Couple Lose Home in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

MRS. MARY PARKER (25), at her home in Ingram Rd., Waitara, where she and her…

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Heating Three Rooms with One Fire

Construction · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 4

One of the latest designs in heating by open fire shown at the Building Exhibition at Olympia, London, was this unit which heats three rooms with one fire. The illustration shows the air intake under the floor, through which the air passes…

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Invalid's Terror As Bed Caught Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 1

Unable to speak, a 66-year-old paralysed man lay on his burning bed for half an hour last night before he was rescued. He is Arthur Bragg,…

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Late News Phone: M2406 House Destroyed by Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 16

A fire in Ingram Road, Wahroonga, early today destroyed a five-roomed weatherboard cottage and its contents…

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One Word, "Fire," Spelt Bests for 1195 Aboard the Lusitania Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 9

ON a beautiful clear spring day of May 7, 1915, the giant British Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest ship of its day, was in sight of the Irish coast after a successful Atlantic crossing from New York. Passengers were enjoying the sunshine, leaning over the rails chatting, when Oliver Barnard, a Covent Garden scenic designer, saw a white arrow of foam streaking…

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One Word, "Fire," Spelt Death for 1195 Aboard the Lusitania Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 9

ON a beautiful clear spring day of May 7, 1915, the giant British Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest ship of its day, was in sight of the Irish coast after a successful Atlantic crossing from New York. Passengers were enjoying the sunshine, leaning over the rails chatting, when Oliver Barnard, a Covent Garden scenic designer, saw a white arrow of foam streaking…

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One Word, "Fire," Spelt Death for 1195 Aboard the Lusitania Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 9

ON a beautiful clear spring day of May 7, 1915, the giant British Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest ship of its day, was in sight of the Irish coast after a successful Atlantic crossing from New York. Passengers were enjoying the sunshine, leaning over the rails chatting, when Oliver Barnard, a Covent Garden scenic designer, saw a white arrow of foam streaking…

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One Word, "Fire," Spelt Death for 1195 Aboard the Lusitania Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 9

ON a beautiful clear spring day of May 7, 1915, the giant British Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest ship of its day, was in sight of the Irish coast after a successful Atlantic crossing from New York. Passengers were enjoying the sunshine, leaning over the rails chatting, when Oliver Barnard, a Covent Garden scenic designer, saw a white arrow of foam streaking…

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One Word, "Fire," Spelt Berth for 1195 Aboard the Lusitania Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 9

ON a beautiful clear spring day of May 7, 1915, the giant British Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest ship of its day, was in sight of the Irish coast after a successful Atlantic crossing from New York. Passengers were enjoying the sunshine, leaning over the rails chatting, when Oliver Barnard, a Covent Garden scenic designer, saw a white arrow of foam streaking…

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One Word "Fire," Spelt Death for 11.95 Aboard the Lusitania Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 9

ON a beautiful clear spring day of May 7, 1915, the giant British Cunard liner Lusitania, the largest ship of its day, was in sight of the Irish coast after a successful Atlantic crossing from New York. Passengers were enjoying the sunshine, leaning over the rails chatting, when Oliver Barnard, a Covent Garden scenic designer, saw a white arrow of foam streaking…

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Jews Accept Cease-fire Fighting Goes On From Our Staff Correspondent And A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

LONDON, June 1.—Only a few hours before the deadline set by UNO for a cease-fire in Palestine, the Arabs have launched an all-out…

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Locomotive to Blame £10,000 For Bush Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 3

NARRABRI, Wednesday.— A Supreme Court jury to-day awarded £ 10,063 damages against the Commissioner for…

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£15,000 Auburn Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 2

FIREMEN INSPECTING the remains of Davison's Paints Pty. Ltd., Auburn, where a £20,000 blaze occurred today…

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£20,000 Auburn Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 2

FIREMEN INSPECTING the remains of Davison's Paints Pty. Ltd., Auburn, where a £20,000 blaze occurred today…

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Damage In Store Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 1

Considerable damage was caused by a fire which destroyed a building containing enamels and threatened to blow up a lacquer store at Davison's Paints…

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Damage In Store Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 1

Considerable damage was caused by a fire which destroyed a building containing enamels and threatened to blow up a lacquer store at Davison's Paints…

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