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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 166

Toy Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

The Model-It toy factory, Joynton Ave., Rosebery, was destroyed by fire late last night…

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Toy Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 4

The Model-It toy factory, Joynton Ave., Rosebery, was destroyed by fire late last night…

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Toy Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

The Model-It toy factory, Joynton Ave., Rosebery, was destroyed by fire late last night…

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Fire destroys sheds

The Sun · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 7

Two sheds at the rear of the Model-It Gift Co's. factory, Rothschild Av., Rosebery were destroyed…

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Toy Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 4

The Model-It toy factory, Joynton Ave., Rosebery, was destroyed by fire late last night…

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Toy Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 4

The Model-It toy factory, Joynton Ave., Rosebery, was destroyed by fire late last night…

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£20,000 Fire Damage. Rowell's Timberyard, Granville

The Biz · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 3

A fire at Rowell's Granville [?]mberyard on Friday night did about £20,000 damage. The fire threatened nearby…

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Fifty Years Ago (From "Nrpean Times", May 3, 1902.) Fire Brigade for Penrith

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

On Friday morning members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board visited Penrith and inspected several sites under…

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Burnt-out Airliner in Jungle; No Life Seen

The Sun · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 5

RIO DE JANEIRO, Thursday--Burned wreckage of a Pan-American Airways stratocruiser, missing for two days with 50 people aboard, was reported sighted yesterday…

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£260,000 Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

CAIRNS, Fri.--Two fires within 48 hours, one at the Colonial Sugar Refineries mill at Hambledon, seven…

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£260,000 Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

CAIRNS, Fri.--Two fires within 48 hours, one at the Colonial Sugar Refineries mill at Hambledon, seven…

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Three incinerated in road wreck blaze

The Sun · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 3

GOULBURN, Friday.--Three men were incinerated when trapped in the blazing cabin of a wrecked utility truck on the Hume Highway near Goulburn last night. The bodies were burned…

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News in brief £260,000 FIRES

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 9

CAIRNS, Fri.--Two fires within 48 hours, one at the Colonial Sugar Refineries mill at Hambledon, seven…

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News in brief £260,000 FIRES

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 9

CAIRNS, Fri.--Two fires within 48 hours, one at the Colonial Sugar Refineries mill at Hambledon, seven…

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News in brief £260,000 FIRES

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 9

CAIRNS, Fri.--Two fires within 48 hours, one at the Colonial Sugar Refineries mill at Hambledon, seven…

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News in brief £260,000 FIRES

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 9

CAIRNS, Fri.--Two fires within 48 hours, one at the Colonial Sugar Refineries mill at Hambledon, seven…

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Big Fire at Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 3

CASINO, Thursday.—Many thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by a fire which completely gutted three…

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Courageous Shepherd Saved Flock In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 4

Neville Cant (right), 17-years-old Barren Junctional sheep herder, receiving the gold medal of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals from Mr. G. Crawford, M.L.A., at the…

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Courageous Shepherd Saved Flock In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 4

Neville Cant (right), 17-years-old Barren Junctional sheep herder, receiving the gold medal of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals from Mr. G. Crawford, M.L.A., at the…

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Men Fire on May Day March

The Sun · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Thursday.--One student marcher was killed and 17 persons wounded today…

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