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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 61

North England Flood Havoc

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The worst floods in memory have swept away railway bridges, isolated towns and villages, left families homeless and drowned many animals in East…

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North England Flood Ruin Bridges Down, Families Homeless East Coast Rail Havoc

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- The worst floods in memory have swept away railway bridges, isolated towns and villages, left families homeless and…

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North England Flood Havoc

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The worst floods in memory have swept away railway bridges, isolated towns and villages, left families homeless and drowned many animals in East…

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Rocket warning to beat floods LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 15 August 1948 · page 5

A MAN equipped with a rocket apparatuses standing by to warn villagers of flood danger at Eyemouth, England. Two thousand villagers in…

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Week-end Gales Warnings To Ships

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 1

Bleak winds, gales at sea, and snow on the ranges made the week-end unpleasant in New South…

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Storms Wreck Crops in Europe Farmers Lose Grain, Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--Gales, snow, and torrential rain in the worst summer storms for years have ruined crops in Western Europe…

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Storms Bring Treasure To Texas Beachcombers By a Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 2

BEACHCOMBERS still hopefully search the shores of Padre Island, off the coast of Texas, for Spanish treasure…

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Town's Night Watch On Flood-waters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, August 15.—At Eyemouth, a little town near Berwick on the Scottish border, 2,000 people last night…

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England's Position Hopeless Innings Defeat Likely Heavy Rain Stops Play

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--Bleak weather put an end to a bleak display by England's batsmen at 4 o'clock in the fifth Test match at The Oval yesterday, and play was called…

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England's Position Hopeless Innings Defeat Likely Heavy Rain Stops Play

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--Bleak weather put an end to a bleak display by England's batsmen at 4 o'clock in the fifth Test match at The Oval yesterday, and play was called…

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England's Position Hopeless Innings Defeat Likely Heavy Rain Stops Play

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--Bleak weather put an end to a bleak display by England's batsmen at 4 o'clock in the fifth Test match at The Oval yesterday, and play was called…

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England's Position Hopeless Innings Defeat Likely Heavy Rain Stops Play

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--Bleak weather put an end to a bleak display by England's batsmen at 4 o'clock in the fifth Test match at The Oval yesterday, and play was called…

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England's Position Hopeless Innings Defeat Likely Heavy Rain Stops Play

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--Bleak weather put an end to a bleak display by England's batsmen at 4 o'clock in the fifth Test match at The Oval yesterday, and play was called…

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England's Position Hopeless Innings Defeat Likely Heavy Rain Stops Play

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--Bleak weather put an end to a bleak display by England's batsmen at 4 o'clock in the fifth Test match at The Oval yesterday, and play was called…

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Flood Victims Helped

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 12

IN roaponse to appeais for clothing for flood victims, Kuringal C.W.A. donpntolied Inrge pnrcois of garinenti to the North Count, roports the…

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Floods Reduce Some Potato Acreages

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 2

CLARENCE RIVER potato acrea[?] were reduced by half, oh[?]y a to June flood rains, reported the N.S.W. Vegetable export…

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Caught in Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 5

CAUGHT in last night's heavy rainstorm in the city, Mrs. Robards, of Hurstville, covered her eight-month-old son Frank with newspapers…

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Storm Delays Peak Hour Train Traffic

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 5

An electrical storm which passed over Sydney at 4.40 p.m. yesterday caused power failures which delayed evening peak-hour train traffic for…

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Storm Bird Wins

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 August 1948 · page 26

Storm Bird (J. Herford) won the Cruising Yacht Club's 38-mile race from Sydney to Port Hacking and back yesterday…

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Gale Tore Off Roof

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 3

MAITLAND, Monday.-- The gale-force westerly wind today lifted a flat galvanised iron roof from…

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