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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 109

Heavy Rain, Flooding Anticipated

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 2

Heavy rain along the coast and tablelands, with severe flooding of the Nepean,…

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Heavy Rain, Flooding Anticipated

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 2

Heavy rain along the Coast and tablelands, with severe flooding of the Nepean,…

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Heavy Rain, Flooding Anticipated

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 2

Heavy rain along the coast and tablelands, with severe flooding of the Nepean,…

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Storm warnings

The Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 23

Notes on the weather for 24 hours to 9 am: At 9 am today rain was still falling in the whole of the…

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New Flood Menace 2 Ferries Damaged in Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 1

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood Warnings for…

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Fresh Flood Menace 2 Ferries Damaged In Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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Fresh Flood Menace 2 Ferries Damaged in Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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New Flood Menage 2 Ferries Damaged In Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 1

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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Fresh Flood Menace 2 Ferries Damaged In Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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Fresh Flood Menage 2 Ferries Damaged In Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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Fresh Flood Menace 2 Ferries Damaged In Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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Fresh Flood Menace 2 Ferries Damaged In Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

Gale force winds and torrential rain have caused the Sydney Weather Bureau to issue further urgent flood warnings for…

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City lashed by gale and rain--more on the way

The Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 3

Torrential rain lashed by gale-force winds lest night fallowed by further downpours to-day flooded scores of Sydney…

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S.C.C. Storm At Appointment Of New Manager

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 3

The Sydney County Council decided yesterday to ask the Minister for Local Government, Mr. J. J. Cahill, to order an inquiry into allegations that a council…

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New Flood Peril to Windsor Homes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 1

Police at Windsor early this morning were busy evacuating about 100 residents from the…

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Big floods break even the stoutest hearts

The Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 14

Sitting on a box in the loft of a born, an unhappy farmer is praying that his house will not crash into the muddy waters of the Hawkesbury…

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Crops Hit by Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 5

Gales and continued heavy rain yesterday caused heavy damage to crops in coastal districts of New South Wales and delayed shipping…

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Taking Off in Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 5

The corkscrew effect of water being flung from the propeller was caught by the camera as this Seafury aircraft took off through heavy rain at H.M.A.S. Albatross air station, Nowra…

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Big Storm Moving Up North

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 2

The storm centre off the New South Wales coast has moved north, bringing heavy rain and…

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Big Storm Moving Up North

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 2

The storm centre off the New South Wales coast has moved north, bringing heavy rain and…

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