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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 109

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 Tain 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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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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Tents Flooded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 4

Part of the camping area at Narrabeen which was flooded yesterday…

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River floods endanger many homes

The Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 12

Torrential rain over the near[?]city catchments has sent five rivers into flood, endangering homes, isolating townships and cutting off roads. Maitland again faces the flood…

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Floods Ruin Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 1

WINDSOR, Tues.--The Hawkesbury River, flooding for the second time in a week, has caused almost irreparable damage to Sydney's richest "vegetable patch." Few of the hundreds of farms in the…

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Rain Increases Flood Fears

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 2

With more rain forecast for the State, rivers are rising steadily in the Camden, Windsor and Richmond districts and shipping and aircraft continue to battle gale force…

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Workers Beat Rising Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

Forlorn people, who work in Windsor but live on the other side of the Hawkesbury River,…

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Workers Beat Rising Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

Forlorn people, who work in Windsor but live on the other side of the Hawkesbury River,…

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Stop Press Cessnock Flood Threat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 32

With the Hunter River and its tributaries rising rapidly, some residents of South Cessnock have evacuated their homes. Army ducks…

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Maitland Flood Danger Intensified Foot Rise Hourly In Hunter

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 4

Maitland residents are standing by for what they believe will be one of the worst…

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Rain Increases Flood Fears

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 2

With more rain forecast for the State, rivers are rising steadily in the Camden, Windsor and Richmond districts and shipping and aircraft continue to battle gale force…

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IWorkers Beat Rising Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

Forlorn people, who work in Windsor but live on the other side of the Hawkesbury River,…

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Rain Increases Flood Fears

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 4

With more rain forecast for the State, rivers are rising steadily in the Camden, Windsor and Richmond districts and shipping and aircraft continue to battle gale force…

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Workers Beat Rising Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

Forlorn people, who work in Windsor but live on the other side off the Hawkesbury River,…

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More heavy rain

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 7

The Weather Bureau last night forecast more heavy rainfalls along the…

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Storm Takes Toll of Sea Creatures

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 5

Latest victims of the storm on the coast are a seal, a sea snake and an albatross. Yesterday the seal and the sea snake were washed…

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2 Die In Freak London Storm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 7

LONDON, Thurs.-- At least one man and one woman were killed in a freak storm which hit…

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