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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

1,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 84

Flood Areas 'under' Again

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 12

LONDON, Tues. (B.U.P., Extel).--The sea coverer more than 2000 acres of cultivated marshland near…

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Flood Areas 'Under' Again

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 2

LONDON, Tues. (B.U.P., Extel).--The sea covered more than 2000 acres of cultivated marshland near…

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Flood Areas 'Under' Again

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 12

LONDON, Tues. (B.U.P., Extel).--The sea covered more than 2000 acres of cultivated marshland near…

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Flood Areas 'Under' Again

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (B.U.P., Extel).--The sea covered more than 200 acres of cultivated marshland near…

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Flood Areas 'Under' Again

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 12

LONDON, Tues. (B.U.P., Extel).--The sea covered more than 2000 acres of cultivated marshland near…

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Storms Sweep India

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 3

LONDON, March 17 (A.A.P.).—Gales reaching 60 m.p.h. have swept a wide area of North-east India and…

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Storm Damage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2

The coping of Anthony Hordern's building, Goulburn St., which was struck by lightning in today's storm…

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Storm Brings Cool Relief

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2

Thousands of lightly-dressed business girls and men were drenched in a thunderstorm soon after 1.30 p.m. today. However, the rain eased…

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Bible story of ordeal in storm

The Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 5

"Suddenly a great storm-wind blew up, and the waves beat into the shia so that it was full of water and in danger of sinking…

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Lightning Strikes City Store In Violent Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 1

Lightning struck part of the coping of Anthony Horderns building in Goulburn St., City, today, showering bricks, plaster and concrete into the streets. Nearly a cwt. of bricks crashed through the…

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Lightning Strikes City Store In Violent Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 1

Lightning struck part of the coping of Anthony Horderns building in Goulburn St., Cltv tndav. showering bricks, plaster and concrete into the streets. Nearly a cwt. of bricks crashed through the…

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Sudden Storm's Havoc--fireball on City Store Lightning hits chimney and radio aerial

The Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 1

A fireball struck Anthony Horderns' city store during a violent 15-minute thunderstorm this afternoon sending shoppers…

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Motor boats in flooded town

The Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 26

Townspeople at Brewarrina are using motor and rowing boats to reach the business centre of the…

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Lightning Strikes Buildings In Electrical Storms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 1

Lightning struck several buildings during a series of fierce electrical storms in the city and suburbs between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. yesterday,…

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Flood Damage

The Sun · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday. -- Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe said in the Commons yesterday that…

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Storm May Hit Sydney

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 2

The perfect weather conditions in Sydney early today may be marred by…

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Storm May Hit Sydney Late Today

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 2

The perfect weather conditions in Sydney early today may be marred by…

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Flood Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 2

Sir,—When the recent tragic floods devastated great areas of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium, this…

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Cyclone Near Queensland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday.—A cyclone to-night is moving towards a 300-mile strip of the Queensland coast,…

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Sydney 'Cyclone' Wrecked Toweel

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 32

JOHANNESBURG, Mon.-- There was not a shadow of doubt that Jimmy Carruthers, the human cyclone from Sydney, wrecked Toweel as completely as would any tornado…

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