BIG FIRE AT HULL
GREATEST IN CITY’S HISTORY. ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 26, 1.10 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. The biggest fire in the history of Hull destroyed the London North Eastern Company’s Billingsgate market extension, which was completed only last week at a cost of £IOO,OOO. The flames spread to the trawlers berthed at the fish dock, seven of which were burned. A double line of railway waggons on the other side of the blazing two storey market were ignited and 100 destroyed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 229, 27 August 1929, Page 2
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94BIG FIRE AT HULL Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 229, 27 August 1929, Page 2
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