Great Fire at Hull
Markets, Trawlers and Wagons Burnt
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. rIE biggest fire in the history of Hull destroyed the London and North-Eastern Company’s Billingsgate Market extension, completed only last week at a cost of * 100.000. The flames spread to trawlers berthed m the fish-dock and seven were burned. A double line of railway wagons on the other side o_f the blazing two-storey market was ignited and 150 destroyed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 1
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78Great Fire at Hull Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 1
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