BIG FIRE AT HULL.
MARKET EXTENSION DESTROYED. ' V (United Press Association—By Electric ueiegraph—Copyright.) (Received August 26, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 26. The biggest fire in the history of Hull, destroyed the London NorthEastern 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 twostorey market were ignited, and 150 destroyed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18354, 27 August 1929, Page 9
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84BIG FIRE AT HULL. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18354, 27 August 1929, Page 9
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