Historic Australia

One of Warrnambool’s outstanding architectural features, the Ozone Hotel was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1929. The four storey building was reduced to a blackened shell, damage estimated at 100,000 pounds. (The site is now occupied by the Warrnambool Hotel). This picture shows interested townspeople surveying the damage.

Pullar, G. C. (Gordon Cumming), 1864-1934.
Barraclough’s blacksmith’s shop wreckage, Clermont, Queensland, 1917

The last campfire at Wirrippa on the return trip before reaching Port Augusta, on the East-West trainline. ‘The mulga log fire lasted all night’

1927

Camping out, 1854

Charles Lyall

- Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.

Fireside story, Kosciuszko, New South Wales

ca.1950

Fire fighters negotiating thick black smoke to extinguish fire at Dunlop Rubber, Balmain, Sydney

20 September 1965

- Mulligan, J. A. (John Aloysius), 1927-1996.