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Fire at Goldsbrough Mort & Co No 1 Wool Store, Pyrmont Street Pyrmont, 1935

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Unique IDA-00018991SeriesSydney Reference Collection (SRC) - Photographs, circa 1850s-2010Date25th September 1935Date qualifierexactFormatPhotograph - PrintDescriptionBuilding had frontages to Pyrmont Street, Fig Street and Camden Lane, Pyrmont. View showing firefighters (firemen) and Fresh Food & Ice Co Ltd goods train in foreground with building burning behind. The building was erected in 1881 and in 1922 an additional 3 floors were added. The fire started in the morning of the 25th September 1935. The whole of the Metropolitan Brigades were ordered out and there were 20 engines and about 230 men fighting the blaze.

Goldsbrough Mort & Co built one of the first wool stores in Pyrmont in 1882. On the morning of 25 September 1935, the wool store was destroyed by fire. More than 31,000 bales of wool were destroyed in the blaze. The fire smouldered for two weeks and the streets of Ultimo and Pyrmont were rank with the smell of burning wool and grease.

This photo appeared in the City of Sydney's 2017 exhibition "Our City - 175 Years in 175 Objects" - Item 84 - Building - Fire - Fire at Goldsbrough Mort & Co No 1 Wool Store, 1935 (page 104 in exhibition catalogue)LanguageNo linguistic content - Not applicable (zxx)Geographic location^[1]

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CollectionPyrmontExhibition - Our City: 175 Years in 175 ObjectsBoxCSA069623