The cry of ‘Fire!’ was heard many times in Deniliquin particularly in the 19th Century as businesses went up in flames, the majority were accidents but there were some that were arson with fatal consequences.
Royal Hotel – 1858
Royal Hotel – 1859
Royal Hotel – 1861
Wanderer Inn – 1867
Gibson Brothers – 1876 (fence)
Beehive Store – 1876
Smith’s Drapery Store – 1876 (End Street)
Town Hall – 1878
M’Culloch and Co – 1878
Jefferson’s Chemist Shop – 1878
Commercial Hotel – 1879 (detached wooden building at rear)
Napier Street Fire – 1880 (four shops destroyed)
John Smith’s Store – 1880
Deniliquin Mechanics Institute and School of Arts (also housed Deniliquin Grammar School) – June 1882
Globe Hotel – 1883 (other shops destroyed too)
Police Barracks – 1883
Commercial Hotel – 1884 (four deaths)
National Hotel – 1884
Mr Rae’s Drapery – 1886
Pyke’s Hotel – 1887
Exchange Hotel – 1888
Mr Rae’s Drapery & Dublin Hotel – 1892
‘Fire in old Hotel in George Street’ (St George Hotel???) – 1893
Galbraith’s Union Hotel – 1894
Cressy Street Fire – 1895 (Clark’s Timber Yard, Cressy Street)
Napier & George Street Fire – 1895 (Five Shops destroyed, Moltme’s Corner)
Black Swan Hotel – 1896 (five additional shops destroyed too, firefighters on strike)
Cressy Street Fire – 1898 (Arson of Hairdresser/Tobacconist shop)
Napier Street Fire – 1899 (Hairdressers, Wine Sellers and Chemist)
D&M Railway Carriage & Engine Sheds – 1900
Sandhurst Hotel – 1901 (1 death)
Mort and Watson’s Drapery and Grocery (Cressy St) – 1902
Drapery on Napier Street – 1902
Filson’s Stores – 1902
Globe Hotel – 1903 (fire prevented from spreading from curtains)
Bridge Hotel – 1905 (Bedroom fire that was quickly contained)
Men’s Quarters of Freezing Works – 1911
Pumping House of Water Works – 1912
Freezing Works – 1914 (2000 tons of firewood & 100 yards of shed)
Cressy Street Fire (Barber’s store) – 1914 (Tom Collins Jr. injured)
Cressy Street Fire (Seymour’s) – 1915
Lyceum Theatre – 1920 (film caught fire)
Railway Station – 1924
Mrs Mohekey’s shop – 1926
Riverine Brewery Co – 1927 (Shed and Stables)
Butter Factory (North Deniliquin) – 1928 (damaged factory and steam laundry)
M. M Thomson’s Bakehouse – 1930
Blacksmith’s Shop – 1932
Deniliquin Railway Station – 1933 (Wheat Stack)
GIllespie’s Ironmongery and Furniture Store – 1933 (Packing Cases and Rubbish at back)
Globe Hotel – 1934 (Storeroom explosion)
Wool Scour – 1936
2QN – 1939
Globe Hotel – 1943 (Cellar fire, quickly contained by visiting Board of Fire Commissioners)
The Independent – 1946
Tyrer’s Buildings – 1946 (Chimney Fire)
CWA Rest Room and Baby Health Centre – 1948
Old school building in End Street – 1950
Pastoral Times – 1950
St Michael’s Covenant of Mercy and Catholic School – 1951
Deniliquin Gun Club – 1972
Permewans – 1980
Deniboota – 1980’s
Deniliquin Auto Electrical – 1983 (three businesses also destroyed/affected)
Kevin Cole Real Estate – 1983 (two other businesses affected)
Beaurepaires – late 1990’s
Target – 2016
Green Pepper Pizza – 2016
TLC Real Estate + Red Rose Diner – 2018
Edward School – 2022
28 Napier Street – 2025
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