• Title
  Series 3: Christmas bushfires, lower Blue Mountains, 2001-2002 / photographed by Philip Gostelow
• Call number
  PXE 872/14-24
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  2001-2002
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  421031
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  11 photographs - gelatin silver - 30.5 x 40.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  14. Photographer's backyard in Woodford during Blue Mountains bushfires. Kids swimming in an inflatable pool, 3.1.02
  15. Smoke from fires, looking east, Great Western Highway, Woodford, 3.1.02
  16. Back burning fires adjacent to Railway & Great Western Highway, Faulconbridge, 3.1.02
  17. Road block, Park Road, Woodford, during back burning operations
  18. Bushfires & fire brigade helicopter, view from Park Road, Woodford, looking west toward Valley Road, 4.1.02
  19. Woodford Rural Fire Brigade, Park Rd, Woodford. This was the centre for food catering during bushfires. Personnel include ambulance, bushfire services, SES, and other volunteers, 4.1.02
  20. Great Western Highway, Lawson. South Australian R.F.B. volunteers and fire trucks line the Highway. At peak burning operation on 5 January there were as many as 32 fire trucks on Highway & Wilson Street, Lawson
  21. NSW bushfire brigade volunteers with brigade chaplain, Wilson Street, Lawson. Waiting to relieve other teams in Lawson, Bullaburra & Wentworth Falls, 5.1.01
  22. 82 year old Dick O'Neill with remains of his home of 30 years at 816 Comleroy Road, Kurrajong. His house burnt down Christmas Day while he was helping to save neighbourhood against fire as a volunteer, 12.1.02
  23. Remains of 2521 Silverdale Road, Wallacia, burnt down Christmas Day. Annette Sheehan (left rear) with daughter Stephanie & mother Maree, 12.1.02
  24. Carole & Ray Elliott with a camera and bicycle found in the rubble of their house, destroyed on Christmas Day. They operated a catering business from their home in Silverdale Road, Wallacia, 12.1.02
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Philip Gostelow
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  `Woodford, Blue Mountains, NSW - January 2002' (no.14) published in the Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 March 2002, p.17
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823908
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled, dated and stamped by photographer -- on reverse
• Name
  New South Wales. Fire Brigade
  New South Wales. State Emergency Service
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  Fire fighters--New South Wales--Photographs.
  Spectators.
  Volunteer fire fighters--New South Wales--Photographs.
  
• Topic
  backyards
  bushfires
  eating & drinking
  fire engines
  fire prevention & control
  fire-damaged buildings
  highways
  roads & streets
  swimming pools
  
• Place
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
  Great Western Highway
  Woodford (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1085541

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