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Jalan Dunlop, Tawau Town

RECOVER after the 2014 Tawau Fire with a new look

Fire at Dunlop Street 2014

29th September 2014 Monday
Fire destroyed a row of 10 double-storey wooden shop houses in Dunlop Street of Tawau on 29 September 2014 Monday night.

The premises destroyed in the 11.45pm fire included jewellery shops, textile shops and a watch shop.
Three fire engines with 38 firemen brought the fire under control at 1am.
This old building was built in the early 1960s after a major fire had gutted the previous building there in 1953.

The shop houses are among the historical memories for elder generations in Tawau.

There was a famous coffee shop in the building before the shop moved to another building. The coffee shop was later replaced by a textile trader whose shop however was also destroyed in the blaze.
 

After the fire. 4-10-2014

Tawau Town fire in 1953
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article
 

Fire Sweeps Borneo Town
SINGAPORE, March 8, 1953 (A.A.P.-Reuter).

- The town of Tawau, on the east coast of North Borneo, was almost destroyed by fire yesterday. 

Tawau is the third-largest town in North Borneo.

In 37 minutes the fire destroyed 133 shops and houses, six Government buildings, including a polica station and bond store, and the Hong Kong-Shanghai bank building.

A small girl is missing. One person was seriously injured. 

One hundred people are temporarily housed in Government schools and the market building.

Tawau town was almost completely destroyed by a fire on March 1953. The Fire was spotted at 3.30 pm starting from Dunlop Street. At that time the shop houses were build of wood materials with nipah leaves roofing. These are all easy to burn materials. News reported that the fire only takes 37 minutes to destroy 133 store houses and 6 government office including police station and post office.

Dunlop Street, Tawau, 1953 - the first spotted fires broke out at Dunlop Street

Jalan Dunlop, Tawau
Name after district offer of Tawau in the early 1920’s Mr. A.R. Dunlop.
Along Jalan Dunlop are:
The new Central Market near the harbour well known for dried prawns and salted fish.
 

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